28mm Japanese Bunker 2

 I had a few hours to spare and so I thought I would try another machine gun bunker for our Pacific game. 

You can see our first full Pacific game video by clicking here...

  

So I bought a set of mdf 2mm bases from Etsy and got out the blue foam and hot wire cutter.

                                        

 This blue foam (about 50mm thick) was cut to the same outline shape and painted.

So I then cut in a shallow centre for the bunker...using the wire cutter. 

Just as if they had dug it out between two rocky / jungle hills. Like a saddle effect/shape.

I used a little engraver (I don't have a Dremel)  to shape the blue foam into wooden logs and removed the bottom section to allow me to place the gun slit and the HMG and 3 japs inside. I also made a log door to the rear.

Then out came the plastic aquarium plants, flock, static grass,  clump foliage,, cork chips, sand and reeds. 

In fact everything was thrown at it! 

Plants were lightly dusted / painted with other colours to make it more realistic. 

I also placed in 2 magnets into the base (using no more nails) to allow removal / storage for a couple of palm trees. The trees also have magnets superglued onto the base.  

The trees are plastic but each tree is actually 2 (sometimes 3) trunks tall. 

We wanted these to look right so we doubled up the trunks with spare trees.

The magnets work well and are almost undetectable - in fact so good you need to move the tree trunk along the edge to find the magnet LOL.

Not a bad look for a half days work.