Villages are all too often just a collection of huts, without any of the usual clutter that surrounds them.
These are an easy way to beef the village up, and to give the US player something to look for weapons caches in.
Construction
Card base
First cut the base shape out of card. To make it look more man-made, it's best to make the areas rectangular.
Fence
Next construct the fence, which must be done before the base texture so
that the posts don't sit uncomfortably on top of the sand. The posts are
made by splitting matchsticks with a scalpel into two to four pieces along
it's length. Do a variety so it looks more ramshackle. The main posts, which
are whole matchsticks, were stuck down first
(with PVA). Then the horizontals
were stuck on, finally some extra uprights.
Texture
Cover it with a thin layer of PVA (using a scrap of card to smear a smooth layer
all over). Sprinkle with sand and allow to dry.
Painting
Paint the ground dark brown and then
drybrush
with successively lighter shades of brown.
The fence is painted in the same way, but use a slightly different shade of brown.
Flock
Using a matchstick, dab little blobs of
PVA
in rows and then sprinkle with a
Flock.
The best flock for this is a coarse foam flock, where the material is in quite large lumps.
Because the glue is in small amounts, it will dry quickly, so you probably won't be able to
do more than a row at a time.
Once this has dried, dab some more PVA around the base of the fence posts
and sprinkle on some static grass flock.
