Tutorial : MG-Nests for Flames of War

Heia lads,

finally more for Flames of War. After reading a couple of other blogs I stumbled across "Modeldads" resources for Flames of War. As I always face scaling problems I am still delighted to have found such a nice resource for simple buildings. On his blog he has a nice tutorial on how to build up MG-Nests for Flames of War.

As Tutorial and practice often mismatch I was eager to find out how easy or difficult it is to rebuild after his tutorial. Also I reduced the costs a bit by not using the standard Battlefront bases. A good walk into your local pub can produce some nice cardboards for pints to work with. Simply cut out the base you need and start going.

For my new rating system I would start with the following:

Ranking 1 - 5 there one would mean easy to 5 extreme difficult.

Rating of difficulty for building MG-Nests for Flames of War: 2 , can be done by a novice on building, but gets a bit tricky while glueing.

Time: Approx 1 Hour for three MG-Nests (including drying time)

Things I used:

- Cardboard normally used to place a pint (u can approx make 3-4 MG-Nests out of one of these hard papers)

- Partysticks (should be in your household anyway)

- Glue

- Styropor (you can use any sort, as this will all be covered. No need for any of the quality stuff)

- Flock, Sand and basing stuff

Step One:

1) Cut the paperboard into correct size (I took mine for a medium sized Battlefront base)

2) Cut the partysticks to correct size (approx 1cm in length is fine), I used 3 Rows each side plus one smaller one as a "holding" log

Step Two:

1) Glue the lowest part of the cut partysticks to your base. Please bear in mind that this is some sort of entrance and firing exit. So you need some ankle around for line of fire

2) Glue the "holding" logs on one side

3) Glue the logs upward

Step Three:

1) After drying the glued sticks, cut out the styropor so that it takes quite some space of the medium size base and

2) adjust the later on entrance part so that you have a hole for at least one miniature and glue it to fit to the already finished logs

Step Four:

1) Cut the styropor on the sides to give it a bit more natural feeling. Doesnt need to be as a quadrat or too equal looking as this will be earth

2) Cut more logs and glue them together for being the "roof"
Would say it is quite an easy task and you can make approx 3 (as I did) in one hour.... pictures enclosed: