EASY RAZOR WIRE AND BASES FOR TREES
Posted by Lt. Craggs [mthomas@netgenics.com] to the Warzone forum 
on April 27, 1999

For annother quick terrain making idea, here's a good way to make some
keen razor wire.

need: 
carbord basing about 8" long by 3" wide (sorry you metric people);
thin metal wire (you can get this from Jo-Ann Fabrics), 
a Thick Highlighter (it needs to be about 2/3 an inch), 
some type of modleing clay, 
and the cross-piece from the 4 pack of slotta bases (about 3 per piece of 
barbed wire you wanna make.)

1) cut a lenght of wire, usually 24" works well.
2) rap the wire around the highlighter in tight loops. don't leave gaps
   between the loops.
3) slide the looped wire (it should look like a spring) off the
   highlighter.
4) gently pull apart so it looks spread out.
5) Using the X cross-piece loop some of the wire around the cross piece.
   You are going for the cross-piece to look like a support of the razor
   wire. Do this to both ends of the wire, and the middle. Don't worry if
   some of the loops get streached out or mashed, it'll look like combat
   damage.
6) trim the cardboard base to approximately the size of the wire and
   supports.
7) place the crosspices in some modling clay, and attach the clay to the
   cardboard.
8) paint as desired.

And voila, for about 10 minutes of work, you can get some pretty cool
looking barbed wire.

Also, tired of your trees constantly falling down when someone knocks the
table, or tries to move their troops through a small grove... then glue
your trees to those old AOL CD's you don't use anyway. you can fit about
2-4 trees (depending on size) per CD, and it leaves enough room to move
troops through them, and gives enough cover to determine LOS, obscurement
etc. 

Lt Craggs
Saving his 2 Capitolian cents and making his own terrain.