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Barricades are great in battles. They provide you with a 5+ cover save and slow down the enemy a bit. Also the great things about them is, that they are really easy to make. Below is what you'll need for this tutorial:
Step 1:
Cut out a 5" piece from an old plastic sprue. Then cut out a few 1-3" pieces from the plastic sprue. Stick the 5" piece to some cardboard using super glue. After thats fully dried, stick the smaller pieces onto the large piece so that the barricade looks old and as if its collapsed. You should get something like this:
![[Image] The sprues stuck onto cardboard](http://www.tauonline.org/Articles/Misc_Scenery_Barricade_1.jpg)
Step 2:
After everything is in place and looks a bit like a ruined/collapsed railing, cut the cardboard base to the right size and then spray or paint the plastic sprues black.
Step 3:
Once the black paint has dried, put boltgun metal on your paint brush and then wipe most of it off then lightly flick your paint brush over the plastic sprues to make the plastic look like metal. After you've done this simply flock the base and your done. You should end up with something like below:
![[Image] The final result: painted sprues which look like barricades](http://www.tauonline.org/Articles/Misc_Scenery_Barricade_2.jpg)
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| Comment made by dooley on 03:15:56, 2 March 2008 |
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| yeah, i love that simle but heaps affective, i pefer to make cover out of spure left overs, like a fox holl or sniper cover |
| Comment made by taugundrone on 20:49:54, 21 February 2008 |
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| i use spures to! there so useful arnt they? |
| Comment made by Adamblaze on 05:58:59, 1 January 2008 |
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| nice, i use these all the time |
| Comment made by Jon-azz on 11:12:29, 16 August 2007 |
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| Nice idea ;P |
| Comment made by PEDRO_182 on 23:32:53, 4 June 2007 |
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| i made palisades by creating lengths of sprue cutting them down to look realistic and gluing them together on top of a base |
| Comment made by dragoniccam on 11:41:08, 29 September 2006 |
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| haha, isn't that funny... ive ben doing the same thing forquite a while small world ain't it |
| Comment made by Tau Online on 04:15:08, 13 August 2006 |
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| Thanks :-) Yeah I think this is an easy yet effective terrain piece too! |
| Comment made by Warwolt on 11:27:40, 11 August 2006 |
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| easy buildt, easy painted and good looking baricades perfect for that battle you really have to have some defensive terrain for. Really good job! |
