Tank Traps

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Thanks to sLai for this

I finished these "Dragons Teeth" tank traps many days ago, however I made the "teeth"half a year ago but never finished them; So when I found them last week at the bottom of a box I thought I'd finish them off.

Materials:

• Pink foam
• Static grass
• Sand
• PVA
• Small piece of MDF board (I used cardboard, but MDF works better)
• Paper clips
• Water based paint (Black, codex grey, fortress grey, skull white, boltgun metal, mithril silver, brown ink and scorched brown)
• Detergent

Tools:

• Stanley knife
• Old/Worn out Brush (For applying glue)
• Good brushes (For applying paint)
• Sand paper

Method - Preparing

1 .  Cut the foam into 3cm high 2cm wide and 13cm long pieces. That's enough to make 6 teeth.

2 .  Mark out 3cm spaces 1cm apart on the bottom. Do likewise on the top, but be sure that you start 1cm in from the end.  (Refer to image)

3 .  Then connect the marks as on the pic, and cut along the green lines.

4 . To make your 6 teeth cone shaped, mark a 1cm square in the middle of the top surface, and cut so the corners of the top 1cm square meet up with the bottom 3cm square.

5 .  The basic shape of the teeth is now done, and it's time to make them look weathered and damaged.  Use your finger to pinch off bits, hack and slash with a knife, make bullet holes with a pen, cut them apart etc... (I even used cement glue to dissolve away some of the foam)

6 . Straighten your paperclips, and cut them into bits of approximately 4cm long.  Twist and bend these to make them look like bent reinforcement bars.

7 .  Where you have made deep holes, push the paperclips into the foam in a pattern that looks like damaged reinforcement bars.  When you are happy with how it looks, remove the clips from their holes.  Dip the end that fits into the foam, in PVA and then insert it again.

8 . Cut a 21"x5" piece of MDF and sand down the edges until you have a finish that blends nicely into the table top.

9 .  Glue the teeth to the MDF with PVA glue; make sure that they are little more than 1" from each other.

10 .  Using watered down PVA glue sand to the base.

Method - Painting (Let the pain dry in-between steps)

11 .  Give the whole thing 2-4 coats of Black (Not spray,) that has been mixed with a little detergent.

12 .  Using a larger brush, heavy dry brush the whole teeth with codex grey, and again with fortress grey.  Highlight the base with the same colours, but not nearly as much.

13 .  Water down some scorched brown, to the consistency of an ink, and paint it around the bars, to make it look like the rusty water from the bars has run down and coloured the concrete.

14 .  Dry brush it skull white, and paint the bars boltgun metal.

15 .  Highlight the bars in mithril silver, paint cracks and bullet holes black.

16 .  Apply watered down brown ink to the bars.

17 .  Paint random spots 'n dots on the base with watered down PVA, and apply static grass.

Have fun playing with your new tank traps, and may they stop many tanks, except yours, they will skim right over the top.

The end result should look something like this:

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Comment made by insanetau on 08:05:27, 24 February 2008
tank traps rule in cities of death and they rule now

Comment made by taugundrone on 20:55:22, 21 February 2008
lovly, i love tank traops

Comment made by Didimau1 on 11:27:08, 6 November 2007
It\'s a great guide and everything but tank traps are some of the easiest things to make and the measurements don\'t have to be exact for everyones tank traps, quite a bit of overkill I think and a bit too detailed for something so simple.

Comment made by justarandomdude on 00:37:31, 6 September 2007
nice tank traps

Comment made by Shasonan on 00:47:19, 28 July 2007
Thanks to you and DRobot I now have lots of tank Traps. You can also use Wine Bottle Corks Sprayed and then painted. Mmmm... Warhammer never smelled so good (Unless you dip your Eldar in Scented Oils)

Comment made by DRobot on 22:48:11, 15 July 2007
looks very nice!!! you can also use ice cube plates, you know, where you can pt in water nd put it i the freezer to make ice cubes, well fill it with plaster, let it dry and paint it, also very nice tank traps But yours looks way better

Comment made by boda on 04:33:58, 30 June 2007
they look awsome!!! tank traps are good for boxing in enamy tanks (not skimmers)and for protecting flanks from tanks

Comment made by ryboy on 13:06:01, 15 April 2007
gr8 i aleays use these in my city fight batles ty 4 the idea 9/10

Comment made by Sven-Kaiser of Krieg on 05:46:18, 6 April 2007
+++really cool, saves money as oppose to forge world.+++

Comment made by Exodist on 10:22:19, 11 March 2007
end result looks awsome and good way of showing us how its all done great job 10/10

Comment made by Sting on 16:26:16, 7 March 2007
this rocks!! I makin alot.

Comment made by pasadema on 10:30:16, 24 December 2006
good pictures that show what to do, making it a lot easier, 8/10

Comment made by Inq_Razeil on 09:43:55, 10 December 2006
Some one, its spelt: Vindicare Assassin. and great job 10/10

Comment made by stupidsimon on 12:06:42, 6 December 2006
cool stuff!!! I'm makin these for my new 'bombed out city' battlefield!!!! Thanks for the idea!

Comment made by SOME ONE, the undecided on 11:30:12, 23 November 2006
the imperail gaurd shall send a vidarcate assasion after you nice!

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