Need Solution on Palisades Fence

[Major_Goose]

Hi guys .

For a huge project that will take about a year to be made , i need to deteriorate an area with a wooden fence of upstanding tree stumps with shaved head (Palisades) , that will be tied one next to the other with rope.

So what i need is either to find ready for buying these things or to find (or have sculpted by someone) 3-4 different of them and recast them in the needed quantinty that will be around 250 pieces (Yes its a fairly large project !!!)

I need them to be around 10-11 cm's of height . Diameter around 1 cm

So please give me some suggestions and solutions .


Thanks

Costas

 

[Einion]

Hey Costas, wooden dowel might be your best bet as a starting point. Pare or sand each length to give them some variation, whittle the point and then apply something to simulate the bark; I've used a mix of PVA glue, Polyfilla (patching plaster for walls), fine sand and tiny pebbles and it can look quite convincing.

BTW, if the palisade is intended to have been erected recently bear in mind they have to be sharpened after being pounded into the earth, so there should be flakes and shavings of wood littering the ground around them! This is a detail that's almost always forgotten when depicting stakes and the like.

Einion

 

[custer760]

Hi Costas,
Tomker has a set of 4 in their Programm I will check with Adam Jansen (the owner) what a large order would cost and Ill get back to you.
Pete

 

[custer760]

Hi again Costas,
if you would like to check out the Tomker Pallisades then you could try:
www.figurenreport.de go then to "forum"click then "enter"click then "kunststoff figuren"click then "figurenneuheit von Tomker-Models".
Here you will see the new 75mm Celt sculpted by my buddy Harald Schott and painted by myself for the Boxart.Here I was supplied with some Pallisades from Tomker and they were ok.You can see them in the picture.
Regards
Pete

 

[Major_Goose]

Pete Hi and thanks a lot for the effort . yes this kind of stuf suits myneeds. If you have some answer over price for a bigger quantity please come back to me with a pm or email. Thanks

Costas

 

[Major_Goose]

Einion thanks a lot for your solution . I was just thinking of something more easy and less tiring as i need lots of them . But this is also a good idea. Was my initial thinking, but after isaw how many i need i was a bit dissapointed !!!!!

 

[Uruk-Hai]

This what I would do.

Buy dowels of different diameters, about 4-8 types.

Saw them to apropiate lengt with a little variation.

Sharpen them with a hobbyknife.

Place them on the ground randomly.

If you need 250, I think you easily would make 50 in an hour or an hour and a half. After five days all the palisdade is done.

Cheers

 

[Major_Goose]

Thatw also a pocibility my friend. Its a bit hard for me to find dowels where ilive though . But anyway its under consideration. You forgot to mentionthat i have to texturize them also!!!!

 

[Uruk-Hai]

There are different ways to simulate bark, all depending on the treee.
Sometimes I settle with just a rasp along the length, other times putty is rolled flat, put on and textured, tissue soaked in diluted white glue could be use as well as filler spread randomly and textured with a sponge.

Perhaps you should varie this a bit although most of the logs would be of the same branch.

Cheers

 

[Major_Goose]

yes all these methods are possible and available but i talk for somany pieces that icannot work seperately on one by one

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Major_Goose@Sep 4 2006, 11:01 AM
Einion thanks a lot for your solution . I was just thinking of something more easy and less tiring as i need lots of them . But this is also a good idea. Was my initial thinking, but after isaw how many i need i was a bit dissapointed !!!!!

Who said it had to be fast? :lol: Seriously though I thought that you could use the method to make a number of masters (maybe six?) and then cast from them since you need so many. By resharpening some of the points, setting some stakes in fractionally deeper than others and rotating them you should get a fairly random appearance.

Einion

 

[custer760]

Hi Costas,
I spoke with Adam Jansen of Tomker Figures and he wouldnt give me a price for 250 Pallisades but said that he would read your message and contact you !!!!
Let me know if it works out for you
Regards
Pete

 

[Major_Goose]

Thanks a lot Pete . I appreciate your help andwill wait for his message .

Keep Safe

Costas