Roll out the Barrels

Always on the lookout for ways to fill in objects, for duck and cover and adding to the battlefield or to fill that warehouse, shipping yard or cargo hold

Checking out the price of metal barrels in 15mm range and the cost of HO scale ones, you only get a small handful for under 10 dollars, With myself wanting to get so many, then seeing the size of a wood dowel and unless you look really close why not make barrels from the dowels, painted in the normal colors of barrels the blue, red, green, and black, your eyes and brain will fill in the details plus you can make a lot of barrels from just one 36 inch would dowel for just under a dollar.

 

So I picked up one size 3/16 of an inch in diameter, one that I would think will work for the standard size barrel then cut into sections of 5/16 on an inch.

Got out my X-Acto miter box, back saw, pencil, and steel rule and started cutting some out.

 

Here is a comparison picture a metal 15mm one that I have bought and the wood one I have made.

Set of four barrels on their base you can sand them down to look even on top

For barriers glue them together on a base add some railroad gravel or sand to the tops as dirt, paint and done. Here their a little uneven which has a great look for a hasty roadblock or barrier.

Now that is a lot of barrels for most any idea or terrain, use them for road blocks, industrial sites, or warehouses, space ports and more.

So roll out the Barrels we're going to have us some fun!

Wait to see what's to come.

Crates by the tons!

Here we go, I have been checking out square wooden dowels again and I have come up with a easy way to fill up a whole warehouse full of crates in a couple of different sizes for just a few dollars. and when I say a few dollars how about for under $4.00

So the sizes are 1/4 inch, 3/8 inch and 1/2 inch, which from the math from one of the earlier post would make them for scale 2 feet, 3 feet and 4 feet tall and length varies in feet to what ever length you want them. So how many can you get from one 36 inch square wood dowel a LOT!!

1/4 inch

 3/8 inch

1/2 inch

If I were to cut the 1/4 inch dowel of 36 inches into 1/4 lenght, so it would be in 1/100 scale making them a 2 foot by 2 foot by 2 foot create, the math says 144 creates! but that number will be less because you have to minus wood lost due to cuts,  but let us staying on the math a 3/8 dowel broke down to 3x3x3 foot create would come out to 108, and 1/2 inch dowel broke down 4x4x4 foot create would be 72 with a grand total of 324 creates

As you can see from the three pictures above with just  a few cuts a hand full of creates are made.

Alright now you can have tons of cargo for your Pulp games warehouse or wharfs, or for your Sci-Fi games cargo hold or spaceport, supply point, for Post Apocalyptic game hasty barricades.

I just hope this will help fill your warehouse, ship or spacecraft have fun and the layouts are endless