Putting together what we learned about Salt Dough and Plaster casting. A rampart and stockade combo might be a doable thing.
Step one: make a 6" section of rampart out of salt dough.
Step two: top the rampart with a stockade, either carved somehow or made from real sticks.
Step three: use aluminum foil to make plaster molds. Cast pieces.
Repeat for a corner piece and maybe gate section.
Sweet jumping merciful blood-stained gods!
Do I indeed have a real stockade piece?
It's jumping all around my memory.
Calm down.
The piece I remember is actually much shorter than would make a proper rampart. It might have been for 15mm, and only comes to chest height.
I need to get home and have a look.
Maybe a lie-down too.
One method I've used in the past is Styrofoam base covered with plaster. Lighter and, depending on the method to finish it, more durable and lighter than solid plaster. I think I mentioned that I have a foam cutter which is so much less messy than a knife, and more accurate. We could whip out and stockade quite easily.
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