This camp was commissioned by one of my friends, Steve Sattler, for his Philistine army. I knew that the Philistines had a reputation of being metalsmiths, so thought an armorer's workshop in the midst of an earthwork camp could be a good idea.
The base is styrene with a U-shaped section of bass wood epoxied atop. Then two strips of bass wood were glued atop each other along the edge of the U to make a base for the palisade wall. The styrene would be the "ditch" level. Once this rough pryamidical frame was created, I coated it with a mixture of white glue and Woodland Scenics "Earth" turf. This pasty mixture flowed over the bass wood frame to create a rough, earthen palisade wall.
I epoxied a resin tent from Dayton Painting Consortium as the armorer's tent, then glued a decorative bead painted black down in front as an anvil. The spear shafts awaiting blades are pieces of brass wire, while the heads are clipped from various extra spears I've saved from miniatures. The tiny basket containing the spearhead was made from sculpy.
The armorer is an Essex Biblical Semitic slinger whose weapon was clipped out and replaced with a scratch built hammer (which I made from a needle driven through his hand, clipped and a blob of bluetack molded into hammer shape on the end). The assistant carrying the bundle of completed spears is an Old Glory Canaanite spearman with his arms repositioned. I painted the camp ground an earthy yellow and flocked it with Woodland Scenics "Earth."
I was fairly happy with how this little vignette turned out. It has that dusty Biblical era feel to it, and shows activity going on, rather than being a static display.
Steve Sattler bought it at Cold Wars for $25.