When shopping for supplies at Hobby Lobby, I found a package of tiny, wooden wheels that I thought would be perfect to help me scratch-build my own wagons. Since wagon laagers were popular fortifications of steppe armies, I thought I would try to give the effect of one by placing two wagons end-to-end.
The floorboards of the wagons are cut from bass wood. To fit two wagons onto a 40x80mm base, I had to make them a tad smaller than I would have liked otherwise (darn Phil's restriction of camp sizes!). I epoxied Craft Stix to the floorboards to act as axles, then flipped them over, and slowly built up the wooden sides with row after row of pre-cut Craft Stix. A slip of bass wood was substituted in the second row as the driver's seat on each. Once I was satisfied with the wagon's height, I epoxied the wheels on.
The row of shields and spears in the wagons were constructed from simple straight pins with cardboard "shields" cut from a hole punch. I used an extra Asiatic light horseman as a messenger, and the footman onboard the wagon is an Old Glory Celt.
I figured this camp could be used for a multitude of armies. Like I said, I would have preferred to make the wagons larger, but I think it came out fairly well. It certainly is different looking, and I think gives the effect of a laager well.
This camp was purchased at Cold Wars for $25 by Jason
Mirosavich.