Progress on the 10mm Roman fort/wall, with the gate section nearing completion. The top picture shows the gate in position. The bottom picture shows the back of the wall with the steps up to the top of the wall, cut from soil sods. PVA'd with sand on. 
Two pictures of the fort, the top one showing the breached wall section in position, showing the polystyrene and small stones used to create the breach. The three buildings are shown with the basic paint work done. In the foreground is the barracks block with the stables and workshop building behind it. At the top is the legats villa, still needs the wall around the villa. I think all three buildings will be mounted onto a single lift out base board which will sit within the fort.
The 4 wall sections in position as the fort with the addition of the new towers, one much bigger than the other three to act as an artillery support platform. The tower on the front right still needs to have its ditch adding. I'm still working on the construction of the gate area. I found Secundus's blog Iron Mitten a great help. Full of lots of Roman inspiration, and some great fortifications.
The Antonine wall stretches for 39 miles from the firth of Clyde to the firth of forth in Scotland, 100 miles further north than Hadrian's wall. The idea for doing this project came from a family holiday in the west of Scotland in 2006. We stayed just outside Oban. While there I bought a great book by Gordon Maxwell called a Gathering of Eagles (ISBN 1841583847), about the Roman invasion of Scotland. Lots of superb Illustrations of Roman forts, watch towers and the Antonine wall. In style very similar to an Osprey book, soft cover, same size but only £6.99p.
You have it all planned out and things are going just fine, then you makes some wheat fields. And into your head jumps an idea, wheat fields, so where are the hay stacks? So looking on google pictures I found some reference pictures. Also a great article describing the construction of one in 20mm scale on lloydianaspects.co.uk The two pictures above are WIP's of my 10mm hay stacks, based on 2p coins with sand and PVA the central poles which the hay stacks are built around are cocktail sticks cut down and hot glued on to the coins. The wooden poles the stacks stand on are made from cut down match sticks. The silver foil that makes up the bulk of the stacks is supper glued onto the base. The outer skin of the stack will be made from air drying clay The figure to show the size is a pendraken miniatures 10mm scale British cavalry figure from their WW1 range range. 
A marching camp created for my DBA early imperial roman forces in 10mm scale. The palisade is made from bamboo satay skewers. The ground work was made using the polystyrene packaging from a cheep clip frame. Its quite deep to make room for the DBA bases. The camp can also be used with some of my other 10/15mm forces. The base is about 7 inches square. I put in some spare palisade logs and some steps to add some visual intrest to the inside of the camp. Click on the pictures for bigger versions.
The finished paddy fields. I found some green garden twine (string) for 99p in Wilkinsons, great for using as the rice, saves having to paint it, different lengths some in small clumps for younger growth. Glued in place with PVA. Then dry brushed with some very bright green. The water is painted using Humbrol gloss enamel paint to give a gloss reflective finish. I've also added some wooden work ways over a couple of the sections of the paddys. Double click on the pictures for bigger versions.
