In the past, I only posted completed Galleries on my website, which meant that months went by between postings… 24 galleries in the last 10 years. This "Weekly Workbench" element of the website offers me a record/calendar of how my work has been progressing between Gallery postings, which is fun to have in addition to hopefully encouraging viewers to drop by more often to see how a project is coming along. Enjoy!
April 12, 2026
I began the week by building a trench base for my McFarlane Toys’ Spawn cross (purchased about 10 years ago at the swap meet for $3). To that I added a removeable True Hero Military sandbag defense I purchased recently at the swap meet for a dollar.
I used a Duplo piece covered by Evergreen plastic to create a moveable medic station entrance for my Trench Crusade collection.
Midweek I noticed that I had the water tank from an Atlantis the Lost Empire Water Tanker that was left over from using most of that vehicle as an armored vehicle for my Trench Crusade collection. I decided to use the left-over water tank as a reserve water tank for my trench system.
Late in the week I built the trench emplacement for one of my large artillery pieces. As with the others, this was done using Dupo pieces as the inner core of the emplacement which was then covered with Evergreen plastic.
In putting together my trench emplacements, I think details are an important element in enriching the look of the layout. Since I want to keep my options open as to how the layout will be arranged, removeable features like shrines and bunker entrances offer flexibility of detail that I need. Earlier I made removeable HQ and hospital/medical entrances that I think work well, so I turned my attention to bunker entrances for the troops.
April 5, 2026
The week opened with a find at the swap meet… three plastic bullets for one dollar. This was just what I needed to build more ammo shrines for Trench Crusade.
That swap meet also yielded up a base for a monster or superhero that had been separated from its figure. The base was in the form of a crater that was perfect for use with my Trench Crusade trench system. Using Evergreen v-groove plastic I built trench-siding around it so that it matched the height of my other trench pieces. Once finished I had a nice ruin for my trenches that only cost me a dollar.
I spent the rest of the week building more trench emplacements using Duplo blocks to provide the inner core and Evergreen plastic for the outer detail. In addition, I also painted the large Trench Crusade cross that was the piece of terrain that initially drew my attention to the Trench Crusade concept.
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