June 7, 2026

The week began with painting the trench base for my third scratch-built Heretic gun turret.

I found a plastic angel at last week’s swap meet.  It cost me a dollar, and it looked like it had interesting possibilities for becoming a Trench Crusade shrine.  I built a trench-style base for it to stand on, added some speakers, candles, and crosses around the base, and then gave it a dirtied paint job.

I recently ordered the Trench Dice Tower not for throwing dice but because I consider it one of the iconic Trench Crusade structures.  To my great surprise and pleasure, they included the Brutal Trench Cross as a gift.  I decided to do the cross right away.  I set it on a trench-style base, surrounding it with Milliput sandbags and lots of candles.

I followed my gifted Brutal Trench Cross by painting another box of Pegasus river sections.  I painted them as a dry riverbed as I did with the ones I showed on my last posting.  I didn’t post a picture of these since they look just like the ones I posted last week.

Next on the agenda was the Trench Dice Tower itself.   No modification needed with it; just paint and a trench-style base.

A Pillbox Shrine arrived this week, and I decided to get right to work on it.  I began by building the trench platform it will sit on.  As with all the others I have done this is a core of Duplo blocks covered with Evergreen plastic for detail.  In terms of the shrine, it was mostly painting though I did remove the Balkan Cross and replace it with a more traditional religious cross.

Several years ago, at a Brookhurst Hobbies Bring and Buy event, I purchased GW’s Eternity Stair and Dreadfire Portal.  I got the two of them for just $10 which is $10 less than someone is asking for just one of them on eBay.  They were poorly painted, but that was easily remedied with new paint jobs.  I will definitely be using the Eternity Stair with my Trench Crusade collection, so I added candles to the stairs.  I’m pretty sure I’ll be using the DreadFire Portal but I’m not sure yet… it needs a lot of Milliput rock shaping to hide the GW symbols that surround the base.