Got a few days to the end of the competition and I've been tinkering with making some modular wargaming bits that I thought I'd work on for another entry. "Last Stands" are usually last minute affairs and so will this.
Had a packet of 1/72 Hundred Years War figures sitting on the shelf, English long bowman. At the Battle of Agincourt the English bowman had to defend themselves against the French cavalry etc, a kind of last stand against greater numbers. So perhaps this is appropriate for the competition. And as its my rules this time - of course it is!!
Anyway - wanted to do a low hill large enough for a few troops. Very simple construction, just 3 layers of foam board stuck together:
From memory (not that I was there, from a book I read about it a long time ago!!) the Long Bowmen were sited on one side of a shallow valley, and able to fire down onto the cavalry.
I have used acrylic resin to add a few features to part of the hill:
Covered it with PVA and added green flock to it:
The idea for the modular barricades etc I'm using green putty on a green card simply squeezed out in a long line.
Into this I've pushed small cut sticks to represent planks stuck into the ground, with the same green flock over the putty.