Building a ww2 trench for school

CatherineBentley

Hi there. Hoping you fabulous people can help my 10 year old as I know nothing of building Lego! He wants to do a ww2 trench for a school project - I’ve ordered some brown pieces but that’s as far as I’ve got. Anyone got some suggestions for something quite simple but effective?! 

gelkster

www.brickmania.com for ww2 weapons

CCC

Remember trenches in WW2 tended not to be anywhere near as permanent or as developed as those in WW1. I'd go for a simple hole from brown bricks with green on top for grass (or white for snow).

There aren't very many accurate WW2 weapons in LEGO, as they don't do modern warfare. Search bricklink.com for gun or rifle. Similarly, there are not very many figures you could use as soldiers if you want to use genuine LEGO. Although if you search ebay you can get a number of clone brands that do modern soldiers.

Shropshire

Lego modified log bricks (Lego part number 30136) in reddish brown if laid sideways could look like sandbags but may look too uniform unless used here and there in small clusters to show areas of sandbags rather than WW1 style walls

DeMontes

Here is a simple one.... just uses the 1x2 Palasade Bricks stacked with grass on top

Switchfoot55

Depending on your timeline, you could also check Aliexpress for clone brand figs/weapons/sandbags, etc.... It may take a month to arrive, but could fill in a lot of the details for not a lot of money. 

DeMontes

A simple sandbag technic that stays pure to LEGO...sorry I am a purist  ;-)

Switchfoot55

^I am as well. But as the OP may not be, I was hoping to give alternative options. 

I like that model a lot!

DeMontes

@Switchfoot55 - oh sorry, that wasn't a dig at you in particular!  I just meant that while the clone sandbags look much more like sandbags, this was a simple and cheap method for a 10 year old using LEGO parts too.  

It's all good :-)

If you look at this example, its a mix of those palisade bricks, 2x2 Round bricks, 1x1 Round bricks and then the sandbag example above.

Hope some of that helps.

Fizyx

DeMontes said:

@Switchfoot55 - oh sorry, that wasn't a dig at you in particular!  I just meant that while the clone sandbags look much more like sandbags, this was a simple and cheap method for a 10 year old using LEGO parts too.  

It's all good :-)

If you look at this example, its a mix of those palisade bricks, 2x2 Round bricks, 1x1 Round bricks and then the sandbag example above.

Hope some of that helps.

I actually really like the twisted up chain for the barbed wire there too.