The First Cookie: Building the Tunnel

Beforehand, fold the cardboard into whatever shape you want it. For this project, I chose to use a pentagon shape. Don’t worry too much about folding it, just crease it to show yourself where each wall ends, because it will unfold later.

Cookie 1: ¼

For this step, you must use fairly large scissors and puncture through the cardboard where you want to cut out where the bombs supposedly hit the tunnel. For this, go behind the cardboard with the scissors and skewer them a tiny bit until they go through, and then cut around the puncture. You may repeat this step a few times if wished. I cut three of these holes out.

Cookie 1: ½

Now you can take some cardboard offcuts and cut them to desired shape for the bitz: patches, bolts, bullet holes, etc. You can also stab it a few times with a pen for a bullet-hole effect, although my army doesn’t use many bulleted guns so I did not use that.  After you cut out the offcuts, glue them randomly on the tunnel. For this, you can use any glue, however I recommend Tacky Glue.

Cookie 1: ¾

Time to lay down the meth-er, I mean, mesh! Most people prefer chicken wire although I decided that my Dark Eldar would probably use whatever for an under armour, so it could be thicker than mesh. So, I cut out paper, a bit thicker. For the paper, you must cut it into strips first. After you have enough strips to cover one of the holes horizontally, put glue on both ends and glue them down. Repeat with vertical strips and other holes too. Any holes on the roof you could cover that with solid paper, like sheet metal.

Is this for the most part how yours looks? Unless you are doing a different style, then good. You are now halfway done!

The Second Cookie: Painting the Tunnel

OMG. I just put that Bestial Brown paint in my water. Dammit! Whatever, its non-toxic, how could it hurt me? Anyways, In this step you may need a detail brush; however you can probably use any brush, especially depending on how large your bitz were. Anyways, now you should paint all the paper mesh Mithril Silver, any buttons Red Gore, the rectangle patches Bestial Brown, and any roof sheet metal shadow grey. Let these all dry and then touch it up any. And remember to paint it also on the inside of the tunnel, too!

Cookie 2: ¼

Here we lay down the basecoat. I chose the colour Liche Purple for this tunnel, for my Dark Eldar love purple. I may make another tunnel, using Fiery Orange paint, but that is in the future. Anyways, just paint the whole rest of the tunnel body Liche Purple, being careful to not touch the bitz with any of the paint. When you are finished painting the inside and outside Liche Purple, proceed to the next step.

Cookie 2: ½

Now, here’s the funnest part! And the messiest, so be careful. You now get to flick blood, sounds fun, huh? You have to do this carefully though, so as not to bloody yer walls and such. I won’t describe it in full detail here, so if you need help, go to, Flicking, in the Techniques section. But what you do is put your index finger and thumb together, like the O.K. sign or flipping someone off in Portugese, and then flick away at a brush dipped heavily in Red Gore paint. I forgot to cover it up and my walls sorta turned reddish, but that’s ok. And I flicked some red into my milk on top of the bestial brown.

Cookie 2: ¾

For this step you get to use yer imagination. You do have one, right? Ok, so onto graffiti. For this you can paint any phrase that you like and think appropriate for yer army or symbols, see Symbols in the Decorations section for some WH40k-style Swastikas & stuff. They’re really messed up but the races are too so, whatever. And remember, you do this on the BACK! On my tunnel I just wrote the letters with different colours for each phrase and in different ways and then highlight the outside with another contrasting colour. I also put on a close to Liche Purple colour in places as like some official trying to cover up naughty words or something.