How to Make Fast Warhammer 40k Barricades

Finding quick cover is always a challenge during battle. Why not throw up a few fast barricades to ward off some of the incoming enemies? In this article you’ll find tips and tricks on how to make fast Warhammer 40K barricades and ideas for different cover terrain.

Barricade 1 concrete and rebar/corrugated metal scraps

For this you’ll need a piece of polystyrene (styrofoam) and cardboard (ie. from a pizza box)

Simply shape your styrofoam into any small shape you can think of. You may include cinder blocks, rebar (made from wire), scratch it up with a utility knife, bust out chunks to resemble explosions, basically your end product will resemble a pile of random debris all piled together into one lump.

For the concrete parts, base coat with acrylic black. Then heavily dry brush with codex gray. Now lightly dry brush with skull white. For the Corrugated metal parts, apply blood red, dry brush with graveyard earth, then dry brush with bolt metal gun.

Barricade 2 Rusted metal pipes

Grab a stack of plastic bendy straws.

Cut them up into various sizes then glue them together.

Base coat them with acrylic black.

Next, paint on blood red, then dry brush with graveyard earth, and lightly dry brush with bolt metal gun.

Barricade 3 Corrugated Metal bunker

This is simply constructed using cardboard and popsicle sticks.

Simply glue together a rectangular shaped bunker with the popsicle sticks as framing and the cardboard as the exterior. For rust effects paint it blood red, then dry brush with graveyard earth, and finally, apply a dry brush coat of bolt metal gun.

Try to make the windows fit the height of the guns that fit your army. It may also be helpful for game play if the roof is detachable .
And that’s a wrap. Hope you’ve enjoyed some basic barricades and ideas for cover terrain. Happy war gaming.

(Special thanks to Dan for building the Barricades. Great work!)