Four cast parts of wooden trench revetment. Without revetment a wall collapsed after the first rain, which is why a trench looks the way it does in photographs.
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A dug ditch lasts weeks in dry clay, but hours in sand or in soaked soil. That is why the walls of trenches were revetted with boards, round timber and wicker hurdles braced against driven stakes. On the Western Front, where in Flanders the water table reached almost to the surface, raised breastworks were built as well and the floor was laid on duckboards. On the eastern battlefields, with deeper and firmer soil, sparser revetment was enough and more raw round timber was used than planed lumber.
The set brings four cast parts prepared as finished sections of revetted wall. The texture of the wood is cast including the growth rings and the bruised edges, so the grain comes out by itself after a dry brush.
Fresh lumber is pale yellow, after a month in the damp it goes gray, on the bottom thirty centimeters it darkens from mud and moss clings in the corners. It is precisely the transition between the gray upper part and the dirty foot that makes the revetment credible. Nail heads and wire ties can be suggested with a dark dot.
The dimensions match the 1:35 ratio, in which figures stand in a trench with their shoulder to the edge of the wall.
It does not belong only in a fighting ditch. The same structure holds the wall of a dug shelter, the lining of an artillery position, an air raid trench in a yard and the side of a road cut through a slope, so more than a single scene comes out of four parts.
It pays to leave irregular gaps between the boards and to set one out of line. A perfectly aligned wall gives the mold away, a crooked one is faithful, because the revetting was done with whatever was at hand.
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