Materials Needed 2 bamboo skewers 5 flat toothpicks White glue (tacky glue would be better Sheet of wax paper 1. Lay out the wax paper. This will be needed to make sure that the ladder does not end up glued to anything else. 2. Prepare your materials. Carefully break off the pointed ends of the skewers and throw them away. Carefully break the toothpicks in half, that all the pieces are the same length. 3. Lay the skewers on the wax paper like this: They should be close that the toothpick halves will reach from one to the other. 4. Without touching the skewers, take a glue bottle and put ten drops of glue along each skewer, evenly placed: 5. Lay the toothpick halves onto the spots of glue: 6. Allow the glue to dry completely before handling the ladders at least one hour! More Castle Assault Project Introduction and Rules Project: Siege Catapult Project: Siege Tower Project: Siege Ladder Project: Archer's Mantlet Back to MWAN #106 Table of Contents Back to MWAN List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2000 Hal Thinglum This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com