Shield and Castle Ruins

Thanks everyone. I decide to go to my usual fallback plan, and I used LEGO bricks. I roughed them up and made them look like stones. I found a great shield from a Gondorian Swordsman. Thanks again, all the suggestions were very helpful.

I'm sure he won't mind me posting this so check out Bobtheodd's youtube channel, he makes some amazing castle/ stone dios from foam and packing materials. There are some great vids on there specifically this one for what you want, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpefQi7RNsM .

As for the shield, maybe a cap America shield, LOTR shields or Chap Mei do some pretty large shields too. Don't know if you have them in Oz but check in your local pound/dollar shops, ours often have figures with stupidly oversized accessories.

For castle ruins lookin into wargames terrain. There are a ton of tutorials for making all sorts of terrain types including castle ruins, all you have to do is scale it up. Here are some cool ones: