Anyways to start with you need a slab of foam. Make it about two to four centimeters thick. Two if you want the wall to be a centimeter thick, four if you want it to be two centimeters thick. The length should be however long you want it to be. And the height should be half the height of the wall you want to make. So for me it's something like this:
Why do we need it to be have the thickness as doubled and the height as halved? Well you see we're going to split it in half. So then you'll end up with half of the thickness you started with, and when you stack it on top of each other you'll get double the height you started with. Not practical, but when that foam board you had is of particular dimensions, there's no other ways.
Now we're going to glue them on top of each other. Put the messier side on the outside, it makes it looks like it's been shot up and whatnot. After glueing it onto each other, glue it onto a piece of cardboard, preferably not too malleable. Or if you have a rather thin piece of foam board then use that, mine is about four centimeters thick so that won't do. It's okay if you have some pieces hanging off.
See the beauty of the barricade? No? Rather bland? Alright fine, we're going to spice things up a bit. See those sprues hanging on the table? Grab em'. What do you have there? Well as for me I have this piece of sprue, this converted out gun (a flamer with barrel cut off, replaced with the head of a melta gun as a stock, back cut off, put in the round thingies you get on that landspeeder kit for the guns. Works like magic), and a piece of copper wire. Ooh, plus some corrugated cardboard.
I'll be needing that gun so I'm just going to use the wire, cardboard and sprue piece. Strike that I lost the sprue piece, the cardboard and wire it is. Great thing about cardboard, it sticks great with foam. Not so great thing about wire is that it doesn't glue to the foam. Great thing it can just stab through the foam EAT THAT UNGLUEABILITY!!!
Remember those pieces hanging off? Well cut them off in the most un-neat way you can, and make it look like it has seen rough times by adding bullet holes and what not. Also add a little variation in the height of the wall, it makes it less bland. If this is still too bland for you, then paint it. I'm not going to do it myself, that would make it too easy for you. Go and paint this baby, and show it off to your friends at the local game store. And remember to tell them where you got the great idea!
Of course if you think that this is pathetic you can go to games workshop and buy the Aegis Defence Line for $30.00. Or heck just go buy the Legendary Battlefield kit and have your gaming needs filled for the rest of your life. I've embedded their respective links here so you can go right on ahead and waste your money. Why would I do this? Well I'm just that type of a person that likes to help other people no matter how badly they insulted my scraps thrown together ideas- I mean my super awesome ideas. Did I mention that it was $1048.75? Here let me give you the first 75 cents. No? You like this method better? Good, I do too. Who doesn't like being cheap?
Some of my other barricades for your enjoyment and exploitation.
Well did you enjoy them? Make sure you measure the height of your models first, you might end up with a wall that only covers their knees if you forget to do so (blue barricade)
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