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There are many reasons why buildings fall into ruin.
One is from neglect or storm damage, and another is from the ravages
of war. Whatever the reason these ruins make excellent defenses
for your men and great terrain from your battlefield.
Luckily, making ruins is even easier than making complete
buildings, and can be made out of easy to find material like cardboard,
foamcore and even plasticard. You can even use offcuts from your
actual buildings! Below is an example of a Warhammer ruin made out
of foamcore, plastic frame and white glue.
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The walls are just pieces of foamcore glued together at right
angles. These walls can be cut to any shape and any offcuts
can be used to make additional rubble on the base. For a little
more rubble I clipped down bits of plastic frame to a brick
like length and glued them to ruins base. |
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At this stage your ruin is pretty much complete, however it's
looking a little flat. Many houses in the Old world have timbers
of their frames jutting through the walls. So we added a few
timbers to the front of the building. These timbers were cut
out from the remnants of the foamcore, our timbers were 8mm
wide and cut to the length of the building and then to size
as we worked our way around the ruin. |
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If you made one of your corner pieces high enough you can
add a first or even second floor to your ruin. This is simply
done by cutting out a piece of foamcore and gluing it into place
just above the windows. For a little extra detail you can lightly
cut halfway though the foamcore to make a floorboard effect.
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The ruin was then textured with a mix of spackling and sand
and then left to dry. Its best to paint the walls with the
texture and leave the timbers untextured. While the textured
walls are drying, flock the base with sand.
The ruin was drybrushed first with Snakebite Leather, Bubonic
Brown, and then Bleached Bone. The buildings base was drybrushed
as well, the grass areas is first painted Goblin Green with
a highlight of Sunburst Yellow. The muddier areas are a series
of layered colours, starting with Snakebite Leather, then Bubonic
Brown and a final lighter drybrush of Bleached Bone.
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