I already showed you the many foamboard pieces I recently cut up for my first more complex piece of terrain. Well, here are some more photos of this projct….
Papercraft, I assume... actually I originally thought that would be the most difficult part of the project... well, it wasn't...
Actually, cutting up the foamboard was only the third step of my project. I started out – quite some long time ago – by first drawing and then cutting out some papers to determine the design and size of the ruin. As you can see on the larger pieces, I did quite a wrong assumption here by making the pillars and buttresses more elaborate than I could finally cut with the foamboard. I am quite sure a master model-maker could, but if you don’t count some seriously botched earlier attempts, that one’s really my first “real” foamboard work…
These pieces came in more handy than I ever thought... all hail the cardboard, though it is a hell to cut through it...
For the windows and the various sizes of pillars I then made some calibres from sturdy cardboard. They were some hell to cut, but later saved me a lot of time, so that’s an element I will surely keep with future terrain pieces.
Next came the cutting up, but you already saw that….
If only I had a ruin... well, here you go...
So let’s proceed with the ruin as it stands at the moment. Here’s the frontal view.
I guess this is the second best view of this piece... but then, I see those windows and I see Snipers...
But I guess it looks better from this angle. As often I used a sturdy piece of plastic as a base, always buying that from an electronics store in Munich. Guess those are meant to be used for some electronical experiments or stuff… but they normally don’t bend and are sturdy, lightweight and thin…
I normally take great care with the floors of my buildings, cutting up cardboard to create floor tiles and stuff, but as I saw this one more as a “quick” experiment, I did nothing like that this time. In the end I will just sand the floor and that’s it. A bit cheap but it will work.
But all in all I like the outside better than the inside... unless I'll have to actually conquer this thing...
Here we have the ruin from the other side. All in all I am pretty happy the way the plasticity of the facade worked out. It’s all a little bit too… brutalistic, perhaps… especially the parts beneath the windows, where I just used the cut-outs of the windows themselves… next time, I’ll have to take greater care in making those more… elegant….
Watch the steps they'll be narrow and slippery with YOUR BLOOD....
I did some wrong measurements, though, especially with the steps. Originally the platform of the first floor was meant to be much narrower than they are now, but that would have narrowed the steps to less than 2 cm – too narrow for a skirmish where miniatures are using 30mm bases… as a compromise I moved the inner wall forward and the walls of the stairs almost outside of the base… I hope that in the end it will all work out well, but at least at the moment it looks pretty stupid…
Watching this emptiness makes me feel dizzy... no floor tiles? Is this really a building made by me?
I designed the floor to be removable – less for playing than for painting the inside of the building. Speaking of paint, I guess I will keep that simple: black primer, dark grey with drybrushing in light grey and white. If my plans go well, I will have a lot of terrain by the end of may, so I better don’t fancy anything too complicated….
There is still a lot to do, though, before I’ll come to painting… the steps, the wooden floortiles of the platform and a gangway along the left side of the building… some ornaments from my bitz box to make this look a little more elaborate… sanding the base, some sanding of the walls so that they will look more like old stone and less like new concrete…
