Thank you very much for your kind words.
I made a Frostgrave ruin.
This here is how I built a standard scenery piece. It was a test piece, but I think it turned out well.
I started with a basic outline of the floor. It was going to be raised a bit.
Next I made the outlines for the walls. Now, I don't like foamcore for stone ruins, but this was going to be the middle part of three pieces, the other two were going to be of the handy foam I also used in my dungeon build.
As you can see here. One thing I ALWAYS dislike about otherwise good looking commercial ruined buildings is that they are too thin. I wanted my walls to actually look like thick walls. These are roughly 1,5 cm thick this way.
It also makes it easy to "dryfit" your scenery as it won't fall over, plus the foamcore... core... makes it very sturdy.
Looks about right for a standard piece of scenery.
Time to draw in the wall. This stuff is perfect for it, as it doesn't damage very quickly but is still easy to apply effects to. An aluminium ball will give me the rocky texture I want.
In hindsight, I could've made the lines a bit more straight, as up close it looks kind of fake, but hey, it was a test piece so there you have it, lesson learned.
It is starting to take shape. Sure, the edges are a bit wonky, but whatever...
At first I was going to cut out the middle and replace it with the grey stuff, but it turned out removing the paper would give me what I was after as well. It ended up looking good enough.
Almost there!
Here you can see how I used additional pieces of foamcore to raise the building up and also give the illusion of snow building up against the sides.
Some bark pieces for exposed rock pieces, lots of PVA glue and simple sand. This part took a while.
Dirt cheap, simple black and white acrylic paint for the ruins, and just the white paint for the snow. It cost nothing and it looks absolutely fantastic, if I may say so myself.
My only gripe right now is that the snow doesn't go high enough against the walls, so I need a solution for that which won't require 400 layers of PVA glue.
Thanks for watching!