Across the Dead Earth Scenery prototype (help and advice needed)

[Rob_bresnen]

Here is my first stab at some overgrown ruins for Across the Dead Earth- the setting is a post apoc Britain, and the ruined buildings tend to be over grown with vegetation

this is a Timeline Miniatured building, post apoc'ed up a but...







Now I am sort of happy with this, but not entirely. I think its on the right lines but I wanted it to feel a bit more like this...



I recon that next time I should have had piles of broken bricks heaped around it so teh base wasn't so flat, and possibley tattered of wallpaper and furniture inside, but I am welcome to any other suggestions about how to get that 'abandoned to nature' look I am after.

[robh]

Agreed, it should have a lot more rubble, fallen beams and broken furniture around (inside and out), you probably won't go far wrong if you pretty well fill the base with detritus.
Also it is a bit "clean", there are many houses around here with worse looking paint jobs and they are lived in! Needs a lot of moss and lichen growth, water stains and general grime.

[Silent Invader]

Agree with everything Robh says.

Don't forget to leave room for the minis when placing rubble and don't be afraid to use dark washes for dirt (demolished buildings produce a lot of dust). Climbing vegetation and bushes can be created using torn up balls of pan scrubber rolled with some clear solvent glue, with flock fixed on top with pva.

From some of my not-ATDE projects that show what I mean:

[Brummie Thug]

I think if you did some green/brown water stains to the interior and add a bit of growth on the internal walls it would change it a lot perhaps a few tin cans or paper or something.

[Sterling Moose]

Yep I agree, nice but needs more grime, plants growing inside and through windows and gaps in the walls.

[Too Bo Coo]

I like this project quite a lot!  Keep it up!

[Rob_bresnen]

Thanks for all the advice and suggestions.

I had a second go at this ruin and added a lot more much and green slime, and added cracks in the plaster work- simple stuff, but I think it has helped. I will try to be a but more adventurous with the next one, and add some rubble and some wall paper etc.

[zizi666]

 
That is one fine piece of scenery.
Might I suggest a floor on top of the small room (planking)

[Constable Bertrand]

I like how thin the walls are Rob, not thick foamcore, it looks good. But you need more rubble unless its been 'scavenged' clean  

Steve, why post pictures of archers with their eyes closed? Get back to painting your castles and post in the correct thread     

Cheers
Matt

[Silent Invader]

Steve, why post pictures of archers with their eyes closed? Get back to painting your castles and post in the correct thread     

Hrumph!  It's there for the vegetation man, not the archers, the vegetation!   

[Constable Bertrand]

Sure Steve, more like increased thread promotion

Sorry, back to the ruins. They look good, I'd reccomend grit/bricks/rubble in the corners.

Cheers
Matt

[Brummie Thug]

That's looking much better mate.  Fantastic job

[DELTADOG]

Good progress atm. but it looks NOT very ruined neither weathered. The still missing Rubble has been mentioned already, but there is a Failure in the Weathering itself, which makes it look so sterile and artifical. Weathering on walls almost form vertical strokes from a horizontal edge. And the darker colorareas done by black mildew is more clowdy not that spotlike you did it.





Hope that helps you. Just google pictures with the words "weathered wall" and you will get plenty of examples.

[fastolfrus]

Steve, why post pictures of archers with their eyes closed?

To avoid red-eye from the camera flash?

[Constable Bertrand]

 

Cheers
Matt