Brutal Block Building 28mm style

[nevermore]

Brutal Block Building 28mm style

I love gaming the Chechen war, so i decided to make quick brutal block buildings, this is all scratch built, took about 5 days to create and is 28mm scale, i picked up a few tips as i created it and have almost finished the tower block building in record time 4 days.

All together it cost around £2 to create, its solid and everything you see is foam, i put dry grass for effect to make it look like its been a ruin for a while, its a big piece and plenty of places to hide.

Will get another one up tomorrow.

I put a 1-48th scale russian tank to give you some idea of the scale


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I also wanted flags around the building


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Made a number of mistakes, but i learned alot from it and i rather did enjoy putting the colours together, i also came across a idea to do it even quicker with paints ,which i did on my next post coming up, will explain tomorrow on that one.

Time to start on the third which is going to be even better and more thought going into it, learning all the time on this, believe when i say, its not hard to do.Its 50% covering up mistakes.

http://www.victorian-steel.com/

[von Lucky]

Very effective, nice one.

[Dr. Zombie]

Looking very nice.

[Remgain]

Very nice!

A suggestion: I would have added a LOT of rubble!!

Marco

[nevermore]

Very nice!

A suggestion: I would have added a LOT of rubble!!

Marco

I know what you are saying and i proberly agree with you, but i thought about movement within the building and being able to control the miniatures not sliding down a rubble hill, being able to get the hand in and i was going to add a hanging large piece of slab from one of the upper floors.

Totally get what you are saying Marco, maybe a idea would be to get more rubble, like a layer but flat kind of ?

Will take your avice and create that effect on the nice one, thanks for being a mate ...    more bloody work,   

[Remgain]

Nevermore,

yes! I'm not saying to add all the rubble that should have generate by the collapsing of such a building!
A "layer" of rubble should do the job!

Years ago I "rubbled" a destroyed biulding in this way.
Put in a bowl some water, sand, white glue, sawdust, bricks, pieces of wood, etcetc and, very important, dark grey paint.
Mixing all together, if you obtain and alien dark grey porridge mixture, ok, you're on the right direction!
Apply liberally on the ground.
When dry, apply a light gray drybrush, and pick some detail here and there with different colours.
Et voilà!

My 2 cents,
Marco

[nevermore]

Good advice Marco i will try that method

[Ash]

Looks superb

[YPU]

Years ago I "rubbled" a destroyed biulding in this way.
Put in a bowl some water, sand, white glue, sawdust, bricks, pieces of wood, etcetc and, very important, dark grey paint.
Mixing all together, if you obtain and alien dark grey porridge mixture, ok, you're on the right direction!
Apply liberally on the ground.
When dry, apply a light gray drybrush, and pick some detail here and there with different colours.
Et voilà!

I use a similar method for a lot of things, works great!