OK - I'll try n post some WIP pics on the next one I do. Planning a building that was smashed apart by an artillery hit. But for now - here's a few notes:
Firstly the theory behind the build....
1) I wanted to build fairly realistically sized and shaped buildings. We've all seen it before - buildings with no stairs or balconies that are full once a single space marine walks through the door.
2) I hate wrecked buildings where the destroyed 2 thirds of the building has been tidied away by the enemy so neatly. I wanted the place to look a mess, with fallen in floors, piles of rubble where the floor and walls would have stood. Add in the premise that a certain amount of rubble has been moved to the edges by infantry as barricades and defences, and we have a reasonably cleared centre floor, with defensible edges.
3) I wanted colour. I hate the fact that a majority of
40k buildings are always just black and grey. I wanted other materials in there too - not just the tiled floors. How about a steel clad mechanicum floor or a timber clad tower block floor, or perhaps marble tiling at the foot of a palace floor?
4) The models and board still needed to be 'playable' with minimum 'fall overage' of models.
Take those ideas and start building. (Buildings were assembled in large flat sections, lying down in order that I could avoid mis-alignment, these were then stood upright to glue corners, using spray cans to hold them in place. I built the buildings first for the main shapes, then drew around them onto thin fibreboard for bases, judging how large they should be, if the rest of the building was there. As I mentioned in the other thread, milliput and Oyamaru come into play for thin 'smashed floor' tiles and wall sections. I took all the sprue that came from the frames that the buildings came in and chopped that up into small pieces for brick rubble. (That was a fun afternoon of blisters and hand ache! I then added in a handful of grits of different sizes. Using a 'hotmelt' glue gun this was then assembled around the centre 'floor.'
The floor centre was simply a laser printed texture of wooden flooring, that I glued down with PVA glue, then varnised over with a couple of coats of matt varnish. Once the rubble piles were assembled I taped over all the parts I didn't want sprayed with masking tape. sprayed the model blacks, browns and reds, then set to with the paintings.
The winged angels are scibor miniatures floor or wall relief plates that I simply broke apart to form fallen wall sections.
More to come when I get the photos processed from building and painting the next building.