Tiny Terrain for Tiny Heresy
Basic Tutorial II
To make the walls cut some rectangles out of the card. I chose 60mm x 80mm for this project but mix it up a bit, big buildings are built the same way. After you cut the square cut a jagged line through it to make a bombed out ruin. This gives you two walls per piece.
These two pieces will work but not joined to one another so we need to make a filler wall.
Place the cut pieces of card at the edge of your square piece and mark it, using this mark cut a wall the same way as before beginning and ending it at those points. This helps the ruins look like previously intact buildings.
You can use either PVA or Super Glue to fix the card to the base, I've done both but to keep costs and items needed down decided to do these demonstrations with PVA.
Your buildings should have between two and four walls, if you make a four walled building make sure to add some kind of doorway. To keep it all simple I'm going to just make solid walls.
Glue down some of the offcuts to simulate fallen upper levels or the buildings floor showing through the rubble just to help break the ground up a little. I had an old cork drink coaster so I crumbled it up to make some more rubble for the same reason. Remember this is 6-8mm scale so those small pieces of cork are bigger than a Space Marine.
Another way to help make these look more like buildings is to take some of the offcuts and use them to hint at other levels that were destroyed. Just cut it at a 90 Degree angle and glue it in the corner. Don't worry if there is a small gap, we'll be sprinkling some snad here later to cover any of that and to add to the effect.
For taller buildings you can simulate more than one floor. Again this is 6-8mm so these floors must be giant but that's just 40K.
Some of the terrain I've made earlier, if you like you can mark out some windows and cut them with a knife before gluing the building together. The same can be done with large archways and the tall windows on the large Cathedral like structure. You can also add some internal walls to make the building look as if it was once subdivided, go nuts really, that's all part of the fun. Next up basing the buildings.
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