Dogs dinner terrain.
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About the Project
Trying to make a multi-use burnt down warehouse. The mdf base is made from the stepped sides of a paint pot stand I didn't like (too big of a footprint for what it could hold). The walls are made from dog food sachet boxes cut up. The idea is to have charred floor boards that marry up when the two halves are brought together, but be able to take them apart as seperate buildings on the battlefield (and say that the other half burnt down to ashes). Thinking i will use some plaster and PVA for texturing etc and coffee stirrers for the floorboards. Trying to set as wattle and dorb style so it is good for dark age all the way up to WW2.
Related Game: SAGA
Related Genre: General
This Project is Completed
Starting out.
Wattle and dorb style warehouse began with Coffee stirrers on the outside, cuts with a hobby knife on the inside and then some plaster and pva texturing. I added some black to the PVA mix and it came out grey. If there’s any chipping later it will come out a passable ash grey rather than a brutal white.
I had to use some off cuts of coffee stirrer to plug holes in the base before applying the pva plaster mix.
The floorboards
I primed everything with leather brown Army Painter spray before moving to the floorboards.
I put the two pieces together and then tried to work out the lengths of the coffee stirrers I would need.
I wanted some cross over and it not to be uniform, but not so much overlap that when it was seperated it looks too odd, or leaving long planks beyond the base that may get snapped off.
I laid down and glued one side with pva and allowed it to dry.
Then I united the bases again and laid the corresponding half of stirrer to marry up with the glued down ones and I think they’d look convincing once painted.
You can see in the picture that I began trying out my paint scheme for the walls.
The paint job.
The walls have been painted with GW Grey Seer. I would usually try to use cheap kids paints for terrain, but this pot of Grey Seer has actually three parts dried out and applying it as a heavy dry brush was more like saving cash rather than wasting it.
The beams are all Wyldwood Contrast.
The floorboards were sprayed with model mates oil brown and mud brown spray and with a pound shop matt black down the middle.
Foliage and weathering
Was not sure how best to finish this. The upper floor and or roof have clearly gone, but I didn’t want everything to look black and charred as though it was burnt away. I began to weather everything a bit and added foliage (cast off flock from cheap Wish.com trees) to make any inconsistencies look down to the fact that the fire happened ages ago. I decided that maybe… the building fell into ruins and the fire was later in it’s history?
The final look.
Happy with it. Not happy with the pics, but might revisit that. Does what I set out to do. Blocking terrain that can be one large ground floor of a ruin, or two ruined buildings. Will probably turn up in Rangers of Shadow Deep games. But could be used in a dozen games.
Just add minis. ?
Calling this done.
Will hopefully show it off in a game soon.
Used part of my Ghost Archipelago warband and Archibald my Ranger to show it off.
Will add some scatter terrain / rubble / discarded weapons etc to try and tie it in more with whatever era I am playing in.
Second Helpings
Using the same box type I made a barn. I cut two horizontal lines across one end (half way up and bottom) and then bisected that vertically to join the two lines, thus make opening and closing barn doors
Rather than go for the plaster mix of last time I just dabbed PVA and ran sand over the walls to give me the rough finish. Then it was all primed Army Painter Skeleton Bone.
Then I built up the colour I wanted for the walls with Morghast Bone and white. Weathering with Athonian Camoshade.
The windows were a bit of an after thought. I cut out the holes and added cocktail sticks as bars.
Coffee stirrer planks. Not individual, just a whole length of the stirrer minus the round end and crimped with the snips to leave a board end indent.
A charity shop teddy bear was dismembered to make this happen. The parts weren't big enough to cover it all, so it's a bit rough. I wanted it to be darker older thatch but I didn't really commit to it fully and only mixed a little Athonian Camoshade into some PVA and sprayed with some model mates mud brown spray. 
Happy with it given the speed it went together and the similarities it bares to the burnt out version. The coffee stirrer was painted with various layers of Army Painter Leather Brown, Mornfang Brown and Wyldwood Contrast to give an aged look.
