| Dave McCallum had a terrain making competition at his local games stockist. He managed to win best in category for 40K and best overall with this impressive ruin...and bagged himself a new Land Raider plus some other goodies as a prize. |
The only unfortunate thing was that part of the entry criteria was that the terrain became the property of the shop, so these piccies taken just minutes before he delivered it are all he has left.
| The plywood base board dimensions are 2 foot square, with the construction being mainly from the end packing from a computer monitor. Part of the trick I have found in using poly packaging is to sufficiently alter the original shape. The second story was made using the section hacked away from the ground floor. most of the other chunks are large broken off chunks of the same stuff. |  |
The whole piece was "painted" in watered down polyfilla for texture, before a mix of small stones, ballast and sand were added to give rubble.
Not readilly aparent from the photos is that thin wire was pushed into each broken section and weathered rusty to look like the metal support rods you get inside concrete. (Ive noted to use thicker stuff next time).
External girders were made using the backing strip plastic of old windscreen wipers. A few other odds and ends of small computer componentry can be seen around the place.
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Ground flock (from memory) is a mix of dark and lite green fine ground railway modellers turf, sprinkled and set over a brown undercoat. All paint is normal matt household paint (test pots are brilliant and just soo cheap). I normally water mine down to half paint half water.) The concrete was drybrushed a lighter grey shade. |
| To give depth to the water filled craters, the plywood at these points was left smooth, then painted enchanted blue. With the paint still wet, I started using green ink and swirled it out to the edges to blend it. If it comes out too blue, just add more green ink at the centre and swirl outwards. A quick coat of gloss varnish kept it wet looking |  |
