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Distraction: Greta's Revenge

The Debris

Debris was made with scratch parts of the blue foam. I put them on logic places when a building is collapsed. Against the walls, against the sidewalk, places like that. From the same scrap material I cut out some strips and made a supply of loose bricks to lie around on the debris. Now that the debris had its form it’s time to cover it up with wall spackle. While the wall spackle is still wet sprinkle some sand on it and stick some wood into the rubble. Also put in the loose bricks in the still wet wall spackle. Allow it to dry (Fig.21,22).

Now it’s time to give the wall rubble some color. First I painted everything (the groundwork) in Khaki drill. Where the bricks lay on top of the debris I painted them in the same colors as I did on the bricks in the wall (see 7. painting the bricks) (fig. 23) where the cobblestone road is visible through the rubble I gave the road a dry brush with German grey. Leaving the Khaki visible between the cobblestones to give the impression that it’s dust from the collapsed building (Fig.24).

Scattered Details

I have three propaganda posters on the walls of my building all of them were found on the internet. There are a couple of good sites that have good pictures of propaganda posters from all eras. Just scale them down. Print them on normal paper. Cut them out and with a dot of white glue stick to your building. Fold the edges a little bit for the effect that the posters come loose a bit. Or tear it into two parts like someone ripped it apart.

The wallpaper (fig.25) was also found on the internet; a fellow modeler came up with a link with all minis printable for dollhouses. There they had a section of wallpaper that I copied and pasted in Photoshop until I had A4 full wallpaper. Printed it out on normal paper. Glued the whole section in my ruin. And when it was dry I tore it of at the edges to get the ripped wallpaper effect. The Russian street sign was made by me also. On Armorama I asked in the forum to a Russian modeler if he knew what they looked like and he mailed me a couple of pictures of Russian street signs during WW2 and a file that contained a couple of very common street names in Russia. I made the street sign in Photoshop. And printed it out on glossy paper cut it out bended it a couple of times and put it aside till the dio was finished and I could put on the snow.