Here's some photo's of a building that I've been working on.
Shell is Verlinden, framework is homemade. Paint is rough coat.
Let me know what you think.

Very good start I'd say. I would like to mention at this point that the most common negative on ruined buildings is not enough rubble. If you have referance pics of bombed citys and towns you'll see vast heaps of the stuff clogging the street.
Keep going!
Rick

Make sure you don't get too far along and leave any white plaster exposed.
I'm not sure I 'follow' the roof with the pen lines done vertically. Is this going to be a tile roof?
Don't forget to apply damage to adjacent structures: the roof is destroyed while the peak brick structure next to the bomb hole in the roof shows no damage.

It's a good start.

Thx for the ++++'s on this guys. I wanted to try and put some of my construction background into 1/35th buildings.

Scott,

The pen lines are to make sure the rafters line-up, center lines. I need a Ref. point when I got further down. I'd wanted to try to use it in an ambush/sniper setting, right now I'm in a rethink with it.
I was going to go straw roof.
The white on the back side is from repairing it with hot glue, that will disappear.

Hi Brian you know how you said the building shell is by Verlinden does that mean it's made from ceramic? if so i was wondering if could give me some advice do i have to prime up my ceramic building or can i go staight to paint cheers

The ceramic is porous so would be best to prime it first. otherwise the first coats will soak into the building

Cheers Andy i'll now be able to get the painting started on my 1/48 scale "Berlin 1945" dio(it's my first dio hence the small scale )

Lyndon,
Andy is correct.
But one thing I failed to state is that I paint it with ceramic paint, this way I avoided the priming end of it.
My wife was into ceramic figures at one time and she has a very large paint selection.
I did a test run on the factroy set in the background.
The house was airbrushed if you can believe it. The paint was a water base, so getting it to flow right was a trick.

Now that the cats out of the bag.....

Thanks for the advice Brian what colors would be the best to use on my building as the photo on the box is the only reference i've got it doesn't suggest what colors to use (it's a small vignette called Berlin 1945 by PLUS MODEL)

Research the brick colors for that region.
Berlin you have to remember also was a hive for designers and builders thru out history. Different building were constructed at different time periods. Some of brick, some of concrete, some of stone/wood frames, the list goes on.

You look at the churches, limestone, marble, grantie, then twenty yards down the road and now for something completely different. (Sorry for the Python.) Nudge, nudge, say no more.
But mainly red brick, sandstone, limestone were used. Old Skool construction.

Heck, there's some areas there in your neck of the woods that were build around the same time as Berlin was going up, if not before.

Westmin. Abby, House of Commons, Tower of London, 10 Downing Street, Big Ben, the list is endless.

Thanks again Brian for all of those suggestions

No problem. Glad to try and help out ever once in awhile.

See ya in the funny papers!!!

Nice stuff Brian, looking forward to see you getting this one back underway

Martyn