I've begun to build up the timbers that would be in the ruin using balsa wood. I want the building to appear ruined but not burnt. Now I have to find furnishings for it!




Vinnie

Looks like you are going all out for building detail.

It's modelling but a different kind to just vehicles which I'm used to....and it's so much fun!

Vinnie

looks great, really detailed, cant wait to see it finished

Wonderful technique. It looks really good, what did you use as your ceiling material?

If I may approach nit picking I don't know for sure, but depending on where and when you are modeling some buildings may not have had electrical wiring running through ceiling joists. Depending on time and location the wiring would have been along the walls and ceiling. Don't forget the chandelier that the wireing went to.

Things to plan on - wall coverings, glass debris, fill the gap between the stairs and the outside wall. Heres a supper detail thought - add straps to the drain pipe on the front wall to hold it to the wall, use some foil cut to side and glued in place.

My RMG dio is going to be a destroyed building and your great detail is help to me.

Slodder hi!
I used balsa cut into planks for the upstairs flooring and very thin styrene sheet for the downstairs ceiling, with thin strips stuck to the back to represent wooden lathe. Over the thin strips I smeared wall filler, smoothed this off and ran the blunt end of a scalpel blade down which had the effect of 'squeezing' out the filler so that it looked like where the plaster had squeezed between the lathe strips.
Regarding the wiring etc in the ceiling, I thought about this and came to the conclusion that since I was trying to model a building that would have been in Berlin, which was a capital, and a 'modern' city then it would have had 'buried' wires. There is also the metal rod running through, although broken in half, that was used to bring the wall back to true after buckling, the metal cross can just be seen on the gable end.

Vinnie

Wow! That thing is fabulous! Painting, washing and drybrushing should give that a better and realistic look.

Wow thats going to be some diorama. I cant wait to see it finished and please keep the in progress pics coming. Cheers Kevin

Vinnie it looks very nice. I especially liked the wires. Its one thing that always seems to be missing from ruined buildings. It looks like if you just fix up the gap inbetween the stairs and the outside wall, then this will be a top notch ruined building. Keep us posted on the progress.
Kyle

Teacher - great update on the ceiling thanks.
After hearing your thought process on the wiring - Great job, makes sence to me.

:-)

I've been trying to figure out which gap? I've got it now! The steps down to the street! I kept thinking of inside staircases!
The building itself isn't fixed onto the base yet, although the steps down to the street are - so I'll fix the gap up when the main building is fixed. Anybody know of a site where I can download patterns of a typical 1930's German wallpaper?

Vinnie

You can use wall spackle to fill in any gap to - if one still exists when the building is in place.

Here's a link for wallpaper
http://www.printmini.com/printables/

Hey Thanks Slodder!
That site is perfect, even a radio eh? Brilliant! Thanks again!
Vinnie