Hi,

can anyone tell me how to create rubble for a shot-up house in a diorama.

Hi,

You may find the articles on building Dios at this link useful..
Dio Article Link

In particular, this one deals with rubble:
Rubble

Rgds,
BP.

There was an article in FSM a few issues ago about a diorama featuring a shot-up concrete apartment building in Bosnia. I'll see if I can't find the issue and page.

If it's the article I'm thinking of, Bryan, it was a buidling in Chechnya. No biggie.
It's in the July 2002 issue. He created rubble by crushing dried clay.

Nic

Yeah your right, thanks.

Hi,

Thanks guys. The articles really helped me.

John Doe

I posted a reply to your question on this subjects in the Dutch forum.
BP's links look interesting. Be careful not to make your bricks too big (out of scale).

Here's a few floor sections (Verlinden).
Broken floor sections certainly deserve a place in your rubble.
Of course, they must be all broken and splintered.
The rubble on Verlinden's floor sections look good, though ! As you can see, rubble is more than bricks.

The article points to this, simply put - make a sheet of plaster as thick as your walls and the cover it with a cloth and lightly hit it with a hammer to break it up.
Cat Box Litter (clean) also is mentioned a great deal.
Just remember to envision the building 'built' first then think how a bomb or shell or crash would actually break it down and try to mimic that.

I create and sell a "debris kit" that several people here on armorama have tried and like. It consists of walls, bricks, stone walls, sidewalk sections, wood splinters, and portions of cast building that can be used in the background or foreground of your projects. It comes in a large box and i garantee you'll like it.

While I cast most of this myself, many pieces come from large purchase lots of excess and broken kits of Verlinden, Custom Diormics, and others. If interested, let me know, and i will email you a photo. You can see a lot of this in several of my own dioramas posted here on the site in the DIORAMA "Hall of Fame" and in the GALLERY sections.