Destroyed row of shops

[mightyatom13]

In my never ending quest for a nice looking Stalingrad table, I have made this destroyed row of stores. I took detailed photos so people can copy my techniques.

I had picked up this Tamiya kit of broken walls, sandbags, and tank traps. Sorry the picture shows upside down. I rotated it on photobucket, but it still looks like this. Ugh.



Here is the basic layout:



Here is the corner detail. I later cut the street light off as I was worried it would snap off later.



I ran out of wall sections so made one from foam core and made a rubble pile out of pink foam around it.



Some more detail:



Finished detail



Destroyed city block



Rear view



A little more detail

[JMGraham]

marvelous! I continue to love your terrain. You've combined the kit with your own work in a way that really tells a story. 

 

One question - what do you use for your various grades of rubble?

[mightyatom13]

Thanks for the kind words. Honestly, I have become much more interested in making terrain than in painting minis. I feel like I have painted enough armies and if I never paint another miniature soldier, I will be ok. I still enjoy doing weird one off minis, like an enraged Tiki statue that I have on my bench now, but really i just want to make buildings and such.

 

Gale Force 9 makes some basing rubble in various sizes. I usually use their largest chunks for the larger piles, but then I use model rail road ballast for the smaller rubble. It is much cheaper than the GF9 stuff and comes in different sizes.

[mightyatom13]

Oh... I actually used all GF9 basing stuff in this one. No ballast.

[Blustorm]

WOW!

 

Simply Stupendous!

[Marcalla]

Looking great!

[dkieft]

Good stuff. Many, many many years ago I had that set of Tamiya walls... man, those are some old molds (maybe redone, who knows).

[esperatus]

Great stuff. May your never ending quest never end

[mightyatom13]

Thanks, man. Well.... its going to come to an end for a while after the tourney this weekend. I have wanted to make stop motion animated films for about a decade now and have recently decided to take the plunge (since I turned 45 last month and realized I am going to die some day). My dream job would be making sets, so I decided to start doing it. Step one was to hook up with an animator to learn a thing or two. So, i emailed a guy I found on the internet with some pics of what i have done and am now his set builder. Starting next week, I begin construction of a large set for his next film. Woo hoo! Then I plan on building my own studio and sets in my basement. So... it may be a bit before I get back to making terrain. I will, of course, post pics here of the stuff I make, even if it isn't mini related.

 

Here is a short the guy made featuring the character from the thing I am working on.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5WnRdHRsI

[fluger]

Phenomenal stuff.

 

[Stoobert]

Great work!  I'm envisioning a small and subtle street sign or window sign (in Russian) lying somewhere atop that rubble.