Ruined buildings block 1 terrain 26

 Here are some of the ruined buildings I built  last summer primarily for northwest Europe bolt action but a couple of them would probably work for what Napoleonic built up areas ended up looking like after they inevitably caught fire! They're also bound to see service on the eastern front.They all got spray painted in Halfords and pound shop black, some in gloss because I ran out of matt and I'm less precious about terrain! It's mainly to prime/seal up the plastic sheet and the metal I've used for tile battens on the roof. After that I've used various emulsion paints and a bit of flock . 

Considering the plastic sheet isn't brick and is the wrong scale, I think they work pretty well, notice the work gloves, to round off the ensemble I was also wearing a canvas apron, I like aprons!

I deliberately let some of the black show through the various layers to help degrade the finish. Window frames tended not to be white pre ww2, that was a post war Queen Anne revival and of course before petro chemicals were developed for paint in the 1960s anything painted white went yellow/cream pretty rapidly, green,blue  and burgundy were popular woodwork colours as they were not too fugitive and were pretty stable (red and green also worked well with heat which is why they were popular locomotive colours) I haven't gone too colourful in the rooms but enough that there is some contrast, a small amount of regret that I didn't install fireplace surrounds but you have to draw the line somewhere! 

First four with my flagless commisar, well at least he's not in a box! I tried to indicate lime render with a white wash on some of them and varied the brick colour  a bit. Pretty happy with them and they look good with the previous buildings too which is nice. I've varied the render colours a bit, they're a little cartoony but I'm alright with that, as you can see the other six are on the table  so I hope to add those like these to Dave Stones Summer of scenery, hope he's back on the tools soon. Next up? More terrain or Austrians I guess?

All the best 

Iain