There I was, happily plugging away with getting some models ready for a get-together with my mate Mike at Warhammer World, when in a moment of idleness I decided to watch a Terrain Tutor video.
Mistake.
I selected a random video (I get emails from TTT's youTube channel and just picked one at random and followed the link within) and watched him hacking bits of foamcore apart for about 15 minutes, then painting them up with some home-made textured paint.
Hooked.
Thoughts of building my own inveigled themselves into all the little grooves and channels between the sensible bits of my brain. I started thinking about brickwork, drainpipes, floor tiles and corrugated iron sheets. Worse than that, I then started thinking about what I could build afterwards. Viking longhouses, factories, cooling towers, pipelines - the list goes on and on. It didn't help that I recently read a great blog post by Stiubhart MacChollie about making dirt roads and wanted to do that too!
Worse was to come. On a day out with the family, I had to drive past the very shop I could buy everything I needed to get started.
But I'm strong - I resisted.
Until we were on the way home again and it was 10 mins before the shop was due to close; then I caved. I went in and came out carrying foamcore. Strong my hairy (yet surprisingly pert) ass.
I hate myself.
Anyway, I've made a start on four buildings and will post progress reports as I progress.
So far, they look like this:
Sorry about the crummy photos - I'll improve on them for the next update.
More Ruined Buildings stuff:
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