4 new ruined buildings.

 

All my pictures loaded in a weird order, just going to let it be.
This makes 6 big ruined buildings nearly finished. 

Still have to base them up.

I really like the colors I picked. 
They are interesting and pop well against each other.

Lots of heavy dark brown and black to weather them and show damage.

You can choose any colors you like. I feel these may have come to me from remembering pictures from Grey matter studio. Not exact but fairly close. 
I chose these thinking about black and white pictures and how the stronger colors might look really good in Black and white. 

each floor is roughly 4 inches apart.  Maybe 4.5 or 4.25. 

I know people talk/cry about all the first floors being a "problem" for true line of sight but I don't really agree or even care. with a base and a few key words they will be more than playable. 

That said I do plan o do a few more tall ones with blocked in bottom floors but it has to be planned for from the start to look mostly intentional. 
 Might build at least two more sets of ruins like these but with the first floor covered, mostly. 
I do like variety. then again I might be able to just make some solid ruined walls 4 inches tall to scatter around and gain the same effect and more during a game. 

Unlike my earlier two buildings I sieved the texture so that it wouldn't be as rough. I covered both side of the buildings with wall spackle. Wish I had done this on the first two.  

These are the first of the ruined building from earlier this year. repainted to mostly match the new ones.

These two were started back in March.


If you want a step by step for construction skip to the bottom and scroll up. 

Hope this was a helpful guide for anyone who is just getting into diy terrain. the materials don't cost all that much and with some time and energy you can do as much as this or more if you have a mind too. 

Sand textures being applied, this works better when not glued down to a base.
One could glue in the floors before adding the texture, some time it's easier some times the floors get in the way. 
Part of the reason for the 4 inches of floor separation in the building design is to help get a players hand in to set up models as well as creating a standardized height.

4 inch tall posts hot glued to the inner walls to help support the floors.
See above picture.

I'm not thrilled with how I set my doors in under my windows, more planning would have made been a good idea. 
A future change might be to center a row of windows over the doors, this will look cleaner in later steps.

This is a simple arched window. inset it is 2 inches tall with 1/2 an  inch of wall bit below. 

Once the grit is done you are free the cut as many tall or wide wall sections as you can manage.
If you want to work in one direction and then flip the foam to work back towards what you have already planned or marked as will sections remember to adjust some of your markings or the height of the walls will be off by about a half and inch, the new sections will be taller. 

1/4" thick insolation foam, folded bundle.
White glue, sand textures, drywall spackle and hot glue.