Ruined walls

At the same time I was making the fences the other day, I was inevitably thinking of other barriers. I grabbed a few of the same tongue depressors and some foamcard, and got to work. First, I used the hot glue gun to secure the foamcard to the wood. Then I sliced off the layer of paper, and scribed bricks onto the foam. I wasn't going for great detail, as I wanted these to be really run-down-looking walls. I daubed some filler onto the whole, and glued sand to the wood. Once that was all fixed, I popped some dark brown paint on it, then dry-brushed in in gradually lighter tones. Even the lightest tone was still pretty dirty. Then a few colours of flock were added to the base, and Bob's your uncle.

Walling off the World

I spent the other evening scribing the foamcard on the outside of the walls to resemble courses of stonework. When you're making six feet of the stuff, it takes forever. I've added a little chipping to the surface so far, and pressed a couple of blocks in as though they were slightly misaligned or the wrong size, but the main thing since then has been applying 2mm foam to the back of the walls. Once that's dry, I shall scribe it. Then I just need to thicken up the battlements and add flagstones, and I can finally get to texturing and painting.