Back in 2006 I was at SaluteWargames Show in London, while there I was in the mood to pick up a nice piece
of terrain I could use at our games club and that would also be a project for
me to work on...
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| BattleBuild.com at Salute 2011 |
I was in luck, I stumbled
across a company called BattleBuild, they were a brand new company and had a
range of multipart ruined resin buildings. Perfect just what I was looking for!
£100 and some eyelash flattering later and I had 3 sets of ruins plus a load of
cool accessories. (Note: at time of writing it now looks like BattleBuild.com no longer exist which is quite depressing)
Unfortunately as with all best
laid plans, I never really started the kits as they were going to be a lot of
work and I found that I lacked the time to really get into them, as such they
got put in the back of the cupboard...
Skip forward 5 years to late
2011 and I dusted (literally) off the kit and gave them another look...
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| Ruins, dry fit |
The pieces themselves are very
nice, they did need a lot of cleaning up but that’s part of the fun. The main
downside is that due to how they were cast they were only moulded on one side.
To overcome this I resorted to every model makers friends the ever reliable
polyfiller! A good coating on the reverse of each piece gave the impression of
broken plaster especially once it had been roughly sanded.
Once all the components were
cleaned up it was time to plan what I was going to build, the original kit was
designed to make up to 3 square single or two story ruins. Feeling a bit adventurous
I decided to scrap that plan and make the ruins how I fancied, once the rough
fits were done I ended up with 6 different ruins, the largest being 3 stories.
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