Ruined Temple

The ruined temple or church shown in this article is made in a similar fashion to the Simple Ruins.

Start by getting any scraps of corrugated cardboard that you have and drawing onto them with the designs of the wall sections.

The designs you draw on the cardboard are what will make this piece look and feel different to all the other ruins on the table so take some time to think about the design of the wall sections, when the designs are drawn on the cardboard, cut the wall sections out with a good sharp knife, glue the wall sections together and then glue the ruined walls onto a hardboard base made with PVA glue.

When the glue has dried, you need to fill the gaps on the edges of the corrugated cardboard, the easiest way to achieve this, was to place small pieces of masking tape on edges. Now that the tape had covered any gaps it is time to add texture to the walls of the ruin, this can be done by painting the ruin with textured paint or covering the ruin in ready made wall filler, you can also add some texture to the base ofn the ruin to represent a old stone floor by painting areas of the base with textured paint.

With the ruins textured it is time to add some rubble to the piece by gluing on patches of sprue rubble onto areas of the base to give the model additional character.

Now with the construction done it is time to paint the ruins, the base coat for the walls was a dark grey, then dry-brush on lighter shades of grey's and use white to highlight to edges of the walls. you also dry-brush on small patches of brown onto the walls to show ageing and dirt build up, and then finally paint the base in a grass green colour.

With the painting of the ruins complete, it was time to finish the terrain piece by adding flock to the base, which is a simple matter of painting PVA glue onto the areas of the base that where going to have flock on them and then cover the glue in flock and left to dry, when the glue was dry just dust off the excess flock and the model was completed

When painting on the PVA glue for the flock, you can also paint some glue onto the walls to represent moss and other plants growing up the walls of the ruins, this would hopefully give the terrain piece some more look of ageing and neglect.