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A friend of mine saw the new terrain is was making and told me to post it on DakkaDakka. So here goes.

After the last great war, those who survived went on with their lives. Most survivors took to the remains of the once great cities, while others moved into the wastelands, far away from the cities.

Wandering across the wastelands one might come across little settlements, called shanty towns. Tull's Resolve is one of those towns.

Building nr.1




Building nr.2






Building nr.3






Wastedump area.






enjoy.

And the rest.

The Doctors house.






The town's messageboard.




The car graveyard(ish).






Water for sale.






The town's generator.






And the latest, not really happey about the finished result..a random generic building.







Enjoy.

Very Fallout-esk. I like it a lot!

They work for any modern/near-future game!

Very nice.

Excellent build and paint, very nice indeed.

Would fit many post-apoc type games

So awesome! I'd love to see how you did it.

Great work. Love the graffiti.
Can you tell us how you did the bin bags?

Looks great. Reminds me muchly of Borderlands (especially the message board). Make more!

Awesome stuff, looks very lived in!

Really good stuff! I especially like the blue corrugated iron or whatever it is, the colour really stands out and adds to the effect. I also like the amount of narrative you have put into each building, each had a specific purpose or resident.

Awesome job, both in construction and painting.

Also that chicken crossing sign is hilarious!

Brilliant rust and weathering effects! The bin bags look very realistic amd the graphitti is quite authentic. Do you have any tips because this stuff is great.

Thanks for all the comments.

Let me start with the tutorial/wip of how i build my buildings.

I start with a pre-cut mdf square all the squares i use are 6"/ 15cm. On which i draw some lines, where i want the building to be and it's basic shape.


Then i grab my trusty currogated cardboard and make the building. Glue all the pieces in it's place and put some tape over the open sides of the cardboard.


For this building i wanted it to be the home of a gunsmith/tinkerer. I added a left over piece of sprue.


And put a piece of plasticcard on it.


Next will be the "texturing/dressing" of the bare cardboard

Cool - will be watching this with interest as I've never been able to make that type of card look good on scratch built buildings.

I recently started eating continental style biscuits - the round ones with a chocolate filling between each two. The packaging is a sheet of one-sided corrugated paper (the other side being flat) - great for wriggly tin! + only £1 & you get a bunch of lovely biscuits for free!

Subbed with keen interest.
I am presently thinking about building my own terrain pieces and there are certainly some thing I could learn here

Subbed so I can steal your knowledge..

Great stuff , screams fallout to me , or would be great in a Mad Max themed game.

Watching your vid is on my to do list for this week for sure!

It's been a while...so it's catch up time.

So here are some of the materials i used for the texturing.

Some ribbed card, plasticcard, granny grating and the yellowish grating is from a plastic basket.

And a roll of bandage for the netting.


Also some popsicle sticks.


The bandage is pulled apart/stressed and dipped in some woodglue. I place it on the spot i want and "sculpt" it into the position a want with a slightly wet brush.


The popsicle sticks are cut to the lenght i want and i use an old dart-arrow (any sharp tool will do), to cut some grooves/lines into them.


The plasticcard, grating and ribbed card are randomly applied, just do what looks/feels good.






Also i made a table from plasticcard, put some old lighter parts on top and cut out some granny grating to be placed around the base.


Which will be placed unerneath the overhang.


More to follow.


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Next batch of pictures.

I put a small circle on the door for a window (made from a ring which comes with a tube of superglue) and added a handle made from a staple.


Put the basing on and added 2 more leftover lighter parts to the floor.


Snapped a staple in 2, attached it to the wall and hung some metal wire from it.

(the table in the back of the picture is still removable for easier painting.

After the black basecoat a layer of dark brown is applied.


And a lighter brown mixed with some orange is dabbed on next. (leave some darker patches visible).


The blue color is roughly painted on and you can add more orange to add even lighter patches if wanted/needed.


I painted the door white and while the paint is still wet i added a Citadel Shade "Agrax Earthshade" to it.


When dried, i took some fine sandpaper and "stressed" some area's lightly and added some rust color to it.


Paint the wood any color you want and when dried add a darker wash to fill out the grooves.

(wash not yet added in this picture).

After the wash on the wood had dried, i drybrushed the wood with a light mix of brown and painted the netting green.


More to follow.

That's some cool looking scenery right there. Thanks for the tips too, consider your ideas well and truly stolen

Amazing terrain and a fantastic tutorial. I've actually been wanting to do a project like this for a while. Thanks for stoking my creativity.

Love it. Very fallout! I need to know where you get your metal plates/wriggy tin from for my current diorama though :-P


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Also, what do you do to the bandage to get that hessian sheet look going?

Excellent work there. Love the rust effect!

Think I'd have introduced some more 'original coloured' parts to the buildings though, to suggest a continual development, repair and extension to the buildings. At the moment it looks like everything was built in the same (short) time period and so aged/deteriorated at an equal rate.

After painting the basing with some desert colors i kept the lightest color on my brush and drybrushed the netting and parts of the building to get the dusty look.






I used an architect pen to draw some black lines to define some features.


The wall underneath the overhang was painted grey and drybrushed.


Painted the table.


Cut out some leftover signs and glued them to a piece of cardboard.


Next will be to add the finishing touches and clean up some rough patches. Take care

@ queen_annes_revenge - The wriggly metal plates are cardboard, which you can probably buy at any hobby shop. And for the bandage, just pull it apart a bit



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And the tinkerer's place is finished.








Enjoy and take care

Just wanted to point out that you helped motivate me to get my own project started. In my case I'm doing a futuristic slum for Infinity.

Great stuff, this is definitely going in the future projects folder!

@ Dullspork - Can't wait to see it finished. Good luck with the rest of the build(s)

Here is a rather quick build. Behind the billboard.








A ladder needs to be added, but i need to make more ladders for the other buildings aswell, so i might aswell leave all the ladders removable.

Take care.

Your terrain is ace mate, very evocative and your rust effects are fantastic!

I think my favourite piece is the 2 old rusted out cars, left so long it looks like the wastes are trying to reclaim them.

Great stuff!

Let's see a group shot!

I had to make some buildings that where taller than the ones i had previously made. You want some vantage points for sniper classes and for the sheer joy of jumping from building to building.

This building is my favorite building i have made sofar.







This angle of the building i like most, but i am still contemplating of placing some kind of barrier between the two poles for a line of sight barrier.



Take care.

PS. I'll do a groupshot in the near future.

Love the window box and windows on the 2nd floor.
Gives the building an extra dimension I feel it needs to take away from an entirely boxy look

Full of inspiration and win


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Would love to see more non-building scenery.
The notice board, and billboard are great and I feel add a whole bunch of character to the set.