Wargaming Ruined Building | How to build Grimdark Terrain

Some wargaming terrain ruins and barricades to populate any warhammer 40k or futuristic tabletop rpg board. In this video I give my twist on ruined concrete buildings that look realistic and are very playable as well. Using the concepts above you can make a very detailed city board, or just some odd pieces of scatter to spice up any table. These wargaming ruins will get a lot of mileage on my table.
No hot wire cutter used! Anyone can build these with a simple craft knife.
Credit for inspiration from Miscast for the building templates and the video on them here: • How To Make Ruined Bui...
You can also get this stuff at most local hardware, dollar or arts stores.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:12 Template Cutout
01:29 MDF Basing
01:38 Wall Assembly
04:01 Rubble and Filler
06:17 Texturing
07:34 Painting
08:42 Barrier Building
09:57 Showcase

[@KnarbMakes]

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[@KnarbMakes]

@@stephengarforth2753 I've seen the videos you mentioned, and they are great! I'll give it a think and see if there's anything new I can come up with for it.

[@markchristy9704]

Gloomhaven Brute cameo at 4:34. Very nice! Building techniques are helpful and appreciated.

[@oscarl.7856]

I know this is an older video for you but I just stumbled across it while working on my cities of death terrain I recently opened up. Dude this filler mix is amazing! I didn’t realize how great foam core board and cardboard could look mixed up like this! Thank you for sharing and I’m looking forward to learning more from you

[@1claytonic1]

Wow you have some awesome ideas. I was building something very similar to your buildings and now I got some great ways to make it look even more realistic. Your painting is wonderful I hope I can paint mine that well

[@TempestStrecha]

Fantastic build, and it allows for plenty of custom touches to be added as well (graffiti, posters, etc.). Don't sell yourself short on your painting skills, it looks great. Informative presentation, explanations of individual steps, and all done in a pleasant, calm manner. Great vid, thanks for the inspiration.

[@KnarbMakes]

Thanks so much!

[@bengamingames5002]

I have watched many of these buildings being crafted, yours was my favorite. Thanks!

[@j.s.matthews2216]

You have some talent! It's always nice to find another great crafting channel!

[@battlesbrushes5662]

Love these ruins!! I’m definitely going to try this out. I like how you talked about the balance between realistic and playable!

[@johnkelley9877]

Just incredible work! They look very realistic. Thanks for sharing this.

[@KnarbMakes]

Thank you very much!

[@h347h]

I like the piled up rubble on the inside. Nothing more weird than the GW clean and pristine "ruins" they are making.

[@KnarbMakes]

That always annoyed me about GW kits as well!

[@stephenvazquez7198]

Excited for more of these vids! Subscribed!

[@KnarbMakes]

Thanks so much. Another video coming out tomorrow!

[@kimkopperud8123]

Nice tutorial, more of these ruins please :)

[@KnarbMakes]

More to come! Thanks for watching.

[@SciFiCrafts]

Have to make a tiny ruin and the one thing I really need in there, is a heavy double T beam sticking out!

[@sylntghost007]

Those ruins look awesome.

[@edevans5991]

I'm doing some ruins now but keeping them more generic so they can be used for any setting. I can say that I wish I'd seen this earlier since these windows look much easier to cut out than the round arches that I did. A slightly different way of doing rubble is to use cut up sprues for bricks and kitty litter for general texture. One thing I'm planning is to make a couple hills out of rubble. Maybe they'd just be hills rules wise but they'll match the rest of the board.

[@sirdestructor]

Love the video! The building quality is excellent as well! I really liked the levels of rubbles. Very organic and still practical. A constructive comment, put a little bit more life into your voice and you are golden!

[@KnarbMakes]

Thanks Jimmy, I need to drink a cup of coffee or something before recording, haha.

[@SirHenrik88]

Very nice

[@RipperManofHorror]

Very Cool🙏😎

[@j453]

Just found you👍 great vid, I subscribed 😊

[@KnarbMakes]

Welcome! Tune in every Thursday for new videos!

[@j453]

@@KnarbMakes thanks 👍😊

[@LordBelakor]

windows always ontop of each other, an architect puting them slightly to the side gets shot

[@madcat1007]

Fantastic video!! Thankyou. What is that "Black Magic Sauce" you refer to?

[@KnarbMakes]

Black Magic Craft's Mod Podge and Black Paint formula! Cheers.

[@luciusannaeusseneca1943]

Excellent work mate. What is the pink stuff used with the PVA?

[@Scrimptank]

Hi there! What is the joint compound you keep mentioning with the pink activator? I got the black magic base for the texture but I’m trying to build up some base volume for hills, craters and rubble ramps!

[@GarrettElton]

When you’re molding the foam core with tinfoil is it just done by brute force? Or is there some other step in there to make the foam core mold to the tinfoil?

[@KnarbMakes]

Just used as a way to add texture, brute force is enough to press in detail to the soft exposed foam. Make sure you peel back the paper covering (maybe that's the step that's missing?)

[@stacytuttle9332]

Testors Flat Black spray will not melt foam and is a lot faster than handpainting black by hand fyi

[@Archaoen]

could you do some WW2 terrain for Bolt Action? i like your designs

[@KnarbMakes]

It's a fascinating setting. I'll be doing more like this for sure.

[@Abominus69]

Hi, early on you glue stick the templates to the foamboard card, and then in the next step not only are the glued-on templates removed, but so are the foamboard card outer layers. What is your method for removing the foamboard card outer layers from the foam? If you wanted to leave the card on, is there a special way to remove just the glued-on templates? I don't imagine you'd want to leave the templates on and craft over them as they don't seem to glue strongly.

[@KnarbMakes]

The foamboard I use for templates isnt that great, peels off pretty easily with my fingers or a knife.

[@Nancy-rq7wk]

How long does take to make such a building

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[@grotoiler6104]

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