Building a Ruined Farmhouse

THE SHORT VERSION

Mark Jones builds a burnt-out Empire farmhouse from foamboard walls, a card base and splintered wooden framing. The guide uses filler and salvaged offcuts to create broken masonry, fallen timbers and an uneven floor, making damage part of the construction rather than a final decoration. Dark red wall colours and grey-black drybrushing distinguish surviving plaster from charred wood, and the same approach can be varied into a barn or a larger ruined settlement.

AT THE PAINTING DESK

Paints in this article

Every named colour below is searchable across the archive.

Chaos Black↗Dark Flesh↗Red Gore↗Blood Red↗Codex Grey↗Rotting Flesh↗

All explicitly named paints in the guide are indexed using their historical names. See the source for mixtures and application order.

Back to the original

Find this article in White Dwarf 284, pp. 16–17.

This is an original summary. Refer to your magazine for the complete article, rules, images and painting steps.