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MODELLING·WHITE DWARF 289

Building Osgiliath Ruins

January 2004·pp. 118–121

THE SHORT VERSION

Mark Jones builds a ruined structure from foamboard inner walls and a textured polystyrene outer layer. Templates establish the arches, while irregular scored brickwork and broken edges avoid a mechanical appearance. A bevelled base, rubble and pieces from the boxed game add structure and detail. Grey drybrushes and brown-green weathering finish a practical terrain piece whose methods can be extended to stairways, multiple storeys and varied city ruins.

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Find this article in White Dwarf 289, pp. 118–121.

The feature and finished-model photograph occupy logical pages 118–121. The final footer includes a stray 56.

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