{"id":6249,"date":"2018-10-01T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2018-10-01T00:08:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T06:08:53","slug":"dropzone-commander-demolition-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=6249","title":{"rendered":"Dropzone Commander: Demolition Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an effort to vary some of my Dropzone Commander terrain, I recently picked up a set of mdf buildings from Empires at War<\/a>.\u00a0 I usually wouldn’t waste time on more buildings because the paper terrain versions work well for me but these are nice in that they feature destroyed buildings with multiple floors.\u00a0 I spent the weekend getting one of the kits out and seeing what all I could do with it.<\/p>\n

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The kits are extremely easy to put together and I was able to put one together from package to desk in about 20 minutes.\u00a0 They also come with so thinner paper cut pieces to help dress it further but I decided to really dive into this kit and see what I could do.\u00a0 I kept the paper additions for the end as I dissembled and prepped the kit for priming.<\/p>\n

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I ended up gluing the entire structure together separately from the base so that I could use some PVA glue and sand to texturize the floors. On the main floor and base, I took a bunch of the window cutouts that I had to punch from the mdf template and laid them about to simulate fallen beams and large debris.<\/p>\n

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After priming it grey, then taping off the outside to hit it again with black, I did some light highlighting to pick out the terrain.\u00a0 I know this looks like I’m doing some B\/W work but I’ll colorize things later on, just not inside the building as there isn’t usually a lot of color left after things have collapsed and fire has gutted the interiors.<\/p>\n

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After everything was primed on the walls and upper floors, I washed heavily in Nuln Oil, both the textured floors and the exterior.\u00a0 Since the walls of the exterior are flat and I didn’t want to just simple make them darker, I didn’t take a heavy load of wash on the brush and just streaked it across the building face at an angle.<\/p>\n

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I felt like it helped break things up a bit and give it a more weathered look.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I painted the main floor’s paper cutouts a brass color to help with the psuedo art deco feel of the game. I left the upper floors in the white stock as it still had scorch marks from the laser cutter and the contrast white above brass looked nice.<\/p>\n

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So detailing the kit makes finishing it take a bit longer but it definitely makes a big difference.\u00a0 I did another kit (same model) in a quicker, primer-only attempt and prefer the textured version.<\/p>\n

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I think they can both work as one is recently destroyed and the other could be one gutted long ago and only the buildings bones remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an effort to vary some of my Dropzone Commander terrain, I recently picked up a set of mdf buildings from Empires at War.\u00a0 I usually wouldn’t waste time on more buildings because the paper terrain versions work well for me but these are nice in that they feature destroyed buildings with multiple floors.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,2],"tags":[686,687,688,68,685],"class_list":["post-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dropzone-commander","category-general","tag-buildings","tag-demo","tag-demolition","tag-dropzone-commander","tag-empires-at-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6265,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions\/6265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}