Completing Game Workshops cardboard buildings

One of the the 'buildings' from the boxed game. A single corner is expanded into a whole building. The different shades of rubble are due to the fact that I made the sand-filled paste 3 times in order to build the heaps higher. A game or two had showed that in order to give some cover from the usual elven ranger up in the inn, the rubble had to about 3/4" high.

The buildings we get with the game are useful and can be used after assembly according to the instructions. However this soon become unsatisfying for a number of reasons:

• The buildings move around when a hand are reaching inside to place a model there.
• There are no visual clue as to what part of the playing surface is 'inside' a ruin.
• The corners are often placed during set up in a way that indicate that the person placing them has never walked trough a real city.
  That is the only reason I can imagine short of insanety, that a person human would place those ruins in a way that indicate that the corner never was part of a complete house, as that would result in two buildings overlapping.
• A lone corner isn't much of a building (is it a building in order to benefit a Pit Fighter?!), but with a bit of work the corner can be transformed into the remaining of an entire building.
• Most models are impossible to place under a roof as most models are too tall due to dramatic waving of weapons

Doing it my way

Just follow these simple steps and watch a true ruined city grow.

1. If the cardboard building does not define both length and wide of the building, then make a decision. I have found out that the buildings measure 8" * 4" so I took that as a 'normal size' when I completed the corners into buildings.
2. Make a base for the building. You should make the base about 1" larger than the building on each side. This will allow models to be placed close to the walls without falling as well as giving room to add some rubble later
3. In order to define the building, and even more important during play, make a foundation. I use wood and use a saw to mark large 'stones'. This foundation should be made so when you place the cardboard building on top of it, every part of the cardboard building is resting on the foundation, but at the same time you don't want the foundation to bee too wide as that will make it imposible to place models close to the walls. Be careful about the plastic corners, they need to rest compleatly on the foundation. The doorframes should rest on another bit of wood; this becomes a stepping stone into the building.
4. Now is the time to paint the base + foundation. It will be near impossible to paint the foundation or inside the building after next step.
5. Glue the cardboard building on top of the foundation. Make sure no part of is stick out from the foundation.
6. Now make a lot of rubble. When a building collapse, the materiel must end somewhere and why not just around the building.
   I make rubble using a mix of wood, and other cut-offs, then make a mix of filler, sand, white glue and some black/brown ink and pour it where I believe a heap of rubble would be useful as cover for anyone interested in occupying the building. The ink nicely eliminate any need to paint the rubble afterwards.