Madness moving at break-neck speed!

      I have to confess, few things get my wargaming blood up more than a new, over-the-top, terrain project. I have been throttling back since the Castillo because my space is finite (ample, but there is a limit to everything). However, when the proprietor of the local brick-and-mortar suggested that he needed some interesting terrain to haul around to wargaming conventions to promote his blend of What A Tanker and the Chibi Tanks that have flooded the modelling scene lately I couldn't resist the chance to build something big, silly and scheduled to leave my house just after completion. They were planning on hosting a game reflecting the US seizure of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen near the end of WW2 and needed a battered town and the German end of the bridge.....how could I resist?

 

 so there I was, with my trusty Proxxon Hot Wire cutter and a pile of blueboard.........

how many of my crazy stories start like that?

 

first step was to cut out some "ruined" looking wall bits

careful cutting meant that I could use both sides of the board

 

they looked the part, so I kept going

 

all sorts of interesting shapes

 

but three times as thick as I desired, 

so I sliced them all like bread and ended up with three times as much ruined wall

 

at this point I decided to test-fit them to see how they looked

 

suitably ruined enough for me

 

but, you can't knocked down buildings without having rubble

so I made a ton of rubble

     Tomorrow I'm off to Menard's to pick up a 2'x2' piece of Masonite to build the test model on. More to follow soon.