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Materials:
3-5mm foam board
PVA white glue (Elmer's)
Thin cardboard (tissue box)
Index cards (unlined)
Match sticks (hobby style)
Medium Ballast (Railroad)
Fine Sand (Buff Ballast)

Dimensions

Length: 74mm
(Width+5+5 width overlap)
Width: 43mm
Long walls: 38mm high
Roof peak walls: 57mm high

Windows: 6mm x 6mm
9mm from floor

Doors: 10mm x 20mm

Use the same steps to build the house as in the Constructing a simple 15mm house article using the dimensions above. The placement of the windows and doors is up to you.

Next cut destroyed or damaged areas out of the house. Remember to save the removed foam bits to use as rubble. Sorry, I forgot to snap a picture for this step.

Just remember to have your figures in mind when removing foam. Would figures fit in here or tanks and guns? Create niches for them to hide in or leave large areas for the bases to fit into.

I imagined an artillery shell striking the roof, collapsing one wall and the roof.

Base the house on a piece of cardboard, leaving an area in front of the destroyed wall to place rubble on.

Gather the extra bits of foam to create a pile of rubble. Fit them in a few places. Some, a few pieces high, leaving room for a base of figures to sit inside.

Mix glue, water and fine sand and brush a thin layer on the outside walls for texture.

Mix glue and water and brush a thin layer on the floor and rubble. Then sprinkle medium ballast over the glue. Don't forget to add some to the top of the destroyed walls to act as broken bricks.

After the rubble dries, brush over it again with a very thinned down mix of glue and water to seal the ballast from moving around.

Add a few shingles to the existing roof beams. Use the Constructing a roof for a 15mm house article as a guide for creating the shingles.

Mix black ink, water, and Glass and Tile medium. The Glass and Tile medium will help the wash bond to the glossy foamboard. Brush the wash over the whole model.

Make sure to let the ink work its way into the cracks and crevices. It will also help create the effect of a burnt out ruin.

You can give the house a layer of paint before inking, if you want to add some color. I chose not to and left the house as completely charred.

Now to the add some color.

Drybrush the rubble areas that would be brick with a red acrylic paint. Don't forget the bricks in the wall.

Do the same for the broken roof tiles in the rubble with a terracotta color.

Lightly paint the remaining tiles on the roof with a terracotta color. Brush the paint down, leaving dark areas under and around the edges of the shingles.

Brighten up the walls with some light grey paint. Lightly drybrush grey paint on the walls and wood.

Paint a bit more around the windows and doors to give the effect of smoke stains over a completely charred house.

Also paint the area in front of the house. I used grey, as if it were a street under the rubble.

Highlight the whole model with white paint. Lightly drybrushing over the bricks, walls, roof tiles, and wood. Also touch up the walls and around the windows and door for smoke stains.

Finish off the model with a varnish or sealer. I used a watered down Glass and Tile medium.