Burner Tower

We wanted to do a fun follow-up to our Dungeon Grime Paint Guide, which focused on 3D-printed ruinous scatter terrain tiles. This same color scheme works great on banged-up buildings, too, so without further ado…

The greatness behind any paint scheme is its reusability, right? Once we develop a rock scheme, a wood theme, and so on, we want to stick with those colors going forward. So, naturally, we wanted to try our nifty Dungeon Ruins tile paint scheme on a dilapidated building and see how it turned out!

The next step was to pick out a specific building to which we would apply these same colors, so we immediately flipped through our Infinite Dimensions Games library to find the right banged-up structure.

Their beyond-awesome Lumber Mill set includes a separate Burning Stack tower, which we thought was absolutely perfect for this experiment! That tower could be any ruined structure on all sorts of different gameboards, so in our minds, we’ve found the perfect volunteer here!

Here’s a quick refresher on what the dungeon grime tile looks like. Quite dirty and musty, right? That was the goal because whenever we watch epic fantasy movies like Lord of the Rings or series like Game of Thrones, we often see this age-y, weathered look.

We wanted to show you the tower in mid-step here as you could totally stop after the off-white dry brush highlights are applied. What comes next is the blackwash and rusted metal, which adds a lot of years to your piece in a hurry.

So, if you want it to look like an inhabited building, we would call it good here. Optionally, you could add a little blackwash for a few shadows and concentrated dirt spots.

Now, if you want the tower to look abandoned, ransacked, etc., we took Youtuber Zorpazorp’s recommendation and added Citadel Contrast Paint Typhus Corrosion to all the steel elements (which were first covered in Citadel’s Leadbelcher). The Contrast and Speedpaints continue to amaze us though – super convenient with killer effects for novice painters like us. #heaven

Also, in case you’re wondering, we used ArmyPainter Speedpaint Dark Wood (our fav) and their Broadsword Silver for the wood and steel door. For the lock, we just dabbed on a little Talos Bronze Metalic Speedpaint.

So, now you’ve got an easy-to-follow DnD Dungeon Grime paint scheme for your ruins and for any buildings/towers, too! We’re thinking of trying it on a run-down house next, so we’ll be sure to share those color results in a future post!