Rubbel from a damaged church?

Never tried it... Sand, in and of itself, is lousy rubble though...  It looks like, well, sand... Needs to be mixed with other stuff: 10 minutes with a whisk broom and a baggie out near the curb is where I get most of my rubble... A hammer and a piece of concrete block, a hammer and a brick, some gravel, some cat litter, some playground sand, all ya need...

Another good source is to keep your eye out for new concrete pours... There's always a bunch of glods of concrete laying around nearby where the workers scraped out the wheelbarrows and cleaned their shovels and floats and trowels... Grab some of that stuff and beat it with a hammer..

Heh, Im not going to be building THAT much of the church.  Just using it as a backdrop for the scene. 

I dont have anywhere near me to get like brick dust or anything, would using art sand work?

One idea for rubble: every couple of weeks, I thoroughly sweep my work bench into a dust pan. Pull out the dog hair, and what I'm left with is a nice pile of random scrap. Bits of PE, plastic, resin, wood shavings, twisted material from pin vise drilling, etc. You can add this to the material, mentioned by Hans, and end up with some nice, nonspecific, rubble detail.

For a church, adding lots of scrap wood to simulate destroyed pews and alter, colored transparent PVC (I think) for shattered stained glass, sawdust...

If you're really ambitious, you could try for a destroyed pipe organ.

Steve

 

Thanks again hans.

The Church is really going to be just a backdrop, so I wont be doing much work for the inside rubble, just on the outside and around it.

As far as wallpaper, its a church, I wont need it, maybe get some clear styrene and make some shattered stain glass to add.  But you say use gravel, and kitty litter?  Itl be interesting to try.

For general rubble, sweep up some gravel.  The kind you find in the street is best, and you want a lot of stuff with sharp edges, not rounded like pea gravel and such...    For wall and ceiling sections, I pour a bit of plaster into a homemade mold that's the same thickness as the building walls, let it set, then whack it with a hammer... If you have wallpaper or paint on the interior walls, be sure to add that same wallpaper or paint to the plaster before you whack it... It'll tie it to the building that way, and be more believable that it's from the same building.  Clay Cat litter, like Tidy Cat, makes for good rubble, too...