General Warhammer Projects: How to Make Wooden Floors

Wooden floors are timeless. They existed in ancient times as well as in future times. Durable and beautiful, they are always an added feature when it comes to realistic Warhammer terrain. In this article you’ll learn tips and tricks on how to make authentic wooden floors.


Materials list

-package of popsicle sticks
-PVA glue (white glue)
-scissors
-utility knife
-22″x28″ foam board/polystyrene (styrofoam)
PAINTS (These are suggested paints to use. Feel free to experiment with your own colors)
-bubonic brown or snakebite leather
-bestial brown or graveyard earth
-brown ink

Step 1 Cut tips off

Begin by cutting the tips off a bunch of popsicle sticks. You can do this by using a pair of scissors. If the popsicle sticks are too hard to cut with only scissors, score them with your utility knife first. By doing this the wood weakens and becomes easier to cut.

Step 2 Staggering

Wood floors are staggered very similarly to bricks or sod. However with wood floors the staggering comes more randomly and natural. Take a look at any wood floor and you’ll see what I mean. I’ll use the wood floor used in the WarHammer 40k Bell Tower project for reference.

You’ll notice that I broke the ends of the popsicle sticks for this project. I did so to resemble breakage due to explosions/earthquakes and so forth.

Step 3 Snapping

To make it look like something fell through the floors you’ll want to snap the popsicle stick and glue some broken ones to the floors. Just reverse the popsicle sticks if you want to resemble something shooting up and through the floors. For this project we used the “fallen through” example.

Step 4 painting

Begin by painting the floors bubonic brown or snakebite leather.

Next, dry brush bestial brown or graveyard earth. Bestial brown if you want a richer look. Graveyard earth if you want an older more weathered look. For this project we chose bestial brown.

Step 5 Scorching

Here’s a neat option if you’re going for the scorched/burnt look. You can even light matches and do it for real if you want. Just make sure you do that outside. You can also achieve the same results by simply painting chaos black onto the broken areas of the flooring.

This step is for accenting only. Paint the edges chaos black. You’ll come up with something like this:

Notice how the dry brushing finished it off. It looks positively worn and weathered. It even looks realistic. The only reason you can tell it’s a miniature wood floor is that a Cadian flamethrower is added for aspect ratio.

Pretty sweet huh? So there you have it. Wood floors made easy.