An oil drum cut down and hacked into an improvised stove - rough door, stovepipe chimney made from welded soup-cans, rust everywhere. Period: near-future apocalypse.
Cut-down 200L drums are the universal post-event heater - documented across every modern refugee camp and shanty-town. Burns wood, scrap, anything. The chimney is whatever the builder could weld together that day.
Painting tips
- Body: heavy rust over dirty steel, soot black around the door.
- Chimney: rust runs at the joints, heat-bleached pale at the top.
- Door: dark steel with bare-metal scrape where opened.
- Optional faint orange glow inside the door slit.
Historical sources & further reading
- Refugee-camp informal stove references
- Modern shanty-town heating photography
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