💦Model AMAZING Waterfalls/Rapids!💦 | (Realistic Scenery wargaming and railroad)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- In this easy to follow tutorial we'll go through the process of creating some amazing cascading waterfalls and rapids. Apply this method to your tabletop gaming pieces for games like D&D or Warhammer, or as well as any scale model railroad layout for some added realism and beauty!
Through a technique using cotton and Modge Podge, we'll build up some really great looking splash effects that will be sure to catch anyone's attention, adding an additional level of realism to your water.
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Not sure how UA-cam knew I needed these videos in my life but I've been watching as many as I can you are awesome I can not believe how realistic all of your designs look very impressive
Fantastic presentation, Neil. I really liked being able to concentrate exclusively on the visuals - the editing was so tight that I didn't have a single question about any of the processes. Way to put in the editing work, my friend. I know that was a monster job. Thank you for demonstrating the most effective whitewater effects I've seen.
Thanks Heather! You give the best and most thoughtful compliments. And yes you are right on the editing part, oh boy...😏 Trying to do my best to be more strategic with what I shoot with the camera and not have hours and hours of footage to go through. That is still, a work in progress, however.😋 Thanks for stopping by again and giving such thoughtful feedback.
Hey u r so beautiful😘💞
InstaBlaster...
Probably the best water I have seen!
Amazing!
Thanks very much!🙂
A suggestion.. buy a couple of rubber plaster bowls and plaster spatula from a dental supply company (size to suit your needs) cleanup is a breeze you can let the remains set in the bowl, then squeeze and flex over the bin and tip out the remaining set plaster. The spatula is just designed to mix up plaster easily. For mixing plaster try putting water in the rubber bowl and sprinkle the plaster on top, don’t mix straight away leave it until you see the top surface appear damp. It is counter intuitive waiting, but this way you won’t get any lumps. If you do this the plaster bowl lends itself to being held in the left hand and the spatula in the right whipping the plaster like whipping cream.
You’ll know your ratios of water and plaster. Stir or shake the plaster first to lighten it ( if it has settled in the packet, this stops a big lump falling into the water and splashing every where. Last thing letting it dry and emptying into the bin will save your waste pipe in the sink blocking over time. 50lb 25kg bags of plaster of Paris aren’t expensive just keep it dry! I had a dental lab for many years and mixed up loads of plaster. Adding a tiny bit of Borax slows down the setting time (a little goes a long way !) Salt accelerates the setting up to 5% then retards the setting. Old plaster in your bowl accelerates the setting as the old plaster acts as crystallisation points and it rapidly sets. This also applies if you find you need to add plaster to a thin mix this will set faster than the correct ratio. I know nothing about your amazing diorama skills but do know a little about plaster :) finally there are a couple of different plaster types you may find of use the white plaster of Paris and there is dental stone I forget the trade name British gypsum make it for uk dental labs. across the pond there will be similar, it is used for making dental models of the mouth from impressions and once set it is incredibly hard and would allow you to have much thinner sections without breaking.
Wow, fantastic info man. Thanks for the info! You sure do know your plaster alright. Going to definitely take your advice. I'll sure be looking into the rubber bowls and spatula. Indded I see the cleanup being a breeze by just letting it set then crumple out, not having to worry about the plumbing in the process. This dental stone is quite intriguing as well. Going to have to find myself some of that. All the tips on the plaster setting are great too. Definitely learned my lesson trying to add new plaster with the old still left over as well. lol This is the great thing about posting on the internet. So much new and awesome advice out there I would have never figured out on my own😊.
Lol, the information goes both ways, except mine was only a couple of minutes typing. Not sure which part of the world you’re in, re the dental stone in the US I think it is an ADA type3 plaster, (American Dental Association) it is normally used for casting models after impressions of the mouth are taken. It is strong and when dry very strong. Btw the white plaster virtually doubles in strength if left to dry for 24 hrs. Dry plaster is much stronger than damp. There are harder crown and bridge synthetic plasters that are stupidly strong ( and stupidly priced). Just look for plaster made for model casting not general purpose soft plaster of Paris its just a little more expensive.
Rumor has it he still uses the spoon and glass for dinner.
sir i made my own bridge after watch your video, its informative inspiring I love its sir💓💓💓
I like the use of the sanded grout. Sets up solid and has a nice fine texture. I like how you added some paint under layers of envirotex for deeper water 'froth'. I think you did a great job capturing the movement of the water. A great piece!
Thanks Mike! I think I mucked up with the paint on the ridges on the waves/Liquitex gel trying to make the water look more turbulent, making it just look a bit odd. Next time I'd use some of the techniques discovered on the ocean board.
Just one word describe your creation :
F A N T A S T I C
Are you looking for any more ???
Excellent video...snickered at dam. Vs damn...lol keep up,the great work
Great job showing tools needed but the rock molds need a close up. Which ones do I need to order,❤️❤️jenn
At first, I thought the opening animation was the completed prop. I was thinking, "how in the hell did he do that?"
Great work & video btw :)
I thought that too. Wanted to know how he gets the “water“ moving 😂
Just amazing skills, both as a terrain modeller and videographer
At last, someone who doesn’t hum and arr, but just gets on with brilliant work
Well, the initial foam bits had me thinking, what in the world is THIS going to look like. Throughout the video, I was increasingly intrigued as to where you were headed to create the rapids shown at the beginning. I just wasn't seeing it. About 3/4 of the way through, your vision had me wondering. And then, like magic, you suddenly brought it all together to create one fantastic rapids and cliffs. I'm currently working on a landscape with a river and your idea will work great. This is my first project, so let's hope I can achieve such a wondrous scene as you have. Thank you for revealing this great concept. I love it!
haha, yeah it was a little messy at the start. I had the idea in my head where I was going but certainly hard to see that at first Something I should maybe try to improve upon in future videos to help ppl see where its heading. Thanks for the great response and best of luck to you and your future build!
@@RealTerrainHobbies Oh, I don't know if you should do that... it was such a great climax to see the mystery suddenly resolved. :)
Almost a year and a half later this is still my favourite scenery/terrain tutorial on UA-cam. The diorama is absolutely stunning. I want to build an entire model railroad in this style. :)
Suddenly, a wild bridge appears. Great work man!
Hey you didn't watch to the end! The video for the bridge is here 😁: ua-cam.com/video/T5J26Fcu3Yw/v-deo.html
The thing that always amazes me is how few steps it takes to go from looking like a bunch of stuff glued in a pile to a vivid and realistic terrain piece.
I am sorry, but that looks amazing 😳😍 You‘re a master, my friend.
Thanks very much. :)
Let me know below if you like this style or not, just having the music and no voice over. Not something I plan on permanently in the future by any means, just thought I'd give it a try.👍☺️
FYI Picking the right music is harder than you think!🙇🏻
andrea zaltron Awesome, thanks for letting me know! :)
I prefer the voice over.
Very nice job. Love the rock work and the detail you put into each step so we can follow along.
Amazing! Realy cool how you did it!
Fantastic modelling. Have you ever costed the materials for this? Superb. Thanks
The finished product is a piece of art. One thing I do that makes things a bit easier and saves a lot of headache and retouching is to, once you have "ground" levels established, finish the sides and paint them black. Then do all the groundwork, i.e. flocking, static grass, foliage, then the very last thing is the water. Doing the water last avoids getting any flock or scenic glue or anything that could ruin all the hard work you do getting the water to look real.
Just a friendly tip. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Very true. I'm bad for jumping around and wanting to get to the next step before I'm done the current stp I'm on lol. Which isnt good when you have to put it into a cohesive step by step video lol
Real Terrain Hobbies Gotcha. I can imagine when I finally decide to start "filming", I'll probably make mistakes and missteps O' plenty. You do good work and the results are usually amazing. Thanks for taking the time.
In a newer video, you mentioned how far your videography has come; you're quite right! I'm glad you moved away from the house music, and your videos in general are a lot more relaxed with you in them describing your process, and your time-lapses have gotten even better.
Thank you, fantastic work and big big inspiration for me. I am like see next you video.
Superb. You're an artist of the first order.
Thanks! 😊😊
subd after just 1 video. Great channel will be using many of your methods !.
Terranscapes sent me. Beautiful work! And your editing is above and beyond the call of duty. You got yourself a sub.
Welcome on board! Yea, that's really awesome Terranscapes (Mike) recommended me. Wasn't expecting that, nope! lol Major honor to be mentioned by him, that's for sure. He's an absolute legend. Glad you decided to come over and check things out. 🙂
This in combination with your medieval house build looks like it would make for an excellent watermill, so that's going on the to-make list right after I finish shamelessly copying your house design. These tutorials are truly excellent!
Haha go right ahead and copy away! That’s an excellent idea, you’ll have to post over in the FB group your work of art when u get her finished! Thanks for taking the time to watch, truly appreciated.🙂
Well, after literal months it's finally in-progress. I messed up slightly in my first attempt (not enough dry fitting and too much over eagerness to get started), but I'm trying to channel my inner Bob Ross and planning to more or less "cover over" my happy accidents with a second layer of plaster - my cliffs may be a bit higher and narrower then anticipated, and the water to my mill may have to be carried via a slue rather then natural flow.
Very nicely put together. The art speaks for itself. Well done.
Simply stunning. Great video work too.
Very nice job! Thanks for sharing! 👍
Also I like the way you take time in really SHOWING us your hard finished work afterwards.
Great tutorial with some useful tips & ideas - definitely something to come back to for future projects. Well made video too, well done 🙂👍 Subscribed.
Thanks very much, welcome aboard!
I like that.. good editing and it wasn't to hard to follow... music is good either with or without voice over, you need a sound track list as my wife was sitting next to me reading the paper saying "Oh what's that music" and the text isn't up on the screen for long enough... all round pretty good ....
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I should throw the music info up. It’s from a website I pay to use the music and I just randomly grab what I think would work. That’s actually the worst part though. I have a really hard time getting that perfect song, and most of the time I have to resort to just “good enough.” But I find it’s difficult to even get the “good enough” music. Maybe I need a different website with a better search engine to get what I’m after more easily...
Hi Neil, thanks for getting back to me. I watch a fair bit of You Tube and some times the sound track can kill the visual, yours sits pretty well with what you have done... It adds to the feel rather than distracting from it.
I build 1/24 trucks and was considering doing one on a diorama, so I've been cruising You Tube for a few weeks picking up tips here and there... Obviously I stumbled across Luke ( Boulder Creek ).... after I watched his vids a few times I began to analyse them and what I noticed about his is that for most part, he only has a 10 second music loop.. It's the same phrase over and over again, then he fades in and out with his voice narration.. Having said that one of my other favorite You Tube vids is a guy called Bare Metal Bandit that builds rat rod lead sleds.... on it's own I wouldn't listen to that kind of music but with slide show he's done it sits really well... Can I ask you what kind of editor soft ware you use as my son is looking for something better than movari, that he uses for his mountain bike Go Pro stuff...
Jeff...
@@aussietruckphotosandmodels8510 Hey sorry for the incredibly late responses. Had my computer at the shop for the week as it stopped posteing after I took it on a trip. Thought I'd damaged the motherboard but turns out the heat sink on the cpu was wiggling on the trip and pulled the processor from the socket. So no damage done in the end thankfully and just needed a good remounting... but having the computer gone for the week hurt me on editing being really anxious to get my next video out.🙄 Thanks for the feedback on the music! Glad to hear it fit well and wasn't too distracting. Going to definitely give this Bare Metal Bandit guy a try! Hope you create something great for your model. Would love to see how it turns out, definitely am going to head over to your channel and take a look! As far as editing software I use Adobe Premier Pro and have recently also subscribed for Adobe After Effects, which is all the fancy text effects etc. So it is definitely adding up on my end as far as cost, but adds a lot to the videos I think.
Great technique! The flocking turned out perfect.
Thanks man and thanks for stopping by.🙂 You do great work over there, I was happy to see another one come out from ya recently here.👍
wow and YES I was like " wait what r u" then the pop up! Lol.. They Look Look like rocks, Amazing. This is the Color and kind I need for my big project HO scale RR! GREAT JOB THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS!! ; )
Nice man. Best of luck to you and your railroad!🙂
Beautiful work and beautiful video! Was a pleasure to watch.
Thanks :)
I couldn’t understand a word of what you were saying
I'll try to speak a little louder next time. :P
Real Terrain Hobbies your welcome
That is some of if not the BEST water rapids I've ever seen recreated. Great job!!!
Imagine you pick the wrong glue at the end and it remains white:))))).....it is amazing:)
If it was me, I think I'd be plastering the sides (finishing touches) before putting anything else down on the diorama. Also, I'd probably put the ground cover materials on before pouring the waterfall, so as not to get any bits and pieces on the envirotex (which can be scratched when cleaning detritus off) and especially avoiding getting any PVA on it which can cloud it up. That aside, it looks bloody awesome! :)
The cotton wool process looks so bad. I didn't think there was anything worse. ..I stand corrected.
Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate all spectrum of feedback, even from just angry sad ppl. Hope you cheer up and thanks for letting me know you think it could be better. Cheers
Very nice video !!! Great !
Fantastic work !!! Can't appreciate enough ☺️
This is absolutely Beautiful where did you get your inspiration and how did you learn to do this very interested in building dioramas and minature art ❤❤❤
So realistic, especially the colors. Does anyone use real rocks in dioramas?
I think it's hard to make actual rocks look, well real when used in dioramas. The colours just look wrong with indoor lighting imho. Also they are heavy
Flocking awesome!!!
AMAZING BEAUTIFUL VIDEO 👍😊😊 best 35 minutes for a long time
Thanks man!🙂
Maravilloso!!
Quisiera tener la pasiensia y materiales para hacer cosas así 😹❤
Adding toilet fine chopped toilet paper to your plaster or pulped newsprint (non glossy) will help with molding and such and adds strength and chip resistance.
Thanks, I'll give it a try!
Wow... Just wow... One of the greatest step by step landscape tutorial I've seen ! No words but clear explainations and great musics, what else ?
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it and thank you again for such high praise.😊😊😊
Lovely work of art! All that's left is to add barrels riders.
Absolutely awesome. It is so gratifying to watch a craftsman at work , and see the model come together with such a realistic appearance. Thank you for sharing .
The water looks very good, very realistic !
you are the best
Great Video! One day I'll try Diorama on my channel. 🙂
Can you use natural materials in dioramas? For example: I collect Mezco One:12 Figures- super realistic cloth good action figures-- If I were wanting to create a tree in 1/12 scale, could I use a combination of real branches and flock?
Oh yes absolutely! I do just that in this video here towards the end: ua-cam.com/video/t0X-MhMAiTc/v-deo.html
33:20
You have got to be kidding me
I cant even draw that scenery on canvas and this guy made a fricking model of it🙄🙄🙄
😊😊😊 Thanks man
@@RealTerrainHobbies
YOU, my friend,
Are beyond amazing😍😍😍
You are right this is amazing
Really its amazing i also cant draw this in canvas. I really would like to learn it.
@@mousumilaikbanerjee6758 you can learn! It just takes lots of practice! 🤗
Fantastic presentation good
What is the foam called that you are using?
Its a high denisty foam called XPS foam or Extruded Polystyrene .
Fantastis....alami banget ....keren....saya salut....pake cetakan untuk bebatuannya tapi bagus hasilnya...
incredible and useful .thx . I also do some miniature and Diorama work.I shoot videos like this and I'm a very novice 😊💜
I love your work, and as an editor I must say I like your use of the mobius zoom transition, I think it's not used enough and really fun :)
I think if you take the music out, it's great.
BOSS! Well done in the full video.
Semplicemente fantastico!!!!!!!!!! Ogni dettaglio è perfetto. Bellissimo tutorial. Thank you very very very much!!!!!!
At 20:35, it's probably not necessary to be angry at the resin by damning it. You could just dam it instead!! :-) Just messing with your spelling. This is excellent work, and I really enjoyed it. The model looks real.
Superb work on the water man. I had no idea you could make white water with (i call it) santa-beard-cotton. This has made me super pumped to make my own small dioramas
Awesome stuff! Glad you were able to get inspired by it. :)
Fantastic work. Could you tell me which adhesive you used to glue the boulders to the side walls many thanks.
Aaah. Dont put flame near epoxy. Use an electric blower. And too much mixing of epoxy, too fast, which is why the air bubbles got in.
I’m a big fan and this was incredible! I did panic a bit at the yellow!! I can’t believe how you transformed that flawlessly. Neil keep the videos coming as you have sheer talent! I just see this channel go far fast:)
Thanks Michelle! :)
Great work, as always. Big fan of your channel.
Thanks, awesome stuff. Appreciate it. 🙂
Neil,I thought I would share an idea of how you could make tons of diy scultamold. If you took cellulose insulation and mixed it with plaster you would essentially have the same product. Would you not? It would probably be grey instead of white.but that shouldn’t make much difference. You could also use bleached cellulose like scultamold does,but that would be much more expensive. I haven’t tried this.but it should work. Great job there!
Thanks, really great tip! Going to definitely give that a try. i don't think it turning out grey would matter too much and perhaps even help with the overall look of stone.👍
You should try magnetic grass. It looks sooo real
Magnetic grass? You mean Static Grass? Yea definitely. I do have some, but I'd like to get the applicator. I'll give it a shot on my next build that will use grass👍
@@RealTerrainHobbies Sorry, yes that's what I mean. If you look up Dave's modle workshops he has a diy applicator. I love the tree by the way. You should do a orchard and try putting in little flakes of red for apples!
hello congratulations for the video and for the beautiful work. what kind of product did you use to make the water effect in step 7? thank you very much and congratulations again
I don’t think that bridge would pass inspection... all jokes aside amazing work!
Awesome presentation
Wonderfully done, but it looks like a missed opportunity due to the lack of trees. Maybe that’s just me. No disrespect intended.
Simple .. amazing :-O
Absolutely brilliant....
Brb, that looks soo realistic! Soon you will he hired from a pro, and be famous :3
Thanks! 😁
when you put down another wash, you wait untill wash befor is dry? (16 minute)
Great work, it helps me to do my work more realistic, but the colors are mixed in very different proportions, can u tell me how it is?
Vary beautiful
Beautiful job 😍 it was a very Nice Journey, thank you for taking the time to share your work.
Thanks Glad you enjoyed it😊
Wow, great job Neil! The rocks look amazing. I really liked just watching the video without the commentary. You captured it well; no need for explanation. Tegan was telling me about how you showed her what you did in certain parts too. 😊
Thanks Corinne! Good to know. Yeah Tegan got the super VIP insider backstage pass and learned all my trade secrets haha. 😋
Dental surgron or dental prothesist ? cf tools lancet, silicon spoon...
what is the block of material you are cutting and using for the base? Is it a form of Styrofoam?
Absolutely incredible, I’m trying to do some now and mine looks shit
You must be a clone of Luke Towan, you have the same skills. Great stuff. I enjoyed watching you creating something unbelievable and I still can't believe someone is able to create this kind of scenery.
Does anybody know where the wizard in the profile pictures from
Bravo...Sanatına hayran kaldım....Terar tebrikler.
This is crazy !
In a good way . 😮
Great work but for the bridge. I cant see a horse let alone a man going up or down that 30 degrees.
Lindo parabenssss🤗🤗🤗
Good video but you need to learn how to narratebecause I listen to the person more and glanced at the screen if something interest me
Very detailed water effects!
Thanks man
GREAT video and so easy to follow. Just takes patience. I took away so many tips from this! Thank you so much!! The end result looks AMAZING!
Hola Por favor subtitulos en Español muchas gracias
You are my favorite Canadian and i hope you keep to your crafts you are getting better and better each time good job
😲😲😲😲😲 breath taking...I would love to make it ...