Let's Make Stone Henges (Dark Age Series)
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2018
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In this Let's Make, we start our new Dark Ages terrain making series with a modular stone henge scenery for your tabletop games.
We look at working with expanded and high density foam, as well as texturing, stippling rock colours, wet washes, basing and sealing.
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Back in the swing of things, took a little while to get into the flow with the cameras, but it's good to be back in the saddle tutorial wise! Any requests for other Dark Age scenery tutorials?
TheTerrainTutor markets :)
Barrows? Hill Fort Defences? Round/Longhouses?
Gothic cathedral
TheTerrainTutor Yes please!
Great idea for a series. How about a ruined Roman villa? There's lots of MDF kits but they're all pristine. How can they be modified to reflect the passage of a couple of hundred years ?
"Before Stonehenge there was Woodhenge and Strawhenge, but the Big Bad Wolf came and blew them down, and the Three Little Piggies were relocated to the project."
actually there were thousands of Woodhenges in Britain and parts of Gaul
It's great to see the return of the shorter videos with an actual project in them. I wasn't really enjoying the 2 hour plus videos. Just my personal preference, I'm sure others loved them, but vids in the 20-40 minutes range are much nicer for my tastes.
Back on a roll now, so there should be a balance between the two bud
You are the best terrain tutor that I have ever watched. You make Great videos.
Glad you like the vids bud
Whole video is great and the discussion about dry brushing vs stippling starting at 28:00 was key in helping me fix one of my models - thanks!
Glad it helped buddy!
I didn't have much reason to build hedges but the techniques from this build are coming in handy for rebuilding cliff faces on my terrain rebuild
Nice matey!
Dark Age series? Hell yeah!!!!
Hell yeah!
Thanks Mel, these are some of my favorite videos on any platform. Just sincerely thank you for sharing your talent with all of us and just being you.
Glad you like them buddy!
Great job breaking things down into stages and doing the per-stage progress photos on this one Mel, thanks!
Glad it helps matey
I really learned a lot of new things on basing and flocking. That still was a part of my builds that I needed to figure out. Thank you for the great tips and tutorial.
Glad it helped bud
Great to see you back, Mel!
It's great to be back buddy!
Hi’ya Mel, if you heat your Stanley Knife blade up first, it makes cutting through the foam a lot easier. 👍🏻
Sir Mel, saviour of the flat bottom!
If I could, I would :-D
Can I be pedantic and point out that stone circles and henges actually predate the dark ages by 2000 years+?
Great work though. Glad to see you back.
Yeah, Mel Moment mate
Brilliant video as always. Haven't watched your channel for a while, so it's good to be back.
Welcome back buddy, have you noticed any improvement in the video quality, just curious?
Yes the quality of the videos has gotten better, and you have 2 cameras now. How do you manage that? Keep up the great work mate☺
Thanks bud
Very nice, Mel! As for myself, I'd love to see your take on Barrows. :D
Not thew next tut, the one after that!
Excellent...looking forward to it!
It's wonderful to watch/listen to this while carving bases from EPVC :-)
Glad you enjoyed it bud
Simply amazing. Thanks for share!
Glad you like it mate
good video Mel Loved the info. Don't worry about the technical stuff your not James Cameron. Keep up the good work please.
Thanks buddy
You know, if you copy the bases for the ring, you can do some as broken ones and the main ones for intact ones that you can swap in and out as you wish.
I'd also suggest toothpicks when putting it together to make the joins even harder. I've had a lot of them break on me at those points and they're a pain to reassemble without it being very visible. You can also use the small nails and punch them through the base from the bottom to add even more sturdiness to it.
Of course, I'm used to building things to take a lot of damage due to my terrain getting abused a bit more than I wish...
Top tips mates
I watched just for the painting tips. Do a couple dozen more of these kind of videos and maybe I'll figure it out. lol
The stone technique I used is the stippling one from the hills, rocks and cliffs playlist bud
I know, I've watched it 3 times now, lol! This was a good video Mel. Maybe simple builds get overlooked sometimes, but there's alot of basic info in there that needs to be re-enforced for some of us slower learners. lol!
Reminds me of the scene in Spinal Tap when the Stonehenge prop gets lowered on stage and they made it 24 inches instead of 24 feet tall.
Loved that!
Such a great movie!
Great stuff, Mel. Loving the new jumper too!
Thanks guys, the studio clothing is purely down to kez getting fed up of me having paint, pva and filler on every pair of jeans, t-shirts and jumpers, hence why I now have studio clothes!
Great video. Im looking forward to getting more Dark Age inspiration from you!
Great video, thanks for that. i like the way you added variety to teh colour of the rocks, i need to try this.
Hope it helps buddy
Fantastic video, thank you for sharing
Hope it helps you buddy
Nice job! Though I feel I should point out that you've made modular "trilithons," not quite a "henge." A henge is a continuous circular formation and can be made of earthen rampart, or stone blocks or even wood pillars. What you've made here are trilithons, where one megalith is stacked onto two other upright megatliths. Stone henge has a group of trilithons in the central area surrounded by the actual henge, which is the (once upon a time) continuous ring of standing stones. I know this is a pretty minor technicality, but I thought you might find it interesting.
Oh I'm looking more into this, thanks buddy!
Almost right. Technically speaking, a henge is a raised, roughly circular or oval bank with an internal ditch encompassing a flat area around 20m in diameter. It doesn't matter about stone blocks or wooden pillars ( which in Stonehenge's case, at least, came hundreds of years, if not millennia, after the earthworks were built ). This also means that Stonehenge isn't actually a henge as the ditch is on the outside of the bank.
The scenery looks awesome as always, but I would say the thrilithons look a touch overworked, a little regular and smooth, if you will. Also, with the other ring of stones ( which would be more in in the shape of the pointy monolith in the middle, but much smaller ) would be a slightly different colour as they were made from Welsh bluestone. Not wanting to be picky, just trying to give ideas on how this could be tweaked.
I'm sure Spinal Tap would love to play with this on stage behind them.
Thanks for the clarification. I was trying to describe that, but did a poor job.
Nah, man. Ya did it well enough
Nice to see you back making tutorials Mel
It's nice to be back mate
Great seeing a new tutorial! Also great seeing it in the dark age/medieval genre. I would like to see a tutorial on making campaign pavilions.
They're on the list bud!
Nice one Mel, been making some Pacific terrain using your tips while watching this. Used your herbs tip for the bases, looks great except now am in the dog house as used the wife’s new ones. Ah well it’s all for a good cause lol
Get a kilo bag of mixed herb from amazon mate, its a lot cheaper!
Ah cheers bud i think if i use anymore of hers she’ll be using the Crown Jewels as new earrings .
A real pleasure to watch. Lots & lots of helpful tips and info too :-)
Glad you liked it matey
oh yes. i was thinking recently how i wanna try and make a stone henge! we want, you provide lol i dont have the time for this video just yet, but i know it's here. top bloke.
Hope it helps you bud
I liked the addition of the well lit close-up photo stills. You can make out a lot of the very subtle colour transitions that aren't so obvious from the video close-ups (video can have a nasty habit of 'smoothing out' detail). Really enjoyed this tutorial, I am now trying to come up for a scenario where I need hinges just so I can try it out! LOL
Thanks buddy, I appreciate it mate
Very glad to have you back Mel, looking rather great (o:
Thanks buddy!
Good stuff, Mel. I really enjoyed that video; good range of techniques and a project I'll probably have a go at.
Hope it helps bud
neat stuff like it and post will see more of em
Cheers bud
'Modge Podge'
Lovely
love your work mel!! wonderful editing keep up the good work!! :D i have missed you!
I'm slowing getting better at it, cheers buddy
That's cool !
Thanks!
Have you tried scuffing the EVPA base with a scalpel or a rasp help the PVA adhere? Another idea would be to quickly drill through the bottom of the EVPA and get either BBQ skewers or really thick paperclips and essentially pin the stones to the base. I've had reasonable success with the second approach when sticking PS pieces to MDF.
It would certainly help the pva key in but I've found you don't really need to as it sticks pretty well without it mate
Fair enough. I had honestly never heard of EVPA until I started watching your videos; once I use up my current stash of MDF I will see if I can source it here in Australia. Keep up the awesome videos mate, your stuff is brilliant and gives me plenty of new ideas. I might have to send in some photos of my stuff for your Terrainiacs segment at some point ;-)
Thank god your english. Destorying a jumper is a crime in Ireland.
LOL, that made me giggle
Hey Mel! Relatively new subscriber here. Found you when I came back to the hobby and really enjoy your videos. Learning a lot and enjoy your energy. Part of the bonus for me is that we are both from the UK, which means I am picking up your material secrets! haha as I watch I keep a mental note of what stuff is called and where you get stuff from. However, do you have a video or any plans to put together a video or list somewhere of your typical materials and places you purchase them? Keep up the great series mate!
Check the back to basics playlist, there's a common materials vid in there ;-)
Mel, the “henge” in stone henge is actually the circular ditch that runs around the megaliths and not the trilithon stone piles themselves
I'm learning loads today!
Very nice tutorial Mel, I think they turned out lovely.
Just a thought on the filler:
You said you like the harder finish of the Artex, but the gap filling of the filler. Could you experiment with literally combining them?
You mentioned in the video that you normally water down your filler slightly, maybe you could use the Artex as the agent to "water" your filler down.
It's certainly worth playing with buddy
Mel, a production suggestion. When editing the videos keep the video sound track but remove the last few seconds of the video portion and put in your stills in so that it avoids the silent bits where you show the stills. I think the overall flow of the tutorial would be improved
Yep, or a subtle backing track, that's one of the things to play around with buddy, but yeah, needs something!
The bubbles in poly whatyacallit looks pock marks in ageing. Still looks good to me. Keep cracking on.
Cheers buddy
TheTerrainTutor I will be working Thursday but catch ya later. Hope to see ya Sunday
Great job! Looks great, I'm building a war game table, my first and I've watched every vid on ur channel lol, could u do a tutorial on larger stone artches like what u did on your huge table with the traps and ocean/beach? I really want to make one close to that but with a ravine so I would really appreciate your ideas in a tutorial for that. Please think about it!
I'll give it some thought matey
TheTerrainTutor Thanks!!
Cooool
Cheers bud
From a fantasy perspective I kinda hoped you would have made some rune / chaos markings. Apart from that good stuff
Saving that stuff for the fantasy series mate
TheTerrainTutor I see I must have missed that was one of the new series. I thought it was just dark and iron age
Yeah, Mel Moment
Drinking game= Take a shot every time you hear "Crackin" / "Crack".
Watch your liver!
What will be the release schedule for the darkage videos?! I cant wait!
Every other tuesday mate, that's the plan
Looks so simple, but you can do a lot with a stone circle, solstice and star alignment, sacred math, the selection of different rocks (like the Bluestones at Stonehenge)... what brings me to a question: What is the best way to replicate the properties of pure, white quartz used at mounds such as Newgrange (shines up brightly in sunlight)?
Merkur Schröder hm. White styrene dotted with a white glue/glitter perhaps? The kid had some vials of glitter that were very white and not so multicolored. You could tweak the amount of glitter in the glue to get the albedo you want.
Cheers, mate! I've actually been painting reflection stripes by doing a white or ice blue undercoat with a thin layer of Vallejo's Metal Medium (essentially a Mica paint without additional color) over it. That works ok, somehow. But I've never tried it in the rock dimensions. Could be possible it's not too silvery if mixed properly. The correct type of white might do the trick.
I'd probably go with quartz and then heavy drybrush grey etc leaving the quartz showing in the recesses mate
Sticking with the original just weathering it up is probably the easy way out. But if we're talking Newgrange dimensions, weight might be an issue.
Why didn't I get the notification for this video, UA-cam? WHYYYYYY??
Hit that bell mate!
It reminded me of Spinal Tap did that Stone Henge piece. If a vertically challenged chap were to run into the workshop dressed as a gnome and dance around the piece I will eat my hat.
If I could sort that, I would sort that mate!
Hey Mel, I don't know if it was on my end or yours but around minute 19 the audio got distorted a touch. Still able to hear and follow along. Another great tutorial though. As far as what would be cool to see next, how about some drawbridges?
Audio corrects at around minute 25.
If you look in the background, I was halfway through sorting my studio at the time and I think that's what caused it mate
Great tutorial! The camera angle works but the bench needs to be higher - the model was dangling off the bottom of the screen a lot of the time.
More a case of me needing to get used to the new angles, its better in the later footage bud
how many millimeters is the palight do you like to use?
6mm mate
Mel, are you going to finish the end level boss bunker project? or did i miss it?
It got shelved due to time mate
Thats not a henge, its a stone circle, an henge is an earthwork feature which includrs a circular bank and ditch on which stones are placed.
It would also benefit from an entrance way rather than just 5 sets of uprights.
I learn new things with every video, thanks mate
What thickness board do you use? You mentioned it before.
6mm mate
Thanks. Have you looked into using tree bark for the stones of portal dolmen? Prime black with a grey drybrush is all it takes.
Tree bark works well for quite a lot of stuff mate
I was going to get a flat bottom, but the girl at the boat house didn't have one.
Unlucky bud
Can you write the tools and materials down in the description? Not only in this videos. I think it would be nice in all of you videos =) thanks :)
I need to start doing that
Mel! I thought this was a PG show haha
So did I :-D
ahahaha you're the best
thanks
Thank you man you became an inspiration👌
Centerpiece, looks like peeling a potato 😸
This goes up to 11
Thanks buddy
where did you get hte basing material ?
Free scrap from sign printers
henges are not from the dark ages
Yep, my bad
not your best work...
Let's Makes never are, they're intro tutorials rather than my top level work
i disliked
Just a tiny bit of feedback. Please stop saying “yeah” it stops me watching would otherwise be excellent videos
It's a tic
Yeah, whatever Andy.