GRAB THE TEMPLATE: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/284018/HEXAGON-Template It's pay what you want so enter $0 to get it for free or donate a buck or two to support the channel!
I tried that and you have to sign up to be a member to get the PDF file. Even if you are donating a buck or $0 ad I dont feel like the need to join another site and have to memorize another password. YOu could also include the pdf file in your text. The best way is to determine your scale size ex. 25mm equals to 0.984252 inches and then round it to just 1 inch. Then determine if you want the 1 inch to equal to 5 or 6 feet. I choose to use the 1' = 5'Then using my Illustrator or CorelDraw program I created a bunch of octagons, squares and circles starting at the 1 inch and then kept increasing the size by double then went back and reduced them to get the smaller in between sizes.
The wikipedia article about hexagons shows an easy way of constructing an hexagon with a compass. If some one struggles with paper templates like me. ;)
@@michaels728 I agree, this guy spends all this money to make great video's. Good sound and picture which means good gear, not cheap. Why should I go through all the trouble of signing up and spending a dollar? I mean google has to save another password and a whole fricking dollar? I mean CorelDRAW standard is $300 so that's the way I'm going. I'll take his idea, use the instructions tips and tricks he shows me, pony up $300 for software and then not have to register with this channel. Good plan right Michael? idiot
My wife is not a gamer. But she saw me watching your videos, and offered out of the blue that maybe she could learn to paint my miniatures, or we do it together. So thanks for helping us find a way to enjoy this hobby together!
It's been a year since this post. Maybe on an anniversary you both try to build the first thing you built together. Could be fun and has that sentimental weight as well.
That's so great. My wife is a bit of a nerd too, but nowhere near her husband's stats. And I'm into building miniatures for my 1\12 scale figures, and it's always so cool when I'm working and she offers suggestions, or critiques. Most of the time she's next to me playing 'Breath of The Wild' or 'Bloodborne' while I'm building in the creature shop. After leaving my X_Wife after a year because she was terrible and never supported what I did, for work or for fun. It's so amazing to have a partner show me support and stand behind me even through or nerdy endeavors. Like building our mini worlds. Good Luck to you and yours brother
So seriously I was one if those guys like “too much money, my Wife would never let me get a hot wire table let alone an exacting knife.” Well I got soooo inspired by the “Dollar Store Dragon” that I said screw it and went to Dollar Tree.... OMG I GOT EVERYTHING BUT A HOT GLUE GUN!!!! Foam, 3 different kinds of cutter tools, Tacky Glue, FREAKING MOD PODGE, and black paint!!!! I couldn’t believe it!!!! I am so psyched to build the crappiest farm house and destroy this toy to a miniature challenge and learn!!!! Thank you so much for inspiring crafters!!! Btw I bought baking soda to go with my super glue!
You can also pull double duty with that baking soda by mixing it in some pva glue to make your own texture paste as well. Lots of UA-cam tutorials on how to make it and use it. Have fun and enjoy the hobby. I am already addicted LOL. I just wish my husband would craft with me now. Then I'd be in heaven!
yup part of what i really love about this channel is your focus on getting people started off on the cheap. everything from content for ancients such as myself to people just starting out. great stuff :-)
I just made a fountain last week haha. I put a magnet in the center of the pedestal so i could switch out the statue easily but have it "stick" nicely. Great video as always. Keep it up man!
I loved watching this video, even if it was just for beginners... It's great to follow the crafting process with all the tricks and I'm sure that there is always something to learn! Thanks Jeremy, keep up the great work!
Nice job looks great! One thing, I do a lot of stuff with resin and alcohol inks are perfect for coloring resin. If you want alcohol inks on the cheap, but cheap magic markersvfrom the dollar store, put some high content rubbing alcohol in little bottles (70% or higher) then break open your cheap ass markers and put the ink soak cloth in your alcohol bottles. Sometimes there's a plastic covering on the cloth inside the marker, remove it or split it open whaala, alcohol inks
I did this in college, and it made the Art Professor sooo mad because i got better results painting 'aged' looks than she did with her 10-30$ per bottle stuff. I preferred using alcohol based inks when painting pewter figurines, i feel it just looks better.
Soooo having watched your video, I spent yesterday and today building a fountain from individual bricks and painting it up all nice. I mixed up two syringes of pound shop resin with the teeniest tiniest smidgen of green acrylic paint, poured it... and the water is completely opaque and full of bubbles :(:( Oh well, at least I now have a cool looking toxic fountain to place in dungeons. Now I just need to find me an evil looking statue to go on the pedestal instead of the big, golden village-friendly cockerel that I had lined up!
For folks that want to build a fountain, you can use a Bic pen without the ink inset, and use the point to punch out foam rounds to slice thin. Paint them gold, copper, silver. And glue them down in the fountain base prior to adding water. Low effort but its detail and realism.
I do crafting for 3 or 4 months now, so I am still a beginner. There is always something new to learn in your videos. In this video it was the usage of templates. Of course I saw that before, but somehow here it caught me. Usually I dont use templates but draw the shapes directly to my materials. In this video I learned the essential advantages of templates. I underestimated it before. I love your habbits, to go back to the roots sometimes. And I am sure also experts do always learn something from these tutorials. One question .. I used such an epoxy before to try it out for other purpose. What I noticed was, it cures within a few minutes, but it didnt completely dry and hardened in that time. It still took my finger prints when I touched it. It took like 24 hours to really harden completely. Did you have the same experience with the epoxy you used? Another question .. For sure you mentioned your template shop ever before?!? Somehow I noticed it for the first time. Thank you.
I've made templates for several projects related to videos in the past (boat, iron door, stacker battlements, prison walls). As for the epoxy. The stuff I use hardens in 5-10 min but is still tacky for an hour or so. It's going to be different from brand to brand.
@Michael S I agree, this guy spends all this money to make great video's. Good sound and picture which means good gear, not cheap. Why should I go through all the trouble of signing up and spending a dollar? I mean google has to save another password and a whole fricking dollar? I mean CorelDRAW standard is $300 so that's the way I'm going. I'll take his idea, use the instructions tips and tricks he shows me, pony up $300 for software and then not have to register with this channel. Good plan right Michael? idiot
DM Scotty did a video of a build where he used an led tea light and layers of hot glue and paint to make a glowing fountain. The hot glue worked great and the effect was awesome
To make the 5-minute epoxy flow better over the piece and out of the pot quicker, put the tubes in a warm place or warm water bath first. Treat it like an expensive resin in that sense. Also be aware - epoxy resin for cheap like that can yellow over time, but that may only be certain brands, so test that out first.
Made this just to see and it is that easy. I added a magnet to the middle so i could swap the stone center for any item and it would stay still. Great stuff.
Could you color the inside of the well to ultimately appear as the water's color? Do you think the epoxy might be made to appear flowing from the statue or central piece? Do you think I just need to be satisfied with your perfectly serviceable build as it is and shut up? 😊
Depending on your skill-level and tools, anything is possible. You wouldn't be able to make the water flow just by letting it sit, because it will run down. You could, however, 'mold' an oversize shape of the flowing or spouting water with epoxy. Once it is 100% set, remove the 'mold' and then shape the hardened epoxy, kind of like sculpting. If you have a well ventilated area, you could (while wearing PPE like dust mask and eye protection) try using a rotary tool to really shape it to your liking. Then glue the finished 'water flow' into place.
I have a question being a thick Mum here, my son plays homebrew d and but does not use a board how could I make a generic one for him as a gift. ( I love being crafty)( I'm In the ukbtw) love the channel so helpful Thank you for your help
Your son probably would get better use from 'tiles' than a 'board'. There's a lot of techniques and materials to choose from. If you look for D&D tiles using UA-cam's search function you should get a multitude of options. Watch a few for the technique that takes your fancy and get crafting!
I tried looking 4 a Disney Princess like you said at Dollar Tree but no one carries them anymore and the only Disney Princess I found were the expensive $15-20 dollar Disney Princesses from Hallmark that are Christmas ornaments. But recently while at a local thrift store I did find for a buck a wedding cake topper of a bride and groom. But the head of the bride was broken off naturally as if it had fallen off one of the hanging pegs on the wall, for it was still inside the plastic bag. I thought that would be perfect because over time with age statues arms and heads do eventually fall off. So Im going to put the head in the water of my fountain to show that it fell in it. I might even use the method I mentioned in my last post I did yrs ago for one of my old dioramas about using the clay, plaster and gloss paint to make my water effect and paint the water look then seal it with gloss varnish but not before I place the head on top of the water before I pour my epoxy or gloss varnish into it for the water effect..
I love how it turned out a lot. But... why not use a pair of compasses? The radius you use to draw a circle can be used on the edge of that circle to divide it in exactly 6 parts. Connect them all and you have the perfect hexagon with the exact length of sides that you wish to have
Lol. It's not a crafting tutorial, it's a dollar tree advert. Lol. In all seriousness though. Thank you for the wonderful videos. Please keep it up. You are an amazing craftsman.
An idea for if you don't want to have all those pieces cut out from the inside of the hexes, what you can do is cut your hex templates in half and tesselate them. Each hex half will 'stack' with another piece the same size as it, with just little triangle cutouts at the end of each one. You'd still need to the one big piece on the bottom to attach it to, but otherwise you'll save yourself a lot of foamcore offcuts. So instead of using almost a quarter of the big piece BMC used in this video, you could probably do it with only the equivalent of two full hexes worth of board.
Thank you so, so much for this tutorial! (especially for keeping it "old-school", as you've said). I'm feeling so motivated into starting some crafts for my players because of this video!
Been watching your vids for a while, started as a supporter on Patreon and crafting myself last month. Appreciate everything you do the vids are great!
I've never played D&D in my life, but I love these crafting videos. I am doing a fountain today, but I'm already in love with these smaller projects that you could do on a table.
Thank you SO much for the confidence boost while painting and working on stone textures, I'm currently making my first tower and I'm on the painting stage and I've been nervous about the wash and dry brush stage but seeing how relaxed you are helped me feel a lot better.
After watching hour video, I made an version with only half the octagon, painted the inside with Caribbean blue, then two coats of blue glow in the dark paint. Topped that off with the two part 5 minute epoxy and it turned out amazing. The glow from the water under a black light is out of this world. Keep on crafting
Hello Mr. Craft could you please make some water weird/elemental to compliment the fountain. Maybe the traditional snake kind that would actually fit into the fountain with some overlap so it looks like it is emanating from the fountain but modular enough to be used as a separate piece? I love the translucent models but I've had trouble making stuff like DIY Jellies, water elemental, and ghosts.
I hope it's ok that I throw a shout out for your Patreon. But OMG, it's awesome. The community is so friendly and inspiring. Everyone shares their experiences and projects on the Facebook page and on Discord. I am so glad to be a part of it! I thought I would just be helping out one of my favorite channels. It's so much more than that though. Thanks for bringing the community together!
very cool vid. I like how you went back to basics with this one for those new to the hobby and it never hurts for those of us with some experience to do things like this just to re affirm some core skills
Man, I love this so much. I'm really struggling to get into the craft for the first time though. It's not a lack of money or available resources, i could get this all in town, but I have no practical application for any of these. I'm a DM, and have been for 15+ years for D&D, but the last few years, all of my games have been online via things like Roll20. I've got to find a use for stuff like this so I can finally justify getting into the craft. All in all, this channel is absolutely the best. I love all the crafts you do, and I love even more how you stress the fact that you don't need to spend a fortune on the supplies to get amazing results. Keep up the great work!!!
Fantastic work as always my friend! Your editing has gotten quite good, in addition to this being just an awesome idea! As far as statues for it go? I'm thinking of heading to the dollar store later this week to see if I can't dig up some of those bag o' animals toys to see if I can't cut down a lion or a bull into something like a relief bust
Very nice work. I was astonished by your skills as always. I was also impressed with the skull designed from the black wash on the inside of the fountain base before painting it in. Great work.
That's some good progress you're making on those reaper bones over there. Set up to paint. Nice. Waiting for the day you can tell us they're all painted and ready. What a day that will be.
Thank you man! You taught me so much with your videos. I have a question, could you show us a way, or multiple ways, to do Stairs? I've tried many things but they always end up looking really bad
As always. Perfect tutorial and nice production quality. thanks for doing this great videos. A fan from the early days of your channel. :) Just one question... where the hell can i get this two part resin here in germany? xD
Nice entry level craft with good instructions and useful tips. This channel is great because you do this easy beginner level stuff and little more challenging "pro" stuff. Keep up the good work Jeremy
I've been retired now, for 2 years and looking for something to keep me busy indoors on crappy days. This has to be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks mate
Been crafting for many years. D&D is my thing, however I would love to see your take on Gaslands terrain and car mods. I'm sure your plate is full, but I thought I would put a bug in your ear. Cheers! great vid as always!
As an absolute amateur, I loved following this guide and making my first piece. With it, I've impressed a few friends and have developed a love of terrain building. Subbed! Love your videos!
"You could absolutely be done with this build and call it a day. But... " Is this the Black Magic equivalent of Billy Mays' "But Wait! There's More!" ?
What if you hollowed out the top of the pedistal, and left it slightly out of the resign, enough that the hole opened into it. Then you could put a little laser pointer(tape the button) or light inside it, and bam, glowing pool!
Guess I’m a beginner sense I feel like I learned a lot from this video. My mind was blowed by something as simple as when you drew the outlines by holding your position with your finger!! 🤯
I love this as a beginner myself. Only change I would make (3 years later) is replace the epoxy for UV resin (now that it's way more affordable) [edit] Punctuation [/edit]
'Change the resolution you are printing at'... To rescale/resize smth.??? I hope that was linguistic imprecision... You wouldn't cut off your legs below the knee, just because you were walking 'to good'...
A dollar for that big a 2 component resin, is outrageous to me. I pay around $10 for something half this size here in Denmark. We have SKY high taxes on everything, so having a hobby like this is not even coming close to being cheap. Quite the opposite, is hella expensive dude..
I agree. That is a well executed, nicely groomed beard and fresh-razored high-n-tight. I appreciate your professionalism, making the effort, because not everyone does. Well done, sir.
I just used some dollar store epoxy to try to do a water effect on a miniature base. I mixed it as I have normally done in the past and started pouring probably within 60 seconds of mixing the batch. The damn stuff was already in thick, horrible looking globs within seconds of pouring. I tried smoothing it out, but it was sticking to my pop stick and creating streaks of epoxy that were starting to ruin the base of the mini. Somehow, I got it somewhat smooth on top, but at this point I realized that it hadn't filled in the edges of the void I was trying to fill. I got it looking ok, but now I'm going to have to hope a second pour of epoxy doesn't ruin the entire thing. I've used Gorilla Glue's 5 minute epoxy in the past and it work wonderfully. This was Dollar Tree 5 minute epoxy and it was curing and hardening in less than two minutes. I wondering a few things here: the Dollar Tree only had two part epoxy that came in really small bottles, so I had to use two of them to make enough. Maybe mixing the two together caused them to cure faster? I also used a small amount of black paint, so maybe that somehow sped up the curing. In any case, I think I'm going to stick to the Gorilla Glue epoxy form now on. I'd rather pay a few more bucks to get something I know works.
I did this, using a cheap Princess Leia from one of the sequel movies that was like $2.50 at a local discount store. She’s perfect at works for both medieval fantasy and futuristic sci-fi
I'm impressed with your demonstration of technique and explanation of how they work and why you would use one over the other. Thank you for a great video and channel!
For the gluing part, did you take the paper off of both sides of the foam? And, is there any negative to leaving it (the paper) on vs taking it off? Thanks, man, you rock!
Hey Jeremy. If you have a ruler and a compass you can draw perfect hexagons quite easily: Just draw a circle of any radius with the compass. Then, without changing der radius, draw another circle with its center anywhere on the circumference of the first circle. (The two intersections and the center of the second circle already constitute 3 of the 6 corners of the hexagon.) Then simply draw 2 more circles with their centers located at the 2 intersections of circle 1 and circle 2. (This will produce 2 more corners of the hexagon.) To get the last corner just do the same thing again at any one of corners 4 or 5. Finally, use the ruler to connect all 6 corners and you have your perfect hexagon. Note that you won't have to measure any angles at all. Just keep the radii of all circles the same and you will be fine. All the best. :)
I keep jumping back and forth on his vids, and his beard is always different or just gone. It throws me off for a second each time. Like this isn't the magical foam crafting man I'm looking for! Oh, wait is!
I am not new comer in the hobby but this video is very useful ... always looking to learn for new methods 😉thank you for sharing your videos and thank you for your langage (my mothertongue is french) because a lot of youtubers speak too fast 😕. Good job ... you win a new member 👍
Interesting! I wonder what it would look like if you added like a couple pieces of gold and silver glitter, very sparingly, to the bottom to look like coins tossed in the fountain. Super cool! Thanks for this!
I don't game, but I'm a beginner at dio making for my action figure photography. Your channel is awesome and so helpful. Thanks. I'm working on a cemetery right now and some kind of fountain like this will be a nice touch. Thanks again.
The 5-minute epoxy is great for small jobs like this. I prefer the slower drying resins for bigger jobs as the slow dry time gives you time to get everything where you want it. Quick question though, you said you're going to use a toothpick to pop the bubbles, with the slower drying and thinner resins you can blow on them to pop the bubbles, does that not work with the 5 minute epoxy? Is it too thick?
My wife would not be happy if I started making terrain at this time. When your apartment is 18x30ft, and there's a baby on the way, there are certain hobbies that shouldn't be done. Especially when she can smell the paint on the mini I painted a week ago
hi mate dumb question but I'm looking on getting the Blusmart glue gun and getting it shipped to New Zealand as you can't get them here in New Zealand. I know the stick is 3.94 inches 100 mm long but I need to know what diameter the glue sticks are so I know what to get if I can't get them here. Are thy 7 mm
GRAB THE TEMPLATE: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/284018/HEXAGON-Template
It's pay what you want so enter $0 to get it for free or donate a buck or two to support the channel!
Random question. How thick is the foam core you used in this? Can’t seem to find said info anywhere.
I tried that and you have to sign up to be a member to get the PDF file. Even if you are donating a buck or $0 ad I dont feel like the need to join another site and have to memorize another password. YOu could also include the pdf file in your text.
The best way is to determine your scale size ex. 25mm equals to 0.984252 inches and then round it to just 1 inch. Then determine if you want the 1 inch to equal to 5 or 6 feet. I choose to use the 1' = 5'Then using my Illustrator or CorelDraw program I created a bunch of octagons, squares and circles starting at the 1 inch and then kept increasing the size by double then went back and reduced them to get the smaller in between sizes.
The wikipedia article about hexagons shows an easy way of constructing an hexagon with a compass.
If some one struggles with paper templates like me. ;)
@@michaels728 I agree, this guy spends all this money to make great video's. Good sound and picture which means good gear, not cheap. Why should I go through all the trouble of signing up and spending a dollar? I mean google has to save another password and a whole fricking dollar? I mean CorelDRAW standard is $300 so that's the way I'm going. I'll take his idea, use the instructions tips and tricks he shows me, pony up $300 for software and then not have to register with this channel. Good plan right Michael? idiot
My wife is not a gamer. But she saw me watching your videos, and offered out of the blue that maybe she could learn to paint my miniatures, or we do it together. So thanks for helping us find a way to enjoy this hobby together!
It's been a year since this post. Maybe on an anniversary you both try to build the first thing you built together. Could be fun and has that sentimental weight as well.
Maybe she’s into the guy making the video
That's so great. My wife is a bit of a nerd too, but nowhere near her husband's stats. And I'm into building miniatures for my 1\12 scale figures, and it's always so cool when I'm working and she offers suggestions, or critiques. Most of the time she's next to me playing 'Breath of The Wild' or 'Bloodborne' while I'm building in the creature shop. After leaving my X_Wife after a year because she was terrible and never supported what I did, for work or for fun. It's so amazing to have a partner show me support and stand behind me even through or nerdy endeavors. Like building our mini worlds. Good Luck to you and yours brother
@@comadrone_xix That’s awesome you have someone supportive of you now!
So seriously I was one if those guys like “too much money, my Wife would never let me get a hot wire table let alone an exacting knife.” Well I got soooo inspired by the “Dollar Store Dragon” that I said screw it and went to Dollar Tree.... OMG I GOT EVERYTHING BUT A HOT GLUE GUN!!!! Foam, 3 different kinds of cutter tools, Tacky Glue, FREAKING MOD PODGE, and black paint!!!! I couldn’t believe it!!!! I am so psyched to build the crappiest farm house and destroy this toy to a miniature challenge and learn!!!! Thank you so much for inspiring crafters!!! Btw I bought baking soda to go with my super glue!
Same here! Different store tough but found everything. And I think my wife is taking an interest on it so as to build landscapes and houses
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You can also pull double duty with that baking soda by mixing it in some pva glue to make your own texture paste as well. Lots of UA-cam tutorials on how to make it and use it. Have fun and enjoy the hobby. I am already addicted LOL. I just wish my husband would craft with me now. Then I'd be in heaven!
"It's just paint" One of my favorite quotes for mini painting is "It's not the first coat that matters, it's the last."
I needed to read that. ty the quote got me inspired.
Keep on encouraging people to take up this hobby! More players, more GMs, more crafters! Hazzah!
Hell yeah, thanks for the moment of Bob Ross around the 23:00 minute mark.
I think I'd enjoy doing this, but only if I can make some money from it.
yup part of what i really love about this channel is your focus on getting people started off on the cheap. everything from content for ancients such as myself to people just starting out. great stuff :-)
@@ralphhodge4295 “We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” :-)
@@knighthaunter as for cheap, i use alot of Egg carton material. It works wonders and my dice tower came out nicely.
29:21 "This project is a perfect place to _get your feet wet_ " I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
I just made a fountain last week haha. I put a magnet in the center of the pedestal so i could switch out the statue easily but have it "stick" nicely. Great video as always. Keep it up man!
Seriously, every time a fresh BMC video shows up in my feed I'm the happiest crafty boy in the whole wide world.
Is it wrong for me to want to pay you on the head and give you a cookie?
I loved watching this video, even if it was just for beginners... It's great to follow the crafting process with all the tricks and I'm sure that there is always something to learn! Thanks Jeremy, keep up the great work!
Absolutely. Sometimes it's good to be reminded of the simple things as we start to get to complex as we learn more.
For frozen water you can cut a hex of white translucent plastic from a milk jug. It worked well for me.
That’s a really creative idea!
Nice job looks great! One thing, I do a lot of stuff with resin and alcohol inks are perfect for coloring resin. If you want alcohol inks on the cheap, but cheap magic markersvfrom the dollar store, put some high content rubbing alcohol in little bottles (70% or higher) then break open your cheap ass markers and put the ink soak cloth in your alcohol bottles. Sometimes there's a plastic covering on the cloth inside the marker, remove it or split it open whaala, alcohol inks
I did this in college, and it made the Art Professor sooo mad because i got better results painting 'aged' looks than she did with her 10-30$ per bottle stuff. I preferred using alcohol based inks when painting pewter figurines, i feel it just looks better.
Soooo having watched your video, I spent yesterday and today building a fountain from individual bricks and painting it up all nice. I mixed up two syringes of pound shop resin with the teeniest tiniest smidgen of green acrylic paint, poured it... and the water is completely opaque and full of bubbles :(:( Oh well, at least I now have a cool looking toxic fountain to place in dungeons. Now I just need to find me an evil looking statue to go on the pedestal instead of the big, golden village-friendly cockerel that I had lined up!
I love videos like this. You take into consideration that not everyone can have the expensive stuff. Thank you.
For folks that want to build a fountain, you can use a Bic pen without the ink inset, and use the point to punch out foam rounds to slice thin.
Paint them gold, copper, silver. And glue them down in the fountain base prior to adding water. Low effort but its detail and realism.
I have absolutely no clue why youtube recommended that to me but it looks interesting.
I do crafting for 3 or 4 months now, so I am still a beginner. There is always something new to learn in your videos. In this video it was the usage of templates. Of course I saw that before, but somehow here it caught me. Usually I dont use templates but draw the shapes directly to my materials. In this video I learned the essential advantages of templates. I underestimated it before.
I love your habbits, to go back to the roots sometimes. And I am sure also experts do always learn something from these tutorials.
One question .. I used such an epoxy before to try it out for other purpose. What I noticed was, it cures within a few minutes, but it didnt completely dry and hardened in that time. It still took my finger prints when I touched it. It took like 24 hours to really harden completely. Did you have the same experience with the epoxy you used?
Another question .. For sure you mentioned your template shop ever before?!? Somehow I noticed it for the first time.
Thank you.
I've made templates for several projects related to videos in the past (boat, iron door, stacker battlements, prison walls).
As for the epoxy. The stuff I use hardens in 5-10 min but is still tacky for an hour or so. It's going to be different from brand to brand.
@Michael S I agree, this guy spends all this money to make great video's. Good sound and picture which means good gear, not cheap. Why should I go through all the trouble of signing up and spending a dollar? I mean google has to save another password and a whole fricking dollar? I mean CorelDRAW standard is $300 so that's the way I'm going. I'll take his idea, use the instructions tips and tricks he shows me, pony up $300 for software and then not have to register with this channel. Good plan right Michael? idiot
fill the middle of the fountain with hot glue and give it a wash of blue to make water
if done correctly then it should look somewhat transparent
DM Scotty did a video of a build where he used an led tea light and layers of hot glue and paint to make a glowing fountain. The hot glue worked great and the effect was awesome
@@kevinslaughter77 why thank you for telling me. I still have my fountain made and plan on using the hot glue instead of resin
I've seen that fountain floating around in several of your videos and always loved it, so cool to finally see a build video for it! Love it!
To make the 5-minute epoxy flow better over the piece and out of the pot quicker, put the tubes in a warm place or warm water bath first. Treat it like an expensive resin in that sense. Also be aware - epoxy resin for cheap like that can yellow over time, but that may only be certain brands, so test that out first.
Hey Man. I'm from Brazil and I'm big fan the things you do. Salve.
Aí sim, BMC cada vez mais famoso no br haha! temos que começar a criar uma comunidade de mestres que criam terrenos
Salve!!!! Os tutoriais dele são demais, mega didáticos e dá vontade de fazer os artesanato loco 😂❤️
Just built my first piece of Black Magic Craft Terrain. Two Dollars at the dollar store! Thanks for the tutorial! Love the vids!
Made this just to see and it is that easy. I added a magnet to the middle so i could swap the stone center for any item and it would stay still. Great stuff.
Could you color the inside of the well to ultimately appear as the water's color? Do you think the epoxy might be made to appear flowing from the statue or central piece? Do you think I just need to be satisfied with your perfectly serviceable build as it is and shut up? 😊
Depending on your skill-level and tools, anything is possible. You wouldn't be able to make the water flow just by letting it sit, because it will run down. You could, however, 'mold' an oversize shape of the flowing or spouting water with epoxy. Once it is 100% set, remove the 'mold' and then shape the hardened epoxy, kind of like sculpting. If you have a well ventilated area, you could (while wearing PPE like dust mask and eye protection) try using a rotary tool to really shape it to your liking. Then glue the finished 'water flow' into place.
I have a question being a thick Mum here, my son plays homebrew d and but does not use a board how could I make a generic one for him as a gift. ( I love being crafty)( I'm In the ukbtw) love the channel so helpful
Thank you for your help
Your son probably would get better use from 'tiles' than a 'board'. There's a lot of techniques and materials to choose from. If you look for D&D tiles using UA-cam's search function you should get a multitude of options. Watch a few for the technique that takes your fancy and get crafting!
Oh you're Canadian too! Are you in Ontario? If so you should do siminars! That would be awesome! Love the fountain!
This video has inspired me to stop buying expensive terrain and instead, build my own. This fountain will be my first build. Thank you!
I tried looking 4 a Disney Princess like you said at Dollar Tree but no one carries them anymore and the only Disney Princess I found were the expensive $15-20 dollar Disney Princesses from Hallmark that are Christmas ornaments. But recently while at a local thrift store I did find for a buck a wedding cake topper of a bride and groom. But the head of the bride was broken off naturally as if it had fallen off one of the hanging pegs on the wall, for it was still inside the plastic bag. I thought that would be perfect because over time with age statues arms and heads do eventually fall off. So Im going to put the head in the water of my fountain to show that it fell in it. I might even use the method I mentioned in my last post I did yrs ago for one of my old dioramas about using the clay, plaster and gloss paint to make my water effect and paint the water look then seal it with gloss varnish but not before I place the head on top of the water before I pour my epoxy or gloss varnish into it for the water effect..
I love how it turned out a lot. But... why not use a pair of compasses? The radius you use to draw a circle can be used on the edge of that circle to divide it in exactly 6 parts. Connect them all and you have the perfect hexagon with the exact length of sides that you wish to have
Lol. It's not a crafting tutorial, it's a dollar tree advert. Lol. In all seriousness though. Thank you for the wonderful videos. Please keep it up. You are an amazing craftsman.
"Do you wanna build a fountain?"
:D
An idea for if you don't want to have all those pieces cut out from the inside of the hexes, what you can do is cut your hex templates in half and tesselate them. Each hex half will 'stack' with another piece the same size as it, with just little triangle cutouts at the end of each one. You'd still need to the one big piece on the bottom to attach it to, but otherwise you'll save yourself a lot of foamcore offcuts.
So instead of using almost a quarter of the big piece BMC used in this video, you could probably do it with only the equivalent of two full hexes worth of board.
Thank you so, so much for this tutorial! (especially for keeping it "old-school", as you've said). I'm feeling so motivated into starting some crafts for my players because of this video!
Been watching your vids for a while, started as a supporter on Patreon and crafting myself last month. Appreciate everything you do the vids are great!
Another great build video, thank you! Have yet to see a video of yours I didn't love.
I've never played D&D in my life, but I love these crafting videos. I am doing a fountain today, but I'm already in love with these smaller projects that you could do on a table.
Awesome vid again - discovered you a few weeks ago and I think I've watched all your vids Haha! Keep it up - love your style and vid presentation!
I don't normally comment too often, but i enjoy these vids. Makes me want to whip some sheet foam and an x-acto knife, and get to crafting.
Thank you SO much for the confidence boost while painting and working on stone textures, I'm currently making my first tower and I'm on the painting stage and I've been nervous about the wash and dry brush stage but seeing how relaxed you are helped me feel a lot better.
have you ever seen the tv show 'lost'? your template looks like a DHARMA Initiative Station symbol...maybe for a station codenamed 'the fountain'
After watching hour video, I made an version with only half the octagon, painted the inside with Caribbean blue, then two coats of blue glow in the dark paint. Topped that off with the two part 5 minute epoxy and it turned out amazing. The glow from the water under a black light is out of this world. Keep on crafting
Hello Mr. Craft could you please make some water weird/elemental to compliment the fountain. Maybe the traditional snake kind that would actually fit into the fountain with some overlap so it looks like it is emanating from the fountain but modular enough to be used as a separate piece? I love the translucent models but I've had trouble making stuff like DIY Jellies, water elemental, and ghosts.
I hope it's ok that I throw a shout out for your Patreon. But OMG, it's awesome. The community is so friendly and inspiring. Everyone shares their experiences and projects on the Facebook page and on Discord. I am so glad to be a part of it! I thought I would just be helping out one of my favorite channels. It's so much more than that though. Thanks for bringing the community together!
I love hearing that man!
Saw the template earlier today and I'm thrilled to see the video uploaded!
very cool vid. I like how you went back to basics with this one for those new to the hobby and it never hurts for those of us with some experience to do things like this just to re affirm some core skills
5 min in and you sir earned a new sub. Great stuff and I cant wait to check out more videos.
Man, I love this so much. I'm really struggling to get into the craft for the first time though. It's not a lack of money or available resources, i could get this all in town, but I have no practical application for any of these. I'm a DM, and have been for 15+ years for D&D, but the last few years, all of my games have been online via things like Roll20.
I've got to find a use for stuff like this so I can finally justify getting into the craft.
All in all, this channel is absolutely the best. I love all the crafts you do, and I love even more how you stress the fact that you don't need to spend a fortune on the supplies to get amazing results. Keep up the great work!!!
Just build dioramas of whatever you want tbh
My parents are making something like this
Hi
I would advise texturing/adding grout lines to the pieces before cutting out the middles. gives it more structure
would nail polish work as a watery effect?
have ever you try make a thing, any thing, with real material, like a tree with a wood stick and a bridge with real stones .... and things like that?
No. I’m not into that. For a long list of reasons.🤷♂️
Very annoying that we in Germany unfortunately have no shops that offer these cheap epoxy shots. They cost more than 1,50 € in our shops.
Fantastic work as always my friend! Your editing has gotten quite good, in addition to this being just an awesome idea! As far as statues for it go? I'm thinking of heading to the dollar store later this week to see if I can't dig up some of those bag o' animals toys to see if I can't cut down a lion or a bull into something like a relief bust
You could also try your local thrift store like Goodwill. Mine usually has bags of little toys for a buck or two
You could use round glitter that is gold to make it a wish fountain then put epoxy over the "coins" to seal them in.
I'm new to the chanel and have been binge watching all day! Great content!
Super simple, super cheap, what a great way to get started.☺
Very nice work. I was astonished by your skills as always. I was also impressed with the skull designed from the black wash on the inside of the fountain base before painting it in. Great work.
That's some good progress you're making on those reaper bones over there. Set up to paint. Nice.
Waiting for the day you can tell us they're all painted and ready. What a day that will be.
Thank you man! You taught me so much with your videos.
I have a question, could you show us a way, or multiple ways, to do Stairs?
I've tried many things but they always end up looking really bad
As always. Perfect tutorial and nice production quality. thanks for doing this great videos. A fan from the early days of your channel. :) Just one question... where the hell can i get this two part resin here in germany? xD
I appreciate your budget-conscious approach to these videos. Thanks for sharing.
Nice entry level craft with good instructions and useful tips. This channel is great because you do this easy beginner level stuff and little more challenging "pro" stuff. Keep up the good work Jeremy
What thickness was the foam board?
I have difficulty cutting foam boards and other materials even while using a straight edge.
1:21 Hexagon is the bestagon!
I've been retired now, for 2 years and looking for something to keep me busy indoors on crappy days. This has to be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks mate
Been crafting for many years. D&D is my thing, however I would love to see your take on Gaslands terrain and car mods. I'm sure your plate is full, but I thought I would put a bug in your ear. Cheers! great vid as always!
As an absolute amateur, I loved following this guide and making my first piece. With it, I've impressed a few friends and have developed a love of terrain building. Subbed! Love your videos!
"You could absolutely be done with this build and call it a day. But... " Is this the Black Magic equivalent of Billy Mays' "But Wait! There's More!" ?
Love this video! Do you know how I could do pieces (like this and/or buildings) to display outside?
I’m definitely going to build this the weekend looks awesome 👏🏻 👏🏻🤙🏻
Very helpful and easy to understand. Thank you for sharing! 🙂
*watches the first 5 seconds*
Me: Nah I just need something to build
Love this! I can see using the technique to create a community
well in the town square!
very nice work, thank you for sharing, subscribed
What if you hollowed out the top of the pedistal, and left it slightly out of the resign, enough that the hole opened into it. Then you could put a little laser pointer(tape the button) or light inside it, and bam, glowing pool!
Guess I’m a beginner sense I feel like I learned a lot from this video. My mind was blowed by something as simple as when you drew the outlines by holding your position with your finger!! 🤯
I really like this. I haven't crafted a great deal so will certainly try this project out. Having a statue in the middle really adds something to it
I love this as a beginner myself. Only change I would make (3 years later) is replace the epoxy for UV resin (now that it's way more affordable)
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'Change the resolution you are printing at'... To rescale/resize smth.??? I hope that was linguistic imprecision... You wouldn't cut off your legs below the knee, just because you were walking 'to good'...
One buck!!!, in Australia it's $15.00 from officework, how fuck is that!!!
When you did the water effect in the fountain I thought you were going to use hot glue.
Where are you from? For me you are posting at midnight.
Winnipeg. Central Time. I post every Thursday at 11PM CT.
Black Magic Craft. Thank you
He's in Canadia,
A dollar for that big a 2 component resin, is outrageous to me. I pay around $10 for something half this size here in Denmark. We have SKY high taxes on everything, so having a hobby like this is not even coming close to being cheap. Quite the opposite, is hella expensive dude..
I’m digging the buzzed hair. Cool fountain with the lady in it, btw.
Cool....cause that's the haircut I've had for about 10 years 😂
I agree. That is a well executed, nicely groomed beard and fresh-razored high-n-tight. I appreciate your professionalism, making the effort, because not everyone does. Well done, sir.
I just used some dollar store epoxy to try to do a water effect on a miniature base. I mixed it as I have normally done in the past and started pouring probably within 60 seconds of mixing the batch. The damn stuff was already in thick, horrible looking globs within seconds of pouring. I tried smoothing it out, but it was sticking to my pop stick and creating streaks of epoxy that were starting to ruin the base of the mini. Somehow, I got it somewhat smooth on top, but at this point I realized that it hadn't filled in the edges of the void I was trying to fill. I got it looking ok, but now I'm going to have to hope a second pour of epoxy doesn't ruin the entire thing.
I've used Gorilla Glue's 5 minute epoxy in the past and it work wonderfully. This was Dollar Tree 5 minute epoxy and it was curing and hardening in less than two minutes. I wondering a few things here: the Dollar Tree only had two part epoxy that came in really small bottles, so I had to use two of them to make enough. Maybe mixing the two together caused them to cure faster? I also used a small amount of black paint, so maybe that somehow sped up the curing.
In any case, I think I'm going to stick to the Gorilla Glue epoxy form now on. I'd rather pay a few more bucks to get something I know works.
I did this, using a cheap Princess Leia from one of the sequel movies that was like $2.50 at a local discount store. She’s perfect at works for both medieval fantasy and futuristic sci-fi
I'm impressed with your demonstration of technique and explanation of how they work and why you would use one over the other. Thank you for a great video and channel!
For the gluing part, did you take the paper off of both sides of the foam? And, is there any negative to leaving it (the paper) on vs taking it off? Thanks, man, you rock!
Hey Jeremy. If you have a ruler and a compass you can draw perfect hexagons quite easily: Just draw a circle of any radius with the compass. Then, without changing der radius, draw another circle with its center anywhere on the circumference of the first circle. (The two intersections and the center of the second circle already constitute 3 of the 6 corners of the hexagon.) Then simply draw 2 more circles with their centers located at the 2 intersections of circle 1 and circle 2. (This will produce 2 more corners of the hexagon.) To get the last corner just do the same thing again at any one of corners 4 or 5. Finally, use the ruler to connect all 6 corners and you have your perfect hexagon.
Note that you won't have to measure any angles at all. Just keep the radii of all circles the same and you will be fine. All the best. :)
I keep jumping back and forth on his vids, and his beard is always different or just gone. It throws me off for a second each time. Like this isn't the magical foam crafting man I'm looking for! Oh, wait is!
I am not new comer in the hobby but this video is very useful ... always looking to learn for new methods 😉thank you for sharing your videos and thank you for your langage (my mothertongue is french) because a lot of youtubers speak too fast 😕. Good job ... you win a new member 👍
As of Nov 2021, I can get the 5 minute epoxy for $1.75 Canadian at dollar store! Amazing tip!
Interesting! I wonder what it would look like if you added like a couple pieces of gold and silver glitter, very sparingly, to the bottom to look like coins tossed in the fountain. Super cool! Thanks for this!
I don't game, but I'm a beginner at dio making for my action figure photography. Your channel is awesome and so helpful. Thanks. I'm working on a cemetery right now and some kind of fountain like this will be a nice touch. Thanks again.
The 5-minute epoxy is great for small jobs like this. I prefer the slower drying resins for bigger jobs as the slow dry time gives you time to get everything where you want it. Quick question though, you said you're going to use a toothpick to pop the bubbles, with the slower drying and thinner resins you can blow on them to pop the bubbles, does that not work with the 5 minute epoxy? Is it too thick?
Cool! Thanks :)
My epoxy is trying now, my fingers are covered in paint, my cuts are uneven but you know what? I did it. HAHA. It feels good.
My wife would not be happy if I started making terrain at this time. When your apartment is 18x30ft, and there's a baby on the way, there are certain hobbies that shouldn't be done. Especially when she can smell the paint on the mini I painted a week ago
hi mate dumb question but I'm looking on getting the Blusmart glue gun and getting it shipped to New Zealand as you can't get them here in New Zealand. I know the stick is 3.94 inches 100 mm long but I need to know what diameter the glue sticks are so I know what to get if I can't get them here. Are thy 7 mm