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.
@@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!
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.
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.
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
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!
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'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.
A tip for drawing hexagons if you dont have access to a printer; hexagons are the only polygon where the radius is the same length as the sides. So draw a circle to the size you want the hexagon, measure from the center point to the outside then draw consecutive lines of that size from circle edge to circle edge. Boom, Hexagon!
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.
My wife and I did a competition of this project. Our first piece of scenery. I created an iced over fountain with a tall statue pillar in the middle. So much fun. Thank you for sharing this.
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.
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!
27:40 I work in the aerospace industry, which means almost nothing outside of obsure epoxy and paint facts. But as far as I remmeber from my introduction to resins, you can add in a thinning agent like isopropyl alcohol, or the dollarstore equivalent without too much kerfuffle, as long as it doesn't mess with your cure/reaction times. Of course, I wouldn't assume anything would work without first doing a test or three (my favourite part of the job- redundancy) but as long as the thinner flashes off between the mix and about mid cure, AND you're not using a vacuum pump to facilitate it, you're golden!
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!
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
Thank you for making this video, it has certainly given me some ideas to get back in to making terrain and scenery. If you get time it would be really helpful to do an episode about how you aquire and maintain a good supply of materials, how you organise them and ways to get stuff cheaply... Best tutorials on youtube by a mile!
He actually has covered some of this in several previous videos. I'm not sure of which ones, but if you check his page, you can probably find them. He has a playlist here that is a good place to start: ua-cam.com/play/PLSrIGfVibMhjlq1rzP9YeHTDGaVLeDJbF.html
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.
I'm not a beginner, I just enjoy your videos and there's always tips and tricks to be found anywhere, I just wanted to say that I watch a ton of diy videos for a lot of my hobbies and interests and you make some of the best ones out there, regardless of the topic. You are a great teacher.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
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
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.
I love how I (who has no crafting experience at all) had the same idea as you... As soon as I saw the old fountain with the statue, I thought "Well, if I do this, I'll design it to have exchangable statues and non-statues; and then I'll make a non-fountain plinth that can accept the same decorations as well. That should give me a lot of uses." :D
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
Good morning. Just wanted to let you know that I have been enjoying your videos. I am using the knowledge I learn here to make scenery for my model railroad. Don't have any idea what D and D is, but you keep being you. Thanks especially for your series for beginners. Extremely helpful.
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
Thank you Thank you Thank you! Your style and ability really inspire. I realized last night before watching this I needed to start jumping into crafting instead of hording material and just "saying" I was going to get into it. But today I am going to Finish this fountain!
Perfect! Got a bunch of foam scraps and a small dragon sculpture that would be ideal for a statue, so I will be making one of these over the weekend. I reckon a statue/fountain instantly transforms an open space into a town square for players.
I am so glad to have found this channel. Some amazing looking builds using very inexpensive materials. I would have never guessed that you could make so many great looking pieces this way. This has really helped me out getting started at this.
This has inspired me to start making D&D terrain. I wish to start this hobby as soon as I learn how to play. Thank you for being such a great inspiration. I love watching your videos and I am very grateful for all the hard work you put into these projects.
Great tut. Just started for the very first time crafting by making this fountain. It cost me 30€ to get everything needed including the equipment and the materials that obviously remain for future projects. Just found myself a new fun hobby
I'm making a Christmas village and I was looking into how to make miniature accessories around the village. This video was awesome, I've learned so much and is so much fun and want to make more miniature things. Thank so much much you are doing an excellent job on how to teach the craft :)
i wanted to do a project for a few days now but i didn't really felt like working on it....i started it when i saw your video, somehow gave me the energy to start working, thanks for the small "push", awesome work, simple yet looks amazing.
in order to thin the epoxy i guess you can cut the red part of the syringe into 2 parts and put more resin and less hardener, it will be thinner and it will cure slower, which i guess will be better for pouring
Great little project. One tip for using the epoxy for the water effect, it can be thinned out by mixing in some isopropyl alcohol. Simply add enough to make the epoxy as thin as you want it. It will flow much easier and will dry just as quickly.
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!
Great video! I've been a crafting DM and gamer for a long time, and I still find new, useful techniques on your channel. I'm lousy at free hand cutting, so I'll make this fountain just to practice finger gauging. Thanks
Simple but effective build. I guess a few people didn't like your "Finger Gauge" technique. I tried that a few times and works great...especially for speed builds. Thanks for a great vid again!
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.
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
I love the great work you did, awesome job. Just adds to my collection of ideas to do sometime for a future upcoming project. When doing something like this you definitely need to use the epoxy resin. Recently I was going thru some boxed up books in storage and found some of my old notes on old diorama techniques I had done when making some back in the early 80s. Back then I lived in a small town and was limited on what I could get or use to build my dioramas. Unless we drove to the nearest bigger town that had a Walmart, or hobby craft store or something you were limited on what you could get if they even carried it in the store. And that's even if they carried the EZ Water resin that came in these little cubes which you had to melt down then let it cool off a bit before you could pour it on your landscape to make water without it burning the plaster or landscape material. And back then unless you were a licensed contractor you couldn't get the bartop lacquer ie, epoxy resin at all at the local hardware store if they even carried it. So back then we had to come up with other techniques to make our dioramas. Unfortunately I no longer have it for it broke and got damaged when we moved 550 miles from Colorado to Las Vegas, NV in 1988. But I wrote down in an old notebook some of the techniques I used when I did research in the 80s before I built my dioramas and what I did when I made some of my things. And one was how to make a stream for my diorama thru a D&D town. It was difficult to realistically produce the effect of running water back then. I used a plaster compound and cellulose sculpting compound clay and formed the waves and ripples while the clay was wet. Then coated it with the plaster using a brush. After it dried, I painted the river with a gloss water base and after that I added a shiny gloss lacquer that I brushed on, which gave the water a shiny, rippling effect. Which back then I didn't have any resin to use to make my water. So I used what was available in my area I could get. Just wish I had a picture of the diorama to show what it looked like. Now since Ive gotten used to making all my water features with resins over the last 25 yrs. And then recently finding my old notes on diorama building that I kept notes on. Im now tempted to go back and using my old notes make a couple dioramas and see just how good it turns out.
If I have time I will definitely be doing this I've been meaning to try crafting but never found something easier to start with and this will help me get started
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..
First video of yours I've seen, I'm trying to craft a set for the first time (final boss area for my first big campaign). I'm very happy I've found this because I have a good idea of how to make it now!
I have really been enjoying your tutorials. I am just getting into terrain building and I've been jumping around info videos. But I think yours are the most comprehensive and honestly look the easiest to do while still looking awesome. I am sure you get a million requests so feel free to disreguard. But I am a huge sci fi fan and one of the reasons I'm building is to envision some of the fantastical places in that genre. One thing I haven't seen you do yet is an orb-like building. In both fantasy and sci fi these seem to be a thing. You've done round towers, but what about a building either a dome or a ball? It would be a challenge.
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!
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!!!
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!
You’re videos are very informative and helpful! Have you ever make an Orc castle or hut? I make all my buildings from paper mached cardboard from cereal boxes etc. I’m presently working on an orc castle with tusks and stone and hides. I’d love to see any you might have made!
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.
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!! 🤯
Cool vid man this is exactly the project I was looking for I am playing Hordes warmachine now been gaming since the 90s and needed a fountain for my medieval town. the individual bricks look easier than I expected. cheers!
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
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
Loving the start up videos! Wondering where to show the projects the viewers made (since I've seen you mentioning that a few times). Would love to show the process of my blood fountain! (still a work in progress)
This really takes me back to my early crafting days! For future video ideas, how about medieval fantasy buildings in styles outside of the usual western European? Buildings from the fantasy Mediterranean, or eastern europe, or Asia? Could be a chance to explore different techniques for the different architectural styles and materials.
Another way to use one template is to glue it to thick card stock and at each point cut to the center most hexagon following the points inward. Then all you have to do is fold on each ring of the hexagon. Then you don't have a bunch of different pieces taking up a lot of room or have to keep printing out more when you need a new template.
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.
@@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
@@codyinacoma That’s awesome you have someone supportive of you now!
"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.
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!
This video has inspired me to stop buying expensive terrain and instead, build my own. This fountain will be my first build. Thank you!
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.
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!
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.
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?
29:21 "This project is a perfect place to _get your feet wet_ " I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
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.
I love videos like this. You take into consideration that not everyone can have the expensive stuff. Thank you.
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
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.
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'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.
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!
A tip for drawing hexagons if you dont have access to a printer; hexagons are the only polygon where the radius is the same length as the sides. So draw a circle to the size you want the hexagon, measure from the center point to the outside then draw consecutive lines of that size from circle edge to circle edge. Boom, Hexagon!
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.
My wife and I did a competition of this project. Our first piece of scenery. I created an iced over fountain with a tall statue pillar in the middle. So much fun. Thank you for sharing this.
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.
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!
27:40 I work in the aerospace industry, which means almost nothing outside of obsure epoxy and paint facts. But as far as I remmeber from my introduction to resins, you can add in a thinning agent like isopropyl alcohol, or the dollarstore equivalent without too much kerfuffle, as long as it doesn't mess with your cure/reaction times. Of course, I wouldn't assume anything would work without first doing a test or three (my favourite part of the job- redundancy) but as long as the thinner flashes off between the mix and about mid cure, AND you're not using a vacuum pump to facilitate it, you're golden!
I have absolutely no clue why youtube recommended that to me but it looks interesting.
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!
I love projects like this. It has to be cheap materials and basic tools.
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
I appreciate your budget-conscious approach to these videos. Thanks for sharing.
Just built my first piece of Black Magic Craft Terrain. Two Dollars at the dollar store! Thanks for the tutorial! Love the vids!
Thank you for making this video, it has certainly given me some ideas to get back in to making terrain and scenery.
If you get time it would be really helpful to do an episode about how you aquire and maintain a good supply of materials, how you organise them and ways to get stuff cheaply...
Best tutorials on youtube by a mile!
He actually has covered some of this in several previous videos. I'm not sure of which ones, but if you check his page, you can probably find them. He has a playlist here that is a good place to start:
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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.
I'm not a beginner, I just enjoy your videos and there's always tips and tricks to be found anywhere, I just wanted to say that I watch a ton of diy videos for a lot of my hobbies and interests and you make some of the best ones out there, regardless of the topic. You are a great teacher.
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.
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.
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!
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 😂❤️
I had the best idea to buy a hero miniature, paint it to look like stone and plop it in the center of the fountain. Really would make it pop
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.
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.
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.
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 love how you tell all your techniques in detail. More power sir. Will try this one. Thank you. So resourceful.
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!
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
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.
I love how I (who has no crafting experience at all) had the same idea as you... As soon as I saw the old fountain with the statue, I thought "Well, if I do this, I'll design it to have exchangable statues and non-statues; and then I'll make a non-fountain plinth that can accept the same decorations as well. That should give me a lot of uses." :D
Saw the template earlier today and I'm thrilled to see the video uploaded!
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
Good morning. Just wanted to let you know that I have been enjoying your videos. I am using the knowledge I learn here to make scenery for my model railroad. Don't have any idea what D and D is, but you keep being you. Thanks especially for your series for beginners. Extremely helpful.
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
Love this! I can see using the technique to create a community
well in the town square!
Oh you're Canadian too! Are you in Ontario? If so you should do siminars! That would be awesome! Love the fountain!
Thanks!
I would advise texturing/adding grout lines to the pieces before cutting out the middles. gives it more structure
Thank you Thank you Thank you! Your style and ability really inspire. I realized last night before watching this I needed to start jumping into crafting instead of hording material and just "saying" I was going to get into it. But today I am going to Finish this fountain!
Perfect! Got a bunch of foam scraps and a small dragon sculpture that would be ideal for a statue, so I will be making one of these over the weekend. I reckon a statue/fountain instantly transforms an open space into a town square for players.
It does!
I am so glad to have found this channel. Some amazing looking builds using very inexpensive materials. I would have never guessed that you could make so many great looking pieces this way. This has really helped me out getting started at this.
Maybe one of my favorite diy videos! I am a beginner and this was easy to follow and looks amazing. Thank you so much!!
I'm new to the chanel and have been binge watching all day! Great content!
This has inspired me to start making D&D terrain. I wish to start this hobby as soon as I learn how to play. Thank you for being such a great inspiration. I love watching your videos and I am very grateful for all the hard work you put into these projects.
How've you been going?
Great tut. Just started for the very first time crafting by making this fountain. It cost me 30€ to get everything needed including the equipment and the materials that obviously remain for future projects. Just found myself a new fun hobby
I'm making a Christmas village and I was looking into how to make miniature accessories around the village. This video was awesome, I've learned so much and is so much fun and want to make more miniature things. Thank so much much you are doing an excellent job on how to teach the craft :)
i wanted to do a project for a few days now but i didn't really felt like working on it....i started it when i saw your video, somehow gave me the energy to start working, thanks for the small "push", awesome work, simple yet looks amazing.
in order to thin the epoxy i guess you can cut the red part of the syringe into 2 parts and put more resin and less hardener, it will be thinner and it will cure slower, which i guess will be better for pouring
Great little project. One tip for using the epoxy for the water effect, it can be thinned out by mixing in some isopropyl alcohol. Simply add enough to make the epoxy as thin as you want it. It will flow much easier and will dry just as quickly.
This kind of starter video is awesome and exactly the kind of thing that keeps me coming back!
Another great build video, thank you! Have yet to see a video of yours I didn't love.
5 min in and you sir earned a new sub. Great stuff and I cant wait to check out more videos.
Seeing the fountain in the background of your videos actually inspired me to create my fountain video! I love this community man.
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 made my first fountain yesterday. Now my son wants to start making stuff.
Great video! I've been a crafting DM and gamer for a long time, and I still find new, useful techniques on your channel. I'm lousy at free hand cutting, so I'll make this fountain just to practice finger gauging. Thanks
Simple but effective build. I guess a few people didn't like your "Finger Gauge" technique. I tried that a few times and works great...especially for speed builds. Thanks for a great vid again!
You could use round glitter that is gold to make it a wish fountain then put epoxy over the "coins" to seal them in.
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.
Super simple, super cheap, what a great way to get started.☺
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
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
I love the great work you did, awesome job. Just adds to my collection of ideas to do sometime for a future upcoming project. When doing something like this you definitely need to use the epoxy resin.
Recently I was going thru some boxed up books in storage and found some of my old notes on old diorama techniques I had done when making some back in the early 80s. Back then I lived in a small town and was limited on what I could get or use to build my dioramas. Unless we drove to the nearest bigger town that had a Walmart, or hobby craft store or something you were limited on what you could get if they even carried it in the store. And that's even if they carried the EZ Water resin that came in these little cubes which you had to melt down then let it cool off a bit before you could pour it on your landscape to make water without it burning the plaster or landscape material. And back then unless you were a licensed contractor you couldn't get the bartop lacquer ie, epoxy resin at all at the local hardware store if they even carried it.
So back then we had to come up with other techniques to make our dioramas. Unfortunately I no longer have it for it broke and got damaged when we moved 550 miles from Colorado to Las Vegas, NV in 1988. But I wrote down in an old notebook some of the techniques I used when I did research in the 80s before I built my dioramas and what I did when I made some of my things. And one was how to make a stream for my diorama thru a D&D town. It was difficult to realistically produce the effect of running water back then. I used a plaster compound and cellulose sculpting compound clay and formed the waves and ripples while the clay was wet. Then coated it with the plaster using a brush. After it dried, I painted the river with a gloss water base and after that I added a shiny gloss lacquer that I brushed on, which gave the water a shiny, rippling effect. Which back then I didn't have any resin to use to make my water. So I used what was available in my area I could get. Just wish I had a picture of the diorama to show what it looked like.
Now since Ive gotten used to making all my water features with resins over the last 25 yrs. And then recently finding my old notes on diorama building that I kept notes on. Im now tempted to go back and using my old notes make a couple dioramas and see just how good it turns out.
I've been dying to work with some water features! Great advice and (as always) well presented! Thank you SO much!
If I have time I will definitely be doing this I've been meaning to try crafting but never found something easier to start with and this will help me get started
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..
First video of yours I've seen, I'm trying to craft a set for the first time (final boss area for my first big campaign). I'm very happy I've found this because I have a good idea of how to make it now!
I have really been enjoying your tutorials. I am just getting into terrain building and I've been jumping around info videos. But I think yours are the most comprehensive and honestly look the easiest to do while still looking awesome. I am sure you get a million requests so feel free to disreguard. But I am a huge sci fi fan and one of the reasons I'm building is to envision some of the fantastical places in that genre. One thing I haven't seen you do yet is an orb-like building. In both fantasy and sci fi these seem to be a thing. You've done round towers, but what about a building either a dome or a ball? It would be a challenge.
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!
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
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!
You’re videos are very informative and helpful! Have you ever make an Orc castle or hut? I make all my buildings from paper mached cardboard from cereal boxes etc. I’m presently working on an orc castle with tusks and stone and hides. I’d love to see any you might have made!
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.
1:21 Hexagon is the bestagon!
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!! 🤯
Cool vid man this is exactly the project I was looking for I am playing Hordes warmachine now been gaming since the 90s and needed a fountain for my medieval town. the individual bricks look easier than I expected. cheers!
After watching your videos. I started my first build with just and exacto, foam core and glue all. It's gonna be a simple tavern.
One of so many of you great tutorials. Just what I need for my Tomb of ABysthor campaing. Fountain of blood here I come.
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
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
Loving the start up videos!
Wondering where to show the projects the viewers made (since I've seen you mentioning that a few times).
Would love to show the process of my blood fountain! (still a work in progress)
This really takes me back to my early crafting days! For future video ideas, how about medieval fantasy buildings in styles outside of the usual western European? Buildings from the fantasy Mediterranean, or eastern europe, or Asia? Could be a chance to explore different techniques for the different architectural styles and materials.
Another way to use one template is to glue it to thick card stock and at each point cut to the center most hexagon following the points inward. Then all you have to do is fold on each ring of the hexagon. Then you don't have a bunch of different pieces taking up a lot of room or have to keep printing out more when you need a new template.