Midwinter Minis Your advice is well taken! A new mic is coming soon. I apologize for the spotty sound quality up to this point, I’ve just been working with what I had. Thanks for your message, I am a big fan of your channel!!
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop I don't know if you saw, but I put you in the "hobby heroes under 5k subs" section on my page a while ago. You'll be disqualified soon though! Haha
If Games Workshop had sold this kit it would cost a couple hundred dollars. Instead you created something amazing using random items and an artist's eye for detail. You've inspired me to get back into building terrain for wargaming.
Genesis Maximus I often have a similar conversation with my wife. You should see her looks of horror as i slow down and look at piles of junk people have set out on the street
If everyone did these builds imagine how much plastic we could prevent going into landfill and the oceans. Not to mention, having completely unique pieces of scenery. Great work dude, love your channel! 😉👍
Almost immediately when I got into this hobby I became more aware of just the insane amount of packaging waste in our society. At least a lot of it is useful to us.
As somebody with a degree in Model Making and SFX for Film & TV I like what I see here. Good job Eric. I see a few things where you could make life easier for yourself but there are 2 things everyone watching this should take away with them. (1) sanding areas before gluing. If you have 2 smooth shiney plastic surfaces it really helps to add some "grip" by roughing up the surface. (2) the way you add rivets and fine details by placing a little glue to a scrap piece to the side and then dip your small bits into that before positioning is another great hack. This prevents lots of mess around your fine details. Obviously there is a lot more to what you do than that, but for beginners these 2 techniques are great to use. The way you see everyday items and their potential for terrain pieces and how to put them together is something that comes with time and experience. From there practice makes perfect.
I suppose it is a form of sculpting. I have also been working on some more traditional sculpting with green stuff and milliput. Hope to share some of that soon
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop I would like to see your technique. I started sculpting when I was very young but stopped for years. Last year I started picking it up again. It's alot of fun. This hobby has so many aspects to it. Sculpting and painting minis, building terrain, gameplay. It's like 10 hobbies in one. Kind of overwhelming lol
That's like asking a magician how he does his tricks!! Hahaha I usually don't know what I will use something for until right before I use it. But a similar concept has been in my mind for a while... stay tuned
LegendEternal one thing i mean to mention but always forget: i always check how much something is selling for on ebay before I cut into it. I would hate to destroy a rare and valuable toy! I will mention in a future video. I don’t endorse taking your own kids toys either: My dad still complains about the army soldiers of his my grandmother threw out without asking him back in the early 60s! Hahah
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop My dad was a Television and Radio Salesman, who had in the early 60s a customer who couldn't afford the rates of an expensive HiFi Equipment. The Customer asked my Dad if he would take his old and rundown Mercedes SL500 Gullwing in exchange and my father declined...
I like this not just for the cool terrain piece, but it's useful. As a Kill Team and Necromunda player, always need more terrain that has multiple levels and can be climbed on. Looks great too.
That looks incredible Eric! When you mentioned that you started the build with the intention of making it a shantytown, it made me think just how amazing those gang boxes are. I remember using those with no extra bits on them as bunkers back in Rogue Trader/2nd ed. era 40k. It's almost like they are some basic STC pattern building that everything gets built up around. Actually not a bad idea to use them for residential buildings too. Would tie the scenery together with a similar looking architectural style across your game board. Looking forward to part 2! Cheers!
Agreed! The patterns for gang boxes are definitely known to and archived by the Adeptus Mechanicus at this point. I also saw them as standardized storage containers that have been modified various purposes. I still plan to do a shanty town at some point so may use a few in that build!
I love it. You can fit a shed load of models onto it in a game too. In 40k, terrain like this is the perfect place to put an objective marker - it looks cool and worth fighting over. Subbed!
Nice work! You just earned a subscriber! I love watching videos from terrain makers who do things like this! You've inspired me to the point that I may just have to start my own channel and show off my own work.
Genius. Fortunately, I still have a few of those US electrical boxes. The EU ones are wonderful too, they are round and look like chem vats, but these are perfect for buildings.
I think the lightsaber is what tipped it to industrial, but it looks all the more epic for it! Besides, if it's for necromunda, aren't the hab workers meant to basically live in their factories? so it does make sense lore-wise IF I'm remembering that right 😂😂
Holy shit man this is amazing! I wish I had this ability. All my homemade terrain is quite bad but I will most definitely try to work with terrain more. You are very inspiring man!
I am loving this style. Do you think you could do a tutorial using smaller materials for basing minis in this style? You have a knack for making trash into beautiful art and i would love to see it applied on a smaller scale.
Von und zu Laxi I would probably just print detail pieces and keep building the larger structures the same way. Maybe if my channel grows enough someone will send me a printer lol
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop I thought so too, but once you found all the "original" stuff from gw to print you will print a lot more then just details and bitz ;) I still combine them with my own crafted stuff, same as you do. I hope you will be lucky and get one for free. If you dont, just buy a anycubic i3 mega. Its relativly cheap and does a amazing/good job. If you want and have time check out thingiverse.com and search for "Warhammer 40k" just to see all the possibilities ;) sry for my english. Keep it up!
This is brilliant and amazing, as the rest of your videos. Looks absolutely outstanding. How about durability of your buildings? I've got a rather bad experience with connecting plastic pieces using hot glue, but it may be because of the cheap glue i am using. I can't wait for the next part :) cheers
Adam Marciniak They are pretty durable. I think I have a high heat glue gun which definitely bonds better than my old dollar store one. Some plastics bond better than others too... i might cover this topic in a future video
Another fantastic video! 1 little tip, mate: can you figure out how to include the links to your other videos that you mention in your commentary? (those are the corresponding links that normally pop up in the top right corner of the video). I'm thinking if the links to those other videos are as easily accessible as possible, you'll end up getting more views to those other vids 🙂
I tried building something like this but making all the parts out of empty cereal boxes (cardboard). I was a nightmare and i hate the result -.- Guess it's really worth it to make your life easy by using pre existing stuff.
torymiddlebrooks I have never heard of tip jar, but seems like something I should look into. Why have you sworn off patreon if you don’t mind me asking?
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop because I can't afford to support creators the way I want to and Sophie's Choice makes me feel bad. Tip jar is a general term, you might also hear coffee fund. It just means something that allows your supporters to give you a one-time donation. Like PayPal.
Heya good lookin. I have a challenge for you. Instead of heavily weathered grimdark terrain, why don't you attempt a clean look terrain build. Like something straight out of a fresh ship, straight off the line. 🤔
Outstanding again. Eric, you absolute genius. Honestly, if you upgraded your microphone/voice recording, your channel would explode.
Midwinter Minis Your advice is well taken! A new mic is coming soon. I apologize for the spotty sound quality up to this point, I’ve just been working with what I had. Thanks for your message, I am a big fan of your channel!!
It definitely will
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop I don't know if you saw, but I put you in the "hobby heroes under 5k subs" section on my page a while ago. You'll be disqualified soon though! Haha
@@MidwinterMinis No, I didn't see that! Which page are you referring to? That's really cool thanks for doing that!
@@MidwinterMinis I found it! That's really cool! I'm gonna check out some of the others. Thanks again for doing that!
If Games Workshop had sold this kit it would cost a couple hundred dollars. Instead you created something amazing using random items and an artist's eye for detail. You've inspired me to get back into building terrain for wargaming.
Awesome! The added bonus if you build it yourself is you don’t have the same terrain as everyone else !
My mom yelling at me keeping garbage in the house: “you’re a hoarder!”
Me: “No mama, I’m an artist™”.
Genesis Maximus I often have a similar conversation with my wife. You should see her looks of horror as i slow down and look at piles of junk people have set out on the street
Same...
Me too
Same
Love the trade mark part
If everyone did these builds imagine how much plastic we could prevent going into landfill and the oceans. Not to mention, having completely unique pieces of scenery. Great work dude, love your channel! 😉👍
Harry Man back yeah, upcycling beats recycling any day!!
Clearly the world would be a better place with more nerdy miniature gamers building terrain from all that junk we produce. You, sir, are a genius!
Almost immediately when I got into this hobby I became more aware of just the insane amount of packaging waste in our society. At least a lot of it is useful to us.
Not only is it impressive but so is your imagination. Using all of those various toys to make this takes great imagination.
Thank you! One thing I have never lacked for hahah
As somebody with a degree in Model Making and SFX for Film & TV I like what I see here. Good job Eric. I see a few things where you could make life easier for yourself but there are 2 things everyone watching this should take away with them. (1) sanding areas before gluing. If you have 2 smooth shiney plastic surfaces it really helps to add some "grip" by roughing up the surface. (2) the way you add rivets and fine details by placing a little glue to a scrap piece to the side and then dip your small bits into that before positioning is another great hack. This prevents lots of mess around your fine details.
Obviously there is a lot more to what you do than that, but for beginners these 2 techniques are great to use. The way you see everyday items and their potential for terrain pieces and how to put them together is something that comes with time and experience. From there practice makes perfect.
Amazing! You've quickly become my favorite scratch-building channel, I love thrift store finds and trash bashing. Please keep up the good work!
Thank you!! You know what they say...one man’s trash is another man’s dystopian industrial battlefield
I always find myself in awe of the creative uses you find for literally anything. Amazing work as always.
This is amazing. Hands down the best 'trash to terrain' video I've seen. Very inspirational.
Null 225 Thanks null! Kind words!!!
You know what you're doing, is technically a form of scultping.
You're very creative. I love these terrain from junk vids👍
I suppose it is a form of sculpting. I have also been working on some more traditional sculpting with green stuff and milliput. Hope to share some of that soon
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop I would like to see your technique. I started sculpting when I was very young but stopped for years. Last year I started picking it up again. It's alot of fun. This hobby has so many aspects to it. Sculpting and painting minis, building terrain, gameplay. It's like 10 hobbies in one. Kind of overwhelming lol
So good! You should do a video specifically on your “bits box” and talk about potential uses for/what you could imagine pieces becoming.
That's like asking a magician how he does his tricks!! Hahaha I usually don't know what I will use something for until right before I use it. But a similar concept has been in my mind for a while... stay tuned
My Pipes just got delivered!
Alright!! Now put em to good use!
I got my “pipes” and the DYI silly straws (nice for less than 3/4” piping).
Bits box = kids' toy box
"DDDAAAAADDD!!!! Where's my lightsaber?!?"
LegendEternal one thing i mean to mention but always forget: i always check how much something is selling for on ebay before I cut into it. I would hate to destroy a rare and valuable toy! I will mention in a future video. I don’t endorse taking your own kids toys either: My dad still complains about the army soldiers of his my grandmother threw out without asking him back in the early 60s! Hahah
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop My dad was a Television and Radio Salesman, who had in the early 60s a customer who couldn't afford the rates of an expensive HiFi Equipment.
The Customer asked my Dad if he would take his old and rundown Mercedes SL500 Gullwing in exchange and my father declined...
Lightsaber: ARE YOU STRONG?! AMATEUR!
Very cool! Great to see your method of adding more and more detail
kiblams thanks man! One day I’d like to make a train type thing like yours, it’s really cool
I love this channel. Awesome work. The plastic tool and tennis racket ideas are superb.
The Miniature UnderGround I was pretty pleased to find those too!
Seeing a new video from you on my feed always perks me up. You're great a what you do. Thanks and please keep it up, sir.
Dan Langford I will keep it up! Thanks for watching
4:52
Look out! Your miniatures are coming to life!
Once again another great video with tons of content, very much looking forward to the conclusion next week mate👍👍
Thanks Richard!
I like this not just for the cool terrain piece, but it's useful. As a Kill Team and Necromunda player, always need more terrain that has multiple levels and can be climbed on. Looks great too.
Yeah! I have gameplay in mind first and foremost nowadays. It's a shame to have a beautiful terrain piece that nobody goes on.
I love how the Lightsaber hilt originally was made as a kitbash and is now part of a bigger kit bash! Heha Great stuff.
I was searching for a comment like yours!
Eric your vision for peices is outstanding! Great scenary and great video.
Really cool. I'm excited to see it painted up!
Thanks! Come back next week and you will!
That's is just awesome ...
many thanks for showing and please keep up the good work.
TERRAIN HARDY will do! Glad you are enjoying my work!
Awesome build! Makes me want to jump from 6mm to a different scale for this look.
Kyle Walz Hmm, what do you play at 6mm? Sounds interesting
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop I do Robotech but repurpose MechWarrior figures so I have mechs, vehicles, and ground troops.
So much fun. Awesome.
Thanks Wyloch! I'm glad you encouraged me to go ahead and make a video with the gang boxes even though you beat me to it.
Really cool. Looking forward to seeing it painted.
Yuan Mekong coming soon! :D
Awesome job. Can't wait for part 2!
Its coming!! Thanks Michael
Welp, I'm off to the thrift store after this! Fantastic work my friend, bloody inspiring !
This video the true representation of "Trust the process"
That looks incredible Eric! When you mentioned that you started the build with the intention of making it a shantytown, it made me think just how amazing those gang boxes are. I remember using those with no extra bits on them as bunkers back in Rogue Trader/2nd ed. era 40k. It's almost like they are some basic STC pattern building that everything gets built up around. Actually not a bad idea to use them for residential buildings too. Would tie the scenery together with a similar looking architectural style across your game board. Looking forward to part 2! Cheers!
Agreed! The patterns for gang boxes are definitely known to and archived by the Adeptus Mechanicus at this point. I also saw them as standardized storage containers that have been modified various purposes. I still plan to do a shanty town at some point so may use a few in that build!
Re: Gang Boxes ~ " _they are some basic STC pattern building_ "
Spot On. ✅
Another bloody awesome video really inspiring can’t wait for more 👌🏻
Luckily another video is set for next week! Thanks for your kind words
4:53 the mini is walking along the platform :)
In another video you've said that Wyloch is one of the best DIY crafters regarding terrain etc. but I have to say, you are much better dude.
So cool and such dope bitz! keep on rocking.
Wallung will do, thanks wallung
Love your work Eric. Looking forward to part 2!
Thanks Justin!!
I love it. You can fit a shed load of models onto it in a game too. In 40k, terrain like this is the perfect place to put an objective marker - it looks cool and worth fighting over. Subbed!
Thanks Andre! High model capacity was something I really wanted! It functions well for defending or assaulting it
Seeing you had a new vid made my day.
Marc Acosta thanks Marc! Nice of tou to say
Very cool! Love seeing how your channel is blowing up! Keep up the good work!
Commander CheapSkate Thank you commander! Its very gratifying
Ooh man that’s gotta be one epic table with all those cool pieces 🤤🤤 see....your having me drooling allready !
I'm sure you have some pretty great tables yourself. Your channel is awesome, maybe we should do a collaboration someday?
Eric's Hobby Workshop yes ! Collab. time mate ! I’ll hit you up on insta.
Nice work! You just earned a subscriber! I love watching videos from terrain makers who do things like this! You've inspired me to the point that I may just have to start my own channel and show off my own work.
Cool! Look forward to seeing your stuff!
Genius. Fortunately, I still have a few of those US electrical boxes. The EU ones are wonderful too, they are round and look like chem vats, but these are perfect for buildings.
Love the Sci Fi terrain, please keep making awesome videos :)
If you insist! hahaha I will
this isnt just scenery its ART
I really love your grimm aesthetic!
You do fantastic work, my dude. Yours has quickly become one of my favorite hobby channels!
Thank you! There are lots of good hobby channels out there so that means a lot!
Yep. Subscribed. Can't wait for the next build!
Thanks Jackie!
That lightsaber hiding in plain sight is as cool as the Millenium Falcon hiding in plain sight in Blade Runner. Top notch work!
I had to look that up! I didn't know about that hidden falcon. That's awesome!!
Epic build man! Can’t wait to see the brush work next week!
Thanks, I'm excited for it too. I tried some new techniques that look pretty good
Man that's fantastic!
h347h thanks heath!
Love it!! Bits rule! Can’t wait for Part 2 😁👏
Thanks Christian!!
Good jorb 👍
Thonks Adam!
Hey man, great piece! Love your freestyle, very impressive how you can be improvisational! Keep up the good work, greetings from Italy!
Max DM Crafting Thanks Max! Improvising is the most fun for me!
I think the lightsaber is what tipped it to industrial, but it looks all the more epic for it!
Besides, if it's for necromunda, aren't the hab workers meant to basically live in their factories? so it does make sense lore-wise IF I'm remembering that right 😂😂
Can't wait for part 2.
... Yes this is a pointless comment, but hope it helps push that algorithm. Best of luck buddy, you deserve more subscribers 👍
Hey thanks waka crow! The algorithm works in mysterious ways...
Dude, you have such a creative mind. Really cool.
Thanks Jonny!! I appreciate your comment
Absolutely brilliant.
Tael Zenith Thanks Tael!
When you say you found something on the street, I imagine you just walking along and finding a bag of stratego pieces sitting on the curb.
That’s literally what happened
+1 for the hobby sweater
Hahaha thanks. Only a matter of time until I spill something on it if I keep lobbying in it unfortunately
Master level work.
Thank you! Very kind of you to say
Great build! Keep it up. First time I’ve seen your videos, but just subscribed and hope to see more
I love your stuff, looking forward for the next ones!
Diego M Thanks Diego!
Nice build! I love your videos! Keep it up!
Thanks Mark! I recognize you as one of the OGs. I appreciate your support
I am so happy there is a whole army of toy-butchers out there. I'm not the only one hahaha
Just got a lightsaber at a rummage sale. Looking forward to applying it in a future build.
Google everything you cut up first in case it is a rare toy worth a fortune! Hahaha
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop I think this is from Clone wars/Rebels so... not special lol
That’s my house. Please respect my privacy
Nick Schuh in the grim darkness of the far future there is no privacy!!
Holy shit man this is amazing! I wish I had this ability. All my homemade terrain is quite bad but I will most definitely try to work with terrain more. You are very inspiring man!
Practice makes perfect my friend!! Go for it
Always awesome work sir.
Thanks John! Cool name btw
I am loving this style. Do you think you could do a tutorial using smaller materials for basing minis in this style? You have a knack for making trash into beautiful art and i would love to see it applied on a smaller scale.
I was pondering how to make some battle fleet gothic type stuff the other day. I am not quite there yet, but the gears are turning....
I love it!
pgabrieli thank you!’
Nice work!
Galobardes Thanks! Glad you enjoyed
Hope you are going to be using decals or print-outs for that computer terminal screen.
Great looking build! Can't wait for part 2.
Nope! Just painting on it. Inthink it looks pretty cool regardless
Why is that sooo cool.
any ideas where i can get the stairs? i cant find them on amazon
Theyre kind of hard to find these days. Im looking into stocking them myself on my etsy store
this build is f00king epic
awesome work!
howie b Thanks Howie! Glad you liked it
Nice! Console is so perfect
So modest: “I’m really strong!”
Love your builds
I wonder what would happen if you had access to a 3D printer. Great work!
Von und zu Laxi I would probably just print detail pieces and keep building the larger structures the same way. Maybe if my channel grows enough someone will send me a printer lol
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop I thought so too, but once you found all the "original" stuff from gw to print you will print a lot more then just details and bitz ;) I still combine them with my own crafted stuff, same as you do. I hope you will be lucky and get one for free. If you dont, just buy a anycubic i3 mega. Its relativly cheap and does a amazing/good job. If you want and have time check out thingiverse.com and search for "Warhammer 40k" just to see all the possibilities ;) sry for my english. Keep it up!
AH this looks rad.
Thanks Thomas. Rad is definitely what I was going for.
Cool build!
Thanks Anna :)
Inspirational! Do all your bits actually fit in a box? lol
Damion Sailors Technically my apartment is a box, right? Hahaha it’s multiple boxes
your creativity is outstanding :O
Thanks Clemens! I'm having a blast
This is brilliant and amazing, as the rest of your videos. Looks absolutely outstanding. How about durability of your buildings? I've got a rather bad experience with connecting plastic pieces using hot glue, but it may be because of the cheap glue i am using.
I can't wait for the next part :) cheers
Adam Marciniak They are pretty durable. I think I have a high heat glue gun which definitely bonds better than my old dollar store one. Some plastics bond better than others too... i might cover this topic in a future video
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop I did not know there can be a heat/temperature difference between then glueguns, thank you! I need to check out more about it.
sun apparently disliked the video. I countered with a like to even things out. cheers, been loving your vids and can't wait for part 2
Thanks Kingdom Jams. I don't take the dislikes personally, it could have been by accident. Appreciate the like though!
Very motivating!!
It always makes me happy to feel like I am motivating people!
Great channel. subbed
Отличное сооружение! Можно организовать блок-пост. Делайте побольше видео. Лайк. Лайк и подписка. ;-)
Another fantastic video!
1 little tip, mate: can you figure out how to include the links to your other videos that you mention in your commentary? (those are the corresponding links that normally pop up in the top right corner of the video).
I'm thinking if the links to those other videos are as easily accessible as possible, you'll end up getting more views to those other vids 🙂
Smart plan! Not sure why I haven't been doing that.
The lightsaber can be pulled out from the back of the handle
Great video!!! Could you please tell me what thickness your white plasticard is??
Hmmm, I would if I could. Packaging is long gone and it's hard to measure. I think its 1.5 mm
Great video! I LOOOOOVE YOUR SWEATER!! XD
Thanks Roxy. My mom gave it to me. It's alpaca wool!
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop Alpacas are my life! So sooooft
I tried building something like this but making all the parts out of empty cereal boxes (cardboard). I was a nightmare and i hate the result -.- Guess it's really worth it to make your life easy by using pre existing stuff.
Do you even lift bro? 🤣 Seriously though, this is an epic build. Thanks so much.
I should lift more! but yes, by the numbers I am considered an Intermediate powerlifter I suppose.
Huzzah,,
Now i know that i liked this video and commented. This is getting crazy
The rotation view at the end is very smooth. What kind of rotating platform are you using?
The cheapest one on amazon? I think it goes a bit too fast tbh. I can dig up which model it is and link it in my next video
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop Awesome, thanks. Also, great video.
Amazing goid job
Eric, what are the chances of you setting up a tip jar? I swore off Patreon but would love to help fund and incentivize your videos
torymiddlebrooks I have never heard of tip jar, but seems like something I should look into. Why have you sworn off patreon if you don’t mind me asking?
@@EricsHobbyWorkshop because I can't afford to support creators the way I want to and Sophie's Choice makes me feel bad. Tip jar is a general term, you might also hear coffee fund. It just means something that allows your supporters to give you a one-time donation. Like PayPal.
Heya good lookin. I have a challenge for you. Instead of heavily weathered grimdark terrain, why don't you attempt a clean look terrain build. Like something straight out of a fresh ship, straight off the line. 🤔