The LITERAL EASIEST CRAFT I Have EVER DONE!!!!!!!! (Wheat Fields for D&D)

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  • @billcedarheath387
    @billcedarheath387 Рік тому +59

    Tabletop historical wargaming has been doing these wheat fields for ages. They also use faux fur as well.
    D&D crafters can look to the historical wargame and model railroading scene for lots of pro-tips as there is a ton of experience on that side that gets overlooked.

  • @Pippi-Longstocking
    @Pippi-Longstocking Рік тому +153

    Pro tip for cutting anything with a nap - cut from the other side (back side) and cut only through the rubber and not the fibre.

    • @randyward2766
      @randyward2766 Рік тому +1

      Makes sense.

    • @CronosVids
      @CronosVids Рік тому +6

      That was the first thing I thought when I saw him cut the mat.

    • @BrighamMike
      @BrighamMike Рік тому +1

      just came to say this. someone has done flooring lol

    • @Saphara
      @Saphara Рік тому +2

      PTSD flashbacks to cutting any form of sherpa or faux fur

    • @Grimlore82
      @Grimlore82 Рік тому +1

      Like carpet!

  • @agrayday7816
    @agrayday7816 Рік тому +93

    Try this, cut this mat into long strips 6" x 1" spray paint green, spray with glue/water, then dip into flock then glue in larger flock/lichen and you got instant hedges.

    • @gregmccormack5709
      @gregmccormack5709 Рік тому +6

      I didnt think of hedges that's a great idea

    • @matthewwinans3068
      @matthewwinans3068 Рік тому +2

      That's a fantastic idea 👍🏻

    • @agrayday7816
      @agrayday7816 Рік тому +5

      UA-cam "Kim Styles" did this with some advanced techniques and made a cool set. Video is called "Easy Flames of War Hedges".

    • @Dimanti88
      @Dimanti88 Рік тому +3

      Oh man, this comment section is a goldmine!

    • @BittermanAndy
      @BittermanAndy Рік тому

      @@agrayday7816 ua-cam.com/video/_VrFi_D7mJY/v-deo.html

  • @ModerateHipster
    @ModerateHipster Рік тому +12

    You've stumbled into an old old wargamer trick! Always looks great on the table!

    • @norbaui3827
      @norbaui3827 Рік тому +6

      It also remembered me of the early 2k‘s when GW released a terrainbuilding-book with this technique mentioned 😅 old but gold

    • @ModerateHipster
      @ModerateHipster Рік тому +2

      @@norbaui3827 oh hey! I remember that book! Pretty sure I lost it somewhere since those halcyon days, but I definitely had it way back when.

    • @BothanJedi
      @BothanJedi Рік тому +1

      I use this for 15mm scale war gaming. Excellent for farms or rural towns in most of Europe.

    • @LordHammer33
      @LordHammer33 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@norbaui3827
      Yes. "How to make wargames terrain" from 2005

  • @Strkr3
    @Strkr3 Рік тому +40

    You might be able to cut more narrow strips to facilitate mini movement as well as dye it in other colors to rep other crops. Maybe make some arcane crop circles, lol. Not to mention harvest bundles. Use those pieces that fall out loose or cut some to make some homemade static grass too! Great discovery! 😊

    • @Reasonably-Sane
      @Reasonably-Sane 10 місяців тому +1

      Crop circles would be awesome, lol. I'd put little halfling/hobbit heads peeking out nearby, as if they're watching to see the farmer's reaction to their handiwork.
      That's a great idea, saving the shed fibers to use on other terrain. I'm going to try and shake as many fibers as I can out of mine just for that.

  • @thecraftydm
    @thecraftydm Рік тому +12

    I wasn't sold on the wheat field mat until I saw it set up. It looks fantastic in context with the other terrain!

  • @metajock
    @metajock Рік тому +20

    That was a great looking table!!!
    Historical gamers have been using this for years. Yep, makes a great wheat field for 25/28mm. And if you dye it green it makes a great 15mm corn field. I feel like an idiot not thinking about using it for RPG tables. **smack**
    And you're right, these mats shed like crazy. It'll go on forever, the guys down at the historical game groups just ignore it. But you've got me thinking that spraying it with flock fixer (PVA-water-alcohol mix) would fix 90% of that. Might be worth a try.

    • @davidwasilewski
      @davidwasilewski Рік тому +1

      Yup. Been making fields for bolt action like this for at least a decade!

  • @thesawyerhudson
    @thesawyerhudson 11 місяців тому +1

    I've always used the fake grass mat for my table and I love it! Super easy and looks awesome. I'd imagine these mats are put together basically the same way. The glue idea is great!

  • @jakestaples8498
    @jakestaples8498 Рік тому +16

    Nice idea! I bought a $1 floor mat a while ago to make farm fields. It’s black and has lines which look like furrows.
    I also like your comments at the end about the cheap 3D printed house. 3 foot rule and putting terrain in context are important considerations

  • @dirtygranny5504
    @dirtygranny5504 Рік тому +1

    Thanks for this video.
    I had the same idea about using door mats as crops but wasn''t sure if it would work out.
    Thanks to you I don't have to wonder about it any more.
    Watch out door mats, here I come!
    Yaaaaaaggghhhhhh.

  • @kylkim93
    @kylkim93 Рік тому +1

    Great for that scene of the dead hero reuniting with his dead family.

  • @71rwtd
    @71rwtd Рік тому +1

    I have been waiting for this for years!

  • @BionicPerry1970
    @BionicPerry1970 Рік тому +2

    Love it! This is such an old school crafting trick (i.e. The Terrain Tutor), so it's nice to see newer channels reminding folks that these "quickcrafts" are out there. :)

  • @cliffordrode1296
    @cliffordrode1296 Рік тому +7

    There is also a brown rib door mat you can do the same thing with. Cut it up into fields and add a little green pain to the tops of the ribs. Love the excitement, keep up the great work!

    • @BittermanAndy
      @BittermanAndy Рік тому

      That sounds a great idea... got any photos?

  • @OldFriendos
    @OldFriendos 9 місяців тому

    Friend of mine made these, and they give sooooo much flavor and vibe. i love them. He sticked some things inside and put some things next to them and boom, welcome to the Farmlands

  • @juliusjokela5025
    @juliusjokela5025 Рік тому +3

    Nice! I love big scenic tables for fights, or just to serve as a setting piece for players to look at while someone else is at the spotlight! This is one of those "why haven't I ever thought of that!" -kind of builds. Thank you for the idea!

  • @joelcraig9803
    @joelcraig9803 Рік тому +4

    How about spray painting them green to represent tall elephant grass, like you would find in a jungle? maybe put some palm trees around them.

  • @ragozzinehq
    @ragozzinehq Рік тому +35

    Up next: Crop circles?

  • @shelbykat4801
    @shelbykat4801 Рік тому +1

    Recently found your channel and I really enjoy your videos. This set up looks amazing! I would love to be able to have set ups like this, just don't have the room and I'm not super crafty. Can I ask where you got that background mat from? The one you rolled out first before placing everything on top.

  • @notsmartist
    @notsmartist 7 місяців тому +1

    This will be perfect for a model farm😅 thanks dude

  • @jengibs
    @jengibs 3 місяці тому

    I have a portion of my campaign that takes place in grasslands, so I think I'm going to take this idea and run with it, cutting oblong round-ish shapes to be patches of tall grass with a few scattered rocky outcropping made of foam to make my savannah grasslands terrain. Thanks for this idea!

  • @ArtJeremiah
    @ArtJeremiah Рік тому

    Very nice. This has been a classic build in wargaming for a good minute.

  • @chrishaynes7847
    @chrishaynes7847 Рік тому +9

    The great takeaway from this is the fact that there are so many materials that you can use that are perfect for tabletop games. You just have to think outside the box a bit.

    • @jefferydraper4019
      @jefferydraper4019 Рік тому +2

      When I was younger and before retirement, I tripped out my non-gaming friends wives that I loved to go to places like Michaels and Hobby Lobby or Walmarts Crafts section. They thought I was the "sensitive" kind of guy.
      Little did they know I was thinking about all kinds of murder and mayhem...in miniature.

  • @MrFutsy
    @MrFutsy 11 місяців тому

    These are great.
    A few simple fences on the corners made mine pop.

  • @FallenDominionStudiosLLC
    @FallenDominionStudiosLLC Місяць тому

    I love this idea and the set up was AWESOME! Will be using this for my DnD!

  • @IshgarSeth
    @IshgarSeth Рік тому

    So, I didn't really follow your channel until now and it's funny to me to discover your stuff through this one because you're rediscovering in 2023 what I read from a White Dwarf magazine back in 2003/4 and it's literally that exact same technique that brought me to get interested in wargaming and later in ttrpg.
    So yeah, really funny to just stumble back on the same idea (which is great btw, these mats always worked wonders imo) and you've done justice to the idea.
    So, thanks for this :)

  • @jeremygriffin620
    @jeremygriffin620 Рік тому +4

    Looks like Wal-Mart is suddenly going to get a small rush on their Mainstays "Wheatfield" floor mats. The in scenery display really sold them, great vid.

    • @jefferydraper4019
      @jefferydraper4019 Рік тому +2

      "Wow!!!! You must really like our home furnishings!"
      "Home furnishings? Are you nuts? This is going in my garage so that we can fight over it."
      "HUH????"

  • @ciarajeanr
    @ciarajeanr 3 місяці тому

    This is dope. Haha, I love how creative people are

  • @dancdow
    @dancdow Рік тому

    Hey man, algorithm pointed me in your direction. I watched the video and thought it was a good idea. Well done. However, what earned my sub was the last little segment about the little crappy hut that in the context of a full scene, looks great. Great point about not sweating the fine details all the stinking time. Nobody, NOBODY, at the table notices that the flocking is the wrong shade of green, or the wood grain detail is too parallel, or that there is a little too much dry brushing on the roof. They are excited that there is something on the table their characters can interact with.

  • @adiosgringo8200
    @adiosgringo8200 10 місяців тому

    Loved his opening quib. Thank you

  • @tacotots_132
    @tacotots_132 Рік тому

    Green spray pint with yellow beads for a corn field? Love it! Thanks for the tips!!

  • @mashguy
    @mashguy Рік тому +1

    I’ve seen it used in 15mm historical war games for the same effect. Great and easy fields

  • @nyverdaletabletop1674
    @nyverdaletabletop1674 Місяць тому

    I found one in a dutch store called "Action" I was even able to just rip the mat with my hands so it gets a bit more of a rough edge to it make it look really realistic! Thanks for the idea!

  • @Breezey357
    @Breezey357 Рік тому +4

    Cut out different paths through the fields and arrange them to make a maze, add some harvest/scarecrow/gourd themed monsters and you got a Halloween themed dungeon

  • @BillAllanWorld
    @BillAllanWorld Рік тому

    Nice! Easy crafts for the win!

  • @HydraHobbies
    @HydraHobbies Рік тому +1

    Looks great, as always! Love the Quickcraft series.

  • @Jay-ln1co
    @Jay-ln1co Рік тому

    Got one from Ikea and know a lot of people who have too. Perfect for 20mm scale, good for 28mm scale. With some fences around it and worn down farm houses, it's exactly what the eastern front needs.

  • @Erectus666
    @Erectus666 Рік тому

    This is briliant. Good job and thanks!

  • @CronosVids
    @CronosVids Рік тому

    If you flip the mat over and cut from the underside you can draw on the cutlines.
    I wonder if you can add washes of browns and yellows to add some variety. Maybe even a light bone/sand drybrush on the top.
    You can definitely elevate this project to a next level. Maybe an idea for a future video.

  • @IWFarrar2
    @IWFarrar2 Рік тому +6

    You definitely should do cornfields next!

    • @Tysto
      @Tysto Рік тому

      You mean American corn? Maize? From North America?

    • @drewlch4947
      @drewlch4947 Рік тому +1

      @@Tystowhere’s North America in the forgotten realms? Is that near the sword coast?

  • @Loveoldies50
    @Loveoldies50 Рік тому

    I always cut the rubber part. I do it to make a grass mat rug into wall to wall on my deck, and ramp.

  • @dereko425
    @dereko425 Рік тому

    It would be fun to see a reaper mini harvesting the wheat with a scythe. Add in some bundles of wheat as scatter terrain to really sell it. I am definitely keep an eye of for a similar mat to do this with. Fantastic idea.

  • @HunterMayer
    @HunterMayer Рік тому

    Nice! I liked the build jam session at the end for filler. For smaller height fields/grass look at some of the fake fur scraps too. Check with your local costuming guilds for scraps. You can glue the fabric to a rubber mat/etc. Then you can use clippers to vary heights. I haven't tried cutting with clippers on this dense a mat... but that might work, and it might dull a blade pretty quick too... I want to try making furrows too. Depending on material heat can do things too! try burning the tips. Also dry a dry brush of a light colors will add some color variety. You can also spray on some pva/water/alcohol (or go with a stronger adhesive mix) and sprinkle on "toppings" to change the look from wheat to a another plant. You can also make a template and put in some crop circles 👽. I think I would also warble the cuts a little to give them a more organic shapes overall too. Rubber mats make for good road/river bases too! I remember taking our old house mats and cutting them up for stuff like this. This is a great entry point! You got my creative juices flowing! I gotta check out the rest of the channel now :D

  • @TheFelina75
    @TheFelina75 Рік тому

    I envision a scarecrow or two and maybe some tiny crows. So cool! I loved this video.

  • @coryeachus1313
    @coryeachus1313 Рік тому +1

    Looks great. I bet you could torch the fields and make a burnt out field for battle aftermath as well. Love your videos.

    • @jefferydraper4019
      @jefferydraper4019 Рік тому

      Thatched roof too. Shave it off and then glue it onto cardboard or plasticard. Instant peasant roofs.

    • @Strkr3
      @Strkr3 Рік тому +1

      @@jefferydraper4019 great idea! Yeah, glue a line of paracord gut wrapped around both sides to it then cut below the line. Rows of thatch ready to go!

  • @stevenbradley6243
    @stevenbradley6243 Рік тому +1

    I really liked the village at the end - all of your stuff looked amazing in context! 🥰

  • @wokedragon3211
    @wokedragon3211 9 місяців тому +1

    I have thought about doing this project but was always a bit scared it would not hold once cut thank you for doing this

  • @Rick-tt5hi
    @Rick-tt5hi Рік тому

    Looks fantastic!!

  • @andrewpowell8940
    @andrewpowell8940 Рік тому

    Quick and easy I love it.

  • @klasky123
    @klasky123 Рік тому

    Awesome looking table!

  • @Vipre-
    @Vipre- Рік тому

    Should try and get more of them and experiment with dye. Different colors for other crops. Perhaps even electric clippers for variation in height or to make "rows" in the field.

  • @capnskustomworks
    @capnskustomworks Рік тому

    Those give such a perfect look for fields, and lots of potential for different applications!!! I’ll bet one could use some of the caulking mixture on the edges to build them out a bit give them a look similar to the plowed fields! The paint coming up the stalks like dirt is an excellent detail for the realism, I was so thinking that when ye mentioned it!

  • @PhD777
    @PhD777 Рік тому

    Historical Wargamers have used these for decades (at least three) - great stuff!👍🏻🎅👍🏻

  • @JCrain31
    @JCrain31 Рік тому

    Cool! I have been watching you channel and a few other crafting channels for a while now. I love having 3d elements on the gaming table. I’m a PC in our current campaign and have only DMed a few one shots for other groups, but I love to build terrain pieces. Love your channel and the videos you post. Keep up the great content!

  • @BrendonMclaughlin-g3d
    @BrendonMclaughlin-g3d Рік тому

    This is amazing! Now you need a windmill!

  • @bootsie9374
    @bootsie9374 Рік тому

    excellent video, i also like how easy these will be to store! thanks

  • @harrietcraig6716
    @harrietcraig6716 Рік тому

    Great to see your numbers growing!
    Fun build!!

  • @BP-fu6kk
    @BP-fu6kk Рік тому

    Those mats look great. I feel if you dotted around some of that other tilled terrain with them, it would mimic the fact they're actively harvesting it. Especially if you dotted some stacked bales around.

  • @randyward2766
    @randyward2766 Рік тому

    I work at Walmart so I can even use my discount. Most excellent!

  • @ObsidianDragon616
    @ObsidianDragon616 Рік тому

    you could cut them into thin strips and leave a gap in between the rows to himt that some sort of modern machine or magical farming device occasionally goes through for harvesting.

  • @CorsoWorkshop
    @CorsoWorkshop Рік тому

    Pretty nifty! Good one! :)

  • @j.f.5162
    @j.f.5162 Рік тому

    Nice Tip!!!

  • @Vulgaris_Warmachine
    @Vulgaris_Warmachine Рік тому

    I actually have been searching for something like this for my game of warmachine. Must find now

  • @coreymease7851
    @coreymease7851 Рік тому

    Great video! Loved it!

  • @Maigehound
    @Maigehound Рік тому

    as a compliment for this scenary - make some smoke and fire markers (flickering tea lights)
    - adverturers need to save the farm from bandits trying to burn the fields
    or because the PCs will make the situation worse when they don't think twice about casting fireball at the fleeing goblins that were stealing chickens lol

  • @toddler_dragons
    @toddler_dragons Рік тому

    Get a second hand shaver… and trim lines so you get a row effect. :)

  • @jacobhope6164
    @jacobhope6164 Рік тому

    Nice! You're right. They do look just like wheat.

  • @nixhixx
    @nixhixx Рік тому

    I'd deffo paint some shades of green, more golden, for other 'crops'. Honestly, I think for wheat, it looks a bit short, at least for that stage of beige. Maybe little furrows going through... Also, it'd be a LITTLE wasteful, but...probably the fields wouldn't be so straight and squared off. That said, great little project.

  • @looselycollected7505
    @looselycollected7505 Рік тому

    I can remember Games Workshop had a book on terrain making they sold in the 90's. And making crop fields from matts like this was one of the ideas in their book. Also the old Terragenesis website(RIP) had a project like this too.

    • @StorycraftSociety
      @StorycraftSociety  Рік тому +1

      Hmm, and here I thought I’d discovered something new! I’m gonna have to try and find that book!

    • @looselycollected7505
      @looselycollected7505 Рік тому

      @@StorycraftSociety I still have a copy somewhere. But but I think it's mixed into a box of stuff in storage right now.

  • @TheParkAttendant
    @TheParkAttendant Рік тому

    Woooowww. You need to work on a field of corn next.

  • @Zenith12321
    @Zenith12321 3 місяці тому

    I bought this to try tonight! I'm gonna cut it to make a maze for a Halloween game

  • @crapparc
    @crapparc Рік тому

    Your final setup is what I want to make for my narrative project. It looks awesome!
    You can use the fibres that you get from cutting and cleaning up to make haystacks. I got the idea from TheGameSmith.

  • @elizabeths4371
    @elizabeths4371 Рік тому

    I build 12th scale dolls houses and I can see this floor mat making an excellent thatched roof.

  • @jefferydraper4019
    @jefferydraper4019 Рік тому +1

    As a kid that grew up plowing, planting, and harvesting wheat...its:
    Too thick. It needs to be thinned out. Ive never seen a crop grow that well.
    Too uniform. There needs to be random edges and holes in parts because sometimes, despite your best efforts, the wheat doesnt grow or dies out or is taken over and killed by other plants. Especially in a Medieval field without access to herbicides or fertilizers.
    Otherwise it does look pretty damned good and is pretty simple to make.

  • @cescurin
    @cescurin Рік тому

    You should cut the mat into narrow bands and glue them on your previous design. I think it would be better. In the way you've designed the town, it seems to be a difference in scale between the wheat fields and the houses.

  • @b.calvinsaul1909
    @b.calvinsaul1909 Рік тому

    Cool. I wish I'd thought of this.

  • @ianocanasaltikov
    @ianocanasaltikov Рік тому

    Have you made a quick craft video of your tree trunks?, they look pretty good!

  • @amsburym
    @amsburym Рік тому

    I love the mats he uses at the end, where can I find those!

  • @stuartbaxter-potter8363
    @stuartbaxter-potter8363 Рік тому

    I love these. Next project will be to crank out a few of them for 10mm games.
    That's the intention, anyway, but the Sigmar players are welcome to use them too XD

  • @LostWhits
    @LostWhits Рік тому +4

    Don't forget that historically not all the fields would grow the same crop. They rotated throughout the year sometimes leaving them fallow. But perhaps your village uses magical fertiliser and funghi. Dragon poop has to be full of all sorts of nutrients, if you're brave enough to scoop it up.

    • @Lord_zeel
      @Lord_zeel Рік тому

      Well, he only had one color of mat.

    • @j.f.5162
      @j.f.5162 Рік тому

      Dye the mat green

    • @Zack_Wester
      @Zack_Wester Рік тому

      @@j.f.5162 or jus buy a green mat.
      that said there always the chance that the fields are mono cultured and rotates per year.
      aka one year all fields are wheat next year all fields are corn and so on.

  • @gregmccormack5709
    @gregmccormack5709 Рік тому

    Sweet! I wonder how difficult it would be to pull out some of the tuft to make rows like in a tilled field and you could dye the crops different colors too. This has so many possibilities.

  • @vicnedel02
    @vicnedel02 17 днів тому

    How about building some wood and stone fences for arround the fields?

  • @noahberg101
    @noahberg101 Рік тому

    Around Christmas time I go to their Winter village section and stock up on brick walkways which are just rolled up brick textured things along with some shrubs and other small things like lights

    • @StorycraftSociety
      @StorycraftSociety  Рік тому +1

      Drew has some of those brick walkways! And stockpiled some trees around Christmas as well!

    • @noahberg101
      @noahberg101 Рік тому

      @@StorycraftSociety awesome!!! I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees use in them

  • @RupertFoulmouth
    @RupertFoulmouth 4 місяці тому

    They look great. Only issue I can see is models walking across the field would be walking on the tops of the stalks like Kung Fu masters.

  • @Hikerbug
    @Hikerbug Рік тому +1

    Amazing idea! Who’s Jeremy? I wanna check out his video on using mats for roads that you mentioned

    • @JDSoOR
      @JDSoOR Рік тому +2

      Jeremy is the guy we know here as Black Magic Craft : ua-cam.com/channels/2Rlv-ug-mtnXuMwlpcqFgg.html

  • @RaFonaRaFona
    @RaFonaRaFona Рік тому

    Where is the play mat from? Love the fields.

  • @Slydeish
    @Slydeish 10 місяців тому

    This is great. Do you have a vide on the trees? Good lord those are nice looking!
    \

  • @Lord_zeel
    @Lord_zeel Рік тому

    Might take it a few steps further: First, I wouldn't cut it out so cleanly - maybe even cut it into some curved shapes rather tan perfect rectangles. Then, to make it look more like rows of wheat, you could use something like a butter knife to scrape lines through the bristles. You might just need to sort of much them apart, or you might need to actually mat them down or tear them out to get the right effect. Then take some needle nose pliers, and pluck some bristles out around the edges to make it a little ragged and uneven.

  • @timothyyoung2962
    @timothyyoung2962 Рік тому

    I found some shaggy hair material at Joann Fabrics, and it just struck me that it looked like tall, dry, scrubby grass. I grabbed 2 yards' worth and cut it up to use it as tall grass for Zona Alfa.

  • @TheThrashKing92
    @TheThrashKing92 Рік тому

    Nice!

  • @chang1910
    @chang1910 Рік тому

    oh thank you! as a noob crafter, love ur quickcraft videos :)
    i made ur fields and love them! added some corn to some of them..
    might do a few of these :)
    terrain tutor made some cool similar videos. and there is another version that lets you place mini among / whitin the wheat, youtube dont let me link them for you :/
    ps do you have a video on how you made those giant mushroom? i keep seeing on your videos and love them, but cant find them on your channel

  • @davidmontijo9644
    @davidmontijo9644 Рік тому

    Would a watered down glue help with the pieces coming off?

  • @douggillespie747
    @douggillespie747 Рік тому

    Nice find for easy and cheap. How is itfor LOS with minis next to it?

  • @dma-rising8876
    @dma-rising8876 Рік тому

    I'll absolutely be copying this

  • @drewbakka5265
    @drewbakka5265 Рік тому +1

    dude this is also a cheep way to get flocking grass too

  • @AlejandroJavierFurfaro
    @AlejandroJavierFurfaro Рік тому

    Nice video and idea! That battlemat is amazing where did you buy it?

  • @iknownothing-49
    @iknownothing-49 Рік тому

    Great. Scarecrow? Crows?

  • @FelixTheAnimator
    @FelixTheAnimator 4 місяці тому

    Needs a tiny scarecrow!

  • @SleepySlann
    @SleepySlann Рік тому

    Another idea is to cut strips of the mats, to make hedges.

  • @it_buddy
    @it_buddy Рік тому

    wheat fields for those wheat feels