I love how his miniatures are more chunky and durable. I have been doing a lot of printing of loot studios miniatures and I love them but they are so delicate and easy to break when you're removing them from the supports. I just can't get into the 3D printed trees though, I just don't like the look of them and prefer to make the trees on my own.
These are my kind of models. It also sort of appeals to me from my childhood I suppose too. Lacking a 3D printer, I can't see much value in it for me though - at least for now. Storage space has always been at a premium in my mind. (I just like having stuff that is easy to condense.) Having models I can safely toss into a box without fear of them being bent or broken apart unnaturally is a good deal all around - even inside soft plastic molded to fit a mini, I've had them get damaged sitting on a shelf. A good chunk of those rubber and plastic 'children' toys (I'd actually call them mini's today) outlasted my childhood.
@@Makkenhoff I got my 3D printer a couple months ago and I've been printing like crazy since. I have to say that I've mixed feelings about it. It takes quite a bit of time to learn the ins and outs of tuning your printer and it's not exactly cheap. When you see people post that in many only costs $0.50 or less they are not factoring in the cost of the printer, the gloves, the cleaning solution, and all the other things you have to get. They also don't factor in all the time it takes to prep the printer and clean the models. And as you mentioned you have to make space for it and then you have to worry about ventilation. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the 3D printing but it is sucking out a lot of time from my day and I'm spending hundreds of dollars in resin and cleaner and gloves and other cleaning supplies. So if you have any apprehensions about getting into 3D printing I recommend you wait, wait until they bring the prices down more and make the whole process much easier.
I backed It, can't wait for the prints to be released. Also, I have volume one and have had no issues with his supportless prints so far. The minis are printing great on my Elegoo Mars and look fantastic in their own unique way. You're the reason I got into 3D printing and now I'm hooked! Thanks for that ;)
A cheap and easy way to make mushroom caps is to sprout a little hot glue onto a hard surface, and let it dry and spread itself out. Then gently peel it off once it is dry, and press your hot glue gun onto the bottom side of the mushroom in the center. This will re heat the hot glue just enough to stick a tooth pick in. Once the glue had dried again cut the tooth pick down to the length you want. Then paint! Super cheap super easy! Hope this helps someone.
I love that your tutorials give me great tricks and skills to apply to my miniatures. 😊🖤 i don’t know how I’ve never thought to just use Halloween web for spidery vibes!! 🕸
What a great set of ideas! I'll be using all of these to spruce up my Underdark tiles. Those mushrooms are SO much easier than I've seen before, and I've finally got a use for my old sprues!
Amazing Video as always! You really inspire me and my dad to take on builds like this ourselves and your ideas helped a lot. Our Relationship grew a lot because of this shared hobby and we love to watch your videos together. Stay Safe!
Aw man! I wish this came out last night while I was painting that drow! I had a moment where I thought "It would be cool to have some mushrooms to put on this base"
Neat ideas! Regarding the crystals, if you use polystyrene cement you can weld separate bits of sprue into single chunks so you can carve larger crystals than the original sprue would allow.
After watching your videos for around 8 months, I've bought a Proxxon Hotwire Table, at least a hundred dollars worth of miniature paint, a few sheets of XPS, learned hundreds of new techniques, and just bought 19 of my first Fantasy miniatures from Reaper. I'm going to try to make my own narrative fantasy game with all of this, and I'm going to try my hand at fantasy terrain for the first time. I'm also trying to find a way to back you on Patreon! I sincerely thank you for all of your efforts, and you've helped me be so much more creative, and have so much more fun with my hobbies!
WOW! Thanks for sharing these helpful tips and Ideas. I have a tunnel on my model railroad that I am detailing to look haunted. It has skeleton warriors and I was trying to figure out what I could add to it to give it a more creepie look. I Really enjoyed your video.
Some things I learned from Tom Mason (the host of the Mini Sculpting Super Show and one of the best miniature channels on UA-cam) and just from being in the hobby over the years: 1) Fimo Professional polymer clay is really good for working at a small scale. I personally haven't worked with it, but I guess it's a little bit flexible once it's been baked in the oven, so it's not brittle and prone to chipping like other home bake clay. It's also workable indefinitely and basically doesn't stick to anything but itself, making it ideal for projects that you want to spend time on. You'll want to make a "skeleton" from green stuff (pure green stuff, nothing else mixed in) and then coat the skeleton with the polymer clay before the green stuff cures. This will fuse the two putties together, which will give you a structure you can work with that won't bend or mush as you work throughout the piece. I'd go over to Tom's channel since he can explain it better than any random UA-cam comment. 2) Mix milliput together with green stuff in around a 50:50 ratio. This will give you the stickiness of green stuff that's easier to work with, but it will cure hard like milliput while retaining only a little bit of green stuff's "rubber." 3) Using something like Vaseline can really help with sculpting milliput without dissolving it. Using it as a lubricant on your tools instead of water can avoid washing away detail. It's also safe to use on green stuff and can help deal with the stickiness if that's an issue for you. Just be sure to wipe down your piece with a dry piece of tissue before you paint to remove any excess lubricant that may still be lingering on the model. Otherwise, you can have problems getting primer and paint to stay on the model. I will have to check out that hardware store putty recommendation. Never seen that stuff before!
Once again Jeremy gives us quick and easy guides to some of the 'fiddly bits' that are often the difference between good and great terrain or bases. I'm just going to assume the 9 dislikes (at time of this comment) are people whose default reaction to spiders is 'kill it with fire!!!' (If this is you, do not google 'camel spider'). Sprues can also be turned into wires/antennas through the careful application of heat and stretching (but this usually involves fire, so the safety commentators would lose their minds :-)
I have formed polystyrene by holding it over an electric stove burner on medium (not high, you don't want to burn out your coils heating nothing). Just gradually gauge how close you need to be to soften, but not liquify the plastic. And turn off the burner as soon as possible and put a filled tea kettle on it to soak the thermal energy and save people from burnt hands.
Showing how to build 3 different things in 10 minutes shows a true mastery of making instructional videos. Thank you for valuing our time, it's a big part of why you are mine and many others favorite channel. You also have the most eclectic soundtrack tastes which makes the backtrack fresh each episode - we notice that too. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
Talk about synchronicity! I spent last night researching crystal gemstones for a dragon story I'm writing that acts as a setting for a game I'm trying to create. How very, very timely of you sir! Thanks!
Very nice video. I remember making mushrooms with extra sprue and a lighter. Heating it up a stretching it. After stretching to the stem size you cut it and use the lighter to light melt the end into the cap shape
Wow ! Halloween my daughter made these red , orange , yellow, lime green and tuna blue crystals using sprues l had for like 3 years ,they looked great in her underwater terrain we made for her pirate rpg game... I thought it was her idea but l guess not. Thanks for all the good ideas and instructions
Dayum, I always like your videos, mostly due to your attitude and your approachability. You actually were the youtuber who got me into crafting stuff for my roleplaying sessions with my friends. :) But this video really is a gem, those little kind of things that are easy but absolutely genius, that you simply have to see to understand and that can be done rather quickly (as many peeps know, you often can't be spending hours upon hours on your terrain), those really enrich the craft. Cheers, man!
Heh, so many types of techniques for mushrooms out there, someone already mentioned the hot glue one, Miscast showed another one with a homemade jig suitable for mass production of rather realistic ones out of putty, and I faintly recall at least a couple more :) The dude at Critical Crafting suggested hardening the webbing with either gloss varnish or some variety of PVA so that it could resist even the weight of metal minis, worth a try
I love when you show tiny things to craft or small ideas for dioramas. It make me feel that I actually can do anything with my hands. Spoiler: I can't.
I used to make mushroom caps out of dried lentils. Also for crystals I found a bunch of shattered car glass while out walking one time and took a ton of different length shards. I would glue them together in clusters and paint them with washes so they stayed translucent.
I love the pushpin mushrooms, a great idea! I love mushrooms and have sculpted so many, but getting them to scale is obviously difficult. Can't wait to give these a go!
I love the idea of using castoff sprus for crystals. I bet they would make really cool basalt pillars, too. But don't discount the gluestick idea. If you use the mini hot-glue sticks and avoid making a blood sacrifice (cutting yourself) you can use the natural translucence of the glue to conduct light from a dollar-store tea light! It's an easy and cheap way to add lighting effects.They also look epic with just a wash of transparent ink and some edge highlighting. Again, the natural translucence does all the shading work for you. :)
Some neat ideas here. I never thought about using sprues for crystals (I gots lots), and the pins for mushrooms is a really cool idea! I really liked the cocoon body! FYI: I ordered some supplies from your Amazon affiliate site this week, and that dang milliput is being shipped from California!! Lol! I was a little stunned when I saw "expected delivery Dec 16 to January 7!! Ha! Hopefully it gets here a LITTLE faster so I can use it over the holidays!
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Dammit! Lol! Ah well. You don't get any kick-backs from Game Knight! :D But you do remind me I need to pick up those new sweet D&D pre-primed roper and maniticore miniatures from them...
Most hobby train stores also sell milliput and kneadatite (the technical name for "Green Stuff"). Milliput has been a staple of model rail roads for years. I'd check out local shops too, especially if they need the business during quarantine.
My son just bought me a Photon printer. I’ve been pouring over your old videos and it’s been a huge help. Im printing a hose adapter as I type this. Now I’m going to need an air brush and paint and primer and better time management skills.....
Reusing sprues is awesome. Had a friend made a flagpole outta one to plant a flag behind a Warhammer officer. Even carved the wood grain. No end to the useful crap you can do with em.
I cant help but think, in reference to the webbing, having access to a tarantula that webs a lot(like a GBB) would be extremely beneficial in getting that truly authentic look.
You should make Treasure tiles, they would be dungeon tiles but with treasure on them, to represent a room in a dungeon with treasure scattered on the floor.
Great ideas. I seriously need to get head out of stl files and back to hands-on sculpting. I have a packet of pins that bought years ago for doing door rivets. This would be a great addition to some of my projects.
I'm definitely going to be making some mushrooms. I'm going for a very overgrown/vibrant base scheme on my death guard, so a few mushrooms will fit in nicely.
Some great idea here thanks! I'm going to have ago at making spruecrystal clusters for Frostgrave terrain instead of buying some blue crystal chunks I found on Amazon!
Something I wanted to add is for those who can’t find or simply can’t afford any webbing. Try using cotton balls by stretching them out which creates a very similar web look. Great video as always! Love it
I think if people can afford cotton balls they can afford a $1 pack of webs that will be a lifetime supply for mini hobbies....but for those that didn’t buy the $1 webs at Halloween and now can’t find them? Yes, cotton balls can work 😁
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial I have some friends from the Middle East who don’t celebrate the holiday so it can be difficult to find stuff like that. Thanks for responding! Communication with your fan base is key to a good community. Love your content man, thinking about jumping into this hobby.
I use a rock tumbler and i cut up odd shapes of sprue and feed them trough it to get some awesome little chunks of stone made from sprues. You can do a wicked cobblestone effect this way. And it makes my ocd happy having everything on a miniuature come from the same place. Ex. My warhammer models are 100% citadel down to the rocks and sticks on the base...... also dont like to use organics when i can avoid it. Alot of people dont think about it but organics. Lichen, wood, moss, even some kinds of resin will eventually succumb to the perils of time. I want to be able to give my kids my propainted minis and have them looking as good as the day i varnished them.
Do you know how refreshing it is to hear am American say AMERICAN thanksgiving, and recognize that for some of us Thanksgiving has come and gone? Seriously. Thank you!
augh! I just made a bunch of little mushrooms out of toothpicks and foam, I can't believe I didn't think of this! But eh, ain't a bad thing to have more methods in your toolbox. Maybe next time I expand my mushroom terrain set...
So you're saying that the blunt sewing pins I couldn't bring myself to throw away can have new life? 😍 I am so happy, I 'knew' they'd be useful for something 🤣 Also how did I miss this video when it came out?!
If you have any ideas for. a 40k video along these same lines, I'd be super interested! I know you're a nurgle guy, but more generic scifi stuff would be ideal.
Friendly tip for any oven-curing. You'll want to, as a minimum, wipe down the inside and racks of your oven (once it has cooled!) with a damp cloth (no soaps) after using it to bake craft things, so your next casserole doesn't taste like your crafting space.
Id love to grab some but just dont wanna back the project at the end just want chonk and some of those houses those looks super cool also thank you for content keep it coming and stay safe friend
Hey Jeremy. Thanks for the great video. Have you tried the other types of milliput? Maybe they are better for sculpting? (I've only used the red as well in paint to life). PS thanks for all your help and suggestion videos using xps foam. =)
I have not! But it's something I've been meaning to do for some time. I also have yet to experiment with mixing milliput and greenstuff which I know is a great technique a lot of people use.
Very cool & helpful. I have a question. I am doing a Cloud Giant & I was wanting to add a fog like look to the base. To give that cloud like appearance.How would I do that?
Hey everyone go check out Danny's *Lost Adventures Vol 2* Kickstarter! bit.ly/LostAdv2
I love how his miniatures are more chunky and durable. I have been doing a lot of printing of loot studios miniatures and I love them but they are so delicate and easy to break when you're removing them from the supports. I just can't get into the 3D printed trees though, I just don't like the look of them and prefer to make the trees on my own.
@Eyho This set is not supportless, nor is it being promoted as such. All the miniatures are PRE supported files.
These are my kind of models. It also sort of appeals to me from my childhood I suppose too. Lacking a 3D printer, I can't see much value in it for me though - at least for now. Storage space has always been at a premium in my mind. (I just like having stuff that is easy to condense.) Having models I can safely toss into a box without fear of them being bent or broken apart unnaturally is a good deal all around - even inside soft plastic molded to fit a mini, I've had them get damaged sitting on a shelf. A good chunk of those rubber and plastic 'children' toys (I'd actually call them mini's today) outlasted my childhood.
@@Makkenhoff I got my 3D printer a couple months ago and I've been printing like crazy since. I have to say that I've mixed feelings about it. It takes quite a bit of time to learn the ins and outs of tuning your printer and it's not exactly cheap. When you see people post that in many only costs $0.50 or less they are not factoring in the cost of the printer, the gloves, the cleaning solution, and all the other things you have to get. They also don't factor in all the time it takes to prep the printer and clean the models. And as you mentioned you have to make space for it and then you have to worry about ventilation. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the 3D printing but it is sucking out a lot of time from my day and I'm spending hundreds of dollars in resin and cleaner and gloves and other cleaning supplies. So if you have any apprehensions about getting into 3D printing I recommend you wait, wait until they bring the prices down more and make the whole process much easier.
I backed It, can't wait for the prints to be released. Also, I have volume one and have had no issues with his supportless prints so far. The minis are printing great on my Elegoo Mars and look fantastic in their own unique way. You're the reason I got into 3D printing and now I'm hooked! Thanks for that ;)
A cheap and easy way to make mushroom caps is to sprout a little hot glue onto a hard surface, and let it dry and spread itself out. Then gently peel it off once it is dry, and press your hot glue gun onto the bottom side of the mushroom in the center. This will re heat the hot glue just enough to stick a tooth pick in. Once the glue had dried again cut the tooth pick down to the length you want. Then paint! Super cheap super easy! Hope this helps someone.
Suggestion for part 2: crates, barrels and random junk - build dungeon scatter terrain with or without foam. Oh, and also, build starts at 2:27.
Yeah barrels are a pain in the rear to make. Crates are dead simple though. Would love to see a way of doing wicker baskets in miniature scale.
been crafting for years and I cant believe I've never thought of the standalone pins and mushrooms. Duh!
Sometimes the answer is right in front of us the whole time.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Depending on how thick your project is, finishing nails can be used for rivets. Just some food for thought.
Love the badger, mushroom reference!
I love that your tutorials give me great tricks and skills to apply to my miniatures. 😊🖤 i don’t know how I’ve never thought to just use Halloween web for spidery vibes!! 🕸
Really great ideas!! Love the idea of the push pin mushrooms.
What a great set of ideas! I'll be using all of these to spruce up my Underdark tiles. Those mushrooms are SO much easier than I've seen before, and I've finally got a use for my old sprues!
Hey, check out Miniature Hobbyist for some uses for old sprues. That's becoming his specialty.
Amazing Video as always! You really inspire me and my dad to take on builds like this ourselves and your ideas helped a lot. Our Relationship grew a lot because of this shared hobby and we love to watch your videos together. Stay Safe!
Aw man! I wish this came out last night while I was painting that drow! I had a moment where I thought "It would be cool to have some mushrooms to put on this base"
Never too late to add some!
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial that is a very good point!
Neat ideas! Regarding the crystals, if you use polystyrene cement you can weld separate bits of sprue into single chunks so you can carve larger crystals than the original sprue would allow.
True!
Great ideas. Thanks.
After watching your videos for around 8 months, I've bought a Proxxon Hotwire Table, at least a hundred dollars worth of miniature paint, a few sheets of XPS, learned hundreds of new techniques, and just bought 19 of my first Fantasy miniatures from Reaper. I'm going to try to make my own narrative fantasy game with all of this, and I'm going to try my hand at fantasy terrain for the first time. I'm also trying to find a way to back you on Patreon! I sincerely thank you for all of your efforts, and you've helped me be so much more creative, and have so much more fun with my hobbies!
Wow! Humble push pins as in-scale mushrooms. Brilliant!
WOW! Thanks for sharing these helpful tips and Ideas. I have a tunnel on my model railroad that I am detailing to look haunted. It has skeleton warriors and I was trying to figure out what I could add to it to give it a more creepie look. I Really enjoyed your video.
the tiny pins thing is GENIUS. I have a ton of them floating around, I know what I want to do with them!
Some things I learned from Tom Mason (the host of the Mini Sculpting Super Show and one of the best miniature channels on UA-cam) and just from being in the hobby over the years:
1) Fimo Professional polymer clay is really good for working at a small scale. I personally haven't worked with it, but I guess it's a little bit flexible once it's been baked in the oven, so it's not brittle and prone to chipping like other home bake clay. It's also workable indefinitely and basically doesn't stick to anything but itself, making it ideal for projects that you want to spend time on. You'll want to make a "skeleton" from green stuff (pure green stuff, nothing else mixed in) and then coat the skeleton with the polymer clay before the green stuff cures. This will fuse the two putties together, which will give you a structure you can work with that won't bend or mush as you work throughout the piece. I'd go over to Tom's channel since he can explain it better than any random UA-cam comment.
2) Mix milliput together with green stuff in around a 50:50 ratio. This will give you the stickiness of green stuff that's easier to work with, but it will cure hard like milliput while retaining only a little bit of green stuff's "rubber."
3) Using something like Vaseline can really help with sculpting milliput without dissolving it. Using it as a lubricant on your tools instead of water can avoid washing away detail. It's also safe to use on green stuff and can help deal with the stickiness if that's an issue for you. Just be sure to wipe down your piece with a dry piece of tissue before you paint to remove any excess lubricant that may still be lingering on the model. Otherwise, you can have problems getting primer and paint to stay on the model.
I will have to check out that hardware store putty recommendation. Never seen that stuff before!
That is a sweet Ettercap! I like minis that are meant to stand up to handling.
And minis that can....stand up! On their own!
Once again Jeremy gives us quick and easy guides to some of the 'fiddly bits' that are often the difference between good and great terrain or bases. I'm just going to assume the 9 dislikes (at time of this comment) are people whose default reaction to spiders is 'kill it with fire!!!' (If this is you, do not google 'camel spider'). Sprues can also be turned into wires/antennas through the careful application of heat and stretching (but this usually involves fire, so the safety commentators would lose their minds :-)
I have formed polystyrene by holding it over an electric stove burner on medium (not high, you don't want to burn out your coils heating nothing). Just gradually gauge how close you need to be to soften, but not liquify the plastic. And turn off the burner as soon as possible and put a filled tea kettle on it to soak the thermal energy and save people from burnt hands.
Love the mushroom ideas!
That epoxy putty is super. Very useful for some home repairs as well.
Loving the ideas, and the channel! So much inspiration. Thanks for all the work you put in to show us!
Love it, great video. The mushrooms are an excellent idea, I can’t wait to give them a try 😃👍🏼
Thanks for more little bits and bobs to enhance our terrain! :)
Showing how to build 3 different things in 10 minutes shows a true mastery of making instructional videos. Thank you for valuing our time, it's a big part of why you are mine and many others favorite channel. You also have the most eclectic soundtrack tastes which makes the backtrack fresh each episode - we notice that too. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
I greatly appreciate comments like this ❤️
Great inspiration. These little details make the whole piece so much nicer
I love finding details like this in a base! Great tutorials, thank you.
Just now realising I love how your videos are the perfect length:)
I try to make my videos the length they need to be.
good use for the rapidly expanding sprues!!
Talk about synchronicity! I spent last night researching crystal gemstones for a dragon story I'm writing that acts as a setting for a game I'm trying to create. How very, very timely of you sir! Thanks!
I've been making crystals from sprues for years...and it never occured to me to carve them while attached to the sprue! A million thanks to you!
OMG, this was such a fun video. Nice and light-hearted, but useful at the same time. Lots of interesting ideas to build on.
Good stuff! I need to make some for my Underhive.
Very nice video. I remember making mushrooms with extra sprue and a lighter. Heating it up a stretching it. After stretching to the stem size you cut it and use the lighter to light melt the end into the cap shape
Wow ! Halloween my daughter made these red , orange , yellow, lime green and tuna blue crystals using sprues l had for like 3 years ,they looked great in her underwater terrain we made for her pirate rpg game... I thought it was her idea but l guess not. Thanks for all the good ideas and instructions
Cheers mate!
I can only imagine how much a craft store would charge for something so simple to make yourself. Pure gold tips, thanks!
Dayum, I always like your videos, mostly due to your attitude and your approachability. You actually were the youtuber who got me into crafting stuff for my roleplaying sessions with my friends. :)
But this video really is a gem, those little kind of things that are easy but absolutely genius, that you simply have to see to understand and that can be done rather quickly (as many peeps know, you often can't be spending hours upon hours on your terrain), those really enrich the craft. Cheers, man!
Heh, so many types of techniques for mushrooms out there, someone already mentioned the hot glue one, Miscast showed another one with a homemade jig suitable for mass production of rather realistic ones out of putty, and I faintly recall at least a couple more :)
The dude at Critical Crafting suggested hardening the webbing with either gloss varnish or some variety of PVA so that it could resist even the weight of metal minis, worth a try
I love when you show tiny things to craft or small ideas for dioramas. It make me feel that I actually can do anything with my hands. Spoiler: I can't.
I used to make mushroom caps out of dried lentils. Also for crystals I found a bunch of shattered car glass while out walking one time and took a ton of different length shards. I would glue them together in clusters and paint them with washes so they stayed translucent.
Cool and cheap. A win-win option. Thanks for teaching.
Love all 3 of these little techniques! Thanks for posting :D
I love the pushpin mushrooms, a great idea! I love mushrooms and have sculpted so many, but getting them to scale is obviously difficult. Can't wait to give these a go!
I love the idea of using castoff sprus for crystals. I bet they would make really cool basalt pillars, too.
But don't discount the gluestick idea. If you use the mini hot-glue sticks and avoid making a blood sacrifice (cutting yourself) you can use the natural translucence of the glue to conduct light from a dollar-store tea light! It's an easy and cheap way to add lighting effects.They also look epic with just a wash of transparent ink and some edge highlighting. Again, the natural translucence does all the shading work for you. :)
Thanks a ton!! I was literally going to look up a video on making mushrooms for basing mu night goblin
Imagine spray painting those mushrooms with glow in the dark spray paint over the top 😍 or crystals, too.
Some neat ideas here. I never thought about using sprues for crystals (I gots lots), and the pins for mushrooms is a really cool idea! I really liked the cocoon body! FYI: I ordered some supplies from your Amazon affiliate site this week, and that dang milliput is being shipped from California!! Lol! I was a little stunned when I saw "expected delivery Dec 16 to January 7!! Ha! Hopefully it gets here a LITTLE faster so I can use it over the holidays!
Heads up you can buy Milliput from Game Knight!
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Dammit! Lol! Ah well. You don't get any kick-backs from Game Knight! :D
But you do remind me I need to pick up those new sweet D&D pre-primed roper and maniticore miniatures from them...
Most hobby train stores also sell milliput and kneadatite (the technical name for "Green Stuff"). Milliput has been a staple of model rail roads for years. I'd check out local shops too, especially if they need the business during quarantine.
I love the Underdark terrain :) great video!
My son just bought me a Photon printer. I’ve been pouring over your old videos and it’s been a huge help. Im printing a hose adapter as I type this. Now I’m going to need an air brush and paint and primer and better time management skills.....
You nailed it! I was caught in your video so easily because of your clear explanation. ^^
Reusing sprues is awesome. Had a friend made a flagpole outta one to plant a flag behind a Warhammer officer. Even carved the wood grain. No end to the useful crap you can do with em.
The crystal trick is perfect!! It's exactly what I needed and I just finished a Gundam model.... couldn't have come at a better time! :D
Ah sprews my fav material. I made some nurgly tentacles out of some for a plauge burst crawler
I cant help but think, in reference to the webbing, having access to a tarantula that webs a lot(like a GBB) would be extremely beneficial in getting that truly authentic look.
You should make Treasure tiles, they would be dungeon tiles but with treasure on them, to represent a room in a dungeon with treasure scattered on the floor.
And also maybe crystal tiles, because that would look amazing.
Great ideas. I seriously need to get head out of stl files and back to hands-on sculpting. I have a packet of pins that bought years ago for doing door rivets. This would be a great addition to some of my projects.
I'm definitely going to be making some mushrooms. I'm going for a very overgrown/vibrant base scheme on my death guard, so a few mushrooms will fit in nicely.
Great builds. Think I am caught up now. Been busy doing my own thing, but since the weather went south here, time to get back to the display build.
Some great idea here thanks! I'm going to have ago at making spruecrystal clusters for Frostgrave terrain instead of buying some blue crystal chunks I found on Amazon!
Brilliant. I really love the shrooms
Something I wanted to add is for those who can’t find or simply can’t afford any webbing. Try using cotton balls by stretching them out which creates a very similar web look.
Great video as always! Love it
I think if people can afford cotton balls they can afford a $1 pack of webs that will be a lifetime supply for mini hobbies....but for those that didn’t buy the $1 webs at Halloween and now can’t find them? Yes, cotton balls can work 😁
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial
I have some friends from the Middle East who don’t celebrate the holiday so it can be difficult to find stuff like that. Thanks for responding! Communication with your fan base is key to a good community. Love your content man, thinking about jumping into this hobby.
Huh, I would NOT have thought to use pins as mushrooms. Great idea!
I use a rock tumbler and i cut up odd shapes of sprue and feed them trough it to get some awesome little chunks of stone made from sprues. You can do a wicked cobblestone effect this way. And it makes my ocd happy having everything on a miniuature come from the same place. Ex. My warhammer models are 100% citadel down to the rocks and sticks on the base...... also dont like to use organics when i can avoid it. Alot of people dont think about it but organics. Lichen, wood, moss, even some kinds of resin will eventually succumb to the perils of time. I want to be able to give my kids my propainted minis and have them looking as good as the day i varnished them.
I like cyrstals :P
Got to try the Cocoon, but using cotton swabs. That should be a lot faster, since no modelling is needed.
Nice video, also you can use them as scatter terrains
Happy American Thanksgiving! I'm thankful to you for providing such a great resource for all us hobbyists and gamers!
Do you know how refreshing it is to hear am American say AMERICAN thanksgiving, and recognize that for some of us Thanksgiving has come and gone? Seriously. Thank you!
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial I second that!
So sick man! Love it!
cant work on anything for a while but i love this
I love how you used simple pins for the mushrooms, I have not seen that before.
augh! I just made a bunch of little mushrooms out of toothpicks and foam, I can't believe I didn't think of this! But eh, ain't a bad thing to have more methods in your toolbox. Maybe next time I expand my mushroom terrain set...
If you want giant mushrooms that grow on the side of trees/logs/and cliffs use beans. White beans, navy beans, great northern etc.
So you're saying that the blunt sewing pins I couldn't bring myself to throw away can have new life? 😍 I am so happy, I 'knew' they'd be useful for something 🤣 Also how did I miss this video when it came out?!
If you have any ideas for. a 40k video along these same lines, I'd be super interested! I know you're a nurgle guy, but more generic scifi stuff would be ideal.
That ettercap is dope.
Love this, thanks! Any tips for making little candles or lanterns? These continue to evade me in my builds...
I have a video about making candles and candle holders :).....as well as one on lanterns. Both require appropriate beads though.
Nice
I'd like to see more like this!
Put Greenstuff or Milliput in a Puttyoven (lightbulb in a tin) to speed up curing times.
I wish I had known to use push pins for small mushroom before I frustrated myself months ago trying to make tiny ones out of green stuff...
If the metal pins seem too perfect you can give them a tiny little *boop* with a hammer to deform the top.
B O O P
Just bake the GS in the oven at 45-50c and it will cure in about 30 min :D hell even putting it ona radiator helps it cure alot faster
Friendly tip for any oven-curing. You'll want to, as a minimum, wipe down the inside and racks of your oven (once it has cooled!) with a damp cloth (no soaps) after using it to bake craft things, so your next casserole doesn't taste like your crafting space.
Id love to grab some but just dont wanna back the project at the end
just want chonk and some of those houses those looks super cool
also thank you for content keep it coming and stay safe friend
Hey Jeremy. Thanks for the great video. Have you tried the other types of milliput? Maybe they are better for sculpting? (I've only used the red as well in paint to life).
PS thanks for all your help and suggestion videos using xps foam. =)
I have not! But it's something I've been meaning to do for some time. I also have yet to experiment with mixing milliput and greenstuff which I know is a great technique a lot of people use.
Now I'm thinking of using regular thumbtacks (the ones with the bigger metal tops) for larger mushrooms. lol
I really love anything that can up my baseing game
Cool added ons.
Nice. Thank you
I love videos like this!!
Spideyyyys
Mushrooomm MUSHROOOOOOM! SNAAAAAke!
Cuttings sprues like that is very dangerous, wear a respirator amirite? Nick knicknacks broski!
Don't worry, I've since moved the sprues to a larger enclosure.
Please elaborate.
Is this a joke or like legit? I think it's pretty obviously a joke but you can never be too safe about this shit.
music choice is on point!
I made 300 mini mushrooms out of epoxy last week with no intended purpose. Now I'm set for life.
Love this. Do you know any foliage ideas? Looking to make leaves and plants for my Infinity minis?
7:19 You don't need to sculpt just use your pile of shame!
[This is satire]
Honestly using the main body of a mini you'll never use otherwise is a great option.
the white dots are perfekt with putty it has a kind of volume...
You're gonna show us how to make the badger badger next time, right?
Very cool & helpful. I have a question. I am doing a Cloud Giant & I was wanting to add a fog like look to the base. To give that cloud like appearance.How would I do that?