Crafting a Wild West Structure for Miniature Gaming
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- Today, I craft a miniature wild west structure from just paperboard, chipboard, and a few wooden dowels.
I got a request a while back for a video on miniature wild west stuff. I was wanting to craft some old western buildings so here is my try at it. I think it turned out great. This is not a difficult build and the materials are easy to come by. This piece of miniature terrain will be right at home in a wild west themed miniature wargame or tabletop roleplaying game.
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CONTENTS
0:00 - Intro
2:52 - Modeling
13:17 - Painting
16:41 - Results
20:13 - Outro
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a Malifaux skirmish game would also benefit from this awesome terrain piece.
Taft in the Bathtub makes me laugh.
Nicely done 👍👍. Love to see homemade western buildings 👍
Nice looking model, but one comment: shiplap siding on buildings tends not to have joints in the boards used unless the wall is quite long. If you look at your photo at 8:56 of the video, you'll see this.
If you would like to see photos of actual western buildings, you might want to look at the South Park City Museum website. It's an open-air museum that has collected many buildings from small mining towns (most of which are gone) and refurbished and furnished them. It's a great place to visit if you can get to Fairplay, Colorado.
The weathered wood effect is effective for these buildings after a century of being unused (which is what you would see in a ghost town.) If you would like buildings that look more like they would have in the late-19th century, you might consider using much brighter colors. The Victorians really liked bright colors both inside and outside their buildings.
NB: A "dowel" is specifically a cylindrical wooden rod; the rectangular pieces you're using in many places are commonly called "stripwood".
Great little build.
Great build.
Awesome video you should make an entire board of wild West terrain
Maybe I will eventually. 🤔
Nice building, just think the doors a bit too low.
Looks really good!
This will come handy for some Dracula's America terrain for sure.
I loved the skit a the beginning. Awesome video!
Great Video. Some ideas I will definitely copy for my soon-to-be-built western table. Though I'm planning on doing interiors, too, so that gunmen (and gunwomen, gunfolk in general) can shoot out during a shootout.
With the facades on the front, the main thing for them was less of a thing to hide and more a place to put the name of the place on that would be painted in place. A more precise name would likely be at the door as well. might need some posters scattered around it as well.
If you can find it, one of the best rulesets for wild west minis, to me, is still the old GW Historicals: Legends of the Wild West
Nice build and I love the contextual/historic info part of the video. Definite Inspiration for some Down Darker Trails terrain I need to make.
awesome video, building looks great and there's not enough wild west minis content out there!
I wanna add tho -- if you need to glue the waxy side of paper board you can scratch it up a lil with a hobby knife or wtv and it'll stick better!
That my dear sir is an excellent build, it’s certainly got my creative juices flowing to build my own buildings using your techniques. Top build and hope you have some more builds planned for the future.
This was an excellent project with great execution of an affordable, easy-to-follow technique. I would like to see you try your hand at some “clean sci-fi” terrain (a structure or a spaceship, more like Star Trek than Star Wars) in the future. Keep up the good work.
Amazing
You can soak your pop cycle sticks in water for a bit before using them. This will soften them up, making them easier to cut with common scissors.
I'm definitely going to try paper board for wood texture. Great video! Subbed and waiting for new vids.
You could use sandpaper on the printed side of cereal boxes so it could taske the glue. So no need to avoid them..
tried chipboard strips, but didn't work for me, to fiddly :). at 28mm coffee stirers are amazing (free wood grain) , i'm hobbying in 1:72 / 1:64 scale so i have to split the stirers in half.
Cool channel, hope You keep it going!
Nice little building you got there! FYI those 45* supports are called knee braces, I know this because my parents used to build houses for a living before they retired and as much knowledge that I have about building actual houses I still have yet to build a miniature one. One of these days I’ll get around to crafting one or 12 lol
If you google that, make sure to add ‘architecture’ to the search, or you’ll get nothing but knee braces. Also, a corbel is a knee brace with no hollow.
I always liked it when moorish architecture built in adobe had the exposed timbers jutting out of the adobe. Corbels can have a similar look.
You’ve got something that reminds me of Christian Bale in the American Psycho
I'll take that as a compliment.
"That is an impressive paint job on the model... let's see Paul Allen's Miniature."
Looks great thanks for the vid. also would you want some cowboys miniatures
Great work, so subscribed! I wonder if you could make a water tower, either for the town, or for placing by the railway tracks? 🙂
Good idea! A water tower would compliment these buildings well.
What is the measurements for the building? Cheers
The building is 13cm wide and 16.5cm deep (including the porch area which is 5.5cm deep). The roof peaks at 12.5cm tall but the front facade reaches to 13.5cm. The roof meets the walls on the sides at 7cm above the ground. 🛠
Would that be good size for 28mm?
I think the scale looks good. I generally make the doors extra big though for moving minis through or, in this case, to look like my other doorways that can accommodate moving minis through.@@paulstamp3973
Have you tried Dead man's hand by great escape games?
I have not. Looks like a cool game though.
I'm watching you from France and I think I'm going to try to make it myself. U did a great job for the build the painting and also the video editing mate! It was pretty interesting and funny honestly! Can you give me a rough idea of the dimensions for the house plz (in metric? 😅) ? Keep it up
Ps: nevermind I saw something like 6x12cm for the walls on your mat... I'll work my way from there
I was kind of winging it with the dimensions. I chose what I thought would look right with my minis scale (~28mm) and/or would be convenient for gameplay. The doors are extra big for miniatures to fit through... even though I did not make an interior.🤦
@@thegamingtome well I just started this afternoon and made extra large doors too with no interior... You are not alone in the world my friend! Anyway thx for the answer and have a nice day!
@@thegamingtome it's done! I'm a woodworker so I went all wood for the build and it went pretty smoothly all in all. But everything went sideways for the painting... I used cheap acrylic paint (basically tainted water) and did so many coats! I decided to use some old paint I had from the restoration of my house and it kinda saved the day at the end. I'm going to build a water tank that will be used as a dice tower next to the building... And buy some quality paint too! Anyway your tutorial helped me a lot, I watched most of your other videos and subscribed to your channel. Thank you for the time and effort you put in your videos mate! (again I'm French so sorry for the bad English... It's not in our DNA to speak and write other languages!)
What is the scale of this model
Probably around 1/56th. It was built for 28mm (1:64) miniature gaming but is scaled up for convenience in play.
Do you sell any of your buildings?
No. I don't craft enough buildings to be able to part with any of them.