Iron Gryphon Studio - Ep 56 Swamps (marshland, bogs, swampland terrain, epoxy resin water)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Sick and tired of your party walking around nice places? Well look no further, this swamp terrain is perfect for giving your adventurers the heebie jeebies and bogging them down all at once. Throw in a hag or shambling mound and you got yourself an encounter.
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They turned out great. I especially love the swamp pool with the wagon. I'm imagining a poor guy getting his cart stuck.
Aww he'll be fine, I'm sure he found a nice cosy hags hut in the swamp to rest in 😅
@@irongryphon Is that something you would use as a clue for the game? That someone was taken by the Hag and needs rescue or to be reported dead to the village/family? (Mystety solved) Or, is it more for moody ambience, or both?
Honestly it could be any of those things, and possibly 10 others 🙂👍🏻 that's the great thing about making terrain like this, they each provide a whole bunch of potential story hooks
@@irongryphon Thank you. I do realize it could be all kinds of things of course. I was curious if YOU personally make them with specific game plots in mind, or general scatter to populate the table? Curious of your process/considerations. Is it:
idea first then use, or create first and use piece when an idea/theme comes?
I would say I create something of interesting design first, that way it leaves it open for me to interpret it many ways later and get lots of uses out of it 👍🏻🙂
Diorama level scatter!!! Beware the player eating cheese puffs.
Cheese puffs are banned at my table 😅 haha thanks dude
One easy bit of greenery that you could add would be to make some lillypads. The cheap/easy way to do them is to take a sheet of printer paper, paint it with various greens. When it dries, use a standard hole punch of the kind you can buy at office supply stores that is used for binder type holes. The single punch works best for getting the most out of a sheet. Then use a knife to cut a notch out of them to get the right shape for a lillypad and float it on the surface.
Another thing is to sprinkle a tiny bit of fine flock into your water effects of choice before it cures. It adds a more algae look to the water.
For those who want an easier option for making the terrain, I've just finished a pair of larger swamp/marsh pieces. I had some thin laser cut plywood, but anything solid works as a base, then made the basic landform for the edges of the pools with cereal box card (Actually from a large case of Mountain Dew in my case). Used some of the cheap dollar tree plaster filler that I added a bit of water to in order to make it flow a bit better and worked it around to add some texture and make it look more natural along with a few twigs that I'd sterilized and sealed a while back along with a few larger stones to work into some places...and followed that, when dry, with some superglue and various sand grits over most of it to make it even more natural looking...leaving the majority of the pool areas flat.
Then it was a basic thing of painting it up, and I went rather basic. Prime in grey, douse pretty much everything in a thinned brown acryllic ink, hit the twigs with an unthinned version. When it dried, used a more chalky white paint (Apple Barrel White craft paint) to go over the larger rocks and some of the gravel. Let that dry and went over everything with a heavily thinned black acryllic ink, a heavier layer in the bottoms of the pools. Then it was a warm off white drybrush over everything, and a lighter cold off white drybrush over some of the rocks. Sealed it up with a flat spray. Then worked in some foliage (Mainly some patches of flocking, and clipping some from a 6" wall brush that had the right color for reed patches that I hooked down with superglue...letting it cure for a lot longer after that stage.
Then I used a high gloss polyeurethane for the actual water effects with a thicker pour that was worked into smaller spots, then sprinkled with a tiny bit of the same flock I used and I floated a few of the lillypads in it and positioned them with the same brush I worked the gloss into parts with and dabbed a tiny bit on top to make sure they were sealed in place.
Some places you might need additional layers of polyeurethane, but it tends to work rather well for what it is (a thicker pour of it is still relatively thin). You tend to get some natural rippling in the surface, but it works quite well.
I'd love to see all these techniques, you should have a channel too. Seems like we could all learn a lot from you 🙂
Thanks for watching
I'm happy to see you revisiting the swamps, the hag hut is perhaps my favorite of your videos. Great work!
Thanks very much 🙂
Yea the hag hut looked abit lonely 😅 I just felt inspired to make something grim 😬
The idea with the partly sunk cart, turned out awesome.
Graet varietey of use in all of them and coming all together nicely. Could imagine a whole swap terrain-gaming table with those as well. Love the mushrooms - adorable
Cheers mate!
Thanks dude 👍🏻🙂 yeah I could make some more generic pieces but I like adding that little extra detail 😅
WOW! The swamps are f*cking FANTASTIC, Alan🤩
Haha cheers buddy 👍🏻😅 can't beat a good swamp, so many uses
“I don’t know what these are or when I bought them but they need using” yeeeah this applies to alot of my craft supplies 😂
These look amazing, perfect addition to the Hag’s hut.
Honestly I may have stolen them off my cousin 🤷😂 but I have assumed ownership and I needed reeds 😅
@@irongryphon 😂 i assume ownership of any toys and bits my nephew’s leave laying around after visits. If they don’t pick it up and put it away after being told three times it goes in the bits draw.....important things can be ransomed back via small chores lol.
Ruthless, but efficient...I like it 👍🏻😅
It definitely has that "dismal" swamp sort of look to it
I like a depressing sort of scene 😅
Awesome vid as always matey and thanks for the shout out :)
No worries 👍🏻🙂 thanks for resin bits
Your skill and unique creative approaches are most impressive. I really appreciate your attention to detail. This is a great, easy-to-follow crafting video; I hope to use some of these ideas for scatter terrain appropriate to my new swamp mat from Frontline Gaming. Keep up the fine work!
Thanks very much 👍🏻😬 very best of luck to you with your swamp scatter
Great swamp pieces. Very cool cart.
Cheers dude 😬👍🏻 thanks very much for watching
Hooray, more of the swamps, my favorite terrain! Thanks especially for the tip with the reeds, never thought of pre-drilling a hole in the base. Also, I've been using my old brush bristles for those, as they frequently have some pretty great brown/gray/green colorations, and it's recycling :)
Reuse, repurpose, recycle 👍🏻I like your style. Thanks for watching buddy 🙂
Alan an awesome build ☺️
I prefer your Dremel fungi
Cheers buddy, they're abit fiddly but they're alot easier to make than you'd think 👍🏻🙂
These are lovely...useful from “Tomb of Horrors” AD&D to “Ghosts of Saltmarsh” for 5E. Your work is so intricate and detailed; always a treat. Thank you!
Cheers Batman (can I call you batman?) 😬👍🏻
Yeah these pieces should be handy for alot of encounters and tabletop battles
I don't know why, but this was exactly what I was looking for, AND it helped inspire me to make some swamp terrain for my game. Thank you! (even though I'm 2 years late ...)
Ah awesome I'm so glad I could help, I really appreciate you watching, welcome to the channel 👍🏻😁
Looks great, man!
Cheers bud 🙂👍🏻 thanks for watching
I sometimes find it hard to choose what bits to use. I think I could use it for something better later on. When "later on" doesn't happen, I think, "Why didn't I just use it then?" Its a 'mind trap;' watch out for it and just use the bits!!
Ive felt the same way in the past, and I'm sure alot of modellers share that thought too. I still do that to some degree, where I've earmarked a piece for a certain idea I've got for another build. And in some ways having this channel has helped me trim down my overflowing bits box by making me use things, or I've just decided to make the piece for the bits I have. Just remember, it's only bits of plastic, nothing is sacred, just use them 🙂
Very murky and cool!
Thanks very much, I like that grimdark look 😬
I just bought Blaster #3 and it has the rules for a new tabletop wargame “Sludge”.
This is perfect for terrain for that game.
Awesome, don't think I've ever heard of Sludge. Have fun making your swamps 👍🏻😀
Great results! I want to try something similar, and thanks for the idea: I will make one bigger piece, with a lot of skeletons and rusty weapons (a bit like the Dead Marshes in LotR).
I was partly inspired by the dead marshes myself. Go for it, add more grass of you're going for dead marsh vibes 😅👍🏻and I would add the water first, make sure it's fully cured before adding the flock
Just caught up with your last few videos my dude & they are excellent as always!
Cheers buddy 👍🏻 much appreciated. Hopefully they offer abit of inspiration to people 🙂
Okay, I’m going to hell for this, but you should do a swamp pool with a horse skeleton in it
I could do actually, I think I have a horse skeleton lying around somewhere 👍🏻😅
Oh gods hahaha it will make a lovely companion piece to what Jeremy at BMC made awhile ago
Yea I saw that, what a great build, but my god I relived an awful moment from my childhood watching it 😅
A lot of very helpful suggestions and ideas for building swamp terrain. Thank you.
You're welcome and thank you for watching 👍🏻🙂
Really cool! I love how you make a swamp and I love the music you use for your into! You got a new sub in me!
Cheers dude, and Thank you so much for subscribing 👍🏻😄
A very interesting video . And a useful one indeed . Some nice tips for my dioramas . Congratulations from a new subscriber
Cheers 🙂 and thank you for subscribing. Best of luck with your dioramas 👍🏻
these are really very detailed and nicely done but i feel like these are missing something like tiny swamp creatures or something like frogs and snakes maybe even an alligator
That would have been cool, I could have printed some out 🤔 maybe I'll make more 😅
@@irongryphon sweet that would be cool to see
They came out looking nice mate. Lovely simple builds. I'm thinking 2-5 years your not going to be able to avoid owning a 3d printer. :(
I think you may be right, They're becoming very commonplace now, and eventually they'll be a normal as having a printer in your home. For now it's great for making those tiny details we all love for terrain
Nice! Not only do they provide ambiance; the little touches can lead to story starters. How'd the cart become abandoned? Just got stuck? Was the driver attacked? Does it mark a specific location? And those barrels... Why would goods be left to rot? Are they a clandestine dumping ground? And what's the skelly's story? Very cool stuff
Exactly 👍🏻 and that's what I try to make in every build...a story hook. Something that makes the players think, "what happened here?".
I think it's a great way to make terrain, and can be something vague like barrels, or something more focused like a full crime scene.
I'm making a Croc pit for my pulp Era game I want to make the base I build the pit around to be modular so I can use the crocs on a swamp base so this has been a useful vid thanks
You're very welcome mate, glad I could help 🙂👍🏻
@@irongryphon just thought I'd let you know the Croc pit has turned out great. I did a lot of research for this and came across a guy who did the similar thing on those pound shop floor tiles. because I've built a croc pit and of course it's a bit rectangular I thought to make it modular I'd add some of these floor tile bases and then build up some foam board bases and it looks fantastic ( I nicked your half buried cart Idea I loved that) there a significant level changes between the bases now the foliage on a lower bases placed next to a higher base blends really well giving you that uneven marshland look. So I've gone mental now and I'm experimenting with those big mangrove trees but I'm given em a twist to make em look creepy. Thanks again this is all down to your inspiration.
awesome work. i'm about to do a swamp themed board for the new swamp orc coming from g.w
Good thinking, those orcs do look pretty sweet I have to say. Best of luck with it mate 👍🏻🙂
Hay
Your video description is funny (: what types of games do you use these props for?
Haha thanks, I didn't think people actually read those 😅
Personally I play D&D, warhammer 40k, mordheim, and age of sigmar 🙂 all of these pieces would work in those settings.
@@irongryphon I had no idea those types of games people created their own sets! Very inspiring work
Games workshop who produce Warhammer based models, also produce a fair amount of terrain, but many of us prefer to make our own, because it's cheaper or just more unique 🙂👍🏻
Hey mate, what two part resin did you use?
amzn.to/3Fghe52 this is decent epoxy, hopefully that link works
@@irongryphon awesome mate thank you, and thanks for the fast reply!! What’s the grey foam you also use? The one you mark with a stone effect?? Thanks mate
It's known as Xps foam (extruded polystyrene) it's used in under floor insulation. I get mine online, usually through eBay 🙂👍🏻