It's nice to see quality terrian builds with dirt cheap materials. I'm going to try this out with all these Amazon boxes that keep showing up at my door. The only thing I might try is to have the wood beams go all the way through both sodes of the structure to provide actual structure for the roof. That way of someone plops an all metal model like a dreadnought or giant, that it can hold up to the abuse. It might also prevent the beams from being knocked off the terrain peice as it is handled, abused, and tossed around. Thanks for the video!
Agree on all points. I also liked your idea of the wooden beams go all the way through. That has now made me thing of trying it & possibly having a removable roof! Thanks!
😄 Made some adobi Arabian mudbrick buildings using cardboard packaging from a wargames figure supplier 25 years ago, they're still being used and look the same as when I covered them with a paint mixed with acrylic wall crack filler and dry brushed with exactly those same paints for effect. Still some of my best scratch builds ever. Always great to reuse and use found objects for terrain. Nice work there.
Sorry about your ink, have all been there.. Just a tip go to a craft store and pick up brown Calligraphy ink.. Just water it down with water or alcohol I use water. (Dr Ph Martin's Bombay India INK) is the brand I use.. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the tip, in a previous video I used some sepia calligraphy ink and it works really well indeed (and is also very cheap compared to miniature washes) I'll try the brand you mentioned if I can find it in my country
This is Grate! When I Go on to do this I will see if I can make a smaller ruined version inside it. So in combat, if the building gets destroyed for any reason I just need to lift the house and the ruins are already there!
Bookmarks 4 me 5:48 Add Sand 6:24 prime grey or white 6:50 paint wood Wildwood GW. 7:08 walls 'sand' coloured paint watered down 7:45 Dry brush wood (sand colour) 8:15 Wash walls brown wash. 8:50 To give more colour wash wood in Sipia ink ( I'll skip this bit) 9:15 Wash to add detail
This is f*in brilliant ... Also: The beauty of desert buildings is: you can use them in basically any setting - they look good from dark ages through fantasy to modern battles and even as sci fi backdrop they do their job ... Very good!
Glad to hear you like it :) And it's true, it's a very versatile build that can be used in any kind of setting. Add a dome on top and some packaging stuff that looks sci-fi-ish and you're on Tatooine!
Have made whole warhammer Ork settlements with this method. Well done. As a side note, using textured spackle as the top coat rather than the glue and sand method is faster and adds a layer of stiffness.
Thanks! I made a couple buildings with that method for a Tatooine board for Legion so I've done it before, it does give a great result with spackle indeed I just wanted to try something else and make it as cheap as possible (idk if glue is that much cheaper, but sand can be found for free!)
Wow, fantastic tutorial. I really like the idea of using cardboard instead of XPS, because cardboard just happens to be the material I have the most these days, after our recent move. It turned out beautifully! Do you have plans to make any other desert structures, like a tower fort, or a city gate, a granary, a small palace or anything along those lines? Thanks for making and sharing this wonderful video! PS. I’m actually going to make the doors in my buildings replaceable for high tech (Sci-Fi) settings. Any suggestions?
Great video. First time watching your channel & it is very inspiring. Great choice of building too! Really enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing. (Oh, really liked what you said about the "Agrax" & also making your own washes. Definitely the best way!)
They are from the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game, Watchers of Karna and Abrakhan Guard. It might be hard to find now or expensive, they are older models still cast in metal, but great! And it's definitely useful for a lot of different settings :)
It's nice to see quality terrian builds with dirt cheap materials. I'm going to try this out with all these Amazon boxes that keep showing up at my door. The only thing I might try is to have the wood beams go all the way through both sodes of the structure to provide actual structure for the roof. That way of someone plops an all metal model like a dreadnought or giant, that it can hold up to the abuse. It might also prevent the beams from being knocked off the terrain peice as it is handled, abused, and tossed around. Thanks for the video!
That's a great idea actually, because after adding the glue the floor became quite bendy, I had to fix it to become straight again
Agree on all points. I also liked your idea of the wooden beams go all the way through. That has now made me thing of trying it & possibly having a removable roof! Thanks!
😄 Made some adobi Arabian mudbrick buildings using cardboard packaging from a wargames figure supplier 25 years ago, they're still being used and look the same as when I covered them with a paint mixed with acrylic wall crack filler and dry brushed with exactly those same paints for effect. Still some of my best scratch builds ever. Always great to reuse and use found objects for terrain. Nice work there.
Sorry about your ink, have all been there.. Just a tip go to a craft store and pick up brown Calligraphy ink.. Just water it down with water or alcohol I use water. (Dr Ph Martin's Bombay India INK) is the brand I use.. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the tip, in a previous video I used some sepia calligraphy ink and it works really well indeed (and is also very cheap compared to miniature washes)
I'll try the brand you mentioned if I can find it in my country
This is Grate!
When I Go on to do this I will see if I can make a smaller ruined version inside it. So in combat, if the building gets destroyed for any reason I just need to lift the house and the ruins are already there!
That's a great idea, and when it's made from cardboard like this you can perfectly use the hollow inside for this purpose
verycool. i always wondered how those ork building were made. very classic warhammer
Bookmarks 4 me
5:48 Add Sand
6:24 prime grey or white
6:50 paint wood Wildwood GW.
7:08 walls 'sand' coloured paint watered down
7:45 Dry brush wood (sand colour)
8:15 Wash walls brown wash.
8:50 To give more colour wash wood in Sipia ink ( I'll skip this bit)
9:15 Wash to add detail
This is f*in brilliant ...
Also: The beauty of desert buildings is: you can use them in basically any setting - they look good from dark ages through fantasy to modern battles and even as sci fi backdrop they do their job ...
Very good!
Glad to hear you like it :)
And it's true, it's a very versatile build that can be used in any kind of setting. Add a dome on top and some packaging stuff that looks sci-fi-ish and you're on Tatooine!
this reminds me of the classic space ork terrain from the 90s
Have made whole warhammer Ork settlements with this method. Well done. As a side note, using textured spackle as the top coat rather than the glue and sand method is faster and adds a layer of stiffness.
Thanks! I made a couple buildings with that method for a Tatooine board for Legion so I've done it before, it does give a great result with spackle indeed
I just wanted to try something else and make it as cheap as possible (idk if glue is that much cheaper, but sand can be found for free!)
mixing sand into glue and spackle can also give good results
Fantastic video :)
It reminds me of the oldhammer 40k Ork buildings, I might give this a try sometime ^^
i think a lot of times people forget how much solid cardboard is than foam for crafting.
It really is, especially if you glue two layers together. And it's free!
Wow, fantastic tutorial.
I really like the idea of using cardboard instead of XPS, because cardboard just happens to be the material I have the most these days, after our recent move.
It turned out beautifully!
Do you have plans to make any other desert structures, like a tower fort, or a city gate, a granary, a small palace or anything along those lines?
Thanks for making and sharing this wonderful video!
PS. I’m actually going to make the doors in my buildings replaceable for high tech (Sci-Fi) settings. Any suggestions?
Great video! I admit I didn't expect the cardboard to look is good as it did so that's a pleasant surprise!
This is incredible, and you've made it look so easy!
Incredible work as always 👍👍
Wow very cool, i'm gonna give this one a try!
Great video. First time watching your channel & it is very inspiring. Great choice of building too! Really enjoyed it! Thanks for sharing.
(Oh, really liked what you said about the "Agrax" & also making your own washes. Definitely the best way!)
Thank you very much, good to hear you've enjoyed it!
Yeah the new Agrax is really bad haha, idk what they were thinking
I liked your process and the tutorial in general, very cool!
I love this definitely going to make some for my dnd campaign
Это просто великолепно! Очень классно!
Careful with super glue on cardboard. I’ve seen it get hot enough to singe and smoke
Oh I didn't know that, thanks for the tip. I'll try to search what can prevent something like that from happening
Very Cool, only discovered your channel today.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks, and I enjoy it so I won't be quitting anytime soon!
What do you mean by discussion of my channel today?
@@CommonersCraft , sorry was meant to say discovered.
Easy like, it looks very very good
Awesome
Dats some very high staris
They sure are :D
Que buenisimo
Nice 👍
I still have this sort of terrain build over 30 years ago. Solid and looks great. 😎👍👌
Awesome, it's really timeless :)
Awesome 👍 subscribed and looking forward to more 😊
Thank you! More videos are already in the works :)
Thanks for the video, really cool :)
I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
What models are they? I've been looking for something like that to paint up. The building is great, they would work for Star Wars legion as well.
They are from the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game, Watchers of Karna and Abrakhan Guard. It might be hard to find now or expensive, they are older models still cast in metal, but great!
And it's definitely useful for a lot of different settings :)
Can you post the dimensions of your building? Scaled for bases I commonly use I am thinking 150x200x100ish.
I'll try to measure it later, I'll let you know
8:25 lol
Haha, don't you hate it when that happens 😅