Nicely done. I was sceptical a little of how it turned out initially but the final pics look great. And the shingles have a lovely soft natural feel to them. Things I like to have on my buildings; Bottom half inch to an inch have a darker wash to them to simulate the damp at ground level that you see on rocks and buildings A lintel or arch above every opening (door, window, arch) as a structural feature. Touches of green staining around plant growth on a wall Water and black mark streaks running down the walls around key features Switching stone and wood around, so that wood is more grey, stone is more brown. Sure, stone can be any colour nearly, but I find a more subtle realistic outcome than stone = grey and wood = brown. You've done nicely there with the greying of the wood and it works really well Avoid blue. Many builders have their stonework as a bluey grey and it looks daft, especially next to rich chocolatey brown painted wood. Grass tufts grow taller in corners and around objects a lot more than in the open around buildings etc and are a good way to simulate low maintenance. Enjoying your videos, keep then going 👍🏻
@@irongryphon you're welcome, I had hoped to get more hobby stuff done but with family and other stuff going on I'm watching vids like yours, super stuff 👍🏻👍🏻
Very nice, will try one myself i think. Doubt it will look as good, but you have to start somewhere. Already built a few odd pieces of terrain here and there so now its time for something bigger. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love the fact you don't plan things I don't either, what I generally do is look at my materials and whatever is there I use. I once built a castle that went completely wrong, however it ended up looking like a perfect Vampire counts castle after I took pliers and other tools to it, and made plenty of Ivy and vines ( excellent for covering mistakes) I eventually sold it for quite a bit not bad for a total cock up!
@@irongryphon yep, I agree I'm looking forward to going back to the hobby shop again and getting back to work, unfortunately because I work for a games shop people are in and out playing games. I'm particularly vulnerable because I have one lung and I get Asthma pretty bad so I've been pretty much Isolated a couple of weeks longer than everyone else on my Doctors orders. mind you I'm a lot more used to isolation than most being Autistic I don't mingle with people much. but even I'm getting a bit antsy now
You should cut your stamp tubes in half and fasten one side to the other that way you can just flip the tool instead of switching constantly to make bricks. It will make everything flow so nice during that portion
love the simple brick 'stamp' so fast and easy. I always thought it is so ironic that wood needs to be textured to look like wood and still foam often looks more like wood than wood does...'making it up as i go along' - that is my entire build technique -=LOVE IT! - glue gun spider webs - get on everything just as annoying as foam static cling - very impressive to craft the tiny hinges from paper very persnickety - will be trying drywall mesh (i have self-adhesive tape) to make windows on scrap plastic - great idea - thanks - BMC base changes the blue Smurf chimney into awesome rustic chimney. in awe of your painting - fantastic. Liked the moss effect the best. Great close ups!
get yourself a long nosed gas kitchen lighter they are very cheap you can use it to melt all those annoying straggles just be careful near your foam. the are just a few quid on ebay.
Hell yeah I'm stealing this technique. I spent an hour last night drawing bricks on a 2" high wall section. This should make the next one way faster and now I'm not discouraged.
Thank you, I rely on a few easy and time effective methods, brick stamping and texturing with an aluminium ball 😀 that will get you about 90% of the way to good looking stonework
I love house builds. When you were adding the colour to the random bricks I was ‘noooo why?!’ But then you did the grey drybrush and i was ‘OH...THAT’S why!’ I love it! Awesome job!
Hahah thank you, yea it's a dodgy process but you just gotta trust it 😅👍🏻 thank you for watching. Be sure to watch the cottage farm I built recently too 😬
For door hinges, I bought a bunch of bowtie chandelier connectors cheap from ebay and just fold them around the door. I think I got 100 for a couple of quid. Quick and easy. The ones I got had an antique/vintage finish and I don’t even paint them.
It's great fun if you have the supplies to craft things 😊 and as with all things, practice makes perfect. And it helps when you don't just make it up as you go along like I did 😅
I love the attention to detail in your builds! The wire brush does such a good job of getting that grain feel, and then the cuts with the knife really give it some life. It's also so satisfying the moment the colour gets on there! Gorgeous work! =) I'd love to try doing this but maybe make the roof able to come off and decorate the inside... -Jill
Fine work, man. I think I'd use totally different materials to make a building (personal preferences & all that) but I really like your piece. Great video, dude
Cheers bud 👍🏻 there's no right or wrong way to build terrain. I've tried a few different materials and methods and find foam and balsa the easiest to work with 🙂
It just occurred to me ... looking at your materials, tools and your core build, it shouldn’t be too hard to do a video on how to build a feudal Japanese house or hut. Hmm, perhaps there’s an idea for your next project!
🙂👍🏻I received the barrels from my cousin who runs angry stag wargaming, he makes great little pieces of scatter terrain at reasonable prices. Feel free to check out his website shop angrystagwargaming.com/
I'm not sure what the lez/BmC technique is, but, my wash is.. 3 parts Vallejo black wash 2 parts Vallejo sepia wash 1 part water Hope that's alright 🙂👍🏻
@@irongryphon thanks mate. Looking for a slightly cheaper technique but thanks anyways. Great video btw, just found your channel and I'm a big fan already!
Thanks bud 👍🏻🙂 well I find that my wash works out quite cheap, the Vallejo washes come in pretty big tubs, and they've lasted me quite a while so far 😀
The only thing I don't like about the video is your lack of self-esteem with regards to your skill. Please acknowledge you are very talented as a crafter and as such you should focus on accepting your talent and try not to be self-deprecating. Also remember we are all different and have varying levels of skill so comparing yourself to another who has been doing things longer is never good. Compare yourself to your former self when you first began. I bet you are 1000% better right? I think you are one of the better crafters out there as I am currently subscribed to quite a few and immediately subscribed to you as you have displayed your talents well across all your videos, thanks for your hard work, keep it up!
Thanks very much, I find there's always room for improvement in my crafting. Self esteem has never been my strong suit, I'm generally very introverted. Doing this channel is massively outside my comfort zone, and has been a learning experience in many ways. I appreciate the feedback but I hope to remain humble for as long as I can because after all, I am only a small fish, and this is a very big pond. Thank you for watching 🙂👍🏻 and subscribing
@@irongryphon I completely understand where you are coming from so thank you for your openness and honesty. Please note that with your skillset you will only be a small fish for a short while, your talent will drive you to the top in no time! I think all the positive feedback you have gotten so far speaks for itself 👍👍👍
Thanks buddy that means a lot 🙂👍🏻 I find this community very welcoming, I've received alot of good feedback and comments so far, and I appreciate the hell out of everyone who watches these videos and send me messages. Hopefully the channel will take off in a big way soon 🙂👍🏻 and this fish will grow abit bigger 😅
Probably one of the most asked questions ever 😅It's just a piece of rectangular shaped styrene tube 🙂 I have a few different shapes to simulate irregular bricks. Anything harder than foam and about the right size will suffice 👍🏻
😅 it's just a piece of styrene rectangular tube (a few different sizes and shapes) you can find them on ebay or in hobby shops. Alternatively you can just use anything that's hard enough to make a decent impression in XPS foam 😀👍🏻
Watching again, your info and suggestions in how to go about crafting step by step are spot on. Thanks ever so much
Working my way through all your videos. Learing a lot and having a great time
Thank you kindly sir 😁 I really appreciate you watching. Hopefully I can get inspired to create more videos soon
I really like the crooked fire place. Nice touch.
Cheers dude, little details like that can add alot of character I find. Thank you for watching 😀👍🏻
I really like your work and your manner. I am learning this craft. You are extremely helpful! Thank you from America!
Thanks buddy 👍🏻 glad I could help. And thank you from England 😁
Nice work! Making it up as you went turned out totally fine. The extra effort with the painting and highlighting and moss was great!
Thanks buddy 😁 "making it up as I go" seems to be a common theme with my projects 😅
Now that is a cracking house
Cheers bud 😁👍🏻much appreciated and thank you for watching.
You did perfect job ❤! Enjoy watching your videos and you definitely inspire me to work on projects. thanks again!
Nicely done. I was sceptical a little of how it turned out initially but the final pics look great. And the shingles have a lovely soft natural feel to them.
Things I like to have on my buildings;
Bottom half inch to an inch have a darker wash to them to simulate the damp at ground level that you see on rocks and buildings
A lintel or arch above every opening (door, window, arch) as a structural feature.
Touches of green staining around plant growth on a wall
Water and black mark streaks running down the walls around key features
Switching stone and wood around, so that wood is more grey, stone is more brown. Sure, stone can be any colour nearly, but I find a more subtle realistic outcome than stone = grey and wood = brown. You've done nicely there with the greying of the wood and it works really well
Avoid blue. Many builders have their stonework as a bluey grey and it looks daft, especially next to rich chocolatey brown painted wood.
Grass tufts grow taller in corners and around objects a lot more than in the open around buildings etc and are a good way to simulate low maintenance.
Enjoying your videos, keep then going 👍🏻
Thanks buddy, appreciate the feedback 🙂👍🏻
@@irongryphon you're welcome, I had hoped to get more hobby stuff done but with family and other stuff going on I'm watching vids like yours, super stuff 👍🏻👍🏻
Very nice, will try one myself i think. Doubt it will look as good, but you have to start somewhere. Already built a few odd pieces of terrain here and there so now its time for something bigger. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks mate, I'm glad I could help inspire you 👍🏻😀 happy crafting
I love the fact you don't plan things I don't either, what I generally do is look at my materials and whatever is there I use. I once built a castle that went completely wrong, however it ended up looking like a perfect Vampire counts castle after I took pliers and other tools to it, and made plenty of Ivy and vines ( excellent for covering mistakes) I eventually sold it for quite a bit not bad for a total cock up!
Haha awesome 😁 I often just use the materials I have, especially during this lockdown when it's harder to go out and get new materials
@@irongryphon yep, I agree I'm looking forward to going back to the hobby shop again and getting back to work, unfortunately because I work for a games shop people are in and out playing games. I'm particularly vulnerable because I have one lung and I get Asthma pretty bad so I've been pretty much Isolated a couple of weeks longer than everyone else on my Doctors orders. mind you I'm a lot more used to isolation than most being Autistic I don't mingle with people much. but even I'm getting a bit antsy now
Well stay safe mate, hopefully soon things will clear up 👍🏻
You should cut your stamp tubes in half and fasten one side to the other that way you can just flip the tool instead of switching constantly to make bricks. It will make everything flow so nice during that portion
That might work, but with the pressure needed to press into the foam, it might break the two halves apart. May give it a go though 🙂👍🏻
@@irongryphon hmm, good point. I wonder if, depending on how much the shapes vary, you could run support down the middle
Not a bad idea 👍🏻😀
love the simple brick 'stamp' so fast and easy. I always thought it is so ironic that wood needs to be textured to look like wood and still foam often looks more like wood than wood does...'making it up as i go along' - that is my entire build technique -=LOVE IT! - glue gun spider webs - get on everything just as annoying as foam static cling - very impressive to craft the tiny hinges from paper very persnickety - will be trying drywall mesh (i have self-adhesive tape) to make windows on scrap plastic - great idea - thanks - BMC base changes the blue Smurf chimney into awesome rustic chimney. in awe of your painting - fantastic. Liked the moss effect the best. Great close ups!
Thanks very much Angry Dwarf 😀 there was alot of different techniques involved in that one, I'm glad I could give you some interesting ideas
get yourself a long nosed gas kitchen lighter they are very cheap you can use it to melt all those annoying straggles just be careful near your foam. the are just a few quid on ebay.
Hell yeah I'm stealing this technique. I spent an hour last night drawing bricks on a 2" high wall section. This should make the next one way faster and now I'm not discouraged.
Another good one. Your finish work (mosses, etc.) are always so en pointe, and really bring your stuff to life. Nicely done
Thank you, I really enjoy merging man made structures with nature 👍🏻🙂 thanks for watching
Great work!
Cheers dude 👍🏻🙂 thank you for watching
Love it!
Cheers dude, thank you for watching 👍🏻🙂
The work you put into your stonework detail is amazing.
Thank you, I rely on a few easy and time effective methods, brick stamping and texturing with an aluminium ball 😀 that will get you about 90% of the way to good looking stonework
I love house builds. When you were adding the colour to the random bricks I was ‘noooo why?!’ But then you did the grey drybrush and i was ‘OH...THAT’S why!’ I love it! Awesome job!
Hahah thank you, yea it's a dodgy process but you just gotta trust it 😅👍🏻 thank you for watching. Be sure to watch the cottage farm I built recently too 😬
Nice work chief
Cheers buddy 👍🏻 thanks for watching
Love it ❤️
Cheers 😀👍🏻 I think the foliage makes it
Been greatly enjoying your builds. Great content. Many thanks and keep it up.
Thanks 👍🏻🙂 I shall do, thank you so much for watching
For door hinges, I bought a bunch of bowtie chandelier connectors cheap from ebay and just fold them around the door. I think I got 100 for a couple of quid. Quick and easy. The ones I got had an antique/vintage finish and I don’t even paint them.
Not sure if these are the exact ones, but something like this.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392047349895
Mate, these are excellent. Exactly the kind of thing I've been after. Definitely buying some 👍🏻😀
Nice house. The windows and door have very nice small details. I just started into this type of crafting as well. Keep the videos coming.
It's great fun if you have the supplies to craft things 😊 and as with all things, practice makes perfect. And it helps when you don't just make it up as you go along like I did 😅
I love the attention to detail in your builds! The wire brush does such a good job of getting that grain feel, and then the cuts with the knife really give it some life. It's also so satisfying the moment the colour gets on there! Gorgeous work! =) I'd love to try doing this but maybe make the roof able to come off and decorate the inside... -Jill
Thanks 😊 it's those little details that always bring a project to life. Thanks for watching 👍
fantastic content mate. Really great techniques.
Thanks buddy 👍🏻🙂 I had basically no idea how it would turn out 😅
Thanks. Great job on the vid too.
So cool man love your work
Thanks dude 👍 🙂
Fine work, man. I think I'd use totally different materials to make a building (personal preferences & all that) but I really like your piece.
Great video, dude
Cheers bud 👍🏻 there's no right or wrong way to build terrain. I've tried a few different materials and methods and find foam and balsa the easiest to work with 🙂
That looked really good,great video
Thanks very much, amazing really since I didn't plan anything 😅
Looks great man keep up the amazing work
Thanks alot buddy 🤙🏻😀
Looks good!
Much appreciated 👍🏻😀 thanks for watching
Okay before I comment on the video just want to say I love your logo!
Thanks very much, I designed it myself with my limited capabilities 😀👍🏻😅
@@irongryphon impressive - if you have time let me know what you think of mine (ua-cam.com/channels/DR7JOc0iCWX_ps-PSaagOg.html)
It just occurred to me ... looking at your materials, tools and your core build, it shouldn’t be too hard to do a video on how to build a feudal Japanese house or hut. Hmm, perhaps there’s an idea for your next project!
Not a bad idea mate 👍🏻🙂 I'll add it to the list
@@irongryphon As long as that list keeps growing, everything will be great!
Great video. Thanks for posting. Where did you get those little rectangular tubes you used for stamping the brick pattern? Cheers!!
Is the barrel shown at 25:05 a pre-cast? If so, did you cast it yourself? The scale looks great.
🙂👍🏻I received the barrels from my cousin who runs angry stag wargaming, he makes great little pieces of scatter terrain at reasonable prices. Feel free to check out his website shop angrystagwargaming.com/
Can I ask how you make your washes? Is it the lez/BmC technique or just paint with water? Or your own recipe?
I'm not sure what the lez/BmC technique is, but, my wash is..
3 parts Vallejo black wash
2 parts Vallejo sepia wash
1 part water
Hope that's alright 🙂👍🏻
@@irongryphon thanks mate. Looking for a slightly cheaper technique but thanks anyways. Great video btw, just found your channel and I'm a big fan already!
Thanks bud 👍🏻🙂 well I find that my wash works out quite cheap, the Vallejo washes come in pretty big tubs, and they've lasted me quite a while so far 😀
How thick are those balsa wood beams? are they 1cm (10mm) thick?
Thanks
Around 10mm yes, although depending on the size of the building you're making, you might want to make them a little thicker or thinner 🙂👍🏻
The only thing I don't like about the video is your lack of self-esteem with regards to your skill. Please acknowledge you are very talented as a crafter and as such you should focus on accepting your talent and try not to be self-deprecating. Also remember we are all different and have varying levels of skill so comparing yourself to another who has been doing things longer is never good. Compare yourself to your former self when you first began. I bet you are 1000% better right?
I think you are one of the better crafters out there as I am currently subscribed to quite a few and immediately subscribed to you as you have displayed your talents well across all your videos, thanks for your hard work, keep it up!
Thanks very much, I find there's always room for improvement in my crafting. Self esteem has never been my strong suit, I'm generally very introverted. Doing this channel is massively outside my comfort zone, and has been a learning experience in many ways. I appreciate the feedback but I hope to remain humble for as long as I can because after all, I am only a small fish, and this is a very big pond.
Thank you for watching 🙂👍🏻 and subscribing
@@irongryphon I completely understand where you are coming from so thank you for your openness and honesty. Please note that with your skillset you will only be a small fish for a short while, your talent will drive you to the top in no time! I think all the positive feedback you have gotten so far speaks for itself 👍👍👍
Thanks buddy that means a lot 🙂👍🏻 I find this community very welcoming, I've received alot of good feedback and comments so far, and I appreciate the hell out of everyone who watches these videos and send me messages. Hopefully the channel will take off in a big way soon 🙂👍🏻 and this fish will grow abit bigger 😅
Can we use clay to make bricks for the chimney?
You could, you might find it alot heavier once assembled and harder to texture. But give it a try, see what you can create 🙂👍🏻
What are the brick stamps from?
Probably one of the most asked questions ever 😅It's just a piece of rectangular shaped styrene tube 🙂 I have a few different shapes to simulate irregular bricks. Anything harder than foam and about the right size will suffice 👍🏻
Where did you buy your brick stamp from please
😅 it's just a piece of styrene rectangular tube (a few different sizes and shapes) you can find them on ebay or in hobby shops. Alternatively you can just use anything that's hard enough to make a decent impression in XPS foam 😀👍🏻
@@irongryphon thanks