I just went to Amazon and looked up 15mm coupler and got under "customers also viewed" chipboard sheets, silly straws, plastic aquarium undergravel filter board, start collecting Space Marines...
@@MidwinterMinis The Plastic connector pieces for PEX piping would also work well, though you'd need to take a hobby saw to them. PEX itself is great since it can be cut and shaped with wire cutters and pliers, so you can create busted or exploded pipes and have them connected to your PVC pipes with super-glue. I have not yet checked to see how well they take paint yet since I've not had time.
So when I look up aquarium gravel filters suddenly I'm swamped by suggestions to look at chipboard, silly straws and copper 15mm couplings. You folks have budged the algorithm.
I'm such a hobby veteran, that I remember the times very well, when GW didn't even had terrain-kits and encouraged costom building your own. I love it.
this is so true, as a kid i remember one of the GW staff members showing me and a friend how to make a Foam brick wall, recently ive been working on a sylvaneth army and im being told ill need to buy 3 trees for $100.. how times have changed indeed XD
they still do encourage custom building of terrain. they even let you bring 3D printed terrain, so long as you printed it yourself and went to the effort of making it. The terrain they sell is just a way to cash in on people who are new to this sort of hobby and have no basic tools or other things with which to make really cool custom terrain.
@@TheGrammargestapo1 It might just be my local shop, his a nice guy but just a real salesman and perhaps a GW loyalist haha. I guess that is his job but I just refuse to spend that kind of money on terrain, and didnt really appreciate him telling me id need the wildwoods pack if i wanted to play wargames at GW. This probably doesnt speak for all shops and all staff members ofc :)
@@aaronjones4397 my local GW shop loves to let people bring their own terrain, and the official tournament rules allow it too on GW's website. you can bring home made terrain to actual tournaments and it's all kosher. sounds like he may just misunderstand the policy. They're pretty serious about wanting you to build your own though. they don't like it when you buy other peoples.
Polystyrene end pieces out of electrical goods boxes. Plaster of paris poured into a bucket of sand mould, for assorted domes and towers. Wedding cake pillars. Aquarium skulls and rock outcrops and plastic plants. Scaletrix roads and model railway trees. Empty Tincans and cut up drinks bottles, yogurt pots and deodorant can lids. We didn't have ebay or terrain kits in our day XD
THIS is why i fell in love with 40k as a teenager. Building your own world to play in was just as much part of the fun as the minis, the lore or actually playing the damn game. Long weekends of creativity, painting, making a mess with glue, searching trashcans and the woods outdoors for materials, drinking iced tea and listening to music with friends... good times.
@@MidwinterMinis are they toys or what? I don't have them in my country, but maybe a visit to they toy shop is in store? (Not that I need an excuse for that)
@@theandf Its a straw kit you put together to drink with. You're probably better off looking online for them. Even in the US I've never seen them in a physical store, only online!
FYI, I found them in Amazon as build a straw or DIY straw and there are tons of options - super helpful. Between them and the gravel filter walkways, I've got an industrial zone in the works! Thanks!
I find a lot of terrain guides try to make it sound like they're really easy, but they actually require you to have all sorts of specific extra tools/materials on hand. These legitimately seem like I could just go and build them once I have the key component of each piece!
I don't think thank you suffices. Such creativity from painting tutorials, game narratives, terrain. You are truly a blessing to the hobby wargaming UA-cam community!
as someone who just bought his first set (warhammer 40k recruit edition) your videos and tutorials are amazing, and this video is just genius! i had no clue what i was gonna do about terrain stuff but now i do
Little tip on foamboard cutting. Use a heavy Duty Utility Blade, and cut at low angles. Cut several pieces, then flip the blade. Have spares. Hone the blades on a piece of leather (leather has silica strands that are abrasive to steel) by finding the blade's natural cut angle, and pulling towards you and then lifting straight up in an L motion. Resist the urge to flip the blade at the end of the movement in a J motion. The edge will be destroyed otherwise.
Another Awesome vid by Midway Minis! Im BRAND SPANKING NEW at mini painting (like getting ready to start painting my 2ND MINI EVER kinda new) and watching videos like this one assure me that theres always help out there. Even when u know of literately NOONE who either paints minis or plays tabletop games, u can still find help! Thank u for making vids like this i wish ur channel the best of luck.
There's a lot more you can do for the foam sheet terrain. Cut out windows in it and use match in the middle for what used to be the window frame, you can use a very sharp pencil point to "carve" shapes into the foam (bricks, bullet holes, wood support beams,...) A good idea is to look at the terrain kits from games workshop (the cheap ones) and try and copy it out of foam (you can even make towers, or same ruins but with an upstairs floor very easily). Another thing that is very easy to do it cut out a random shape of cardboard, cover it in PVA glue and sand, then superglue some random rocks or a twig standing up, then glue some flock to it, very cheap and obviously because you use actual rocks it looks realistic. To make craters, I keep styrofoam protection from boxes (preferably a straight sheet) , and I spray it with aerosol or apply superglue to the middle and slightly less towards the edges, which melts it into a random crater shape, carve the sides, you can then cover it entirely with PVA glue, cover it in sand then you can safely paint over it.
Haha, I know right? I always forget, I don't edit my videos to meet specific time lengths or engagement criteria, I just make what I would want to see. I do like seeing dogs though...
I love this kind of stuff! When I was young I would spend all my time out of school just making whatever I could out of trash and cheap toys. I'm glad this game is giving me a chance to relive those days :)
Excellent tips. I'd seen the barrel trick before. My friend even glued a small card disc (made with a hole punch) as a bung on the lid. Those pipes are way better than bendy straws.
I dont even play any of these games but I love building terrain for my kid. I use to build dioramas for my action figure collection but that got old untill now when my skills can be repurposed to amaze a new gen of nerds👍 great tip in this video. I'm looking forward to finding the copper bits on my next trip out🍻🇨🇦
I have some ideas for you use toothpicks as fences and spiked and drill a hole in a official warhammer skulls put the skull on a toothpick and add some blood or use some old warhammer sheets for windows for a liquid effect for something you can use hot glue
I've used infamil new born instant baby milk bottles to create power generators. Old brother brand ink cartridges with the orange ink plugs and green levers to make industrial looking power switches or controllers. Screen door/mosquito mesh for fencing. Bedding cotton for fire and explosions And lastly I often use those square plastic knitting sheets for flooring or fencing
Can confirm the industrial walkways are a winner! I used a cheap auto-shop matte black and a quick burst of silver spray and they already look great :)
The black plastic bread and milk crates can be cut up to make great metal I-beam terrain. Walkways and walls are super easy with hem too. Just glue on a bit of foam core and paint.
Ultra inexpensive barrels from cardboard tubes, glue on cut rubber bands + paint @Midwinter Minis: Great vid for the DIY Warhammer fans! This stuff is great, 30 years later i still play and build. Its fun seeing this still going strong.
Wow, these are such great ideas! I actually started making my own terrain pieces a few days ago from failed 3D prints and the innards of broken electronic devices. So many possibilities!
Those pipes are awesome! So I guess I have to drive to the flying tiger shop AGAIN thanks to you! Last time I went there for the structure paste. Worked like a charme on my mdf buildings.
Not sure if someone else posted, but it may have been worth noting with the foamboard terrain that you shouldn't use spraypaint or it'll melt the foam.
You've just got yourself a sub. Tips I like to pass along when it comes to scratch building terrain is: If you have any broken or no longer used electronic devices, scavenge the hell out of it. A list of things I've managed to salvage include but not limited to: Wires, small cogs plastic and metal, transistors, leds and from my sky box a rather good sized fan.
Just popped over to Amazon to search for some brass 15mm couplers after watching this video, such a brilliant idea for DIY barrels. Under the Customers who viewed this also viewed section I was suggested DIY drinking straws and premium under gravel filter panels.
@@MidwinterMinis You are welcome. Yeah just gets to the point in a good way and some ideas I've not seen before I've got my own grand canyon themed sculpted board I did last year and while I quite like the old gw kits they don't really fit the arid raider canyon theme I'm going for with small shrubs and some custom sequoia trees etc so some of these rough and ready ideas will certainly come in handy for some terrain, I'm looking to create a few ramshackle walkways, fences and scatter terrain for it like the burn barrels etc and think this vid would be very good for inspiration so cheers
Fun idea with the silly straws: leave some clear sections unpainted and fill them with a coloured resin, then weather the outside with the rest of the build so they look like they are pumping various chemicals. fun way to add some colour to the build. Also, if you're really adventurous, you could wire up an LED in the adjoining tube for a particularly spectacular piece of kit.
waaaagh.... this is perfect.. that wood path was beautiful, and can be used for a roof, or door, maybe sink it into the terrain a bit for a muddy semi sunken path..
That was great fun. I'd suggest adding bill boards too; simple to make and create large line of sight blocking silhouettes without taking up too much tabletop real estate.
As a gamer table top gamer, crafter, and terrain builder I find this video inspiring. I pretty much know about how to do pretty much all of these but I never would have thought about the coupler for berrels and the crazy straw kits for piping. Now I want to buy some and help my terrain builing
These are awesome ideas, I love the silly straw pipe lines one. I was even thinking I can take some of the imperial Aquila from the space marine drop pod and add them to the fish tank walk ways
I just watched another painting report and realised the benefits of your speed painting techniques. While they don't do enough for me they do get the basics down which allow me to get the detail in, more so than you do. By detail I mean I like to pick out webing and ammo which normally carry their own colour. And being slightly masochistic I like to paint the link for the rounds which usually appears as cloth on the models. But in any event your techniques certainly allow a guy to get an army on the battle field.
Great vid, good scenery doesn't need to cost huge $$$. Starting 40k from the original rogue trader, we had to build everything back then. On ruins you can use toothpicks or thin plastic rod sticking out of the broken edges of the walls to simulate broken reinforcing rods.
This video is simply fantastic. I don't have access to every material you mentioned, but I sure do have popsicle sticks and foamboard! Fantastic ideas.
Love the channel and great video! I have used the lolly sticks and MDF board for scenery building before, I plan on adopting the aquarium mesh filter walkways and build your own silly straw kits for pipes to make the scenery. Oh and also the barrels! Great job!
great video I will definitely try this out! you should do more videos like these it seems simple stuff but perfect for beginners like me looking for affordable terrain
by the way for walls like in your foamboard ruins the exposed edges aren't even too bad, simply claim they represent the rough concrete while the card faces are some kinda smooth plaster ;)
Love the idea of using couplers for barrels but where I am it's so much cheaper buying barrels from a model kit. For a $10 Tamiya model kit I can get 6 barrels, 9 Jerry cans and 4 buckets. But a cheap copper coupling at 15mm is $3-$5 each.
If you paint the end of the burnt sticks in the barrel with a light grey and then use a toothpick to hit the edges with bright orange it gives the look they’re still embered
I remember the entry in the original Rogue Trader rule book where GW recommend getting a taste for milky bedtime drinks as the terrain they where using was made from “Horlicks” & “Ovaltine” drink containers😆 I use Pringles tubes cut to various heights or cut across at a angle to provide a large part buried terrain pieces just sticking out from the surface
I just went to Amazon and looked up 15mm coupler and got under "customers also viewed" chipboard sheets, silly straws, plastic aquarium undergravel filter board, start collecting Space Marines...
same
@@JamesLongTheDude Lmao ok other me account.
Same
@@wierdling928?
@@sparkshark9697 That was a account i used to use, i don't use it anymore.
That barrel idea is genius, I've never seen that before.
I'm always looking for kitbash ideas in hardware stores ;)
@@MidwinterMinis The Plastic connector pieces for PEX piping would also work well, though you'd need to take a hobby saw to them. PEX itself is great since it can be cut and shaped with wire cutters and pliers, so you can create busted or exploded pipes and have them connected to your PVC pipes with super-glue.
I have not yet checked to see how well they take paint yet since I've not had time.
Can't get those types of fittings in the States. We only have straight (unribbed) or the kind with two ends of a different diameter.
@@jeremysmatana2592 search msdirect for 1/2" Copper Pipe Coupling with Rolled Stop
@@MidwinterMinis if you werent big on detail you could use them just like they are
So when I look up aquarium gravel filters suddenly I'm swamped by suggestions to look at chipboard, silly straws and copper 15mm couplings. You folks have budged the algorithm.
Haha
I’m sure there are some confused aquarists out the now... :)
@@AVspectre yes
Yes i was
Now a year later i understand it
I'm such a hobby veteran, that I remember the times very well, when GW didn't even had terrain-kits and encouraged costom building your own. I love it.
this is so true, as a kid i remember one of the GW staff members showing me and a friend how to make a Foam brick wall, recently ive been working on a sylvaneth army and im being told ill need to buy 3 trees for $100.. how times have changed indeed XD
they still do encourage custom building of terrain. they even let you bring 3D printed terrain, so long as you printed it yourself and went to the effort of making it. The terrain they sell is just a way to cash in on people who are new to this sort of hobby and have no basic tools or other things with which to make really cool custom terrain.
@@TheGrammargestapo1 It might just be my local shop, his a nice guy but just a real salesman and perhaps a GW loyalist haha. I guess that is his job but I just refuse to spend that kind of money on terrain, and didnt really appreciate him telling me id need the wildwoods pack if i wanted to play wargames at GW. This probably doesnt speak for all shops and all staff members ofc :)
@@aaronjones4397 my local GW shop loves to let people bring their own terrain, and the official tournament rules allow it too on GW's website. you can bring home made terrain to actual tournaments and it's all kosher. sounds like he may just misunderstand the policy. They're pretty serious about wanting you to build your own though. they don't like it when you buy other peoples.
the creativity in this video is mind boggling
Just years and years of fiddling about ;)
Polystyrene end pieces out of electrical goods boxes.
Plaster of paris poured into a bucket of sand mould, for assorted domes and towers.
Wedding cake pillars.
Aquarium skulls and rock outcrops and plastic plants.
Scaletrix roads and model railway trees.
Empty Tincans and cut up drinks bottles, yogurt pots and deodorant can lids.
We didn't have ebay or terrain kits in our day XD
THIS is why i fell in love with 40k as a teenager. Building your own world to play in was just as much part of the fun as the minis, the lore or actually playing the damn game. Long weekends of creativity, painting, making a mess with glue, searching trashcans and the woods outdoors for materials, drinking iced tea and listening to music with friends... good times.
Why is this the first I'm hearing of silly straws?? They seem like the mini pipe holy grail
Totally! I saw them in the shop and you could probably see the lightbulb above my head for miles, haha.
@@MidwinterMinis are they toys or what? I don't have them in my country, but maybe a visit to they toy shop is in store? (Not that I need an excuse for that)
@@theandf Its a straw kit you put together to drink with. You're probably better off looking online for them. Even in the US I've never seen them in a physical store, only online!
FYI, I found them in Amazon as build a straw or DIY straw and there are tons of options - super helpful. Between them and the gravel filter walkways, I've got an industrial zone in the works! Thanks!
@@jodecisanchez8785 You can generally find them in Walmart. Usually hanging on a clipstrip down a random grocery isle.
Terrain is easily one of my favorite parts of miniature gaming.
Love your terrain videos. Keep it up.
Thank you! I totally love making terrain. I could do it all day, haha
@@MidwinterMinis me too
Yh u can really get creative and make it out of anything
I like making tank stoppers from the left over sprues
I find a lot of terrain guides try to make it sound like they're really easy, but they actually require you to have all sorts of specific extra tools/materials on hand. These legitimately seem like I could just go and build them once I have the key component of each piece!
This guy is a hero and deserves a medal for making this video
Gotta thumbs up just because of the KMFDM! This is some Ultra Terrain to go along with some Ultra Heavy Beats!
Never thought I’d be watching a video, where sensible advice was “set it on fire”
That is hands down the absolute best idea for barrels I have ever come across! Thank you!
Thanks Elijah! Quick and easy :)
@MidwinterMinis it's not in stock anymore and can't find them :(
I don't think thank you suffices. Such creativity from painting tutorials, game narratives, terrain. You are truly a blessing to the hobby wargaming UA-cam community!
as someone who just bought his first set (warhammer 40k recruit edition) your videos and tutorials are amazing, and this video is just genius! i had no clue what i was gonna do about terrain stuff but now i do
Terrain Tutor, Wyloch's Armoury and Tales of Middle-Earth are all great for tutorials if you're interested in terrain building.
You just listed all my favourites ;)
I would add black magic craft
@@nicolastousignant9160 I keep forgetting him and I've no idea why.
@@calebbilling4984 he's more into the D&D fantasy side of things, maybe thats why? That being said, the sci-fi vids he does have are quite worth it
Don't forget commisar gamza, he literally has a whole terrain from trash series that is a goldmine of ideas
How did I not think of using under gravel fish filter? Genius !
Haha, sneaky tips!
That barrel one was so ingenious my god
Little tip on foamboard cutting. Use a heavy Duty Utility Blade, and cut at low angles. Cut several pieces, then flip the blade. Have spares. Hone the blades on a piece of leather (leather has silica strands that are abrasive to steel) by finding the blade's natural cut angle, and pulling towards you and then lifting straight up in an L motion. Resist the urge to flip the blade at the end of the movement in a J motion. The edge will be destroyed otherwise.
Nice tips! Yeah, I just tend to go really easy, almost no pressure, and rarely get frayed/crushed edges :)
@@MidwinterMinis nice.
More of this! Buying terrain is so expensive and these are some awesome cheap alternatives that look fun and easy to make.
The straws idea is just golden!
I know right? So simple to make, too :)
Another Awesome vid by Midway Minis! Im BRAND SPANKING NEW at mini painting (like getting ready to start painting my 2ND MINI EVER kinda new) and watching videos like this one assure me that theres always help out there. Even when u know of literately NOONE who either paints minis or plays tabletop games, u can still find help! Thank u for making vids like this i wish ur channel the best of luck.
Thanks so much Carlos, I'm glad our videos are helping give you a bit of inspiration :)
4:38 you had me at no ads. Thank you patrons.
"you can get these literally everywhere"
Me: "I have never seen this in my entire life"
If your primer is having trouble sticking to the barrels, you might try sanding the finish down, so the primer has a more rough surface to stick to.
There's a lot more you can do for the foam sheet terrain. Cut out windows in it and use match in the middle for what used to be the window frame, you can use a very sharp pencil point to "carve" shapes into the foam (bricks, bullet holes, wood support beams,...) A good idea is to look at the terrain kits from games workshop (the cheap ones) and try and copy it out of foam (you can even make towers, or same ruins but with an upstairs floor very easily). Another thing that is very easy to do it cut out a random shape of cardboard, cover it in PVA glue and sand, then superglue some random rocks or a twig standing up, then glue some flock to it, very cheap and obviously because you use actual rocks it looks realistic. To make craters, I keep styrofoam protection from boxes (preferably a straight sheet) , and I spray it with aerosol or apply superglue to the middle and slightly less towards the edges, which melts it into a random crater shape, carve the sides, you can then cover it entirely with PVA glue, cover it in sand then you can safely paint over it.
Yeah, absolutely! This video is aimed at easy stuff for beginners to try, but those are some great ideas. Foamboard is awesome :)
The 15mm couplers for barrels is awesome.
So simple, eh? :)
Wow, that's really creative!
Oh that second edition Gretchen...
Memories, misty water coloured memories.
They're always the MVP of every game I play ;)
I have those to
when you're this dangerously close to the 10-minute mark, footage of the dog is almost mandatory
Haha, I know right? I always forget, I don't edit my videos to meet specific time lengths or engagement criteria, I just make what I would want to see. I do like seeing dogs though...
@@MidwinterMinis 7 seconds of patreon names over doge b-roll and you're golden
@@Nallenbot And use some diorama pics with his terrain and figs as background art for that roll call. Yarp. perfect, SLAANESH approves.
I love this kind of stuff! When I was young I would spend all my time out of school just making whatever I could out of trash and cheap toys. I'm glad this game is giving me a chance to relive those days :)
Excellent tips. I'd seen the barrel trick before. My friend even glued a small card disc (made with a hole punch) as a bung on the lid. Those pipes are way better than bendy straws.
Oh. smart! I should try that next time :)
The chartreuse!! I knew you were a man of culture!
I dont even play any of these games but I love building terrain for my kid. I use to build dioramas for my action figure collection but that got old untill now when my skills can be repurposed to amaze a new gen of nerds👍
great tip in this video. I'm looking forward to finding the copper bits on my next trip out🍻🇨🇦
I have some ideas for you use toothpicks as fences and spiked and drill a hole in a official warhammer skulls put the skull on a toothpick and add some blood or use some old warhammer sheets for windows for a liquid effect for something you can use hot glue
Love the clever idea for the barrels, looks so real, splendid...and simple!
Thanks Phil! I forgot to mention you can bash them with a hammer to make them look a bit dented ;)
What other DIY terrain pieces are your favourite?
Old deodorant stick bottles make wonderful skimmer tanks apparently lol
Haha, going old, OLD, OOOLD school with that one! ;)
@@MidwinterMinis sadly remember actually buying that issue. I am terribly terribly old.
Pringle can silos
I've used infamil new born instant baby milk bottles to create power generators.
Old brother brand ink cartridges with the orange ink plugs and green levers to make industrial looking power switches or controllers.
Screen door/mosquito mesh for fencing.
Bedding cotton for fire and explosions
And lastly I often use those square plastic knitting sheets for flooring or fencing
"the patreons stop to the videos to having ads!" Right after that line i got an ad. Ironical XD
Genius! Thanks for this. Will save lots of doh and give me a way of getting the kids involved, helping daddy make stuff.
Incredible video!
This one is a must-see for anybody getting into WH40k.
fantastic!
Let's do a thing, huh? :)
@@MidwinterMinis Yes please. Any ideas?
Well, color me intrigued !
I'm not into Warhammer but I'm very much into these videos, I find them relaxing and satisfying.
Some brilliant ideas in this, thank you so much. The aquarium filters are perfect for a project I'm working on, genius idea.
Can confirm the industrial walkways are a winner! I used a cheap auto-shop matte black and a quick burst of silver spray and they already look great :)
I've been in the hobby on and off for years - kicking myself every video I watch of yours ! How have I not heard of these tips before!!
Don't sweat it! Your learn something new every day :)
@@MidwinterMinis no u!
The black plastic bread and milk crates can be cut up to make great metal I-beam terrain. Walkways and walls are super easy with hem too. Just glue on a bit of foam core and paint.
Or just flip them upside down and they make great hangars! :)
Ultra inexpensive barrels from cardboard tubes, glue on cut rubber bands + paint
@Midwinter Minis: Great vid for the DIY Warhammer fans! This stuff is great, 30 years later i still play and build.
Its fun seeing this still going strong.
Absolutely, card and paperstock terrain is a whole different subject worthy of an episode :) Thanks for watching!
Wow, these are such great ideas! I actually started making my own terrain pieces a few days ago from failed 3D prints and the innards of broken electronic devices. So many possibilities!
Literally one of the best hobby videos out there.
I found that you can also stack bottle lids on each other to create amazing looking barrels.
Awesome! I’ve got a few more things to try now. I’ll be looking into getting the fittings for the barrels and the gravel trays for sure.
Those pipes are awesome! So I guess I have to drive to the flying tiger shop AGAIN thanks to you! Last time I went there for the structure paste. Worked like a charme on my mdf buildings.
Haha, who needs an excuse to go to Flying Tiger? ;)
Not sure if someone else posted, but it may have been worth noting with the foamboard terrain that you shouldn't use spraypaint or it'll melt the foam.
These are brilliant beginner tutorials that have certainly inspired me to make some of my own!
Awesome! I really enjoy your channel too. Your painting videos are lovely!
Thank you!
You've just got yourself a sub.
Tips I like to pass along when it comes to scratch building terrain is:
If you have any broken or no longer used electronic devices, scavenge the hell out of it. A list of things I've managed to salvage include but not limited to:
Wires, small cogs plastic and metal, transistors, leds and from my sky box a rather good sized fan.
Great idea! I love a good rummage in broken devices :)
My grandparents can't seem to ever throw away old phones, so there's a start
This is such a stellar video. Great, creative, inexpensive and easy ideas and the instructions are clear, quick, and concise. Thank you so much!
Wow! I wish I had this level of creativity!
Awesome ideas!
wow this is super amazing, was planning to buy 3d printer but this is amazing ideas for cheap way to do it! thank you!
I love the atmospheric music used in these videos.
I Love that KMFDM is still popular in the year of our emperor m41
Just popped over to Amazon to search for some brass 15mm couplers after watching this video, such a brilliant idea for DIY barrels. Under the Customers who viewed this also viewed section I was suggested DIY drinking straws and premium under gravel filter panels.
Haha, no way! Look at me, influencing Amazon's algorithms ;)
They still listen to KMFDM in the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium?
"ULTRA" on repeat for 38,000 years haha
@@MidwinterMinis Is that while watching StreetFighter 2 the animated movie?
YES!
I'm sure every faction has a favorite song by them. Those Khorne Bois blaring "I Want to go to Hell" in their corrupted Rhino!
Well, KFMDM is the drug against war, so...
Love the Barrels. Can't wait to try that for myself!
Thanks Josh! Yeah, they look pretty good for being so easy eh? :)
This was a really fun and inspiring video: thanks!
Where do you find those amazing tiny posters? They really add character.
I just searched for "40k posters" and there's quite a few people who have made printable A4 sheets :)
I made a wooden crate using paddle-pop (popsicle) sticks, balsa wood and hot glue, it's amazing what you can just find around or get at a craft store.
Quickest and most simple (in a good way terrain Tutorial on UA-cam, top props matey, mucho appreciated
Oh, thanks very much! It doesn't pull any punches, huh? Nice and snappy.
@@MidwinterMinis You are welcome. Yeah just gets to the point in a good way and some ideas I've not seen before I've got my own grand canyon themed sculpted board I did last year and while I quite like the old gw kits they don't really fit the arid raider canyon theme I'm going for with small shrubs and some custom sequoia trees etc so some of these rough and ready ideas will certainly come in handy for some terrain, I'm looking to create a few ramshackle walkways, fences and scatter terrain for it like the burn barrels etc and think this vid would be very good for inspiration so cheers
I'm actually gonna go to the hardware store now for that barrel trick, that's so cool.
Nice! Good luck :)
Fun idea with the silly straws: leave some clear sections unpainted and fill them with a coloured resin, then weather the outside with the rest of the build so they look like they are pumping various chemicals. fun way to add some colour to the build.
Also, if you're really adventurous, you could wire up an LED in the adjoining tube for a particularly spectacular piece of kit.
Nice! Or maybe make some gross, brown-stained paper and sludge filled pipes like sewage/waste pipes. Ew.
waaaagh.... this is perfect.. that wood path was beautiful, and can be used for a roof, or door, maybe sink it into the terrain a bit for a muddy semi sunken path..
Can confirm these pipe kits are wild and so good for detail on 40k terrain.
The gravel filters are very clever
Please make more videos like this! Small projects like these are great.
Thank you, it was fun to make!
Right in the MWM wheelhouse, cheap, easy, and with wonderful results.
Haha, that's my thing! :D
Very well spoken video and epic idea for the barrels!!!!!
Thanks very much! The barrels are awesome, eh?
That was great fun. I'd suggest adding bill boards too; simple to make and create large line of sight blocking silhouettes without taking up too much tabletop real estate.
Great idea! Maybe for part 2 ;)
Wow, this video is a blessing.
It really helps with my prep work for a convention at the end of the year, saving me time.
Thanks.
Nice! Glad we could help. Have fun at the convention :)
Fantastic! The barrels look great. Aquarium gravel filters are a great tip too!
The simplest are always the best, eh? :)
As a gamer table top gamer, crafter, and terrain builder I find this video inspiring. I pretty much know about how to do pretty much all of these but I never would have thought about the coupler for berrels and the crazy straw kits for piping. Now I want to buy some and help my terrain builing
Nice one, Joe! Glad you were able to get some ideas from this :)
@@MidwinterMinis thank you and you're welcome.
Great tips ! Immersion is everything. Oh.....And you will know us by the trail of dead ! Impeccable taste 👌
Haha, thanks mate, I knew I could count on you to share my musical perversions ;)
These are awesome ideas, I love the silly straw pipe lines one. I was even thinking I can take some of the imperial Aquila from the space marine drop pod and add them to the fish tank walk ways
I just watched another painting report and realised the benefits of your speed painting techniques. While they don't do enough for me they do get the basics down which allow me to get the detail in, more so than you do. By detail I mean I like to pick out webing and ammo which normally carry their own colour. And being slightly masochistic I like to paint the link for the rounds which usually appears as cloth on the models. But in any event your techniques certainly allow a guy to get an army on the battle field.
Thx for the aquarium filter tip
You're welcome! :)
Those gravel filters are an amazing idea!
Pretty wicked, right?... and so easy!
Some great ideas guys! The silly strew pipes blow my mind! 😂 definitely will be giving that a go! 👌
So simple, so effective! :)
Love the KMFDM shout out on the Junk Wall lol Haven't heard anything from them in years. Love the ideas, Cheers from Canada!
Great vid, good scenery doesn't need to cost huge $$$. Starting 40k from the original rogue trader, we had to build everything back then. On ruins you can use toothpicks or thin plastic rod sticking out of the broken edges of the walls to simulate broken reinforcing rods.
This video is simply fantastic. I don't have access to every material you mentioned, but I sure do have popsicle sticks and foamboard! Fantastic ideas.
Thank you very much Andrés, I found nearly all of the stuff on eBay, so you might want to give that a try :)
Love the trail of dead reference 🙌🙌
Love the channel and great video! I have used the lolly sticks and MDF board for scenery building before, I plan on adopting the aquarium mesh filter walkways and build your own silly straw kits for pipes to make the scenery. Oh and also the barrels! Great job!
Nice! Glad you found this useful Christopher :)
great video I will definitely try this out! you should do more videos like these it seems simple stuff but perfect for beginners like me looking for affordable terrain
Nice KMFDM nod on the wall piece!
by the way for walls like in your foamboard ruins the exposed edges aren't even too bad, simply claim they represent the rough concrete while the card faces are some kinda smooth plaster ;)
Cool! Im gonna buy myself some aquarium filters!!
There's quite a few types too, so you can mix and match! :)
The undergravel idea is great! I have loads of that stuff that I’ll be using for a Neca Alien Diorama
Loving the sci fi flooring pipework and barrel scenarios will put this to good use..thks
Love the idea of using couplers for barrels but where I am it's so much cheaper buying barrels from a model kit. For a $10 Tamiya model kit I can get 6 barrels, 9 Jerry cans and 4 buckets. But a cheap copper coupling at 15mm is $3-$5 each.
Wowzers, yeah, in that case kits are probably best for you! :)
Great ideas! I will be making some barrels and pipe lines to spice up my battle mat for sure
If you paint the end of the burnt sticks in the barrel with a light grey and then use a toothpick to hit the edges with bright orange it gives the look they’re still embered
I remember the entry in the original Rogue Trader rule book where GW recommend getting a taste for milky bedtime drinks as the terrain they where using was made from “Horlicks” & “Ovaltine” drink containers😆
I use Pringles tubes cut to various heights or cut across at a angle to provide a large part buried terrain pieces just sticking out from the surface
Yeah! I've got a huge collection of large coffee containers that I'll transform into a chemical works at some point :)