SUGGESTION: when installing the granny grating, cut the horizontal bits out at the base to make it appear like the sharp points of a hollywood portcullis.
That makes sense but you're losing structure by doing that. Better to have the whole bottom glued. Especially since the top and sides are probably going to have to be shaped to the doorway.
I have such incredible respect for your art and skill, sir, so it is truly awesome watching you turn back time, reboot for the benefits of new players, and show off all you have learned from way back when to right here right now. You and your channel are something and someone the creators of the game would appreciate/love/adore/use in the basement with their friends. Thank you for all the gifts over the years. Bravo!
The whole set looks really impressive, I love the colour scheme. I agree that weighting things down with screws, nuts and washers, etc, is a very useful technique, especially for putting on top of tiles or other places where magnets aren't an option. I like that these pieces are easy to build as well, nice and approachable for a first try at tabletop crafting.
If you laid down some clear fishing line from the top of the fountain and then poured it the same way you may be left with a nice waterfall effect. Depends on the optical properties of the fishing line. Possibly optical cable may be better as it could possibly 'dissappear' when the resin cures.
The staircases *might* be OK after all. One reason for them to go clockwise was to be better able to defend the stairs against intruders - so in towers, you would want the staircase goind counter clockwise, so that a defender in the upper stairs could better strike an attacker (being right-handed), while the attacker would have his swings blocked by the staircase (being right handed). Now, you wouldn't expect attackers coming out of the dungeon, so the direction would see the counter clockwise, but with the stairs going up from the defenders point of view.
I'm sure others may have pointed it out, but for the fountain you could chuck in bits of leaves or sand or bones for effects. Also add hot glue drops to the side to suggest overflowing. Well done as always
I do not game, but it looks like a lot of fun. Your projects are interesting, intelligent and well executed. I could watch your videos all day. Good job
i was thinking for a versatile piece to occasionally elevate my 3x3 or 4x4 tiles and the alcove one seems very functional, it can be placed under them as a "bridge" shape to simulate a canal or a sewer or even used as a pillar. You have my gratitude for the inspiration
Regarding the direction of the spiral staircases; you can just say that the people in your world tend to be left-handed rather than right-handed. This terrain looks great.
For anyone withour a reliable way to hotwire foam, the circular stairs could probably be mimicked with flat wooden discs from the craft store and hand cut foam sections layered om each step!
so fresh and crisp! I picked up minwax satin from Jeremy at BMC. that works quite well with foam. also Krylon matte fixative (for pencil and charcoal drawing) is safe for the paint and you can use it on miniatures. its highly toxic however. use a mask
Diversity of tiles is great way to add realism to a map. I love the pan out of everything you've done so far. It's great with your specific dungeons or with random dungeons. The scale of seeing a full table (or a garage floor) is a wonderful visual.
Dude, I like it. I crafted the same kind of terrain (almost exactly) but made of thick cardboard and painfully covered with egg carton bricks or rock texture (for caves). It was a nightmare, but saved me during the long, boring lockdowns here in italy. I made also "urban stacking blocks": 1x4 or 1x2 boxes (both 2 inches high) with tudor house stucco, wooden beams, stone bricks, doors, windows ecc. They are very useful, because you can quickly set up an urban encounter, without having tall buildings blocking the view at the table and providing all fancy details of a classic medieval town. Try that stuff, if you like.
I still remember my first experience sealing and frosting. Was my warmahordes bastions. I've never sealed anything since lol. I'm sure part of it was doing it in the bathtub, middle of summer, in the south. Humidity bad.
If you are having issues getting the screws to line up easily, I have used nails to do similar; specifically picture frame nails (I think that's what they are called). What's great is I could just push them in that way; I did not need a screwdriver or other tool.
Just getting my eyes on these videos awesome work, something I thought you might like is sprial staircases historically went both ways, ascending clockwise pre 300 AD and counter clockwise after realizing that if you were coming down the stairs defending with one hand and holding on with the opposite that most people were right handed and it needed to change.
If this is a dungeon, the adventurers are descending into it, in which case the defending monsters would want the spiral stairs the way you have them, so they can stab upward right-handed, while the adventurers have to work left-handed. It mainly makes a difference when there's a central column to the spiral staircase, anyway.
The counterclockwise stairs have been built historicaly by a left-handed defender. Example is the Kerr family of southern Scotland. It was so prominent in that family that the term "Kerr handed" became slang name for Lefties or anything built with one in mind.
Like the builds again..I'm not huge into tiles..like mr.rogers I need buildings,made/bought some cool maps..building a really detail multi use town at moment..good video
Your spiral stair case direction is technically correct to go counter clockwise. There are several castles near me and almost all the staircases are counter clockwise. But there is a belief that the clockwise ones provided some advantage to defenders, although this comes from some obscure writings years ago and has been accepted as fact. The truth is if a sieging army had already reached the stairs of your keep, the battle was over.
Since you were doing a resin pour for the fountain I would have been tempted to put things like rocks, rusty weapons, skulls, bones, and maybe a hidden gem in the bottom.
Them’s some fancy prancy words ya done used there, bud. NICE BUILD as always. I love your stuff so much. Your edutainment is TOP NOTCH. /insert fancy schmancy words here. ;)
I've noticed that the floors and "walls" blend together too closely. Maybe a brown or green wash over one or the other to distinguish them better? I think I would do a brown wash over the floors as they would be dirtier...
I was thinking the same thing, though rather than a full wash over the floor tiles, doing gradual shading towards the bottom quarter/eighth of the vertical pieces could help them stand out more, without completely redoing your colour scheme. Sort of like the shading on the staircase, but less intense.
There is a srtonghold in the north of England where the spiral staircase is the wrong way around like yours.It is because the family was predominantly left handed, making it easier for them to use thier swords on it.
Also the reason for the direction of spiral staircases is so that if you are right handed and retreating up into a tower you can swing freely but if you are attacking up you would not. If this is a dungeon where the designers intended for a fighting retreat to be going lower and lower it would be the opposite, assuming that it is designed around right handed populations.
Your stairs are actually right for the context of a dungeon. Castles are built for defending against attacks from the bottom up. In dungeons it’s from the top down so it would be reasonable that the stairs would spiral the opposite direction.
I'd say you might want left and right hand spiral staircases, depending. Think which hand holds a handrail as you walk up the stairs. Say you've got towers as part of fortifications. Attackers may be trying to climb the stairs while defenders are above them. You want the stairs to spiral in a direction that frees the arms of the defenders, but hampers that of the attackers. That means if the stairs are outside, they should spiral clockwise. If inside, spiral counter-clockwise. When do you reverse that? When the stairs descend into the defenders, it's even more important because they're at a height disadvantage.
Castle spiral staircases expect the attacker to come up to the defenders, a dungeon spiral staircase would expect attack from above so would have the opposite spiral.
The fountain is super cool, I wish some drips remained, but I guess hot glue could work after. And yes, authentic CASTLE spiral stairs went up clockwise as an added defenders advantage since most warriors were right-handed.. Simple genius! However as the castle scales upward, the dungeon scales DOWNWARD, and having counterclockwise stairs instead gives defenders advantage to the lower level.. Therefore your spirals ARE authentic for dungeons, imo.
Yep, know what I'm doing once I finish the pile of plast-craft sci-fi terrain I picked up cheap - a return to fantasy and pieces for good old dungeon crawls (that also work for OPR, RoSD and Frostgrave) - and the modularity will make storage so easy (extra big win there)
As we talk about dungeon essentials I was wondering if you wanted to try something I want to do for a ruined city build: turning a barbie into a Ashara/elf goddess statue. The idea would be to shave the head and hack the legs to then mount on a pink foam "dress base" then use epoxy putty to sculpt hair and a dress. It's heavily inspired by Eric's space marine conversion but definatly something any dnd game could use
Assuming your stairs are BELOW ground level they are build correctly as the attacker would be proceeding down not up placing the attackers dword arm against the central support limiting them to thrusts while the defender at a lower level has a full range of arm motion.
Really enjoying this series! I have to admit, I'm still a fan of the walls and the old way with the larger grid, but I am also liking this stone technique. It should be fairly simple to apply this to the 1.25" grid/2.5d dungeon for a hybrid of the two. As far as suggestions for stuff to make, what about torture devices, and/or stuff for an evil dungeon? Looking forward to the next video in the series.
Fantastic work as always, your videos are the best man. Really awesome seeing all this come together and how you take pretty basic cheap stuff and turn it into perfect stand ins of things like stairs and iron grating. For the fountain I think maybe trying some hot glue connections from the top to the bottom may have made a little structure for the resin to stick to, wonder how it would have turned out maybe good.... maybe mess from hell lol.
If you want the pool/fountain to be even more amazing you could try the dragon’s eye technique for a final layer of the resin pour - plenty of UA-cam videos from (mostly) women creating drinks coasters.
Always happy to see your videos, long live the "grafix medium" marines chapter. How about his crafting ideas: Fake spiral staircase embedded in a wall Fake downward staircase embedded in the ground. Tombs/coffins in the walls like a mausoleum, like in Indiana Jones Glorious plinth holding a magical weapon. Armor stand Magical object encased in an ornate glass box
Direction of spiral staircases only really matters if they have an intended use. If the 'defenders' are meant to be downstairs, they should go up counter-clockwise. If the 'defenders' are meant to be upstairs, then the opposite. Basically assumption is that the owner of the place where the stairs are built is right-handed and they want to use spiral stairs as a defensive object. Doesn't really matter for DnD, most players won't notice or care; or ya know, you can always make more ;p
Awesome video as always, Wyloch! Have you ever shown your homemade circle jig? I would personally appreciate hearing about how it works conceptually and possibly how to put one together for myself :D
I haven't looked it up but I assume with spiral staircases you would want right handed defenders to have every advantage not right handed attackers, For an underground area your staircase works just fine but for the high ground in a castle they would need to be reversed.
Love it all man great video again! If you have already i cant find it but do you have a video on your thrift engineering of your toolset? if not can you do a video on your home made jigs and such for your hotwire? I love drooling on shifting lands page but i dont want a 2nd mortgage. thanks sir!
GREAT Stuff good sir.!.!.! The next time that you do a fountain, like you did at Time Stamp 12:00 (ish), you could pour some of the resin on a non-stick surface, in a really rough, circular shape, with lots of random "protrusions" so that it's not round, and let it begin to set up for a bit, and then peel it off the surface, and then lay it over the top of the fountain, so that it appears to be water flowing over the rim. It's been done in a lot of diorama builds that are out there, and they use it to simulate waterfalls and such. =)
SUGGESTION: when installing the granny grating, cut the horizontal bits out at the base to make it appear like the sharp points of a hollywood portcullis.
That makes sense but you're losing structure by doing that. Better to have the whole bottom glued. Especially since the top and sides are probably going to have to be shaped to the doorway.
Bill, you’re killing me, abusing that poor soldering iron!
Fountain ⛲️ tip: use clear jewelry or fishing line and UV resin to get drips and run off. Or plastic wrap for water fall effects.
Ooooh! Great idea! I'm going to try that when I make a fountain. Thanks a lot!
I have such incredible respect for your art and skill, sir, so it is truly awesome watching you turn back time, reboot for the benefits of new players, and show off all you have learned from way back when to right here right now. You and your channel are something and someone the creators of the game would appreciate/love/adore/use in the basement with their friends. Thank you for all the gifts over the years. Bravo!
Thank you kindly
I really like the upside down glass bottom as the fountain! That works beautifully!
The whole set looks really impressive, I love the colour scheme. I agree that weighting things down with screws, nuts and washers, etc, is a very useful technique, especially for putting on top of tiles or other places where magnets aren't an option. I like that these pieces are easy to build as well, nice and approachable for a first try at tabletop crafting.
If you laid down some clear fishing line from the top of the fountain and then poured it the same way you may be left with a nice waterfall effect. Depends on the optical properties of the fishing line. Possibly optical cable may be better as it could possibly 'dissappear' when the resin cures.
The staircases *might* be OK after all. One reason for them to go clockwise was to be better able to defend the stairs against intruders - so in towers, you would want the staircase goind counter clockwise, so that a defender in the upper stairs could better strike an attacker (being right-handed), while the attacker would have his swings blocked by the staircase (being right handed).
Now, you wouldn't expect attackers coming out of the dungeon, so the direction would see the counter clockwise, but with the stairs going up from the defenders point of view.
Beat me to it. Well done.
I'm sure others may have pointed it out, but for the fountain you could chuck in bits of leaves or sand or bones for effects. Also add hot glue drops to the side to suggest overflowing. Well done as always
I love foreshadowing! 0:28 gives a preview of 9:50. It's like Chekhov's Glue Gun!
Great video, thanks!
I do not game, but it looks like a lot of fun. Your projects are interesting, intelligent and well executed. I could watch your videos all day. Good job
i was thinking for a versatile piece to occasionally elevate my 3x3 or 4x4 tiles and the alcove one seems very functional, it can be placed under them as a "bridge" shape to simulate a canal or a sewer or even used as a pillar. You have my gratitude for the inspiration
Regarding the direction of the spiral staircases; you can just say that the people in your world tend to be left-handed rather than right-handed.
This terrain looks great.
Nah fam.
They're just defending against people coming down into the dungeon.
@@benjaminholcomb9478 😆😆😆😆
For anyone withour a reliable way to hotwire foam, the circular stairs could probably be mimicked with flat wooden discs from the craft store and hand cut foam sections layered om each step!
Finally a use for the giant can of random screws I’ve saved!
so fresh and crisp! I picked up minwax satin from Jeremy at BMC. that works quite well with foam. also Krylon matte fixative (for pencil and charcoal drawing) is safe for the paint and you can use it on miniatures. its highly toxic however. use a mask
Don't know how I missed this video but at least I've seen it now; very good video, highly enjoyable.
I know I've said this before but I'm glad that you're back. I hope you are doing well.
Diversity of tiles is great way to add realism to a map.
I love the pan out of everything you've done so far. It's great with your specific dungeons or with random dungeons. The scale of seeing a full table (or a garage floor) is a wonderful visual.
Love the pool! Drips of resin on fine nylon (fishing) line would add even more
Your style continues to inspire me.
That proxon fence jig is awesome
Great video. That fountain pour was mesmerizing.
Dude, I like it.
I crafted the same kind of terrain (almost exactly) but made of thick cardboard and painfully covered with egg carton bricks or rock texture (for caves).
It was a nightmare, but saved me during the long, boring lockdowns here in italy.
I made also "urban stacking blocks": 1x4 or 1x2 boxes (both 2 inches high) with tudor house stucco, wooden beams, stone bricks, doors, windows ecc.
They are very useful, because you can quickly set up an urban encounter, without having tall buildings blocking the view at the table and providing all fancy details of a classic medieval town.
Try that stuff, if you like.
I still remember my first experience sealing and frosting. Was my warmahordes bastions. I've never sealed anything since lol. I'm sure part of it was doing it in the bathtub, middle of summer, in the south. Humidity bad.
This dungeon set is turning out great. I love the hidden door! Also, your method of finding the center of the circle is going to be very useful.
If you are having issues getting the screws to line up easily, I have used nails to do similar; specifically picture frame nails (I think that's what they are called). What's great is I could just push them in that way; I did not need a screwdriver or other tool.
The direction of the spiral staircase is perfect for the southern hemisphere
Yeah, the screw trick is nice. I don't know if it's the best, but it adds a nice strong core aswell for spindly bits.
I have SO much of your stuff I "need" to craft now XD thanks for another great project to add to it lol!
I’m loving all of these, they take me back.
Im absolutely loving this series!!!
I haven't watched this channel in far too long
SCREWS!! Thank you! That’s what I’ve been missing!
Just getting my eyes on these videos awesome work, something I thought you might like is sprial staircases historically went both ways, ascending clockwise pre 300 AD and counter clockwise after realizing that if you were coming down the stairs defending with one hand and holding on with the opposite that most people were right handed and it needed to change.
Congratulations on your mirror dimension dudgeon stairs.
Fantastic work as always Wyloch.
If this is a dungeon, the adventurers are descending into it, in which case the defending monsters would want the spiral stairs the way you have them, so they can stab upward right-handed, while the adventurers have to work left-handed. It mainly makes a difference when there's a central column to the spiral staircase, anyway.
The counterclockwise stairs have been built historicaly by a left-handed defender. Example is the Kerr family of southern Scotland. It was so prominent in that family that the term "Kerr handed" became slang name for Lefties or anything built with one in mind.
Always a pleasure
I'm loving this series. It's motivating me more than any other Wyloch videos have to craft dungeon tiles.
That's a sweet thumbnail, man. Very striking
I love the fountain
Excellent as always. Thank you!
Like the builds again..I'm not huge into tiles..like mr.rogers I need buildings,made/bought some cool maps..building a really detail multi use town at moment..good video
Your spiral stair case direction is technically correct to go counter clockwise. There are several castles near me and almost all the staircases are counter clockwise. But there is a belief that the clockwise ones provided some advantage to defenders, although this comes from some obscure writings years ago and has been accepted as fact. The truth is if a sieging army had already reached the stairs of your keep, the battle was over.
Awesome work !!
Since you were doing a resin pour for the fountain I would have been tempted to put things like rocks, rusty weapons, skulls, bones, and maybe a hidden gem in the bottom.
Amazing and fun!
Fantastic stuff!!!
Them’s some fancy prancy words ya done used there, bud. NICE BUILD as always. I love your stuff so much. Your edutainment is TOP NOTCH. /insert fancy schmancy words here. ;)
I really love the aesthetic these tiles and addons have!
these look great!
I've noticed that the floors and "walls" blend together too closely. Maybe a brown or green wash over one or the other to distinguish them better? I think I would do a brown wash over the floors as they would be dirtier...
I was thinking the same thing, though rather than a full wash over the floor tiles, doing gradual shading towards the bottom quarter/eighth of the vertical pieces could help them stand out more, without completely redoing your colour scheme. Sort of like the shading on the staircase, but less intense.
Beautiful work as always !
Great video. I'm really enjoying this series and new tile style.
Amazing as always. Your precision & art work always blows me away....
Wow just amazing work sir. Hope to see more soon.
This project just keeps getting better, your creativity is amazing, I look forward to each upcoming episode!
Cool that you are Back dude!
Beautiful stuff! The fountain looks dope :)
This is so helpful, and looks great!
There is a srtonghold in the north of England where the spiral staircase is the wrong way around like yours.It is because the family was predominantly left handed, making it easier for them to use thier swords on it.
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Great video! Thanks for all the good tips!
Also the reason for the direction of spiral staircases is so that if you are right handed and retreating up into a tower you can swing freely but if you are attacking up you would not. If this is a dungeon where the designers intended for a fighting retreat to be going lower and lower it would be the opposite, assuming that it is designed around right handed populations.
Your stairs are actually right for the context of a dungeon. Castles are built for defending against attacks from the bottom up. In dungeons it’s from the top down so it would be reasonable that the stairs would spiral the opposite direction.
I’ve never seen anything like this before
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I'd say you might want left and right hand spiral staircases, depending. Think which hand holds a handrail as you walk up the stairs. Say you've got towers as part of fortifications. Attackers may be trying to climb the stairs while defenders are above them. You want the stairs to spiral in a direction that frees the arms of the defenders, but hampers that of the attackers. That means if the stairs are outside, they should spiral clockwise. If inside, spiral counter-clockwise.
When do you reverse that? When the stairs descend into the defenders, it's even more important because they're at a height disadvantage.
great video
Castle spiral staircases expect the attacker to come up to the defenders, a dungeon spiral staircase would expect attack from above so would have the opposite spiral.
Congrats on reaching 100k!!!!
The fountain is super cool, I wish some drips remained, but I guess hot glue could work after. And yes, authentic CASTLE spiral stairs went up clockwise as an added defenders advantage since most warriors were right-handed.. Simple genius! However as the castle scales upward, the dungeon scales DOWNWARD, and having counterclockwise stairs instead gives defenders advantage to the lower level.. Therefore your spirals ARE authentic for dungeons, imo.
12:29 you can use some quick UV resin to make the drops and it would be OP.
You could also use the alcoves as sewers. Would need to make junction pieces though.
Yep, know what I'm doing once I finish the pile of plast-craft sci-fi terrain I picked up cheap - a return to fantasy and pieces for good old dungeon crawls (that also work for OPR, RoSD and Frostgrave) - and the modularity will make storage so easy (extra big win there)
this video is amazing such good techiques and presentation Nice !
As we talk about dungeon essentials I was wondering if you wanted to try something I want to do for a ruined city build: turning a barbie into a Ashara/elf goddess statue. The idea would be to shave the head and hack the legs to then mount on a pink foam "dress base" then use epoxy putty to sculpt hair and a dress.
It's heavily inspired by Eric's space marine conversion but definatly something any dnd game could use
I see you happened to have your thesaurus out when you wrote the intro. Lol
Great video and crafting!
this is making me want to do this again
I really like the look of this stone the more I look at it. Really loving such a simple portcullis and fountain as well! Ambrosial as fuck 😎👌
I love this channel
Love these features. "God's gift to humanity". That made me laugh! However, I thought that was crafters like you, Bill. (Deploy the cheese) 😁
Assuming your stairs are BELOW ground level they are build correctly as the attacker would be proceeding down not up placing the attackers dword arm against the central support limiting them to thrusts while the defender at a lower level has a full range of arm motion.
Really enjoying this series! I have to admit, I'm still a fan of the walls and the old way with the larger grid, but I am also liking this stone technique. It should be fairly simple to apply this to the 1.25" grid/2.5d dungeon for a hybrid of the two. As far as suggestions for stuff to make, what about torture devices, and/or stuff for an evil dungeon? Looking forward to the next video in the series.
You could try to use glue on the founton for water going to the lower part of the founton. (I know founton is probably wrong)
Fantastic work as always, your videos are the best man. Really awesome seeing all this come together and how you take pretty basic cheap stuff and turn it into perfect stand ins of things like stairs and iron grating. For the fountain I think maybe trying some hot glue connections from the top to the bottom may have made a little structure for the resin to stick to, wonder how it would have turned out maybe good.... maybe mess from hell lol.
If you want the pool/fountain to be even more amazing you could try the dragon’s eye technique for a final layer of the resin pour - plenty of UA-cam videos from (mostly) women creating drinks coasters.
Always happy to see your videos, long live the "grafix medium" marines chapter. How about his crafting ideas:
Fake spiral staircase embedded in a wall
Fake downward staircase embedded in the ground.
Tombs/coffins in the walls like a mausoleum, like in Indiana Jones
Glorious plinth holding a magical weapon.
Armor stand
Magical object encased in an ornate glass box
Direction of spiral staircases only really matters if they have an intended use.
If the 'defenders' are meant to be downstairs, they should go up counter-clockwise.
If the 'defenders' are meant to be upstairs, then the opposite.
Basically assumption is that the owner of the place where the stairs are built is right-handed and they want to use spiral stairs as a defensive object.
Doesn't really matter for DnD, most players won't notice or care; or ya know, you can always make more ;p
Very kool
Awesome video as always, Wyloch! Have you ever shown your homemade circle jig? I would personally appreciate hearing about how it works conceptually and possibly how to put one together for myself :D
I have not, I will soon!
I haven't looked it up but I assume with spiral staircases you would want right handed defenders to have every advantage not right handed attackers, For an underground area your staircase works just fine but for the high ground in a castle they would need to be reversed.
That is exactly why spital staircase corkscrewed clockwise going upwards. 👍
Well that's more projects to put on the back burner
Would be awesome if we cout get a Tutorial for the Circle Jig
I love the quick mini project ideas. I want to start using resin for water effects. Are there small bottle options to try different brands/options?
I have only ever used art and glow. They do sell a smaller set, not the gallons that I used here. I think it's a 16oz or 32oz kit...
Love it all man great video again! If you have already i cant find it but do you have a video on your thrift engineering of your toolset? if not can you do a video on your home made jigs and such for your hotwire? I love drooling on shifting lands page but i dont want a 2nd mortgage. thanks sir!
Added to list
@@WylochsArmory yes please add the jigs!!!
GREAT Stuff good sir.!.!.! The next time that you do a fountain, like you did at Time Stamp 12:00 (ish), you could pour some of the resin on a non-stick surface, in a really rough, circular shape, with lots of random "protrusions" so that it's not round, and let it begin to set up for a bit, and then peel it off the surface, and then lay it over the top of the fountain, so that it appears to be water flowing over the rim. It's been done in a lot of diorama builds that are out there, and they use it to simulate waterfalls and such. =)
Piquant? I don't see a bowl of Tortilla Chips and Salsa ANYWHERE! ;)
As a suggestion for future builds would windows be required? Maybe stained glass or large gothic ones.