I love it! Contemplating how to make an "organic expansion" to this where a camp settlement over time has expanded into rudimentary buildings (crude storehouses, rickety barns, simple fence-and-netting walls, etc.) and, subsequently, increasingly-solid structures (stone foundations, metal-reinforced supports, brick-and-mortar outer walls, etc.).
Have you ever watched the show 'Alone'. Many of the contestants do just that. It's a pretty fun show and doesn't feel 'too fake'/over produced, course you never know with those shows.
Well, humans historically had "villeins" (villagers) living in ramshackle huts, tents and other marginal shelters just outside castles and built-up towns, so why not the non-human Bad Guys too? Such shelters would be great campsites for Bad Guy armies on the march, too.
Round-houses, storehouses on stilts, earthware ovens, shrines or worship buildings, etc. There are many little details that can be added to a settlement to show how it's been built up. Another way to mix tents with more permanent buildings is to show a _regression._ Where tent cities have been erected amidst ruined buildings. An example of this might work well with games like Mordheim or Frostgrave, where survivors make whatever shelter they can when the buildings are too unsafe to inhabit (whether through dilapidation or monsters). Or else undamaged buildings, with the tents erected by the poor, refugees, or downtrodden. Nothing serves to illustrate a disparity between the haves and have-nots like showing people living in the shadow of perfectly functional buildings they aren't allowed to shelter in.
Got right to the middle of the Duragar fortress in Rime of the Frostmaden. Then the Bard sent out a telepathic message of "we're here to rescue you" to some prisoners- and everyone else on that level. Combat lasted three sessions, for a total of almost fifteen hours, and nearly drove the GM mad.
I wanna thank you for your amazing videos! My wife and I started crafting terrains for a dnd game I will be running (Ghost of Saltmarsh) and your videos helped me gain confidence and tricks on the craft and miniatures painting techniques! Thank you very much!
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial if you like skyrim... you'll enjoy BOTW i dont, so i didnt... long time Zelda fan. dunno if they'll make BOTW2 worth the price.
I use construction paper and glue too. It's so realistic and atmospheric looking. I don't even paint it, maybe an oil wash. I just add it last and it looks totally natural. Love your carpentry on these
Cool set, pretty much universally usable. I've started using oil washes and paints recently too, so I had one question. Do you find that the dry time sometimes gets in the way of your momentum? How do you deal with that? Just leave it as a last step?
Real late to the party, but if you let your blobs of oil paint sit on the cardboard for 30 minutes or so, some of the linseed oil will leech out onto the cardboard and with that gone, it takes less time for things to dry.
One relatively easy addition to this, for those with a Dollar Tree nearby, they often have a "frontier" set of plastic cowboys. A lot of people grabbed them for D&D thanks to the wagon, but there is a campfire in it that paints up quite good and a cooking brace that's intended to go over the top of it. I haven't used the brace, but I've got several of the fires painted up...I just glued them to the 2" bases from the Deep Cuts/Nolzur's minis (I don't like using them with figures because they pretty much require people to grab them by the mini themselves, and since most of my other minis are based on the Reaper or similar standard bases, I had extra for terrain scatter). The campfire works great for any encampment and is large enough that it's not out of place for most larger creatures as well. And it can be plopped down for a players camp as well. Sure, the cowboys and indians and the horse for the wagon are kind of crap, but the rest of the set is a great find for a buck.
Yeah, my players in one group infiltrated an orc camp in the best way. My cousin, who played a gnome illusionist, walked into the camp and started criticizing how horrible their setup was, how terrible the location was, the fact that their weapons were old and rusty. He wouldn’t let me get a word in edgewise, not even when I was trying to say “roll initiative.” It was great.
Cool stuff! The paper leather is a good idea! Other papers actually work really well for finer cloth, too. Something to keep in mind when making curtains or bed covers.
Love the color textures and shading you're putting on the faux leather rather than the previous monotone Viking stuff. It's great fun, and inspiring, to watch your techniques evolve.
This makes me want to spend some time playing a fantasy role playing game such as AD&D. It brings back the nostalgia of those pre-Internet games that I played years ago. It would also fit on most Age of Sigmar type battlefields as scatter terrain.
I cant wait to get back to playing rpgs in person. Something like this would blow my group away!! I am also giddy to hear your thoughts on the rust! So happy that you like it 😄
I was ready to buy it, but I'm in Europe... I hope it will one day be available in Europe, as well as all of your other products, they seem almost magical.
Always awesome to see more classic-themed D&D builds you make 🔥 Love that one moment happening every time when it all gets unified, being primed in spray booth. Simple, yet such useful and immersive terrain pieces - and it's incredibly satisfying to hear your thoughts all about it. Thank you for inspiration & another great episode! 👍
Just fantastic Jeremy! I would love to camp out in any of those tents! Your work is always completely unique, and I adore that! You never cease to inspire me. Thank you so much! Lisa
Really like the hide effect! I will actually use leather scraps since I have those around anyway but I really like how you made simple construction paper look! Nicely done!
at 4:35 the wood for the tents are similar in shape to a ballista....you could make one that the bad guys have and travel with , as a protection from the good guys
Great stuff! They have a lot of modular potential, the kind of build that can fit in almost anywhere. Surround them with rocks or walls and they would make a perfect lair.
Fantastic base camp. I’ll be finishing up a 5 year campaign in December, so I think I’ll get something like this done for the start of the next campaign.
Excellent! I suspect the construction paper/water/pva technique would also work well for something like a Woodland Indian longhouse, or even an early settlers cabin where the roof is covered with bark strips. And thus an experiment is born. Cheers!
I've watching your videos for a while but recently they just came in so handy lol I make stickers and I was working on a DND set of stickers and i ended up just putting your videos on while i worked and the inspiration flowed. Amazing work from the jump as always.
Oh snap, this just made my mind go hyper with Ideas XD Damn you Muse! But really I love the channel and it brings a smile to my face even if it isn't a genre, something my country kins men always say to us is "Steel met die oog" its a Idiom direct translation is "To steal with the eye" the idiom meaning is to keep an eye on your mentor or teacher's and copy their technic and make it your own through experimentation. So I will say again, thank you for all the tips and tricks you have given us and all the entertainment through out the channel's life and "You and your family is in my heart and send all my best wishes to them!"
Really like how this turned out. probably one of your best to date. I feel like you might be able to skip a bit of a step with some slightly lighter colored construction paper if you were speed building these. like a medium to light brown would be pretty close to where you ended up.
Yea, this time I wanted to try doing the paper after paint, but didn’t have enough brown and had to use some green. If you got a couple shades of brown and beige it would look great unpainted as a final step.
Thanks for the video! I guess this is what I'm making for this weekend's game... I already started a large 'ogre' tent from your previous video, so now I'll just add more!
Every time I've watched you use that construction paper for animal skin I want to go makes something with it. I just need to work in an appropriate excuse in the next few builds I have planned. lol Great job man, looks awesome.
This type of terrain lately is 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 Would love to see a few of your table builds incorporating like-style pieces of terrain you’ve built over the years 🙏🏼 Cheers brother!
These came together amazingly well… the amount of visual interest they add for the (apparent) time investment looks like great payoff (especially as they are versatile and easily reusable). Awesome job!
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Lots of crafters do things w/o any precautions, micronized paint, small bits of plastic, all bad for the lungs, which is why I liked seeing the emphasis on safety, you had no need to talk about it, you just set an example.
If were being honest, between this and his old builds I feel like there's alot more shortcuts being taken which is resulting in the overall build looking FAR less detailed and doesn't feel like a such effort goes into builds anymore. Like the witches hut, the slanted decayed house for example had so much effort and time put into them. Hope to see more detailed builds in the future
Looks really nice, I must try the construction paper tent method sometime. I think maybe when I get around to doing some terrain for my Angmar army, when I actually finish it 😁
i just use twigs instead of balsa wood to save money and make it look more rustic.. but yea, construction paper covered in glue really works well for leather/ coverings..
If you havent yet you should also try the modelmates moss effect. Its the same as the rust stuff but for moss. I love all the 3 different products they have. Amazing stuff :D
Really great baddie settlement. Unfortunately (not really) I'll have to do all the painting by hand. I don't mind that but it does extend the creation time. Thing is I borrowed a friend's spray paint kit and found I really suck at it LOL. Practice will not make perfect with me I'm afraid. But I like painting by hand and I am fairly good at it so I will make this set but probably one piece at a time then move to something else for a while. Between you and RP Archive you keep me pretty busy :-) Love the construction paper method. Looks more real than paper towel or TP LOL
These are GREAT, I am just starting out with making stuff like this, and I am needing a Static Grass Applicator, There are SO MANY out there, Which one would be a good one for a NEEBIE like myself?? Good But a good price as well! These things are THE BOMB That you made GAVE ME GREAT IDEAS! You SO Inspire me with your builds I SAVED IT! THE BEST!!!
I love it! Contemplating how to make an "organic expansion" to this where a camp settlement over time has expanded into rudimentary buildings (crude storehouses, rickety barns, simple fence-and-netting walls, etc.) and, subsequently, increasingly-solid structures (stone foundations, metal-reinforced supports, brick-and-mortar outer walls, etc.).
Have you ever watched the show 'Alone'. Many of the contestants do just that. It's a pretty fun show and doesn't feel 'too fake'/over produced, course you never know with those shows.
This sounds like a great campaign element, too!
The netting you get that garlic usually come in would make for a really good fishnet fence
Well, humans historically had "villeins" (villagers) living in ramshackle huts, tents and other marginal shelters just outside castles and built-up towns, so why not the non-human Bad Guys too?
Such shelters would be great campsites for Bad Guy armies on the march, too.
Round-houses, storehouses on stilts, earthware ovens, shrines or worship buildings, etc. There are many little details that can be added to a settlement to show how it's been built up.
Another way to mix tents with more permanent buildings is to show a _regression._ Where tent cities have been erected amidst ruined buildings. An example of this might work well with games like Mordheim or Frostgrave, where survivors make whatever shelter they can when the buildings are too unsafe to inhabit (whether through dilapidation or monsters).
Or else undamaged buildings, with the tents erected by the poor, refugees, or downtrodden. Nothing serves to illustrate a disparity between the haves and have-nots like showing people living in the shadow of perfectly functional buildings they aren't allowed to shelter in.
Dude, that leather technique with the construction paaper and diluted PVA is freaking slick!
Got right to the middle of the Duragar fortress in Rime of the Frostmaden. Then the Bard sent out a telepathic message of "we're here to rescue you" to some prisoners- and everyone else on that level.
Combat lasted three sessions, for a total of almost fifteen hours, and nearly drove the GM mad.
I wanna thank you for your amazing videos! My wife and I started crafting terrains for a dnd game I will be running (Ghost of Saltmarsh) and your videos helped me gain confidence and tricks on the craft and miniatures painting techniques! Thank you very much!
That paper and glue combo for leather is GENIUS
Straight out of Breath of the Wild! Amazing!
Don’t tell anyone….but I’ve never played it….or a Switch at all 🤫
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial if you like skyrim... you'll enjoy BOTW
i dont, so i didnt... long time Zelda fan. dunno if they'll make BOTW2 worth the price.
YAAAAASS more of the craft-paper-leather! I love watching this technique come together.
Adding ink to modelling compound - genius! I love that you built the lean to tents with notched joints too.
I use construction paper and glue too. It's so realistic and atmospheric looking. I don't even paint it, maybe an oil wash. I just add it last and it looks totally natural. Love your carpentry on these
Cool set, pretty much universally usable. I've started using oil washes and paints recently too, so I had one question. Do you find that the dry time sometimes gets in the way of your momentum? How do you deal with that? Just leave it as a last step?
Always a last step, and only as washes. I find the washes don’t take that long to dry, just a couple hours.
Real late to the party, but if you let your blobs of oil paint sit on the cardboard for 30 minutes or so, some of the linseed oil will leech out onto the cardboard and with that gone, it takes less time for things to dry.
One relatively easy addition to this, for those with a Dollar Tree nearby, they often have a "frontier" set of plastic cowboys. A lot of people grabbed them for D&D thanks to the wagon, but there is a campfire in it that paints up quite good and a cooking brace that's intended to go over the top of it. I haven't used the brace, but I've got several of the fires painted up...I just glued them to the 2" bases from the Deep Cuts/Nolzur's minis (I don't like using them with figures because they pretty much require people to grab them by the mini themselves, and since most of my other minis are based on the Reaper or similar standard bases, I had extra for terrain scatter).
The campfire works great for any encampment and is large enough that it's not out of place for most larger creatures as well. And it can be plopped down for a players camp as well.
Sure, the cowboys and indians and the horse for the wagon are kind of crap, but the rest of the set is a great find for a buck.
The "crap" pieces will entertain the heck out of younger kids. If you don't have one, you can ask around friends and neighbors?
Yeah, my players in one group infiltrated an orc camp in the best way. My cousin, who played a gnome illusionist, walked into the camp and started criticizing how horrible their setup was, how terrible the location was, the fact that their weapons were old and rusty. He wouldn’t let me get a word in edgewise, not even when I was trying to say “roll initiative.” It was great.
The rust paint is cool especially adding a touch of water on it after it dries to bring out even brighter rusty orange and gold tones. !
Cool stuff! The paper leather is a good idea! Other papers actually work really well for finer cloth, too. Something to keep in mind when making curtains or bed covers.
Your "quick and dirty" scatter terrain builds are always so inspirational! I always get new ideas for my D&D campaigns from them.
Love the color textures and shading you're putting on the faux leather rather than the previous monotone Viking stuff. It's great fun, and inspiring, to watch your techniques evolve.
This makes me want to spend some time playing a fantasy role playing game such as AD&D. It brings back the nostalgia of those pre-Internet games that I played years ago.
It would also fit on most Age of Sigmar type battlefields as scatter terrain.
I cant wait to get back to playing rpgs in person. Something like this would blow my group away!! I am also giddy to hear your thoughts on the rust! So happy that you like it 😄
I was ready to buy it, but I'm in Europe...
I hope it will one day be available in Europe, as well as all of your other products, they seem almost magical.
@@axelstengel9051 Good news! It's available in Europe through a number of retailers!
Always awesome to see more classic-themed D&D builds you make 🔥 Love that one moment happening every time when it all gets unified, being primed in spray booth.
Simple, yet such useful and immersive terrain pieces - and it's incredibly satisfying to hear your thoughts all about it. Thank you for inspiration & another great episode! 👍
'Destiny Fulfilled' for stray bits!! 💓 & so glad I winterized our rv trailer 😉 OMG dem bones n skellingtons!! 🤩🤩
YES. It actually reminds me of Baldur's Gate. Take a photo of that camp and just use it in the Infinity engine.
This video informed me about Bugbears and I am now extremely in love with them
Just fantastic Jeremy! I would love to camp out in any of those tents! Your work is always completely unique, and I adore that! You never cease to inspire me. Thank you so much!
Lisa
Awesome! I can see these techniques being used for a sci fi tent city or a military camp.
That rust looks fantastic
Really like the hide effect! I will actually use leather scraps since I have those around anyway but I really like how you made simple construction paper look! Nicely done!
Definitely one of those pieces of terrain that absolutely everyone needs
at 4:35 the wood for the tents are similar in shape to a ballista....you could make one that the bad guys have and travel with , as a protection from the good guys
Way ahead of ya 😀
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That rust wash looks truly magical!
Great stuff! They have a lot of modular potential, the kind of build that can fit in almost anywhere. Surround them with rocks or walls and they would make a perfect lair.
So glad the Rust effect is back in stock! Just ordered! I've been eyeballing it and it's been out of stock each time. Great build btw!
Fantastic base camp. I’ll be finishing up a 5 year campaign in December, so I think I’ll get something like this done for the start of the next campaign.
wow the rust product is amazing !!! I want !!
Awesome! That leather effect you get with paper 😍
Nice. Love that rust effect product you mentioned.
Yeah, these are amazing! I love the idea of having some DnD terrain for these kinds of scenarios.
That white/sepia ink combination worked out amazingly well. Well done, sir!
Great idea mine of a video, and thanks for the link to the rust effect paint!
Excellent! I suspect the construction paper/water/pva technique would also work well for something like a Woodland Indian longhouse, or even an early settlers cabin where the roof is covered with bark strips. And thus an experiment is born. Cheers!
Awesome. These are display worthy let alone good for a quick game. Your videos give me a lot of inspiration and my builds are getting better
I really like this - just rewatched. You're really good at painting browns/warm colors
I gotta do this for my Frostgrave terrain collection. Great pieces.
Great looking terrain! Very usable in any primitive setting.
I've watching your videos for a while but recently they just came in so handy lol I make stickers and I was working on a DND set of stickers and i ended up just putting your videos on while i worked and the inspiration flowed. Amazing work from the jump as always.
really good man. Love you painted up the sponsors gnolls too.
These are awesome! Funny enough, my group actually just went through a goblin bandit camp. Something like this would've been cool to have.
Fantastic pieces! That construction paper tent skin always gives such a cool look!
The rust effect paint is made by the company "Dirty Down", who produces a lot of very good effects paints.
The Verdigris is also AMAZING... I havent used moss yet...
These turned out *amazing*. Gonna have to try that construction paper technique for animal hides!
Nice build bro . Nice to see something different . You make the imagination in each crater thrive
Really really love your leather hide method. Thanks dude
These look great! I gotta try that leather technique sometime.
Oh snap, this just made my mind go hyper with Ideas XD Damn you Muse! But really I love the channel and it brings a smile to my face even if it isn't a genre, something my country kins men always say to us is "Steel met die oog" its a Idiom direct translation is "To steal with the eye" the idiom meaning is to keep an eye on your mentor or teacher's and copy their technic and make it your own through experimentation.
So I will say again, thank you for all the tips and tricks you have given us and all the entertainment through out the channel's life and "You and your family is in my heart and send all my best wishes to them!"
GREAT collection this week - I still LOVE that skin technique and that rust looks killer. Oh... and those gnoll sculpts are amazing.
Really like how this turned out. probably one of your best to date. I feel like you might be able to skip a bit of a step with some slightly lighter colored construction paper if you were speed building these. like a medium to light brown would be pretty close to where you ended up.
Yea, this time I wanted to try doing the paper after paint, but didn’t have enough brown and had to use some green. If you got a couple shades of brown and beige it would look great unpainted as a final step.
wasn't able to locate that nice rust affect link it really looks great
It’s in the video description
Very VERY cool. I wish I was brave enough to jump into the airbrushing world. It seems like you have come a long way with it and really enjoy it.
It's my favourite tool! And really nothing too complicated about it. Nothing to be intimidated by.
Loved those highlights on the tent mixing the inks! Awesome build Jeremy. 🤘
Dirty down - rust effect is great. I would recommend also trying out the verdigris effect. From my point of view even better…
I am so excited to use something like this for my crimson throne campaign! There is a Barbarian camp that it will be perfect for 😍
Awesome work once again man! That rust looks awesome!
Awesome build! Would love to see the ogre tent, etc alongside these on a table.
Recently started with Arch Villain a week ago (when i got a printer) and i'm not a techy person so i was surprised how easy it is
Love your work dude! Always imaginative and usually from scratch! Great stuff! My favorite channel!
Thanks for the video! I guess this is what I'm making for this weekend's game... I already started a large 'ogre' tent from your previous video, so now I'll just add more!
Every time I've watched you use that construction paper for animal skin I want to go makes something with it. I just need to work in an appropriate excuse in the next few builds I have planned. lol
Great job man, looks awesome.
This type of terrain lately is 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 Would love to see a few of your table builds incorporating like-style pieces of terrain you’ve built over the years 🙏🏼 Cheers brother!
Well done man!! I'm digg'n the leather hides method. Thank you for sharing 🤓
Very cool!
I'll share it with my class today! Let you know what they think...
So wish we had the space, (and the money) to build stuff like that; so very cool!
Man I love this channel. Great stuff once again.
showed my niece and nephew some of these models on the page and now they want a wee go at making themselves ... parfill !!!
Very nice! I'm definitely going to build some of these, hey will go perfect for many scenarios in my next campaign 😃
These came together amazingly well… the amount of visual interest they add for the (apparent) time investment looks like great payoff (especially as they are versatile and easily reusable). Awesome job!
It’s a good reward vs effort for sure!
Great video! Love seeing you use safety gear! Love the ink in the plaster tip! Would love to see how you built your spray booth!
Weird fetish, but who am I to judge.
There is a build video for the spray booth 🙂
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Lots of crafters do things w/o any precautions, micronized paint, small bits of plastic, all bad for the lungs, which is why I liked seeing the emphasis on safety, you had no need to talk about it, you just set an example.
This is perfect for my game, thank you!
An idea for the rust effect paint, the plague city?
This is excellent. It looks great and it's super versatile.
Just wow... The inspiration I get from this!!
Great ideas as always. Easily conveyed.
The MAGIC in your name is happening here !
As always a nice well rounded tutorial. Very enjoyable and a good idea. Well worth trying. Thanks again.
As always a very cool video! I can't wait to try this myself!!
thanks bro. hopefully one day i can bring myself to make some videos too. appreciate all the inspiration.
The same company of that rust makes a delightful verdigris and a moss efect that is just witchcraft :D
So epic looking and I feel like I can actually do this
You can!
If were being honest, between this and his old builds I feel like there's alot more shortcuts being taken which is resulting in the overall build looking FAR less detailed and doesn't feel like a such effort goes into builds anymore. Like the witches hut, the slanted decayed house for example had so much effort and time put into them. Hope to see more detailed builds in the future
The old builds took less time. Besides, for gaming shortcuts are good, time sinks are not.
Are you drunk? A lot of his recent builds are way more complicated and detailed than the ones you named.
Looks really nice, I must try the construction paper tent method sometime. I think maybe when I get around to doing some terrain for my Angmar army, when I actually finish it 😁
i just use twigs instead of balsa wood to save money and make it look more rustic..
but yea, construction paper covered in glue really works well for leather/ coverings..
If you havent yet you should also try the modelmates moss effect. Its the same as the rust stuff but for moss. I love all the 3 different products they have. Amazing stuff :D
I just got the other two but haven’t had a chance to try them yet.
I dare you to make a MAZE! It will be fantastic! Cheers!
I've seen that company!! I haven't bought any yet, but I really want to try their moss texture fluid!!
great work man, this is amazing.
Really great baddie settlement. Unfortunately (not really) I'll have to do all the painting by hand. I don't mind that but it does extend the creation time. Thing is I borrowed a friend's spray paint kit and found I really suck at it LOL. Practice will not make perfect with me I'm afraid. But I like painting by hand and I am fairly good at it so I will make this set but probably one piece at a time then move to something else for a while. Between you and RP Archive you keep me pretty busy :-) Love the construction paper method. Looks more real than paper towel or TP LOL
Wow, great job. I really enjoyed watching this. New subscriber
LOVE IT! Thanks for more amazing ideas!
These are GREAT, I am just starting out with making stuff like this, and I am needing a Static Grass Applicator, There are SO MANY out there, Which one would be a good one for a NEEBIE like myself?? Good But a good price as well! These things are THE BOMB That you made GAVE ME GREAT IDEAS! You SO Inspire me with your builds I SAVED IT! THE BEST!!!
I actually don’t even own one!
Damn bro! Right as I started playing dnd again! Great!
Love OG dnd book
I do like that leather/skins look.