I don't know if I would make a hedge maze, but both the Topiary and planters could be infinitely useful. I'm fairly certain I have a drawer full of old plastic animals...
Oh yer, the maze is very much a use case kind of build. but these guys are super versatile scatter that could have a lot more playability. They've got me on a role now making more types of garden scatter so there will probably be a few more garden scatter videos coming. But nothing as easy and effective as these topiaries
Haha yer I've since bene informed that it was intact cynder. It's been too long since I've played the spyro games and I just assumed they're modified his design for Skylanders haha
Oh absolutely! This was a part of my original plan but I ended up rushing the build a little bit to get the video out. I'll probably keep playing around with these in my own time and see what else i can manage with them.
It's worth mentioning that some kinds of spray paint and some kinds of plastic will react to each other and basically never cure; I have a plastic ball I painted silver for a game 20 years ago that's still tacky. I'd suggest painting one or two figures from a package as a test before doing a whole bunch. I'm not personally a fan of spray glue, either, but I think if you thinned down some white glue and painted it on, it would work almost as well. I've also used very thinned white glue as a sealant for things like this. Let the flocking dry, then dunk it in a small tub of white glue that's almost a liquid so it soaks into everything. Just be very careful in your handling since the mostly-water can loosen the flocking. Once it's dry, though, it's very tough.
Oh yer cheap plastics are terrible at taking most paints. That's why I used the grey primer. Primers are designed to be that bonding stage between the plastics and the paint. So I'm my case if the primer doesn't stick properly then I consider the plastics basically unusable. But I've never actually had that problem with the cheap primer I use. As for the spray glue, I'm sure you could manage this build with a lot of other glues. But the spray glue I find easiest as it covers everything without choking up the details. And it becomes very sticky as it dries so it's easy to attach light materials like flocking. For most uses of flocking on terrain and bigger things I would use mod podge or ova glue. But I find for this kind of thing it's quicker, easier and less messy to use the spray glue. But as always, there's no one right way to approach a craft, it's all about having fun and getting something fun in the table 😁
@@SebMakesStuff It's not paint failing to stick to cheap plastic - which is almost always the result of mold releasers, not the plastic itself, almost all of those figures are ABS if they're hard and PET if they're bending - that I was referring to, but rather that the carrier medium in some spray paints can actually dissolve the plastic and prevent the paint from curing. Thus, my rule is that whenever I do a new combination of paint and plastic I test it out on a small sample first, to make sure there's no unexpected results.
Oh yer, always a good rule of thumb to test any materials that you havnt used together before. So much better than getting half way through a build and it all falling apart. Interesting about it being the mold release that causes issues. I wonder if a good clean with some isopropyl alcohol could help with that kind of thing....then again some things just never seem to bond no matter what you do
Your production and editing is getting even better each video. This one was perfectly paced and very cool outcome. Plus, anything that helps use up "The Hoard" is a good thing ;)
Cheers mate, slowly improving with every video. Then some are just lazy haha. But this one felt like it deserved a bit of extra effort for such a cool concept. I want to make sooooooo many of these things!
Great idea. I've got lots of those little plastic animals that will be perfect for this. Might I suggest using a darker flat green to do the undercoat, the gloss really shows thru flocking.
Yer if I was to redo these I would definitely do a darker undercoat. And then maybe even dapple on some different acrylics to give the undercoat a mixed up colour. So anything that showed through still felt random.
Great video and cool encounter idea with the living bushes. Might try it like in the shining where the bushes only move when you turn your back to them
What a neat idea to immediately add atmosphere and mystery to a maze or noble estate. Maybe the hedge maze is on the estate of a powerful aristocrat with a dark secret, and debauched secret rituals take place in the hidden heart of the maze Or it could be a labyrinth in the heart of the Feywild, and the plants supernaturally grow in the shape of and take on the behaviors of deadly predators Or it could be the herbal garden of a powerful witch, and the topiaries are enchanted guardians
Ohhhh I absolutely love all of these ideas! For me the plan is a part of a feywild maze once shot. And there will definitely be some living topiaries involved in that one! But id love to bring these out for a few more situations in the future and get them involved over at tomes and tales for our podcast games
Haha as an Australian I have no idea of the reference, but it's nice to know people actually know what a topiary is. I thought people would be very confused
@@SebMakesStuff Every time i am at a thrift story i pick all these up for like nothing so i have 100s of unused minis. Might Try this would also work as little statues.
that's Cynder, not Spyro btw :P these look fantastic though, I don't do tabletop but I'm sure this could come in handy with my figures and statues sometime.
Brilliant idea. Gives me a plan to make an insane Elf/Dryad who is turning people into topiaries. (If Medusa can do stone, why not this?) Good vid, thanks!!!
Oh yer! There's so many encounter ideas for them, I'm thinking of 3d printing multiples of my players minis so I can have topiary versions ready to put down on the table.
Love the Edward scissorhands meme at the beginning 😂😋 Beautiful build! I love how inexpensive it is to create this (can just use acrylic paint instead of citadel) but it certainly added that extra touch to the hedge maze. 😘 never failing to amaze me ❤️
Such a fun build! I can't believe it's been a week already. Definitely adding the whole hedge build to my to-do list even if I have to figure out how to put it in my campaigns lol
Working on a few more bits of garden scatter to go in the maze now aswell, have been given some great idea from the comments. So having a go at them. So expect more from this series
I'll have to check out their rules because I have some similar plans for my one shot. I was going to just homebrew some creatures. But is always handy to find some reference
Well yer, nothing is truely free. But most crafters in this hobby that I know already have everything I've used. But I also never said these were free, just cheap
@@deetvleet Sorry sometimes I forget not everyone is 25+ years deep in this shit. Dont you worry one day youll look down on the sidewalk and see some 10c plastic dinosaur thats been run over by a car. Youll pick it up and stuff it in your pocket thinking something along the lines of "I can make a bush monster out of this" and thus begins your descent into madness. Soon "Where do I get some cheap plastic animals?" becomes "where did all this crap come from?" It happens to all of us...
Oh absolutely! I already have the citadel paints and they tend to dry out if I don't use them. But there are absolutely cheaper ways to do the painting. Same goes for the green painting of the minis. Could easily get away with coating them in cheaper paints. I just need to find some good cheap Matt paints haha all the cheap stuff around me is so glossy
We all are. If someone does DIY crafting for tabletop 99% chance they're mad jacked. My arms look like sacks of grapefruits. Never met a D&D terrain crafter who wasn't. Now, Warhammer, different story. Some of the trans girls are pretty strong, that's all I can say. And model train dudes usually have great oral hygiene.
scene walking through the forest suddenly start seeing topiaries in the wild land tis living things turned into bushes instead of stone by a monster... that cab hide among it's unfortunate victims as the monster is basically a living, mutant, chia-pet
OMFG... I don't really use terrain anymore... but I might need to start again after seeing this! 🤘😃 Edit: instructions unclear... I now have a topiary Warhammer army! 😝 (but that would be kind of amazing...)
I don't know if I would make a hedge maze, but both the Topiary and planters could be infinitely useful. I'm fairly certain I have a drawer full of old plastic animals...
Oh yer, the maze is very much a use case kind of build. but these guys are super versatile scatter that could have a lot more playability. They've got me on a role now making more types of garden scatter so there will probably be a few more garden scatter videos coming. But nothing as easy and effective as these topiaries
I think my favorite part was Spyro. That was actually Cynder I think
Haha yer I've since bene informed that it was intact cynder. It's been too long since I've played the spyro games and I just assumed they're modified his design for Skylanders haha
For the ones that aren't glued to the base, you could stick a magnet or two in there. Then you could get them off, and not knock them over.
Oh absolutely! This was a part of my original plan but I ended up rushing the build a little bit to get the video out. I'll probably keep playing around with these in my own time and see what else i can manage with them.
I love the whimsy that the mushrooms, flowers and butterflies bring to the pieces!
They are some of my favourite things to add into any build. For such a small thing, they make such a big difference to builds
Beautiful Creation😊
Cheers
love these! the hedge maze is great on its own, but these instantly give it a specific tone for the scene
I'm a little bit obsessed with them now haha. Got more garden scatter videos coming now because I want more reasons to use these haha
@@SebMakesStuff now of course we need to see the gardener's shed where he keeps all his wicked magical tools to carve these beastly shrubberies!
Ohhhh yes! Great idea. Adding this to the list.
It's worth mentioning that some kinds of spray paint and some kinds of plastic will react to each other and basically never cure; I have a plastic ball I painted silver for a game 20 years ago that's still tacky. I'd suggest painting one or two figures from a package as a test before doing a whole bunch.
I'm not personally a fan of spray glue, either, but I think if you thinned down some white glue and painted it on, it would work almost as well. I've also used very thinned white glue as a sealant for things like this. Let the flocking dry, then dunk it in a small tub of white glue that's almost a liquid so it soaks into everything. Just be very careful in your handling since the mostly-water can loosen the flocking. Once it's dry, though, it's very tough.
Oh yer cheap plastics are terrible at taking most paints. That's why I used the grey primer. Primers are designed to be that bonding stage between the plastics and the paint. So I'm my case if the primer doesn't stick properly then I consider the plastics basically unusable. But I've never actually had that problem with the cheap primer I use.
As for the spray glue, I'm sure you could manage this build with a lot of other glues. But the spray glue I find easiest as it covers everything without choking up the details. And it becomes very sticky as it dries so it's easy to attach light materials like flocking. For most uses of flocking on terrain and bigger things I would use mod podge or ova glue. But I find for this kind of thing it's quicker, easier and less messy to use the spray glue. But as always, there's no one right way to approach a craft, it's all about having fun and getting something fun in the table 😁
@@SebMakesStuff It's not paint failing to stick to cheap plastic - which is almost always the result of mold releasers, not the plastic itself, almost all of those figures are ABS if they're hard and PET if they're bending - that I was referring to, but rather that the carrier medium in some spray paints can actually dissolve the plastic and prevent the paint from curing.
Thus, my rule is that whenever I do a new combination of paint and plastic I test it out on a small sample first, to make sure there's no unexpected results.
Oh yer, always a good rule of thumb to test any materials that you havnt used together before. So much better than getting half way through a build and it all falling apart.
Interesting about it being the mold release that causes issues. I wonder if a good clean with some isopropyl alcohol could help with that kind of thing....then again some things just never seem to bond no matter what you do
Flowers look so nice
Always love adding some gardens
This is such a brilliant idea and I will be excitedly using it to make "topiaries" for my Fairy themed Slaanesh demons terrain.
They're perfect for fairy style encounters. That's what I'll be using them for. Would love to see then on your table once you're all set up!
This is so clever! It's given me ideas to make a large one to put at my front door 🤔
Ohhhhh that's so cool! I would love to see that
Fun build! Great video!
Cheers 😁 they are a lot of fun to make and can't wait to get them down on the table
Your production and editing is getting even better each video. This one was perfectly paced and very cool outcome. Plus, anything that helps use up "The Hoard" is a good thing ;)
Cheers mate, slowly improving with every video. Then some are just lazy haha. But this one felt like it deserved a bit of extra effort for such a cool concept. I want to make sooooooo many of these things!
Very nice will use it for my park and design areas.
By painting the models in bronze and stone they can look good ,too.
Oh yer, grey with a dry brush or bronze are always great options. I'm a big fan of rub and buff aswell for that metal statue look
Nice. I love this idea. Great stuff
Thankyou kindly. Hope it serves your table well
Amazing idea
Oh yer I loved it when I found it, and had to share it with everyone
Great idea ❤
One of the best ive come accross, it was definitely worth sharing
Really like this idea. Gave me some awesome ideas I can actually use!
Amazing! Would love to see what you come up with
Great idea. I've got lots of those little plastic animals that will be perfect for this. Might I suggest using a darker flat green to do the undercoat, the gloss really shows thru flocking.
Yer if I was to redo these I would definitely do a darker undercoat. And then maybe even dapple on some different acrylics to give the undercoat a mixed up colour. So anything that showed through still felt random.
Great video and cool encounter idea with the living bushes. Might try it like in the shining where the bushes only move when you turn your back to them
Oh yer, the idea of things moving when you look away is creep AF and I'm here for it
What a neat idea to immediately add atmosphere and mystery to a maze or noble estate.
Maybe the hedge maze is on the estate of a powerful aristocrat with a dark secret, and debauched secret rituals take place in the hidden heart of the maze
Or it could be a labyrinth in the heart of the Feywild, and the plants supernaturally grow in the shape of and take on the behaviors of deadly predators
Or it could be the herbal garden of a powerful witch, and the topiaries are enchanted guardians
Ohhhh I absolutely love all of these ideas! For me the plan is a part of a feywild maze once shot. And there will definitely be some living topiaries involved in that one!
But id love to bring these out for a few more situations in the future and get them involved over at tomes and tales for our podcast games
0:16 Every American who grew up in the 90s: "Topiary... Shrubs or bushes cut into decorative shapes" (thank you, PBS, lol)
Haha as an Australian I have no idea of the reference, but it's nice to know people actually know what a topiary is. I thought people would be very confused
How do you have so few subscribers? You deserve way more. The production quality of your video is amazing!
Thankyou kindly. The subs are slowly growing, I just need to keep providing value to the crafting community and it will hopefully keep growing
Nice added spice to the maze 😊
Cheers, it really does bring the maze to life
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Nice work!
Cheers mate
Brilliant idea!
Thankyou, all credit goes to Nate over on the tabletop crafter guild for the idea. It was so good that it needed to be shared
Excellent! And many thanks to Nate for sharing as well. I noticed he did a few in stone too. So cool.
Oh yer! A big thanks to Nate! Always love sharing a good idea with our crafty community
Finally a use for all my "How to train my dragon dragons" and my kinder egg animals.
100% I've got so many of these little guys that aren't quite up to par for playable minis. But this suits them perfectly
@@SebMakesStuff Every time i am at a thrift story i pick all these up for like nothing so i have 100s of unused minis. Might Try this would also work as little statues.
They look great. I have been doing this for a few years with cheap figurines for miniature Villaging.
I wish I had found this idea that long ago. I would have had so many of these in everything I ever made haha
that's Cynder, not Spyro btw :P these look fantastic though, I don't do tabletop but I'm sure this could come in handy with my figures and statues sometime.
That makes sense, I thought that Spyro looked a bit weird haha.
I love this kind of build that could be used for more than just tabletop games
Cool 🌳
Why thankyou, pretty happy with them myself
This is freaking genius. BRB going through my box of crappy plastic creatures
That was my exact reaction when I saw this idea! I plan to make so many more!!! Not sure what I'll use them for, but I need them
@@SebMakesStuff also digging the energy of “this one can still attack the party 😈”. Truly diabolical.
Oh my mind's always ticking along on how to mess with the party mwahahaha
I also love pellinor1 's bits. They are awesome
I'm obsessed with them! They make such a difference to any build
I love this, so cute!
Thankyou kindly
Brilliant idea. Gives me a plan to make an insane Elf/Dryad who is turning people into topiaries. (If Medusa can do stone, why not this?) Good vid, thanks!!!
Oh yer! There's so many encounter ideas for them, I'm thinking of 3d printing multiples of my players minis so I can have topiary versions ready to put down on the table.
Love the Edward scissorhands meme at the beginning 😂😋
Beautiful build! I love how inexpensive it is to create this (can just use acrylic paint instead of citadel) but it certainly added that extra touch to the hedge maze. 😘 never failing to amaze me ❤️
It was the perfect meme to show a topiary haha.
Going to have to make you a couple of these I think, gotta reward my no1 fan 😋
Are we really at the point where "meme" is now synonymous with a contextually relevant clip from a movie?
Seems like an appropriate use of the word to me 🤷
Only think I can think of is the basecoat green should be dark one, so if a bare patch shows it stands out less looks like a recession.
Yer I think that's a good call, or even giving the base a dappled cover with a few different greens so gaps looked more random and splotchy.
Such a fun build! I can't believe it's been a week already.
Definitely adding the whole hedge build to my to-do list even if I have to figure out how to put it in my campaigns lol
Working on a few more bits of garden scatter to go in the maze now aswell, have been given some great idea from the comments. So having a go at them.
So expect more from this series
These are so versatile!
They're great! I can't wait to bust them out for scatter in every possible situation
Wait hold on, a topiary gargoyle is brilliant! Especially with a hedge maze!
There's so many options! I can't wait to make some encounters with these!
Love these!
Thankyou kindly
Awesome.
Cheers
Cooool! I know what im going to try!
Hope they turn out magical 😁
This is a pretty cool idea. Thumbs up
Thankyou, one of the better ideas I've come accross in a while and happy to be able to share it
I just commented on your last video but exceptional work again :)
Cheers 😁 loving the engagement, thanks for the support
❤❤Love this 💕, I have that Spyro skyland... I got a lot I can use for this, awesome stuff
The best way to use old Skylanders! It's a great way to breath new life into old toys from the pile
For a moment I thought you were Adam Conover.
Haha I havnt had that comparison before but I'll take it
These would also look nice in a rich quarter in mordheim
Oh yer! I'd love to see them in different wargaming boards as a bit of extra flair
I'll have to try this. I have an awakened Man Eating Plant Druid. I want to do this for his Wild Shape...
Using rules in Metal Weave Games, Awakened.
I'll have to check out their rules because I have some similar plans for my one shot. I was going to just homebrew some creatures. But is always handy to find some reference
That's a great idea. And basicly free...
Free is always the best kind of ideas!
free except for all of the things you need to buy if you don't already own them
Well yer, nothing is truely free. But most crafters in this hobby that I know already have everything I've used.
But I also never said these were free, just cheap
@@deetvleet Sorry sometimes I forget not everyone is 25+ years deep in this shit. Dont you worry one day youll look down on the sidewalk and see some 10c plastic dinosaur thats been run over by a car. Youll pick it up and stuff it in your pocket thinking something along the lines of "I can make a bush monster out of this" and thus begins your descent into madness.
Soon "Where do I get some cheap plastic animals?" becomes "where did all this crap come from?"
It happens to all of us...
Those look great and are a good idea. I would suggest cheaper hobby paint for those bases. Citadel paint is expensive.
Oh absolutely! I already have the citadel paints and they tend to dry out if I don't use them. But there are absolutely cheaper ways to do the painting. Same goes for the green painting of the minis. Could easily get away with coating them in cheaper paints. I just need to find some good cheap Matt paints haha all the cheap stuff around me is so glossy
Looks great! Could you link the files for the critters and mushrooms please?
Cheers, I've added the link into the description for where you can find them. But I'll also give it to you here
www.thingiverse.com/pellinor1/designs
Damn this craft guy is buff
Haha cheers, I've been working on it
We all are. If someone does DIY crafting for tabletop 99% chance they're mad jacked. My arms look like sacks of grapefruits.
Never met a D&D terrain crafter who wasn't. Now, Warhammer, different story. Some of the trans girls are pretty strong, that's all I can say.
And model train dudes usually have great oral hygiene.
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walking through the forest
suddenly start seeing topiaries in the wild land
tis living things turned into bushes instead of stone by a monster... that cab hide among it's unfortunate victims as the monster is basically a living, mutant, chia-pet
Haha I can imagine actually putting a chia pet down on the table for this encounter!!!!
@@SebMakesStuff
make sure to get the players reactions
Well now I want to do that and run an adventure with an alternate medusa that turns people in to topiary
Ohhhh now this I like!!!! Plant mom medusa! I can already see it.
I also have had some ideas of printing out doubles of my players minis and turning them into topiaries just incase the moment should arise
I think Poison Ivy did that in an episode of Batman the Animated Series
>No terrain build is complete without a few little frogs
Subscribed in an instant.
Haha if you like that then we will get along just fine
OMFG... I don't really use terrain anymore... but I might need to start again after seeing this! 🤘😃
Edit: instructions unclear... I now have a topiary Warhammer army! 😝 (but that would be kind of amazing...)
Ok an army of topiaries is something I really kinda want now!!! Haha this might be a future video thanks to you hahaha this is gonna be fun
@@SebMakesStuff omfg please do it! 🙏
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Have a sub, fellow crafter!
Cheers mate