DIY XPS Foam Texture Roller
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- DIY XPS Foam Texture Roller. Make your own FOAM roller for XPS Foam, Foam Core board, and more. This will reduce your crafting time by HOURS when you need to texture foam. A must have for any serious terrain crafter!
I also include 2 bonus tools at the end of this video!!!
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Brilliant!
Thanks I hope it helps you with your builds!
Alternatively, I printed free pattern on paper, wrapped it around a rolling pin, then built up all the lines with a hot-glue gun. After use I slid the paper/glue roll off the pin. I have used it to make aver 10sq fr of cobblestone pattern and will try making a rock wall pattern next.
Please keep in mind there are 2 types of PVC pipe used in the US and it may effect your results with this project. Schedule 40 Solid Core PVC is solid PVC all the way through the pipe wall. Schedule 40 Foam Core PVC is two thin layers of PVC plastic on the inner and outer wall of the pipe with a stiff foam filler material in between. Solid core is much sturdier and would be the way to go with this type of build, but both should be available in your big box store. You can tell the difference by reading the text on the pipe. Foam Core PVC should always say "Not for Pressure" on it and will be considerably lighter in weight than Solid Core. You can also tell by looking at the end of the pipe, if the wall of the pipe is one color all the way through or if there are thin strips of lighter colors on the inner and outer wall. Happy Crafting!
You are correct. Thanks Beans.
Excellent tutorial! After watching this I had an idea. I took a rigid card tube and traced out a stonework pattern using a hot glue gun. It works really well and only took 20mins to do
The Easy Targets Thank you. That would work well on clay too.
The Easy Targets I’m sorry but what’s an example of a “rigid card tube”? Please and thank you.
@@aherosquest4536 the kind of card tube that tin/aluminium foil comes attached to
I’m being left to do home renovations on my own and this literally helped me so much. I had the idea and couldn’t think how to make it work. You’re the best!
Glad I could help! Thank you!
I've seen similar ideas for wall plastering with cement or/and paint, skimming, etc. Floors, roofs anything, Creativity is unending, but I truly like how you show how easy it can be. I have a dremmel, can get pvc piping and have a lot of plastering, flooring, roofing and skimming still to do. It's also great how it covers up smaller imperfection you would like to hide.
Thank you :) Another cool thing is that the one you make is truly unique... I like that :)
there are so many possibilities for this application. I've done one with wood grain, gravel, sand, stone, flagstone, shale, and my personal favorite is the brick. depending on how much detail you want with each they take about two to five hours to make. I loved the small tool idea and have done one as well. this was an excellent video and look forward to seeing more of your work.
Thank you very much!
I spent 2 days looking for textured rolling pin, always only available with lengthy delivery times (live in Austria) with a delivery fee almost as or higher then the Roller itself. It won't be finished in 5 hours because I generally need 3 times as long for everything as shown, but then... Big thanks for your instructions
Your welcome glad it helped….. and no rush at all
4 hours for the main shape. now i have to make the joints thin as you suggested . thank you ! brilliant !!!
It will certainly save you time in the long run. Just put some tunes on and go to town :) Thanks.
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT i am sure for the long run ! its so nice watching someone giving his knowledge freely. james pachnis is my facebook. i am a sculptor.take a look and if there is anything i can do for you just say it !!
@@JamesPa Thank you James.
Great idea. I've just spent a load of money on a green stuff World roller. Lucky a templar one so a bit more advanced, but this I can make myself
Thank you. Check out my new Temple Series, new video out soon!
I loved the sand and green stuff roller you made. It made it look like stucco to me. I will definitely be making one.
Awesome, go for it!
I’m definitely making a pencil and odd texture roller and hopefully a triangle pencil tip tool to get in corners
Thank you for the video. After watching, I think it’s probably best to roll the thin pieces and just glue them to a thinker piece after. Thank you again, you saved me money and more importantly TIME. ❤
Awesome, happy to hear that :)
If you run your dremel at a lower speed, it won't melt all the pvc to the bit, reducing it's effectiveness. Course bits work better than fine bits too. Great video thanks!
Great tip! Thanks!
Download one off thingeverse and 3D print it. There are loads of them available free. Easy to DIY in blender using height maps. Pennie's to print.
This is fantastic. I'd imagine it would be much faster with a drill press. Food for thought.
Thanks. If you have access to one give it a shot. I bet it would be.
The warping can be easily solved by adding pva glue on the other side, so when it cures it'll make it pure flat.
2 quick ideas from when I made mine:
- use a larger bit to rough the bricks and then go in with a smaller bit to clean up the detail. Saves you a good hour.
- print out a seamless texture from online, resize if needed, and try to copy it to the roll, that way when you stack the texture it will match if you line it up correctly
Cool ideas, thank you. Even leaving it rough with the first bit would add some nice texture.
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT still super cool! I'm learning to have more patience with stuff like this xD
I've got several of the GreetStuff world rollers, but an really excited about your bonus tool! Totally making one this evening! Thanks!
I can't craft without it.
Thanks I was thin about this build I might try this on a hardwood dowel instead of the pvc pipe
OldDungeonMaster Sure thing. I’d be interested in how that turns out. You think you can get the design thin enough without chipping the wood?
Tabletop WitchCRAFT it should not be a issue at all cookie presses and rolling pins have been made from wood for a long time beech wood should work just fine . I have some walnut that I might try the key is to use a hardwood but it will take some time to excavate the design into it.
OldDungeonMaster I’d love to see that when you’re done. Sounds like artwork to me.
If you want texture and the stone, brick, wood, what have you, make the textures on the roller not so deep. This also works much better on xps foam, sense xps tends to bounce back to shape slightly with the deeper cut texture rollers.
I bought a Proxxon today because of you!
You’ll love it!! It’ll open up many doors for you.
I actually want that skelly figurine, looks awesome!
Thanks Ian.... it's a Reaper model.
Suggestion: Have you tried rolling the "backside" of a strip of foam first? In order to counteract the warping it might be beneficial to do the other side first (even though it might be hidden inside a building - or it'll give you the other side of a wall already), kind of like how one would counteract warping when applying paint or glue to a larger piece of paper or cardboard, you might apply your wet medium to the other side too. Basically it's to create "equal tension" to both sides in order to keep it flat.
I have. It does work rolling both sides, although you have to "work" the foam a bit to get it back to its original shape. Good idea.
Been meaning to watch this video for a while glad I finally did! Great tips John! Now I gotta go get some PVC pipe and some green stuff! LOL
The possibilities are endless with the designs! I want to make a few more myself :)
I love this tool and want to make several styles of stone work. Here may be an added idea, though I have not TRIED it.. I'm reasonably certain some Schedule 40 PVC pipes are engineered to slip inside each other [ Outer Diameter matching the second pipe Inner Diameter] The inner one could be left whole, the outer could be pierced through completely... possibly with even finer patterning such as small red bricks or cobble stones. Once the pattern is carved in the Big Pipe, the Smaller Pipe slips inside to stabilize the cutter...the ends can be welded with a bit of PVC glue to make them secure... Maybe?
That might work, but it really is pretty rigid. Try making it without even using an inner piece of PVC. Might be just fine!
Don't need for the added strength , but might be good for rolling pin type handles on either end and would not slip around like ops handles . But as OP said , really don't need handles and can probably apply more force and have better control without . Wow , shot down my own idea ! Lol
Hmm... I wonder if there'd be a way of doing this by taking a bit of PVC, coating it in a layer of green stuff, and then rolling it in aquarium gravel, or something similar, and before it fully cures, picking the gravel out so it leaves an impression that will make a 3D embossed texture when rolled on foam. Or, like another commenter suggested, using some thermoplastic to make like a sausage shape that you can roll in gravel or those little glass things they use for flower arrangements, and then pick them out once it fully hardens.
SongDog7 That would work, but I don’t think that we’ll for XPS foam. You really need something that can imprint the foam and cut into it. What you are suggestion would work well on something like DAS clay.
Use electrical conduit schedule 80 its gray thicker side wall to the pipe
A good option as well... Thanks Dan.
This is great if you love to craft these tools! For me tho, thinking it would take me 10 hours to make, it is more cheap to buy the roll haha! Always figure time it takes to make a tool, versus my hourly work wage, and if the price is lower to uy thhe tool, i buy it. (Like for instance if yiu are paid 10$ an hour and it takes 10 hours to make, it makes your tool cost like 100$. I figure it is better to spend money on tools, and spend time crafting and painting. The higher your work wages, the costier the homemade become) but this said, nice tutorial! Thanks for your time
It's a great point Sophie... yes the math makes sense... I do enough for my day job "civil engineer" but it is nice to make something that is totally unique to your collection as well.
Its works much better with a heatgun. You first heat up foam, and then you roll roller.
You've convinced me to hop on this project while it's record temps here. I can probably leave the fial outside in the sun for ten minutes and roll nice deep impressions
Dude, you are really talented. I'm sure your mother is very proud.
Erica Blackegg Thanks Erica, I think she is :)
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT Well, make sure you appreciate her. My mother was SUPER proud of all my art, even though I went into a science field. She was really proud of that, too. I miss her.
Yeet, glad I got a dremel tool.
Right on!
I think if a person (me) devices to do a bunch of mass building. I'd probably take a day and just roll sheets and sheets of different stone/brick work and have a bunch on hand for quick builds. I'm newto ALL this, but recently started D&D and I'm not a DM/GM, but I'm the guy scribe is turning too top provide miniature bulldogs and creations. This is so much fun!!
Love it dude!!
Josh Ellis Awesome Josh, thanks for watching. I bet your DM will put you to work real quick!
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT Most definitely!! 😎
I think I will buy one!
just a thought...if you had a small drill press you could put the tube on a channel and mill it out....do the entire thing sitting at a table...
Imp ThePimp Yeah that would make this a bit easier for sure. Good idea.
Thank you so much!
You got it. Thank you for watching.
Amazing! I will need to attempt this. I have so many things I want to do, and trying to prioritize them is killing me! LOL Great vids!
used your link to buy some green stuff as well. Been interested in that since I started binge watching your videos. :)
@@masscollector4511 It’s a great product. Very useful for us crafters :). Thank you for your support !
I know that feeling :). Thanks ! 👍
Might take a long while to make the roller. But at least you only have to do it once. Think of all the time spent carving stones. Worth making I think.
Mighty Matlock Definitely. I’ve made two and I’m contemplating the design for my next roller!
I wonder if a mill end in a drill press would make this go faster. You could lightly hold the pipe in the vise and set a stop so you dont go too deep. Then touch up with the drimmel.
I thought of the same thing and tried it in the end mill at my metal fab shop. It worked awesome, I cruised through a 6” length of 1 1/2 with a brick pattern in a little over 2 hours. The bricks were a bit rounded so I went back in manually to sharpen the edges up a bit.
Really cool!!
Thank you !
Badass bro! Thanks
Right on ! Thanks for watching.
So many great ideas. Thanks!
You got it WoodrowOne, thanks for checking out the video.
Thanks for another really nice tutorial!
James Mills Glad you liked it James.
If I hadn't subscribed on the last video I watched...my first I would have on this one. Wow. I saw the same video with BMC and Boom and you just made really feasible. Thank you.
nowthisnamestaken Thanks for the sub. Yeah that was a cool video with Jeremy and Gerard. I had to give it a go.
Is that a Hermione Pencil - very appropriate :)
That would have been cool :) It's Rey from Star Wars.
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing!
You got it, thanks for watching.
Genius tool
Вадим Ковтун Thanks, I got the idea from one of BMC’s videos when he interviewed Gerard Boom from ShiftingLands.com
Good stuff, have you considered wrapping (square, hex, diamond, etc..) mesh around the pipe to create sci-fi grids/textures?
I reckon you could make some awesome post-apocalyptic terrain with a sci-fi roller
That's an excellent idea. I'm going to add one of those to my collection. Yeah, once you break away from the fact that you have to etch and that you can "add" to the roller it opens up all kinds of doors !
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT I think half the battle is finding the best materials/textures that will work.
I think if you looked out old sprues, cable ties, rhinestones, foil blisterpacks (for pharmaceuticals), etc..
Then you can really get adventurous & make totally unique rollers.
Polymorph Mouldable Plastic (a thermoplastic compound, that's pretty cheap), would probably be a faster way to making a roller mould.
Since, unlike Oyumaru/Blue stuff, it's less elastic & runs the risk of breaking the items you're trying to mould.
What is thermoplastic, you may ask?
It's a material (plastic) that molds easily once submerged into bolied water (for two minutes) & can be re-shapened again & again (so it's 100% recyclable, unlike other moulding compounds).
Once dried, it's hard as nails & whilst it may not be good for regular moulds, it may be ideal for making a roller
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT Looks like someone else just stole your idea!? ua-cam.com/video/3d5dl6zhMX4/v-deo.html
earthmanbrick You’re right, you can add anything to a roller and get really awesome repeatable patterns! Time to collect more bits!
So, I wonder what would happen if you like rolled a piece of the foam twice? Like twice buy on different alignments, so the patterns overlap. Would you get a smaller pattern? Would it look as good? I think, like a chimney might have a smaller pattern of stones, or like around a well or something.
Michelle Renee No need to wonder. A cool idea. I did a quick sample of this and posted it on my Facebook Page. The photo album is “UA-cam Photo Requests”. Let me know what you think!
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT Cool beans. It appears really random, but some of the blocks make me think wizard's tower, or dark jail cell (the way you have it painted), or something slightly out of the ordinary. I think that could make some very different pieces which feel very different from like other things you have done. Thx for trying that and posting the pic. Okay, another idea. I was thinking when I watched you put those little brick thingies at the bottom of the tower around the base. What if a section of those were put on with a magnet and could be removed and replaced with like a bridge or something else connected to it? Like I could see that being like an upper part of a tower and having a wood or stone bridge to it. Idk. You have me thinking. :P
Michelle Renee hmmm... you have me thinking now too. Thanks Michelle :)
Painfully amazing! :D
Tell me about it haha
well now I have to buy a dremel... *sigh* Thanks Tabletop WitchCraft
lol.... it's a useful tool to have :)
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT I made one, worked a treat - thanks lad!
@8:35
Anyone who has done much industrial work with rotating tools can tell you this - It is a very bad idea to have a glove anywhere near the cutting part of a rotating tool. In fact, the general rule of thumb is *"don't mix gloves and rotating tools at all"* and there are very few exceptions to this.
I know it seems to a layman like it would be safer to have gloves but it's much more dangerous. Without a glove, If you slip then you cut yourself and your pain response will make you yank the tool/hand away and that's the end of it. If you're wearing a glove and you slip, not only will the glove not provide any substantial resistance to the cutting end of that dremel but the rotating part can get caught up in the glove material, leaving you unable to pull the tool away until either the glove completely fails, the tool fails, or you manage to turn the tool off. That situation can cause very serious injury.
If you need more information, simply google - osha gloves rotating equipment.
I'll have to check into this. It's such a small bit and sturdy glove but I guess crazy things do happen. I hear your point. Thanks for sharing.
This is amazing. Subscribed now!!
Right on Damion! Thanks for the support and welcome aboard.
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT ✊
It was painful watching you draw the pattern onto the pipe.
PVC Specification Charts can be found online. The Circumference of the pipe can be calculated from this data.
_...or find_ *C* _by wrapping ribbon around the pipe, then marking it with a pen where the ribbon overlaps. Finish by measuring the length of the ribbon to easily determine_ *C.*
Use Photoshop to draw your patterns using the Length and Circumference dimensions.
Print out the pattern, then wrap the paper around the pipe. Secure the paper to the pipe with adhesive or tape.
Do your engraving.
Huge timesaver!
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Thought about 3d printing one of these.
Asking or telling? Yeah, it would be a great item to 3d print I would think. I'm not rockin' a 3D printer.... yet.
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT I was asking.
@@joecoz26 Yep, you make a really good point. I bet there are plenty of files out there to choose from. I'm on the fence about making another design in the near future.
Good idea thanks!
Happy to help.
Love it!
Thanks!!
The spellcaster magical word for ol this problems its FIMO ;)
Could totally make that work.
Thanks a lot! I just was wondering how you did such nicely textured castle. And recently a had to replace old vacuum and have a long PVC pipe leftover sitting without usage. Cut off few pieces - going to do few textures. Thanks!
Alex K Right on Alex. Thanks for watching!
Nice work, but could the same thing be done with a wooden rolling pin?
Mat Cobb Sure but you would lose some definition over time. I also use this when I work with clay and I wet the roller. This would also be an issue with fine points of wood softening once wet.
A 3d Printer would be a very big help here methinks....
If you could print this out on a 3D printer I agree. I don't have one.... yet :)
Let me take a stab!
Well they beat me too it.. www.thingiverse.com/thing:3856618
I applaud your tenacity to make yours free hand, and for next to nothing in cost. I think your results look good. I am just very LAZY! ;) Great job.
compare costs of design/printing time...material...i lot of his time lost seems to be holding the material steady while working it...that could be solved with a v-channel and some tape
Imp ThePimp Good point. I did notice that this maker is a from scratch kind of guy and that is awesome. I just figured that it looked like a lot of work. Again awesome, just that if you did have access to 3D printing then there are a ton of options for making mass quantities of patterns etc.
Oh Yea. Gonna make some of those. Very nice. Thanks.
Janet Cameron They take a little time up front but save a ton of time down the road. I’m working on a design for my third roller now.
Thank you for this. Two questions - when the on screen comment says "You should texture it first before rolling", by "texture", do you mean the sort of thing you do with the little texturing tool? Also, you mentioned aluminum foil, I didn't get what that was for. Thanks in advance.
Hi Gunga Tim, great question, sorry for the confusion. By texture first, I mean to get a ball of aluminum foil and roll the foam first to give it a stone looking texture. Then use the roller out of PVC to create the individual stones. That way you don't remove the small amount of texture created by the aluminum foil when rolling with the PVC. Does this clarify? Check out my windmill or tavern build video's for a demo with the foil.
Ball up some foil into a rough sphere, roll it on the surface youre trying to texture. It works the same as the texturing tool, just cheap and easy
Tip - my sphere didn’t roll well until I wrapped the foil around a golf ball.
Do you have a link to the type of foam you use? I know it says XPS, but Amazon comes up with about a thousand links, and none of them specifically say XPS foam. Thanks. Love your work.
Hey Lane, thanks! You can pick up the XPS foam at big box stores like Home Depot or Lowes much cheaper than online, but if you can't get it there I added a link in the video description where you can get it in 1'x1' tiles.
Hallo Sir , ich habe mir die Baupläne für die Taverne und Blackshith bei Ihnen gekauft weil ich die gerne nachbauen möchte . Ich möchte gerne wissen wie Sie die Dachschindeln aus Foam machen oder gibt es dafür auch eine Anleitung ? Ich schaue mir Ihre Videos schon seit langer Zeit mit Begeisterung an und möchte jetzt auch mit dem bauen beginnen . Thanks for al things .
Hallo und danke, dass du den Kanal gesehen und unterstützt hast! Für die Schindeln entwerfe ich ein 1 "breites Stück Schaumstoff in Form der Schindel und schneide es dann in dünne Blätter auf das Proxxon. Sie können sie um 11:50 Uhr im Schmiedevideo sehen. Ich hoffe, das hilft. Nochmals vielen Dank. Ich freue mich zu hören, dass Sie basteln!
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT Ja ich habe schon immer sehr gerne Modellbau gemacht .
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT Hallo und danke , in welchem Video ist es zu sehen wie sie die Dachschindeln aus Foam herstellen ?
Have you tried this on craft foam or EVA? I'd be curious to know if it works
Yeah, a lot of craft foam is made of EVA. I wouldn't think this roller would work well or at all on that. In thicker form EVA is use for stuff like shock absorbent mats and won't hold the shape.
Using the half inch EVA, you can blast it with a heat gun right before you use the roller. It will leave an impression, but it won’t be nearly as cleanly detailed as foam core. Once that’s done, you may still want to deepen your grooves with a burner or engraving bit. The roller will still save you time since you’d otherwise have to individually lay out your pattern on the foam.
is that foam core the type with paper on each side?
Yes, from the dollar store. It peals off very easily.
my big issue with 90% of vids is you dont zoom in on detail enough for tv screens to see , heck my S21 ultra cant see them barley aswell , just a video editing tip , maybe some good close ups to show the detail in full , other then that keep up all the amazing work
3 hours on the dremmel just to get started or 4 bucks on Etsy. I dont get it.
Fast forward to 3:40 to get to the interesting stuff
It's all interesting stuff :)
@@TabletopWitchCRAFTpodcasts are for telling; video is for showing... might want to edit ypur script to keep the excitement going early...
why dont you put the pvc pipe in a bench vise to hold it for you and make it a lot easier to carve your pipe. just make sure to put a cotton rag or towel into the bench vise to prevent the teeth of the vise from leaving teeth marks on the pvc or damaging the pipe and itll hold it safely from spinning as you engrave the pvc. And you can use any size of pvc pipe you want the smallest i did was a 1inch pipe i think any smaller than that you may lose your details
That's a great idea Michael for sure..... I don't have a bench vise though :)
you can pick one up cheap at Harbor Frieght and they come in various sizes. Just a small one will work
perhaps avoid the microplastic litter.
It all gets cleaned up with the shop vac.
Hola de qué marca son esos rulos de textura?gracias
Tablero de la marca WitchCRAFT :) Los hice en el video.
De que material está echo tu rodillo???
Está hecho de tubería de PVC.
What website do I get it from
If you're not down for making one you can pick one up at ShiftingLands.
I wish I could buy that brick roller, I do t have a 3D printer
I didn’t 3D print this. Check out the video, I made it out of a PVC pipe. :)
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT yeah but I’m trying to make that effort lmao. I found some good ones on Amazon for 5$
Too bad you can't heat that roller for a deeper impression.
Yeah, that would be nice... I did toy with some ideas to do this, but it's really a mess.
First comment! Hurray!
Love the first comment :)
I'm lazy,,,, is this for sale?
Said Bahasuan You can buy these from ShiftingLands.com
@@TabletopWitchCRAFT The ones from Greenstuff World are cheaper. Would be interesting to see a comparison done between the two.
can you just buy these somewhere?
C Berg Yes, Shiftinglands.com
So this video is great and all but doing this yourself kinds defeats the purpose of buying the rollers, which are used to avoid carving on the foam. Might as well carve the foam
It takes some time to make one of these rollers, but once it's made it saves you a ton of time on projects in the future....all kinds of projects... stay tuned :)
Just the tip
I'm sure if you asked sum of your subs they would print you one any way you want
Honestly I would probably fill the inside with something the idea of those holes irk me
Are you referring to where I punched through with the bit? They really do add nice texture!
I think if you were using it with some kind of clay it might squeeze through but on foam I think it would be minimal... To each their own though :)
You do know you can buy those rollers online right?
Yeah, he knows. He mentioned it in the video but why buy one when you can make the design you want yourself?
So you’ve got plastic flying around outside. That’s not great mate…
Shop Vac :)
Lost me on the 3. 1/3 hours
Uuh....that looks like my uncircumcised veiny membrane...😕
Did not Skimp on the sound budget .....
Thanks ;)
Use 3d printer... or buy it... faster and less pvc dust in the earth... not so ecological...
Gerard Boom has already shown this, he even did it on the BMG channel some time ago, nothing new here
Lee Johnson Check the video out. I mention that exact video in mine.