Gotta say, you popping in after the voice over was complete shot me straight back to "walls and barricades". You reignite my hobby fire with every video posted. Love you man.
The science shows our brains process the information the same whether reading with our eyes, ears, or fingers (Braille). Audiobooks are valid, and for some with disabilities, an life-changing accommodation.
Lots of these I was nodding and shouting yes at the screen. I do a number of these. 50/50 greenstuff + miliput I am a disciple of and spread the good word to whoever will listen. I am going to watch your man who gave you hints about capturing textures. Great vid and tips, Trent. Take 't easy bro.
Your tip about practical application of sculpting tools at 10:30 is pure gold. I can't find any tutorials that go into depth on that kind of stuff. Wish someone would make a tutorial on the application/usage of tools and not just the process of sculpting. 🙂
Yeah, it really helps especially with big projects! I wish I could remember where I learned about "magic sticks" but my google-fu has failed me, I love the name though.
In terms of wire cutter, there's the new army painter wire cutter that's like 20 bucks. What's interesting is it's entirely bare bones so you can reverse engineer that one and figure out how it works, or say combine 2 and you have a discount proxxon hot wire cutter for bigger pieces.
for some, they could be useful and for some, essential for starting, and for some never used and for some required but have not viewed this video cos they are watching Among Us videos XD
I need to watch all your videos twice, the first time I can't help but enjoy it and have fun with the edits: the second to actually listen to what you said and take in the information.
Damn, solid box of tips man! Definitely agree with the magnet stick, I do something similar but having a little tool for it is very useful - I just use a magnetised dungeon tile...because there's always one lying around somewhere on my desk😅
Another resin tip, opaque resin prints better detail you can buy dyes for resin. to know how much you need, put some of your resin on a sheet of wax paper let it cure if you can see light through it still add more dye. Opaque dies print better detail because of less light bleeding
The magnet tool is sheer genius- after magnetizing a 3D printed modular rocket model and mixing up the polarity on a few of the pieces, I wish I had thought of that.
I have shamelessly copied one of your sculpting tools for adding textures. (The Greenstuff one with the holes) and it has seen massive use whenever I did something as simple as a muddy/swampy floor and also the good old Nurgle corruption on literally everything. I highly recommend it for anyone reading this. Make two tho. One as a stick and one in a semi-hemisphere like Shape.
Better tip than hand sanitizer: fast orange. It's meant to remove oil from mechanics hands, it's like a lotion with small bits of pumice, works wonders. You will need to rinse your hands after though
Weights! That's a genius solution especially for detail flock! That stuff always wonders if you're not keeping pressure, why didnt I think of this? Also anyone else clock the blurred spider during the focus shots of the bases? 😄
Very nice tips, will copy a couple very soon, but I gotta give a safety warning on one: as someone who's had to deal with the horrible, very Nurgle aftermath of it, DO NOT use old batteries in crafting. They eventually leak horrible, corrosive, noxious and probably poisonous stuff that WILL destroy any craft, container, electronics or possibly even furniture it touches. Not quickly, not immediatly, but when you have forgotten of it which is worse. In fact find out how to properly dispose of those because they shouldn't even be on the normal garbage (here there's battery disposal bins on supermarkets which is good, but I imagine it's different elsewhere).
I have a different magnet trick that I use because I otherwise do not trust myself to propagate errors. I have some long and thin cylinder magnets (10mm x 2mm⌀) that I use as direct reference. One or two of these is usually enough to go between the already glued in magnet, and the eventual partner(s). I do it this way, because I can usually use the magnet as the insertion guide on anything ≥2mm⌀ ensuring I can keep track of the polarity of all but my smallest magnets all the way through the process. Just yesterday I was using them to work on my infinitely tessalate-able Necromunda floor tiles. There are no "giver" or "receiver" ends of the pairings, as I have to use one polarity on one side of the tile-edge, and the opposite polarity on the other. That way, any tile lines up and sticks to any other tile out into infinity.
Thanks for Ian Miller! I don't how could it be that I didn't know him until now! I love Ralph Bakshi's Wizards. By the way Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo are also great inspirations to me.
For what it's worth, as I understand it it's actually moderately hard to get a hot-wire cutter wrong! ;-) If you can find it I'd suggest foamed PVC sheet instead of the corrugated stuff for bases. It's still pretty light and being entirely plastic still won't absorb moisture, but it's a closed-cell foam so you can carve or sand it if need be, it burnishes decently if you want to round an edge and it doesn't have a grain so it won't accidentally get folded and creased or split in a certain direction. Here in the UK the corrugated stuff is sold under the name "Correx" and the foamed one is sold as "Foamex".
Cheers, have you made a hot wire cutter? Any resources you've used would be great! I use EPVC is just about every other video, we've had price rise here recently so its hard to justify for bases now sadly. The same size sheet of EPVC is about 6 times the price now, pretty wild! Covid probably.
@@Miscast only a temporary one ages ago - literally just a U of wood with lighting wire running up to machine screws at the end, nichrome wire stretched between the machine screws, and a lantern battery for power. I disassembled it to use the lantern battery for copper plating (which also worked fine, just fairly slowly) and ended up getting a GW one for about £6 that ran off two D-cells in series. All the calculation I did beforehand was to eyeball the gauge of nichrome wire I thought I probably needed in the shop with the notion at the back of my head that I could throw a resistor inline or add a second lantern battery if I got it too badly wrong. But mostly the worst you're going to do is either not get the wire hot enough to cut or burn it out, and you can adjust from there. ;-) (Fair enough on the PVC sheet - shame about the price. The corrugated stuff has always been cheaper here, but I don't think 6 times cheaper!)
Definitely been using the half and half milliput/green stuff for a while. It works wonders! Gonna have to remember the rest of these for future reference.
Great tips! I've actually needed to sort out all of my spare bits and bobs and leftover materials, so the tips on organsation really helped too. Thanks for the vid!
Looks like I'll maybe start The Gentlemen Bastards on Audible finally. Had it for a while now. I whole heartedly recommend listening to the Malazan: Book of the Fallen series! Thanks for the tips! Wish I'd known about the magnet trick before magnetizing my Daemon Prince as my first ever model..
I wish I had the storage! I’m consigned to a table in the dining room and tend to use trays to hold wet painted stuff and I put those on any available surface. Needless to say, the dining room is no longer for dining 😂😂😂
Very cool one, lots of useful tips. I'm about to do my first try at magnets, your magic stick arrives on spot. (also, the gentlemen bastard has really been one of my favourite readings in the past 5 years!)
#8 is a thing I've struggled to balance forever. I am one of those people who don't like keeping extraneous things around the house at ALL- if it's not serving some purpose (even if the purpose is just enjoyment when I look at it)- I want it gone (having a tiny place probably has something to do with that). Getting into crafting and building from recycled and found objects has been a lot of fun but I'm still walking that line between "save this- it might become useful one day" and 'toss that piece of garbage, why are you saving trash?!"
Its slightly more expensive than corflute/correx, but if you can get your hands on PVC foamex (not foamcore/foamboard) its imo the best hobby sheet material there is, doesn't warp, cuts easily, you can superglue and spray it, you can engrave and carve shapes and lines into it with any metal tool, its hard enough to not dent super easily but soft enough that you can press stones into it to get the texture. 10/10 material.
Yeah! EPVC is what I use in most of my projects requiring a base, however there has been limited supply and a price hike here that I use it pretty sparingly now. It really is the best hobby material by far.
Excellent video! Could you post the link to the craftsman video on texture sampling? I like to know more and the keywords did not lead a result to the video....thanks! Keep up the great work!
idk if this would work but have you tried acetone/nail polish remover for stripping figures? Like putting acetone on a cotton ball and getting the paint off. A lot of people in like doll customizing communities use acetone to strip the paint off of dolls. Of course that all depends on the material of the figure cause acetone can be a little harsh on some materials
I wish I had the space for that amount of bits box storage. I only have space for 2 boxes under my bed, so at least I got them roughly sorted into medieval and sci fi
My favourite part was when you sheepishly said "tippy-taps" - actually no it was the helpful tips. They were my favourite bits!
Hey jazza
My two favorite UA-camrs in the same place!
Got to admit, the whole concept of "giver" and "receiver" has confused me on more than one occasion.
Also magnets.
Lol'd a lot at this comment
Groan! 😂
@@mattdeeley4302 he has to begin his dad jokes training
Gotta say, you popping in after the voice over was complete shot me straight back to "walls and barricades".
You reignite my hobby fire with every video posted. Love you man.
hahahahahahahahahha, so long ago! I gotta bring that back
A miscast video and Black Magic craft video in the same day? Truly a righteous time to be alive
excellent thankjs man black magic crafts vid didnt come up in my recommend, so i neatly missed
@@1quackquack1 he always posts on Thursday, keep an eye on that and there's less chance of missing it
These are some Hot Tips!
These are Miscast Tips
A-ha! Found the source, I bet these will be sprinkled into the next few podcasts.
A lot of people throw around the title "the Bob Ross of miniature painting."
I see you as the Macgyver of hobbying.
These videos must be magic cause I just feel so inspired to create every time I watch them.
For the record, my mom is a librarian and she heavily endorses audiobooks as a great form of reading
The science shows our brains process the information the same whether reading with our eyes, ears, or fingers (Braille). Audiobooks are valid, and for some with disabilities, an life-changing accommodation.
King Killer Chronicles, great book series... Trent, your creativity knows no bounds
Lots of these I was nodding and shouting yes at the screen. I do a number of these. 50/50 greenstuff + miliput I am a disciple of and spread the good word to whoever will listen. I am going to watch your man who gave you hints about capturing textures. Great vid and tips, Trent. Take 't easy bro.
Your tip about practical application of sculpting tools at 10:30 is pure gold. I can't find any tutorials that go into depth on that kind of stuff.
Wish someone would make a tutorial on the application/usage of tools and not just the process of sculpting. 🙂
That plastic terrain base tip is a game changer. Brill idea!
I learned more from this video than I did from 4 years of college 🙃
Facts
I've literally been looking for a channel like this for DECADES !!! 💓📈😭
That Magic Stick tip at the end is going to be a total game-changer for me! HOLY
Yeah, it really helps especially with big projects! I wish I could remember where I learned about "magic sticks" but my google-fu has failed me, I love the name though.
This is everything I ever needed to know in thirteen minutes. Trent i love the stuff you do so much.
In terms of wire cutter, there's the new army painter wire cutter that's like 20 bucks. What's interesting is it's entirely bare bones so you can reverse engineer that one and figure out how it works, or say combine 2 and you have a discount proxxon hot wire cutter for bigger pieces.
Great list! Especially nice that you imply that you /might/ need them, not a list of things one /should/ do.
I love your into: "these tips might help you one day, or they might not." No matter what you're right!
for some, they could be useful and for some, essential for starting, and for some never used and for some required but have not viewed this video cos they are watching Among Us videos XD
for me, always gonna remember hands down
Its not just the tips, but the way you told them that make this video a very fun and practical video for all of us terrain makers! Thanks man!
All the sculpting stuff is so brilliant and I love anything that encourages more people in the hobby to sculpt! You're doing good work Trent!
That is the Orkiest hot wire foam cutter I've ever seen, it's perfect.
Trent's piercing green eyes in the part 20 segment convinced me to sculpt those bases. Bored into my soul.
Learning 50/50 milliput to green stuff was a cracking hot tip
10:50 suprise appearance of a spider in the background
This is why I came to the comments.
Glad someone else noticed. 😆
I like your "things" sorting system. I think I can adopt.
you are a better teacher then every teacher I ever had in school
Audio book hot takes from Trent!
I can't find white dwarf 1-99 in audio book format though 😭
Between the little downward tippy taps and the words of encouragement, I feel like I can conquer my hobby after watching this.
The greenstuff sculpting tool is a wicked idea!
I hope you give it a go!
That one I WILL try
The material you are using for bases, if you cut it into strips it makes great I beams
I need to watch all your videos twice, the first time I can't help but enjoy it and have fun with the edits: the second to actually listen to what you said and take in the information.
Holey moley Trent. That's a lot of tips. Love the greenstuff/milliput 50/50 mix. Will deffo be getting some greenstuff and trying that out.
Good luck! Looking forward to the results
Damn, solid box of tips man!
Definitely agree with the magnet stick, I do something similar but having a little tool for it is very useful - I just use a magnetised dungeon tile...because there's always one lying around somewhere on my desk😅
Another resin tip, opaque resin prints better detail you can buy dyes for resin. to know how much you need, put some of your resin on a sheet of wax paper let it cure if you can see light through it still add more dye. Opaque dies print better detail because of less light bleeding
The magnet tool is sheer genius- after magnetizing a 3D printed modular rocket model and mixing up the polarity on a few of the pieces, I wish I had thought of that.
the 50/50 mix of green stuff and milliput has blown my mind. it's better than either and frankly i'm annoyed that i didn't think of it first.
Damn.... so much good info. I need to organize my junk. :D
Good luck!
I got the green stuff + milliput tip from a pro sculptor many moons ago, and it helped me several thousands of percent.
Every time I think I know stuff, I see something like this and it reminds me that, no, I dont really know much stuff. Great tips. Cheers!
Thank you so much for the green stuff and the milliput mix i was trying so hard to make minis and now im makeing complet ones every week!!
Great clip, friend! I love your organization system and custom tools.
love tip videos! and this is no exception.
Awesome to see you talking to the camera at the end man, I just realised how rare it is in your videos but it's a really nice touch when it happens :]
I have shamelessly copied one of your sculpting tools for adding textures.
(The Greenstuff one with the holes) and it has seen massive use whenever I did something as simple as a muddy/swampy floor and also the good old Nurgle corruption on literally everything.
I highly recommend it for anyone reading this.
Make two tho. One as a stick and one in a semi-hemisphere like Shape.
Better tip than hand sanitizer: fast orange. It's meant to remove oil from mechanics hands, it's like a lotion with small bits of pumice, works wonders. You will need to rinse your hands after though
protip: you can use liquid pigment (not alcohols) to dye that clear resin (anycubics clear is the best)
This is great. You can get core flute from some printers or sign makers. Just ask for their cast-offs.
When i saw that toy crocodile i just pictured the Hook's "crocodile Statue". What a great movie.
Weights! That's a genius solution especially for detail flock! That stuff always wonders if you're not keeping pressure, why didnt I think of this?
Also anyone else clock the blurred spider during the focus shots of the bases? 😄
I m in the hobby since 1984.... your tips are really great!
Nice! That's great to hear
"it will stain everything you love"
*Pans to wife and dog*
So I have watched lots of your videos, and I'm pretty sure they are the best. Love the content 100%.
Very nice tips, will copy a couple very soon, but I gotta give a safety warning on one: as someone who's had to deal with the horrible, very Nurgle aftermath of it, DO NOT use old batteries in crafting. They eventually leak horrible, corrosive, noxious and probably poisonous stuff that WILL destroy any craft, container, electronics or possibly even furniture it touches. Not quickly, not immediatly, but when you have forgotten of it which is worse. In fact find out how to properly dispose of those because they shouldn't even be on the normal garbage (here there's battery disposal bins on supermarkets which is good, but I imagine it's different elsewhere).
These are all great advice! And obscure enough that I think most people will learn something new. Nice work.
I have a different magnet trick that I use because I otherwise do not trust myself to propagate errors. I have some long and thin cylinder magnets (10mm x 2mm⌀) that I use as direct reference. One or two of these is usually enough to go between the already glued in magnet, and the eventual partner(s). I do it this way, because I can usually use the magnet as the insertion guide on anything ≥2mm⌀ ensuring I can keep track of the polarity of all but my smallest magnets all the way through the process. Just yesterday I was using them to work on my infinitely tessalate-able Necromunda floor tiles. There are no "giver" or "receiver" ends of the pairings, as I have to use one polarity on one side of the tile-edge, and the opposite polarity on the other. That way, any tile lines up and sticks to any other tile out into infinity.
Thanks for Ian Miller! I don't how could it be that I didn't know him until now! I love Ralph Bakshi's Wizards. By the way Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo are also great inspirations to me.
For what it's worth, as I understand it it's actually moderately hard to get a hot-wire cutter wrong! ;-)
If you can find it I'd suggest foamed PVC sheet instead of the corrugated stuff for bases. It's still pretty light and being entirely plastic still won't absorb moisture, but it's a closed-cell foam so you can carve or sand it if need be, it burnishes decently if you want to round an edge and it doesn't have a grain so it won't accidentally get folded and creased or split in a certain direction. Here in the UK the corrugated stuff is sold under the name "Correx" and the foamed one is sold as "Foamex".
Cheers, have you made a hot wire cutter? Any resources you've used would be great!
I use EPVC is just about every other video, we've had price rise here recently so its hard to justify for bases now sadly. The same size sheet of EPVC is about 6 times the price now, pretty wild! Covid probably.
@@Miscast only a temporary one ages ago - literally just a U of wood with lighting wire running up to machine screws at the end, nichrome wire stretched between the machine screws, and a lantern battery for power. I disassembled it to use the lantern battery for copper plating (which also worked fine, just fairly slowly) and ended up getting a GW one for about £6 that ran off two D-cells in series. All the calculation I did beforehand was to eyeball the gauge of nichrome wire I thought I probably needed in the shop with the notion at the back of my head that I could throw a resistor inline or add a second lantern battery if I got it too badly wrong. But mostly the worst you're going to do is either not get the wire hot enough to cut or burn it out, and you can adjust from there. ;-)
(Fair enough on the PVC sheet - shame about the price. The corrugated stuff has always been cheaper here, but I don't think 6 times cheaper!)
Definitely been using the half and half milliput/green stuff for a while. It works wonders!
Gonna have to remember the rest of these for future reference.
Any modeller ows it to themselves to watch this video! You won't regret it. 🤩
When looking at the base in profile, did anyone notice something moving on the bench in the blurred background?
Great tips! I've actually needed to sort out all of my spare bits and bobs and leftover materials, so the tips on organsation really helped too. Thanks for the vid!
Thanks for these amazing tips Brent some of these tips are really cool and I didn't know about.
lots of great tips there mate, very well worth watching! love the texture sampling!
Nice one bruvvah!
Oxides also go well as the pigment additive for acrylic sealant mixes (eg battlemat surfacing)
Looks like I'll maybe start The Gentlemen Bastards on Audible finally. Had it for a while now.
I whole heartedly recommend listening to the Malazan: Book of the Fallen series!
Thanks for the tips! Wish I'd known about the magnet trick before magnetizing my Daemon Prince as my first ever model..
Many great tips. That magic stick would have saved me from glueing magnets to my fingers so many times.
Great video, I'm a veteran hobbyist but there was a lot of useful stuff here - thanks :)
Yayyy you’re back!!!! I needed this after the cursed city debacle
Cursed City will be back, mark my words.
@@Miscast I hope so I shelled out 50 bucks for it
@@Miscast I too feel the same, sunk cost and everything
Game changing stuff here. Thanks a bunch for sharing!
Where did you get this gorgeous pullover from?
I wish I had the storage! I’m consigned to a table in the dining room and tend to use trays to hold wet painted stuff and I put those on any available surface. Needless to say, the dining room is no longer for dining 😂😂😂
The magic stick is an awesome idea. Thanks for that. The other are also cool, but that one will be done by me very soon.
great tips love the magnet one
Awesome tips. The plastic corflute basing idea is brilliant.
BTW Missed opportunity for Giver and Taker :D
Very cool one, lots of useful tips. I'm about to do my first try at magnets, your magic stick arrives on spot.
(also, the gentlemen bastard has really been one of my favourite readings in the past 5 years!)
#8 is a thing I've struggled to balance forever. I am one of those people who don't like keeping extraneous things around the house at ALL- if it's not serving some purpose (even if the purpose is just enjoyment when I look at it)- I want it gone (having a tiny place probably has something to do with that). Getting into crafting and building from recycled and found objects has been a lot of fun but I'm still walking that line between "save this- it might become useful one day" and 'toss that piece of garbage, why are you saving trash?!"
Miscast Wampum .. Knowledge is Gold 👌🙂💚
Tip 20 omg epic!! Why did I never think of this
Amazing video.
And glad to see the Herohammer wood elves somewhat returning
Its slightly more expensive than corflute/correx, but if you can get your hands on PVC foamex (not foamcore/foamboard) its imo the best hobby sheet material there is, doesn't warp, cuts easily, you can superglue and spray it, you can engrave and carve shapes and lines into it with any metal tool, its hard enough to not dent super easily but soft enough that you can press stones into it to get the texture.
10/10 material.
Yeah! EPVC is what I use in most of my projects requiring a base, however there has been limited supply and a price hike here that I use it pretty sparingly now. It really is the best hobby material by far.
great video as always!
I need to try some of these out thanks a lot :)
Excellent video! Could you post the link to the craftsman video on texture sampling? I like to know more and the keywords did not lead a result to the video....thanks! Keep up the great work!
Cool video. Also did you know that you can recycle batteries? My local library has a battery bin. I have also seen them at Aldi.
Trying to figure out if I can copy the CC, pop that in document and label it "potential Bible". Hat's off to you for this.
hahahah, I appreciate it. We should band everyone together and write a hobby bible for sure
I hadn't seen anything from your channel before, great video! *mashes subscribe button*
For stripping 80% IPA + 20% Vallejo Airbrush Cleaner works even better!
Great video, it has some tips I didn't know.
Given the absurd price of stiff color shapers, the Green Stuff DIY color shaper is GENIUS.
was trying to focus on the domed cobblestone base but all i could pay attention to was the creature moving across the table in the background
idk if this would work but have you tried acetone/nail polish remover for stripping figures? Like putting acetone on a cotton ball and getting the paint off. A lot of people in like doll customizing communities use acetone to strip the paint off of dolls. Of course that all depends on the material of the figure cause acetone can be a little harsh on some materials
Thank you for all the great tips!
Was that a roach on your desk at 10:50?
I have reviewed the footage and it is in fact a fly
I wish I had the space for that amount of bits box storage. I only have space for 2 boxes under my bed, so at least I got them roughly sorted into medieval and sci fi
You guys have space?
@@jherazob all over the place. Had to rearrange and sort out non hobby stuff to make space
The Isopropyl Alcohol tip is super interesting for flock making! Would a similar but different spirit work like Methylated Spirits for example?
I feel like my roommates would start poking me with pointy sticks if I tried doing molds but I'm getting more and more tempted every video
*red green colourblind looking at the wood flock*
mhhh, yes, such difference! much quality! o-o xD
What went across the table at 10:50, tho.
hahaha. Well I'm in Australia so it's either a spider or a fly. I think a fly.
@@Miscast Now that you've said that, I totally see it. The depth of field made it look like it was something much larger.
And either will kill you in 45 seconds, yet the natives only consider them a small nuisance :P
When I saw the plastic alligators, I was waiting to see where the rubber chickens were stored!