Lantern Post For D&D Tutorial (Black Magic Craft Episode 027)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- The bead I use: tinyurl.com/m2...
In this episode I show you how to build a great looking lantern on a wodden post for your tabletop games like D&D, Pathfinder, or Frostgrave.
Mothership: www.blackmagicc...
For a list of all the tools & supplies I use most: blackmagiccraf...
Join "The Fellowship" & Support Black Magic Craft on Patreon: / blackmagiccraft
Join Black Magic Craft on Facebook: www.facebook.c...
Black Magic Craft intro music by Black Magic Craft
Background music:
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
creativecommons...
I played DnD back in the 90s and have been thinking about starting up again. Back then we didn't use any minis, terrain, table maps, etc, just me and my high school buddies scattered around the room.
I was searching for some videos about a week ago to see how different people set up their tables for ideas when I found your video of the room remodel with your new table. I have been watching your videos and love the stuff you make. You actually make it look easy (I'm sure Ill screw up my first dozen or so pieces getting the hang of it, but I'm liking the idea more and more with each video)
I just wanted to offer an alternate way of taking care of that hole in the base next to the post. Most sidewalks and driveways around here (Louisiana) develop cracks, and grass wastes no time growing big clumps through them. A small piece of plant material (I think you called it flock in an earlier video?) placed in the hole filling it and mounding over slightly would simulate this nicely..
Your solution was a good one too. I have really been enjoying your videos and your building and stuff. Keep it up. You do a great job!!!
Yeah man I am in the same boat here. I played back in the 90's 1st edition to 3rd. I joined the Army and my life was anything but D&D for the next 15 years. I now have free time again and I find myself missing the gold old days of just sitting around and laughing and slaying critters. My last group was ran by a guy who made his own table. It was 2 tiered the upper table was a bit smaller than the lower table this made things easier to lean in and move minis and such. The lower area was where the players could put their snacks books and etc etc. The upper table had a generic hex mapping laid out and wrapped around it. The hex mapping was protected by a clear plastic that also served as a surface we could use markers to draw out rooms and such. He also had terrain items and such to flesh out the table. Obviously there are lots of ways to do this and many groups don't use hex or squares to mark out distances they just kinda eyeball it lol. I wish you luck in making it happen bud.
Those "hoops " are called "jump rings". In jewelry making, they are used to connect the clasp and the chain together, the post of an earing to the beads, ect.
aha, thats right! I forget EVERY time I use them in a video
Happy to help! :) Love you videos!
And the other thing is called an eye pin
One thing I've started doing to the bottom of the bases is to glue "fun foam" to it. Not only is it an easy way to cover the bottom, it also gives the piece a bit of grip so that when someone bumps/"tilts" the table, the pieces don't go sliding all over the place.
Great Tip. Thank you :)
Made about ten of these for my campaign and they looked awsome. Thank you for all the details
This lantern and the ones on your gate are done so well I thought you had an led light in them looking at the videos. Nicely done.
Dude, just getting into painting minis. You are an inspiration. I feel like I could actually pull these builds off, and make everyone at my FLGS jealous. Thank you, sir.
You can do it, I believe in you
To open the eyelet on the loop post it's better to bend it to the side then to bend it out. It keeps the nice round shape and puts less stress on the metal.
Mate, you are just knocking this shit outta the park. Can't wait for the next vid.
thanks man, appreciate it
I LOVE these tutorial builds! I know you have advanced far beyond this level in your own crafting, but wish you’d occasionally get back to these for your newer followers!
Much more appreciative of the long format tutorials. Excellent work!
Great idea. Toothpicks are tricky even to push through expanded polystyrene. This has town and castle applications for terrain.
yea, i need to make a bunch for city street set ups
STUNNING! That is just a beautiful lantern. What a great idea and fantastic execution. I am a long time fan of your channel. thank you for sharing your talent wit us all.
thanks :)
Awesome!! I have just started doing miniatures… I don’t do D&D (not sure what it even is!?) but have found your video so helpful. I will be attempting some of these lamps for my first project, which is a fairy garden for my Mum.
You are a talented artist and I love the way you deliver your tutorials which are really easy to follow!!
Thank you so much for sharing with us. 🙏
A idea incase you are doing a project and are out of Tacky Glue, mix in a couple of tiny spoon fulls of corn starch it thickens up the mix and when fry is quite hard though still flexible.
Very cool idea to add that sand texture.
Awesome work on the new store man love the idea of adding why you use each item in the store.
Hope it helps
You Sir could use a pair of internal ring pliers or rosary pliers, it makes dealing with eyepins, headpins and any sort of small wire you need in a circle shape a lot easier to deal with without chewing up the wire.
That eyepin is probably an inch version if I am scaling it properly from the segments in your fingers since that is the average of adult male joint segments, and the metal ring is most likely a 6mm made with 20 gauge wire. Just incase anyone was curious and looking.
There are also companies that sell a sort of crushed velvet sticky back paper that is really handy for putting really thin bottoms on surfaces that you don't want to mess up other painted surfaces.
You have way more patience then me, I stopped building terrain 2 decades ago.
Or one way you could do this is what one of my friends did for one of our dioramas. Both my friend and I used to do model trains as well. In the early 90s after the movie Army of Darkness with Bruce Campbell came out. We made a diorama of a skeleton army attacking a castle with defenders using several plastic box sets of skeleton kits from Citadel Games. And on a wood bridge using an exacto knife we cut grooves into square match sticks. Then using grain of wheat HO scale light bulbs we ran the wires inside the match sticks and placed the bulb on the end of the sticks. Once we did that we used drywall joint compound to fill in the groove so you wouldnt see the wires in the sticks and ran all the wires to the back of the diorama behind the castle. Then we painted the light bulbs with acrylic red paint since they wont get hot enough to burn or melt the paint. And after we attached them to the wood bridge we made and painted everything. Once we were done painting everything for our diorama we took cotton balls and glued it around the light bulbs with pva glue let it dry then we would pull and twist the cotton to look like smoke for our torches. Then we painted the rest of the cotton balls with some watered down wash of red, dark and light gray paint leaving the natural white of the cotton at the ends to emulate the red hot ends of the torch and the color transition of the smoke. Once the paint dried then we brushed on some watered down pva glue so it would hold the form and shape of the cotton for our smoke. We also did this same technique to light up the camp fires around the castle as well using the same light bulbs and cotton method. Then when we turned on the switch all the light bulbs lite up and it really does give the effect of the torches and campfires are lite up. It looked really cool when you turned off the lights in the house to get a real sense of a night time battle as well.
Just make sure before you run all the wires and cover them up in your scene that you hook them up to the appropriate power supply source and test them to make sure they all work first to avoid having to try and remove all the joint compound and such to replace a bad bulb.
I love how you did the lantern with the metal bead from Michaels, but one thing you could do rather then trying to use a ring loop and bend it to make it fit in the end of your bead to glue it into the hole of the bead. I wouldve just used another loop pin like the one you stuck into your foam wood frame and ran that through the bead from one end and then once you had it through, allow just enough that you cut the rest off with your wire snips and then bend the end of the wire pin over the bottom of the lantern since it wouldnt be seen anyways and then paint it so it blends in with the lantern. Or if the piece you cut off from the pin you stuck into the frame is long enough use your scrap and with your needle nose make a make shift loop on the end then run that through the bead and bend the other end over so you wont risk having that ring loop of ever breaking off your lantern bead.
Hope this helps or give you other ideas.
Nice work! I always appreciate variety when it comes to light sources. They seem perfect for a dock/wharf area, and would make for badass ship detail. Thanks!
Totally! and the lantern part is the same I use on buildings like my city towers
Excellent job! You sir, are incredible at building this stuff.
thank you!
I just made 5 of these! I love them! Still need the lantern parts, but what a great tutorial!
you can get small pins and leave them in there. The end of the pin then looks like a nail embedded in the wood :)
lol. I know, I pioneered that technique on my ship video!
So THAT's who I stole it from!
Great vid only critique the angle needs to be a top down view cause your hands block almost all the detail from the side view.
Yea, this is the first actual tutorial filmed with the dslr instead of phone, I need to build a new rig to hold it at a better angle for these types of videos.
These tutorials are amazing, this looks so much fun to make and I cant wait to get started on my own D&D terrain tiles and stuff.. However, I reckon its better to first finish the 2D player minis, they are afterall the heroes of the story. Gah.. priorities! :D
Great video - would have been cool just to have a last closeup look at the finished product right at the end. Would love to see you tackle something like this using LED tea lights too!
A tea light is way too bulky to integrate nicely....but I'm working on doing this with custom led wiring.
TIP (re: about 4:30) when you're trying to cut something narrower than your ruler, stack paper or something up to even out the ruler. It'll be more stable.
Personally I just use my hotwire table when I'm not trying to do a more accessible video....but that is a good tip for others
Yeah. I should have expanded that comment. You've got all the cool tools AND you have enough practice not to slip much anyway.
The video was aimed at relative beginners and I thought they could use the advice.🙂
yea, I try to keep the skill level of all viewers in mind, but I often find myself overlooking skills or stuff that I take for granted as not actually being that easy for some
That solo at the start was magical
hehe
Awesome work. I'm really loving you videos, great for inspiration, and new techniques!
Thanks man
Great detail! I learned a couple of tricks and I'm an old grey beard:)
Always new ideas going around, I'm amazed at the stuff I pick up from others sometimes that I never thought of
First, i have to say that this was a great video. Thanks for all the detail on the build. One recommendation though. I've seen you add these little lanterns to a few things before and i thought they were a great little add-on, but i just realized why they were bugging me. Why not add lighting affects to the area of your models that would get light cast on them by the lanterns? In 3D modeling, i think its called burning in the lighting affects.
Keep up the awesome work, I love you channel!
thats a good idea actually....my painting skills are not that advanced though, but it's something to work on....although what i am actually working on is integrating led lighting into these little lanterns instead
For your Vanilla off white color. Would consider Apple Barrel's Antique Parchment an equivalent? And if not could you make a suggestion for an Apple Barrel equivalent?
I've watched the majority of the videos that you have on UA-cam. The one thing that I've noticed is that your style covering European structures. You ever think about expanding to other areas? (Like Meso American, Asian, Egyptian.)
I believe he mentioned in a comment on a previous video that he makes these because he uses them in his campaign and is unlikely to make those since he doesn't plan on using them.
good video. a bit specific for my use, but ill definitely use your tips on toothpicks and woodgrain in the future. thx!
Nice product placement for Hankerin's book. :)
Guinness today.
Eye pins and jump rings @33:56
Thanks, that is exactly what they are called!
Yea, giving hanks book some love on purpose ;)
Great video like always. Awesome job with the lantern!
Thanks man, no actual lights yet like yours, but looks nice and anyone can do this ;)
Here's a tip from a contractor that spends a lot of time in Home Depot and figured out some stuff that the general public are not aware of...
Home Depot will discount 90% of the items they sell, and building materials like that foam they will discount by 50% off if it has any damage or scratches. So if you see a sheet of that foam at Home Depot with a corner broken off, ask for a department manager and ask them for the 50% discount.
Awesome vid as always! Gonna do this... but with some glow in the dark paint for the lights. Not for D&D play, but for looks while it's on the shelf at night lol.
very cool idea
I like that. I need that lantern but in 1:72 scale. Unfortunately no one has shown how to make it in that scale 1%72 yet.
So i have been playing around with ideas and i bought myself some really really tiny cheap fake silver necklace like chains and when i watched this video i thought it would be cool to use some of it to "Hang" the lantern from it.
Yup, I've done exactly that on my city wall/tower build. Works nice.
your vids have improved tremendously!
That's what tends to happen to things over time.
Edit: actually, considering how many youtubers that's not true of, I retract my comment.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial haha... well keep on doing what you do man. I'm enjoying it!
I liked this just because of the intro.
lol
I bet this could be modified to allow a battery tea light to sit in the base and allow the lantern actually light.
You could remove the tea light from its base and add wiring to extend it to a power supply at the bottom of the post, or leave the tea light at the base and run fibre optics up the post to the lantern.
.ca? Dude you're Canadian? Much pride! That's awesome. :D
Yea, man, you think i'd spend so much time building this weird stuff if it weren't for prairie winters?
Black Magic Craft lol yeah I can only imagine what you're going through...and I only have to deal with Lake winter.
Dude, nice build and great video!
It is amazing,keep going👍👍
Awsome Video as always. I really like the fact that you showed how to do these without any of the expensive tools. Can not wait to try this myself. One Question though: are you gonna explain mod podge and why you use it in your Basic series? Because i didn't really get why you used it. Even though you said it helps you with your First coat of black I do not really understand what other benefits it has.
It makes the foam HARD. Its a really good protective coating that also reinforces all the joints. Its like a coating in pva glue but better
Black Magic Craft ok thank you :)
Really great video! Thank you for the detail examples.
Very good work. I used it in a miniature koi pond for a fairy garden. Have a question for you. How do you make an ice cave for a yeti?
Carve some foam, paint it an icy blue and highlight with a pearlescent white.
I have a idea to utilise led lights in to these lanterns use drinking straws and hot glue to make the frame feed wires and led light through the straw put the power Base as the bottom cover the drinking straws on green stuff shape to look like a wood timber frame add detail and paint
Super crafting!Very good work!
Thank you :)
A Candle, a pair of pliers and a needle would make a hole so it is easier to put the toothpick into it.:)
Even though the post is 2yo, I still found these beads in AC Moore in a variety pack.
Thank you. I was going crazy to find them. Just ordered online from Italy.
You did so good. I thought these were actually lit with tea light candles or something
Great video two questions: What is your Modge Podge to Paint ratio? Could you provide a link to you joint compound repair video?
ratio? a bunch. don't worry about it.....just add paint until the mod podge turns black.
you can view all my videos on my page or in the full episodes play list....repair one is ep 24
I'm a new sub, so maybe you've covered this; but have you ever utilized mini LED's for lighting environments ? Love the vids, thanks for all your efforts :)
Personally, yes, but not so much in tutorial projects as that is an entirely separate art to teach and I'm trying to get other stuff covered first. There are some early projects like the portals ones that utilize cheap led tea lights and require no technical ability.
You can buy latern charms on etsy if you're planning on making alot of lanterns
As singer you are a great builder lol
Just kidding, great tutorial
Good job
This is great.. thank you
Mod Podge Waterbase Sealer, Glue and Finish (16-Ounce), CS15063 Hard Coat - is this better/best? i know you may not know :)
What an amazing voice
Watching this trying to remember the last time I used those little markings on the straight edge o.o What is this "measuring" you speak of?
You sir are strange, and I dig it.
I absolute loved this! But i have one question. Im new at this hoppy and have seen alot of Mod Podge's. So my question is, when you and other creators are using "Black Mod Podge" does it mean you have black paint in it or is it allready black when i buy it? :)
Put black paint into matte mod podge 🙂
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Aight thanks! :D
Good video. Heads-up: the link you posted for the bead you use takes people through ojrq.net, which is variously described as an "adware application", "deceptive", or "browser hijacking". My setup protected me, but you might want to consider choosing a better affiliation.
Btw, I'd still like to know what bead you use.
Over engineered man. Wowsers.
I love your content though sir and I am in no position to criticize but nonetheless I did. ✌️😁
How do you feel about running a small fiber optic wire into translucent versions of these lanterns so you can store an LED + battery in the base but get some actual flickering light in the lantern?
I keep thinking those rotating multi colored light displays have thin enough light wires they could be pushed through Styrofoam or insulation for a cool effect.
I don't think you need fibre optic, flickering led with 20g wire could easily be run through the post, the resistor could be hidden in the post, and the battery on the bottom. I already have plans to do this, which is part of the reason these have a big base. I've been experimenting, but ordered the incorrect type of switch to pull it off. I wanted to do this first, then will do a more advanced one with actual light later.
I actually have a really great idea for the lantern/led itself, that I want to share cause it's cool, but a secret until I get proof of concept.
Looking forward to it. You've inspired me to start crafting and I'm excited to see what kind of weird things I can make with my programming and electrical engineering background. Keep up the great work.
Called jump rings and eye pins!
Is there any other suggestions for the lantern other than that bead since you can’t purchase them anymore? By the way love the videos.
nathan hughes carve foam to the same kind of shape and paint....since he brought them up in the video i just had the thought to use cut down toothpicks for dimensions on the frame that way the lamp doesnt all look one dimensional. Also using nuts (building not pea), and other hardware stuff to put together and make up a cast (or is it a buck?....all these terms are foreign to me lol) and then make a mold of it and use resin or whatever other casting agent you prefer to make multiples. And by far the easiest way to make an alternative lantern (which i literally just thought of because my brain is fried from everything going on in my world...sorry for the rant) would be either using Sculpey or a two part epoxy clay/putty to sculpt one! Thats all i got for you at the moment friend! Good luck!
sehr gut
Wish there was a link on your site to the beads
Cant find anything on amazon.....but if you have a michaels I found the actual product on their site: tinyurl.com/m2nqx7v
How are you getting such clean cuts on XPS foam without heating the blade or using a hot wire?
I use a Hotwire a lot.....don’t know which cuts you refer to is this is an old video and I’m not about to rewatcg it. But if I’m using a blade it’s just a sharp blade. You can get perfect clean cuts with a good blade you NEVER heat a blade to cut. Sharp blade sharp blade sharp blade.
It’s foam....literally easier to cut with a blade than paper.
I put a new blade on and it still doesn't cut clean, always tears.
Then you must be trying to force cuts in one pass. Don’t do that.
ua-cam.com/video/U8Po8NoM7g4/v-deo.html
Never sing again. Big fan.
wierdest intro u've ever don! i like it :-)
Glad it didn't scare you away
You should put a tea light in it.
All the jewelry parts are called findings.
Any chance we can get the captions on these turned on for us deaf people?
neat build, I like these small terrane filler episodes :( ........ I think this will be the last comment from me they never get seen anyways
All comments get seen my dude....I can only reply to a small fraction of them.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial sorry about that, I wanted to see if I could get a reply on the upside I Am DEFINITELY joining your patreon now :D one once in a blue is a I ask makes me feel like I matter :D there all done I think all joined up :D
Thanks dude. Yea I get a few hundred comments a day so I mostly reply to clear and concise questions that are easy to answer.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial your welcome and thank you for your time to reply to me :) and to reassure me that my voice is heard :) love all your work and have a great day my Canadian Buddy :)
Is it possible to get subtitles for this ?
Why use foam when the structural build is (tooth) picks? 😶
the foam also comes in yellow :)
I know the stuff they sell in Australia is yellow, but havn't seen that here
it'd be cool, but probably take a really long time, if you did a dock and boat house.
Scratching foam is like nails on chalkboard for me.
💡
Always cut away from you... trust me
Careful, us professional carpenters don't like non carpenters telling us how to use a blade :P
Seriously though, while good general advice for someone inexperienced, this is actually a big misconception and incorrect advice. When you are experienced with a blade, and know how to control it, it is usually safer to cut towards yourself. Many times you have far more control over what is happening then cutting away....but you have to really know what you are doing for this to be true. The way a professional wields tools and blades (be it a carpenter with a knife or table saw, or a chef chopping vegetables) often LOOKS dangerous, but is probably the best way to be doing it if you are doing it right.
....plus as 10+ year contractor my hands are like leather anyway, I could cut an 1/8" deep on my thumb and not draw blood.
Yes, but remember children watch this stuff and people who are not professional carpenters - and dumbasses like me :)
meh, I'm no babysitter, just a mildly drunk canadian guy with a knife
Yeah, dude, yeah. Yes! yep..
haha that intro
great singing. def need more singing in yer videos.
...Acrylic paint doesn't reactivate. Ever. That's the whole point.
great job! I love the intricate work... (consider comment, dropped!)
Thanks :)
Check out laura carson on youtube for lots of hints on how to make little things like lamps out of beads etc and where to find the beads.
Why are these beads not available for purchase through the store or affiliate link? Make some money!
Because they are made by Michaels
Beware the giant mound.
didn't quit get what you mean by bid - can't recognise what was it either
More live singing!
could of at least show us the final product at the end of the video :)
Awesome. I think my 3d printer is making me lazy.
Love this but the beginning was kinda cringe.
Please, don't sing...
I heard more expensive tools and turned the video off