I'm a Videographer and a craft geek who gets obsessed with just about every hobby I come across. So on this channel you will see a lot of me creating things.
I aim to cover a range of topics in the realm of miniatures, terrain, props and Role Playing Games like Dungeons and Dragons; leaning heavily into the aspects of crafts and story telling.
I use a couple of 3d printers and a wide range of DIY methods to make props, dioramas and large playable game tables in fantasy worlds of pop culture and my own imagination.
@@SebMakesStuff you can also use small orange beads as carrots. Stick a little greenery in the hole for the leaves then push them partly into soft/not set dirt of choice. They look like the very tops of carrots ready to pick…could use random coloured beads for magic carrots/parsnips
I've heard this a couple of times now. I think I'll be doing a follow up to this video making veggie patches from things I find at the grocery store. Cheers for the input, always live finding new ways to do things
can you use watercolor paint or oil paint instead of food coloring to mix in with the liquid solution? i don’t want to attract pests and i’m hoping the color would pop up more.
You could certainly try. I'm not sure how that may effect the chemical process depending on the particular paints you chose to use. But I found that my preferred way to color them was to coat them in inks once they had finished. Then sealing them up with a gloss varnish or even clear nailpolish. That way they are extra sealed up from any pests and long term they are protected from moisture (as high humidity and moisture can ruin them over a period of time)
I have a full length tutorial video for this craft where I tlak a little bit more about this. But also planning g to do a follow up now it's been a couple of years to show how mine are still holding up
I decided to scan through the comments to see if anyone else had fun ideas for more … I see that peppercorn trick is very well known 😂 Though the shoutout about rose beads is a good one! I’ve got some paper scrapbooking roses set aside for just that purpose!
Oh yer I've been given some really good ideas in these comments. There's gonna be a couple of follow up videos for sure. I think there will be a 'herbs and spices' and a 'beads' veggie patch at minimum
Remember to leave the traditional offering of fush and chups out for Johnny on Hagglethorn Eve. Doing so ensures that all your terrain builds are blessed with high detail and whimsy in the coming year.
Have you tried the snowflake hole punch trick to make cabbages? Holepunch a bunch of green paper, layer them on top of each other. Glue a wood or plastic bead in the middle. Glue some of the arms up around the bead. Bosh! Instant brasica fields. You can use a smaller one to make foliag for tuber veg (carrots, parsnips, etc.)
Pepper corns works great for cabbages. Really if you look for textures in the herbs/spices section there's a lot of cool stuff to be found. And all of it is dried plant material so it all sucks up watered down pva perfect for game durability.
I was just saying in one of the other comments that I want to.try and do another one of these garden beds but entirely from the herbs and spices isle of the local grocery shop. Because I had this realisation just after finishing this video. I'll definitely be trying out the pepper corns tho, cheers for the advice
I have plans to do the campaign setting for my dnd world soon. It would be so much fun to have out on the table as we play. Or even just up on the wall
Love thay. I actually thought about that while I was editing this video. I may have to do another one of these but making the veggie patches with thing's from the herbs and spices isle
Done pumpkins and cabbages in the past with cheap beads from the craft store. Quick prime and repaint and glue them down. Vines are just strong and twine with sawdust flock or sponge clump foliage
Oure very welcome, I was the same, always wanting more plants and farms without going too big. So I finally decided to do it myself and I'm very happy with hoe they came up
thanks for sharing the veggie garden. Last Halloween I made a large pumpkin patch with a giant Pumpkin King/Demon as the BBEG. It's loads of fun to make
Those are some fine tomato bushes. :) Having a little greenery on the battlefield is always good, and these would be amazing in any Bunnies & Burrows game.
@@SebMakesStuff It's based on the old school book and 1979 film Watership Down setting - you play as regular, ordinary bunny rabbits dealing with survival. Settings can have a very rich lore and can be as silly or mature as you want depending on your player's age group. There's also a more grimdark version called The Warren which I prefer. Trailer for The Warren: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mqk96brHEQ8.html Original WD movie: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iI3voOtHpZ4.html If you read the original Richard Addams book, it goes right into rabbit culture, psuedo-religion, their folklore, the lapine language and all the bits that made it a bestseller.
@@SebMakesStuff I need to make a few tribute videos one for you one for DM Scotty one for Black Magic Craft one for Wylock I have piles of stuff I've made from videos like yours, it's just my videos all suck
Haha We all think our own videos suck. But i would love to see them. And I'm sure the others would too. Nothing encourages me more than seeing people redo my builds
I think the printers are great for people who don't have the time or patience but want something fun on the table. But I for one prefer the actual crafting. It's so fun to make things from scratch
So keen to try some of these. I wonder if you could use paper and small round beads to make cabbages? I might give that a go as I don't have a 3D printer.
Absolutely I have been thinking of alternative ways to make these myself. I'll probably do another veggie patch video in the future with a few more things. But if you come up with a good option send me the pics, I could always use the inspo
That means so much, thankyou. I put a lot into this channel and it's all out of fun and hope that I can encourage others to get creative. These kind of comments make my day. Thankyou
I'm not sure off the top of my head but I know that the guys I mention in here and in the comments will deliver everywhere. But if you do find a good alternative let me know so I can throw the link up for others over there
I've got a pile of pieces of plowed and early growth patches for my tables that I made a while back. I used a decently sized thin plywood laser cut shape from the craft store for a base, then got the shape of my plowed area decided and cut out of corrugated cardboard, did a mix of peel and cut through of the cladding paper on one side before gluing it down on the base, soaked it with thinned glue and then worked some hot glue down in the corrugation with a thin spreading move through it after the thinned white glue cured. Then used some filler around the edges to cover them and blend them into the base. Some have a fence around the edges, others weren't getting that which I added. Then covered the area with the corrgation with a finer texture paste mix and a rougher one around the edges where it wasn't plowed. A bit of paint and flock the edges to have the basics, you can add bits and pieces of different flocking to the ridges of the corrgated areas for sprouting or smaller plants. You can also use some of the bristle welcome mats to make wheat and similar fields...
I've actually been wanting to do something like this myself at some point for some bigger farm fields. I'll be saving this comment and trying your approach for sure. Cheers
@@SebMakesStuff Wish that I still had some of my old WIP pics from when I first made some, but those got wrecked when photobucket started screwing with people after a computer change for me. First ones I did were part of a larger piece using the log cabin kits that Hobby Lobby sells in their modeling/diorama section that I was putting on larger rounds to start with and had documented the entire thing with posts on the Lead Adventure Forums and on DM Scotty's boards
Goo Gone might also be a good solution for removing the paper from the foam board. I would spread it as thinly as possible to reduce residue and product use. Then again, the cost of it might make it more worthwhile to spring for the expensive foam board.
I've never gmhesr of the the goo gone. I'll have to check it out. I'm lucky enough to have a good supply that peels off nicely. But next time I get some cheap stuff that doesn't play so nice I'll try it out
@@SebMakesStuff Even some of the more expensive stuff can sometimes stick...I tend to use the Readiboard from dollar tree. As a side note, I did find that even some with paper still stuck on can actually work relatively well if you want to use it to make it look like rock striations in taller things...found that out during the covid lockdowns when the thicker foam wasn't available to get and I had some things I wanted to work on that were larger pieces so was stacking foamcore pieces and didn't take all the time there
@@SebMakesStuff It's an adhesive remover that uses d-Limonene as its main ingredient, though it includes small amounts of a few other solvents. I've never had it damage anything, but it can leave behind a residue that cleans up with alcohol. I would test it on a sacrificial piece of board first, and might even just pre-mix a small bit of it with alcohol to see if it could just be used to increase the alcohol's effectiveness.
The print quality is really bad. You should have used better print settings or a better printer. If I received one of those I would have been insulted!
im just using a cheap foam board/foam card. ive just peeled off the paper before using it. ill be showing it more in my next video. its just a matter of finding stufff that you can peel the paper off easily haha some of it is a nightmare
