A NEW Way to Make Scatter: TINY TOPIARIES 

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

Always love adding some gardens

Ohhhhh that's so cool! I would love to see that

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

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!

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

Amazing! Would love to see what you come up with

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

Thankyou kindly. The subs are slowly growing, I just need to keep providing value to the crafting community and it will hopefully keep growing

Cheers, it really does bring the maze to life

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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

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

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

Oh yer, the idea of things moving when you look away is creep AF and I'm here for it

Thankyou kindly. Hope it serves your table well

Cheers 😁 they are a lot of fun to make and can't wait to get them down on the table

Oh yer I loved it when I found it, and had to share it with everyone

One of the best ive come accross, it was definitely worth sharing

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.

Oh yer! A big thanks to Nate! Always love sharing a good idea with our crafty community

Why thankyou, pretty happy with them myself

There's so many options! I can't wait to make some encounters with these!

I'm obsessed with them! They make such a difference to any build

Cheers mate

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 🤷

Cheers

Thankyou kindly

I wish I had found this idea that long ago. I would have had so many of these in everything I ever made haha

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

Cheers 😁 loving the engagement, thanks for the support

Thankyou kindly

Hope they turn out magical 😁

Thankyou, one of the better ideas I've come accross in a while and happy to be able to share it

They're great! I can't wait to bust them out for scatter in every possible situation

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

Oh yer! I'd love to see them in different wargaming boards as a bit of extra flair

Haha I havnt had that comparison before but I'll take it

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

Haha I can imagine actually putting a chia pet down on the table for this encounter!!!!

@@SebMakesStuff make sure to get the players reactions

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

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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

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! 🙏

Cheers mate

Haha if you like that then we will get along just fine

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