Is there any way you could link the larger brushes that you used in this video? I've been looking for some cheap brushes that wont matter if they are ruined by glue and basing materials
@@Vorpal_Wit well I've done those things. I've used grout lots....but then tons of people go "wHaT iS gRoUt" so being able to do a technique almost everyone on earth knows and has access to is pretty great.
You want to know what the best thing for rebar is? Guitar strings. Any music repair shop or guitarist will have piles of it available on occasion, and it adds a nice bit of texture. It also works great for pinning on bigger pieces. The texture on it helps give a really solid hold.
There are 2 optional steps to elevate this already great idea. 1. Glue a bit of sand onto the bigger sections of damage. This will work nicely with the lumpy foam to simulate a nice concrete texture. 2. A touch of thinned green paint along the bottom edge to give some moss/mold/lichen effect.
>If you're already in the hobby you probably have everything! >Be in the hobby already >Check pantry: instant foods, no flour... I can't believe I have to go out and buy flour x_x
"Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled" is the name of one of the last propaganda VHS tapes the Heaven's Gate cult produced before offing themselves. Cursed.
I love Penny's little comments, I'm glad you can both enjoy the hobby and these look fantastic. I feel like I'd add extra salt so they don't get nasty lol.
Many years ago I made a 1/6 scale diorama of a WWII horse-drawn german wagon stuck in the mud. Figures were embedded and "pushing" the wagon. Scratch-sculpted straining horses, in scratchbuilt leather harness. All for a contest. The entire thing got a generous heaping multi coat of colored flour, pva glue and high-gloss clear spray "mud". After the contest, I eventually stored it. After a couple of years, I came across it. Every single speck of the flourmud; on the fabric clothing, figures, leather harness, wagon, wheels, wooden and plaster base, horses, everything, was gone. Eaten by rats or mice. Not even the high gloss spraypaint dissuaded them. Amazing. You have been warned.
Guy I just want to say thank you for this tutorial. I’m starting to collect and paint miniatures and my shelf looks a bit dull with just minis on them I’m going to use this to make a small battlefield on the shelves. My wife might not like it but I will!
Your flour hack is worth a hat tip! I've used a mixture of thinned down PVA glue and fine sand up until now. Will try your mixture in my next project, thanks!
great video! i like that it doesnt require any wooden base or texture, which means i can knock this out in a couple nights rather than weeks! my wife is gonna be happy im getting rid of some of my foam! lol
I've been doing terrain since 2009 and this idea of Flour wow! CHEFS KISS 👌😚 I really appreciate that you 2 shared that information. Thank You and have a lovely day MW 👋😊
With my local game store looking like they're never opening back up for gaming, this video is super helpful/appreciated! Just began the quest for making terrain/having a home setup for the group, and the cheaper the better. :)
You could try to score or crimp the cocktail sticks to give the rebar that authentic ribbed look. Or maybe lightly squeeze them with your hobby cutters
I just got a new TV with a good amount of this stuff. I now have a new project(as if I didn't have enough already, lol). I have used flour and water and salt for wheat paste glue, but never like this. this is easier and genius! thanks for this!
Wow this is so creative ive been wanting to get into the hobby for a while now but i always thought it would be too expensive, seeing how creative you can get with this is really inspiring to see especially when it saves some money too.
If you want to add some weight to your terrain you can shave some little grooves into the bottom and use your old pennies to weigh it down if you don’t have screws
ok, I've made lots of poly scenery before and always had a problem with it falling over, but that that bit with the screws is such a great idea. Going to go off and screw in a bunch. Cheers! :)
Perfect timing - we're getting our bathroom redone and have a mountain of units waiting to be unboxed. I've had 44 years to perfect pretending to be an adult, and I can't believe I haven't come across the floor trick - so many woeful attempts at incorporating polystyrene over the years.
I was sceptical about cutting it based on an experience N years ago (N is a big number) but I've done it today and it works. I have made two buildings today and tomorrow it's painting time! I've also made a papier mache crater.
This will be great for WW2 bunkers, you often have polysyrene hanging around which looks like it'd work but is normally too fragile, the flour paint is a great idea
Something I picked up from one of the die cast car customize/restore channels I've fallen into recently for distressing posters, hit them on the reverse side with sandpaper before applying to the terrain. Go for different depth levels, the printed side will get that translucent look that abandoned flyers start to get from the elements. (Considering the setting, hitting edges with fire might also be a something to try... hmmm...)
Holy cow, this turned out amazing! Once I finish the terrain that Octarius Provided, this will definitely be my first DIY project to mix up the collection!
Dear god they look amazing this really really helps iv been wanting to make some necron crystals that’s not see through and also only an idiot doesn’t have flower
I remember as a child always using this stuff for bases for GI Joe and other toys, many times a child will play with the box something came in or the packaging more than the toy lol. Anyhow, awesome video! I am extremely cheap and I use trash all the time I'm my builds ! Some of my favorite materials are Mulberry branches ( my goat loves the leaves so I always have the branches available), the large plastic coffee creamer bottles ( I haven't used them yet but I have a bunch and some really big ideas for them !), and of course regular rocks
Get some of your grass and moss from your basing materials and stick it into the cracks in the concrete. Those little splashes of green will really make a bit difference. Break up bare stretches of wall with bits of sprue/plastic strip/cardboard. Paint those to look like metal or wood to create some spots of interest here and there. Also, every good wall should have some spot where it's been broken and can be crawled through by the unwise. An alternative to the flour/glue/salt/paint mixture is heavy body gesso. Gesso is normally used to prepare artist's canvases before painting. The heavy body stuff can hold textures, so you can create patterns on your surfaces like cracking, unevenness, or that rough finish you see a lot in Brutalist architecture.
i never painted or owned any war hammer stuff and the last time i painted was in elementary school but i enjoy your videos so much that i want to try it again. but... all i have is glass paint and a bit of tempera paint left over from 8 years ago (still usable :D) i painted some plastic swords with metallic glass paint and it turned out okey... i will try painting foam soon :)
This is awesome guys! I just bought Five Parsecs From Home 3rd edition and was wondering how I would create some terrain (as I never played war games). This is a brilliant idea.
When I first started in the hobby, the starter set (paints, brush, mini) was packed with polystyrene and after snapping across two of the corners, one bigger than the other to create a two storey bit of terrain, I used the Revell polystyrene cement to lay down a layer on the exposed nobbly bits (you’re welcome, Penny😉) and it melted them and created a cool looking randomly-melty surface that I couldn’t have made by hand! [tbh it was after trying to glue the two pieces of polystyrene together that I realised that polystyrene cement was a misnomer of the highest degree! So this first bit of custom terrain came from one of my first mistakes! 😥ah the memories]
Between this and the habblock, you guys are utter GENIUSES!!! Bravo on the work and amazing job! Dibs by the way on Gothic Cake Batter if I ever form an industrial metal band.
One thing I learned forever ago is that cork (and by extension XPS foam, or any material with a natural porous texture) will just look like painted cork or something deliberate even after everything, and that the best thing you can do is take some Spackle or another gap filler and paint it over and then sand it down. Dries hard and gives a smoothed out, stone-like texture, y'know as it's meant to.
Used it back in the days of my Ral Partha armies. I used it for dioramas as walls and castle walls. It's perfect for this. It melts or used to with model plastic glue. Be careful if you try this it produces a poisons gas, so mask and outside only.
Nice, I just had the idea to do this with some foam I ended up getting. But I had no idea about that flour. I ended up just cutting flat bits to make a sort of base for my walls, I'm not enough of an adult to actually have random screws. :P
Have you guys seen burrows and badgers? Seems right up your street for battle reports and painting tutorials, awesome anthropomorphic animals skirmish game made by a small company (it’s like literally 2 people) in north east England. The minis are soooo cute and the game is a lot of fun too, all old school style metal sculpts, game plays like mordheim but easier to learn :)
Hey Guy and Penny! Awesome video, can’t wait to try this myself! Any chance you could do a quick guide/top tips video for painting marines from indomitus? Keep up the awesome work and stay safe 😉
This is brilliant, so many easier tips to make my terrain look better. I'm currently making two big bits out of styrofoam. I'll definitely be using these techniques :)
As ever, amazing quality work. I'm glad you enjoy this as your primary career now and we all benefit from it too. Your work is always consistently high quality and I wish I had the income to become a patreon to support (made redundant this week - indoors Legoland at a shopping centre in administration during pandemic = no job). Also, every line Penny says is comedy gold - glad you got to play with the glue and stuff too this time :P
