What sinister piece did you build for Halloween? If you want to pick up one of the shirts I mentioned in the video, you can grab them here: Design 1.0 - bit.ly/BMC_Shirt Design 2.0 - bit.ly/BMC_Shirt_2
I wanted to bild blood fountan. But now I am bilding some other stuff. (And it is difficult to find any useful "cheap plastic skeletons" in Russia, there is no real halloween here.)
I am making a 2 sail galley , for a story of a ship ghosting into a port with no crew and people start going missing ( ya typical vampire story but hey i wanted a navel piece of terrain so i caved.
Entered my piece in the Build off. "Bed, Bath and _____". Used almost the exact same method in this video, love the epoxy. Great for ooze, water or some gore. Great video, keep it up!
If you put the epoxy syringe in some warm water for a few minutes before you dispense the epoxy it’ll thin it out and make it flow better. ( I put it in a sandwich bag first Incase it drips then toss it in a bucket filled with 100 degree Fahrenheit water) thanks for the great vids!!
Just bought a proxxon table using your link! Been wanting one for a while but when I saw you’d get a kickback that sealed the deal! Can’t wait to try it out - Thanks for the great vids brother!!
So, as someone mentioned previously, a bit of brown and purple will get some more realistic blood. But! If you paint the base of that pool various shades of dark brown first, then mix in Tamiya Clear Red (or GW's Blood for the Blood God) with the 5-minute epoxy, you'll get a more rich blood color. The clear red will still tint the epoxy the color you'll need, but it will kind of "shade" the brown in the pool, making it look deeper than it actually is. It'll also make it ever so slightly transparent, which is great for the rivulets of blood coming out of the skull. Also, for longer strands of blood, using clear plastic or fishing line works great. Coat the plastic/fishing line in 2-3 layers of mod podge, apply clear red on it, and finish off with a final layer of mod podge. Cheap, effective, and looks great.
Love how you can turn some ordinary knick-knack you have lying around into something spectacular for your games! Especially like the fact that your tentacle creations now have a home too :)
It's probably because it's monochrome, I mean one unique red. I don't know how to do the trick, but 2 different reds and somme red brownish touches would give it a look closer to the blood. Anyway that one is still cool.
Great looking project! You mentioned having dicey experiences with paint sticking to cheap toy plastics... Solve that problem with Adhesion Promoter. Buy it wherever automotive paint is sold. It's a clear primer that I spray on any mystery plastic which conditions the surface to accept most any other paint. Works like a dream.
I like the implication here, that the blood fountain's centerpiece isn't just a normal skull, but some kind of _giant's_ skull. Really puts into perspective the resourcefulness of whatever evil force created the fountain.
Another really great idea. I've got those skulls laying around, too. I've used 2 part epoxy for casting for years. Used that paint-on latex to make molds of my favorite minis in the 80s. It will get brittle and warp a bit after 20 years or so. Some of my best work is slowing falling apart. I will still use it sometimes, because its so cheap. I use an actual casting material now, but have no clue if it will age better.
Ugh a few days ago I was gluing slate together to make a base for a mini and all but my pinky and thumb on my left hand got glued together lol. (apparently I cannot spell properly lol)
@@TheDemonWarlord I was working on a wizard staff for Halloween and using super and sawdust to fill a crack in the staff doing the same thing last week🤣
@Greg Thewestgaredneck Were you able to fill the crack successfully? I find that if you don't have any nail polish remover, rubbing alcohol can help or just run warm water over it and kinda rub your fingers together if you can.
@@TheDemonWarlord Yeah the crack is hardly noticeable unless you really get close and know where to look. The sawdust takes stain better than wood putty does.
This is super inspiring! I’m doing a one shot campaign that is based around Elizabeth Bathory the blood countess and wanted to make a bathtub filled with the blood of her victims. This will help. Now to figure out how to make a bathtub lol
picked up a Kraken mini and have been trying to figure out a cool water theme around it, the unused tube of Gorilla Epoxy in my garage will now serve it's true purpose... Thanks! :)
I've used dark red nail polish from dollar stores for blood effects, since I couldn't figure any out that looked convincing enough for me. I really like the end result, the application was supposed to look like writing in blood and blood spatters. I used 2 different polishes, one was just a very dark red and the other one was more of a wine colored one with this odd shimmer (not glitter) in it that made this really cool effect on it, similar in effect to the shimmer oil slicks get on the surface. Word of warning it can get messy depending on how you use it, the one I had would set pretty damn quick and use cheapy brushes as they will probably get ruined with the polish. I will be trying this epoxy method soon with the suggestions from the comments to add purple and brown.
I am going to try out some of this 5 minute epoxy. I love me some 2 part clear resin but waiting for 24 hours for it to cure for some projects is frustrating.
I love the 5min epoxy. Only thing I dislike about it is the infernal smell it produces. I've never had the chance to work with regular epoxy so I don't know if it's common for all types... Even once it's cured it still stinks for days. I definitely recommend using the stuff in a WELL ventilated area. And abandoning it outside until it no longer smells like a demon farted on it.
I don't know how I missed this when it was first posted, but that is one awesome looking piece of terrain! The superglue "misfire" made me wince because I've had that happen too, though with me it was a squeeze bottle of superglue and it got all over a white metal miniature; needless to say, the mini spent several hours in some nail polish remover and I wound up ripping off several of the thin top layers of skin (because I'm impatient and I can't stand the feel of superglue on my skin so I literally sand it off my skin). As a thought for possible future projects with blood; I don't know if you've seen/heard of the Tamiya Clear acrylic paints, but they make a line of transparent colors and the red, when mixed with a little bit of purple/violet ink makes some *really* convincing fresh blood. You can mix it in with water effects and it preserves more of the transparency.
Another awesome and entertaining build. I’ll be getting a t-shirt from you in the future and the wife is going to kill me for getting ANOTHER t- shirt. Love my t-shirts with logo designs.
Just want to say - cool videos. Not sure how I got here, as I don't play D&D, don't build models, don't live in Canada, etc. Yet I spent the past week watching probably 50 of your videos :)
That came out pretty nice nice build. The bronze skull was a nice change of pace. So many views but not many likes, come on its BMC hit that like button before you start watching... Come on you know you want to...
Have you ever thought about using uv resin? It is definitely more expensive than the epoxy you used, but it is way thinner and only takes a few minutes to dry if you use a UV light.
I was curious as to how I could make a circular tower for a castle, even a modular form of it would be nice. With in-betweens to place in a square and towers on the corners. But mainly because I want to make the project halfway then go straight into turning it into a circular dice tower! It could be a multi level build, also I wanted to give it a "Cthulhu" theme for my campaign. How would glow in the dark paint work for this type of craft? Thanks in advance and I'll definitely become a patron as soon as I get the chance.
I think I would have put some LED lights in the base, put down a thin sheet of acrylic, then put the epoxy over that to really make that BLOOD shine thru lol. Other than that, amazing build as usual sir
The blood color really ought to be a bit darker and more desaturated. I've always found that a dark red mixed with a a bit of olive green will create a very realistic blood color. The more olive green the more dried the blood will look, to a point. If you add to much it will obviously look green which really only works if you are making spock bleed.
Awesome craft. Do you know if any 5-min epoxy (transparent of course) would do the job? I can't find this particular brand where I live. But there is a great variety of 5-min epoxy glues from other brands.
cool had made a skull fountain just a few weeks ago, a little different and I like your method... these skulls are awesome also used them to make a large skull brazier with a tealight ... I think DM Scotty did that... not sure where I got the idea now but def stole it from one of you guildmasters...Go Jets?
This built is just brutally sinister! I love it. Side request : I have noticed the bottles you're using for your washes, but can't find them at my local craft stores. Any chance you can put up an affiliate link to them?
When you have a superglue mishap: Use asetone and sandpaper, it sounds scary but asetone softens the glue and actually lifts it from your skin, and the sandpaper can be used very lightly to take it off, use it very gently and don't use a lot of friction!
Don’t! If it’s because it’s something similar don’t think you can’t submit it or that being similar to this is anyway bad! This video came out pretty close to the deadline, I assume any similar projects were made beforehand.
I'd literally just finished getting the last of the supplies needed, this weekend, but it's ok as I didn't spend much cash on it. My design is almost exactly identical to yours, but with only 2 very minor changes. Oddly enough, though, I was already halfway on the fence about it, so don't feel bad (not saying that you do, just that if you do then don't). For some reason I can't explain, I've sort of felt like I'm forcing myself to enter, rather than for the enjoyment. I also don't have any need for the prize this time, so giving those who do a better chance of getting it is kind of rewarding to me anyway. Keep up the great work, though, it's been very helpful to us all. :)
You know, as much as I've tried, I cannot for the life of me get it to be any darker than a charcoal gray. I know you just eyeball it, but what would you say the ratio would be of black paint to modpodge by parts? Also, I'm u sing this design as a replacement for the blood fountain in DMG's Under the Tavern module. nice work.
Do you have a link to those page dividers that you use in your books? I tried looking around but all I can find are post it note ones and the ones you use look like they are made of plastic.
