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You should consider using parchment paper for rolling green stuff. I saw a video from tabletopminis and he showed his you can put the green stuff between the parchment, roll it, and, since it doesn't stick to the parchment paper at all, apply it nicely.
@@Katniss218 pretty sure it's super glue activator. Speeds up the reaction of super glue to make it almost instantaneously bond. Could be wrong but that's my best guess
Try sticking the green stuff between the parchment paper and rolling it. Miniwargaming did a video on it and he made some really convincing necron flayers.
Yeah, I half converted a mini for Everchosen, and then said "screw it, she's dead anyway, let's say she was mostly dismembered", so I added a ton of gore to the "wound"
I love the starts and stops in the work. I don't feel quite as badly now about the restarts and total toss outs I have done. It does show that when you keep going and thinking about things, you can come out the other side with something great. Love the rotating base. Thanks for including the whole process.
You kinda reminded me of one of those mad scientist types just throwing odd body parts together and seeing what happens. Needed some maniacal laughter here and there. Cool statue btw!
Think of it this way, the grooves in the pill cap will help your players turn the statue. Always have to look at the positive of it But dang bro that thing looks amazing.
You can build a device for them to do that. A little gear wheel with proper size teeth and a couple of sticks. One in the center to hold the gear and one on the outside of the top of the gear to pull it along (or a couple). Think 20th century lettuce dryers. Inspiring stuff indeed.
Really enjoying how you change up your format. It’s not just a bunch of the same stuff week in and week out. To go from the sunken house to this just really puts your creativity on display. You certainly deserve every one of your subscribers.
Jeremy has talked about it a bit between episodes so I'll try to summarize. Storage-wise he has shelves throughout his game room where all of his terrain and miniatures are placed. Protection wise he gives terrain a coat of miniwax polyurethane and miniatures a coat of sealant. As for transportation he simply doesn't take them anywhere his players play in his game room. Hope this helped! :)
This is my first comment and I just wanted to say that I love your videos! I bought the proxxon through your affiliate link and I'm having a lot of fun with it! I would love to know some ways to make a better fence. But as for this video - my kids have a couple of Lion King plastic figures from McDonald's that they forgot about playing with about 10 minutes after they got them, so I have taken them and I'm planning to do a statue type of refurb like what you've done with this Power Ranger. :-) Thanks again for sharing your processes with everybody!
Heartily recommend Procreate or Brown Stuff. Green Stuff seems to always want to stick to everything other than what you want it to. Also an advantage of Procreate is that you can vary the mix ratio depending on what you are doing doing eg. flowing clothes or full plate.
I appreciate that you leave the re-directions in the video edits of your builds. I think it demonstrates the purest form of art as the concept organically transforms through the process of creating. Well done man.
Others have mentioned wax paper for flattening green stuff, but the other big tip is that if you mix green stuff and milliput together you get a putty which has all the benefits of both of them put together. You can shave it or sand it after it's cured, it holds edges well, and sticks to the mini decently in the first place. Another cape tip: roll the green stuff out on a bit of kitchen foil. Wait for it to start to cure so it's a bit stiffer, but still flexible, and use the foil to help shape and support the green stuff. Trim to shape and size with a sharp knife after it's cured.
Going a bit off topic here, but I got a quick question for someone with your expertise. What do you use to paint the translucent parts of the miniatures? Do you use Shades/washes, Glazes, thinned down paints...? I'm very curious. Thanks so much for sharing so much mini-colossal-knowledge!
if you do want to make a new Head, you should have remove the old one or at least cut the face of the Mini off. "What are you doing!?, Just cutting Faces of..." fml
So when it comes down to capes fabric that I want to be very rigid I will cut the fabric from like a t-shirt or a sheet. put it around the item how I like it and saturated in super glue
When using green stuff use water on your hands, tools, and surface Vaseline can affect the green stuff sticking to the miniature also silicone brushes can help smooth it out.
Even though the stuff you used was not dollar store stuff when we do projects sometimes we have things acquired such as s dremel tool. Still a good build from a cheap toy.
Great video! I hate to be that guy, but I just sliced my finger open with an Xacto knife yesterday, and watching how you handle the mini while removing pieces etc is making me cringe haha. Stay safe hobbyist!
Really nice project. Since bosses are usually taller than regular characters, I can easily see this model being an satanist mini boss on a 2x1 base instead of a statue. I agree about the base needing something more, but damn that was smart, turning it into a combination puzzle. Simply brilliant.
I actually love when you make the minifigs out of the book, so cool to see them come from the page and become real. Hope to see more of those in the future
1 thing ...I found the video v hard to see what you are doing . Perhaps more holding the model close to the camera or zoom in closer as you fumble with project!! Love the video still just really like your thought process. constructive comments ( at least I hope so)
I like the spinning base idea. If you decide to do something similar in the future it might be cool to have the spinning base be connected to a dimmer of some sort. You could use the spinning function to light up torches or glowing eyes or any number of cool things with LEDs.
Nice Job !! What a great looking project. Like you, I am not too thrilled with the obvious pill bottle lid. But, I still like it. Eventually, it might bug me enough to go back and add some moss or vines or tile patterns. Thanks for posting the build. Keep Posting and I will Keep Watching.
A good thing to make capes is to us some paper, shaped and reinforced with PVA glue coats ;) can be a bit tricky though to manage the ripples. But otherwise nice for pieces of fabric, and resistant! Regarding the lid, you should actually add something like horizontal wood sticks, that the character could use to rotate the statue (like on a pirates ship), because now... there is no realistic mechanism :s
This was fun, thank-you for this! Back when I painted minis for WH40K, I used cut-outs from toothpaste tubes as capes; I could cut it to shape, and the material was the right thickness and was pose-able. Then I used green stuff to blend it into the model. It looked pretty good, so hopefully this idea helps someone.
An idea for a cape: Start with cheese cloth and cut it out the way you want it to look. Dip it in resin or a type of glue to harden it. Maybe that would work? I've never tried it so I don't know.
Black Magic Craft I’ll see if I can muster up the courage. I know this might be a little much to ask but if you get a chance, you should check out how I modified a gorilla toy into a barlgura on my channel. Also, I just want to send you a huge thanks for what you have done for the community.
For the cape, you can roll greenstuff by sandwhiching it in parchment paper and it won't stick to ther paper. You also could have used cheese cloth and watered down PVA to sculpt the cape.
That came out really good! You did the patina really well on this. I would use some jewlery bits to make that black base into a fountain or dias of some kind. (Yes, with lots of skulls. Lots and lots of skulls. )
You got the ultimate compliment during my vacation a couple weeks ago. I toured THE Weta Workshop and had some time with a sculptor there. I mentioned XPS foam as a material to use and he immediately went "You watching BMC too?" We then chatted a bit about our favorite creations of yours. I know you're awesome and wanted to let you know that even Weta designers love your work. Thanks for your continued inspiration.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Ha, you are human after all! (Kidding, kidding). I got some photos of his work but can't remember his name. Just know if you ever take a trip to New Zealand, they know you at Weta. :)
Love seeing the creation process go down. I definitely get anxiety when creating pieces and often feel frustrated if things are not working out as I envisioned. It's a new lesson I've learned so I have to internalize it, but I need to remember to pivot and go with the flow. Great work as always. 4:39 Past-uh!? You're killing me smalls.
>calls MEGAFORCE "highly recognizable" >its from the 2010's "seems like '98" hell yeah man that series was trash. Ironically, the actors were alot LIKE STATUES THEMSELVES
Great conversion. I'm more into Historical and Scifi gaming but I love watching your videos because you have some really good ideas. Keep up the good work.
It's awesome how you find the most random stuff and make it into an interactive piece of Dungdon Art. I just started watching your videos about 2 weeks ago and I just wish I wouldve seen them all sooner. I've learned a lot from you in a very short time. Keep up the amazing work.
a bit sad you went with bronze color scheme, as i was thinking it'd be stone or wood since it was a more tribal looking figure, but that said, in the end this is still a really cool project and shows off one of my favorite parts of the hobby, converting old toys to make them fit into the setting. it also does well to show that just because your original plan doesn't work out it doesn't mean a project should be scrapped, sometimes it just takes looking at it from a different angle. as always, love your work, can't wait to see what you come up with next!
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial that's definitely a good point i hadn't considered, not sure there's any easy way to make a mini read as being wood, and the bronze does look good so you probably made the right call going with something that's proven to look good over experimenting and potentially ruining an awesome piece.
For working with Greenstuff just use water rather than vaseline. Also kneading some procreate through it makes it less sticky. And spit also works wonders on greenstuff.
This os nicely executed, I'd like to have seen a little of that green though for some moss effect. So show the environment. I have been using your videos for some time and they are very helpful! Keep it up mate!
Couple of Green Stuff tips (assuming they're not already in the comments): 1) Try mixing GS with Super Sculpey (the peach-y stuff not the grey stuff) in a 1-1-1 ratio (yellow-blue-sculpy) to make it less tacky without impairing it's sculptability (if that's a word). Bonus of this technique is it stretches your GS supply out considerably (which is good because that stuff gets pricey sometimes). 2) Coffee can oven: Google it. I probably wouldn't ever get any sculpting done without it!
BTW... Sculpey polymer clay is a MUCH easier way to create capes and doesn't have a curing time, you just bake it and paint it. A pound of white Sculpey, Fimo, etc.. is between $5-15 bucks.
"I haven't watched Power Rangers since 1998 maybe?" That sounds like someone saying "I watched Power Rangers in Space guys, that was the end of that shit."
