Building Baldur's Gate Part 1 - Buildings and Streets 

After binging dozens of Wyloch’s amazing videos, my main takeaway is that chipboard is the grayish brownish stuff you find at the back of a legal pad.

I have no idea how many times I've watched these videos so far. They are among the most important crafting videos on RU-vid.

The music kicked in at @1:40 and I was TRANSPORTED back in time. Thanks for this.

I'm 52 and LOVED The Baldurs Gate Games. I still have BG and Neverwinter night 1 & 2 Great games

Full re-enactment of the entire BG story incl all locations. Lifetime quest started 👌

Wyloch I have to say thank you for continuing to find “easy” crafts for us to watch and emulate. So many of the other crafters we’ve watched for years either only sporadically post now or use a lot more 3d printed things and unfortunately a lot of us can’t afford such luxuries. You however continue to give such great inspiration and I personally thank you so much.

Welp off to play Baldur's Gate for the 50th time. There goes my next couple weeks. THANKS WYLOCH.

I hear the Baldur's Gate Soundtrack in my head while you're doing this!

That dry-brushing, then washing, the roofs was really satisfying to watch.

I'm 38 and all the Infinity Engine games are among my favourites of all time. I'd LIKE to think it'd be the same if I were much younger, but who can say.

I made it 30 seconds into this video before saying, YEAH - 100% YEAH!!! Downloaded!!!

I absolutely love ALL of your vids. They're a real comfort to me.

You've probably already figured out or decided a solution but maybe you could put a trim of sidewalk or gravel around each building so it Blends more easily into a flat table top, that way you could use say a grassy mat or a cobblestone map and place them willy-nilly all over the place and get all sorts of cool angles with the buildings, like you see in medieval towns that don't necessarily have straight roads at their City centers

Nice job! I'm 35 and I also must agree about how Baldur's Gate is awesome game

Baldur's gate 1 and 2 were the best RPG games ever made, true!

The best thing about this channel is the optimism. It would be fun to hang out with you in real life.

The Baldur's Gate games were and still are incredible.

I honestly like the road tiles, it really looks like a town with the roads. Maybe just make some that are all sidewalk and some that are all road to add some variety to the mix?

What do you mean, 'Sudden re-installs of Baldur's Gate'? I have had that game installed and ready to play on EVERY PC i've had since it came out AND I have the cartridge for the Switch literally within arm's reach. Hell, the box with the CD's is placed on the shelf above my monitors! This is AWESOME!

OMG more BG inspired content - the world can never get to much of that :D

This makes me wonder if anybody has ever recreated the full town before. Nice work!

I love the energy and practicality of this project. The finished product is pretty satisfying and is a great demonstration of time to benefit. The overall philosophy is spot on - put something together and enjoy it.

If we ever become separated it is imperative that you make your way to the Friendly Arm Inn...

You won the internet today.

The pure nostalgia from seeing buildings from Balders Gate coming to life in miniature form is really nice. I can almost see the random guards coming up to tell you that you can't sleep in the middle of town.

Brilliant project! Since your break and return you seem so much more at ease and genuinely passionate about the projects. That’s awesome!

*sees title before clicking* Me: well looks like I’m downloading Baldurs Gate again…. 😂

That music at 26:40 takes me back! Great nostalgic project. And yes, I will be reinstalling BG2 this afternoon!

What, why didn't I get notified Wyloch had posted?! *watches* I love that your projects are almost always modular to a standard size. *watching again* I'm in agreement that sometimes road tiles can hold one down. Great stuff as always, Wyloch. I hope the family is well and that work is not too onerous. God bless!

for the windows on the large townhouse, you might want to paint the wood pieces the same way Wylock did his batches of books. just a handful of spars in the hand and put some paint on top and rub it in with your fingers. its messy, but its just so much faster than painting them all individually with a brush.

It holds so much loving memories, both the 1st & the 2nd. They are the definition of classic RPG's. A quick tip i use for the grating of the windows....i spray 1 side, the non sticky side, of a dry wall mesh tape black and then you can stick it on the windows before adding the frames on them. It is very thin and it lets you see whatever is below the tape perfectly well.

Man, my favourite video game of all time, even after all these years! ("Go for the eyes, Boo! Yaarg!") The results look great, and it seems like you had fun with this one, good stuff

I always love your videos because the materials and techniques harken back to a simpler time where I was effectively dumpster diving and trying to stretch a dollar to decorate the table top. It was just the joy of crafting rather that trying to make things look like prefect minatures. The homemade accessible crafty approach to just have something better than books to play around. I just missed Baldurs Gate but that era aesthetic is burned into my soul and influenced a lot I grew up with. Honestly my first thought was Runescape lol. Your approach marries so perfectly to those old graphics. Probably why I love middlehammer stuff so much. It's a mood.

Another amazing project! One thing I love about your tutorials is that you always remind us that what we do is up to us. You give us easy and affordable options, to use or not, that can look amazing. My key take away from the entire video is you trying to decide, are you emulating Baldur's Gate, or were you inspired BY Baldur's Gate. I generally look at stuff for inspiration, not really to copy exactly. I've been looking at the post-apocalyptic game Kenshi myself lately. I think your project is going great as is. Paired with the road tiles and set plan of working around 6x6, just great. I'm rambling now, but one last time, amazing job. Really looking forward to the follow on videos.

joke's on you i always have baldur's gate installed. seriously though this looks amazing, and i really hope to see more pieces like these. if anything will get me to crack and finally try my hand at terrain building it'll be this.

You should make a video on your storage system. I've run out of room. Where do you keep all your stuff? Do you rent a storage space? Between you and DM Scotty and Black magic craft I've made so many things but I have them stacked up on top of each other now, I have book shelves full and bins galore. It kind of a fun problem to have, I never thought I'd have so much of my own art.

Wyloch is my favourite crafting channel, because he seems to always be lead by inspiration and personal interest, which is much more engaging than algorithm chasing or whatever. I also really like the way he approaches builds. Not to say other channels aren't fun, but Wyloch's stuff is more likely to result in me actually making stuff for my games.

Honorable mention, Champions of Norath .so good

I can definitely see some of Irenicus's lab from BG2 in your aesthetic, looking back. Especially the bedazzling stuff. Love the builds, they look like they're as clean as an elven arse :D

So yesterday I was bored, none of my regular channels had uploaded new content for a bit, so… I downloaded Baldur’s Gate off Steam and start to play it, introducing my youngest to what awesomeness is. I wake up to find Wyloch making BG for real, and predicting an upsurge in downloads. For the first time I’m ahead of the curve, not last to the party. This looks awesome. I’m going to be very interested to see the whole lot together once you’ve made the whole thing, like with your dungeon epics. You’re gonna need a bigger garage floor my friend. Keep up the good work.

I like that new Baldur's Gate video series! Very Cool :)

beautiful! People would definitely pay for that. That makes it professional.

The thinner roads would have still worked perfectly fine considering the lore behind Baldur's Gate architecture was the roadways were thin ny design to help with defense of the city from invaders that breached the outer walls. Either way though, great work as always, good sir.

I fully expect you to have the whole city of BG crafted with a couple of years.

Nostalgia engaged. You did a great game justice.

You could build sets of stairs to go under all of the doors to use them on a battlemat.

This is the kind of craft content I want more of. Anyone can do this it's very inspiring.

Vacationing in Italy right now and you have me itching to get back and work on some of these. These have some Roman/Tuscan-esque looks I'm seeing here. Love it man!

I think designing with no roads is the way to go, that way the buildings can be placed on anything, as for the doors that are lifted up and the distance, make some joining spacers. basically like the road sections but only cobbles, that way each building can have a section where appropriate to connect to other tiles. personally I'd make each section with the intention of sliding under a building a inch or so, so the are not little faffy bits that will get knocked in gameplay, maybe some tabs to connect on the underside.

Great video! I love the “lessons learned “ throughout the production!

I'm lazy, I'd probably go battle map and no roads but I do love seeing road tiles get made. And maybe just a little green. In corners and sparse

Nailed it, bud. Looks good. I am borrowing this technique for both DnD and wargaming.

Good to see cardboard being used and buildings constructed from scratch -no lazer cut MDF...bliss! Can't wait to see what you come up with next as this is a great start!

I love when you're working on something you can tell you're passionate and excited about - this video was so fun to watch! Everything looks great!

If you add a few drops of artist's acrylic flow aid/improver to your ink and matte medium mix, the result is pretty much the same as the contrast paints from GW.

To me, BG and IWD were "new" DnD. I grew up playing BX and 1E in the 80s. It deffinately captures the spirit of DnD even if I don't see D20 and feats as actual DnD. Maybe the best video games ever, up there with Fallout 1, 2 and the OG Legend of Zelda.

As a wise man once said, "Brown is just a shade of orange we liked enough to let it have its own name." XD

Happy three king day ! 💙✌💚🌲

You're always an inspiration. I had my time playing Baldur's Gate of course so this was definitely an awesome video for me.

Rather than the painter's tape have you tried framing tape to seal the edges of the cardboard? It's an uncoated kraft paper, so it's pretty strong and definitely paintable. These days there's self-adhesive variants but the traditional option is a gummed paper tape. We used it recently to seal the edges of a costume for our four-year-old and it worked really well - super-durable, stuck quickly and painted over without problems, no hot glue required.

They look great, now I'm gonna have to make a few. Probably gonna use them for Frostgrave. Nice work!

Baldur's Gate is GoaT tier

Hubs is playing Baldurs gate this month cooincidentally.

I love Baldur's Gate. It was the first big RPG game I ever bought for PC. Such a great game. Baldur's Gate 2 blew my mind. I loved how I grew attached to not just my character, but my companions. Sooo good. I will say though, I think Story-wise, and music-wise, I do prefer Icewind Dale a little more. While I do like the idea of creating my own party from Icewind Dale, I did miss the banter that would occur from companions that we had in Baldur's Gate. So that aspect I did like a little more in Baldur's Gate. Especially part 2. Both games are just absolute gems in my eyes. Love them both. I am infact replaying Baldur's Gate now. I aim to go through 1, Dragon Seige (cause I've never played it) then part 2, then Throne of Bhaal (because I never got to play it).

Awesome opening line!!!

This was pretty awesome! :D Also, replayed BG2 again last year. Still great!

Good job man. RU-vid stopped reminding I am subbed. I looked up a BMC last night and sure enough Susan remembered I am subbed to lots of crafting DMs. Guess it’s been about a year since I’ve seen one of yo ur vids.

came 11 months late to say that Baldur's Gate is known for it's thin roads, being that the reason that they don't allow animals larger than a turkey inside the city. Caravans must load and unload their cargo by hand or through the port. So 2" roads would have been fine.

Just finished your tomb of horrors uncut video and I am thoroughly impressed! Great attention to detail, and very creative workarounds to stay true to the original artwork and engineering of the original inspirational material. If you're ever feeling bored or extremely ambitious, you could always do the Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga, Temple of Elemental Evil, or the Ruins of Undermountin. Great job, keep up the great work, and good luck on your future endeavors! You've gained a new sub for sure!

Great video (as usual) Wyloch! I love how you capture your process, backpedaling and all. I also love your lighting solution for your workarea. I've been a subscriber to your channel for a long time and this is the first time I've noticed it.

One hour after you posted and I haven't reinstalled BG. Mainly because it is already installed and constantly played.

@20:00 "Just keep in motion, as long as you keep it damp, you'll be alright." Here's a tip that you guys might find to be helpful from the more traditional art world (canvas and the like). One of the core strengths of acrylics, the drying time, is also it's biggest weakness. This stuff just skins PDQ. Sometimes, you want to prevent that. In the traditional art world, this is mainly so that we can wet blend colors together like we would if it was an oil painting. What you can do is get yourself a fine mist sprayer and *lightly* spray the area you want to prevent from drying. There's some important notes to go with that though - The hardware store type sprayers will certainly not be fine enough and I know this from experience. What you want is the type geared towards cosmetics. You need a uniform ultra fine spray pattern. I would link one that I use but YT likes to nuke links. Just look up something like 'ultra fine water mister for cosmetics'. Some brands that make the right thing would be - delta, temu, flairosol, beutify, alpree. This does take a bit of practice to get right. Too little water and it won't be effective. Too much and you'll make your paint run. Don't use tap water in there. It'll go off and make the thing smell musty and moldy every time you use it. Since you're aerosolizing the water, it will be *very* noticeable. If for some reason you're forced to use tap water, don't leave it in there when you're done. Empty the thing and spray out all the water in the tube and leave it sitting open to dry out. Since you're painting on an absorbent surface here, it'll be important to wet the surface before you put paint down. If you follow these steps, you'll be putting wet paint on a wet surface and covering it with a film of water. The paint literally can't dry at all until the layer either under the paint or over the paint dries. This *might* be hypothetically useful for wet blending on miniatures too. I'm curious to know but I won't be trying it myself as I paint miniatures with oil paints. If you try it out for yourself, I would be very interested to hear your results. Edit - I did some searching and you can see a demo of the technique here v=p1Uk6mwaW1k

I haven't even played baldur's gate and I'm getting nostalgia

Wonderful opening to the new year, mate. Looking forward to more, as always. Stay well :)

The wat you constructed the columns was great. Cabt wait to try!

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

Dude, I've been out of the crafting game for a long time now, but I gotta say, your projects are still inspiring. Great choice doing this video!

finished baldurs gate a few days ago (dont know how often i have done this by now) very cool vdeo :)

i would absolutely LOVE to see more videos like this! I love seeing someone essentially craft an entire city!

Has it already been a 100 years.

With only minimal alterations these kinds of buildings would work great for stuff like Bolt Action as well - if you squint they kind of look like French cottages and country houses! With regard to the stucco wash, would it help to pre wet them with a spray bottle of water? I've noticed the dude behind Laser Creation World likes to work very wet, he is playing a different game but a lot of the skills and tricks should be transferable.

I sure do awesome work! Thanks for sharing your talent

So one of your other videos was in my recommendations, and while that particular one didn't speak to me, I decided to check your channel to see what else you had to offer. I was DELIGHTED to see this. I love love love Baldur's Gate, and those finished crafts are fantastic. Wonderful stuff.

Lovely work

Neat idea, still waiting for you to do Expedition to Barrier Peaks, though.

The roof shingles looked amazing!!!

Were the doors the only features you really raised for the street tiles? If so, you could just add a couple stacked foam pieces that look like flagstones and make a set of steps up to the doors. They'd take up the raised space and look right. If you made them separate you could use the houses with the road tiles or a battle mat. Just a thought. And these look great!

My wife wonders where the planter box is on the first house 🤣

Amazing as always. Amazing

Thank you

That looks great. I have some old paper craft D&D buildings and they also give some BG vibes which is why I use them with modern stuff.

Pretty sure I ordered that same roller from green stuff world. Also trying some of their dipping inks for the first time. The delivery can't come soon enough!

Looks great, thanks for sharing.

What about scrim tape (instead of granny grating) for the windows? Scrim tape is much finer and a better scale; it’s sort of self adhesive even after painting but could be fixed with a coat of clear nail varnish to give a slightly reflective leaded glass look.

You must gather your party before venturing forth.

Aahh... Yes. Nice music. ♪♫

Awesome. I have thought about this too!

I laughed so hard at, "Brown. Just use brown ink."

Looks great! Also inspired me for some Down Darker Trails terrain.

good work here!