Really like that you focused on one material, coffee stirrers. Makes it easier to imagine the possibilities of the medium. I do similar things with Jenga blocks.
They’re such a good material for miniature hobbying in general I knew I had to make a video on them. Jenga blocks are great too I’ve used them for making some big chunky fortified walls before, thanks for sharing!
I really liked the coffins and the graveyard doors. Made some crates like these with a core of cardboard squares layered into cubes and rectangles, instead of coffee sticks I had some slices of old vaneer I cut into strips.
They were actually just from some random skeleton miniatures I grabbed off eBay and chopped up, no idea on the brand but you’ll find tons of them on there. Thank you, the gate was by far my favourite, I’ve got a whole bunch of similar bits that I’ve been thinking of making into a graveyard too, thanks for watching and commenting!
All great ideas!!! A few I already knew about but never got done that good though!!! 1 things I would love to learn how to make would be extra bits?!? Like the missiles you had in 1 of the crates!?! I know you get a few from certain box sets…… but I usually use those for those sets!!! But I would love to know how the best way to make more just like it!?!
Thank you my man, glad you liked them, I’m 99% sure the missiles were from an older cadian heavy weapons kit, but I could see it being fairly easy to make some similar ones from styrene rods and similar little bits, so maybe a video idea for the future!
7:17- I’m not sure how good this would work…… mainly because this video just gave me the idea!?! But I wonder if you 1st paint it the wood color! Then put a decent amount of Matt clear varnish over it! Then paint the green over all of that after everything is 100% dry! Then just like you just showed us, green, green wash, then sand it (obviously you would need to sand lighter! So you don’t go through all of the paint)! And if you did it right and that 1st coat of varnish did its job, then on all the pieces that the green paint is going would be the wood brown!?! To make it look way more realistic!??
All I need now are wooden coffee stirrers. Going to be a tiny bit of a challenge though, since where I live there seems to only be plastic tube like ones (which admittedly make for nice industrial pipes/plumbing).
Don't get me wrong, the boxes all look great... but my god THOSE OLD DOORS. Damn they look so legitimate. Also I'm really impressed with the moss on the gate. So simple but effective. Top notch work
Haha thank you I really appreciate that, they were by far the thing I was most satisfied with after making for this video so it’s great to hear you liked that, thanks for stopping by!
Yup, the coffins are ridiculously easy to make, all of this stuff is really. I’ve glued many little tiny planks to my fingers while making them though haha, thanks for watching!
I did some doors recently and had some spots that wouldn’t stain where the Pva glue touched the wood from the excess so I used typhus corrosion texture from gw to cover it and it gave the wood that rotted look worked well. Feather the edges with a wet brush and it was perfect
I get my stirrers from Co-op stores, best done in the evenings when students work their shifts. No need to sneak about, I usually just ask if I can have some. I never get asked how many I want. A big handful is never a problem.
I have indeed, probably would have been way better than the foam I used in this video. I might have to have a play around with it again soon I have some walls and other bits I need to make, thanks for watching!
Where do y9u get your skeleton bits from? I miss the old GW box set of skeletons that gave an amazing amount of parts for all kinds of projects and want something like that if possible.
I grabbed these off eBay, they were random skeleton archers of a nondescript brand that I chopped up for nefarious purposes, sorry I can’t be more specific ☹️
The Skeletons Warriors box from Warlords of Erewhon, by Warlord Games (formerly by Wargames Factory) is by far the best source of random skeleton bits we have, since most of the pieces are separate (or if you want to make skeletons in very specific positions for dioramas or whatever). And for skulls, as mindbending as it sounds, the best bang for your buck is *still* the Games Workshop Skulls box, nothing else from no one else comes close if you want a whole bunch and variety of them.
Coffee stirrers are great ideas. I hope my coffeeine supplier will not worry too much about me now, that I will have another reason to go there. I also like your funny comments. Indeed, I do gently kiss colours on my minis.
Hahaha you just need to increase your coffee in take to 20 cups per day and you can make all this stuff too. I’m glad to hear it’s not just me also, thanks for watching!
It’s a bit of leftover scenery I had laying around from some Age of Sigmar graveyard scenery set - something to do with the nighthaunt I think, thanks for watching!
