Fuel Tank Made from Random Household Junk (Warhammer, Kill Team, Necromunda, Gaslands) 

"Now time to spray paint... Dammit." Goes on an hour-long side-track to go buy more. This is hilarious because we ALL have to face this at a moment or another. Plus it's a fun window into the cold-harsh realities of Canadians :P

My husband and I laughed out loud when you got to Canadian Tire and said "Holiest of Holys". We call going to Canadian Tire "going to Temple".

9:50 turns out your friends get weirded out if you ask them for used q-tips. Just kidding. I don't have friends.

That brings some memories :). When I was a teenager (some 25 years ago), I couldn't afford minis and terrain. We were playing Warzone with my friends back then. We were building our terrain from empty yogurt boxes, styrofoam, sand, moss and various scraps found in garages and sheds. We were even able to create our own minis by kitbashing cheap Chinese plastic toy soldiers, aircraft and tank model kits, polymer clay (that colorful kind for kids), paper, old toys, and so on. I actually think that years of such kitbashing and also creating own rule books for our minis made me a game designer :).

Drinking straws are easy to connect when you know how. Make a "V" shape in the straw with your finger/ nail. Fold it in on itself along the "V". Now insert into another straw. It will push fit just fine. The "V" has made the diameter smaller therefore it fits into the same straw size.

Thanks for not making this rely on 3D printed parts. Too many videos lately have so many printed parts that many of us who can't afford a printer get put off by even watching the video. Thanks for getting back to old school!

The 'Mini-me' figure at the end made me laugh.

I really like this build. I think the fact it's a first time and not perfect adds to the aged look. And being a painter myself, the mantra "its just paint, if you don't like it paint it again" has always served me well.

thanks so much for what you do. I've been watching a lot of your tutorials and started crafting about a month ago. it's my therapy, was diagnosed with fibromyalgia 8 months ago. After a year and a half of pure hell, not knowing what was going on.With pain from head to toe and memory loss accompanied by severe depression and anxiety. I definitely know what your wife is going through and totally empathize with her situation.Chronic illiness is no joke glad she is doing better. I was heavy into bodybuilding and about sixty five pounds heavier it killed me to lose all the hard gained muscle.I retreated to my couch. I was forced into early retirement. That's when I started painting minis ,and soon after I found your channel. I've made the fountain, and dollar store cottage. I love it ,and have found my new addiction. thanks brother keep on keeping on!

Great episode Jeremy, A superb depiction of making 3D Art out of sack cloth. Couple things: When using an expansion foam to fill cans use a SLO-BLO. Any brand will do. Fill the container half to three-quarters with the SLO-BLO and wait...and wait...and...you get the picture. The SLO-BLO's properties are such to expand slow and stiff while not blowing out the sides. Decades ago I used a can to build a COG Railway Loco. Just a scenery siding piece. It quickly buckled and became a wrecked Cog Railway Loco. Back in the 2000's I found SLO-BLO to insulate existing windows in our home. With a spot in one can and an entirely full can I decided to waste the foam. I made rocks, hills, and with the last drop I shot it into the boiler of the Cog and before my eye the dings, dents, and puckers straightened out. Give it a shot. As for your "Holiest of Holies" when my kids were young I would take them to Habitat for Humanity builds over the weekend. After they put in a full days labor we would go to a junk food joint for a nouch. When leaving the kid's always tried, for naught, to keep me from going to what they called "OH NO, NOT Daddy's toy store." Home Depot. AH! Ya' gotta love kids. Homicide is a crime. ~Jim

Tim's double double on the way to 'Crappy Tire'... Nothing more Canadian than that!

I love this build so much, because it uses so many small techniques. Zip ties? Brilliant! Bendy hollow cotton swab tubes as pipes? Genius! This was a lot of fun to watch!

Eric's Hobby Workshop has a nice easy technique for painting these old industrial terrain pieces.

Greebles!!!! Dry-wall-mesh-tape... This interests me.

Eric's Hobby Workshop showed me that small candles are probably the best for bending styrene/cotton buds. Cool build though

This is literally the first terrain tutorial I ever watched when I got back into mini gaming. I even recreated the build and added my own little flair. Got me into terrain building just as much as miniature painting.

I love seeing you branch out into different styles. As you have said, it takes you out of you comfort zone and shows us how you adapt to what you want to make. It also shows that any and all of the videos that have gone before can apply to any genre or style. Thanks for another great production.

Loved the trip to Timmies and Crappy Tire. Can't go to one without the other.

You keep saying it looks 'off' and not great, but I think it looks awesome! Exactly what you would expect in a dystopia future! When you started painting I was thinking 'oh no' but as you finished up it looked awesome!! 10/10 for me!

Good video. I loved you showing the world the CDN man church: Canadian Tire. You’re not a man in Canada till you’ve gone on a “pilgrimage” to CT for a tool you need! Excellent build! Thanks

Great use of household throwaway trash. Looks fine with painting, weathering.. dry wall tape, WOW, fantastic use for grid work.

Great project and great video. RE: approximately 11 minutes in, the Dollar Tree sells black plastic hair curlers (10-pack) with a lattice construction that are easily clipped with scissors or trimmed with a hobby knife to make super-easy ladders/fire escapes for your modern/post-apoc builds. (You don’t really even have to paint them!) Keep up the fine work. - Chris

I notice you keep putting yourself down in so far as how well your stuff turns out. I mean, maybe it doesn't look like professional 3d printed and painted premade bought from the store stuff, but I'm always floored with what you create and even this I feel looks so realistic all things considered. It really looks awesome and when you first held it up in the beginning I genuinely couldn't tell what all you had used to put it together, not even guessing youd used a can or recognized that the ridged bends were from bendy straws. This build is amazing and your skill and creativity is amazing!

"Just paint the damn thing. If you don't like it, paint it some more. Still don't like it? Hit it again with more paint! Just keep throwing paint, texture paste, washes, and inks at your piece until you like the way it looks." -Pablo "Black Magic Craft" Picasso

Just a note on the mesh dry wall tape. I'm a contractor and I use it every time I do a drywall job. It's much better than paper tape because it is faster and it sticks to the drywall eliminating the process of loading the seam with mud and then putting tape on it then squeezing out all the excess to make it smooth along the seams, when all you do is stick it and apply your first of 3 coats of mud. It saves alot of time. However, it does not work on inside or outside corners. You still have to use paper tape on inside and corner bead on outside.

Just a suggestion for filling in the top of the can with the pull tab. Instead of foam core maybe use matboard which comes in 2, 4, 6 and 8 ply. Th 4 ply would probably work best. You can always layer different plys to get what you need. You need so little that if you go to a picture framing shop I bet they would just give you scraps from the trash that would work. I used to own such a business and I was always giving away scraps for other uses. Better than going in the trash!

Top tip for a cool texture: dab some crumpled up tinfoil against a flat surface you've just sprayed! Gives it an instant worn-down, flaked paint look. Great build none the less!

Spray foam works really well for structural integrity without adding much weight. A little goes a long way, so it’s a good investment for multiple projects.

Good build. I have used tins and cans for castle towers in the past. I work in smaller scales (15mm or 1/100) and I find that the slim cans which contain soft drinks or pre-mixed cocktails are very useful for slim towers while a stout round keep can come from a larger canned fruit or canned veg tin. I have also used cardboard tubes bridged together to make a twin tower gatehouse. The sliding portcullis was made from the stiff embroidery netting set with PVA and strengthened with strips of balsa. B

I think you think it looks worse than it does. It looks absolutely awesome and nobody who is playing would think twice that it's household junk. We have a tendency to over critique our own work. Looks awesome man!

Every time I watch a video of yours, I get so excited from seeing everything on your shelves. They're just so gorgeous and perfect to look at. I feel like a LOT of people would appreciate a "tour" video where you show off your craft room and all your shelves and supplies. My OCD loves your room, it's so perfect

Cosplayer here, the circle cutter works great on EVA foam. When using it tho you need to put another layer of foam underneath it to keep the blade from digging into your cutting mat.

Posted on the Patreon board, but will post here again, awesome build! I love how builds just completely transform from "straws, a can, bits o' junk" to awesomeness after even just the primer hits it! And I love your graffiti hack! Forgot about that trick you showed before (paint pen and black tipped marker, brill!!). I lurv these industrial post modern apocalyptic builds. :)

You said the tank wasn't amazing. Dude it was amazing. Sure we all droll over great buildings etc etc, but let's face it, it is pieces like this tank that really add the character, mood, favor, to the board.

I’d love to see a shot of all your post apocalyptic industrial terrain set up as a gaming table. To see how it all looks together :-)

Including your trip to Canadian Tire with the mandatory side trip to Timmys... Pure magic dude!

This is one of the first terrain videos I ever watched, and I think it's one of the first I'm gonna try building, just with a little more steampunk twist. And a smaller tank I found on a toy truck. For a Malifaux board eventually.

Very nice, going back over any industrial build videos I can in anticipation of starting a 15mm Sci-fi collection.

Nice build! Aluminum can builds really are a rite of passage! Along with pringles cans. It you have never made something out of these, are you even really a wargamer?

If you want to save yourself the headache of making the "cap" for a Perrier can project, the standard10' bases for miniatures fit those perfectly, with a little applied force ;) Will save you tons of work when doing multiple can projects. I used a couple for flying base stands ;) Great work as always!!!

Love it! Super smart idea on the longer, slender can. You’re right a standard can is so recognizable, yet it’s not something I wouldn’t have at all considered until you mentioned it! Great build. I’m sure at some point down the road I’ll be having my own can project in the bag. 🙂

Great video. I appreciate seeing and hearing about some of your struggles in the midst of your terrain building adventures. It makes me feel a bit better about my own experiences and it helps to know that it happens to even the best of us. As someone who mostly plays modern/post-apocalyptic skirmish games (Fallout Wasteland Warfare mostly), I appreciate your more recent videos dealing with that type of terrain. Thanks!

@0:00 Such Peace, Much Tranquility

Thanks for upcycling those materials into a nifty piece of terrain and sharing your experiences, good and bad, with us all.

Super cool!!! Great and pleasant video. Thanks for sharing.

Fun build! I love the zip tie cladding, and it was fun to see the evolving paint strategy!

You are too critical. I think it's awesome! I really appreciate the time you take with the painting which is a lot of why your stuff is so great.

Gotta say the build is perfect for the setting. Also, graffiti is such a nice touch and just looks amazing. It seems to me you undervalue your builds lately, while I find experimentation and trial/error approach as an ideal learning tool for anyone trying to replicate it. You end up creating something nice anyway, and it helps other people feel human along the way when they too mess it up :)

Dude, it looks absolutely amazing! Paradoxically, the fact it’s imperfect is exactly what makes it perfect 👍🏼

@5:50 one crazy cool tech slowfuse gaming turned me onto was using a thin tube of hollow copper pipe that has an OD of 1.5 mm and is hollow and use a basic hobby file to taper one end and then you find a spot where you want a rivet/nail head and use it to make an impression of the fastener being there by giving it a bit of a spin on the surface of the project.

The algorithm has decided I'm going to make a fuel tank thing this is the third video I've watched about them in 2 days.

Great job on that tank. You can make ladders using heavy gauge copper wire and use super glue to attach the rungs. I really like the use of the drywall tape for the metal grid, will need to remember that trick.

Spray foam can very easily cause the can to bulge, as it keeps expending much longer than you would imagine with a great deal of pressure. A few years ago I used it to fill a fiberglass form I had built. Everything seemed to go fine but months later I noticed cracks which the foam was bulging out of I would recommend pouring a small amount of casting resin into the can and swirling it around to coat the interior surface.

LOVED it showing you going to store and your lil pit stop haha

Turned out awesome. I don't play any post apocalyptic games or even modern games that I would need this type of terrain for. I'm considering just making some dioramas so that I have an excuse. There are so many possibilities. Watching Wyloch always leaves me with these same thoughts. lol

I think this is a very cool build - thanks for sharing!

this is what modelism is all about: take something from the real world and use it in the miniature gold. The fact that you can tell what is if you pay attention I think adds charm to it

Love these scatter terrain builds

you inspired me so much to start crafting for d&d. this video is so fun, more so because you left in the unnecessary paint job. I'm absolutely trying this out one day if I have any modern/industrial/steampunk campaigns. as a high school student I don't have as many resources and finances to support this hobby, but I absolutely love everything I make. for the most part. I mean, there's things to be improved. currently working on a tower with a removable wall made out of a big Lidl chips party bucket. I have two of those and I'm considering adding a removable bridge that could connect them.

Oh, Crappy Tire, we stand on guard for thee!

Jeremy! That tape is such a great idea... I totally forgot I had some for patching a wall hole. Totally stealin' it!

The trip to the store for paint cracked me up. Story of my life!

Looks great! Even though I won't be playing any modern / post apocalyptic settings anytime soon, it's definitely educational in some other stuff I was working on. Thanks for everything you do!

That build takes me back to the days when I was playing Warhammer 40,000 second edition, and the first thing I built back then was an outdoor toilet (long drop I guess you guys call it)! Think I’m gonna buy me some cans and start making terrain again! Cheers dude for the inspiration!!

I do so love these types of builds. 👍🏻

I think it looks amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Great build, I love Canadian Tire too, lot's of great stuff there

They say that the biggest critic is the artist himself. This build is outstanding, from the improvised materials to the rusted paintjob. You've just gained a follower

Awesome and everyone has easy access to the materials used 👍🏻

13:25 That's damned good advice. It's also something I had to do recently on a piece. lol A few years ago, that would've caused me to completely abandon the project. But remembering that it's just paint and that I can always buy more helped me push through and get to a place where I was happy with the piece.

Really enjoy when you show us some of the mundane times during your builds and the multiple paint jobs =)

Build looks pretty spot on. I've seen old tanks look like that at work.

Hoping we get to see you add to this theme set of terrain in the future. Great video of your learning and creating process.

Definitely cool looking and the industrial music was a nice touch ÷3

Love this build! Would love to see you do more industrial/modern terrain. Also thank you for the tip on drywall tape, thats a much better use for it!! haha

Good build; gives me ideas for my own! Some ideas I have for you: there are lots of different types of drinks bottle (particularly water bottles in the UK) make good tanks and towers - seal and hide the cap and it stays nice and firm. Second thing, look up "Rescuing a Sisters of Battle EXORCIST tank" on RU-vid; the guy painting there uses a cool technique for rust and crumbling paint by using hairspray to chip from one layer to another - looks good and on these apocalyptic things would be ideal! Enjoyed the video, keep it up!

Sweet build! You could use a Pringles chip tube can for the tank instead of an aluminum can... but it would definitely need a modge-podge seal to prevent potential moisture warping since they are basically cardboard.

"This tape is awful for its actual intended purpose" See this man here? He is clearly a man of culture. He gets it!

Having been into model railroading for years I've scratch built some stuff in my day. First let me say to you, " Stop condemning your work!" I myself have used thing laying around the house to pump up a build. What you've created out of nothing is nothing short of magic. I think it looks damn good and people know what it is when they look at it. That's a great job! Be proud of it.

I think the tank turned out awesome. I make dollhouse miniatures but I really enjoy watching your work. Thanks

Brilliant project. Thanx for the inspiration.

"NOW WERE COOKING WITH GAS!!!"

the part that he said that he doesn't think that it looks spectacular, had me slapping my face. this is awesome

I love the zip tie idea for covering the foam and adding a bit of detail. Nice tip that I'll have to try to remember.

Yep. Cool. I enjoyed the trip to buy paint. I live just a bit south in ND., but I haven't been to Winnipeg for decades. Great channel you have. 👍😊

Hi Jeremy. Love it. Don't do yourself down. The piece of industrial art which you have made is both atmospheric and practical. Well done. Mike

I think the way it was built gives it a lot of character. I love the zip tie idea for the edges. Overall looks great for what it is. Keep up the awesome work

It's turned out great! The best terrain is always made out of crap!

👍 Very nice build look good. Thank mother church for all the goodies it provide!

I like the build. The wash and ink drips really sell the age of the tank. And thank you for the frustration shopping montage!

I’ve only just discovered the joys of bendy straws. Thank you for the tip on using paper straws for joins! I was trying to figure out how to do that 👍🏻👍🏻

Love it. Love the post apocalyptic terrain. Love the cheap, easy to find, recycled materials. Love it!

New to the community but man I absolutely love your stuff. I'm struggling with translating it down to a smaller scale for BattleTech but I'll eventually figure it out. While I love the builds, I think the best thing I get out of it all is your use of around the house stuff and making non-hobby stuff useful. You've also gotten me going into Dollar General and Dollar Tree down south here to find stuff. Keep up the great work and I look forward to watching my subs for more stuff from you!

Hahaha so awesome to see my old stomping grounds. Thanks for filming a little of good old Peg ;)

Dude, I live in the same part of town as you, I recognized that footbridge @ 12:10 instantly, and I buy my spray paint from that same Canadian Tire!!

I would love to see a video of you playing Kill Team or Necromunda some time with all this terrain!

I don't think you give this piece enough credit. Looks great for a post-apoc setting of any kind.

Its so nice to actually see Canada for once in something I watch. lil taste of home & will def help me budget.

Looks Great!

After watching a bunch of videos from you and other youtubers making terrain and models from junk, I decided to give it a try myself. As well as some modular ruined walls (inspired by your other video, so thanks for that!) I'm going to try something with a can, using this for inspiration. Not sure yet if it's going to end up as a fixed storage tank or a fuel tank on the back of a Mad Max style truck, but either way it's pretty exciting. I've found that deodorant cans look ideal for this- I'm using a 150ml Right Guard spray can. As well as being a good size and shape, they're a lot stronger than pop/beer cans so crushing/denting shouldn't be an issue. Cut the dimpled-in bottom part off a 330ml pop can, and it fits on the end perfectly to make it look like an actual tank, rather than a repurposed can. I hot glued it in place with a D12 filling the gap to strengthen it and hold it in place (Don't worry, it was from a failed attempt at resin casting dice, I'm not wasting decent dice on this), then I used the superglue-and-baking-powder trick to simulate a weld, and it looks great!