How to Craft a Beholder from a Ping Pong Ball for Dungeons and Dragons 

That precision nozzle for the glue gun is neat, I need this. Edit: The efforts your put to make your projects budget friendly are amazing, on behalf of broke people thank you Wyloch!

4:54 The difference between 4:54 and 4:56 is amazing. The primer coating really brought it to life by unifying all of the parts.

These would go well with my gaming table made from an old ping pong table!

For stuff like the veins, you could also use a good quality colored pencil with a sharp tip. The high quality ones are very soft as to not tear your paint and they give a lot of color. Just apply a coat of varnish and it wont rub off. A lot of people dont realise that even pencils can be usefull while painting models. Pencils are also great for helping you freehand very delicate and small designs

LOVE the orange beholder, my man!

Simply amazed. I wish we had models like this when I was a teen playing AD&D 1E in the 80s.

I’ve always been too poor to afford the actual licensed D&D Beholder mini and have always wanted some BADLY. Now with your tutorial I can have as many as I want!!! Thank you!!! P.S. these look awesome

I've been making beholders for ages now, everything from 1/2" to 3" bodies. I used a paper punch to make scales, it's time-consuming but makes for a nice armored look.

You're a treasure bro.I looked at all the pre-built scenery and its price and I quail at parting with my shekels.I also live in a small Canadian town so my local choices are limited.Then I found your channel and I get all these great ideas made from cardboard and household items and they look so good when finished.So now I get a sense of accomplishment,I learned something and I save my shekels.Thanks very much and may the Gods of Role-Playing always be with you.Cheers.

For someone not comfortable with making miniatures you do a great job! There is a lot of imagination and skill in your effort and they look great.

I make up 'toy soldier' sets to give away to less well off parents - These will be modified as 'tentacled aliens' to attach the next space base I make. Nice tutorial. Thanks

Did this build with the wife and daughter tonight! They turned out awesome! Thanx for the great instructional.

This is SO HOTTT. And it's not made from any special materials, but from basically re-purposed garbage. So very awesome!

Wow, Siskel and Ebert would give that video two thumbs up. We are also playing “Dragon Heist” and will eventually need a beholder. Great video and great timing for our group.

Lovely project! Great result! A helpful hint: Adding the base at the end of the building phase will result in a better join (no paint in the way) and an easier painting process (you have a good way of holding on to the miniature). You can protect your transparent base with tape or masking fluid during the painting process if you want.

This is what I love about your channel. These are store shelf quality minis and I absolutely think I could recreate them. Thank you for the video!

Great tutorial! Def going to buy the pieces and this'll be my next, "can't sleep, make/paint a mini" project.

Looks great, but I am afraid you made it look easier than it is, thanks for the video.

Looks like I'm buying some ping pong balls today. Love it!

Who would have thought !!!!! This is a great vid for getting a (relatively) expensive figure for not a lot of money and it looks awesome !!

More miniature videos -this one was awesome! Greetings from germany

Very nice. Will have to make a few of these. Maybe use this idea to make a few of the beholder kin as well. I made a beholder before. I used a Styrofoam ball for mine. Melted in the mouth, used my thumb to sink in an eye socket. Glass bead for an eye, and smaller ones for the smaller eyes. I used pipe cleaners covered in hot glue for the eye-stalks, which made them thicker than yours look. And I used twine soaked with glue to give him dreadlocks which help hide the wire that holds him. ... it ... to the base. Two inch metal washer for a base. Yeah, he's big. Great job..

Hands down the absolute best tutorial I have seen for making a beholder! Great job, and I agree with many of the commenters here that they look store bought quality when finished. I love your videos and this is up there with the best of them; again, great job!

Wyloch, guess who has two thumbs and is going to make beholders for Grim Dark Future...this guy!! Great tutorial, can't wait to try it.

Many years ago, I made a death-kiss from a ping-pong ball. For the tentacles, I used string soaked in white glue to give them some stiffness. For the center eye, I used a marble. The body texture was DAS clay. Just another way of doing almost the same thing.

Absolutely brilliant..been watching you for years and this blew me away.

This is really good tutorial , I don't have a lot if money at the moment but it really helps and they look amazing.

Awesome. You've given me a few ideas with making treants, roper, slimes, gelatinous cube, etc.

Very, very cool. You are the Wizard of Hawt-Glew!

I've figured out that comb teeth also work very well in place of toothpicks. They're roughly the same shape and size, and they're less likely to crack or leave splinters than wooden toothpicks. Plus, you can get other types of combs with bigger/differently shaped teeth if you want a different look for your beholder.

Just a thought.. Try using disposed contact-lens to create a cornea over the pupil/iris.. Will give some curvature, depth, and bit of light distortion..

Absolutely awesome.

That’s the first time I will do a mini project, thank you! U did an exceptional work!

Genius, friend. So well done. Thank you!

One of the best looking DIY mini I've ever see. Great job!

So this is the first video watched of this channel but Im pretty sure it wont be the last. This is great!

I love this idea, very cool looking

This guide was fantastic! I built one for my campaign and it’s awesome! Thanks!

This is amazing. One of my favorite monsters, and it's so easy! Big thank you Wyloch!

Great work as always! As a follow up video suggestion you could go over making various other "skin types" for the beholders.

Amazing job!! These really came out amazing!! I will definitely be doing these in the future!

I love how you just make the coolest stuff like it's no big deal. As always, thanks for the great vid! I'm going to try this because the campaign i'm running has a beholder coming up soon. I just hope i do half as good as you did instead of the "Nailed It" fails i usually do lol.

This is fantastic!!! I also appreciate the humility you exude, even though you are incredibly talented. I will definitely be trying this build.

I love your channel so much! Thank you for all these ideas 🙏

Dude, these are great. The official beholder minis are damn expensive too

Great job! I like these better than most of the miniature companies' offerings. Nobody beats Nolzur's, but yours is right up there.

Such a cool build!!

This is insane. I'm definitely going to try this

Wow ! Great work Wyloch ! I love your miniatures videos. You should consider doing more. I mean, i loved even the siege engines you did from warhammer even if i fon't play this game. I love the ingenuity. It always very inspiring to see how you overcome some issues. Thank you for this vid.

This is amazing. Been trying for a good long time to pick up one of those DND beholder minis for my wife. Maybe I'll make her one!

Although I'm a maker not a gamer your tutorials are still incredibly inspiring. Your do-it-yourself approach is also inspiring, as from where I stand the whole GW shtick seems rather expensive and a little exploitative of the fans. Besides, creating is fun. [I just got the pun... the Eye of the Beholder - duh]

Another awesome build mate. Just in time, as I sort of need a beholder pretty soon in-game, so now about to follow your pathway. Thnx for sharing, as always.

Veeery Cool Tutorial! Great work!

I just had a go and made one awesome guy using this technique, thank you for the great videos! I got lots of buildings to craft next

Really fantastic

Loving this DIY thing !!!!! Keep it up !!!

Well, these looks amazing! I will need one soon for my game, and I am thinking to make it from polystyrene ball :)

Super cool! I don't even play D&D anymore but want to build one of these!

Used this technique but made the theeth out of epoxy, got reaaly good results, thanks for the video it actualy revolutionized my campaign plans

Absolutely loved the video, right up my alley as I'm new to crafting myself. Your instruction helped me make a (zombie) beholder of my own along with some other cool monsters, so thanks so much for taking the time to make it.

Those look great! I'll definitely try this.

Excellent !

Amazing work! Me and my dnd friends are going to make this😄

OMG this is outstanding!

This is a really cool custom miniature, great job!

Man those tiles are amazing

Marvellously inexpensive & speedy solution. Great work & a fantastic tutorial. May try sculpting my own some day (with a no knives version). It'd take me a few days but this is how I'd do it... I would use tinfoil to get the basic shape, insert & glue the wire stocks in place (using calendar wire from a ring binder), sculpt a layer of milliput (so I could get the scales, texture) Then make the teeth out of a sheet of acetate & apply miliput to either side to secure & bulk. I'd likely use beads too for the eye stalks. Use green stuff putty (kneaditite) to create finer details (bulging veins, wrinkles, etc..). For the basing & such, I'd use all your techniques as they're the most efficient & cost effective

Thanks for your work. I like it that you also tell what goes a little wrong or whats better to do.

I like your beholder!! 👍

Perfect! In Brazil perfeito!!

Definitely going to have to try this!

Absolutely incredible beholders

I nice simple process. Very good job.

Vraiment excellent, grand merci !!!

Sold! This video made me subscribe. Well done sir. Well done!

great xanathar coloring

Holy this is so awesome!

Really want to try this

Really cool build. Inspiration: When you were adding the brown over the beige on the belly, the build reminded me of some kind of fish monster. This build could easily be adapted as such, using the ping pong ball for the head and front body, and adding something to the back for the tail. Repeat the same hot glue body texture, working from head to tail and a similar color scheme as used on the blue beholder.

That is just to cool.

They both look awesome!

Love it 👍🏻

Nice and not seem to hard to do thanks you. Merci

Thanks! Good way! I tried to do it from model glue, but this option is more interesting!

Omg! I watch dozens of fantasy themed/D&D channels, how the hell did I only find you today??? Excellent channel.

Amazing!!!!

This is amazing, I suddenly have a desperate need to try and make one of these! Subscribed!!

these are fabulous!

dude just found this channel this is awesome thanks!

I’ve crafted beholders before but I bet yours are a lot lighter lol. I’ll have to try to make at least one more using your technique. This is cool.

That's inspired! Well done!

If your camera has a macro setting use it for the up-close views to minimize the focusing problem. Love your creations.

not many tutorials on how to build minis, very cool!

“Don’t just do random streaking...” -Wylock 2019

Earned my sub. I'm making one of these as soon as I can get a pingpong ball.

Love this and can't wait to try and make one. Just need a better glue gun since mine is all jacked up.

Very Nice!

I think beholders are my favourite monster!

The blue one would be a great mini for "The Xanathar". Good stuff!

O_O Earned a subscriber today, this was awesome to behold!