I made this in 7 days... with only $10 

Martina: *trying to sneak around* Also Martina: *not realizing that her neon hair gives away her position from a mile away*

Proof that while fancy tools can make the process easier, quicker and cleaner, it really is all about the creativity and ingenuity of the artist! (Also who else had a small heart attack for a nanosecond before they realised that *wasn’t* in fact a microwave and that Martina *wasn’t* about to stick a load of metal into it? 😂)

I wish this budget thing was a series. So cool to watch.

This is reminding me of my favorite doll house I had as a child! My mom had made a castle out of a cardboard box and carved windows and a drawbridge in it! She even made a couple of ledges on the inside to act as a second story. And she decorated the sides with climbing roses in red and purple! It was much or as detailed as yours but it was the thought that counted and I played the heck out of more than my other dollhouses!

As soon as you bought that pack of paint, I knew you were gonna need some "contraband" white. I use acrylics a lot, and I seem to be always buying more white than anything else. Tip for folks on a budget: you can buy cheap color acrylics, but buy one tube of high quality white if you can. It will make most of your colours more opaque and easier to apply.

I would not hate it if this became a semi-regular series. Also that hoodie is an instant buy.

This should be a monthly or at least yearly series! It keeps you grounded to your audience and is so accessible!

It was great seeing this "budget" build. Even if it would be more expensive the fact that it was done with only basic tools is great. Like you said at the begining, things like 3d printers are still a rarity but getting some boxes, glue and paints? Everyone can have those :)

Often it feels like craft channels forget their roots and forget that not everyone has fancy tech, so it's really nice to see a video like this one.

I nearly laughed to death hearing her soul leave her body when that worker busted her gravel goblining. 🤣🤣🤣

I agree that this should become a series...challenges. Money based, tool based, even color/paint based. I also love the fantasy inspired stuff you do but would love to see more cyber/space stuff like the PC you did with LTT! Keep up the great work both of you!

This is amazing, I loved picking up tips like the gravel and the water spray bottle painting. Please make this a regular thing

I think these simple supply challenges really showcases the skill level of the creators.

Next time we're sending more boxes 😉 This was incredible!

This is amazing! What astounds me is the amount of detail you managed to create on such a limited budget; easily outmatching resources of a budget 10x larger. And the fact that even on the close-ups, I couldn't tell it was polystyrene and cardboard! And using dirt and fine gravel in the paint, not only for texture but also to make more use from your available materials: genius. I would never have thought of that. Bravo!

Thank you for doing videos like this- they are so inspiring! We all know that the huge budget videos in awesome workshops are always nice to watch, but videos like this are always likely to inspire beginners and personally I think those are the best kinds of videos!

First of all, I had no doubt that you could produce something amazing with a small budget - you did that quite a bit in the earliest days - the talent is what matters most, not the technology! Secondly, it was refreshing to see you step back from fancy tools and materials because those tools do start to appear essential to newer makers. I understand that better tools and materials free you from a lot of tedium, but the vision and skill are there either way! You guys are amazing regardless of budget, and it is a pure joy to watch you work! (Incidentally, I really missed the quests for illicit gravel from the old days!)

This was so cool. I'd love this to become a series. Making really cool stuff on limited/attainable budgets, and recycling or upcycling things!

Martina, you really are amazing. I've been watching your channel more than usual for extra tips and tricks because I discovered d&d diorama crafting that I want to make for my sister and brother-in-law (they're both dungeon masters and play every week :) and just happened to stumble on your online store. I checked it out just to see what you had, and found the downloadable template for this build completely FREE! I never thought I'd do this specific build, there's so much I have to just make from scratch and that takes a crap ton of time, but because this was free and it goes pretty well with the fantasy, medieval theme of d&d, I can't WAIT to get started making this! Thank you so much Martina! ❤️❤️💙💜💜

Didn’t really take into account the amount of hot glue sticks you would need into the budget but I really loved the idea of spraying on your black wash. Totally stealing this idea for when I paint my current project.😊

These two can literally do anything they put their minds to!

I absolutely love these budget-friendly builds, especially because you manage to keep the quality of the outcome similar if not the same as when using expensive tools and materials. Love your work every time!

This is insane!!! This is the first video I have watched of @Nerdforge and I am hooked. Love the creativity and how anything can be made on a budget. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to watching the other videos now.

This is the first video I've watched of yours & it was fantastic, I've never crafted anything, so it was wonderful to see what you were able to do & it turned out amazingly. The stones & the purple look phenomenal! And the sneaking around + commentary, was hilarious 😂

Basically, if you aren’t in Norway, you could do this for $10 😂 And I can confirm Martina went to the cheapest place possible for the supplies she bought 🤷‍♀️

One of my favorite sayings is this " You could give a fool the best resources and they will do nothing while at the same time you could give an artist a bag of trash and they will create magic. " You are an artist!!

Am I the only one going back to old videos to confirm that she had no pinky finger? 😦 Was I so distracted with how charming she is?

Gorgeous work, as usual! Thanks for showing that a LOT is possible on a budget - it's really encouraging! I'm curious what you do with all the finished dioramas you make: do you sell them, store them in a back room, or decorate your home?

This is such a flashback to college for me. My 3D design professor actually made us work with cheap materials at first, then we often had to dumpster dive for materials because we were too poor to afford anything extra. I watch a few other channels that make some pretty amazing things from garbage and recycling. Fancy tools are nice and make life easier, but they don't make the art, you do. That's why a good artist can make art from trash as well as expensive materials.

Here I am struggling to make anything with cardboard and hot glue, and Martina goes on to create a brilliant house. Amazing. Love this budget creation. Would love to see more of this in the future. A series perhaps? Also, I'm confident that your bright pink hair definitely aids in camouflage

Thank you so much for sharing this video and showing that my love of miniatures doesn’t have to be expensive 😊 Would love to see more budget materials videos like this for more projects to help beginners like me stay motivated and positive on our journey ✨💖✨

You know, that hoodie is literally the best merch clothing I have ever seen. It’s not plain with a boring design, as I usually see with others. AND ITS CONVENIENT TOO, like look at all those pockets. I wish I saw this earlier bc now it’s sold out😩 I want one so bad

I love that you recognise that a lot of artists and model makers don't have the access to a the higher end tools that feature in your videos. Maybe you could turn this into a series. "I built a ______ for $10". Or even do it in tiers like you do with the 1 hour, 10 hour, 100 hour videos. "I built a _____ for $10, $25, $50".

As someone who has built many things from "found treasures" and "it's not what it is but what it could be".. I must applaud your ingenuity at creating incredibly awesome projects from the simplest of tools and materials!! I would love to see more of these type of projects and perhaps a bit of your own insight into spotting these potentially useful items and materials!

This gives me a lot of hope for painting my 3d prints. I really want to get into making huge stone structures like this. Homes, Taverns, Castles, etc. I love seeing the process, especially how you painted and then washed and drybrushed the stones. They look AMAZING! And that diy stucco is chefs kiss! Fantastic work with the beams and doors and windows and I never would have thought to make a roof like that! Every video just gets better and better. You deserve all the hype. Bravo!

Nice touch making the template free too! I'm going to give this a whirl with what I have laying around the house. Thank you sm

That’s amazing! I’m an art teacher and I show this video to my students to teach them all the process of a project and how you experiment different materials to solve different problems. They loved it! So I decided to download the templates and try it myself 😁 A lot of fun in perspective!

6:17 made me laugh so much. Anyone who worked with glitter or material like this knows the feeling. You created something so amazing for such a small budget! Beautiful.

Fantastic work, I love how you show that even the basic tools and less budget works just as well the most expensive, going to try some of these techniques with my daughter, she loves crafting and arts

Been following you for couple years now , your space has grown so much since the first time I've seen you. I'm glad you are doing so well with everything , you work so hard on every project you do so you totally deserve it :)

Watching you frantically waving arms around while saying "Get off!" to the styrofoam is something that brings me pure joy. I have watched that over again over again in fits of laughter.

This project was not only beautiful and fun to watch, but I feel that content like this is so important for young, inspired makers who don't have "All The Things." Very inspiring.

Yay! This is awesome 😊 i love your normal vids but these more 'budget friendly' builds are so inspiring!!

I have been watching yalls videos for about a month. All your projects are just awesome. I cant believe some of them. Especially the medievil office episode. Its giving me and my wife some great ideas. Very creative.

I would LOVE to see more "Budget builds". They serve as great entertainment and are a huge inspiration for projects that I could stand a chance creating myself... after I've had many, many years of learning "how to art" XD

So good !! Such a nice reminder that making stuff doesn’t need to be expensive ! Back to the roots building !! Amazing work guys

this was awesome! Excited for the next merch drop! wasn’t able to snag a cryptic hoodie before they sold out unfortunately :( but I’m sure whatever’s coming down the pipe will be sweet!

It is so fun (funny) to watch your videos without sound or captions and seeing everything out of context xD

i really appreciate when people with access to all those fancy and expensive tools go out of their way to do something like this. it really shows that the quality of your projects comes down to passion and dedication, and you don't at all need anything too complicated to make something beautiful

I thought that I'll never do anything like this without money. But this video... Do, you say... I really can use some garbage, buy paint and glue and... That's enough? And I already know how to do it, because I've seen the process of doing it so many times? So, I can just... do it? Like, now? Yes, it inspired me more than anything. Tusen takk!

This was pretty fun to watch! I've wanted to build something for awhile and this has kind of inspired me a bit I think. I don't think whatever I end up making will be as big as this project but I definitely saw a lot of different techniques to make things in this video.. It's more about time and using materials that you have then spending a lot of money on it.... Thanks so much for sharing this video! I really enjoyed it! There were things I had wondered how they did it and you showed them here.. Looking at the finished project I would never have thought it was foam and cardboard... Fantastic! :)

Thank you so much for sharing this amazing project! I am an artist myself and sometimes I really get lost in all the supplies and fancy stuff you can buy. That sometimes I start a project and the first thing I think is “ohh I need this and this and I don’t have this…. Yadayadayada” You really showed that you CAN make amazing stuff with “thrash” and without fancy art supplies. It is the artist who makes the art, art. Not the supplies. It was really inspiring to see this. ❤

the squeaky noises that the styrofoam makes literally has my skin crawling omgggggg the amount of patience you had for this project! incredible work as always, martina!

This is a great video for two reasons: 1) It really shows you can get good results with time and not a lot of money 2) It REALLY shows you the importance of skill and experience It'd be a fun idea to have Martina take a new, aspiring crafter and walk them through this challenge side-by-side as a learning exercise!

Wish you made more of these beautiful miniatures with stuff available to literally everyone.

This is gorgeous. I think polystyrene is good for doing those textured looks, I thought, until I watched this, that you needed that dense, extruded polystyrene, but you have just shown that the ordinary, packing stuff, can be just as effective. I usually use that egg carton or drinks holder, sort of papier mache stuff to do bricks or stone walls, which is effective but can be really time consuming. I am going to give this a try next time I make something because it came out beautifully for you. Thanks, you got a subscriber and a like. I actually have a Tudour house kit that is wood but isn't painted and is just the bare structure, and I think, I could take a few tips from your video in order to make it look amazing rather than just average. I am going to do the windows with plastic packing (clear stuff) and do the leading like you did and definitely the polystyrene and the concrete paint. I am not sure when as it's pretty big but I'll tag you when I eventually do.

I am now totally keen to try and build my own house! Thank you for showing us what can be done on a small budget and with basic tools! Also thanks a stack for the template!

This is a prime example of your art skills. With enough talent, you can make something incredible out of mostly trash.

This is absolutely amazing! I would love to see like a how to start video. Cuz I want to start making this stuff but I genuinely don't know where to start or what I will need or anything like that.

This is my first time watching & I have been so inspired to like craft! Also.. I LOOOOVE accents and martinas is GREAT. this is amazing. You've just gained a forever subscriber.

Beautiful! I'm a little surprised that you didn't just make the extra PVA glue in the kitchen or even make the extra paint but perhaps time was a factor to consider as well. Maybe that can be your next challenge? Making a medieval diorama with medieval supplies? Hand making the paper, glue, paints, etc. Perhaps even a series of videos of making the supplies using different methods/techniques leading up to the last video of making the diorama itself as the last in the series. Thanks for all the great inspiration! My kids and I love your videos!! :)

That turned out so beautiful. Wow! I really love how you painted it.

I've been wanting to make a diorama for a while now based on a show I love, and I was reallyyyy struggling to find stuff for good stone terrain until I remembered your channel!! I am so happy that I don't have to buy something expensive for the stone texture and look I want when I could just make it myself! I will also be using some of the other techniques you used on your house, like the wood texturing. Thank you for being such an inspiration and saving me moneey!

Martina and Hansi could roll a turd in glitter and still make it look amaaaazing! Thank you so much for the template. I’m going to have a go at making this myself. You guys are the reason I got into modelling so I’m so excited to try copy your house.

I love when makers do things like this because often as they get new equipment and more income, the accessibility of their craft disappears and discourages people from trying things themselves. There’s always a sense of having to do bigger and better projects on RU-vid, to get more and more views, but people came and stayed because they love the maker and their work. So seeing you do a very accessible project and challenging yourself by not using all your tools is really great and enjoyable to watch AND inspirational!

This project reminds me a lot of when I would take a shoe box, prop it up on its side and place the lip on top and pretend it was a gas station 😅 I used to love building things using scrap cardboard (coz we couldn't afford actual building blocks, much less lego) and that prob contributed to my being a designer right now. This also reminded me that I have a perfectly good and large box sitting in the attic with lots of styro (recently bought a new fridge) I can use alongside the various tubes of paints I've been gifted that I've yet to use. Conveniently enough, it's my day off tomorrow and my dad's bday as well, who is also a construction fanatic (studied engineering) so this really inspired me. Gotta make plans and try to work around a very curious cat though 😂

Thank You for your inspiration! I'm about to dive into a project like this ... I can't wait to share the result!

the mmorpg montage music always gives me such nostalgia. its like you're building the inn where i need to turn in my quests

I really love this video especially with how you showed us how to reuse ♻️ all of our packaging that our packages come in like that is like so much better than just throwing it all away and creating more waste so I say LETS RECYCLE AND CREATE AMAZING ART for cheap

Just found your channel by chance today and this is only the third video of yours I seen but I love what you are doing. You are fun and you are very inspiring for people (like me!) who always WANTED to do creative projects but felt intimidated (and lazy, like me, unfortunately), and limited because the cost was daunting. Thank you. You are so helpful and a great video journalist btw.

I would love this concept to become a series!! ❤️

I love the idea! Wouldn’t mind more of it… especially “scrap materials and materials from the trash” because not all of us have stores that sells quality material… great video!

My girls have been kit / trash bashing for Warhammer 40k and fallout. They make some really cool stuff , they are busy , engaged both mentally and creatively. And it is nice when you hear "Dad can you help us ?" Nice build , you rock and they love your channel... every morning Sherra Baggerha has replace good morning.

Love how much detail is put in it even with limited supplies

I’d love to see this as a regular series. In the same way as painters do limited colour painting or cooks do limited budget grocery shopping, you could do limited tools and materials based on random things either drawn from prompts or from viewers examples. Also, you can make sort of glue from flour. Very useful in a pinch.

i use to build things like this as a kid in the 1960's... I had a great art teacher. For stained glass windows we would use colored construction paper and apply heated wax with a conventional clothes iron to make the paper translucent so light would come thru... great work and video from you... Thanks!

Super cool result! And a side note: there's a good chance most people would have an extra paintbrush and a bit of white paint laying around, if not more... so I would hardly call that cheating.

absolutely amazing this is how i create and its interesting that you found out about the stucco that is virtually free. i have downloaded the template thank you so much. i love how we can made so much out of trash great for our budgets and also good for the environment.

Tools and materials can be the difference between something that looks good and something that looks mind blowing, but it's the raw artistic talent that really matters. You could give most people every possible tool and material at their disposal and they'd still never get a result that was anything even remotely approaching what you ended up with here.

I love how quotable you are! "The finest gravel man has ever seen..." I also love the sorts of stuff you make! This will be SUPER helpful when I make my floating islands! :D (BTW, ur hoodie is probably the only youtuber-made hoodie I'd ever wear)

I audibly gasped when Martina sprayed the step with the spray bottle. The transformation in that moment was incredible. Then again anything she does blows my mind

Cannot wait to try it, so I can display it in my gaming room!!!! So cool that it is easy and accesible! Thank you so much!

Fantastic! I love this kind of thing! Well done

It's super awesome being able to see something this amazing done with $10 and trash. So many of the youtube artists I watch now use so many expensive and fancy equipment that I could never afford. It's nice seeing you go back to your roots and use very little to create something still just as incredible! Beautiful work as always!!!

Thank you so much for doing this as a Norwegian, I see tons of other art channels and such do similar challenges, and they get so many supplies just for 10$, and I always think it would be impossible in Norway, this was a great video. 🥰

Wow this is ingenious, how everything is contructed from the simplest of materials, amazing

Wow! This is gorgeous. Nicely done!

This was so cool. We've been fans since the beginning stages and watching you succeed has been a joy. But this solidifies why you had fans even without the laser printer - your creativity and vision!

Amazing job. With such a low budget it’s incredible that you had those results. Shows you are super skilled and that anyone can do what you do with time and effort. Love the hoody design. I don’t usually like hoody’s but the amount of pockets and the front opening makes me want to order right now

Holy spaceballs. This is fantastic. Thanks for the template, I'm going to try this

I love watching these videos and now you've got me looking at my trash can differently lol This channel rocks, it's super creative and cool seeing what you come up with every video and you're hilarious, keep doing your thing duder!

Love it when you share a bit of your language, with the subtitles. A great thing about youtube is that allows us to get to know about other cultures in a natural, unscripted kind of way.

While there are several project of yours that are my favorite, this one slips into my top 10. What you did with $10, contraband paint, stolen gravel, and refuse glue is absolutely amazing!

Awesome!!!!! I so want to do my Star Wars Dioramas like this! Thank you SO much. And you are So funny! Especially the gravel finding expidition! lol

This might be the best page channel on RU-vid and it’s not an overload of content, which means I’ve already watched everything and it’s because of the quality and what she does so you know when you see a video from her it’s for sure a banger with that being said I’ve watched all these videos like 10 times

I had started to feel that achieving something magical like what you guys make would be impossible without all the extra equipment, but this video proved I was wrong! Thank you for making this, it’s given me the encouragement to start regardless of the equipment I have!

Got the discord notification and have arrived! I always wondered how well a diorama would turn out if you just improvised everything. Makes me wanna give it a try now! Thank you guys! You are awesome ❤

That’s so cool, I love it. Please do more like this without the 3D printer and other stuff nobody else really owns. I would love to do some of your projects

New fan here! Just discovered your channel and have been binge watching everything. I'm in awe of your creativity and skills, as well as your personality. So far, however, this video/build has been my favorite. I absolutely loved how you limited yourself and still created something so beautiful. Also loved that you surprised yourself and learned something at the same time in regards to how the Styrofoam and the gravel paint worked out so well. Such a great video all around. I would love to see more "restricted" builds in the future!

To be fair, this channel does a lot of content already that doesn't make use of those fancy tools that not a lot of people have access to, but I'd like to see more of these "no 3d printer/laser cutter/cnc mill etc" videos on a budget in the future (from this and other "maker" channels too why not).