I spent 20 days building this giant wizard tower 

Can you imagine if she did one of the two towers from Lord of the Rings????? Holy moly

The fact that she actually uses the cyber glove she made is really really cool to me

Suggestion on how to ship it: Go to a specialized cake store, you know, the ones that make cake for weddings, and ask them how do they ship their crazy cakes. From what i've seen they hire special services that keep the cake untouched while moving it long distances. If they can do it with cake, they will do it with the tower.

Martina's love for the "large and huge" makes me think that soon a video like "I built a real medieval castle instead of my house" will appear on the channel😅

Two things: The videos are always worth the wait and it's pretty damn cool that you're really utilizing that glove/prosthetic that you made.

Quick moment to appreciate Hansi cuz I feel like he isn't appreciated enough as he's not on camera much Also I'll never get over how u manage to create such magnificent pieces in the end despite how ambitious ur projects are Beautiful. Truly BEAUTIFUL

Start a Nerdforge Art Museum for people to visit. I would definitely take my daughter to see your projects and art. Like Snake Discovery created a reptile zoo. They have staff to run it so you're not invaded by us crazy fans! Thank you guys so much for creating daddy and daughter time. We look forward to new projects and we're working on our first leather wrapped tome.

SHE'S WEARING HER GLOVE!!!! So sickkk. I love that you don't just build things for show. You actually use tools and things. That said, your builds are always BEAUTIFUL!! I'm such a huge fan

It’s so inspiring to see someone with so much passion and enthusiasm. I always love the builds and paintings that you make!

The puppers deserves spotlight and he knows it

You should make a huge diorama inside your studio for all the smaller dioramas you've created as one massive cohesive diorama.

To ship it, I'd recommend building the plywood box like you said, then put in a bunch of braces made of the foam you use in your projects. I think that would be more secure than packaging peanuts. Plus you can cut the foam to fit exactly where you want so you can avoid any delicate areas of the piece. Amazing work as always!

A crate isn't a bad idea. Keep it vertical and add anchors between each layer that secures to the central pipe and the inside of the crate. Then fill it with packing peanuts. Make sure to label it so they keep it orientated correctly and don't try to set it down on its side. As long as you have it attached to a pallet, it should be safe. It is going to be a fairly pricey way to ship it, but this would be the safest way to ship it internationally.

Martina, I would love to see you build something for the outdoors. Like an epic towering birdhouse!

The fact it only took you 20 days to make something this huge is incredible. It looks amazing

I wish you could make painting classes or just recordings that explain how you learned your techniques and how you use them in the right, particular places. I think that a lot of young artists would find it very helpful to learn from someone who is not boring and teaches it in a very unique way. you never cease to amaze me, Martina!! Beautiful tower!!! Thank you for your videos!

I like how she had a clock just sitting there in some of the Timelapse’s, is shows how much time and work is really put into this..

Ship it in 4 parts, the base and all 3 parts you made, all filled with packaging stuffing. You can even make a box for the base and use a fancy box for the miniatures with foam with holes carved to their shapes and sizes. Also, carving a negative form of the towers in foam to give more support during transport.

I love how Martina is not intimidated by details, and go beyond just doing a basic thing [in here for example doing the tour 'afloat']

Shipping thoughts: Build the base into a box. Since the center is held in place by a pole, as long as you brace one of the sturdier parts of the upper section, it should keep the fiddley bits from getting damaged. Good luck!

A new nerdforge video is like a straight up shot of dopamine. Watching you create awesome art with your boundless enthousiam always leaves me feeling significantly happier! :D

For some reason 'hexagons are the bestagons' was really unexpected and made me laugh. Wasn't expecting Martina to be a CGP Grey fan :) Great build and interesting final problem!

Great project as always tanks I've watching your back catalog since I've found your channel thank to your colab with LTT. Now I've rarely comment but I've have actual experience shipping large fragile things so here are my suggestion: Option 1: If you can still separate the tower there is no need for a crate you can use cardboard boxes but you'll need to made a "small mod" cut the support pipe so the base can fit in a box that is not too tall and mostly empty, you can add threaded coupler and a connector for the LED Wires so it's easy to put it back together at the destination, now about prepping boxes for the individual parts, you'll need two boxes for each part for the inner box put a layer of hi density foam or Styrofoam of about 2cm lining all the walls of the box then get some instapack bags of the appropriate size to form a perfect support for the part, and that's your inner box for a short trip by truck on paved roads this would be enough, but if it need to be shipped by air o a long multi mode route, you want to add an outer box, this is much easier you need a box about 10 cm bigger in every dimension than the inner box so there is a 5 cm gap between the inner and outer box, now you just bubble graph the inner box with two layers (the big bubble kind) and fill the rest of the gap with packing peanuts. Option 2: Let say you can't separate the tower any more for this case you need a shipping pallet and a crate, you'll need to add temporary a larger base to the tower (a piece of plywood a about 10cm smaller the pallet in each dimension) with two objectives lower the center of mass of the pallet making it more stable and be able to screw together the tower and the pallet, now instapack if your best friend again for valuable and fragile things put a layer around the hole tower you'll need 3 or 4 sections for this get a cardboard box and remove the top and bottom and and do one layer at a time until you have the whole tower protected (you'll need to cut out this boxes to unpack), because cargo shipped in pallets need to be move with fork lift some time is expose to the elements you need to add a layer of film wrap (like those kiosk that wrap your suitcase at the airport) now the final step is to made a crate around the hole pallet and strap at lest in 3 point the tower already pack to the wood crate. Hope to be helpful and good luck. Saludos desde Santa Cruz de la Sierra - Bolivia

I don’t know why but “rock smash” really caught me by surprise and let’s just say I cackled loud enough my neighbor yelled through the wall asking if I was ok or if I was summoning something! 😂

An idea for the shipping dilemma: Mount the base in the transport-box and take off the upermost part of the tower if possible. Then you could have a "plug" in the top part of your box, so the pipe is fixed in place once the box is closed. Now the only hazzle left is the top part, which could be shipped in a separate box filled with those packaging thingies. Best of luck :)

After watching your house, tower, diorama, etc. builds slowly growing -- and seeing you create a new studio & paint murals and a vehicle -- I can't help but wonder when we're going to see "Nerdforge Builds A House" (as in, a real, full-size abode for humans...) :-)

She's done more work in this one project than I've worked in my whole life 💀

Spellforce is my childhood and current adult childhood and this is AMAZING! I love it, the tower is amazing and Martina, you did INCREDIBLE as always. See you next video.

How you turn bits of cardboard into the finished product is truly amazing. The paint and texture, wow.

when somebody looks slightly deranged but also excited during whatever it is they're doing, you know it's going to be a good time.

Martina I would watch a 5-episode series on something like this. It both awes me and terrifies me that you build this all for one episode. I know it's your nature to like to make giant gorgeous projects and to push yourself!! But don't burn out! Protect your health! ❤️

for a few seconds there on the final results .. my brain thought I was looking at a illustration , and not an actual structure !! girl!! I been watching you for a few yeas now , and you level up with every video !! you should be proud of yourself ! much love from Minnesota US

They make a packing material that is basically expanding foam in a sealed bag. You break the vial inside to activate it, put it in the bottom of box and then quickly put the piece on top of it. The foam expands and contours perfectly around the item. You can then do another bag on top. Then it's just "rinse and repeat" for each section. Probably a good option for shipping such a delicate and fragile item.

That CGP Grey reference at 3:10 had me rolling. Also, I hope the person who designed the original drawing sees this. It looks pretty amazing

Concerning the shipping: when we ship fragile stuff at work (i.e. motors for machines) we build a frame inside a box and screw the thing to that frame so it is free hanging. As your base is wood, you could screw it to a base panel to secure it. I don't know how fragile the miniatures and pointy bits are. If you are afraid they might break when the box is vibrating in a truck, probably wrap the details in something soft (cotton balls, newspaper shreds, kitchenroll?) And then wrap the whole thing in cling film and build a box around that. Fill the box with packing peanuts. Write " this side up!" on every side and speak a quick prayer. Maybe, you can even remove the top third (if still possible) to access the pipe and secure that from the top down as well. Good luck with that. I'm holding all available thumbs for you.

It's so freaking tall and beautiful. I'm honestly amazed by it and by the fact you keep creating more new unique creations. Fantastic job! If I built smth like this I would need a year break from everything and I would just go around it everyday and look at it. Keep us posted about its final destination

#11 on trending. You rock Martina and Hanzi 🎉🎉🎉

Pearl's time lapse music always accompanies beautiful, artistic builds, and this is just one more example. Incredible, as always

Always a treat. If I ever find myself with the means to do so, I want to commission a piece with Martina and Hans. Great work as always. 👍

An idea that actually will work to ship your Art ( useful for everything ). -A rectangular large box (must be made of something sturdy and solid ) -Tension belts (must be what the truck drivers use to secure the load ) How it does work : The idea is that the whole thing floats in the box. You then wrap the tension belts (must be 1 on each CORNER) around the tower (then it looks like an X and the charge is free and floating right in the middle). With this technique you can transport everything safely ( Next would be water tanks but that would be useless for your tower ) Edit : Tip, if you have problems with something, always orientate yourself to nature. They always have solutions ready. Great work, unique Women and have fun. Thanks for reading

Little Sidenote: Love it that you actually wear that glove from time to time 😁

Hexagon IS the Bestagon - CGP Grey would approve

Love watching you create. Your painting, shading, blending, and attention to detail breathes life into your art.

hexagons are the bestagons best reference ever

Shipping ideas: Instapacks sort of inflate around the shape of the object being packaged. Another option would be to use packaging peanuts or vermiculite to provide stability and cushioning around the object. Plenty of options.

This channel gives me so much good vibes. Its a little wholesome world I can flee into, when the world outside is just... too heavy. Thanks a lot!

Great work! The tiny window pattern really is amazing. It's also cool to see you're getting use out of your cyborg prosthetic.

Epic, the size was perfect, the work in every detail from the roots to the lights made it amazing, like all the builds you have made its the attention to the detail that gives it life 😊.

I just noticed it, but thank you for crediting your editor. I see some other channels that don't, yet you can tell they have one. It takes a team to make these cool projects and I like that you credit everyone including your minature painter.

I really enjoy your videos, not only because of what your are making, but mainly because your presentation, mood, way to talk, etc. I really enjoyed your outside canvas painting on outside, showing Norway. Its one of the places i want to visit someday. You could also make some crafting videos like this one in outside. I know it will be hardz but with some planning you can bring "all stuff you need for that day".

I know everything on here is literally perfection and this might not be anyone else’s favorite part about this build!?! But my favorite part is definitely the windows!!! All of them are (for a lack of a better word) perfect! So much details and they all don’t look exactly like the rest and just so much detail in such a small space!!! And the lighting coming through them just take them to that next level!!! I love it!!!

It might be better to carefully use foam beads and garbage bags to pack it in sort of a christmass tree form, then use spray foam to fill the outside of that. That way, even if the spray foam expands a bit during the shipping, the foam beads still give it the extra wiggle room to expand without damaging the important pieces. You could even jokingly package it as a gigantic dill-does-thingy (read the first two words aloud without a pause between them), but put that packaging INSIDE the packaging in which you're shipping it, so only when they open the box in their office, will they see the dill-does' box, which they have to open to get to the tower inside. :)) =]]

that is absolutely gorgeous, as always!!! thank you so much for making all these amazing builds, you've inspired me to make so many projects of my own

I love how she really enjoys her building so much! It makes it way better seeing that she loved to craft that instead of: here's my finished thing

Posting logistics tip: make a foam mold and put it in it. like a perfect fitting coffin.

Packing idea: First decide on a box for the tower, then make a rectangular, hollow-centered, reinforced insert whose edges fit just inside the box to hold the tower, which can slide into the box after the tower is placed inside it... but the goal will be to have the insert only touch the tower in maybe 3 key places. To do that, I'm thinking wrap a foam ring gently around 3 places in the middle of the tower which are smoother / less pokey. Then, suspend those rings in the center of the insert using something slightly stretchy. Maybe secure the very bottom and top of the tower somehow too, but in a way that can absorb shocks. I'm thinking this would be better than packing peanut foam because that might scrape the static grass etc. off it. And leave extra space between the pokey parts of the tower and the box, so that the tower can move around suspended in the middle, without hitting the sides of the box.

Truly epic. I love that it is fully 3D and you can walk around it and admire new things from each side. The design is really clever using the game mechanic and tile space built in. It shows how much care and attention you show every project, even sponsored ones. Brilliant work, like usual!

I just ADORE that tiny cat on the balcony! Such insane details!

For shipping you could cut a piece of plywood to fit exactly on top of a shipping pallet. Place the ply wood on sawhorses of whatever, just support it from the sides. Then run screws from underneath the plywood into that block of wood at the base of the tower. Then bolt plywood onto the pallet. Then build a box around the pallet. Mark it "Fragile, do not tip, do not stack, this way up" and all that.

8:43 Nori following you in the background is just perfection. The puppers deserves spotlight and he knows it 😂💖

Martina!!! That's fantastic! I've been a subscriber for a few years now, maybe 5. This is one of my favorite projects you've made. You're so enthusiastic, creative, and a really genuine person. I love your work!!❤

This is probably the only video I've seen where the advert feels like it fits seamlessly into the video and I was invested in learning about it

I love that you actually use the glove. Making your own prosthetics is SO badass!

Incredible build! I think you should deliver in person so you can make sure everything is together when it arrives. Bringing supplies so you can do touch-ups if needed.

"Because hexagon is the best-a-gon!" 😅 Love the builds but also appreciate the high production value of the project vids. You guys keep everything so perfect!

Martina: Let's get down to business. Me: To defeat the huns.

“Hexagon is the best-agon” Gasp

Sooo Awesome! The purple lights definitely add the magical touch. Another fun build that my son and I watched together, we love your channel. He's almost 3 and says "She's coool, and the castle is biig" so there's a win for you haha Can't wait to see what you build next

WOW! Words cannot express my wonder at this latest project. Martina, you have outdone yourself again. I've said it before, thank you so much for sharing your artistry, creativity, and brilliance with us. I so look forward to seeing each of your videos. I'm a huge fan and I wish you and yours all happiness and success.

personally i recommend wrapping bubble wrap around the figurines and any of the delicate parts and around the base where it tapers in, then putting it in a box with lots of labels that say "this way up" and "fragile" and such (in multiple languages if necessary) and then filling the rest of the empty space with packing peanuts.

Only Martina could make a twenty minute ad for a mobile game into a fun and interesting video.

HELL YEAH! ANOTHER WIZARD TOWER!

I see a video of nerdforge in notifications, and here i go. I just cant wait to see it. This is my fav channel, keep going with that incredible work 👍 Also that rock-texture tutorial cracked me up.

Cat that’s managed to get into the room: “My what a tall tower.... would be a shame if something were to happen to it.”

I like how the most powerful necromancer around has a house cat.

This is absolutely mindblowing! They pulled out a golden ticket by contacting you. The tower is *Majestic* !

Love how she's still using the finger she made a few videos back. Love the content!

Create a frame that supports the tower in key places that will not damage the paint, yet gives it adequate space to not squash the details and miniatures, wrap the frame in paper or cardboard, then spray foam around the frame and then cut the outside of the spray foam to fit into a box.

For shipping it, maybe using something like AnyVan? Instead of a conventional courier company who are notoriously bad at treating packages with care... If you hire an AnyVan you can tell them they have to be careful. And it will be transported in a regular van not a courier carrier van so they will have more liberty when it comes to fastening and securing it. I think if you made a plywood box for it and used foam or inflated plastic bags to keep it upright, and then hired an AnyVan and told them it's fragile and must be securely fastened and handled with care, I think that would be perfect. My brother shipped all his belongings (including an un-packaged 50 inch curved TV, and a PC and monitor) in an AnyVan, it went from Italy to the UK, and a few months later again from UK to the South of France, and both times it was perfect. I helped the drivers securely fasten all the belongings inside the van so I was able to ensure it was done with care, and they drove straight to my brother's house where he was able to assist in unloading and the van, so basically the entire process except for the driving was supervised. It might be kinda expensive, but shipping something that huge even via regular courier will probably cost a couple to a few hundred so... Hope you get to read this, and hope it helps!

It's insane that you built this in only 20 days. It looks so good

Never ceases to amaze me. Also fan of the pastel hair ❤

for Packing what you can do is wrap the tower in painter plastic- get the size box you need and fill the box with expanding foam you can go light on it so when it expands it wont blow out the box or crush the model- When they recieve it they can just utilty knife it down the middle then lift off the bag- with out any expandy foam on it. treat it just like a mold

"Hexagon is the bestagon" I wasn't ready to hear that. Made me rethink of the whole original video. Love it !

Another perfect video as always. Loved how simple it was to stream the lights up the pole for the buildings. Great work!!! Next thing I'm excited with all I've seen is for her to ever more medieval in the workshop using her existing shelf/storage stuff, but that's an idea, it's cool like it is too....

Can we all just agree that Martina has the most awesome career ever? Building cool stuff and getting paid to do it would be my DREAM. The Wizard Tower is just incredible! So huge and imposing, yet so carefully detailed! Absolutely amazing! Every time we get to "let's have a look at the final result!" I'm completely blown away! Such talent with such a huge amount of enthusiasm is wonderful!

So fantastic!!!! Love this…the static grass was a cool thing I’d never seen before, and I love the paper towel modge podge texture, too. So cool!

Already bought this game and I really enjoy it. So it was super cool to see the mage tower made in real life 😍🤩

Since it breaks down into sections and has a hole in the center for pvc piping, i would build an individual box for each section that has a mounted pvc pipe in the center of the box for the section to slide into. That way its held into place during shipping and wont have to worry TOO much about it jostling around. Maybe even fill it with something like tons of newspaper or something

I love how this turned out. A recommendation for shipping would be to use expanding foam packaging. This would help suspend the tower and protect it from damage during transport, it would even keep everything in place. Good luck with the next project and I can't wait to see it.

Packing is easy.... six plywood boards to make a hexagonal cylinder, screwed to the base and filled with packing peanuts. Wood framing inside the top for rigidity, and BIIIIIG stickers with THIS SIDE UP and DO NOT TILT

I still think your pinky glove creation is so cool.

Holy crap Martina this is insane! It looks amazing and yet I'm not surprised that you built something this massive. Think I've come to just accept that your builds are absolutely insane with the scale and all the small details.

Looks so amazing! The details you always put brings so much life to your projects! Also Hansi hair cut looks great!

Shipping suggestions: first thing which comes to my mind is to use foam rubber and packaging film or/with packing tape. So the idea is to wrap little intricate details such as figures and trees into foam rubber separatly, and then pack the whole structer into lightly adjusted sheets of foam rubber. If you can not really separate little details, you can just use thinner foam rubber to wrap them, and then you use thicker layers of foam rubber above which you use to wrap the whole structer; you can also use cotton wool or wadding to wrap little details. So then you wrap the tower structer tightly with several layers of plastic packaging film, and you can reinforce it with packing tape above. Then place it in a plywood box filled with more foam rubber, so you have two layers of foam rubber protecting your tower - one inner for little details and structer in general, and one eternal to reinforce the inner layer and give additional protection. You can also use paper or newspapers to wrap little details or to create second layer of protection in ply wood box. This what comes to my mind if I were to do it, hope that helps GL =)

This was absolutely enthralling. What a beautiful job you did!

I love how goofy Martina is. She's hilarious!

I love how Martina can get so creative with her projects

18:40- I know it’s way too late for this (and probably was too late after you started to build this) but if you made it in a way that you could take it apart in 3 or more pieces that would definitely help a lot! Another way would be a lot of padding! Another could be a rope structure/netting (depending on which way the box opens would determine if that would even work!?! And how it would work would take awhile to explain….. I have no problem doing so… but only if you actually ask for it?!? That’s a lot of writing for something to either never be read or stolen and someone else act like they came up with it)! A few more ideas, but not as good as the netting/pulley system!

This might be a little late to the draw for shipping but how we ship our odd sized and heavy sculptures at work is by making a baseplate of wood and drill holes in the bottom around the shape of the base and wrap cardboard around the base of the sculpture and then secure it to the base plate with a heavy gauge wire (our bases are rocks so we can be rough with them but I'm sure there's a more elegant way to do it for yours) and then we take whatever size box we have to fit it shimmy the baseplate and sculpture down and then get long pieces of 1x1 you'd probably need thicker but we glue the shit out of it and stick them in the corners of the box and use screws to secure it to the box and the base plate then we double layer our cardboard and slap a ton of Fragile stickers on it lol

I'm actually at a loss for words at how talented and amazing you are. This is absolutely stunning ❤