Natural alignment found in the realist-parent class. But seriously people with kids, just accept that you'll have to make concessions to your kid. Perfection is the enemy of good-at-all.
All garbage is useful in terrain making, you know how many weird sci-fi buildings I have made off just the plastic weird shaped packaging toys come in?
I hope this recycling concept continues on your channel, its extremely enjoyable to watch and really gets the brain working to see what I could build at home out of trash
you should consider a whole series of just turning alien/monster stuff out with trash packaging and old toys... very well done, good sir, I hope your channel lasts forever!
One of your best videos, I think. The inclusion of the problems you ran into and the errors you made and how you fixed them and the reasoning behind some of the decisions you made is really helpful. And the result is excellent.
the paint job in the thumbnail had me fooled, I thought you used a real eggshell! if you get more of those eggs, could you try making a next of hatched dragon eggs with a baby dragon coming out of one of them?!
Oh I don't know... Did you see that episode of Doctor Who with Victorian-era British troops fighting Ice Warriors on Mars? Historical soldiers in nice red uniforms versus alien monstrosities. That sounds like a fun game.
sometimes i get really exited about something and just make an impulse buy and after some time i regret them... join the fellowship was most Definitely not one of them! you pal are a genius. thanks
Looks awesome! One airbrushing tip: you can use silly putty as a mask for odd forms, like your umbilical cords there. Though, going back and touching up is a great option too.
I like these vids where you start with an object and create your idea from that, instead of just coming straight into the video with an idea. It really has you making some interesting things that I wouldn't even think of
This really gets my creative juices flowing. In my mind, these are incubation chambers from a civilisation from underground, disturbed by a mining town's activities. Workers get lost in the deep and it's up to the players to uncover the truth about what happened-> the workers getting lured into the deep, abducted and swallowed by the brood mother who traps them into egg like cocoon incubation chambers, where they get turned into half-human slaves for the hive. And it suddenly dawns on the heroes, what or rather who they have been killing on their way down... (If anybody wants to, feel free to use this, lol)
I like the way that you use the plastic wrapping to mix the scultpa-mold. "... the important thing is..." to not superglue your fingers to your tiny bit of lichen.
airbrush perseverance and re-spraying, totally feel ya there man. Every 'mistake' is a new tool or effect for your creative tool box. One perfect technique for this is what I call Curdling. With a base coat colour, apply a small amount of medium or glaze by brush onto the area you want focused on, then with an airbrush medium mixed at least 50/50 with another colour airbrush over until it is saturated. The surface will pool and run: OK for slimy things. then bring in another second airbrush medium 50/50 mix with a 2nd colour, spray this over again, the colours will separate or curdle in an organic creepy way. Leave to dry thoroughly, no touchy. the trick with the initial medium placement by brush is to focus the effect, you'll get overspray with the other airbrushed mixes which is all good. I've done this by hurrying airbrush mixes too quickly and learnt a new trick. Sometimes the over-paint layers go deep as! 10/10 for showing mistakes and processes, so important, thanks.
I'm a huge believer in what I call "garbage crafting". Most of us start with taking old containers, broken pieces, and things that sane people throw away, and making something fun and amusing out of them - as our loved ones shake their heads and wonder how they put up with us... :)
I absolutely love it! The idea to use kids left over toys and household items to make such cool alien/monster eggs is genius! I am so glad I found your channel and subscribed.
I reuse the thin cardboard from small packaging to make wood boards and internal framework. I also use the plastic blister pack for casting silicone molds in.
Love the video. Love the eggs. Thanks for teaching everything you do. But they look like testes to me. Kinda gives it an H R Giger quality which I love.
It would be amazing to have a bunch of those to set up down in the Underdark. Let the adventurers walk through a field of those and see what comes out of them when one of the players bumps into one! It would be like in Aliens with Ripley walking through the Alien egg farm. Hella cool!
Whoa, this was awesome! Those eggshells turned out great, and that lime green is one of my all-time favorite colors, these are great. Time to go buy some more eggs!!!
Yoicks! The last eight seconds of this video were absolute HORROR! When those seemingly sweeeeet plastic monsters popped out of the egg shells, I almost wet my pants!!! Love it!
Something I made for scatter terrain is fence pieces. I get a lot of mileage out of it. Some provide cover while others are a hindrance to movement. Popping a few alongside a road in or out of town help define the road and add a little touch to what would be an open or wooded area.
I'm more Sleep. Also Holy Mountain is one of the best sounding albums of all time and I will fight critics who brings up it's low-fi recording as a negative. It's organic and crunchy people, apologists leave the hall.
I just so truly admire your talent. Am a first time watcher and subscribed straight away. I love the effort of using art to help with the cleanup of mother gaia, grabbing material before composting is commendable. Love the end look, so much inspiration.. Thank you.
I think that they could work perfectly in a Warhammer 40k or Kill Team game! Maybe you have found out where the some of the Tyranids come from? But maybe not.
Another great alien eggshell: nuts (just the shells). Pistachios, walnuts, macadamia, hazelnuts, pecans, even almonds make great clusters of weird eggs.
"If I could steer my kid...." you evil genius lol Love these eggs, they will be very useful in many scenarios. Maybe glue one or two back up to create a few cracked but not yet hatched "wee nasties", then you could use them as a sort of biological minefield
Awesome! I really love that you used otherwise trash. This project inspired me to do an RPG piece with my students next year - assuming there is a next year.
I'm nurturing bad sleep habits to catch these videos 'early' by my timeline (UK). Great use of 'garbage'. I remember countless Kinder eggs being discarded in my childhood. I think that they now have an interesting little hinge between the halves. I run a charity shop and have developed major hoarding tendencies of 'oh, I can use this '. Love the use of the lichen for veining, really cool idea. The paint job on the fleshy bits is really 'gnarly' to borrow one of your words. Looks delightfully like aged steak. :D
My little girl got some LOL Glitter Globes. The globes are part of the toy but after getting a few they ended up as surplus. The globe half’s are the size and shape of a small geodesic greenhouse or prefab hab dome. I’ve saved one for a future project.
O my god my sister loves LOL dolls. but when she gets them they are the most janky little rubber toys ever and they come in this weird deathstar looking plastic ball. never thought i could make anything out of them until now. Thanks Jeremy excellent video as always.
My kid's usually play and collect everything they find outside 😄 so I got not shortage of garbage and plants to build stuff. Last thing I build was a insect hive like a termite rock full of holes from a piece of old and rotten wood.
kinder eggs can be pretty juse full ... Awesome piece of "trash" terrain, as always really really great job many thanks for showing and please keep up the good work.
Thank you for including the Hatchimals at the end. That made my day! My kids are obsessed with those Quarter Machines (if they're still around), you get that plastic bulb with the cap and then usually some small toy inside that immediately gets lost on the car ride home.
My kids love Treasure X which produces so much trash! The toys are super cool, collectible, mix and match. I’ve saved several bits and bobs from the last few times they had them, but haven’t had a spark of inspiration yet
I don't have any hatchimal eggs but I have a whole bunch of leftover Easter eggs that I hadn't even thought about using as terrain and my parties next encounter when quarantine is out and we can play again is in a giant spider den these are awesome I'm definitely making several
I do exactly like you and try to figure out what to do with the packaging waste from the toys and such my kids get. One of the best things were the old Bionicle containers my son use to get, I have a bag full of them now and have some great ideas for them.
i found out that the clear plastic pieces that hold toys in place can be covered in hot glue(lowtemp.) then spray painted to make great terrain.If you use clear glue sticks you can make cool ice terrrian also! It takes some time to make sure your not putting on too much glue and warping/melting the thing clear plastic but its a great way to make trash into something usefull.
Have a look at dino eggs,for excavation in fun sand flock. Some pound shop waste from this toy adds good fossil inprints ,sand flock and if a good model figure ,good for necro monster skeletons.
My granddaughters like to play with the little $ store plastic games (ex; connect 4, penguins on ice, .....). When they are done I transform them into parts for industrial terrain or magical terrain. I am turning 2 of the penguins on ice boards into a frozen mystical portal. I also like grabbing up the little transformer robots & stripping them down for parts as well.
Driven are nearly N Scale car models that come in crate containers that could use a bit of a paint up and be containers for gaming in various scales---especially Gaslands style!
Was anyone else thinking "Don't use that clear plastic for a paint mixing bowl!". I just kept thinking of uses for that plastic, hahahaha. Recyclers tend to go down rabbit holes.
Great reuse of that junk - all my kids are grown, but I think I might have some old plastic easter eggs that might take more work on the "cracked" opening - but will totally work for giant spider eggs. Got my eldritch horror built and primed, plans in the works for my Hall crawler - looks like your designing my campaign for me!
