I do my best to recreate the basics of Ash Waste Terrain using ONLY items from the dollar store. I enjoyed the outcome so much I actually want to make even more! patreon.com/user?u=28480853 Music: www.bensound.com/
This is a nice platform system. I can see this on any type sci-fi place depending on paint scheme. Or a fantasy one if you make them look like tree platforms.
I thought these were skme serious cool and destroyed antique stools and that this was a restoration vidoe. That is how good you weathered and paints this...
@@kiliosai I've never watched the show but have watched Avenue 5. Thank you. I think Hugh Laurie has a great voice. I'm really glad you enjoyed it and I would love to see your paint job!
There are so many things they sell at the craft store that could be purchased for $1.00/$1.25 instead. My most purchased dollar store items: tooth picks, small/medium/large popsicle sticks and other wood bits, cheap chinese toys, legos, bowls and other containers, clay, glue, foam board, poster board, garden nicknacks/gnome houses, ribbons and strings, plastic flowers/plants, stones/flock/sand, wood/bamboo dowels/rods, candles/wax, cheap dry brushing brushes, spices for leaves/shake, copper wire, brushes for bristle plants, etc. Always check the dollar store first. BUT, some things at the dollars store are just too cheapy made or shoddy that you probably need to buy the craft store items. Your mileage may very.
Have to agree with you about GW prices for their new Ash Wastes terrain. I make most of my own terrain from other people's trash, bits from charity shops, packaging materials that my local discount store save for me, and occasionally from kits donated to me by people who commission me to build something for them. We don't have Dollar Stores here in Ireland, so it's charity shops and discount stores all the way for me, most of the time, if I see something that catches my eye and inspires my fertile imagination :-> I LOVE your videos, as they always show me something I can do myself, and what kinds of materials to add to my wish lists when I go foraging down the town again :-D
These would be great for Stargrave too. Maybe some junk pile scatter pieces, some ramshackle divider walls. Some little bits of this and that made to look like quick and dirty repairs.
Honestly these could be used for several games. I have been trying to come up with stuff that could be played between multiple games so that I can play more games with less terrain. So these could be used for the games I have like Necormunda(all versions), Kill Team, 30K, 40K, Stargrave. As well as some RPG's. I have a stackable idea that I want to used. It's similar to the video of your foam stackable space hab stuff. But I don't used foam. I've been gathering stuff to build them. Just haven't commited to making them yet.
Want to know a secret? I don't even play war games of any kind. I am a roleplayer who likes to run sci-fi games. I try to make things for a variety of uses. Just so happens they can be used for wargaming as well as roleplaying. Shhhh... don't tell anyone. ;}
Looks fantastic. Gave me lots of ideas using dollar store items! I discovered Readi Board a few years back and using it for lots of things now. Love the ability to peal off the paper very easily!
This was a fantastic video, I'm glad The Algorithm popped it into my queue. Definitely checking out the rest of your vids. As far as suggestions, I'd love to see a video about "doodads"; small objects, details, decals, etc to sell the scale of the terrain and to break up flat/blank areas.
Just found your channel love to watch someone crafting one can learn so much i subscribed con you make a ruined toxic waste dump or something like it going to watch your other stuff too thanks see you next time
This is an amazing foundation build. I do have a few thoughts though about comparing your scratch build to the GW kit. I think the big thing that is making this seem a little bare bones is the lack of greebing. The cables, antenas and support poles are really what make the ash wastes kit look authentic. If you look closely the diameters of the support poles are telescoping and that really makes it feel like a prefab STC kinda vibe. Like if an outpost were to be established by say a guard regiment as a froward post it could be built and elevated quickly to ensure the survival of the posted guardsmen. What makes the kit feel lived in is as if the STC style outpost was cannibalized by the nomads after it was abandoned. The industrial details (including the cables anchoring the telescoping center posts) really makes it seem like an authentic set up. I've been making my own set of scratch built scatter terrain and I've had some success using portrait wire, that is the braided wire you get to hang up portrait frames on the wall. The come with net little brass nails and anchoring hooks in the kit. The nails and hooks for the wires are designed to mount into the frame and the walls at 45° and 90° which perfectly matches the ash wastes kits. Those support wires, rope ladders and a few hand rails (all made using the portrait wires) would really make this pop and threaten the GW kit. You can find the wire and mounts on amazon for about $15 ~ $20 depending on how many brackets you order. So that's about $50 for the whole materials list which is still significantly better than the ash wastes prices. Also do you think you can try your hand at making a moisture farm (like Luke's home in OG Star Wars and like on roofs of the habs in the Ash Wastes Kits). I have some ideas for making vents and various other greebs to make the terrain look more hospitable and lived in. Good stuff keep making videos and terrain, thanks for the good ideas!!
I can definitely try to make a moisture farm. That is going on the list. As for this particular build, I arbitrarily gave myself a dollar store limitation. Because of that I had very little to actually use for things like rope ladders, antenna, etc due to my local store looking like it was 10 years into an apocalypse. Flickering florescent lights... Bare shelves... Dead eyed scavengers lurking in the aisles... All sense of hope was stripped from this place much like the supplies I came searching for. What was once a place of prosperity and plenty was now left gutted and devoid of life. A true wasteland that only the brave or insane would dare to venture. I began to wonder which group I belonged to. As my sanity dwindled I grabbed what supplies were at hand and returned to my rig and the safety of the familiar. I may return to the Dollar Tree someday but not for quite some time. Not until they have pulled themselves from the ashes and built anew... In all seriousness my local Dollar store had literal bare shelves in approximately 40% of the store. The majority of what was there was household cleaners, food, hygiene supplies, and makeup. I was very disappointed. It felt like a store that was closing to the point that I asked the cashier if they were going out of business. She said no, just short handed... I'm not really sure if that is true but I won't be going back for a while or limiting myself to just their supplies for quite some time. I really appreciate your suggestion on the picture wire! I have some at home actually and will take a look at its viability. Thank you!
@@adventuresincrafting2022 yah, I get the bare shelves complaint. The economy is tanking right now and there are a lot of people who don't want to work b/c they *think* they are better than those jobs. Give it a few months and the retail places will open up again. People have to pay bills there's no way around it. As for your build there's really cool tutorial I found that reminded me of your work, I have the bookmark on my phone when I find it I'll post it. But basically it's a bunker made out of PVA and a chopped up puzzle mat (the black floor mat puzzle tiles you see in Gyms and other places). I like these kinds of ideas, cleaver work arounds for dropping a wad of cash on what looks like very flimsy plastic. Good stuff keep making videos dude!!
The pod looks so serious, though. Why so serious, little pod, when you look so awesome? Thank you for sharing this project. Dollar stores and the like are great places for finding materials: You do not usually find what you were looking for, but oftentimes you will find something else that is unexpectedly great for a different purpose! xD
That "face" was a happy accident as Bob Ross would say, and yes it looks very serious. I agree about the random treasures that can be found in the cheap places. I arbitrarily set a limit of only dollar store materials for this one. Honestly surprised I found enough to make it work. Thank you so much for watching!
Nice build. I am curious about what could be made with the little plastic buckets that mini oreos and mini chips ahoy come in. They're obviously something useful, just not sure how.
I haven't read any of the "fluff" for the Ash Wastes - do the Ash Waste Nomads live in these things? Or is it where the "normal" inhabitants live? Because for a bunch of "Nomads" these don't seem very mobile - I'd have thought the Nomads lived in some kind of ramshackle caravan that moved around the wastes from place to place. In my mind's eye I see dilapidated wagons hauled by strange creatures....
I have no idea. Ha! I would imagine the holdover structures from some time before or perhaps not everyone is nomadic. They use these as a home base and range out from them to raid. I just thought the terrain looked interesting and wanted to try and build some. I really appreciate the comment! Thank you!
Well, the hot glue gun was probably around $12 USD. However, it had been a few years. I also have a sure bonder which cost about $15 USD athobby lobby. That all being said, any hot glue gun will work. Don't spend a ton. It's just a just a hot glue gun Adventurer!
@@adventuresincrafting2022 a hot glue gun costs hella more than that over here, plus the glue. It’s still a cool video, just not as cheap in the United Kingdom 😉
Certainly. In this case I used garage type paper towels. I used the same thing in my scatter terrain video. Water down pva, mod podge, or wood glue and saturate the towel in it. I hope that helps and thank you for watching.
Great question and thank you! The most time consuming parts were cutting out the hexagons, side walls, and texturing the various panels. Overall build time was about 4 to 5 hours for everything. The ramps took approximately 30-45 minutes to build them all including the basic texturing I did.
@@adventuresincrafting2022 It's always kinda good keep that in mind because in my opinion it should factor into the overall cost. Time is money afterall, so if you worked for 5-ish hours on it for say an even 20$ an hour, you'll still save a good 50% on buying the set. (Albeit you wouldn't have the minis). And don't take it as a criticism, a hobbyist finds solutions and not everybody can afford to drop 200-300$ on essentially a board game. The result counts and it looks really really well done.
@@captainsewerrat I appreciate you sharing that perspective. My goal was to show people that they didn't need to spend a bunch to make intersting terrain for their table. My total investment in this build was under $15 and didn't require any expensive tools. Although I did use a proxxon because I have one. You're right, you won't get the cool minis this way but there were army men at the dollar store which a person could use as a proxy I suppose. As someone who doesn't play wargames I don't especially have an interest in buying these sets but will likely do so in the future just for the experience of building and painting some very cool looking terrain that I could use in ttrpg's. I really appreciate your input and for watching! Thank you so much!
@@adventuresincrafting2022 Yes, 100%, I don't play myself either, I just enjoy the franchise and minis (and terrain to a degree), it definitely makes sense. I would even understand if somebody wanted to buy the game for the game's sake and get some base terrain, but buying multiple? I think you've shown well hwo to either make your own completely ((and use minis you own/proxies and just get teh core rules) or extent your terrain on a budget rather than shelling out 100+ $ for just the two hab modules (or whatever they are called). In any case, I subbed and look forward to more content. If you're looking for ideas, I personally would love some sci fi indoor terrain ideas, think modular Space Hulk, or Sci Fi Dungeon tiles. The stuff you can buy is quite expensive, and most Warhammer 40k and Necromunda happens in open spaces, so hallways that are modular could be cool. For Necromunda perhaps and for Stargrave I could see it working as well. Where it could serve as the inside of a space ship or some underground tunnel system in a hive city.
@@adventuresincrafting2022 I like your little platforms. I’m getting into the terrain hobby soon as well, I’m gonna use your video as a guide but we might end up on two ends of the same coin haha
@@adventuresincrafting2022 You seem like you know a few odd things, lemme ask you a question. I LOVE building with foam; any kind, from insulation foam boards to foam core to cosplay EVA foam, basically any soft material at all. I’ve been trying to find a way to make thin layers of caramelized plastic/glue layers over them because I’m kinda clumsy and I’d prefer my crafts to be durable. Do you have any ideas on how to do stuff like that? Edit: I’m fairly certain I’ll be building a vacuum chamber before too long… Lately I’ve been using a thick paste of construction Gorilla Glue mixed with a heaping serving of plaster of Paris, followed up with a few passes of a resin spray coat over it all. The problem with the method is that you really don’t get to control the thickness very well and it’s mostly suitable for outdoor details or organic structures. I think I’m gonna be trying out using UV resin mixed with baking soda pretty soon, but I love getting as much advice from other people as possible :)
@@newtybot If I am understanding your question correctly you are wanting to apply some sort of protective coating to your builds. If that is the case then I would try ModPodge thinned with water. It can be easily brushed on, is transparent, and forms a strong coating. You can get it in matte satin or gloss finishes. Thinned enough you could probably even spray it through an airbrush. . I hope this helped and thank you for a great question.
