Tabletop Gaming Ruins that are Easy, Cheap, Fast, AND Look Good! 

I literally just painted my first rubber battle mat and wondered how I could make some quick ruins... The timing is amazing. Edit: Yup, definitely going to make these!

Loving the simplicity of your most recent builds! Super pumped for Idols and excited for you to have made it!

So simple! Slapping on any extras can also adjust it to any theme! Little "metal" bits turns it modern like rebar sticking out, or even adding fake plants up the sides makes it look like forgotten ruins in a jungle or woods. Such an easy idea with so many uses

as someone who's toddler is quickly pulling apart all his papercraft buildings, the idea of rugged/fast/cheap terrain speaks to me on a spiritual level great video, jeremy!

"Father cruelly destroys child's precious artwork to furnish his Mancave."

3 layers of foamcore is a neat idea. Normally I’d reach for a single sheet of insulating foam, but I found some old foamcore in the garage covered in dust and spider poop that can’t be used for much else, so this is a timely video.

Taking a few extra minutes to push some cut up paper clips as “rebar” and maybe cutting a doorway or two into some of the walls would really push this over the top without much extra effort.

Love the vid! Any tips or ideas for making large snow drifts? I'm a big fan of making artic terrain.

Could you do a full ruin castle in the foamcore and caulking? Maybe using a wire brush for a drawbridge! This video has my gears turning 😆

Looking forward to the next bimonthly video.

Glad to know 3-1/2 inches is good enough

Simply great. I'll have to make some.

This is unreal as always my man. Straight knowledge drop

I know you're busy, but I just thought you should know there will always be subs! Thanks for the content! Appreciated so much my man.

Another fun project! And the silicon will be much easier on my teeth when I eat terrain! Congrats on the Idols of Torment progress!

Thank you for the Video, I need some Ruins for my 54mm Klingons and Jem'Hadar to fight over 😊

As someone who just got into making terrain these videos are a great resource. Love it!

Jeremy's not dead? That's great news; though it does mean I've lost the Deadpool. This is such a cool project.

I love all this calk ideas. I never would of thought of using it. I can imagine just finding textured rough rocks on a walk and just mashing the rock into the calk

I bet this would also work with cardboard as long as you cover the corrugation with spackling or caulk

it's always a good day when a new BMC (black magic caulking) video comes out!

I was scrolling through my RU-vid subscriptions yesterday night and I was wondering if you were okay. Of course less than 12 hours later you upload this. Hope you enjoyed your family vacation. Well deserved. I may have to bang out some ruins fast and easy and this is a perfect solution (since I have everything for it lol). I would love to see more scatter terrain projects. Your Idols, Swamp and Campsite terrain inspired me and I would love to see another take on that.

Next video tutorial should be about edible terrain, maybe some ruins made from gingerbread?

Awesome to see you, Jeremy. Was getting worried. Anyway, nice.

What a fantastic method, I cannot wait to try this and get some terrain created for our games we run at our gamestore. Thank you!

Quicj easy and still looks good on the table, will definitely give this a try.

These turned out really good.

Damn. I'm making this. Soo easy and soo quick. Thanks !

yes thow rolling pins shud get some UUUUUGG do old whay7 with eatch brick buy brick think have vid on that to this whay looks better got get back to do terrain and give a go see as do new and you post when you like

Greetings from Germany. I hope you had a nice vacation here.

Great for making some quick ruins for Frostgrave.

"No special tools required". Involves a textured rolling pin lol. I mean, I get it, that IS a lot faster and easier and less fiddly to make than carving bricks by hand, but if we're talking about accessibility in terms of materials, carving the bricks or stones requires only your base material, a knife and maybe a pencil. Things a lot more people have easily on hand than specialized textured rollers.=

Such a fab way of making terrain. Thank you for being inspiring:)

Oh I am definitely going to make these to fill in my wargaming terrain!

Great VDO! I am going to make that terrain to be the border of a post apoc themed slot car track!

"We took a trip to Germany", yeah Jeremy went for the Styrodur import 😆

Good to see your face brother ! Glad to see everything is moving along and in production ! Cheers dude !

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing 😊❤

Glad you were able to take some time off, but so great to have you, your super builds and energy back on YT!

Back to the roots! Great vid. Makes me want to get back into making terrain.

I said it before and I’ll say it again: You’re such a wholesome person!

The layering makes such an awesome, realistic look for the walls!!! And I’m sure that technique would work great for EVA as well, even though it’d definitely be way pricier than the foamcore.

I hope you and your family enjoyed Germany very much!

Like this comment if you want to see BMC livestream his game sessions.

I'm 100% doing this. Thank you!

I'll give this build a try on cardboard!

these look a little bit too basic imo but thx for uploading

Your videos are really cool and make our arts and crafts very fun!

These look amazing. You truly are a hobby genius. Thanks for sharing!!!

i love the, "i'm not dead!!!" prove it! :P

Very nice. That is a really nice project

Awesome, Thanks for an awesome video!

Great video and welcome back. 😄

Welcome back Jeremy. Great video!

If anyone thinks that kids biting your terrain isn't a plausible scenario then you haven't ran many games in public spaces.

sweet builds for any table top gaming

"I'm not dead, some of you are probably wondering if I was dead but I'm not I kind of feel like it though sometimes because I'm pretty tired" This hit me on a spiritual level

It is nice to see caulk be used as a short cut in crafting terrain. Carving the brick work by hand can be daunting. Cool build!

Amazing! Easy, cheap, modular, durable - all of the things I love!

love it! happy to have you back!

Hope you enjoy your vacation. Greetings from Germany. 😉

Love this build!!! Glad to have you back making videos. I have literally watched all of your video’s several time over. Keep up the great work.

ABSOLUTELY A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!!!

Looks perfect for after school Dungeons and Dragons programs too!

Why does into the am always sponsor miniature and warhammer RU-vidrs?

Simple. Works. And a great base to build off. You can never have enough ruins!

8:35 "don't let your kids eat your terrain" Solid advice

Welcome back Jeremy!

Good video. A throwback to your early days!

Welcome back. Such a simple idea yet it is an evolution to the whole caulking concept.

Good to see you again!

Keep on not being dead!

Top notch build

Wow, was a hobbiest 20 years ago and life sort of dragged me away. I'm hopping back, saw this .... wow. GREAT STUFF! Thanks!

There’s something about dudes in tight neck tees and 180 snap backs that makes me turn off videos immediately 😂😂 No matter the subject. This bro is fine so he gets a pass lol

BMC must have sensed I was hankering for a video, cuz it can't be a coincidence that this was uploaded after so very long just a couple hours ago. 😊

You can even make windows in the walls...torn out doorways...even partial upper floors. Nice.

Bro, I love the lackadaisical attitude! I can so relate to a former Carpenter doing this genre of art. You’re the man! -Rick, USMC.

LOVE this build. It's so simple. I don't build much terrain because of the time investment and seemingly not having the right tools to get a good time investment/results ratio, but this is SO doable with what I have. Thanks dude. For anybody thinking about the sponsor: Into the AM shirts are dope. I'm 6'6", 220 lbs, athletic build, I wear their large size. They're super comfortable and have great artwork. They shrunk somewhat lengthwise to be on the shorter side for me, but not too short. They also make your arms and shoulders look hella good if you lift at all. Highly recommend, worth every penny.

On the spray paint note; if you do end up with some melted areas because of overspraying, that's fine. It just lends more to the ruined look.

Welcome back! Hope the family trip to Germany was a lot of fun, and it recharged your batteries.

Envy you for the trip to Germany! Get any new build ideas from all the castles and old buildings etc?.

Been doing my ruin walls with XPS foam, and then just painted/drybrushed with cheap acrylics. Extremely cheap and effective, but carving out the stone-texture of it (tried knife, dremel and so on) has been time consuming. Now using a green stuff roller and that pasty non-silicone stuff seems like a much smarter solution. Just need to figure out what those silicone-like products are called in swedish hardware stores now. I know that's a veritable jungle of weird product names. Just as with resin and epoxy-products, watching these english language tutorials is always so inspiring, whether it be for miniatures, dioramas, cosplay or whatnot. But the products decribed rarely exists under the same labels or names over here. And sometimes very hard to get too, like materials like regular crafting foam variants or worbla used to be almost impossible to get. It's gotten better, but it can still be pricey. Anyway, rant over. Thanks for all the great and inspiring content.

Welcome back, with another killer back to basics! Loving the creativity with the caulking lately.

Hey folks, doing my first ever craft and could use some help. So I’m doing Bards Craft cheap cardboard dungeon tiles. Making as many as I can for a gift to give by DM buddy for his Bday. The tiles are cut and glued and ready to be painted, but I really wanna prevent warping. The tiles are 3x3 corrugated cardboard layered across for strength. I’m wondering if that is enough? I did a test with pva glue, mod podge, and basic craft paint and they all warped a single piece of cardboard a little. So I just wanna be Uber careful cause again these are a gift. Any tips would be appreciated!

I like these a lot, you can do some 7 inch pieces and add corners halfway up for ruined two story buildings with ledges where you can hide chests and other kinda stuff

Welcome back. And now to worry I began rewatching some of your older builds

Loved this project as always you never disappoint best to your family.

Nice to have you back. What else do you have Jeremy? Old world is coming up, just saying :D If some kind of mordheim meets idols of torment content appears I will be a happy chappy as your rules have been a most excellent way of me getting some lovecraftian into my oldschool warhammer (very easily portable) Lets see you go at the bit!

Being cheap, i'd sugest 3 and 5 inch (2.5 x2 ) strips and cut the 5 inch wavey to get 2 pieces at a time. Buy that's just me. Otherwise cool easy project (the non water soluble caulking just needs vinegar in the water instead of soap - it's on the back. This is for more the true silicone ones for tubs etc.)

In build like this, has anyone used the plastic corrugated sheet? - The stuff that's used for "For Sale" signs. I'm think that material might work well.

Finally got to try this and the caulk was an absolute nightmare. Sticks to everything, really difficult to work with, wetting it too much helps with the sticking a little but causes the details to melt away. I tried letting it dry first before rolling, did some experiments both inside and in a cold garage letting test pieces dry in 15 minute intervals, and found it works best after letting dry 45min inside (at least in my climate). But in the end I still got a ton of sticking and ruined a lot of material. This was a total mess and not worth the work. Switched to air dry clay with a cooling rack to prevent cracks and got *way* better results *way* faster. Thanks for the interesting idea though!

Exactly what I've been looking for!

I wonder... Do you think it's possible to base models on... flexible bases? Like, we'll need to stabilise the mini with a sticked drawing pin in a foot, and only on human sized ones, but after that, its base could adapt to every terrain? 🤔

Great idea! Also liking the variety of rollers available for textures. So when doingthis, how long does the caulking take to dry??

Might have to make a few of these.... While watching, was thinking that you could use a piece of 1 1/2" to 2" wide foam in between two of these sheets to have a walkway. If you had a watch tower or something too, you could make a 90 degree corner piece to sit around the watch tower. Great video!

Looks great! Regarding rolling pins, don't forget that if you have an FDM printer you can print a roller pretty easily! That's what I did!

I'm using the same caulk you used in the video. Does it really take a full 24 hours to cure before you can prime it? Thanks!!

Can we wash our brush brashing our wash? 🤔 Great video! Thanks!!

Nice I'm thinking church/castle ruins maybe going taller on some pieces. Excellent