The FOUNTAIN - A great project for BEGINNERS - FREE TEMPLATE 

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My wife is not a gamer. But she saw me watching your videos, and offered out of the blue that maybe she could learn to paint my miniatures, or we do it together. So thanks for helping us find a way to enjoy this hobby together!

So seriously I was one if those guys like “too much money, my Wife would never let me get a hot wire table let alone an exacting knife.” Well I got soooo inspired by the “Dollar Store Dragon” that I said screw it and went to Dollar Tree.... OMG I GOT EVERYTHING BUT A HOT GLUE GUN!!!! Foam, 3 different kinds of cutter tools, Tacky Glue, FREAKING MOD PODGE, and black paint!!!! I couldn’t believe it!!!! I am so psyched to build the crappiest farm house and destroy this toy to a miniature challenge and learn!!!! Thank you so much for inspiring crafters!!! Btw I bought baking soda to go with my super glue!

"It's just paint" One of my favorite quotes for mini painting is "It's not the first coat that matters, it's the last."

29:21 "This project is a perfect place to _get your feet wet_ " I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

Keep on encouraging people to take up this hobby! More players, more GMs, more crafters! Hazzah!

For folks that want to build a fountain, you can use a Bic pen without the ink inset, and use the point to punch out foam rounds to slice thin. Paint them gold, copper, silver. And glue them down in the fountain base prior to adding water. Low effort but its detail and realism.

For frozen water you can cut a hex of white translucent plastic from a milk jug. It worked well for me.

I just made a fountain last week haha. I put a magnet in the center of the pedestal so i could switch out the statue easily but have it "stick" nicely. Great video as always. Keep it up man!

Seriously, every time a fresh BMC video shows up in my feed I'm the happiest crafty boy in the whole wide world.

This video has inspired me to stop buying expensive terrain and instead, build my own. This fountain will be my first build. Thank you!

Nice job looks great! One thing, I do a lot of stuff with resin and alcohol inks are perfect for coloring resin. If you want alcohol inks on the cheap, but cheap magic markersvfrom the dollar store, put some high content rubbing alcohol in little bottles (70% or higher) then break open your cheap ass markers and put the ink soak cloth in your alcohol bottles. Sometimes there's a plastic covering on the cloth inside the marker, remove it or split it open whaala, alcohol inks

Soooo having watched your video, I spent yesterday and today building a fountain from individual bricks and painting it up all nice. I mixed up two syringes of pound shop resin with the teeniest tiniest smidgen of green acrylic paint, poured it... and the water is completely opaque and full of bubbles :(:( Oh well, at least I now have a cool looking toxic fountain to place in dungeons. Now I just need to find me an evil looking statue to go on the pedestal instead of the big, golden village-friendly cockerel that I had lined up!

I loved watching this video, even if it was just for beginners... It's great to follow the crafting process with all the tricks and I'm sure that there is always something to learn! Thanks Jeremy, keep up the great work!

I love videos like this. You take into consideration that not everyone can have the expensive stuff. Thank you.

After watching hour video, I made an version with only half the octagon, painted the inside with Caribbean blue, then two coats of blue glow in the dark paint. Topped that off with the two part 5 minute epoxy and it turned out amazing. The glow from the water under a black light is out of this world. Keep on crafting

To make the 5-minute epoxy flow better over the piece and out of the pot quicker, put the tubes in a warm place or warm water bath first. Treat it like an expensive resin in that sense. Also be aware - epoxy resin for cheap like that can yellow over time, but that may only be certain brands, so test that out first.

I have absolutely no clue why youtube recommended that to me but it looks interesting.

An idea for if you don't want to have all those pieces cut out from the inside of the hexes, what you can do is cut your hex templates in half and tesselate them. Each hex half will 'stack' with another piece the same size as it, with just little triangle cutouts at the end of each one. You'd still need to the one big piece on the bottom to attach it to, but otherwise you'll save yourself a lot of foamcore offcuts. So instead of using almost a quarter of the big piece BMC used in this video, you could probably do it with only the equivalent of two full hexes worth of board.

I love projects like this. It has to be cheap materials and basic tools.

fill the middle of the fountain with hot glue and give it a wash of blue to make water if done correctly then it should look somewhat transparent

Just built my first piece of Black Magic Craft Terrain. Two Dollars at the dollar store! Thanks for the tutorial! Love the vids!

I've never played D&D in my life, but I love these crafting videos. I am doing a fountain today, but I'm already in love with these smaller projects that you could do on a table.

I've seen that fountain floating around in several of your videos and always loved it, so cool to finally see a build video for it! Love it!

Saw the template earlier today and I'm thrilled to see the video uploaded!

Been watching your vids for a while, started as a supporter on Patreon and crafting myself last month. Appreciate everything you do the vids are great!

Made this just to see and it is that easy. I added a magnet to the middle so i could swap the stone center for any item and it would stay still. Great stuff.

I'm new to the chanel and have been binge watching all day! Great content!

Thank you so, so much for this tutorial! (especially for keeping it "old-school", as you've said). I'm feeling so motivated into starting some crafts for my players because of this video!

5 min in and you sir earned a new sub. Great stuff and I cant wait to check out more videos.

very cool vid. I like how you went back to basics with this one for those new to the hobby and it never hurts for those of us with some experience to do things like this just to re affirm some core skills

Love this! I can see using the technique to create a community well in the town square!

Seeing the fountain in the background of your videos actually inspired me to create my fountain video! I love this community man.

I keep jumping back and forth on his vids, and his beard is always different or just gone. It throws me off for a second each time. Like this isn't the magical foam crafting man I'm looking for! Oh, wait is!

I appreciate your budget-conscious approach to these videos. Thanks for sharing.

I hope it's ok that I throw a shout out for your Patreon. But OMG, it's awesome. The community is so friendly and inspiring. Everyone shares their experiences and projects on the Facebook page and on Discord. I am so glad to be a part of it! I thought I would just be helping out one of my favorite channels. It's so much more than that though. Thanks for bringing the community together!

I am so glad to have found this channel. Some amazing looking builds using very inexpensive materials. I would have never guessed that you could make so many great looking pieces this way. This has really helped me out getting started at this.

Another great build video, thank you! Have yet to see a video of yours I didn't love.

I’m definitely going to build this the weekend looks awesome 👏🏻 👏🏻🤙🏻

This kind of starter video is awesome and exactly the kind of thing that keeps me coming back!

Nice entry level craft with good instructions and useful tips. This channel is great because you do this easy beginner level stuff and little more challenging "pro" stuff. Keep up the good work Jeremy

Very nice work. I was astonished by your skills as always. I was also impressed with the skull designed from the black wash on the inside of the fountain base before painting it in. Great work.

I love how you tell all your techniques in detail. More power sir. Will try this one. Thank you. So resourceful.

That's some good progress you're making on those reaper bones over there. Set up to paint. Nice. Waiting for the day you can tell us they're all painted and ready. What a day that will be.

A tip for drawing hexagons if you dont have access to a printer; hexagons are the only polygon where the radius is the same length as the sides. So draw a circle to the size you want the hexagon, measure from the center point to the outside then draw consecutive lines of that size from circle edge to circle edge. Boom, Hexagon!

I don't normally comment too often, but i enjoy these vids. Makes me want to whip some sheet foam and an x-acto knife, and get to crafting.

If I have time I will definitely be doing this I've been meaning to try crafting but never found something easier to start with and this will help me get started

As an absolute amateur, I loved following this guide and making my first piece. With it, I've impressed a few friends and have developed a love of terrain building. Subbed! Love your videos!

Great video! I've been a crafting DM and gamer for a long time, and I still find new, useful techniques on your channel. I'm lousy at free hand cutting, so I'll make this fountain just to practice finger gauging. Thanks

Maybe one of my favorite diy videos! I am a beginner and this was easy to follow and looks amazing. Thank you so much!!

Cool vid man this is exactly the project I was looking for I am playing Hordes warmachine now been gaming since the 90s and needed a fountain for my medieval town. the individual bricks look easier than I expected. cheers!

One of so many of you great tutorials. Just what I need for my Tomb of ABysthor campaing. Fountain of blood here I come.

I really like this. I haven't crafted a great deal so will certainly try this project out. Having a statue in the middle really adds something to it

Thank you SO much for the confidence boost while painting and working on stone textures, I'm currently making my first tower and I'm on the painting stage and I've been nervous about the wash and dry brush stage but seeing how relaxed you are helped me feel a lot better.

Getting back to the basics! Love it!!!

Thank you Thank you Thank you! Your style and ability really inspire. I realized last night before watching this I needed to start jumping into crafting instead of hording material and just "saying" I was going to get into it. But today I am going to Finish this fountain!

I've been dying to work with some water features! Great advice and (as always) well presented! Thank you SO much!

Great video, been wanting to get into this hobby and this is something I’m definitely going to use as apart of my practice! Thanks so much you’re the most entertaining RU-vidr on this website

Very helpful and easy to understand. Thank you for sharing! 🙂

Super simple, super cheap, what a great way to get started.☺

First video of yours I've seen, I'm trying to craft a set for the first time (final boss area for my first big campaign). I'm very happy I've found this because I have a good idea of how to make it now!

I've been retired now, for 2 years and looking for something to keep me busy indoors on crappy days. This has to be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks mate

I'm making a Christmas village and I was looking into how to make miniature accessories around the village. This video was awesome, I've learned so much and is so much fun and want to make more miniature things. Thank so much much you are doing an excellent job on how to teach the craft :)

I'm not a beginner, I just enjoy your videos and there's always tips and tricks to be found anywhere, I just wanted to say that I watch a ton of diy videos for a lot of my hobbies and interests and you make some of the best ones out there, regardless of the topic. You are a great teacher.

I love the great work you did, awesome job. Just adds to my collection of ideas to do sometime for a future upcoming project. When doing something like this you definitely need to use the epoxy resin. Recently I was going thru some boxed up books in storage and found some of my old notes on old diorama techniques I had done when making some back in the early 80s. Back then I lived in a small town and was limited on what I could get or use to build my dioramas. Unless we drove to the nearest bigger town that had a Walmart, or hobby craft store or something you were limited on what you could get if they even carried it in the store. And that's even if they carried the EZ Water resin that came in these little cubes which you had to melt down then let it cool off a bit before you could pour it on your landscape to make water without it burning the plaster or landscape material. And back then unless you were a licensed contractor you couldn't get the bartop lacquer ie, epoxy resin at all at the local hardware store if they even carried it. So back then we had to come up with other techniques to make our dioramas. Unfortunately I no longer have it for it broke and got damaged when we moved 550 miles from Colorado to Las Vegas, NV in 1988. But I wrote down in an old notebook some of the techniques I used when I did research in the 80s before I built my dioramas and what I did when I made some of my things. And one was how to make a stream for my diorama thru a D&D town. It was difficult to realistically produce the effect of running water back then. I used a plaster compound and cellulose sculpting compound clay and formed the waves and ripples while the clay was wet. Then coated it with the plaster using a brush. After it dried, I painted the river with a gloss water base and after that I added a shiny gloss lacquer that I brushed on, which gave the water a shiny, rippling effect. Which back then I didn't have any resin to use to make my water. So I used what was available in my area I could get. Just wish I had a picture of the diorama to show what it looked like. Now since Ive gotten used to making all my water features with resins over the last 25 yrs. And then recently finding my old notes on diorama building that I kept notes on. Im now tempted to go back and using my old notes make a couple dioramas and see just how good it turns out.

Good morning. Just wanted to let you know that I have been enjoying your videos. I am using the knowledge I learn here to make scenery for my model railroad. Don't have any idea what D and D is, but you keep being you. Thanks especially for your series for beginners. Extremely helpful.

I'm impressed with your demonstration of technique and explanation of how they work and why you would use one over the other. Thank you for a great video and channel!

My wife and I did a competition of this project. Our first piece of scenery. I created an iced over fountain with a tall statue pillar in the middle. So much fun. Thank you for sharing this.

I’m digging the buzzed hair. Cool fountain with the lady in it, btw.

I've recently had a lot of your videos pop up and I have really enjoyed watching! I'm not a gamer? not even sure if that's what one would call it, but I do play around with miniatures and the concept is the same. I loved your fountain! I've been planning on one being in a castle tower, and I will say yours is probably way better than mine. Thank you for the info and inspiration!

Been crafting for many years. D&D is my thing, however I would love to see your take on Gaslands terrain and car mods. I'm sure your plate is full, but I thought I would put a bug in your ear. Cheers! great vid as always!

I have really been enjoying your tutorials. I am just getting into terrain building and I've been jumping around info videos. But I think yours are the most comprehensive and honestly look the easiest to do while still looking awesome. I am sure you get a million requests so feel free to disreguard. But I am a huge sci fi fan and one of the reasons I'm building is to envision some of the fantastical places in that genre. One thing I haven't seen you do yet is an orb-like building. In both fantasy and sci fi these seem to be a thing. You've done round towers, but what about a building either a dome or a ball? It would be a challenge.

This has inspired me to start making D&D terrain. I wish to start this hobby as soon as I learn how to play. Thank you for being such a great inspiration. I love watching your videos and I am very grateful for all the hard work you put into these projects.

Awesome vid again - discovered you a few weeks ago and I think I've watched all your vids Haha! Keep it up - love your style and vid presentation!

I don't game, but I'm a beginner at dio making for my action figure photography. Your channel is awesome and so helpful. Thanks. I'm working on a cemetery right now and some kind of fountain like this will be a nice touch. Thanks again.

Hey Man. I'm from Brazil and I'm big fan the things you do. Salve.

Great tut. Just started for the very first time crafting by making this fountain. It cost me 30€ to get everything needed including the equipment and the materials that obviously remain for future projects. Just found myself a new fun hobby

Guess I’m a beginner sense I feel like I learned a lot from this video. My mind was blowed by something as simple as when you drew the outlines by holding your position with your finger!! 🤯

I just used the epoxy trick on a weird droid blue fountain thing I recently put together. Great stuff.

Thank you for making this video, it has certainly given me some ideas to get back in to making terrain and scenery. If you get time it would be really helpful to do an episode about how you aquire and maintain a good supply of materials, how you organise them and ways to get stuff cheaply... Best tutorials on youtube by a mile!

Very cool thanks. I'm going to make this right now!

this worked great for my dnd game thanks!

I did this, using a cheap Princess Leia from one of the sequel movies that was like $2.50 at a local discount store. She’s perfect at works for both medieval fantasy and futuristic sci-fi

I’ll try this for a terrain project ! Thanks

Just found this video and downloaded the template! Going to build on for Frostgrave!

Oh you're Canadian too! Are you in Ontario? If so you should do siminars! That would be awesome! Love the fountain!

this is realy cool. i going to try this out

I love how I (who has no crafting experience at all) had the same idea as you... As soon as I saw the old fountain with the statue, I thought "Well, if I do this, I'll design it to have exchangable statues and non-statues; and then I'll make a non-fountain plinth that can accept the same decorations as well. That should give me a lot of uses." :D

very nice work, thank you for sharing, subscribed

Thanks for the template! will definitely build this

Interesting! I wonder what it would look like if you added like a couple pieces of gold and silver glitter, very sparingly, to the bottom to look like coins tossed in the fountain. Super cool! Thanks for this!

This really takes me back to my early crafting days! For future video ideas, how about medieval fantasy buildings in styles outside of the usual western European? Buildings from the fantasy Mediterranean, or eastern europe, or Asia? Could be a chance to explore different techniques for the different architectural styles and materials.

Thank you man! You taught me so much with your videos. I have a question, could you show us a way, or multiple ways, to do Stairs? I've tried many things but they always end up looking really bad

27:40 I work in the aerospace industry, which means almost nothing outside of obsure epoxy and paint facts. But as far as I remmeber from my introduction to resins, you can add in a thinning agent like isopropyl alcohol, or the dollarstore equivalent without too much kerfuffle, as long as it doesn't mess with your cure/reaction times. Of course, I wouldn't assume anything would work without first doing a test or three (my favourite part of the job- redundancy) but as long as the thinner flashes off between the mix and about mid cure, AND you're not using a vacuum pump to facilitate it, you're golden!

Perfect! Got a bunch of foam scraps and a small dragon sculpture that would be ideal for a statue, so I will be making one of these over the weekend. I reckon a statue/fountain instantly transforms an open space into a town square for players.

I do crafting for 3 or 4 months now, so I am still a beginner. There is always something new to learn in your videos. In this video it was the usage of templates. Of course I saw that before, but somehow here it caught me. Usually I dont use templates but draw the shapes directly to my materials. In this video I learned the essential advantages of templates. I underestimated it before. I love your habbits, to go back to the roots sometimes. And I am sure also experts do always learn something from these tutorials. One question .. I used such an epoxy before to try it out for other purpose. What I noticed was, it cures within a few minutes, but it didnt completely dry and hardened in that time. It still took my finger prints when I touched it. It took like 24 hours to really harden completely. Did you have the same experience with the epoxy you used? Another question .. For sure you mentioned your template shop ever before?!? Somehow I noticed it for the first time. Thank you.

THANKS SO MUCH !!! A great project i believe i can master .

Hell yea brother!! Keep growing that sweet beard my dude!!!

This was very helpful, thank you!!

I would advise texturing/adding grout lines to the pieces before cutting out the middles. gives it more structure