Making CHEAP and SIMPLE Gaming Terrain, with Wooden Blocks!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video im going to make an entire scenery set using kids wooden blocks, though this project cost me very little, i do discuss the budget if your starting something like this from scratch.
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00:00 Intro.
09:59 Building the Blocks
12:39 Filling the Gaps
16:22 Painting Time!
23:23 Thoughts n Stuff - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
his eyes have been opened...
He's one small shove away from the Gutterlands.
Once you go scrap, you never go back…
He even stole them from his son. Can't get more Bill than that.
Hahaha! its like ive revisited my past lol
Always glad to see this. After watching a lot of terrain crafters on TH-cam with Bill making stuff, Eric's hobby workshop, Black magic craft, Wyloch's Armory, MS paints, Scratch Bashing, DM Scotty , Wulvenkraft, Summon lesser maker, Miniature Hobbyist & many others, it's a part of the hobby I always find interesting. The US craft stores (Michael's, hobby lobby and the underrated craft section at Dollar tree) have been a big help too.
This will cause a spike in Amazon traffic for kids wooden blocks, good job , well done
This video will be soon known as the starting point of the wooden block black market
Awesome video, as ever, Mr. Peach! One other tip if people want their blocks to look more like weathered stone: before assembly and painting, put them in a plastic bin with some actual rocks from the garden and shake them up really well. That will put rock-textured dents and dings into them, then just follow your tutorial from there! :)
You mad creative lil smelter, you!! ✊️
Hahaha! I’ve upgraded from lead to wood now
What I really like about this terrain is that it's not fragile. You can just move it around and and it'll get bumped and such. Plastic kits eventually break...
You can even throw it at people, and those people will break before the terrain does. You shouldn't, but you can!
scratch building terrain is one of my favorite bits of the hobby....pringles cans and carboard boxes have been so many of my gaming boards over the years.....loving MDF terrain at the min though this idea is perfect for a cheap addition to the box of world building kit!!
This is very much giving me old 2nd Edition 40k vibes. Where all of the rulebooks actually told us to use books as hills, blocks, etc.
Ahhh the good old days 😂😂😂
@@PeachyTips Truly so. But your video is inspiring. I'm going to try my own approach to this and see what I can come up with.
@@edwardclay7551 id lve to see how you get on, so please do feel like you can share pics on my social media accounts
Foam ball tooth pick space cactus crew checking in.
I made another whole set of this terrain back in January. Still one or my all time favorite bit of "space" vegetation.
The people's Peach, thanks for the Poorhammer content!
You are most welcome 😍👍
More vids like this plz. Thanks for uploading
13:00 If you separate some of the filler into another container, you can also mix a bit of PVA glue into it to give it that extra bit of durability when it dries.
Ok this is genius.the blocks would work really well for using as monumental ancient Egypt buildings
A few simple geometric shapes cut out of card would also add stability, detail, and cover gaps on the big flat facings. Nicely done Peachy!
Nice job Peach! I’d probably call it “Great looking, Easy, fun terrain anyone can make”. Everyone’s on a budget of some type and I appreciate you thinking about that. This looked great. I’m going to make some for my Tomb Kings of Khemri. I think you’re “The people’s champion” When you paint armies and do terrain or talk about games it’s all very relatable and I don’t feel intimidated. You make it look fun and you explain it in an approachable way. Thanks for keeping it real. 😊
Using this for Tomb Kings is a top notch idea, and thank you for the kind and supportive words, I’m just pleased folks find the content helpful.
As a big fan of Black Magic Craft, was really looking forward to this one. Time and budget friendly scenery is awesome. I bet some caulking mixed with sand would be a good filler/texture material. I think you could use a wood carving veiner (aka a little v shaped blade for making grooves) or just a scratch awl to create stonework texture (or other features) pretty nicely.
i love cheap and sustainable hobbying :) I grew up without terrain kits I used make stuff with my friends out of cardboard and balsa wood. I took that principle with me as I got older and started making my own content. Great video ! Erics Hobby is one of my faves for stuff like that too.
One thing that may work for this is Jenga blocks. Wyloch did his modular dungeons with it for the walls. Also both "I can't believe it is not Jenga" blocks and rare earth magnets are cheap to buy on the Chinese drop shipping sites like Temu for extra modularity
Oooh very useful! Cheers Darryl
When I was a kid I used to use the polystyrene packaging from electrical goods family members bought as they looked like cool fortifications or buildings. And when I accidentally found out what super glue did to it the fun really began! Great video mate, keep on smelting!🤘😎🔥
Yeah the magic mistakes of super glue and solvent spray on polystyrene lol.
Cheers bud 😍🙏😍
the freehand really elevates this build. Great job, Peachy!!
That brings me back to the old days. My friends and I used to do this back in the 80's & 90's and we had no money and plastic scenery didn't exist.
I think it was a far more creative time for scenery
I'll say that I was really impressed with the look of smaller sections of stacked blocks, especially at 24:31.
With larger structures in view, the terrain still looks great for the cost, but the zoomed in view on square blocks with grass growing from the gaps really stood out to me as punching above their weight class.
I have a lot of expensive terrain to paint first, but I think if I were to try this, I'd use it for more scatter terrain-type elements. Lose blocks and small walls. Really dig those!
Cheers for the comment 😍🙏😍 and yes adding in those tufts really helped sell the look I feel
Awesome hobby project - making scenery is so much fun. Rusty metal sheeting from corrugated hobby card is so easy and home sweet home for your Orks and post-apocalypse landscape
Instant like, instant subscribe. When I started playing wargames, I used 10mm wooden cubes as my miniatures, and used 1inch square blocks and old Jenga sets for terrain. Since I've moved to 15mm proper miniatures, I still use those basic wood shapes for some terrain, or I grab some cardstock and make my own. I have been eyeing up the old cubes and jenga blocks and wondering about hot gluing them together in different shapes, and I think you've just given me the push to get it done :D
looks great. I've always been tempted to repurpose the old fisher price castles for fantasy terrain. You always see them going cheap and they are huge playable terrain pieces just need some texturing and repainting.
Such a great idea, im now thinking of getting some and making scenery for Tomb Kings
Fantastic work! There is so much more satisfaction in making stuff from scratch, rather than just buying a kit. Very much like kitbashing models; they are unique and they are yours.
Surprisingly good effect at the end. Great job.
Thanks for making this video! It's cool to see things be repurposed with a little elbow grease into fun modular terrain!
Truly outstanding. Can't wait to see them painted
Full Blue Peter mode! 👏
This with a few hand crafted bits from foam and bulsa wood would look amazing
This is awesome. I'm going to give this a try for Frostgrave. You've inspired me.
Yaaay I helped 😍👍
Necron aesthetic would look super look good.
Awesome work on these. I never thought about glueing the blocks together...cunning!
cheers Stephen glad it was helpful!
Could definitely use these as Haradrim ruins for MESBG!
Very convincing result Peachy, it rocks ! And I love seeing how excited you are with that revelation. Next time you use wooden blocks, remember... it's wood. There's no glue that bonds it better than plain cheap wood glue. Just stick sanding paper on a board, have a few passes on it with the block side you want to glue to remove the paint and varnish for a better grip, coat it with glue, press it with the other block. I can guarantee you it won't break if you drop it from a table or a shelf. The hot melt glue ? I would not bet on it.
Something I've done in the past is use textured sprays (they're meant to be used for plant pots and stuff). Then just dry brush and it looks great!
I'm doing something similar but with Jenga blocks. I found them from a dollar store and was able to make a few walls by stacking them up and gluing them together. I also left a gap using popsicle sticks so I can slide some platforms into them and make some height in my board
For the longest time I was wondering how I was going to make Lizardmen/Seraphon temples and spawning pools without hacking into foamboard, I now know how I am going to make Seraphon Temples and spawning pools, Thanks Mr Peach!
Whop whoop!!! Also that’s a very cool idea too 😍🙌😍
Making scenery is probably one of my favourite parts of the hobby so thank you for another source of parts
I had the same idea a few years back. Thanks for visualising it and offering a direction. Nice work!
I appreciate home made scenery. It has a charm to it. Making scenery is my favourite part of the hobby. I've also seen other kids toys used to make very effective scenery. Magnet tiles make some outstandingly effective modular walls for dungeons or space ships. They aren't as cheap as wooden blocks, but they are endlessly modular and you could dress them up as ship interiors for star grave / Kill Team.
Ooh the magnet tiles is a smart idea, I’ll look into this 😍🙏😍
Love the color scheme! Gave me some lovecraftian inspiration!
My friend has a bag of foam blocks similar to these from when he was a kid and we often use them for games of Kill Team or smaller games of 40k. Underrated hobby hack!
Scenery definitely makes the game for me. This was a great vid thanks peach! You could easily add some cut up cereal boxes into the mix and add some thinner sections or some roof portions. Great build!
This is great idea as someone with limited space and storage at the moment a terrain set like this would be perfect for me. It's probably been said already but a few changes I would make would be to use dowels to make the blocks more modular and moveable. Choose which pieces I would use as barricades and buttresses, fix the dowels into the one side and drill a connection spot into the other. Also before the base coating step chip and rough the blocks up on brick or concrete to give them a more textured or used look
Great idea or work with magnets
I've started building scale scenery for my mini's , I've built a short course for my 1/24 RC crawler, made from polystyrene wire mesh and cement, the odd bits and bobs
VERY inspiring!!! Possibly my favorite part is this was like a miniature's "ugly phase" times 5, then at the end, looks better than a lot of the scenery I see at gaming stores. (And it is super 'modular" ! Great video, Peachy - I always love scenery videos. Thanks!
There was definitely a fair few ugly stages for sure 🤣
Oh.. initially those primary bricks are not convincing me but as they say "scrubs up nicely", what a transformation, I see historical ruins, fantasy, science fiction.. most of all, I like what I see. I think wooden blocks might be in my future, quite like the idea of robust ruins daubed with Ork patterns, something that can take a few knocks and easilly fixed. Cracking vid.. excited to see them in you beauty shots, battle reports and most of all, future expansion vids.
Some cheap experiments I've done -
Cocrete bunkers from packing styrofoam shapes.
Columns from plastic tubes that contained water-soluble vitamins. Clad in rectangles of cereal box card over a layer of PVA'd kitchen roll.
Piles of ammunition, stacked cannon balls from little airgun bb pellet balls I've found around outside, filled a couple of old agrax bottles over a summer. Washed, glued into stacks, painted, perfect scale for scatter terrain. A larger pyramid stack painted like stone might go nice with wood block ruins too.
Thank you for watching the transformation of primary coloured blocks to ancient magical ruins 🙌
Also loving the suggestions and experiments you’ve done too 😍👍
@@PeachyTips I really enjoyed it. My favourite build I've done so far has been Crates, layers of squares and rectangles from cat food box card stuck together into cubes / rectangles / chests, then covered in slices of vaneer I had (stir sticks would be great alternative), like tiny planks. Easy fun build makes a tub of scatter terrain for any game.
It's always cool to see kids toys used in different ways, I've seen some magnetic shapes to make modular terrain which is cool too, love the variety of vids and they're a lot if fun
Cheers, I’m chuffed you’re enjoying the content, and a top notch suggestion on the magnetic shapes
Got some Silver Bayonet - Egypt coming up down the track and this would make some good terrain for that painted the right way! Great video!
I think you nailed it mate. Looks amazing!
Plastic Easter eggs make good dome shapes
also some random carving with a knife on the edges and the corners and maybe a few hits with a hammer on the flat surfaces could make the blocks more weathered and natural
I love modeling terrain, maybe more than painting models...maybe
Another cheap source of wood blocks is old Jenga sets. Charity shops always have those. Great for chopping up and building castles
My first war gaming terrain was little piles of books covered in a grey green Army Blanket.
Nowadays am a board gamer so its a map with card board counters on it.
Its all war gaming, something I do for giggles.
Love it Peach, keep up these fun and cheap terrain builds.would love to have more ideas.
I cast engagement for the algorithm. Great video always love getting ideas for future projects. Thxs
There are often really interesting shapes in polystyrene packing in most boxed items. You can’t use most rattle can spray paints because they contain solvents so people use emulsion house paint e.g. colour tester pots or a mix of PVA glue and cheap acrylic paint and sometimes sand mixed in for texture. Super cheap and easy to modify or weather with any sharp knife. If you want to get fancy, you can buy a hot wire tool and make practically anything with a hot glue gun. I remember making entire castles from sheets of polystyrene and if it gets broken or a mistake is made then it’s an historic ruin. Cheers!
Love the idea of upcycling random stuff into wargaming. Would love to see more stuff in the future on affordable wargaming
It takes real talent to make a cool scenery out of those wooden blocks 👍🏻
Cheers bud, that’s very kind of you to say 😍👍
This is great! I’ve recently been posted to a rural community, and I’m starting up an after school warhammer club. This is a great way to get terrain on the table quickly.
On a spray can front you can also look at something like b&q , fairly cheap and reliable as a base coat
Definitely going to do this for 5 parsecs from home and other things. Nice
Fantastic video! Amazing what you were able to achieve! Really screams Star Wars to me but great for many settings like you said! I could see a great tomb world board made from these with different colors.
Great content. Makes me think of people using cheap plastic magnetic tiles from off brand construction game for young children but painted in a similar manner as terrain for sci fi terrain.
This reminds me of the magnet tile sci fi terrain I've seen a few guys make; Mad Dok Minis, for example.
this is SUCH A COOL IDEA!!! I would love to see any more cool ideas you can come up with because I love this
Such a simple, but clever, idea. With such a cool result!
Cheers 😍🙏😍 I had a lot of fun with this project
Went in to this quite skeptical, thinking it'd be more of a last resort, low budget option for scenery, but damn, yeah, that came out proper nice. I was still doubtful until you started adding the extra painted markings, and then the grass tufts really did just bring it home in a way I didn't expect. And then arranged on the grass mat with the trees around the outside as a natural boundary, has a sort of nostalgic vibe to it, like the random structures you'd see in games like Halo where you don't even think about what it's supposed to be or why it was built, once you see the enemy is there it just makes sense to fight over it. Great video, really gets the neurons firing
Hmm... certainly could work well for Necron blackstone structures potentially 🤔
Tempting...tempting...
They look great. The strips really make them pop.
I absolutely loved this and was already thinking of all the ways I could make this more sci-fi by just gluing some wires and greeblies on. Thank you for the inspiration!
look at kids manget tiles - when boarding action came out there was alot of movement in the community to use them to make spaceship walls.
Hey mate.
I did something, roughly, similar with Lego Bricks.
We have a ton of Lego, and after my son moved on into puberty ("bläh, lego is so uncool🙄") i sold most of it.
BUT i had a big box of those loose briggs...so i used them for simple structures, put some thinned plaster on it and painted it.
Theoretically i can nibble off that stuff... theoretically
For silver bayonet you need to build a full blown aztec or Egyptian pyramid and Sumerian ruins.
Not sure if it's been mentioned but another money saver is to use a colour matching service of your local hardware store to match up whatever colours you're using for drybrushing and some of those markings and then buying a tester pot of the matched colour. Its about £4 for a 400ml tester pot and it can be thinned with water just fine. I wouldn't paint my minis with it but all my bases are done using Valspar from B&Q because I was burning through my earth and green vallejo paints far too quickly.
Great video, love the idea of you expanding this scenery project with narrative buildings, scattering terrain using cheap materials.
I have so many ideas now lol, and a lot of recycling to pilfer 😂
My favourite piece of terrain I made is a menhir stone circle made of air dry clay with some flocks and tufts stuck in the little cracks to make them look like they are super old.
Thank you for including us coffee drinkers, I have also started drinking tea though so I'm a tea and coffee man now😂
It’s easy to forget they’re other beverages available 🤣🤣🤣
Peachy mentions Play School and my brain is like: Let's have a look through... The arched window!!!
Who is it? Sh!t it's Darth Vader, run away, run away!!!
The mental image from this comment alone made my day.
This is genius!
Gald you hit on the Mos Eisley vibe, I had that in my head the whole way through.
My top tip, If I can add one...
Once you brush the filler. To hide the brush strokes, just give it a pass over with a sponge. Just dab the sponge all over, and it'll remove the brush strokes.
Great top tip! Normally I would stab the filler once it was beginning to dry, but filming got interrupted and then it was too late, so I just accepted it as it was. Though I suppose I could’ve mentioned that in the video 🤦♂️
But the sponge idea is smarter I think as it can be done on the first pass without the need to wait for it to cure a little 👍👍👍
@PeachyTips I think you did mention stabbing with a brush, so you didn't forget.
I found out by accident that sponge was a great way to blend the effect, it soaked up any runs and gave a great texture on top.
This is a pretty brilliant idea in its simplicity and the nice effect of the final product. Only thing I would do different is to hit the woodblocks with a texture spray before the final colors.
Yeah that’s a very cool idea, I’ve used a few of those sprays in the past, with varying results, I do trust my filler more, but I’ll definitely give it a blast in a future build 👍👍👍
I love this idea and I would love to see more videos like this! 💪
The finished product turned out so much better than you'd expect for something built out of kids blocks.
My friends and I want to get into Necromunda, particular the Ash Wastes content. In addition to some terrain ideas, this vid got me thinking about taking some toy cars and kitbashing Mad Max style vehicles out of them.
There’s so much scope with it, Necromunda is also a brilliant suggestion too, and if you get the larger kids cars, they’ll be perfect for mad max style vehicles 😘👌
Good stuff! These look absolutely fantastic! Very simple, but incredible versatile.
Might have to pick up some wooden blocks now...
So effective, and the simple markings really fit with the simple shapes.
Hi Peachy I have been collecting and painting minis for a short while now and your videos have been great. I came into the hobby as a lorehead and have really enjoyed both the history and painting sides of your videos. Atm a mate and I are just painting the minis who interest us (not even that dedicated to an army although we have favourites) and are cheap. I only own one terrain piece so I will be using this to make my scenery for games. Maybe a video on what to expect playing your first tabletop game?
So the very cool scenery from your Instagram shots is made of... Wooden blocks?!? This is mind blowing
A+, Cheers!
Loving the accessible and fun McCulloughverse hobby content of late.
Don't let anyone convince you terrain it in!
That’s some top tier punnage 🤣👍
I bloody love creating a setting for miniatures. I don’t really play, but if I can make a diorama that suits, I will. I always take my bases a bit far for that very reason 😂
RIP Wilko
This reminds me of the part in the Rogue Trader book where it goes over building terrain with household stuff.
Solid idea! I’m about to pilfer my kids stash, now.
I don't think is blowing your own trumpet, you enjoyed the build and are pleased with it, there's nothing wrong with that , shows those out there that it's worth giving it a go, I build a multitude of things it's good to mix things up
Cheers 🙏 you’re right, I was definitely pleased with the result, so I shouldn’t be concerned lol
Done a very similar thing with my large stash of pringle tubes and gubbins box. We call it Pringlegrad.
Hahaha! Pringlegrad lol
Great Job! I am now quite looking forward to when my little one grows out of her building blocks so I can steal them off her. i thinking about what it would look like after taking a chisel to some of the corners and adding some mossy/viney bits
I think if I do a second set I will add more chips and scuffs etc to the blocks. It’s funny that we all covet our kids toys hoping that when they’re done with them we can steal them away and make some cool terrain 🤣
This is awesome! I really loved the red detailing at the end. That really helped to take it from wooden blocks to a more believable set of terrain
wow I just completed two weeks ago something very similar to this : a mesoamerican pyramid with wooden cubes ! love it keep it up !
Some of the most engaging content I've seen in a while, really took my attention rather than being a backdrop to me painting. Pity I missed any reference to Sharpe, maybe it was when i had to leave the room after you drank some of that horrible devil water
🤣👍
Coolest thing eher. (I think Joseph McCollough did a similar thing with jenga blocks)
Oh cool! He’s a smart guy