Hey guys, here are some links to some of the key elements I used in this build. I also included a link to the Bugbear Shaman miniature you see featured....sorry couldn't find a listing for UK. Also, I’m sure there will be endless comments about sterilizing natural things you find and use for crafting. This is a good idea and can be done in the oven carefully at a low temperature. It’s especially important for things like moss, sand, and bark. I think these little twigs were fine not to disinfect but it probably wouldn’t hurt. SCULPTAMOLD (USA) amzn.to/37h1Kvm (Canada) amzn.to/39uMRXJ (UK) amzn.to/3bwVaUK (Germany) amzn.to/2Sisurm CITADEL SKULLS (USA) amzn.to/2PIF8w6 (Canada) amzn.to/2LuM0Kz (UK) amzn.to/2BX3hZU (Germany) amzn.to/2Vq9tmd GRASS TUFTS (USA) amzn.to/2BXiYjW (Canada) amzn.to/2BUbSN2 (UK) amzn.to/2QjPmSQ (Germany) amzn.to/2Ruh6Jd MINIATURE (Wizkids Bugbear) (USA) amzn.to/3cwdBsV (Canada) amzn.to/35U5vb0 (Germany) amzn.to/2WUERL4 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases)
From TN, growing up lots of kids made these we even used them during capture the flag. But I also grew up on a farm, so our animals and wild animals were constantly getting in them. For that reason, I think I would have left the entry uncovered. Just because in my brain I know I would put 'eggs' and loot inside or have something like a naga or giant spider come out of it. Maybe that's just me playing on my player's childhood traumas that occurred in these structures...
The trick to drilling GW plastic or any kind of model is this. First make a little dent or notch with a sharp hobby knife. From there you slowly drill for the first couple of turns. Then you can just drill straight through. Been doing it like that for over a decade.
Yep those structures are all around where I live too, especially near the schools. Here they’re usually made by kids or the occasional hunter or homeless person. My high school even offers a PE class where students spend a week building a shelter like these in the forest and then sleep in it overnight.
I think an appropriate term would be "lean-to". It's an improvised shelter made of branches that are leaned against a tree or a rock for support, and then smaller sticks are leaned against the main branch to make a tent-like structure.
Michael, can also be built against a fallen log, boulder, anything large / high enough to lean things while leaving space for a body to shelter beneath. Thus the ‘lean’ in lean-to.
@@nothingtosee314 Or possibly it was never present. That's pretty common in kid's forest fort versions that aren't seriously meant to provide actual shelter from the elements.
In australia we are encouraged to do a welcome to country which is an acknowledgment of the land of whichever Aboriginal Country you live on. There are literally hundreds. I always wondered if other nations did the same and I loved seeing it. Good work 👍🏻
Eh. I'm native and I don't think its a big deal. Definitely not required to be a good human. On that note, what does make a good human? 2 legs 2 arms, 1 head? Jk.
Man, this is cool! I love using tea for ground cover. When I'm making impassable swamp terrain I mix gloss glaze and black tea. It gets that nice decomposed leaf-material look! I've seen structures similar to that but usually that is just the first stage of construction. Smaller branches go over that and then piles of leaves. Where I live they are usually more dome-shaped and lower to the ground.
when I was a much younger guy down here in Florida, I built a few debris huts in the woods. start with a teepee frame like that or a lean-to style, then cover with boughs, then pile on as much leaves as possible.
I’ve made them before in scout stuff. Was a fun thing to camp in, though we would put tarps on them so they would actually be decent at protection from the elements.
Here in southern Alberta we find these stick structures when hiking in the forest as well. I'm fairly certain they aren't local to your area. Good work on the build.
We used to build these tents all around the forests when we were in summer camp or so, so it's pretty common around here, and I really love the process of making one.
In kindergarden we were taught how to build these huts but to also use flexible brances that could bind the top together to have a hut that lasts longer and can withstand the elements. Suffice it to say our forest was full of these with varying sizes.
In case anyone was wondering that stick hut is a viable camping option. What you'd do after making the base would be to pile pine boughs on the outside (like shingling) and add some sort of bedding (leaves, moss, more boughs, etc. Alternatively one could just use a tarp and a bedroll. That's what I usually do
It's an improvised shelter. You build your tripod, add more sticks to the lattice, pile on some foliage and leaves for insulation/waterproofing, then add sticks on top to hold it down. It sucks. It's terrible for sleeping, but it'll keep your pack dry in a rainstorm.
We get those in the UK as well, they are made by local scout groups and dads and lads copying survival shows. Great idea for a build, I'm going to make one for my game.
If I’m not on a mistake, that kind of structures are covered with tree leafs in order to provide protection from cold, wind an even the worst of rain. A very interesting hobby project. Thanks for showing it to us. Stay safe and greetings from Spain.
When I was a scout we were taught these were called bivvys, short for bivouac (not sure on the spelling). Our leaders taught us how to make one and then we slept under them overnight. It was great.
Spelling is good, and it’s the name this old scout had in mind as well :) Edit: if anyone’s wondering, the pronunciation is biv-o-wack. French origin I believe.
DUDE! I love the idea of buildings something on a much smaller scale from the same material as the actual structure. SUPER INTERESTING AND AWESOME IDEA!
Neighborhood kids with parents in construction built pretty elaborate paintball forts in the woods behind my house. Tents like this as well as lean-tos, trench forts, tree-houses and bridges. They got creepier as they deteriorated. Made for some great imagination fuel as a kid.
As always BMC - great video. I will be making a few of these to add to my post apoc setting. I have come across them AND made them, showing my boys how to start and build a basic shelter. I used to things like this as a kid, building all sorts of different shelters and forts.
I used to make them as well as a kid with my brothers and cousins at their farm. Are biggest one was probably 10’ diameter. We also threw smaller twigs, moss, and long grass to seal the spaces. Last time a saw it, it had a large bird nest on the outside at the tips side. If you added that to your model using copper wire I’d lose my mind! Awesome kid bug!
I've been on an airplane only twice: once to get to Ireland for a holiday and the second time to get back home to Belgium. But you're sure tempting me to come and visit the beautiful Canada, hopefully somewhere in my lifetime, so you are one of the BEST ambassadors for your country. Now for the huts: we used to build something similar when we were kids near the water behind our house (our street is next to an old WO I fortress with a moat around it and a nice walkway to enjoy the view) Lovely and inspiring build!
Speaking of the Witcher 3 it would be really cool if you made something from the game there are a ton of inspirations I can think of. I know miniatures aren't your thing too much but I think you could make a pretty cool Leshen or a wraith with those citadel skulls.
As always your build looks amazing. As a kid i built a lot of those things in the woods with my friends, sometime we even had a plastic bag full of stuff inside like playing cards, marbles and cord.
I’d love to see some more natural material builds like this. I’ve done a few like using branches for tree armatures, but i feel like it’s a quite under-represented branch of crafting on TH-cam.
I once came across one of those structures near a lake, but built with much larger pine trunks nailed to a central pole. Someone spent several months living in there, and made a deep litter of pine bark mulch to sleep on, that was as confortable as an inflatable mattress, as well as seashell candle holders and rudimentary shelves for his Jack Daniels bottles.
Yeah those things are everywhere in the small forest here, in Kiel ( Schleswig-Holstein, Germany). My children also love do discover them! Nice idea, I will have to remember to pick up some twicks next time.
LOL... we make those things for the animals, as shelters for winter/weather. In a natural forest, there's usually deadfall that gives deer and whatnot a place to hunker down, but if an area's been cleaned up, we go back and make random sized shelters. The animals love them.
If you build one of these large enough to get in, you can indeed make it more protective against the elements. Depending on where you are what sort of foliage you have near by, people have used bracken fern, moss, or palm leaves. You can make additional layers to help it from leaking, but you have to acknowledge that small leaks will happen. So you could put a layer of bracken down first, then moss, then more bracken, etc. And to help stop water coming in along the floor of your construction, you can dig a little trench around the outside of it. Helps if you place the door on the downward side if the land is sloped. And to help even further, you could fashion a platform big enough to sleep on. You could use more foliage to try and cushion the platform, but better yet would be a sleep mat and obviously a sleeping bag.
BMC taking a page from Bard's Craft it seems... That's pretty cool. A note: to make sure there is no risk of mold, bacteria, etc. you can 'bake' the sticks in the oven at 180 F for half an hour to kill off the bad stuff prior to use.
I've been working on lots of props, dioramas, and other craft projects, so I'm always looking at your site for inspiration. I just wanted to say that your idea for using the contents of undrinkable tea bags for foliage or even flocking, is an AMAZING idea. I love that little crafty hack. Thanks for the idea. Keep up the great work.
As always love your videos. I teach my kids their friends and pretty much any other kids that end up tagging along survivalism. So the Woods by my house are full of lean-to and other structures like this. Great idea to throw it into the mini world love to build!
I have recently been watching your videos for sum advance and inspiration. Amazing content and help for anyone familiar or just starting out with these kind of crafts. Thank you so much for what you do!!! Definitely rate your videos 10 out 10 in my book!!!
I've lived in Wales, southeast and southwest England, and you could find these structures in pretty much every copse or bit of woodland. I also saw a few while walking through the woods in the Netherlands next to the festival site I was at. It's really nice to see this is just a universal thing. Pretty sure it's just kids btw.
very nice, looks just right! i lova all your videos, you and bard´s craft inspired me to get started with crafting terrain. bought pretty much all your recommendations a couple of months ago, really enjoying it :)
Every episode of Black Magic Craft: "Normally, I hate creating a base for pieces like this because it freezes them in a specific place and time, but I REALLY determined that this piece REALLY NEEDED a base because it would be a fucking nightmare to make any way else." Lol. Thanks for continuing to make these awesome videos man. Been a while since I gamed and this helped me get hyped for my game tomorrow. ❤
I often played in the woods as a kid and, here in Scotland, I never saw anything even vaguely like that. It's surely something to do with kids with too much time on their hands and, now that you've featured it, it will probably spread worldwide. 😁 It turned out looking great, better than the real ones, and all the details really bring it to life - or should that be death? Cheers for now, Dougie.
When I visited Yellowstone, we came across one of these. I was told it was a wikiup, a lean-to of sorts, and they have a few that are very old. My Avatar is actually a photo my friend took as we were walking away from the aspen grove where we found it. Where I live, though, I've never seen them and wouldn't expect to given our state's history.
Rad! My wife just got back from Southlake Tahoe with a bunch of cool sticks and twigs for me, so I might have to ape your build a bit. I like to use cheap mixed Italian herbs for dried up dead leaves for flocking.
Oh boy, the childhood memories. :-) Me and my brother used to made these almost everwhere we went. The best one was in a forrest/park area really close to our house, so we can go there often to improve. Until one time, our mom saw some shady looking guys medling around it and we later found a syringe inside, we of course weren't allowed to play there anymore after that. :-(
Look like Stick structures; we look for, find, and document gigantic ones humans can't make without a crane. Most of the enormous ones we find are clearly not made by humans, and we often find the 16-19" tracks of those who made them in the immediate vicinity. Watch the Skalkaho series of videos on my Montana Bigfoot Project playlist, on my channel, for some examples of things (not naturally occuring) which we found in a mountain pass near here in Montana. Love your channel, by the way.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial i think so too! i work in the canadian theatre industry where it is extremely common, and its great to see it catching on in other circles.
So creative! I know its simple, but definitely one of my favorite of your many many great creations. Also, the paper towel door looks amazing, almost like a basket/weaved grass sort of look.
I have found them before. the bigger ones are usually used by hunters as a blind and some of the smaller ones are either kids or a bush craft shelter. Those are more like a frame work that you built and some sort of tarp or other natural material to make it some what weather resistant. So I guess this could be called Black Magic Bushcraft? I know, been a bit, been working on my outdoors stuff when I can.
Love this video on so many levels (music grabbed me right off.) And as a guy who's into Bushcraft to me they look like a frame for what's called a "debris shelter" in many circles. Anyway, great video.
Me and my friends always used to build these stick huts when we were kids and i see them quite often in the woods here in switzerland as well It's really cool to see your mini version of one, the skulls and tarp door are really cool details that add so much to the build as well :D
Those structures are used in Bushcraft. The sticks act as a frame and a tarp is usually draped over it for a makeshift camping shelter. You can find a lot of videos on TH-cam about people doing this stuff out in the woods.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Bushcraft isn't really about hunting, if you have Boy Scouts or something like it where you are, they have to do that sort of thing for Merit Badges as well.
We have them where I live in WA state, I have actually slept in more then a few of them. I am sure most of what we see these days are made by kids, but in earlier times they were used as stick tents, they would just wrap a canvas tarp or hide around the sticks and tie them off.
I just thought of another variation which might be pretty cool. I think I"m gonna try the same thing as a base, but then threading twine between the branches for a wattle and daub effect. Minus the daub! Great tut, though!
Awesome use of inspiration...as for the structures... wigwam? or hunter shelters, and u fortunately if not in season...the poacher shelters. The bent over tree made me think that once they skinned the deer they could hang the hide or meat to dry.
Well when it came to the towel for the door at least it wasn't covered with a floral pattern LOL. That being said I love each and every one of your videos, and I'm really learning a lot I think
If I may make a suggestion...not that I think I know anything beyond what you have inspired me to so far, - the best thing I have found for the look of tree fall, dried leaves and twigs etc on my model railroading terrain has been - dried leaves twigs etc put through a Magic Bullet type blender... Tea, dried used or unused works very well as flocking but is somewhat limited in its color and texture pallet while coffee grounds (I collect mine from a local coffee shop - in trade for their getting my dioramas first for their window display until I need another load of dried coffee grounds) make for a really good substitute for railroad ballast in either small narrow gauge, neglected, abandoned or industrial/private sidings.
I have made them and found them but they are not super common here in NC (USA). You should check out Luke Towan's model train channel. He did a cool HO scale tree house project recently. It seems like the next step after this one since you're using found twigs anyway.
These are all over my area. I think they may be some kind of natural formation as I've seen them in the middle of briar patches or made so dense and awkwardly built that a human couldn't possibly fit inside
I've seen a couple down my way (Cape Cod, MA) but they aren't exactly "common"... They were in a conservation area and looked like they had been there a couple seasons. Anyway, cool subjest, and thanks for doing what you do... it's always something to look forward to seeing.
Cool, I can build this in ten minutes. It kind of looks like a hunter's "hide". Good place for deer I see. The piece looks great as usual. Watch out for killer Deer Flys!
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Hey guys, here are some links to some of the key elements I used in this build. I also included a link to the Bugbear Shaman miniature you see featured....sorry couldn't find a listing for UK.
Also, I’m sure there will be endless comments about sterilizing natural things you find and use for crafting. This is a good idea and can be done in the oven carefully at a low temperature. It’s especially important for things like moss, sand, and bark. I think these little twigs were fine not to disinfect but it probably wouldn’t hurt.
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What was the wire that you use for the skulls?
From TN, growing up lots of kids made these we even used them during capture the flag. But I also grew up on a farm, so our animals and wild animals were constantly getting in them. For that reason, I think I would have left the entry uncovered. Just because in my brain I know I would put 'eggs' and loot inside or have something like a naga or giant spider come out of it. Maybe that's just me playing on my player's childhood traumas that occurred in these structures...
I’m definitely gunna pick up these tufts.
The trick to drilling GW plastic or any kind of model is this. First make a little dent or notch with a sharp hobby knife. From there you slowly drill for the first couple of turns. Then you can just drill straight through. Been doing it like that for over a decade.
TrebenWhahahaha the problem really is holding a tiny skull while drilling it.
Yep those structures are all around where I live too, especially near the schools. Here they’re usually made by kids or the occasional hunter or homeless person. My high school even offers a PE class where students spend a week building a shelter like these in the forest and then sleep in it overnight.
^^^ this is the kind of education our kids SHOULD be getting. real skills.
A *week*? Shouldn't take more than a couple of hours after you get the first three to stand up together.
How many get taken by the Jackalweres?
I think an appropriate term would be "lean-to". It's an improvised shelter made of branches that are leaned against a tree or a rock for support, and then smaller sticks are leaned against the main branch to make a tent-like structure.
Imo lean to is more against a fallen log or cliff face rather freestanding teepee style construction, but you may be right.
Michael, can also be built against a fallen log, boulder, anything large / high enough to lean things while leaving space for a body to shelter beneath. Thus the ‘lean’ in lean-to.
@@nothingtosee314 Or possibly it was never present. That's pretty common in kid's forest fort versions that aren't seriously meant to provide actual shelter from the elements.
As a history teacher I can say for sure, those are definitely made by Goblins.
Glad we finally have that sorted.
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Crotch Goblins but goblins none the less
thank you for your expertise
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OR SASQUATCH
OR GOBLIN SASQUATCHES....
I know you said you would have prefered something else but that paper towel really looks like it's woven cloth. I think it really works with the build
The spooky thing is everyone commenting "I used to find these all the time as a kid" and nobody commenting "I used to make these as a kid"...
I'm Native and as soon as I saw that structure I thought it looked like an Inipi lodge. Then I saw your note at the bottom. Nice!
I'm pretty sure those piles of sticks you find in the woods are Ent droppings.
The shout-out for Indigenous people was ace! Thank you for being a good human!
Simple, but important, gesture. ❤️ ✊
Black Magic Craft agree 100%
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In australia we are encouraged to do a welcome to country which is an acknowledgment of the land of whichever Aboriginal Country you live on. There are literally hundreds. I always wondered if other nations did the same and I loved seeing it. Good work 👍🏻
Eh. I'm native and I don't think its a big deal. Definitely not required to be a good human. On that note, what does make a good human? 2 legs 2 arms, 1 head? Jk.
Man, this is cool! I love using tea for ground cover. When I'm making impassable swamp terrain I mix gloss glaze and black tea. It gets that nice decomposed leaf-material look!
I've seen structures similar to that but usually that is just the first stage of construction. Smaller branches go over that and then piles of leaves. Where I live they are usually more dome-shaped and lower to the ground.
when I was a much younger guy down here in Florida, I built a few debris huts in the woods. start with a teepee frame like that or a lean-to style, then cover with boughs, then pile on as much leaves as possible.
This Florida boy would thatch with palm fronds. They weren’t hard to come by in my neck of the woods
That's most likely a debris shelter. you make the frame out of sticks and then put plant material (leaves, moss, bark, etc) on it to enclose it.
If you're really prepared, you bring a tarp or bags
I’ve made them before in scout stuff. Was a fun thing to camp in, though we would put tarps on them so they would actually be decent at protection from the elements.
Here in southern Alberta we find these stick structures when hiking in the forest as well. I'm fairly certain they aren't local to your area.
Good work on the build.
This is a fun bit of terrain and it's cool that you put a land acknowledgement in the video.
We used to build these tents all around the forests when we were in summer camp or so, so it's pretty common around here, and I really love the process of making one.
Just cannot get over the deer getting that close to you! Totally off topic but kick-ass none the less. Great build!
In kindergarden we were taught how to build these huts but to also use flexible brances that could bind the top together to have a hut that lasts longer and can withstand the elements.
Suffice it to say our forest was full of these with varying sizes.
In case anyone was wondering that stick hut is a viable camping option. What you'd do after making the base would be to pile pine boughs on the outside (like shingling) and add some sort of bedding (leaves, moss, more boughs, etc.
Alternatively one could just use a tarp and a bedroll. That's what I usually do
It's an improvised shelter. You build your tripod, add more sticks to the lattice, pile on some foliage and leaves for insulation/waterproofing, then add sticks on top to hold it down. It sucks. It's terrible for sleeping, but it'll keep your pack dry in a rainstorm.
We get those in the UK as well, they are made by local scout groups and dads and lads copying survival shows. Great idea for a build, I'm going to make one for my game.
If I’m not on a mistake, that kind of structures are covered with tree leafs in order to provide protection from cold, wind an even the worst of rain. A very interesting hobby project. Thanks for showing it to us. Stay safe and greetings from Spain.
When I was a scout we were taught these were called bivvys, short for bivouac (not sure on the spelling). Our leaders taught us how to make one and then we slept under them overnight. It was great.
Spelling is good, and it’s the name this old scout had in mind as well :) Edit: if anyone’s wondering, the pronunciation is biv-o-wack. French origin I believe.
DUDE! I love the idea of buildings something on a much smaller scale from the same material as the actual structure. SUPER INTERESTING AND AWESOME IDEA!
Neighborhood kids with parents in construction built pretty elaborate paintball forts in the woods behind my house. Tents like this as well as lean-tos, trench forts, tree-houses and bridges. They got creepier as they deteriorated. Made for some great imagination fuel as a kid.
nice! i love the skull collection. i did get great results drilling them with just a tiny drillbit in a pin vise, too. keep up the good work!
Don’t know how you always manage to make these builds look so cool
Back here in Quebec, when I was a kid, we used to find/make more of small wooden plateforms built in trees than those.
Such a quick and easy build! Don't see too many of these in the bush in Australia, you find them randomly on the beach!
Theses are a staple of any woods. As an avid camper iv been in woods all over the country and even in the most remote areas you'll see some of these.
The scouts usually teach how to make a frame and cover it as emergency place, also, kids loves to build log cabins and play xD
Yeah, my scouts make them every chance they get
yup
As always BMC - great video. I will be making a few of these to add to my post apoc setting.
I have come across them AND made them, showing my boys how to start and build a basic shelter. I used to things like this as a kid, building all sorts of different shelters and forts.
I used to make them as well as a kid with my brothers and cousins at their farm. Are biggest one was probably 10’ diameter. We also threw smaller twigs, moss, and long grass to seal the spaces. Last time a saw it, it had a large bird nest on the outside at the tips side. If you added that to your model using copper wire I’d lose my mind! Awesome kid bug!
I've been on an airplane only twice: once to get to Ireland for a holiday and the second time to get back home to Belgium. But you're sure tempting me to come and visit the beautiful Canada, hopefully somewhere in my lifetime, so you are one of the BEST ambassadors for your country. Now for the huts: we used to build something similar when we were kids near the water behind our house (our street is next to an old WO I fortress with a moat around it and a nice walkway to enjoy the view) Lovely and inspiring build!
Speaking of the Witcher 3 it would be really cool if you made something from the game there are a ton of inspirations I can think of. I know miniatures aren't your thing too much but I think you could make a pretty cool Leshen or a wraith with those citadel skulls.
A great build with lots of character. Awesome video!
this whole video was super cool, but that guitar music at the start was wonderful!
As always your build looks amazing. As a kid i built a lot of those things in the woods with my friends, sometime we even had a plastic bag full of stuff inside like playing cards, marbles and cord.
I’d love to see some more natural material builds like this. I’ve done a few like using branches for tree armatures, but i feel like it’s a quite under-represented branch of crafting on TH-cam.
That was super cool 😊 what a fun build.
I once came across one of those structures near a lake, but built with much larger pine trunks nailed to a central pole. Someone spent several months living in there, and made a deep litter of pine bark mulch to sleep on, that was as confortable as an inflatable mattress, as well as seashell candle holders and rudimentary shelves for his Jack Daniels bottles.
Yeah those things are everywhere in the small forest here, in Kiel ( Schleswig-Holstein, Germany). My children also love do discover them! Nice idea, I will have to remember to pick up some twicks next time.
Really awesome and inspiring build. I love it!!
LOL... we make those things for the animals, as shelters for winter/weather. In a natural forest, there's usually deadfall that gives deer and whatnot a place to hunker down, but if an area's been cleaned up, we go back and make random sized shelters. The animals love them.
If you build one of these large enough to get in, you can indeed make it more protective against the elements.
Depending on where you are what sort of foliage you have near by, people have used bracken fern, moss, or palm leaves.
You can make additional layers to help it from leaking, but you have to acknowledge that small leaks will happen.
So you could put a layer of bracken down first, then moss, then more bracken, etc.
And to help stop water coming in along the floor of your construction, you can dig a little trench around the outside of it. Helps if you place the door on the downward side if the land is sloped.
And to help even further, you could fashion a platform big enough to sleep on. You could use more foliage to try and cushion the platform, but better yet would be a sleep mat and obviously a sleeping bag.
BMC taking a page from Bard's Craft it seems... That's pretty cool.
A note: to make sure there is no risk of mold, bacteria, etc. you can 'bake' the sticks in the oven at 180 F for half an hour to kill off the bad stuff prior to use.
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Yeah, they are extremely common here in Denmark. I also found a particular cool one, that was built around a fallen tree.
I've been working on lots of props, dioramas, and other craft projects, so I'm always looking at your site for inspiration. I just wanted to say that your idea for using the contents of undrinkable tea bags for foliage or even flocking, is an AMAZING idea. I love that little crafty hack. Thanks for the idea. Keep up the great work.
Get those alot in the UK, I've even made them with my kids! Great work as always Jeremy 🙂
As always love your videos. I teach my kids their friends and pretty much any other kids that end up tagging along survivalism. So the Woods by my house are full of lean-to and other structures like this. Great idea to throw it into the mini world love to build!
I have recently been watching your videos for sum advance and inspiration. Amazing content and help for anyone familiar or just starting out with these kind of crafts. Thank you so much for what you do!!! Definitely rate your videos 10 out 10 in my book!!!
I've lived in Wales, southeast and southwest England, and you could find these structures in pretty much every copse or bit of woodland. I also saw a few while walking through the woods in the Netherlands next to the festival site I was at. It's really nice to see this is just a universal thing.
Pretty sure it's just kids btw.
very nice, looks just right!
i lova all your videos, you and bard´s craft inspired me to get started with crafting terrain. bought pretty much all your recommendations a couple of months ago, really enjoying it :)
Every episode of Black Magic Craft: "Normally, I hate creating a base for pieces like this because it freezes them in a specific place and time, but I REALLY determined that this piece REALLY NEEDED a base because it would be a fucking nightmare to make any way else."
Lol. Thanks for continuing to make these awesome videos man. Been a while since I gamed and this helped me get hyped for my game tomorrow. ❤
This is a fantastic build!
I really love this one, I was scared at the beginning, I was thinking at a crazy crafter, painting the wood bits with a brush 😅
found 3 in the woods at the parc where i go walk last night! great build man!
I live in England. My kids love making these every time we go to the woods
I often played in the woods as a kid and, here in Scotland, I never saw anything even vaguely like that. It's surely something to do with kids with too much time on their hands and, now that you've featured it, it will probably spread worldwide. 😁
It turned out looking great, better than the real ones, and all the details really bring it to life - or should that be death?
Cheers for now,
Dougie.
When I visited Yellowstone, we came across one of these. I was told it was a wikiup, a lean-to of sorts, and they have a few that are very old. My Avatar is actually a photo my friend took as we were walking away from the aspen grove where we found it. Where I live, though, I've never seen them and wouldn't expect to given our state's history.
Rad! My wife just got back from Southlake Tahoe with a bunch of cool sticks and twigs for me, so I might have to ape your build a bit. I like to use cheap mixed Italian herbs for dried up dead leaves for flocking.
Oh boy, the childhood memories. :-) Me and my brother used to made these almost everwhere we went. The best one was in a forrest/park area really close to our house, so we can go there often to improve. Until one time, our mom saw some shady looking guys medling around it and we later found a syringe inside, we of course weren't allowed to play there anymore after that. :-(
Look like Stick structures; we look for, find, and document gigantic ones humans can't make without a crane. Most of the enormous ones we find are clearly not made by humans, and we often find the 16-19" tracks of those who made them in the immediate vicinity. Watch the Skalkaho series of videos on my Montana Bigfoot Project playlist, on my channel, for some examples of things (not naturally occuring) which we found in a mountain pass near here in Montana. Love your channel, by the way.
Very creative !! Love it...
props to you for including a land acknowledgement in this video - i have never ever seen one in a youtube video before.
I've always wanted to do it, but it never seemed appropriate in one of my normal videos. This was the perfect opportunity.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial i think so too! i work in the canadian theatre industry where it is extremely common, and its great to see it catching on in other circles.
So creative! I know its simple, but definitely one of my favorite of your many many great creations. Also, the paper towel door looks amazing, almost like a basket/weaved grass sort of look.
Used to see and make these as a kid in lower michigan!
Its amazing how different the woods are there as opposed to where I am near Atlanta. the lack of undergrowth and briars and brambles is pretty crazy.
I live in the prairies, the landscape is pretty unique.
I found my first Penthouse magazine in one of these when I was 12. Good times.
Lol those were the days back when you could fine porn in the wild, it was like stumbling across a treasure hoard for a young teen .
@@josephskiles True story. I have no idea who brought the smut into wooded areas...but there it was.
@@seangowden948 Horny teenagers that found their dad's stash probably.
I have found them before. the bigger ones are usually used by hunters as a blind and some of the smaller ones are either kids or a bush craft shelter. Those are more like a frame work that you built and some sort of tarp or other natural material to make it some what weather resistant. So I guess this could be called Black Magic Bushcraft?
I know, been a bit, been working on my outdoors stuff when I can.
I learn such Nice things to incooperate in my fairy houses.
Love this video on so many levels (music grabbed me right off.) And as a guy who's into Bushcraft to me they look like a frame for what's called a "debris shelter" in many circles. Anyway, great video.
Me and my friends always used to build these stick huts when we were kids and i see them quite often in the woods here in switzerland as well
It's really cool to see your mini version of one, the skulls and tarp door are really cool details that add so much to the build as well :D
Those structures are used in Bushcraft. The sticks act as a frame and a tarp is usually draped over it for a makeshift camping shelter. You can find a lot of videos on TH-cam about people doing this stuff out in the woods.
Agreed, this looks like the backbone of a primitive "survival camping" shelter. Could also just be kids.
It is possible that is is also used by hunters, if it is permitted in that area.
This is within city limits. No hunting here. Notice how used to humans the deer in this video are?
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Bushcraft isn't really about hunting, if you have Boy Scouts or something like it where you are, they have to do that sort of thing for Merit Badges as well.
I was replying to the person who mentioned hunting.
Looks great!
I see these all the time in the park near my home. I’ve seen kids playing in them and even building them when I go on walks
I remember making one of those while I was in Girl Scouts. We were taught how to make them so we could survive if we ever got lost in the woods.
Turned out well!
We have them where I live in WA state, I have actually slept in more then a few of them. I am sure most of what we see these days are made by kids, but in earlier times they were used as stick tents, they would just wrap a canvas tarp or hide around the sticks and tie them off.
Yay for a nature walk based craft!
When I was a Scout leader we taught the kids to make these as emergency shelters to use if lost overnight in the woods.
Awesome work as always man.
This would be perfect for Tomb of Annihilation!
I just thought of another variation which might be pretty cool. I think I"m gonna try the same thing as a base, but then threading twine between the branches for a wattle and daub effect. Minus the daub! Great tut, though!
We get those strong stick huts here in the UK. Pretty common.
theyre lean-to's a stick and sometimes tarp constructions used for shelter in bushcrafting
Awesome use of inspiration...as for the structures...
wigwam? or hunter shelters, and u fortunately if not in season...the poacher shelters. The bent over tree made me think that once they skinned the deer they could hang the hide or meat to dry.
Well when it came to the towel for the door at least it wasn't covered with a floral pattern LOL. That being said I love each and every one of your videos, and I'm really learning a lot I think
If I may make a suggestion...not that I think I know anything beyond what you have inspired me to so far, - the best thing I have found for the look of tree fall, dried leaves and twigs etc on my model railroading terrain has been - dried leaves twigs etc put through a Magic Bullet type blender...
Tea, dried used or unused works very well as flocking but is somewhat limited in its color and texture pallet while coffee grounds (I collect mine from a local coffee shop - in trade for their getting my dioramas first for their window display until I need another load of dried coffee grounds) make for a really good substitute for railroad ballast in either small narrow gauge, neglected, abandoned or industrial/private sidings.
I’ve been meaning to get an old magic bullet for this purpose for a while. Don’t want to use the one we use for food.
This channel is riding the COVID-19 quarantine like a god damn BOSS. Love you Jeremy.
I have made them and found them but they are not super common here in NC (USA). You should check out Luke Towan's model train channel. He did a cool HO scale tree house project recently. It seems like the next step after this one since you're using found twigs anyway.
So nice to see the shout out to the First Nation peoples at the start of your video.
I live in rural Ontario, and I've seen and built a few of them
These are all over my area. I think they may be some kind of natural formation as I've seen them in the middle of briar patches or made so dense and awkwardly built that a human couldn't possibly fit inside
I've seen a couple in the woods around Lake George, NY.
I've seen a couple down my way (Cape Cod, MA) but they aren't exactly "common"... They were in a conservation area and looked like they had been there a couple seasons. Anyway, cool subjest, and thanks for doing what you do... it's always something to look forward to seeing.
In Canton myself. Where in the Cape are you?
Would never have guessed that was paper towel
Cool, I can build this in ten minutes. It kind of looks like a hunter's "hide". Good place for deer I see. The piece looks great as usual. Watch out for killer Deer Flys!
I love this! I'm definitely using it in my game!
I haven't seen them in real woods, but I have seen similar structures in wooded city parks here in Minnesota.