Fun video!! I've been building military dioramas for over 40 years and always find that modeling groundwork and debris fields, some of the most enjoyable and satisfying projects in model making!! As far as finding pebbles and rocks for landscapes and rubble, nothing can beat the stuff you can sweep up from the street, right in front of your own house!! It's nice and varied in size and texture, it's already pretty close to the right color even before painting and weathering, and it's FREE! Happy Modeling !!!
Mike S I recently started doing experimenting with stuff we throw away like dust and coffee.. So can you tell if what i made was a good idea? Since we had alot of ash and coffee.. I decided to try it with PvA glue and made a 5cm pebble plus put tiny bit in a 500ml bottle lid (both are literally rocks, bottle one even copied the tiny letters on the lid) It gets solid in 5 hrs, maleable like clay, but can easily take any other mats (Ofc, i use a mesh reserved for flour)
Nice technique and certainly worth a like! Your grey crater looks like the surface of a lifeless planet or moon, so it's very science-fictiony--very cool! I'll have to try this technique for my own wargaming, but mine will be based upon an earthly surface, so grass, mud and some bushes, perhaps. Thanks for the inspiration!
Awesome technique! I used this with the exact same kind of cork board but with air drying clay instead of drywall plaster. I made three bases, one with three smaller craters, one with a medium sized crater, and one with a very large crater. The look came out perfectly. The only down side I had was with the very large crater. The clay's moisture made the hard-board warp *ever-so-slightly*. But it's only really noticeable if you're setting the terrain piece down.
This would be great foot print shaped bases for dinosaur or robot figures too like they were breaking the tarmac as they pounded the streets! Thanks great tut :)
I really liked it. However I'd like to give a little suggestion. The extra clean and tidy crater, that is the actual "hole", is not completely right. The crater has been there for some time (unless you're doing a "just exploded" crater) and soldiers have walked through it and it has been exposed to the elements. So a little bit of fine grain sand or even some tiny rocks would be much more realistic.
hi , im new to dioramas ,, what did you use for making the fine grite sand stick to the base? and whats that 1-3 water ratio solution solution? please let me know. thank you...
Thank You! Need to get me some corkboard:) Really enjoy your terrain videos. Please make more of them that can cross over and be used for 28mm fantasy (D&D) terrain
+zacablaster maybe even take a miniature that isn't based and make foot prints in the wet plaster? give it the impression of having been marched through
I always assumed the several thumbs downs on every EoB video was from attention-starved "fans" who didn't get the interaction they felt entitled to. I'll take this comment as confirmation.
Nine years later and this is still a very useful little tutorial. Keep being awesome guys!
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Fun video!! I've been building military dioramas for over 40 years and always find that modeling groundwork and debris fields, some of the most enjoyable and satisfying projects in model making!! As far as finding pebbles and rocks for landscapes and rubble, nothing can beat the stuff you can sweep up from the street, right in front of your own house!! It's nice and varied in size and texture, it's already pretty close to the right color even before painting and weathering, and it's FREE! Happy Modeling !!!
Mike S I recently started doing experimenting with stuff we throw away like dust and coffee..
So can you tell if what i made was a good idea?
Since we had alot of ash and coffee..
I decided to try it with PvA glue and made a 5cm pebble plus put tiny bit in a 500ml bottle lid (both are literally rocks, bottle one even copied the tiny letters on the lid)
It gets solid in 5 hrs, maleable like clay, but can easily take any other mats
(Ofc, i use a mesh reserved for flour)
I needed some craters for an asteroid surface and this video helped out perfectly. Good work!
Nice technique and certainly worth a like! Your grey crater looks like the surface of a lifeless planet or moon, so it's very science-fictiony--very cool! I'll have to try this technique for my own wargaming, but mine will be based upon an earthly surface, so grass, mud and some bushes, perhaps. Thanks for the inspiration!
Awesome technique! I used this with the exact same kind of cork board but with air drying clay instead of drywall plaster. I made three bases, one with three smaller craters, one with a medium sized crater, and one with a very large crater. The look came out perfectly. The only down side I had was with the very large crater. The clay's moisture made the hard-board warp *ever-so-slightly*. But it's only really noticeable if you're setting the terrain piece down.
Excellent tutorial and a very nice finish. I'd blacken the craters a bit - blast burns and all that.
Your video production quality has come up so much, but you always had great techniques to teach.
Thanks I needed this for Home work
This was a great tutorial and a fantastic method for making craters! End result looks awesome!
Great tutorial! I've been wanting to do craters to use for blown up tanks mid-game and this is one heck of a good looking and fast method.
This would be great foot print shaped bases for dinosaur or robot figures too like they were breaking the tarmac as they pounded the streets! Thanks great tut :)
Glad I found this video. I've been wanting to make my miniature bases look just like this for a while. What are you using for bricks?
I really liked it. However I'd like to give a little suggestion. The extra clean and tidy crater, that is the actual "hole", is not completely right. The crater has been there for some time (unless you're doing a "just exploded" crater) and soldiers have walked through it and it has been exposed to the elements. So a little bit of fine grain sand or even some tiny rocks would be much more realistic.
This was very helpful and I will use it in the future. Thanks for sharing this.
So simple but so effective, thanks.
Great tutorial
Awesome job!!!
This is awesome, could i use clay for this with a similar effect?
hi , im new to dioramas ,, what did you use for making the fine grite sand stick to the base? and whats that 1-3 water ratio solution solution? please let me know. thank you...
Updated version for HH pls????
do you have to seal this after the final dry brushing and what would you use?
Thank You! Need to get me some corkboard:) Really enjoy your terrain videos. Please make more of them that can cross over and be used for 28mm fantasy (D&D) terrain
Did you let the puddy dry before adding the cork n so on?
what brand of paint did you use for the wash?
What’s supplies are needed?
The crater's edges look fantastic, however the super-smooth center makes it look less real, what would you do to roughen it up?
Add fine grit sand in the center, maybe a piece of styrene rod as a pipe. Near the edges of the crater, use fine grit and medium.
granddungeonmaster I'm definitely going to try that!
+zacablaster maybe even take a miniature that isn't based and make foot prints in the wet plaster? give it the impression of having been marched through
Will this technique work with plaster as well?
great tut bro trying now to use in battletech and mechwarrior clix
Look great.
Muito legal! Obrigado!👏👏👏
Thanks it really helped me
What kind of cardboard did you use? Do you ever use wood for a base? Thanks...great tutorial
+Interstellar Modeler
MDF board,It's pretty much cardboard made of wood, you can get it at most hardware stores
+Toothygrin Thank you.
this is amazing
could you post all ingredients :)
Thanks. Was actually looking for something to help me do a lunar scape with painting/washes/ect. This will help.
Excellent
Thx for the vid! I wanted to make some crates for my mars gaming tale ^^)
You can add small rocks with PVA glue as long as you paint the whole thing with PVA after the fact.
Thanks I use it in my science model
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
can u write list of thing needed please
Kork,Spackling,Small pepple,Sand and paint
WeiserMeisterpropper and glue
thanks
The secret is the round circles!
GJ!
cool
Sorry, but what is the base? Hardboard, Cardboard???
TIA!
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no le entiendo una mierda pero buen bideo 😊
Round circle speach 100
Thumbs up!
I think its fun to do it but its to messy
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i like how you interact zero procent with your fucking community
Looks like he is no longer updating this channel, wich is sad
I always assumed the several thumbs downs on every EoB video was from attention-starved "fans" who didn't get the interaction they felt entitled to. I'll take this comment as confirmation.