Awww that's so kind of you dude! Look into getting a cheap 3d printer! Saw some online going for just a hundred bucks. The plastic supply for it isnt nearly as expensive and you can find files and such online and make unique things yourself! Just make sure ya do research first ofc and you'll be all set!
@topogigio7031 lol. The game isn't in the book, it's at the table. Never owned the 5e book, just pirated the pdfs and use online resources and I've been running it for around 4 or 5 years. Seems like poser shit to me to think you have to buy the books to play "real" dnd
I love watching specifically "budget" dnd builds for stuff, because of the creativity that comes with repurposing things. It's always so cool to watch. Good job.
Just a tip from another hobbyist, look up zenithal highlighting. After your black base coat, do a light pass of white primer from an angle. When you paint over it, the contrast between the two bases will create a natural lighting effect.
You could, but for a 10 min item last second idea, this is more than adequate. If you're going for that high-level finished product, I'd resin print something to take advantage of details that zenithal highlighting provides. Generally, we use Lego for D&D
Try "dry Brushing" over the black primer, there's tons of tutorials on youtube, it's a super easy technique and looks amazing, it's also less likely to mess up
Huh? Dry brushing is basically intentionally messing up the paint job to give it a rustic, homey kind of look. Also, the technique used in dry brushing is more or less the only way to paint something this small without glopping a quarter inch thick chunk of paint onto the piece.
And don't forget to do a black wash to give it depth, it's amazing how much better it looks, mix a small amount of black paint with some water and a drop of washing up liquid, chuck it all over the model and then wipe off the excess (don't try and get into every bit when wiping it off) . It makes things look way less cartoony, so easily
@@dillongage dry brushing doesn't have to look messy if you take your time, but it's also also more forgiving for mistakes as you don't (or at least aren't supposed to) apply much paint at all with each stroke, look up "slap chop" if you want to see high detail dry brushing work it's a new(ISH) technique which admittedly needs contrast paint to fully come off but the principle is there
@@davidthemonkeyv1 definitely also worth doing a wash, I didn't know about mixing your own with washing up liquid tho I'll have to give it a try, I tend to use nuln oil like all painter hacks
If you wanna be a little extra you can glue in some popsicle stick segments as benches or use some pipe cleaners and a bit of cardstock and make a faux tarp covering. Or even use real fabric if you happen to have scraps laying around. Glue some doll-sized kitchen equipment to the side and you’ve got a chuck wagon.
Gotta say, the baby blue wagon really gives a Cinderella sort of vibe. I could definitely see myself still using the blue version under certain conditions
You could also cut off the strip of baby bonnet cover that has the pegs in it, and the heat it until it can be morphed into a bench for above the foot bars, and then the rest of the baby bonnet could be cut apart in thin strips to signify the archway cloth holders on old wagons. I love doing little handy work like this
@@davidmorgan6896 true true, I'd just been thinking about how dms will plan out some big event only for the party to take things a completely different way, didn't even think about potential reuse 😅. Edit: for the time (hours) I'm just bad and slow at painting lol
Also: whatever you do dont use acetone on plastic if youre not sure what type of plastic it is. I know some people will use acetone instead of paint thinner because it often works better. Some of the resins used to make plastic react very poorly with acetone (learned that the hard way when I accidentally mixed 2 material types, one that contained acetone) and accidentally turned the whole factory into a scene from a WW1 gas attack. Turns out pure acetone is used to dissolve polyester and when you mix a acetone based resin and a polyester resin and then add heat, you get war crimes. Whoops. My bad guys.
Little trick they teach in 3d modelling , add imperfections to make things look better, add in little scuffs , dirt around the wheel stuff thats always there, but you never really notice until its not there. Same works for real modelling and painting too.
I went to the store and got two packages and now I have six little carriages, some are covered some have sticks in them, some have big fat crystals in them, this is literally my favorite thing in the whole world
It always amazes me how imaginative people are. One sees a pram, another sees a cart. I used to think I was creative, then I had a kid who creates things I would never even be able to think of
The trick to not having visible mistakes on minis is twofold. First, if you see it, hide your mistakes with more paint. Fix it. It's easy and you already have the paint out. You cannot ruin this, just fix things when you mess up. And everyone messes up. Second, if you notice it later, don't point out the mistake. Most people won't notice it or care. If they do and they're similar colors, call it weathering.
Ooh! I like this! I work at the DT so I can definitely try this. I usually draw my group's DnD figures by hand and then shrink them on plastic and add a base, but I was never sure how to go about doing objects. This is awesome.
I haven’t painted figurines since I was a kid playing Warhammer. But for wood like that, I would’ve used a different hue of brown after and dry brushed it to add texture and then on the metal wheels you can finish them with a contrast paint that will act as a glaze and give it a nice look.
Also love using the little gnome garden items from dollar tree new paint jobs can change a lot Custom map items for my kids and I have been a lot of fun projects to do Will have to try this too
this looks great!! as a quick and easy tip to add even more detail: try dry brushing! basically you take a small amount of paint on your brush, and you quickly brush over your object. this way, not everything hets covered, letting that black primer peak through and give your object a sense of depth :)
i have to say.. before you prime it... Wash it in vinegar. The plastic used tends to be really cheap and oily. washing the item in vinegar 'dries' it out as well as roughs the surface to allow paint to adhere better.
Make sure to wash items like that with warm soapy water too before priming. They often have mould release from manufacturing and it can interfere with a base coats bond!
Tip from an artist! If you want a tiny bit more detail, take a thicker brush(honestly an old kinda worn one is great) put a color that’s just a bit lighter, brush off most of the paint on a napkin, and then lightly brush what you’re painting to give it some shadow and depth, this is called dry brushing :) Look up a video for a bit more detailed instructions!
I made paper canoes a while back for a game that sadly never needed them. What I did like about it is the paper can be pre-coloured and vary in size. I made a canoe that was big enough to hold one medium-sized figure (and two if players want to pile themselves on there), or two small-sized figures. As well as a smaller canoe that would hold one medium-sized figure, or cram in two small-sized ones. I had a prototype in plain printer paper for sizing (the canoes were origami, feel free to look up flat bottom canoes for your own game and adjust the model to size for your figure's bases). Then remade them in nice black paper (brown would also work very nicely). It's plain but does look nice, the players can use their imagination. What was the encounter I planned to use them in? A kobold ambush on the river. Because the party would have had a fun time, lol.
“I’m not an artist” after doing all that? I think you are a great artist, takes a lot of creativity to come up with and execute making these minis, and they look so awesome!❤
That spot where you "messed up" could easily become a detail that makes it look more realistic. A real wagon very well could have scratches, scrapes, or maybe even have some "traded paint" from "meeting" another wagon. 😉
Captions be like: Daddy battle maps 😏😏
Lol, I saw that too and I went to the comments to see if anyone else commented about it already.
Dungeons and daddies, occasionally a BDSM podcast
We all saw it
@@jamesmason4275 Babes Dragons Swords and Magic?
🥵🥵
More of these pls! Budgets and Dragons is grand and my DM spends way too much! I want to help them!
Awww that's so kind of you dude!
Look into getting a cheap 3d printer! Saw some online going for just a hundred bucks. The plastic supply for it isnt nearly as expensive and you can find files and such online and make unique things yourself!
Just make sure ya do research first ofc and you'll be all set!
@@impulse7942 oh, I have a 3D printer... The platform shattered from a REALLY bad print...
Don't be a poser and buy the books instead
@@topogigio7031 you're telling me to not be a poser and buy collectively some of the most expensive stuff?
Besides, he has almost every book
@topogigio7031 lol. The game isn't in the book, it's at the table. Never owned the 5e book, just pirated the pdfs and use online resources and I've been running it for around 4 or 5 years. Seems like poser shit to me to think you have to buy the books to play "real" dnd
As an artist, you didn't mess up. You gave it flavour and made it unique ❤
And it looks used
a little weathering with a wash and a bit of drybrushing would go a long way
Yea the wagon is old and has seen a lot of wear and tear
They still didn't mess it up, they gave it some flavour
Its just some mud thats splashed up.
I love watching specifically "budget" dnd builds for stuff, because of the creativity that comes with repurposing things. It's always so cool to watch. Good job.
The arts and crafts gremlin in me has been awoken
We must search the lands until we find the ingredients.
I think the little mess up adds character to the wagon, like it maybe it's an older wagon with some visible wear on it.
Just a tip from another hobbyist, look up zenithal highlighting. After your black base coat, do a light pass of white primer from an angle. When you paint over it, the contrast between the two bases will create a natural lighting effect.
You could, but for a 10 min item last second idea, this is more than adequate.
If you're going for that high-level finished product, I'd resin print something to take advantage of details that zenithal highlighting provides.
Generally, we use Lego for D&D
came over to say just this! Not necessary but for ppl who WANT a quick way to add a little more detail, this is so fun and easy
having the party wake up in the wagon like: "Hey you, you're finally awake!-"
Fus Ro Dah!!!
Try "dry Brushing" over the black primer, there's tons of tutorials on youtube, it's a super easy technique and looks amazing, it's also less likely to mess up
Huh? Dry brushing is basically intentionally messing up the paint job to give it a rustic, homey kind of look. Also, the technique used in dry brushing is more or less the only way to paint something this small without glopping a quarter inch thick chunk of paint onto the piece.
And don't forget to do a black wash to give it depth, it's amazing how much better it looks, mix a small amount of black paint with some water and a drop of washing up liquid, chuck it all over the model and then wipe off the excess (don't try and get into every bit when wiping it off) . It makes things look way less cartoony, so easily
@@dillongage dry brushing doesn't have to look messy if you take your time, but it's also also more forgiving for mistakes as you don't (or at least aren't supposed to) apply much paint at all with each stroke, look up "slap chop" if you want to see high detail dry brushing work it's a new(ISH) technique which admittedly needs contrast paint to fully come off but the principle is there
@@davidthemonkeyv1 definitely also worth doing a wash, I didn't know about mixing your own with washing up liquid tho I'll have to give it a try, I tend to use nuln oil like all painter hacks
@@dillongageDry brushing doesn't make a model look rustic, it's just an easy way of applying highlights.
If you wanna be a little extra you can glue in some popsicle stick segments as benches or use some pipe cleaners and a bit of cardstock and make a faux tarp covering. Or even use real fabric if you happen to have scraps laying around. Glue some doll-sized kitchen equipment to the side and you’ve got a chuck wagon.
Gotta say, the baby blue wagon really gives a Cinderella sort of vibe. I could definitely see myself still using the blue version under certain conditions
Ooh.. just paint the wheels a bit and call it a carriage fit for royalty (or something) 😂
@@leenone8456 nah, we about to do a Shrek 2 one-shot XD
"Hey you, you're finally awake"
You could also cut off the strip of baby bonnet cover that has the pegs in it, and the heat it until it can be morphed into a bench for above the foot bars, and then the rest of the baby bonnet could be cut apart in thin strips to signify the archway cloth holders on old wagons. I love doing little handy work like this
They sell skeleton minis around Halloween
Perfect!!!
Imagine spending hours painting these things only for the party to somehow make them irrelevant 15 minutes into the session
Seems likely that carts and wagons could reappear later in the campaign. You wouldn't need more than an hour to paint four of these; plus drying time.
@@davidmorgan6896 true true, I'd just been thinking about how dms will plan out some big event only for the party to take things a completely different way, didn't even think about potential reuse 😅.
Edit: for the time (hours) I'm just bad and slow at painting lol
“I’m not an artist” buddy, that’s art.
you ARE an artist! you do art progects like this
Also: some paints will melt plastic, so appropriate primer is a very good thing for that reason as well.
Also: whatever you do dont use acetone on plastic if youre not sure what type of plastic it is. I know some people will use acetone instead of paint thinner because it often works better.
Some of the resins used to make plastic react very poorly with acetone (learned that the hard way when I accidentally mixed 2 material types, one that contained acetone) and accidentally turned the whole factory into a scene from a WW1 gas attack.
Turns out pure acetone is used to dissolve polyester and when you mix a acetone based resin and a polyester resin and then add heat, you get war crimes. Whoops. My bad guys.
You did not mess it up. youz made it authentic.
These make really fantastic howdahs for war mounts
I made two of these into chariots! Looks like I have a project for the other 2
The Chariot idea is a badass!!
Dollar tree also sell spakle. Use it to fill the hole from the hood before you spray paint it
I'd 100% find a use for the original wagon in my campaign-
They're too cute not to
That transition was literally flawless
I love seeing people with a vision carry that shit out. I'm so amazed
The "Messed up a little bit" just adds detail, like wear and tear, onto the wagon
As a nerd of many varieties, this made two hearts of mine warm. The one you would expect and the adult doll collector in me
Man i LOVE this stuff. Dollar store conversions and making stuff with trash is my favorite.
I wish i had the mindset of alteration and creativity to do things like this XD
i think schleich horse bales would fit perfectly in there!
Little trick they teach in 3d modelling , add imperfections to make things look better, add in little scuffs , dirt around the wheel stuff thats always there, but you never really notice until its not there. Same works for real modelling and painting too.
The mess ups are what make it authentic and Used looking
Bonus points if you melt the plastic with a flat wood burning pick and carve wood grain to make it look like planks
I went to the store and got two packages and now I have six little carriages, some are covered some have sticks in them, some have big fat crystals in them, this is literally my favorite thing in the whole world
That transition was actually top tier ngl
Dude looks like Shaggy and is fuckin killin it! Mans is handsome AND makin D&D props, livin THE life!
It always amazes me how imaginative people are. One sees a pram, another sees a cart. I used to think I was creative, then I had a kid who creates things I would never even be able to think of
The little mess up part kinda adds, not gonna lie
That mess up gave it the detail it needed because now it looks like it's been through some journeys.
That "mess up" gave the wagon a bit of worn character. I like it
The trick to not having visible mistakes on minis is twofold.
First, if you see it, hide your mistakes with more paint. Fix it. It's easy and you already have the paint out. You cannot ruin this, just fix things when you mess up. And everyone messes up.
Second, if you notice it later, don't point out the mistake. Most people won't notice it or care. If they do and they're similar colors, call it weathering.
Ooh! I like this! I work at the DT so I can definitely try this. I usually draw my group's DnD figures by hand and then shrink them on plastic and add a base, but I was never sure how to go about doing objects. This is awesome.
A whole series of stuff like this would be amazing. Just tons of ideas for creative alternate uses of cheap things for dnd props
I think the “mess up” makes it look better. Makes it look a little more like a wagon that’s been used.
Oblivion had amazing walking around music.
I appreciate the sound track from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion in the background. Thank you.
You didn’t mess it up, you aged it. Gave it lore
Dude,you are an artist! Dont be down on yourself, it looks great 😃
I think the “mess up” gives it a aged look, I like it
I bet those folding rounded tops would make great window shades, spider details, hobbit door supports and parachutes :)
I haven’t painted figurines since I was a kid playing Warhammer. But for wood like that, I would’ve used a different hue of brown after and dry brushed it to add texture and then on the metal wheels you can finish them with a contrast paint that will act as a glaze and give it a nice look.
That spray on primer job is commendable very nice
Also love using the little gnome garden items from dollar tree new paint jobs can change a lot
Custom map items for my kids and I have been a lot of fun projects to do
Will have to try this too
The mess up makes it look better
Creator: im not an artist, as you can see i messed up right here.
Also Creator: makes a legendary grade wagon...
Use the holes to string and knot mini canvas pouches
I dont play DND but ive always wanted to! I love watching people do stuff like this and really get into the game
this looks great!! as a quick and easy tip to add even more detail: try dry brushing! basically you take a small amount of paint on your brush, and you quickly brush over your object. this way, not everything hets covered, letting that black primer peak through and give your object a sense of depth :)
i have to say.. before you prime it...
Wash it in vinegar. The plastic used tends to be really cheap and oily. washing the item in vinegar 'dries' it out as well as roughs the surface to allow paint to adhere better.
Damn, I see those like every day and I'd have never thought that.
Those were surprisingly sick ass wagons. Well done, sir.
The cat in the bg lol
Artist eff up things too! It’s just, sometimes we get paid to continue working until our mistakes are fixed lol
The wagon glows with blue energy
The "mess up" looks like normal wagon wear&tear so that looks perfect! So creative!
My siblings and I are doing a dnd campaign for ourselves and my little brother (who is DMing for the first time) would love this!!
Make sure to wash items like that with warm soapy water too before priming.
They often have mould release from manufacturing and it can interfere with a base coats bond!
Excellent video!
Tip from an artist! If you want a tiny bit more detail, take a thicker brush(honestly an old kinda worn one is great) put a color that’s just a bit lighter, brush off most of the paint on a napkin, and then lightly brush what you’re painting to give it some shadow and depth, this is called dry brushing :)
Look up a video for a bit more detailed instructions!
I made paper canoes a while back for a game that sadly never needed them. What I did like about it is the paper can be pre-coloured and vary in size. I made a canoe that was big enough to hold one medium-sized figure (and two if players want to pile themselves on there), or two small-sized figures. As well as a smaller canoe that would hold one medium-sized figure, or cram in two small-sized ones.
I had a prototype in plain printer paper for sizing (the canoes were origami, feel free to look up flat bottom canoes for your own game and adjust the model to size for your figure's bases). Then remade them in nice black paper (brown would also work very nicely).
It's plain but does look nice, the players can use their imagination.
What was the encounter I planned to use them in?
A kobold ambush on the river. Because the party would have had a fun time, lol.
"I am not an artist" he says while holding a piece of art
For people in the UK, theres a seller with these on Etsy that is based in the UK.
That "mess up" can actually be viewed as weathering on the wagon
“I’m not an artist” after doing all that? I think you are a great artist, takes a lot of creativity to come up with and execute making these minis, and they look so awesome!❤
Mess ups actually work sometimes as imperfections in craftsman ship or damage the thing has taken.
That would be a great basis for a Hussite wagon-fort. Very well done.
That transition was so cool!
"i messed up here a bit"
when have you ever seen a carriage that didnt have a singular scuff
that added even more detail
having the imperfection is good too! makes it look rickety
I think those little mess ups make the piece more realistic and less plain
White primer makes colors pop more
Everyones an artist! It came out looking messy like a muddy carriage.
Would still use this for a DnD theme baby shower 😅😂❤
I LOVE videos like this! Yes!!
I'm glad this popped up. It reminded me I have to go to work. (I work at a dollar tree.)
I lpve the oblivion music, you the man and earned my follow just for that
"I'm not an artist btw"
*Casually makes art*
Taking some tin snips or light saw to bits of it can help snap bits of plastic off in a way that will look similar to wood splinters.
I love this type of content. So many ideas!
You have earned a sub.
Alternatively you can have a mini side quest where the Party converts a Giant's second hand Baby Crib into a Carriage
Just a random note: you can put counters into the wagons to add loot for each wagon on the map, including enemies in the wagon fights etc.
"One thing we know for certain..." "probably this"
“As you can see I messed up a little bit” all I see is some more lore in the distance
That spot where you "messed up" could easily become a detail that makes it look more realistic. A real wagon very well could have scratches, scrapes, or maybe even have some "traded paint" from "meeting" another wagon. 😉
You should have a series called "Budgets and Bargains", for the DnD stuff like this
daddy stuff like this*
“I’m not an artist” well, you are now. Welcome to the club.
Your an artist cause only an artist could make this work
Need more of these plz.
You should do white primer in stead, it makes the colors better looking
That’s really creative and well done