@@Hobbyrepubliken It's a term coined at Industrial Light and Magic, some say by Lucas himself, for all the random little bits of visual detail tacked on to everything, which, along with abuse and grime, define the Star Wars aesthetic.
One of the things that I noticed is that the pressed or inset markings already on the foam lend themselves greatly to putting some inset greebles in place. Where the rectangular model or serial number is for the foam would make a good place to put a grate or vent that is inset on the ground, and the circular materials/recycling mark would be great for a manhole cover or vent. A really great use of the foam and the build came out looking amazing. I wish that I had the space to put up and display something like that in my home office.
Very cool stuff! I think MidWinter MInis (or Miscast?) has a video on using styrofoam packing to make some cool 40K ruins. This was very well done. The one thing I will say that also amazes me, is your ability to make these terrain pieces AND paint so many minis! Those new SciFi minis are awesome! You continue to awe me with your mad skillz! :)
Yea, the mini painting off camera to go with the builds is a big time sink people probably don’t realize 😄 but as I get better at it I get decent results faster.
I used this method to bang out a bunch of buildings for Stargarve. I work in an IT department and we get all kinds of foam packing with the servers, routers, printers, PC, and all the other gear we order. Grabbed a bunch, cut and glued, put a bunch of greeble bits on, and a basic paint job. Worked great and I was able to make eight buildings of various sizes and shapes in no time.
My first ever terrain I did using the foam inserts from a fridge and a washing machine. If you are looking for "Sci-fi" shapes then those foam inserts are amazing for it, they got weird shapes that once you cover them up (you can use spackle), paint and weather them it looks so good, plus its recycling too.
For people who are into Sci-Fi builds I recommend Boylei Hobby Time's Sci-Fi Wild West dioramas, as well. It's in a different scale and style but I found it really inspiring
Using recycled materials really gives it a sci fi vibe. I really like how futuristic and how versatile sci fi rpg characters and dioramas can be, there is no limit to the imagination. Awesome job.
If you are struggling for players; you could pick up Stargrave and its expansion, Quarantine 37. This gives you a solid solo skirmish experience. The terrain looks great with that paint job; however, how about adding a few signs and adverts to add some spot colour?
I just made the leap from board games to tabletop RPG's and Five Parsecs From Home is my book of choice. This type of terrain, and method will come in handy for sure. Cheers and thank you.
I'm slowly going through all your videos. Love your work, even from 2 years ago. Just had to say that you just made me look at the foam packaging so differently. Never thought of that. I have always made my stuff from scratch. So Very Cool Mister!!!
Typical, just when I start saving for a house and therefore am cutting out any and all unnecessary expenses, I see this. Those Loot minis look REALLY good, I'm sorely tempted. Speaking of looking really good, this has to be the best packing polystyrene terrain build I've seen, definitely a good call using the grout. I think maybe grouting then applying the greeble panels might have been a good call, though.
Jeremy, I love your videos. Just started d&d 1-1/2 years ago….started crafting during a 8 month separation from my wife. I love your creative approach, no worries about messing up, even when it’s something you e done before you can make it new (cave stones)…and as a graduated graphic designer your delivery!
I love the line on sealing the pigment! I have been wondering for ages yet everyone hums and haws about how they do it with nothing really simple. Slap some varnish on it, happy done.
IPA or white spirit does the job nicely too. and sometimes you'll get a better result than a matte varnish, which can actually send the ultra-matte pigment towards the glossy spectrum.
Hell yeah! This is perfectly timed, I saved some packing foam from a new vacuum for terrain just like this, gonna use this vid for inspiration. Thanks!🤘
My favorite part of this video is watching you twist and turn the raw pieces looking for the finished build hiding in them. That's exactly how my brain works. Have I mentioned that you do the best ad segments on TH-cam? The cool imagery you get from the sponsors helps but your engaging style sets you apart from the usual carnival barker other you tubers turn themselves into.
That build came out amazing! I don't have an eye for turning packaging into builds. Nothing ever looks like anything to me when I have it in my hands. But when you stacked those together, even still white, I could totally see what you were talking about.
A couple of years ago I made a tower out of the packaging for a cheap drugstore desktop fountain, inspired by the inside shape being a cylinder, and carved the foam away to make the exterior look like a pillar of stone carved into tower shape. I built it in four 2-1/2 inch slices, with alignment dowels that let us use it for structures of one to five levels, depending on what we need. It gets plenty of use, though I do wish I knew about pre-mix acrylic grout back then to hide the pebbly styrofoam texture.
I highly recommend using the inserts from things as terrain. I suggest trying to find the papier-mâché cardboard type ones though. they already have a stone-like texture that is perfect and they are usually a good height/depth. I have a sweet sewer terrain I built using one along with a toilet paper roll and straws for pipes. It does take up a lot of storage space, however...
I have sections of the stuff which are about a metre long which remind me of the "ribs" of a starship hull. impractical, but that stuff is terrific. On the outside it resembles structures, useful for a range of scales, and sometimes you turn it over and there's a room of sorts just begging to be fought over.
That's an AWESOME job on that build brother! Absolutely love it! Made me want to start a project with my OG Millennium Falcon Storage Carrying Case. My dad had it as a kid, and when I was growing up he hung it from my ceiling chasing a couple Tie Fighters. I want to paint it up and make it look aged and hang it in my son's room. 3 generations of use!
This is great. I’ve been watching your videos for awhile now and I’ve learned a lot. I don’t make D&D terrain, but I make 3D art and your videos have been extremely helpful. So, I just joined your Patreon because I wanted to give back. Thanks for what you do. Angel Coleman (I usually watch your videos on my hubby’s laptop.)
I'm not normally a fan of scrap styrofoam builds because of their bulk, limited playability, and obvious origins but I appreciate the strong techniques you used on this project, and think it turned out well.
This is definitely a cool build and I was feeling the same about how these minis put me in mind for a Sci-Fi setting. The one thing I have to say about the welcome packs for both the sci-fi setting and the fantasy, is they both make me want to do a full tavern and cantina build...and I don't even really do builds, lol! I hope you take this further, I love the plague city series for example, but you hit it right on the head...an Event Horizon-esque build for the zombie/tech minis this month could be really cool.
Very cool stuff. Packing foam is a classic for a reason! Your build, greeble and colour choices really help to hide the packing foam nature and sell it as an actual structure. That's harder to pull off than it seems, so kudos!
Oh this reminds me when I used the packing foam from my new laptop to make some easy ruins. Had to cover them in some spackel to make sure it was solid enough. But I the end they look like some nice solid concrete building of some kind
Hi Jeremy! Love this, please do more sci fi! I particularly like your work when you move outside of your normal boundaries, I can almost see the lightbulb moments 😊
More awesome sci-fi stuff would be great! Particularly loved that skeleton-spaceman thing you showed - there's loads of different sci-fi subgenres I've like to see you explore, but I'd love to see more takes on your cyberpunk street diorama - definitely one of my favourite builds!
So happy to see more stuff. When i don't see stuff on thursdays I get a bit worried something's going on behind the scenes. I happy to see more content and I hope everything is well as we get to see more and more awesome stuff from you!
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Gotcha, I must've missed the update if you posted it. Nonetheless another awesome video. Love what you do and all of the fun and creativity you bring to this hobby!
Cool… we used to do this many years ago when we first started. Saving styrofoam packing bits! Also used books and cereal boxes. We’ve come a lonnnnnggggg way!
I agree, a lot of terrain items made from packaging materials just look like packaging material. I'd be tempted to dry-brush some silver and rust on the greebles.
Dude, you should build a couple scifi spacecrafts, like some kind of mother ship and a cruiser, that would be really fun/creative to build and I have to imagine would do well on TH-cam, especially if you went all out on it.
I love this, I played many a game of Warhammer on tables covered in cut up melted and painted Styrofoam packing. Me and my buddies had two big trash bags full of the stuff.
Very very very cool and creative work!!!!! Greetings from Germany! I still have my own pacing material project still in my shelf... A perfect SF transport ship I will call Spacemule....
One of the easierst AND cheapest ways to enjoy this kind of setting (space wild west) is Core Space from Battle Systems imho. No GM required, coop pve / optional pvp. Minis, neoprene mat, cardboard terrain and a story-driven campaign all in one box.
Core Space is a fantastic game! I’ve been playtesting the new Kickstarter and expansions and they’re great. Get hold of a base set - you won’t regret it!
Looks really great. Wish I would've seen this ALOT earlier being I just finished a tables worth of Tatooine inspired terrain the day before this video came out lol
This is freaking amazing! No way anyone would ever suspect that the final product was a couple of chunks of styrofoam packaging and some little random bits and pieces. Looks so...trying to find another word that fits but really....it's just simply.....AMAZING!!!!
I've looked at styrofoam packing pieces for decades like, this could make some sick ass sci fi terrain! Never new a product to cover it to make it workable, pre mixed acrylic grout, thanks!
Brilliant terrain ideas, not my kind of thing I’m more fantasy but I can totally appreciate it, love ya videos can’t wait till next week for the next one
Would applying the grout first and then putting all the greeblies on have been a better way of avoiding all the clean-up? Might even hold it in place :)
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I think if it's a Star Wars Tatooine vibe, then you are LEGALLY REQUIRED to call the little bits 'Greebles'
I think Trent from Miscast actually calls them greebles in the product description.
Thats...thats what they're called?
Greedos?
@@OhSick_ Jeremy shot first
@@Hobbyrepubliken It's a term coined at Industrial Light and Magic, some say by Lucas himself, for all the random little bits of visual detail tacked on to everything, which, along with abuse and grime, define the Star Wars aesthetic.
this acrylic grout interests me! Great result, doesn't look like a fan box at all.
One of the things that I noticed is that the pressed or inset markings already on the foam lend themselves greatly to putting some inset greebles in place. Where the rectangular model or serial number is for the foam would make a good place to put a grate or vent that is inset on the ground, and the circular materials/recycling mark would be great for a manhole cover or vent.
A really great use of the foam and the build came out looking amazing. I wish that I had the space to put up and display something like that in my home office.
It's nice to see a video that doesn't involve pink XPS foam
@@BullScrapPracEff no ima going to be stubborn and stay here 😆
Very cool stuff! I think MidWinter MInis (or Miscast?) has a video on using styrofoam packing to make some cool 40K ruins. This was very well done. The one thing I will say that also amazes me, is your ability to make these terrain pieces AND paint so many minis! Those new SciFi minis are awesome! You continue to awe me with your mad skillz! :)
Yea, the mini painting off camera to go with the builds is a big time sink people probably don’t realize 😄 but as I get better at it I get decent results faster.
Gert from Dark Matter Workshop channel has a really cool toxic waste facility build from styrofoam packing. Check it out, it really is awesome.
Great build. I started playing RED not too long ago and it has a really fun combat system. This would also fit in perfectly in my SW5e campaign.
I’m sorry if it’s a stupid question, but what is RED?
@@____________838 guessing cyberpunk red
I like how the bottom is open. It would be cool to put like a bright neon light in it
I used this method to bang out a bunch of buildings for Stargarve. I work in an IT department and we get all kinds of foam packing with the servers, routers, printers, PC, and all the other gear we order. Grabbed a bunch, cut and glued, put a bunch of greeble bits on, and a basic paint job. Worked great and I was able to make eight buildings of various sizes and shapes in no time.
Great Use of those pesky foam inserts! Thanks for the inspiration.
My first ever terrain I did using the foam inserts from a fridge and a washing machine. If you are looking for "Sci-fi" shapes then those foam inserts are amazing for it, they got weird shapes that once you cover them up (you can use spackle), paint and weather them it looks so good, plus its recycling too.
I’ve used poly filler/ spakle mixed with pva and paint to seal polystyrene. Gives a really good texture and dries solid. Might be worth a try
I use a combination of spackle, pencil/wood shavings, & various sand sizes, depending on the look I'm going for.
For people who are into Sci-Fi builds I recommend Boylei Hobby Time's Sci-Fi Wild West dioramas, as well. It's in a different scale and style but I found it really inspiring
@Black Magic Craft - I seem to always come back to just AMAZING when it comes to your builds.. I can never think of any other words..
Using recycled materials really gives it a sci fi vibe. I really like how futuristic and how versatile sci fi rpg characters and dioramas can be, there is no limit to the imagination.
Awesome job.
If you are struggling for players; you could pick up Stargrave and its expansion, Quarantine 37. This gives you a solid solo skirmish experience.
The terrain looks great with that paint job; however, how about adding a few signs and adverts to add some spot colour?
Maybe some "Wanted" posters...dead or encased...a million carbon credits.
I just made the leap from board games to tabletop RPG's and Five Parsecs From Home is my book of choice. This type of terrain, and method will come in handy for sure. Cheers and thank you.
That moment during the build when you become inspired by the piece you are working on is a great feeling.
I love almost everything you make for this channel. The styrofoam base doesn't do it for me this time, but I'm glad you got so pumped for it.
I love that you're listening to trapped under plastic in the background
I was going to post the same, but thought I'd scan the comments first to see if anyone else noticed.
I'm slowly going through all your videos. Love your work, even from 2 years ago. Just had to say that you just made me look at the foam packaging so differently. Never thought of that. I have always made my stuff from scratch. So Very Cool Mister!!!
Reeeeaally want to see some Stargrave stuff! Or other Sci-fi games you’ve picked up! War bands, characters, terrain, objectives etc
Amazes me the different ways people can see the same shape and even finished project. Definitely gives me spaceship port vibes
It would be fun to get 10 builders to make something out of the same oddly shaped bit of packing foam to see what they all do.
Typical, just when I start saving for a house and therefore am cutting out any and all unnecessary expenses, I see this. Those Loot minis look REALLY good, I'm sorely tempted.
Speaking of looking really good, this has to be the best packing polystyrene terrain build I've seen, definitely a good call using the grout. I think maybe grouting then applying the greeble panels might have been a good call, though.
Jeremy, I love your videos. Just started d&d 1-1/2 years ago….started crafting during a 8 month separation from my wife. I love your creative approach, no worries about messing up, even when it’s something you e done before you can make it new (cave stones)…and as a graduated graphic designer your delivery!
I hadn't heard of Tales from the Loop until I saw your community post, and I've become obsessed ever since
EVA foam for the win. Awesome video as usual. Thanks for sharing!
Great job, love it. Could have used some plastic canvas grid work on the flat surfaces, would be functional with the 1" grid too.
I love the line on sealing the pigment! I have been wondering for ages yet everyone hums and haws about how they do it with nothing really simple. Slap some varnish on it, happy done.
IPA or white spirit does the job nicely too. and sometimes you'll get a better result than a matte varnish, which can actually send the ultra-matte pigment towards the glossy spectrum.
Hell yeah! This is perfectly timed, I saved some packing foam from a new vacuum for terrain just like this, gonna use this vid for inspiration. Thanks!🤘
This has been my go to terrain hack since 4e!! I still keep my eyes open on job sites for this stuff. Great video!
My favorite part of this video is watching you twist and turn the raw pieces looking for the finished build hiding in them. That's exactly how my brain works.
Have I mentioned that you do the best ad segments on TH-cam? The cool imagery you get from the sponsors helps but your engaging style sets you apart from the usual carnival barker other you tubers turn themselves into.
you need to get some simple blinking led lights to give it that active spaceport feel
I always used polystyrene packaging as play sets for my 1/72 soldiers when i was younger.
Those old tubes of model glue made great battle damage.
Fantastic vid sir. Love the sci-fi non specific stuff. Makes me wish I had some space to actually do this stuff (store it after).
That build came out amazing! I don't have an eye for turning packaging into builds. Nothing ever looks like anything to me when I have it in my hands. But when you stacked those together, even still white, I could totally see what you were talking about.
A couple of years ago I made a tower out of the packaging for a cheap drugstore desktop fountain, inspired by the inside shape being a cylinder, and carved the foam away to make the exterior look like a pillar of stone carved into tower shape.
I built it in four 2-1/2 inch slices, with alignment dowels that let us use it for structures of one to five levels, depending on what we need.
It gets plenty of use, though I do wish I knew about pre-mix acrylic grout back then to hide the pebbly styrofoam texture.
That is a super cool use of the packing material. Well done!
Great build Jeremy! It reminds me a bit of the spice mines of Kessel from the Solo movie.
Yay! I can't get any special foam here and I've been using normal foam to craft terrain and I like it. It's fun to hand carve.
Not sure I want to visit their restroom but it certainly has a 'lived-in' quality - great build Jeremy
I expect the door to have a sign reading "(the worst) toilet (in Scotland)"
@@MonkeyJedi99 '2nd only to the worst toilet in Scotland' And the bloody suppositories can stay there!!
@@negotiableaffections yay! Someone got the reference!
I highly recommend using the inserts from things as terrain. I suggest trying to find the papier-mâché cardboard type ones though. they already have a stone-like texture that is perfect and they are usually a good height/depth. I have a sweet sewer terrain I built using one along with a toilet paper roll and straws for pipes. It does take up a lot of storage space, however...
I have sections of the stuff which are about a metre long which remind me of the "ribs" of a starship hull. impractical, but that stuff is terrific. On the outside it resembles structures, useful for a range of scales, and sometimes you turn it over and there's a room of sorts just begging to be fought over.
Looks great! The grout really masks the foam nicely. It could totally fit right next to Docking Bay 94.
That's an AWESOME job on that build brother! Absolutely love it! Made me want to start a project with my OG Millennium Falcon Storage Carrying Case. My dad had it as a kid, and when I was growing up he hung it from my ceiling chasing a couple Tie Fighters. I want to paint it up and make it look aged and hang it in my son's room. 3 generations of use!
Yes! Sci-Fi terrain! Keep doing this!!
Great vid! Love the use of packing foam…built a Grung village out of some cardboard packaging material! Excellent as always!
If Loot does mech minis, I might be sold. I really want to try out Lancer with some friends and having mechs on the table would be awesome.
I LOVE these kind of builds. Always feels like some good karma points saving styrofoam from landfill, and it looks fantastic, great job mate!
This is great. I’ve been watching your videos for awhile now and I’ve learned a lot. I don’t make D&D terrain, but I make 3D art and your videos have been extremely helpful. So, I just joined your Patreon because I wanted to give back. Thanks for what you do. Angel Coleman (I usually watch your videos on my hubby’s laptop.)
I'm not normally a fan of scrap styrofoam builds because of their bulk, limited playability, and obvious origins but I appreciate the strong techniques you used on this project, and think it turned out well.
Yeah I made some old ruin set up from some packing foam and it came out good the second amount of effert. I even used the melting effect.
This is definitely a cool build and I was feeling the same about how these minis put me in mind for a Sci-Fi setting. The one thing I have to say about the welcome packs for both the sci-fi setting and the fantasy, is they both make me want to do a full tavern and cantina build...and I don't even really do builds, lol!
I hope you take this further, I love the plague city series for example, but you hit it right on the head...an Event Horizon-esque build for the zombie/tech minis this month could be really cool.
Very cool stuff. Packing foam is a classic for a reason! Your build, greeble and colour choices really help to hide the packing foam nature and sell it as an actual structure. That's harder to pull off than it seems, so kudos!
I can absolutely see Tatooine in this build, but personally I get more of a late 80's anime sci-fi vibe like Venus Wars. Awesome build in either case.
Remember Dungeons and Lasers stretch goals have lots of sci-fi bits.
Yup. Used some on this 🙂
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Awesome! Love your videos.
Best use of packaging foam ever! Looks awesome
So cool. Don't know how much of that stuff I laying around, but I know it's a lot. Now I have a use for it!😊
Really dig this. May have to play with something like this for a Battletech skirmish.
This is by far one of my favorite things to do. Stashing heaps of junk for a trash build is also fun!
Oh this reminds me when I used the packing foam from my new laptop to make some easy ruins. Had to cover them in some spackel to make sure it was solid enough. But I the end they look like some nice solid concrete building of some kind
Hi Jeremy! Love this, please do more sci fi! I particularly like your work when you move outside of your normal boundaries, I can almost see the lightbulb moments 😊
More awesome sci-fi stuff would be great! Particularly loved that skeleton-spaceman thing you showed - there's loads of different sci-fi subgenres I've like to see you explore, but I'd love to see more takes on your cyberpunk street diorama - definitely one of my favourite builds!
So happy to see more stuff. When i don't see stuff on thursdays I get a bit worried something's going on behind the scenes. I happy to see more content and I hope everything is well as we get to see more and more awesome stuff from you!
My release schedule is just more spaced out now to give me a little more production time.
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Gotcha, I must've missed the update if you posted it. Nonetheless another awesome video. Love what you do and all of the fun and creativity you bring to this hobby!
I enjoyed the color. Hopefully we can see more colorful stuff
This vid hit me in the feels. Just an outstanding build. Hope you can do more of this type. Really nice.
Cool… we used to do this many years ago when we first started. Saving styrofoam packing bits! Also used books and cereal boxes. We’ve come a lonnnnnggggg way!
All hail packaging foam !
Great build 👌
Great stuff! Really enjoyed this one, and the new Sci Fi Loot is right up my alley! Thank you!
I agree, a lot of terrain items made from packaging materials just look like packaging material.
I'd be tempted to dry-brush some silver and rust on the greebles.
Very cool build. I play in a Star Wars rpg game and can totally see that being used in our games.
Love to see an interior of that building so when they go in you have it to hand to show it.
These kind are always my favorite
LoL I'm in love, I literally have 3 pieces of neat foam to do exactly this type of crafting.
Excellent video
i like the idea, ive used packaging foam before and struggled, so thank you for showing theres ways around it, stay awesome dude
Great build Jeremy! It has a Frank Lloyd Wright vibe in my opinion, which I love!
Lisa
Exactly what I was going to post!
Did you repurpose 3D printed supports as that antennae array? Whatever it is, it looks great.
Yup!
Dude, you should build a couple scifi spacecrafts, like some kind of mother ship and a cruiser, that would be really fun/creative to build and I have to imagine would do well on TH-cam, especially if you went all out on it.
Scifi is a cool diversion from grimdark.
What about grimdark sci fi?
I love this, I played many a game of Warhammer on tables covered in cut up melted and painted Styrofoam packing. Me and my buddies had two big trash bags full of the stuff.
This is great! I’ve always loved large styrofoam trash terrain, and this has to be the best looking one I’ve seen!
Also, if you didn't already, check Five parsecs from home, it's a solo narrative sci fi skirmish game in the vibe of Firefly.
Very very very cool and creative work!!!!! Greetings from Germany! I still have my own pacing material project still in my shelf... A perfect SF transport ship I will call Spacemule....
Really amazing build, this has gotten me mega hyped for some Sci-Fi style RPG session.
Highly creative skills at work
Have you tried Drylok? Masonry sealer with sand texture in the paint.
One of the easierst AND cheapest ways to enjoy this kind of setting (space wild west) is Core Space from Battle Systems imho. No GM required, coop pve / optional pvp. Minis, neoprene mat, cardboard terrain and a story-driven campaign all in one box.
Never heard of this and it looks great!
Core Space is a fantastic game! I’ve been playtesting the new Kickstarter and expansions and they’re great. Get hold of a base set - you won’t regret it!
This was so cool dude you did great i WISH I was this creative
Looks really great. Wish I would've seen this ALOT earlier being I just finished a tables worth of Tatooine inspired terrain the day before this video came out lol
I feel like we got the same fan cause those shape look familiar - perfect project video
This is freaking amazing! No way anyone would ever suspect that the final product was a couple of chunks of styrofoam packaging and some little random bits and pieces. Looks so...trying to find another word that fits but really....it's just simply.....AMAZING!!!!
I've looked at styrofoam packing pieces for decades like, this could make some sick ass sci fi terrain! Never new a product to cover it to make it workable, pre mixed acrylic grout, thanks!
Nice work. Thank you for the content. Cheers
Ok you mentioned Event Horizon twice. Now I’m definitely going to have to watch it. Great build, love the colouring
A very "eye opening" movie.
apply grout before assembly, or at least before attaching the plastic detail pieces
some LED lights around the landing platform would be awesome
Very cool project, expertly done!
Brilliant terrain ideas, not my kind of thing I’m more fantasy but I can totally appreciate it, love ya videos can’t wait till next week for the next one
Love the idea of using grout, good 👍 👌
Another good game you could check out would be 5 parsecs from home. It's a solo adventure skirmish game with a focus on the story of your characters.
Would applying the grout first and then putting all the greeblies on have been a better way of avoiding all the clean-up? Might even hold it in place :)