use an aerosol mask, and organic volatile compounds aerosol mask... friend! im suffering... if you wanna do this for lots of year... USE self protection for your lungs ! :D
I like how you've filled the whole first floors with rubble and spilled it out into the street. Much more realistic than a lot of other city boards I've seen. Excellent instructional video. Thank you.
Most gaming tables with ruins look like someone cleaned up most of the rubble after the buildings were demolished - just some remnants of buildings sticking out of an otherwise clean terrain. This one looks like most of the debris is still around. And it's fantastic. Great work!!
Luke, You keep it fun and help inspire others not get tied up in the stress of finishing large builds and even small. I like your work and your products. Thanks.
I love the huge amount of rubble you use in your ruined city builds Luke, really bring them to life in a way that most people's minimalistic rubble fails to do
A little hand fan if haven't got an airbrush, maybe. Mask and Ventillation , although that workspace looks really good, compared to front room and the old studio. Very tempted by the snow flock, good build.
Certainly finished up better than my attempt at a GW landscape which I simply gave away as I was fed up of it. I prefer a basic board setup that can be utilized in so many ways so yes I'd think on building another one when conditions improve and if I survive the laser treatment my eyes are going to have to be given hopefully this year? Cheers Luke. Health and Safety : Keep wearing the masks when spraying even in a big warehouse environment !!
Got the whole set for £160 from ebay about 5yr ago. Altho the set I had also had window ledges and came with six 2'x2' hardboard tiles for mounting it all on. The seller also did a fully painted and rubble strewn finished product for around £800. I like what you have done to it here mines still as independent buildings … hard to store a full table, keep up the great content.
Just spent WAY too long watching a bunch of your videos (and subbed). I can't wait to take some of these techniques and apply them into my hot wheels track dioramas! Good stuff. Keep it up
Wow! Sexy board and slick video...that new space! Wait. You named your hammer Jeremy? PS: we could cook a lot of tendies with Brent’s mom on all those baking trays.
Thank you for all that effort and to keep pushing dude. Fight through every struggle and come out on top. Everything you've done for our community to bring a place for people to easily find affordable scenics and great tips and tutorials. You've got my upmost respect and undoubtedly the respects of the community.
A great episode! Among the best ruined city builds I've had the pleasure of watching because with time, supplies and a wee bit of effort almost any of us could do this build; very cool!
Awesome board Luke. Yeah your modelling compound stuff is definitely what I needed for my dio. 1/2hr drying time I wish!🙄. Can wait to open it up in the mail. Awesome work man and great vid!
Really cool board. The simplicity and stripped down minimalism of the techniques used massively plays into the favour of the aesthetic you're trying to achieve of this board. Absolutely baron, derelict and ruined.
It really goes to show that you don't need to perfectly recreate the environment in which your toy soldiers are going to duke it out, just create a representation of it that gets the broad strokes sufficiently correct, then imagination and appreciation will do the heavy lifting for you.
Big fan, looks really good! Im a lazy gamer, it takes me years to paint anything! BUT NYR for 2020 was to paint a small force and have a 2x2 display board for them! I chose death Korps of Krieg (because I am a dumb dumb) and this style of board would be fantastic as a quick and easy display board for them ! p.s its only 500 pts (about 40 models)
Awesome table, it is truly unique. A tiny advice for the lightweight gaming tables: when building the frame, if you place the wooden strips in the other way (with the longer side on vertical) you will get a much stronger structure 😉
Just in time to help motivate me! Trying to make a modular board myself! Bottom floor has no line of site in tournaments i belive, not sure about normal matches, me and my mates play with line of site For the australians, i recommend fiddley bits for the cheap spray
You say that it is a bit bland... But I think that you built a fantastic canvas for an amazing city build. Imagine if you added a bit of graffiti to the walls and a few posters, discarded furniture, sign posts, bus stops.... It could be very exciting
Luke, Sir: You are my Go-to Man for Scenery! Love your Builds! Was thinking of buying a Stalingra-boxset from Bolt Action, then thought "I Know How to do this stuff!" YOU Changed my Mind Man! I wasn't Certain on some of Products used or how to Use them. You Stopped an Armmegeddn at my House Mate! lol Great Board though! Love to watch you work!
I think you could benefit from some breathing protection my friend! GREAT job though!!! Thanks for the inspiration! I love the scale of your project and the methods you show seem super simple and doable without all the faffing around, yet the detail is great. Wonderful job mate!
This gives me some ideas I wanna try with laser cutter and MDF-board :D As before my idea about the laser cut buildings were that those are just dull flat buildings.
Oh man... I have had one of those exact kits in storage after getting it on sale a couple of years ago. The plan *was* to build them as 6 modular tiles with detached buildings. This looks so much better - was a bit sceptical of the massive chunks of foam at first but that looks much more lifelike and even gives you something like hills in that environment. Having to store it as a single piece though... tough call to trade off having the cool setup vs being able to take it apart.
The plastic. I think they are off soak way crates what I use years back to make drainage when you rap, black tramp round they to make a rain soak way for holding area water in the ground you can put a lot together hope this help you
Considering the minimalist amount of materials this looks insanely good. You could always do a follow up video spending some extra coin on making this table insane. I’m sure any club would be happy with this table tho ;)
I'm going too attempt a similar build to this after I finished my Guard army. Its not a matter of if, But when. Love how chaotic and messy it is, looks more realistic and better than 40k plastics because they are way too clean.
Great table, my only issue would be where to store it when complete? I like all the plaster rubble. I hate layouts that are clean. You have these buildings that are supposed to have been blown up but then there is no rubble. I like what you did. I will have to play with the plaster idea to see if I can create modular rubble, again because I have little space. Usually I can keep some 4' x 4' gaming tables but that is about it. And that is because I have a deep closet where they can fit.
Looks cool, I agree that such boards look a bit bland but that's because there's a lot of the same stuff in the same colours. Only thing that could maybe break it up would be a custom building or 2 that stand out from the rest like a town hall or monument etc. That would make it less generic of course and maybe it would look weird for some games then (if it was a big statue of a Space Marine it obviously would look weird with WWII models around it).
Would love to combine a smaller version of this with a tundra element around it with hills, would make a great multi use table, particularly if you use the cathedral type building ruins as it fits in with both 40K and Sigmar
If you are worried about wobbly models on all that rubble, you could strategically place the broken plaster to act as lots of little flat places to put your models
great job. I just found your channel as i got deeply back into the hobby after 10 years. One thing I'm trying to find is a high horror fantsay board for the new Vampires and such in 2021. let me know your thoughts on how to create a city of the dammed style theme. Thank you agian for what you do for our hobby!
I have some foamboard buildings that has lasted almost 30 years lol. True they do not see alot of use, but still they look decent. my point is that with some work and skill you can make a great foamboard cityscape.
Thats great Luke, gret video and board looked great and can always be worked on later to add more if required. Could you do some thing like this with dead forest?
3m mask for that poly eurathane bud! You can get reactions to it, a couple mates can't be close to the stuff anymore or they have allergic reactions where their faces and hands proper swell up. Nasty stuff! Your work is great just look after yourself dude
Nice board mate, good to see you are back doing these bigger projects! By the way, I need to have a chat with you about some bits and pieces for this year's Salute board if you get a chance.
What happens to it once you're done? Is that a commission that gets transported? how in the world do you ship that? Is it local and you just out it in a van cross town?
Unreal brother! Have you got a physical shop?! Will deffo be ordering offline as me and 3 friends are planning to build a big board between us for 40k!!!!
Great episode. I notice you said you don't play 40k much. In future builds I think you should think of movement through the rubble and buildings for minitures. 👊 Great bomb peppered city tho g
Great effects, how many man hours (excluding drying time) did this take. I am a dad with a toddler so all my build time is in 2 hour chunks at night with hand tools only.
If you are playing with tin/metal maybe, because those sometimes already topple over when you look at them funny. Plastic minis generally don't have a problem with that, they sometimes slide all over the place, but in general it's not that bad. I played on a recreation of Helms Deep once and my cavalry didn't topple at that steep incline of nearly 30° (~66%).
It's interesting you planned the snow for this one - from the images and preview, I hadn't clocked that it was a winter board - just assumed the lighter greys/whites were dust/rubble and I think even when you show the finished thing, I didn't feel it was necessarily overly wintery - felt like a light dusting of snow if anything, and I wonder how much further you could go with the snow - drifts in parts and deeper in areas, while light on the rubble - interesting. Also keen to know how this stands up with usage for 40k players - I only ask since it looks like there's not much in the way of areas where a miniature would be able to feasibly stand up without falling. Has it been playtested much? Keen to hear. As ever - amazing work!!
@@GeekGamingScenics Not having a go - just curious. I have learned LOADS from your videos - so really appreciate them all - I just worry when I try to do something similar it'll end up all jaggy, and I'll struggle to get all the rubble to lay flat etc :D
use an aerosol mask, and organic volatile compounds aerosol mask... friend! im suffering... if you wanna do this for lots of year... USE self protection for your lungs ! :D
I like how you've filled the whole first floors with rubble and spilled it out into the street. Much more realistic than a lot of other city boards I've seen. Excellent instructional video. Thank you.
Best Stalingrad build I have seen in all my Years of gaming.
Very true another one if you haven’t seen it is the video by war games illustrated 👍
Most gaming tables with ruins look like someone cleaned up most of the rubble after the buildings were demolished - just some remnants of buildings sticking out of an otherwise clean terrain. This one looks like most of the debris is still around. And it's fantastic. Great work!!
10:28 One hand building terrain, one hand pounding a cuppa. Absolute Legend.
Luke, You keep it fun and help inspire others not get tied up in the stress of finishing large builds and even small. I like your work and your products. Thanks.
I love the huge amount of rubble you use in your ruined city builds Luke, really bring them to life in a way that most people's minimalistic rubble fails to do
A little hand fan if haven't got an airbrush, maybe. Mask and Ventillation , although that workspace looks really good, compared to front room and the old studio. Very tempted by the snow flock, good build.
Certainly finished up better than my attempt at a GW landscape which I simply gave away as I was fed up of it. I prefer a basic board setup that can be utilized in so many ways so yes I'd think on building another one when conditions improve and if I survive the laser treatment my eyes are going to have to be given hopefully this year? Cheers Luke.
Health and Safety : Keep wearing the masks when spraying even in a big warehouse environment !!
Luke knows no fear of aerosol inhalation.
Got the whole set for £160 from ebay about 5yr ago. Altho the set I had also had window ledges and came with six 2'x2' hardboard tiles for mounting it all on. The seller also did a fully painted and rubble strewn finished product for around £800. I like what you have done to it here mines still as independent buildings … hard to store a full table, keep up the great content.
Thank you for not mentioning the name of the set or the seller or creator. Really appreciate it.
Just spent WAY too long watching a bunch of your videos (and subbed). I can't wait to take some of these techniques and apply them into my hot wheels track dioramas! Good stuff. Keep it up
Nice! I like the studio workspace aswell lots of room for big builds!
Love it and really like the verticality of it. Nice job.
Episode idea: Luke goes to his local FabLab and laser cuts some custom modular MDF terrain for free. Just how cheap can he do it?
Yeah the buildings are normally the expensive part
This is my favourite of all of your board builds so far. Great work. It looks perfect. Thanks for sharing!
Thats fantastic, i really like the city fight, industrial type boards. This has given me lots of ideas for my Kill Team board.
Luke, the board looks flippin’ amazing! Nailed it again mate. Love the process, the products and the final result is mint.
It’s awesome to see you using the new space and being able to scale up the build
Ahh, that sweet sweet B-Roll.... Excellent video Luke.
Wow! Sexy board and slick video...that new space!
Wait. You named your hammer Jeremy?
PS: we could cook a lot of tendies with Brent’s mom on all those baking trays.
Must be a Brittish thing. I have no idea who that is 😆
@@BlackMagicCraftOfficial Oh boy, you've never watched Top Gear?! Now you should!
Got to admit, you seem to have one of the best jobs going. Would be a dream to build boards all day! Keep up the great work and filling that dream!
Thank you for all that effort and to keep pushing dude. Fight through every struggle and come out on top. Everything you've done for our community to bring a place for people to easily find affordable scenics and great tips and tutorials. You've got my upmost respect and undoubtedly the respects of the community.
Truly badass gaming table, my brother!!!
~ Wolfbrother Methos
A great episode! Among the best ruined city builds I've had the pleasure of watching because with time, supplies and a wee bit of effort almost any of us could do this build; very cool!
Making a 1/72 Stalingrad dio myself, glad to have seen this video!
Man that's nice! You could add some lamp posts, bent metal, piping, some faded posters on walls, and really finish it off.
Awesome board Luke. Yeah your modelling compound stuff is definitely what I needed for my dio. 1/2hr drying time I wish!🙄. Can wait to open it up in the mail. Awesome work man and great vid!
Also, lol with the blowing of the snow there man. Hahaha. Watch out, the internet safety police are going to be all over that one!😆
I've never seen this man wear any sort of respiratory protection.
absolute legend.
Guaranteed atmosphere, stunning and inspired job!!😍😍
Love this, more great ideas and just as I was thinking of building a kill team board
Loving this video, and the results are spectacular, but the snow blowing part was the cherry on top. LOL!
Really cool board. The simplicity and stripped down minimalism of the techniques used massively plays into the favour of the aesthetic you're trying to achieve of this board. Absolutely baron, derelict and ruined.
It really goes to show that you don't need to perfectly recreate the environment in which your toy soldiers are going to duke it out, just create a representation of it that gets the broad strokes sufficiently correct, then imagination and appreciation will do the heavy lifting for you.
Loved the snow blowing. That was great. Whole video is awesome. But the that part was so funny..
I'd love to see pics of that board in sunlight. Nice work.
Big fan, looks really good!
Im a lazy gamer, it takes me years to paint anything! BUT NYR for 2020 was to paint a small force and have a 2x2 display board for them!
I chose death Korps of Krieg (because I am a dumb dumb) and this style of board would be fantastic as a quick and easy display board for them !
p.s its only 500 pts (about 40 models)
This would be awesome for a massive battle of Stalingrad bolt action game
Had to watch it twice. Great skills!
Great tutorial Luke! Giving me inspiration for a Fallout Wasteland Warfare board 👍
Your videos have been straight fire recently
Still bloody inspiring!
Still, 2 years later I can't help thinking 'little did he know how useful that mask would become in the days ahead...'
Awesome table, it is truly unique. A tiny advice for the lightweight gaming tables: when building the frame, if you place the wooden strips in the other way (with the longer side on vertical) you will get a much stronger structure 😉
When you said "and get ready to have some fun with jeremy"... that's my name I was so surprised 😂😂😂
Very cool board. I wish I had the space in my home for something that epic.
Just in time to help motivate me! Trying to make a modular board myself!
Bottom floor has no line of site in tournaments i belive, not sure about normal matches, me and my mates play with line of site
For the australians, i recommend fiddley bits for the cheap spray
You say that it is a bit bland... But I think that you built a fantastic canvas for an amazing city build. Imagine if you added a bit of graffiti to the walls and a few posters, discarded furniture, sign posts, bus stops.... It could be very exciting
Luke, Sir: You are my Go-to Man for Scenery! Love your Builds! Was thinking of buying a Stalingra-boxset from Bolt Action, then thought "I Know How to do this stuff!" YOU Changed my Mind Man! I wasn't Certain on some of Products used or how to Use them. You Stopped an Armmegeddn at my House Mate! lol Great Board though! Love to watch you work!
Great result!!! Would fit perfectly for Fallout :)
This looks really good! Fantastic job!
About to start making a stalingrad board, so thanks for this.
looks great but I wouldn't want to be on the hook to carry that table somewhere!
I imagine this is for a going club, and it doesn't move to much anyway. But hey, Mini-vans, truck beds, and tops of cars do exist haha
@@mikeottavia tops of cars? Oh yikes, not sure I'd trust the top of a car with something like this haha
Have you thought about using a garage air compressor and spray gun to lay down PVA/Paint/varnish? on such a big board probably would speed things up.
Another fab video we use a lot of you technic on our model railways.
defo one of my fave builds ive seen you do i might be tempted to see how much you would commission a board for the new skirmish game drowned earth :)
I think you could benefit from some breathing protection my friend! GREAT job though!!! Thanks for the inspiration! I love the scale of your project and the methods you show seem super simple and doable without all the faffing around, yet the detail is great. Wonderful job mate!
This gives me some ideas I wanna try with laser cutter and MDF-board :D As before my idea about the laser cut buildings were that those are just dull flat buildings.
Oh man... I have had one of those exact kits in storage after getting it on sale a couple of years ago. The plan *was* to build them as 6 modular tiles with detached buildings. This looks so much better - was a bit sceptical of the massive chunks of foam at first but that looks much more lifelike and even gives you something like hills in that environment. Having to store it as a single piece though... tough call to trade off having the cool setup vs being able to take it apart.
That board is amazing
A great guide to the board. Very useful. Would mixing acrylic paint into the compound stop it working?
The plastic. I think they are off soak way crates what I use years back to make drainage when you rap, black tramp round they to make a rain soak way for holding area water in the ground you can put a lot together hope this help you
How do you store your terrain? I mean, you have a ton of boards now with all the videos you've done. Seeing one on terrain storage would be great.
just in time for my lunch break at work man! gerrin!
Kinda hits home the destruction the war caused people seem to forget!
Considering the minimalist amount of materials this looks insanely good. You could always do a follow up video spending some extra coin on making this table insane. I’m sure any club would be happy with this table tho ;)
Cracking piece of work, like this style of video. Thanks for the tips
I'm going too attempt a similar build to this after I finished my Guard army. Its not a matter of if, But when. Love how chaotic and messy it is, looks more realistic and better than 40k plastics because they are way too clean.
Great table, my only issue would be where to store it when complete? I like all the plaster rubble. I hate layouts that are clean. You have these buildings that are supposed to have been blown up but then there is no rubble. I like what you did. I will have to play with the plaster idea to see if I can create modular rubble, again because I have little space. Usually I can keep some 4' x 4' gaming tables but that is about it. And that is because I have a deep closet where they can fit.
Looks cool, I agree that such boards look a bit bland but that's because there's a lot of the same stuff in the same colours. Only thing that could maybe break it up would be a custom building or 2 that stand out from the rest like a town hall or monument etc. That would make it less generic of course and maybe it would look weird for some games then (if it was a big statue of a Space Marine it obviously would look weird with WWII models around it).
Would love to combine a smaller version of this with a tundra element around it with hills, would make a great multi use table, particularly if you use the cathedral type building ruins as it fits in with both 40K and Sigmar
If you are worried about wobbly models on all that rubble, you could strategically place the broken plaster to act as lots of little flat places to put your models
great job. I just found your channel as i got deeply back into the hobby after 10 years. One thing I'm trying to find is a high horror fantsay board for the new Vampires and such in 2021. let me know your thoughts on how to create a city of the dammed style theme. Thank you agian for what you do for our hobby!
10:29.
did you simulate the sound of yourself taking a drink so the audio matched up with the video?
I love tabletop city fights. I can just imagine tanks rolling down the streets
I prefer lots of terrain pieces but being able to place them when and where I like on the board.
I have some foamboard buildings that has lasted almost 30 years lol. True they do not see alot of use, but still they look decent. my point is that with some work and skill you can make a great foamboard cityscape.
What an artist you are.
Thats great Luke, gret video and board looked great and can always be worked on later to add more if required. Could you do some thing like this with dead forest?
Nice piece of art lukes... And thank you for the tips..
3m mask for that poly eurathane bud! You can get reactions to it, a couple mates can't be close to the stuff anymore or they have allergic reactions where their faces and hands proper swell up. Nasty stuff! Your work is great just look after yourself dude
Looks awesome, great work as always
Nice board mate, good to see you are back doing these bigger projects!
By the way, I need to have a chat with you about some bits and pieces for this year's Salute board if you get a chance.
I love those ruins tbh.
Can you show us how make models coming through the elder webway gate
What happens to it once you're done? Is that a commission that gets transported? how in the world do you ship that? Is it local and you just out it in a van cross town?
Quality board and techniques! Love these videos!
Isn't all that plaster going to be bloody heavy and when you move it due to the thin base board wont it crack?
4 black spray cans, in doors, no mask... warrior style boarding. you must have been high as a kite after that shift xD
Beautiful work!
I would like to make a board like this for Zona Alfa, post apocalyptic fun!!
AMAZING work. Great Job!
Unreal brother! Have you got a physical shop?! Will deffo be ordering offline as me and 3 friends are planning to build a big board between us for 40k!!!!
I'd love to see a colab with a battle report channel where they play a game on one of your boards
Your work is simply amazing!
Great episode.
I notice you said you don't play 40k much.
In future builds I think you should think of movement through the rubble and buildings for minitures.
👊 Great bomb peppered city tho g
Really amazing, it's really very thematic. May I ask which song did you use at the end of the video? Thx!!
Excellent board as always man. I shall be stealing this entire thing haha. 😀 great work mate.
Great effects, how many man hours (excluding drying time) did this take.
I am a dad with a toddler so all my build time is in 2 hour chunks at night with hand tools only.
Cool table man! Must weigh a ton though!!! Keep it up!
I feel like it would be hard to keep your mini's upright on this board
If you are playing with tin/metal maybe, because those sometimes already topple over when you look at them funny. Plastic minis generally don't have a problem with that, they sometimes slide all over the place, but in general it's not that bad. I played on a recreation of Helms Deep once and my cavalry didn't topple at that steep incline of nearly 30° (~66%).
A very good tutorial. How much modeling compound was used for that? Do you sell the stuff in bulk?
It's interesting you planned the snow for this one - from the images and preview, I hadn't clocked that it was a winter board - just assumed the lighter greys/whites were dust/rubble and I think even when you show the finished thing, I didn't feel it was necessarily overly wintery - felt like a light dusting of snow if anything, and I wonder how much further you could go with the snow - drifts in parts and deeper in areas, while light on the rubble - interesting.
Also keen to know how this stands up with usage for 40k players - I only ask since it looks like there's not much in the way of areas where a miniature would be able to feasibly stand up without falling. Has it been playtested much? Keen to hear.
As ever - amazing work!!
@@GeekGamingScenics Not having a go - just curious. I have learned LOADS from your videos - so really appreciate them all - I just worry when I try to do something similar it'll end up all jaggy, and I'll struggle to get all the rubble to lay flat etc :D
awesome board !!!! would love to battle on that