I wanted to pin a couple of updates here thanks to some helpful comments! - Multiple people pointed me toward cut-resistant gloves for just this sort of carving safety. I will likely pick up a pair myself! - More alternatives to glass panes: --- Acrylic sheets at various sizes on Amazon --- Plexiglass cut to size from your local hardware store --- Acetate sheets (like for overhead projectors) --- Large plastic sheet sourced from a poster frame One thing I didn't mention in the video is that I found having a transparent panel with some thickness increased the visual quality of the wave texture against the coloured paper underneath. Having some distance allows for shadows and a better reflection and water effect overall. And don't forget to store these with parchment or wax paper in between!
you're very quickly becoming one of my favourite crafting channels, i've been a huge rp archive fan for a while and its cool to see more similar modular terrain. also the clear water with different tinted water textures underneath is genius, i will definitely try that out some time
Thank you very much! I'm happy to work toward having a seat at this prestigious crafting-community-table that RP Archive has set and happy to inspire with new ideas!
Thank you for the feedback and tip about the cut-resistant gloves. I've included it in a pinned comment now so others can benefit from your wisdom :) And also I didn't realize how cheap acrylic panels can be! This may be the path I take in the future as well...
You can use some wet/dry sandpaper around 220-320 grit down the sides of the glass. Use it wet so you don't end up with glass dust in the air. It'll make it less likely to cut you, remove some of the flaws that tend to act as break points, and make the cleanup with a razor a bit easier.
I cannot wait to see how you do snow and ice terrain, the end result of this was just amazing, definitely would like to see it on a Rae'chel Does Live Plays one day. Really great work, can't wait for the next video.
I will add snow and ice terrain to the suggestion bucket! Thank you for the generous feedback! I think that would be pretty wicked to do a live play one day as some sort of bonus content, and that would absolutely be the title of it haha.
With RP archive being very inactive the past 1+ years, your channel has become my new fav. Amazing quality of video and instructions in such a short post. And I have been debating on how to do water tiles for the past 3 years without coming to a method that I wanted to "dive" into head first, but now seeing yours, I for sure will just do this with large acrylic sheets. Thanks so much for adding high quality content to the tabletop crafting community
Thank you very much for the high praise! I'm happy that I can inspire with different ideas and make it entertaining to boot! I'm also really looking forward to seeing the massive project Matt has been working on and for regular content when is health is back up to snuff!
@@raecheldoes quick question, how much gel medium did it take to cover your 4 glass panes? thanks again for the awesome content and can't wait for the roads!!
@@charlesincharge4593 I actually managed to cover a full 5 of the 11"x14" panes with 1 x 300ml container of the gel gloss medium with a bit leftover. Hope that helps!
If cutting in your hand like that, you could wear a small pair of cut gloves. Kitchen staff use them a lot. They're probably cheaper than stitched. Thanks for the video. I love this style of water! So much easier than resin!
For cutting towards myself, I have a fisherman’s deboning glove for my off hand so I can do pretty much whatever I want and won’t cut myself. Highly recommend
OMG, I love your water technique! I was just looking for a way to get decent water of a large, large expanse for an island hopping type adventure, and this over acrylic sheets is gonna work great. Thank you!
That's so cool! That's such a cool solution for rivers! And you could use it to add elevation to the terrain too, by placing other tiles underneath, instead of the water. I just think I would definetely acrylic intead of glass for this
Thank you very much!! I am very much looking forward to experimenting what other textures underneath so we'll see where it goes! Also, yes I agree. I have since looked into acrylic panels online and they're much more affordable than I thought, so that may be the way to go in the future 🤔
Holy hand-grenades @raecheldoes this is such a fantastic video! The water texture is awesome, and you've explained the cliff/corner/curves/crawls so clearly here. I've been using this approach with corner and curve pieces for ages, but seeing how well cliffs and crawls work is going to have be magnetizing all my old tiles just to make it all work. PLEASE KEEP IT UP, you're forging gold with each of these videos!
Also that freaking flocking strategy is brilliant! There's probably a better term for making adjoining tiles connect cleanly in a visual way, but I just call it tessellation. Getting physical tessellation is easy - you just have to make your foam join. Getting visual tessellation is SO hard and the flocking approach you use is blowing my mind right now.
Ahh! Thank you for such high praise!! I'm happy that my instructions came across clearly. If you like, rolled up masking tape also works well in adhering the tiles together too! It was easy for me to do magnets since I started with them, but I imagine if you've got a whole system it might be a beast to convert everything! Either way thank you again for your support and encouragement! My perfectionist tendencies definitely appreciate the specific compliments haha.
oh man finding this video by accident was just what i needed. I've been thinking about building a modular river delta terrain board and this is actually a great idea for how I should do it
I've been looking for something to fill the RP Archive sized hole in my TH-cam watching ever since he got ill and am so happy to have discovered this. Really great to see more modular terrain ideas in this space and excited to watch more of your content! Water you going to do next?!
@5:00 cut resistant gloves are fairly cost effective, and absolutely worth looking in to if you're doing this sort of carving regularly. THEY ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROPER CAUTION, but they're a decent piece of preventative safety on top of being sensible and careful. Making sure your knife is properly sharp means you're using less force to make cuts as well, so stop and strop or hone your blade every dozen or so decent sized cuts, or when your blade starts to slow down when carving.
While resin is cool, I’m absolutely terrified of it for a multitude of reasons. The glass solution is absolutely amazing. These last 3 videos have become my weekend-I can’t wait to get started!
This video reminded me of a time I hold deep nostalgia for, playing with the Total Annihilation: Kingdoms map editor as a young lad having my first experiences with map making and modding the games I played, fitting all the neat tiles together and assembling tiny worlds just for myself to experience. The water and islet tiles were some of my favourites and one of the maps I spent the most time decorating was a castle flanked on three sides with a large horseshoe-shaped lake, with a small hamlet huddled among expansive fields of pumpkins and wheat, I must've spent a couple of hours just doing set dressing on a tiny sheltered lagoon among the fields surrounded by a dense cloak of pine trees with a little clearing where a couple of vagrants were camped. It probably wasn't a very good map to actually play but it didn't need to be, I probably spent more time in the map editor than I did playing the game.
Awesome, loving your videos - planning on applying it to wargaming as well as DnD - the water effect is incredible - I guess ideally all your tiles need to sit on a panel/support once you have created the water, otherwise they will just water-fall off?
Loving my modular terrains! at this rate we will have a whole collection of biomes to match and play with thanks to your tutorials! if i could leave a suggestion, Can we have deserts at some point? I play Tallarns and i would love me some cool ideas to make modular deserts interesting, appart from just sand tiles, and you are pretty qualified to make that happen!
Loving the videos! Also adding in that this is becoming one of my favorite channels in general. Partly because of the crafting, but the puns are great!
This is another absolutely brilliant idea - I can see this being useful for rivers, oceans, or roads like you tease, or even lava, sludge, desert sands.....so many ideas! Would love to see RP Archive and you collab on something at some point once he's back in the fullswing!
Interesting! I am planning a modular hill set. And seeing your tutorial I just noticed the same set could be used as coast by just replacing the "valley base" with a "water base"
Going to give the water tiles a shot here soon, also saw another video using gloss mod-podge for similar results.. I'm also going to experiment with some divets in the tiles to add small water puddles with Still Water for some added variance.. I have my first batch of wilderness tiles drying from the initial mod-podge soil mix.. super excited to start laying in some static grass etc..
Yes gloss mod podge can also give a good water finish too! I just used gel medium because it holds its shape more firmly than gloss mod podge, but you can definitely get some good ripple textures with the latter. Let me know how the still water goes! I've been experimenting with divets as well--a lighter has been very helpful for this. I'm happy that you're trying out the wilderness tiles!!
@@raecheldoes It's all thanks to your vids really getting me interested in it.. I'm experimenting with like water puddles with the still water, so far it looks alright.. I'll be doing a 6x6 tile with a larger indentation for like a "muddier" area if that makes sense? with some magnets underneath for like a ring of columns/faerie circle.. something along those lines where i can add a small collection of scatter to make a small scale combat/rp encounter.
@@raecheldoes made my first batch of coastal/river tiles.. just have to carve them up.. overall though I'm fairly happy with them.. any suggestions on elevation/slopes going up the sides of a vertical facing? thinking of doing a fairly tallish build, with a slope up one side.. I may need to do the 3x3 RPA mountain blocks for utility..
Ok saw your first video today and i'm impressed. Many techniques applied , perfect use of materials and some bonus tip like the ballon as a static grass "alternative". As a roaming DM i always carry with me the terrain that i use and so unfortunately the water panels are way to unpractice to transport. But if i could have all togheter at my home i will for sure do your method. The tiles are great. i give you 9.5/10 overall. P.S. Subscribed immediately
Thank you very much for the generous compliments and supporting the channel! I agree the glass is quite delicate, even for at-home use. I have since researched that acrylic and plexi options can be quite affordable, so I thought I'd pass that along in case that appeals to your roaming-DM nature. The perfectionist in me accepts the 95% score :P
Hi! Also an RP Archive fanboy here! I've been thinking down a similar vein, but using acetate sheets/OHP transparencies rather than glass as they are cheaper and less breakable. I've also done a light dry brush of white on wave textures like this for a little foam, but perhaps that's more of a sea than a river texture.
Yes! After doing more research, acrylic and plexi can be decently affordable. I do find that the thicker the material, the more depth it gives the water. I would definitely like to experiment with doing the light dry brushing in the future too.
The Algorithm (all hail its benevolent wisdom) led me here and I'm hooked! A balance between appearance, functionality, and ease of production...and puns! I was even just thinking I should look up how to do that sort of water texture on something cheap and easy for little ponds for wargaming terrain, how perfect.
Next level - get a cheap LCD TV and build it into a table. Then place the water-glass panes on top. You can display moving water/ lava underneath that would also emit light creating a dynamic game table
Thanks for the inspiration. I wanted to a static Warhammer board. But I thought static would be boring and also said of pouring alot of resin. With this idea can still make make water at the lowest level in my jungle / industrial board. Thanks alot :)
TH-cam just randomly showed me your wilderness videos, which I quickly watched both of, Great stuff!! I was a bit sad when I saw your channel is still fairly new so i dont have a trove of videos to watch yet :P Cant wait to see what you do in the future :)
Thank you! And I know! It's a weird curse to be blessed with success early in my youtube journey, but I'm gearing up to take it more seriously, so I'm looking forward to what I do in the future too! :P
I really like your approach to water. I hate the degassing smells and expense of resin water that you have to finish off this way any way. Enjoying your channel.
Keep them coming! I mostly 3D print my buildings but use foam for terrain (RP Archive style) and have been using your style for my wilderness tiles. Much appreciated while Matt is still recovering and hoping for a possible collab in the future!
I do agree about the appeal of printing building tiles--I personally bought a bunch of dungeon tiles before I got into crafting, too. But I'm happy to inspire any sort of creativity, so I'm stoked to hear you're making these tiles! And yes, a collab would be the dream sometime in the future, but wishing him rest and recovery until then!
Wow, so ingenius! I have searching for a lot of time a no sylicon water, and finally i find it! Keep doing! Greetings from Spain (And your editing and style still awesome)
Once upon a time I worked stocking shelves at Target. One of the biggest rules they gave us for opening cartons was "Cut away from your body." One day I was in a slightly whimsical mood and pointed out that cutting away from our body means we're cutting toward our teammates.
Really good video!!! I'm going to stick to plexi for my stuff, and I'll start off with a 2x3 sheet from a poster frame. I'll do smaller ones if needed, but prob not. Again, well done!!!
Hey Rae'ch, whatcha playin'? Nice disguise spell you got there, but I can _sea_ through it. Really nice vid, I dig the modularity of the water layer. You could maybe try slapping some ledstrips under it, with a diffuser sheet for some glowing green poison river, or something. The water and the land tiles together look pretty cool. Keep it up! 👍
Uh oh. You've rolled too high on your insight there, _and_ your charisma with that pun! I like that idea for future swamps, acrid lakes, or maybe lava in the future. Thank you for the encouragement!
This is very cool! A few months ago I found online wargame magazines from the early 80s and they had similar layout to this (but not a creative design like yours!). They put a blue piece of cloth underneath the terrain and that represented water. Super cheap, but I guess for the 80s, where wargames were just getting hyped up, it had to do! With that being said, I have a quick question: putting terrain on a cloth, will flush it together with no "space" in between the cloth and the terrain. But when creating these waves, since they height, did you find that the terrain is somewhat "floating" in the air since its being placed on waves that have height? - I hope I explained it well lol.
You know, there are still terrain-builders who will use long-fibre fabrics or rugs to be grass, so I'm not surprised it used to be used for water! But yes, with the gel-medium waves, there is a minor amount of space between the land on top and the water below. But honestly, it's so minor that from the side, you barely notice it. You can see a good example of the gap at 2:21. (And yes! I understood your explanation!)
Great video. Been trying to recreate RP archive, but the resin water really intimidated me so I'd been putting it off. Will definitely be using your method instead. Save myself a month of work.
Yes! Yes! Yes! You’ve done it again! So much love for this video. 💖 It’s summer break so I think I’m gonna’ make your videos my summer project. 💪🏻 Side note: is your gaming table homemade? Looks fun to play on!
Thank you for your emphatic and generous feedback!! I'm stoked to hear that my videos are inspiring your crafting! And yes! I based it off of Black Magic Craft's gaming table he made a while back. The lowered center definitely helps to see more of the terrain when we play.
This is awesome! And exactly what I didn’t know I needed! I have 2 questions though. 1) Can it work with plexiglass? (Nvm, I just saw your answer for this one.) 2) I’ve tried to find this and can’t figure it out. What are you using to resize and split the paper and then print it out? There are so many things I could use that for. I just don’t know how to do it.
Ah! I used to do graphic design so I use Adobe Illustrator to line up and size battle maps for printing. This is definitely something I want to look into making accessible/easily editable down the line though!
I wanted to pin a couple of updates here thanks to some helpful comments!
- Multiple people pointed me toward cut-resistant gloves for just this sort of carving safety. I will likely pick up a pair myself!
- More alternatives to glass panes:
--- Acrylic sheets at various sizes on Amazon
--- Plexiglass cut to size from your local hardware store
--- Acetate sheets (like for overhead projectors)
--- Large plastic sheet sourced from a poster frame
One thing I didn't mention in the video is that I found having a transparent panel with some thickness increased the visual quality of the wave texture against the coloured paper underneath. Having some distance allows for shadows and a better reflection and water effect overall. And don't forget to store these with parchment or wax paper in between!
- Multiple people pointed me toward cut-resistant gloves for just this sort of carving safety. I will likely pick up a pair myself!
Did you mean to say "pun" a couple of updates here?
you're very quickly becoming one of my favourite crafting channels, i've been a huge rp archive fan for a while and its cool to see more similar modular terrain. also the clear water with different tinted water textures underneath is genius, i will definitely try that out some time
Thank you very much! I'm happy to work toward having a seat at this prestigious crafting-community-table that RP Archive has set and happy to inspire with new ideas!
Love the videos but I always find myself hugging myself and crying on the floor from the bombardment of puns.. don't change please.
Your comment in tandem with your picture is on another level. 😂
Came for the crafting, stayed for the puns!
Thank you for the feedback and tip about the cut-resistant gloves. I've included it in a pinned comment now so others can benefit from your wisdom :) And also I didn't realize how cheap acrylic panels can be! This may be the path I take in the future as well...
You can use some wet/dry sandpaper around 220-320 grit down the sides of the glass. Use it wet so you don't end up with glass dust in the air. It'll make it less likely to cut you, remove some of the flaws that tend to act as break points, and make the cleanup with a razor a bit easier.
Thank you for the additional tips!
Very cool! I bet your players really enjoy the terrain you've built
Why, thank you! And y'know, I bet they do too 🙃
I cannot wait to see how you do snow and ice terrain, the end result of this was just amazing, definitely would like to see it on a Rae'chel Does Live Plays one day. Really great work, can't wait for the next video.
I will add snow and ice terrain to the suggestion bucket! Thank you for the generous feedback! I think that would be pretty wicked to do a live play one day as some sort of bonus content, and that would absolutely be the title of it haha.
So awesome! Simple techniques brought together with a puntastic flair. So happy to have found you channel! Can’t wait to see what you’re up to next!!!
getting a lot of Ashly Burch as well as genuinely great crafting tips is just such quality content!
Funny enough one of the characters Ashly is known for us named Rachel
The creativity and production value of your videos are amazing!
Thank you!!
This channel has excellent vibes. Really appreciated the puns haha
Already subscribed, and I'm looking forward to becoming a regular viewer.
Yes! Doing justice for the puns haha. Thanks for your support!
With RP archive being very inactive the past 1+ years, your channel has become my new fav. Amazing quality of video and instructions in such a short post. And I have been debating on how to do water tiles for the past 3 years without coming to a method that I wanted to "dive" into head first, but now seeing yours, I for sure will just do this with large acrylic sheets. Thanks so much for adding high quality content to the tabletop crafting community
Thank you very much for the high praise! I'm happy that I can inspire with different ideas and make it entertaining to boot! I'm also really looking forward to seeing the massive project Matt has been working on and for regular content when is health is back up to snuff!
@@raecheldoes quick question, how much gel medium did it take to cover your 4 glass panes? thanks again for the awesome content and can't wait for the roads!!
@@charlesincharge4593 I actually managed to cover a full 5 of the 11"x14" panes with 1 x 300ml container of the gel gloss medium with a bit leftover. Hope that helps!
I'm blown away! The techniques, the production value, and your engaging personality are wonderful. Please keep it up!
Woohoo! Thank you for the compliments and support!! That's very kind of you to say 😊
@raecheldoes I've just started my terrain journey, and you've shown me that there's essentially no limit to what can be done.
You are absolutely killing it! Keep up the great work.
Ps: Would love a collaboration with RP Archive one day.
Thank you!! And an RP Archive collab would be an absolute dream!
If cutting in your hand like that, you could wear a small pair of cut gloves. Kitchen staff use them a lot. They're probably cheaper than stitched.
Thanks for the video. I love this style of water! So much easier than resin!
Well this channel came out of nowhere. Great instructions, storytelling, camera work. Nice!
Thank you very much!
For cutting towards myself, I have a fisherman’s deboning glove for my off hand so I can do pretty much whatever I want and won’t cut myself. Highly recommend
Yes! I have put this suggestion in a pinned comment now so hopefully others can also benefit.
Ashly Burch doppelganger confirmed. (Also great work!)
Yes! It's an older reference but I was *hawp* -ing some would get it. Thank you!
Just start crafting as a hobby and these videos are keeping me motivated
Thank you for this! Definitely not ready for the more intensive resin approaches but needed some water for an upcoming game. Your strategy is perfect.
OMG, I love your water technique! I was just looking for a way to get decent water of a large, large expanse for an island hopping type adventure, and this over acrylic sheets is gonna work great. Thank you!
Woohoo!! So glad to have inspired. Good luck! Sounds like a great adventure 🫡
Godlike quality, cutest puns, marvelous content. Thank you!
That's incredible generous of you to say! Thank you very much!
Hey ! Love the video and love your energy ! Does anyone have an alternative to the super heavy gel ? It's pretty expensive in France 😅
That's so cool! That's such a cool solution for rivers! And you could use it to add elevation to the terrain too, by placing other tiles underneath, instead of the water. I just think I would definetely acrylic intead of glass for this
Thank you very much!! I am very much looking forward to experimenting what other textures underneath so we'll see where it goes! Also, yes I agree. I have since looked into acrylic panels online and they're much more affordable than I thought, so that may be the way to go in the future 🤔
The board looks amazing!!!! Love the video!!! 😊
Holy hand-grenades @raecheldoes this is such a fantastic video! The water texture is awesome, and you've explained the cliff/corner/curves/crawls so clearly here. I've been using this approach with corner and curve pieces for ages, but seeing how well cliffs and crawls work is going to have be magnetizing all my old tiles just to make it all work. PLEASE KEEP IT UP, you're forging gold with each of these videos!
Also that freaking flocking strategy is brilliant! There's probably a better term for making adjoining tiles connect cleanly in a visual way, but I just call it tessellation. Getting physical tessellation is easy - you just have to make your foam join. Getting visual tessellation is SO hard and the flocking approach you use is blowing my mind right now.
Ahh! Thank you for such high praise!! I'm happy that my instructions came across clearly. If you like, rolled up masking tape also works well in adhering the tiles together too! It was easy for me to do magnets since I started with them, but I imagine if you've got a whole system it might be a beast to convert everything! Either way thank you again for your support and encouragement! My perfectionist tendencies definitely appreciate the specific compliments haha.
Fantastic design! I may adapt it into a tropical beach theme.
Have always loved your content and glad to see the more crafty side. Thank you for sharing your comedy and unique style. And who doesn't love RP?
Thank you very much! And clearly not not me lol.
Easily one of the best terrain channels, right out of the blocks (pun attempted)
Pun attempt appreciated 😂 As well as the high praise!
oh man finding this video by accident was just what i needed. I've been thinking about building a modular river delta terrain board and this is actually a great idea for how I should do it
I've been looking for something to fill the RP Archive sized hole in my TH-cam watching ever since he got ill and am so happy to have discovered this. Really great to see more modular terrain ideas in this space and excited to watch more of your content! Water you going to do next?!
@5:00 cut resistant gloves are fairly cost effective, and absolutely worth looking in to if you're doing this sort of carving regularly. THEY ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROPER CAUTION, but they're a decent piece of preventative safety on top of being sensible and careful.
Making sure your knife is properly sharp means you're using less force to make cuts as well, so stop and strop or hone your blade every dozen or so decent sized cuts, or when your blade starts to slow down when carving.
Thank you for the additional tips!
While resin is cool, I’m absolutely terrified of it for a multitude of reasons. The glass solution is absolutely amazing. These last 3 videos have become my weekend-I can’t wait to get started!
Woohoo! Glad to inspire creativity and overall that sounds like an excellent weekend.
Proud to have found this channel, instant fan!
This water solution is so simple and good looking, super good idea, the RP archive method is so sick but pretty intense and advanced.
Thank you I'm glad you think so! Also hapoy to live in the level 3 zone below the intricate and meticulous excellence that is RP Archive.
SYSTEMS!!! I love it! And they look so good arranged, it really works so well!!! I can’t wait to see what’s next!
Thank you! And me too, I also can't wait to see what's next haha.
This video reminded me of a time I hold deep nostalgia for, playing with the Total Annihilation: Kingdoms map editor as a young lad having my first experiences with map making and modding the games I played, fitting all the neat tiles together and assembling tiny worlds just for myself to experience. The water and islet tiles were some of my favourites and one of the maps I spent the most time decorating was a castle flanked on three sides with a large horseshoe-shaped lake, with a small hamlet huddled among expansive fields of pumpkins and wheat, I must've spent a couple of hours just doing set dressing on a tiny sheltered lagoon among the fields surrounded by a dense cloak of pine trees with a little clearing where a couple of vagrants were camped. It probably wasn't a very good map to actually play but it didn't need to be, I probably spent more time in the map editor than I did playing the game.
Love the talent and the presentation. Dog cameo fun too.
Thank you very much!
Awesome, loving your videos - planning on applying it to wargaming as well as DnD - the water effect is incredible - I guess ideally all your tiles need to sit on a panel/support once you have created the water, otherwise they will just water-fall off?
Another fab video. I’m seriously inspired!
Yesss that's really all I can ask for--to inspire!
Looks amazing! Very clever concept and great craftsmanship! 👍
Loved this! Will be figuring away out to add it to my crafting queue!
Woohoo so happy to inspire and would be honoured to have a place in your crafting queue!
I've been looking for an efficient way to do water for a beach. This is perfect! Thanks!
Loving my modular terrains! at this rate we will have a whole collection of biomes to match and play with thanks to your tutorials! if i could leave a suggestion, Can we have deserts at some point? I play Tallarns and i would love me some cool ideas to make modular deserts interesting, appart from just sand tiles, and you are pretty qualified to make that happen!
Loving the videos! Also adding in that this is becoming one of my favorite channels in general. Partly because of the crafting, but the puns are great!
Yessss gotta win 'em over with the puns.
Im alright with an RP arhcive stan channel! Need more of this level and editing! Your great!
Thank you for your kind words!
"wear pants" is my new favorite crafting tip
I legit laughed so hard at this 😂 It is now also my favourite crafting tip.
Always nice to see your videos,looks awesome as always
Thank you!
These are cool, have you considered using tape on the edges so you don't have to directly scrape the edges of the glass?
This is another absolutely brilliant idea - I can see this being useful for rivers, oceans, or roads like you tease, or even lava, sludge, desert sands.....so many ideas!
Would love to see RP Archive and you collab on something at some point once he's back in the fullswing!
Thank you very much! And yes! I'm also considering what else I might experiment with with this system.
To collab with RP Archive would be the dream!
Interesting!
I am planning a modular hill set.
And seeing your tutorial I just noticed the same set could be used as coast by just replacing the "valley base" with a "water base"
That is brilliant to use a cloth to remove the water. I thought using a strainer was a good idea, but the cloth has this beat.
Going to give the water tiles a shot here soon, also saw another video using gloss mod-podge for similar results.. I'm also going to experiment with some divets in the tiles to add small water puddles with Still Water for some added variance.. I have my first batch of wilderness tiles drying from the initial mod-podge soil mix.. super excited to start laying in some static grass etc..
Yes gloss mod podge can also give a good water finish too! I just used gel medium because it holds its shape more firmly than gloss mod podge, but you can definitely get some good ripple textures with the latter. Let me know how the still water goes! I've been experimenting with divets as well--a lighter has been very helpful for this. I'm happy that you're trying out the wilderness tiles!!
@@raecheldoes It's all thanks to your vids really getting me interested in it.. I'm experimenting with like water puddles with the still water, so far it looks alright.. I'll be doing a 6x6 tile with a larger indentation for like a "muddier" area if that makes sense? with some magnets underneath for like a ring of columns/faerie circle.. something along those lines where i can add a small collection of scatter to make a small scale combat/rp encounter.
@@raecheldoes made my first batch of coastal/river tiles.. just have to carve them up.. overall though I'm fairly happy with them.. any suggestions on elevation/slopes going up the sides of a vertical facing? thinking of doing a fairly tallish build, with a slope up one side.. I may need to do the 3x3 RPA mountain blocks for utility..
instant subscribe just for your video presentation skills alone.
Ok saw your first video today and i'm impressed. Many techniques applied , perfect use of materials and some bonus tip like the ballon as a static grass "alternative".
As a roaming DM i always carry with me the terrain that i use and so unfortunately the water panels are way to unpractice to transport. But if i could have all togheter at my home i will for sure do your method. The tiles are great. i give you 9.5/10 overall.
P.S. Subscribed immediately
Thank you very much for the generous compliments and supporting the channel! I agree the glass is quite delicate, even for at-home use. I have since researched that acrylic and plexi options can be quite affordable, so I thought I'd pass that along in case that appeals to your roaming-DM nature. The perfectionist in me accepts the 95% score :P
Id love some desert themed stuff or old jungle ruins. Love your content keep it up!
Yes! Your suggestions have been noted :)
Hi! Also an RP Archive fanboy here! I've been thinking down a similar vein, but using acetate sheets/OHP transparencies rather than glass as they are cheaper and less breakable. I've also done a light dry brush of white on wave textures like this for a little foam, but perhaps that's more of a sea than a river texture.
Yes! After doing more research, acrylic and plexi can be decently affordable. I do find that the thicker the material, the more depth it gives the water. I would definitely like to experiment with doing the light dry brushing in the future too.
The Algorithm (all hail its benevolent wisdom) led me here and I'm hooked! A balance between appearance, functionality, and ease of production...and puns! I was even just thinking I should look up how to do that sort of water texture on something cheap and easy for little ponds for wargaming terrain, how perfect.
I'm glad I have befriended the algorithm enough to make its way to you!
This looks so good! What an amazing job
Thank you so much!!
Wonderful ideas. Thank you so much!
The cutting corners joke got my subscription
Next level - get a cheap LCD TV and build it into a table. Then place the water-glass panes on top. You can display moving water/ lava underneath that would also emit light creating a dynamic game table
I envy that table, beautiful work!
Thanks for the inspiration. I wanted to a static Warhammer board. But I thought static would be boring and also said of pouring alot of resin.
With this idea can still make make water at the lowest level in my jungle / industrial board. Thanks alot :)
i would love to get a tour of your table! it looks so nice :)
TH-cam just randomly showed me your wilderness videos, which I quickly watched both of, Great stuff!! I was a bit sad when I saw your channel is still fairly new so i dont have a trove of videos to watch yet :P Cant wait to see what you do in the future :)
Thank you! And I know! It's a weird curse to be blessed with success early in my youtube journey, but I'm gearing up to take it more seriously, so I'm looking forward to what I do in the future too! :P
That's BRILLIANT
Practical, innovative and inspiring as always!
Thank you!
This was fantastic and rivers just bumped way up my crafting list
Yesss. Then my inspire-creativity goals bumped way up on my completed list.
I really like your approach to water. I hate the degassing smells and expense of resin water that you have to finish off this way any way. Enjoying your channel.
Yes I find resin pretty intimidating to work with on such large scales, but you're right, the smell is pretty heavy too. Glad to offer an alternative!
Keep them coming! I mostly 3D print my buildings but use foam for terrain (RP Archive style) and have been using your style for my wilderness tiles. Much appreciated while Matt is still recovering and hoping for a possible collab in the future!
I do agree about the appeal of printing building tiles--I personally bought a bunch of dungeon tiles before I got into crafting, too. But I'm happy to inspire any sort of creativity, so I'm stoked to hear you're making these tiles! And yes, a collab would be the dream sometime in the future, but wishing him rest and recovery until then!
Another great and inspiring video! Question, what takes longer? Deciding the film direction or coming up with the awesome puns? 😂
Oh ho ho what a poignant question. The puns take a fair amount of time but the scripting can take... *Fo-river* 😏
Wow, so ingenius! I have searching for a lot of time a no sylicon water, and finally i find it! Keep doing! Greetings from Spain (And your editing and style still awesome)
Woohoo! I'm happy to inspire from across the real-world-waters. Thank you for the encouragement!
Between the RP Archive *reef*rences and the puns, I'm loving your *channel*
Huzzah! I *sea* you have *aqua* -ainted yourself with the commenting format here. (Aka nice one!)
Once upon a time I worked stocking shelves at Target. One of the biggest rules they gave us for opening cartons was "Cut away from your body." One day I was in a slightly whimsical mood and pointed out that cutting away from our body means we're cutting toward our teammates.
Funnily enough as a young cadet I was taught the mnemonic "towards your chum, not your thumb"
alright, so you guys own. first video and Im a subscriber now lol
reverse shot of the water printouts landing was primo
Woohoo! Then it was definitely worth it.
I'm so reminded of "Hey Ash, whatcha playin?" with the smash cuts to intense looks and stuff. Maybe with influences of Rehka from College Humour.
I am honoured to be lumped in with those fabulous human beings.
This is a great video! Why has youtube not told me about this channel before..?!?🤔
Thank you!! 😊 And I can only attribute this to the algorithm and its many secrets haha.
Yup. Good stuff!
Brilliant!
YES! Youre back! your puns are the only ouns for me
this is so cool!
Really good video!!! I'm going to stick to plexi for my stuff, and I'll start off with a 2x3 sheet from a poster frame. I'll do smaller ones if needed, but prob not. Again, well done!!!
Thank you very much! And after more research, I didn't realize how affordable acrylic/plexi can be, so I may redo these for myself as well!
Hey! Are the templates for the cuts available somewhere? I'm a Patreon sub but couldn't find them :D
Hey Rae'ch, whatcha playin'? Nice disguise spell you got there, but I can _sea_ through it.
Really nice vid, I dig the modularity of the water layer. You could maybe try slapping some ledstrips under it, with a diffuser sheet for some glowing green poison river, or something.
The water and the land tiles together look pretty cool. Keep it up! 👍
Uh oh. You've rolled too high on your insight there, _and_ your charisma with that pun! I like that idea for future swamps, acrid lakes, or maybe lava in the future. Thank you for the encouragement!
This is very cool! A few months ago I found online wargame magazines from the early 80s and they had similar layout to this (but not a creative design like yours!). They put a blue piece of cloth underneath the terrain and that represented water. Super cheap, but I guess for the 80s, where wargames were just getting hyped up, it had to do!
With that being said, I have a quick question: putting terrain on a cloth, will flush it together with no "space" in between the cloth and the terrain. But when creating these waves, since they height, did you find that the terrain is somewhat "floating" in the air since its being placed on waves that have height? - I hope I explained it well lol.
You know, there are still terrain-builders who will use long-fibre fabrics or rugs to be grass, so I'm not surprised it used to be used for water! But yes, with the gel-medium waves, there is a minor amount of space between the land on top and the water below. But honestly, it's so minor that from the side, you barely notice it. You can see a good example of the gap at 2:21. (And yes! I understood your explanation!)
Great video. Been trying to recreate RP archive, but the resin water really intimidated me so I'd been putting it off. Will definitely be using your method instead. Save myself a month of work.
I was feeling the exact same! I'm glad I could provide a feasible alternative and save you a bunch of work!
Omg hawp reference. Love it
Perhaps instead of glass, would clear acrylic work just as well without being as fragile? Even if it's not perfectly transparent
Yes! I do mention that as an alternative in the video and in the pinned comment. It would definitely help negate the fragility factor.
Plexiglass-cut to fit also works. (Home Depot) Frame glass can break REALLY easily
Ooh thank you for the suggestion! I'm going to add it to a pinned comment so others can benefit from different options.
Oh well, you've convinced me. I'm gonna build an island hopping terrain set for my next game.
Yesss. If I've convinced you then those are my life goals complete.
Yes! Yes! Yes! You’ve done it again! So much love for this video. 💖 It’s summer break so I think I’m gonna’ make your videos my summer project. 💪🏻
Side note: is your gaming table homemade? Looks fun to play on!
Thank you for your emphatic and generous feedback!! I'm stoked to hear that my videos are inspiring your crafting!
And yes! I based it off of Black Magic Craft's gaming table he made a while back. The lowered center definitely helps to see more of the terrain when we play.
Awesome crafting tips, editing, and of course puns. There was no... dry humor in this one
Haha! I thoroughly enjoyed that play on words. Thank you for the compliments, too!
Looks like it was a *beach* and a half to do, but the results speak for themselves! Im sure they'll *make waves* at your next game
This is awesome! And exactly what I didn’t know I needed! I have 2 questions though.
1) Can it work with plexiglass? (Nvm, I just saw your answer for this one.)
2) I’ve tried to find this and can’t figure it out. What are you using to resize and split the paper and then print it out? There are so many things I could use that for. I just don’t know how to do it.
Ah! I used to do graphic design so I use Adobe Illustrator to line up and size battle maps for printing. This is definitely something I want to look into making accessible/easily editable down the line though!
@@raecheldoes Awesome, thank you! And yes that would be great!
These are great! Are you on Twitch, as well? This would have made for a good stream.
Ha! I literally did a full circle of thinking before catching the pun. Nice one :P
looks good!!
Thanks!
you are the best! this is so perfect ^^
Hehe I'm glad you think so!
The forced pun is strong in this one. Great video.
u r a nice addition to my beautiful roster of modelbuilding channels + my name is rachel too good luck in life to u