Let's craft some Modular Ship Tiles for SPELLJAMMER!!! (and other nautical games!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2022
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The release of Spelljammer for 5e has gotten me thinking about making some SUPER EASY modular ship tiles for all types of roleplaying and tactical tabletop games! This week I'll walk through how I made a set that is perfect as a first craft for beginners and experienced crafters alike!!!
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I think if Jeremy got a new sub every time Garmin says "Black Magic Craft base coat" he'd be at a million subs by now :D
Is he not at a million subs? He’s gotta be close.
Armored Hammerhead ship was my "goto" in Spelljammer.
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! An all pirate campaign would be super fun!
It certainly would!
Super looking and classical in every way! my only nit pick would be that you mix the different levels on a ship... it kind of looks like the lower decks get mushed with the ships deck... I have wanted to make something along the lines of playable ships for DnD for years, but always got stuck as the whole ship to make was proving to be too tedious... now with the help of your video and the ship tiles I see myself able to manage my original plan! So thanks a lot mate!!!
So I originally did the same and just made a ship, this was mainly my solution for below deck combat, but I’ve come to find that while they aren’t as visually impressive, the functionality of them far outweighs it, AND you can still build a grand ship for your table and just regulate these to be below deck as needed!
Never thought of modularizing ships. How cool! These turned out so nice
Thank you!
I love seeing an innovative project, those don’t come around often anymore! Great stuff man
Thank you very much!
I was just thinking of making some of these for Saltmarsh and Spelljammer! Hell yeah. 😁🤙
They would work great for both! I actually originally came up with the concept FOR salt marsh, but when spell jammer came out it seems like a good opportunity to make the video!
As a stickler for words (TechWriter), the names for the different pieces would be prow (front), deck (middle), and aft (back). I thought you would like to know. And that technique can be used for any sort of boats.
As an old timer, the original Spelljammers was sailing in the Astral Plane. Of course, it expanded with the lastest Baldur's Gate as the Ithilid (Mind Flayer) ship emerged from a portal to gather people for conversion and being attaqued by Githyanki-mounted red dragons. If you have Ithilid ships, you have to have other ships that can battle those brain eating beasties.
Good to know! Thank you! And that was my thought as well, you can just scale them up or down as needed!
Such a great idea. We just finished building 1 to 1 scale ships for our game, and I definitely wish we would have gone this route.
You still can! They also work really well for below deck combat stuff!
Those look legit! I hadn't thought about modular boats before, great idea!
Thank you!
Great idea! You could even combine these with regular dungeon type tiles for a dock or quay - couple of pontoons and you're set. So it's also useful for non-seafaring games :)
You absolutely could! That’s a grey idea!
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This is EXACTLY what I have been looking for ever since I dropped my players onto a pirate ship(thru an altered teleport) in the middle of battling The Imperium! Thank you!
This project came out amazing! I think I'm going to add it to my list of ones to try for sure.
Also, comment for the algorithm gods 🤘🏽
Great to see an absolute beginner-level project to inspire new crafters. Jeremy at BMC used to be my go-to for this kind of stuff but he's sort of moved on from it a bit. Great job :)
Thank you!
"Easy, goes down fast to create a tight bond" well now I feel called out.
HA! Careful now, this channel is supposed to be family friendly😉 (mostly).
These were really great! I love the idea of making them sort like deck plans rather than crafting a big ship. Makes me want to go make some.
You totally should! And thank you!
Love it
Awsome!
Nice one, looks like fun.
Looks fantastic! I will need to try this! A great solution for limited storage, too! The various pieces could also be used to build modular docks. Maybe the bottoms of the ships could be done with stone texture if you wanted a stone wharf! Thanks so much for posting! 👍😊
Very true! My favorite part about them is now my players can take the fight below decks seamlessly.
Brilliant man, absolutely brilliant!
Thank you!
Awesome
Thank you!
Awesome!
Thanks!
Love this!
Thank you!
really really nice and beautifull ships
Lovely setup !!! great craft ! Love it 😍😍
Thank you!
I love this!
Thank you!
These ship tiles look great. However, I think it would be a pretty tough first time project, mostly because of the curved sides/edges. I've been crafting for years and still find boat shaped quite tricky without a template.
Would never have thought about modular ships. Thanks, Garmin.
Glad I could help!
This is fantastic and simple, thanks!
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Wow, this is so cool!
Thank you!
New to the channel but Great job can’t wait to try this for our Skulls and Shackles Pathfinder game!!!!
Thank you for the inspiration! I'm going to start on my own Void Ship today! Peace.
Wow! Such a neat idea! Thanks for sharing this :D
Thank you for watching and commenting! It really helps us grow!
This is awesome! Definetly going to be one of my next projects! Thanks!
That’s awesome! Be sure to send us some pics!
I'm making my own sea setting and really want to have terrains for the ships, this is awesome!
This is one of the cooler crafting ideas I’ve seen in a while
Thank you!
As home crafters we're always looking for "Un-mess-up-able" projects. This is a great jumping off point. The concept should work well for sci-fi gamers too. Thanks!
As someone who only really crafts within the fantasy genera it never really occurred to me that there are applications for this for sci-fi ttrpg’s. A modular space ship would work really well.
Love this video. Definitely going to make this for my up coming pirate campaign
You totally should! They’re SUPER useful!
This is great. I have been wanting to make some tiles but have not yet. I am so into sea life and pirates that this is going to be PERFECT! Thank you so much!
Excellent project! simple yet great looking on the table. Additional partial decks could represent the captain's cabin, etc. Without a Proxon foam cutter, foam core could be used glued to MDF. Peel off one paper side and texture the foam.
Thank you! I suppose that could work! I’ve never tried, but it sounds like it could be done for sure!
This is incredible mate
Thank you!
OMG why did i build a whole ship?! This is great now i can make them easier and can have ship battles or multiple decks. TY for the video.
Using them for multiple decks is the best part about them for sure! Though I have made a full blown ship and while it’s not very practical, it does have a lot more WOW factor!
amazing build. Could you make a template for the tiles?
This is a great project. I built a few full scale ships a while back but only the exterior is playable. This is a great solution for if combat goes below deck.
A friend of mine ran a pirate campaign a few years ago and that’s why we made these originally!
These are amazing and will actually be my first DM Craft for my upcoming pirates campaign. Very excited. Can you tell me what size are the tiles?
Shout out to the awesome Snarky Puppy shirt!
Hey! Thank you!
When do we get a video about those unfinished (green) houses in the background? :) Thanks for the great videos.
Haha, they’re on the docket!
I'm so tempted to take aaaaaall the spelljamming ships and try to make a "map" of all the ships in the supplement. but uh, It's a lot. It's 16 ships, and yes, some of them do use similar deckplan shapes...but others are, more strange. (for example, the Nautoloid is huge, and has a bunch of unique things). However, this would *also* give me an excuse to make a map of the Space Dolphin (which didn't make it into the the book for some reason, and I think its design is really cool)
Depending on how much time and emphasis you want to place on ship-board adventure and nautical matters … there's a LOT of variables! For D&D purposes, unless your campaign has a naval theme, width and length of ships, their speed, how many decks, how large of a crew is necessary to man them … all of that is variable. The 5e Spelljammer ignores all of that and gives ships a basically constant speed. "Who wants ship-to-ship combat?" Um, the players of Spelljammer, probably?
My advice if naval themes aren't central to your game is aim for three kinds of ship: Smaller ocean-going ships, long/narrow ships, and big/wide heavy ones. In terms of speed/combat ability/crew … slow/weak/small, fast/pretty weak/medium, medium/very strong/large. That's a gross oversimplification because every factor related to ships, masts, rigging, length/width/displacement, cargo/passenger capacity, armament, crew size, and how fast the ship moves in different types of weather is a separate variable.
Very true! I’ve just been deferring to ghosts of salt marsh for all things ship related. These require some tweaking for larger ships, but the principal remain basically the same.
This is awesome. Perfect for Sundered Skies!
Absolutely!
Just found your channel and i gotta say i love your videos !
Do you think you could make a video about the different tree models you have and how you build them ?
So I actually have a few videos already on them, depending which you’re looking at. The pine trees were a dollar store find, and the regular trees are form woodland scenics! I have videos on both! (They both required some work to make them table ready)
Do you have any tips for making them look more like metal? I'm planning to make some for my dwarves in my dnd game (who make ships out of metal given they have an insane amount of ores)
I started making some ships like this. Never finished. I was using foam board.
You should finish! They’re a great piece to have in your back pocket! Especially for combat below decks!
Nicely done. What are you using for the water mat there?
How do you make Them so that they fit in a 1 inch grid? I would also like a tutorial for before the first step
So I don’t often use a grid on my terrain. After awhile you can just kinda look and have a pretty good idea of scale. 6”=30ft of the average pc full movement.
Great video and great project. My current campaign is taking a nautical turn right now Do you still ever use Scale 75 Instant Color SIN-35 Endurance Brown to do one-step wood staining?
I have not! I’ll have to try that!
oh man.. i want to make this, but just got into learning crafting terrains and well.. you didnt show the painting process for noobs such as myself :( no sure how to approach that… (i dont paint) Did you do it like your cliff video? you mention drybrush for the second paint… :(
when you say waterdown.. how waterdown? and just one coat i assume right?
Forgot to ask.... did you use a template for the bow and stern curves or did you just decide what looked good through trial and error? TY again
Little of both, made a couple attempts at a template on paper and once I found something I liked I used it to cut my foam.
What kind of phone are you using
Where are the doors to the ship rooms?
So in my dungeon tiles video I made modular doors to fit on the walls, I just use those so I can put doors wherever I want and make each ship feel unique.
Ok so if I counted right
Front think and thin left and right total 4, back thick and thin total 4, midsection 3. Why you fixed the masts in place i have no clue but 4, stairs 3. Did I miss any of them?
Yeah, I’m hindsight, modular masts would’ve been the way to go, I was just worried about them getting knocked around. Could probably rig something to keep it in place though… I’ll have to workshop it.
What is the name of the material you use for the initial pieces?
is XPS foam :)
pretty sure, he seems to use that material quite a bit. i`m new to his videos but have watch like 20 of them already LOL.. almost have this one memorized.. wanna try it
What is the material of the foam
XPS insulation.
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“Black Magic Craft Mod Podge”
LOL. We Wargames terrain makers have been mixing Mod Podge and black/charcoal color paint since the late 70s. Please stop gaslighting people!