So how would you guys use the colour changing ability in your games? would you use an LED for this even if you usually wouldn't use them? As always I'll be trying to answer questions as soon as I can, so feel free to ask :) SCENIC SEALANT You can make this a few ways, I show some more in the modular overgrown accessories video involving pva glue and varnish or matte medium, but these days I use: 1 part Mod podge 5 parts water I'm constantly playing with this and learning more, I'm probably going to do a full video on sealing terrain at some point :) CHARCOAL TEXTURE Even once sealed, some of these might be a little loose - I found it was a good idea to give each piece a handling and let the loose bits fall off, then cover up any gaps if needed with some more of the fine filtered charcoal dust before the final sealant layer. I also gave the white ash another layer after sealing because the sealing darkens it down a bit - but ash is quite good at staying attached even without spray, so an extra layer over the top isn't a problem. It also gives the piece more variety of contrast! BURNING BUILDING CARD DIMENSIONS 3/4" tall 5/8" wide
No questions but wanted to say you have inspired me to start crafting keeps and castles (which I learned I made too big and I of course made all my measurements as I went - lesson learned). So thank you, you have a new Patreon too ;)
I love your second method for the compact battery + hotglue I might be liberating that for some of my own builds... Thanks for the video, great stuff as always.
Simple yet impactful, Cheers mate for the tips! I still can't help but be impressed when you show off your skills. I'll definitely be using this for my table.
Your feature on midwinter minis was cool :) I've been meaning to add some better lighting to my setup for a while - even quality white lights that let you see minis and terrain in their true untinted colours would be better than the yellow dining room light that gets used at my games right now 😅
Awesome, and timely! Great work, Matt. I have been pondering how to turn a multi-pack of LEDs and a handful of batteries into something fun and useful. This is great inspiration for me.
These will give the firebug in my group a great amount of fun. Usually a Fireball spell makes damage and thats it. With the fire markers i can have those spells have a real Impact! Literally. Since the Wall pieces are modular as well, i will Just pull out a Wall piece and place a burning rubble Marker there!
Since you don't have an ice and snow set yet, the wall of fire pieces could serve as ice pillars if you paint them blue instead of black and don't put LEDs inside. Might also be a decent way to do icicles too. :)
Hey Matt, for the rooftop fires I think Magnets would be a fine solution. Either glued underneath your rooftiles or just use two stronger magnets, place one under the rooftile and one at the bottom of the fire and just let magnetism do it's job. But this depends slightly on how thick your roofiltes are. I think this last option would work on the tile you've shown in the video here.
Pretty close to the plan! basically I would make a roof tile with hollow space inside the fire to place the LEDS, then the roof tile connects to the roof itself like all the others :)
You can also use cotton balls to make your smoke. I've pulled the cotton ball into the shape I needed, then sprayed it with some diluted pva glue to give the cotton a sturdy medium to work with, then painted them with either airbrush or dry brush with red closer to the light then painted shades of gray to black towards the upper portion of the cotton. Then using hot glue or super glue to the base around the led lights or model train grain of wheat lights.
Basically from what I understand these little batteries and LEDS have just enough resistance built in to allow you to use them straight together :) Disclaimer: I am not an electrical expert, just a hobbyist trying things out and researching as best I can 😅
And to think I paid for 3d printed resin fire walls that I painted... these look so cool! It's got me thinking, I could hollow out the wall since it's 1inch thick and add an LED just for the hell of it...
@3:52 An alternate option would be to use heat shrink tubing. I dont know what the cost/speed/ease of use aspects would be vs using hot glue to get the same result. I just know that I typically burn myself with a hot glue gun and being able to use normal electrical heat shrink tubing would work just as well.
I use the used medicine cups that come with certain medicine bottles like from Nyquil, Robitussin or Immodium to make my markers. But it's gotten harder to find multi color LEDs now that Radio Shack went out of business. And most dollar stores only carry the white LEDs tea lights. So I may have to go back using a trick I learned 25 yrs ago when I did model train villages before they had multicolored lights. You thin out some enamel paint with a lil bit of paint thinner and lightly brush on a coat or two over the light bulb until you get the desired look you want for LEDs dont give off that much heat do you wont have to worry about it burning the paint on the light to get the color effect you want. What I did for my black burned ground rather than using real charcoal I use black sand that you can pick up at a dollar store in the floral sections for home decor they use it to pour in the bottom of a vase. I even found some red sand and gravel that I added to my bases to give the look of hot burning embers scattered around in few places so they aren't in just one spot. But before adding the red sand if I want to tone down the bright shiney black sand I either cover it with matte mod podge or spray on a matte finish then glue on some of my red sand and gravel for those are shiney to give them the bright hot look of the embers
I am going to be that guy because I must have missed it in the video, but where do you typically buy the LED's from? Especially the ones that flicker. I know that in the states they are easy to find the candles in dollar stores, but in France they are not so easy or cheap. Thanks and BTW this video is great. Especially how to create the simple replaceable LED "throwers". Awesome idea.
Like, for a mini table? My first thought would be use a 1225 battery as the candle holder and work a 1mm led wire around it somehow... But the holder would be comically oversized 😂 If you really wanted to, your best bet is 1mm LEDS with the magnet under the table, and have them sealed in place. Not my style, but it should work :)
@@RPArchiveOfficial Thanks for the response and advice! Love your videos (made some tables and magnetic books of my own), did not expect a response :D I was thinking more of a floor standing candle holder (don't know the proper name). It might be possible to create a base from the battery and use the 'wires' of the LEDs to give it a wrought iron look
Ah! Actually that would be much easier, though it depends how many candles you want as each would need it's own 1mm led :) You could use hollow styrene tube for the main pole though, and run the wires through it to a battery at the base...
Quick question about the surebonder are you having to use an inverter for it? I believe they only come with a us plug?!? Great work BTW and great to have back 👍🎉
Craft the lights or... just purchase cheap lights that have a multi-color feature and remote. Sometimes it's easier versus cheaper, but when easier is still pretty inexpensive... I chose easier for more crafting time... ... but to each their own.
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So how would you guys use the colour changing ability in your games? would you use an LED for this even if you usually wouldn't use them?
As always I'll be trying to answer questions as soon as I can, so feel free to ask :)
SCENIC SEALANT
You can make this a few ways, I show some more in the modular overgrown accessories video involving pva glue and varnish or matte medium, but these days I use:
1 part Mod podge
5 parts water
I'm constantly playing with this and learning more, I'm probably going to do a full video on sealing terrain at some point :)
CHARCOAL TEXTURE
Even once sealed, some of these might be a little loose - I found it was a good idea to give each piece a handling and let the loose bits fall off, then cover up any gaps if needed with some more of the fine filtered charcoal dust before the final sealant layer.
I also gave the white ash another layer after sealing because the sealing darkens it down a bit - but ash is quite good at staying attached even without spray, so an extra layer over the top isn't a problem. It also gives the piece more variety of contrast!
BURNING BUILDING CARD DIMENSIONS
3/4" tall
5/8" wide
No questions but wanted to say you have inspired me to start crafting keeps and castles (which I learned I made too big and I of course made all my measurements as I went - lesson learned). So thank you, you have a new Patreon too ;)
Thanks a ton man! The support is massively appreciated, and it's awesome to hear about inspiring people to make stuff :)
I've never wanted my party to take fire spells more! These look super incredible dude!
Thank you sir! 😁
We all want to play with fire, that's a fantastic bild. And certainly with the different colors just continue matt
Will do luc :)
I love your second method for the compact battery + hotglue I might be liberating that for some of my own builds... Thanks for the video, great stuff as always.
Thanks man, definitely the version I'll be using in future :)
4:24 Lol, great job on the video as always ^^ You got some fantastic results :)
Haha, thanks Frederik! :)
Another great video. Well done Matt!
Thanks Andrew!
I like this idea for fire markers for my dnd games. I'm still working on the table ideas but I'm going to work on this one at a later time.
Awesome :) let me know how it goes!
Well done. These look cool as hell.
Thanks Chris!
LED Throwies!! :D
I keep watching your videos and it's more and more amazing!
Simple yet impactful, Cheers mate for the tips! I still can't help but be impressed when you show off your skills. I'll definitely be using this for my table.
Thanks man! Hope your players enjoy 😅
Love your work man!
Thanks Jonathan! Jon? I never know with longer names 😅
A true magician
Some great options there. Love me some dynamic feature lighting 👍
Thanks Sebastian :) I've got a lot planned around dynamic lighting actually, right up your street 😅
@@RPArchiveOfficial love it! 👌
Your feature on midwinter minis was cool :)
I've been meaning to add some better lighting to my setup for a while - even quality white lights that let you see minis and terrain in their true untinted colours would be better than the yellow dining room light that gets used at my games right now 😅
Recently started watching your videos, great content man ;)
Thanks Nathan :)
Awesome work!
Thanks :)
Absolutely epic
Very good tutorial to bring lights to the tabletop layout
Thanks as always Patrick :)
Awesome, and timely! Great work, Matt. I have been pondering how to turn a multi-pack of LEDs and a handful of batteries into something fun and useful. This is great inspiration for me.
Awesome! Thanks man :)
These will give the firebug in my group a great amount of fun. Usually a Fireball spell makes damage and thats it. With the fire markers i can have those spells have a real Impact! Literally. Since the Wall pieces are modular as well, i will Just pull out a Wall piece and place a burning rubble Marker there!
Exactly! 😁
Great idea. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching :)
Great tips and tricks, thank you =)
Thank you for watching :)
That's cool 😎 love it.
Since you don't have an ice and snow set yet, the wall of fire pieces could serve as ice pillars if you paint them blue instead of black and don't put LEDs inside. Might also be a decent way to do icicles too. :)
Just found this dude. Thoroughly impressed - he is on another level. Subbed, liked and bought batteries/LED through the affiliate links. Thanks matey!
Thanks Jay! 😁
Amazing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Okay, Matt. Now build us a Prismatic Wall effect using multicolored LEDs and fiber optic filaments. =^[.]^=
Yknow, I was thinking about it 😅
@@RPArchiveOfficial *DO IT!* =^[.]^=
Love your work! Every video makes me smile and inspired! :)
Thank you Matthias! It's still incredible hearing that :)
Wow, amazing video. This gives me some ideas (that I can't play around with yet 😪)
Hey Matt, for the rooftop fires I think Magnets would be a fine solution. Either glued underneath your rooftiles or just use two stronger magnets, place one under the rooftile and one at the bottom of the fire and just let magnetism do it's job. But this depends slightly on how thick your roofiltes are. I think this last option would work on the tile you've shown in the video here.
Pretty close to the plan! basically I would make a roof tile with hollow space inside the fire to place the LEDS, then the roof tile connects to the roof itself like all the others :)
The 'fire wall' ones look like they'd be GREAT for SLA 3d printers.
smoken !!!
You can also use cotton balls to make your smoke. I've pulled the cotton ball into the shape I needed, then sprayed it with some diluted pva glue to give the cotton a sturdy medium to work with, then painted them with either airbrush or dry brush with red closer to the light then painted shades of gray to black towards the upper portion of the cotton. Then using hot glue or super glue to the base around the led lights or model train grain of wheat lights.
Oh I know, it was definitely an alternative option 😅
@@RPArchiveOfficial We would always use the big cotton stuffing you get in pill bottles to make our campfires, bonfires or torch smoke, etc.
I think it works best as a billowing fireball look (like Erics hobby workshop did a while back), it has that rounded texture :)
@@RPArchiveOfficial regardless I like the look and the affect it has
I tought LED needs at least a little resistor even with such small battery :o
Basically from what I understand these little batteries and LEDS have just enough resistance built in to allow you to use them straight together :)
Disclaimer: I am not an electrical expert, just a hobbyist trying things out and researching as best I can 😅
And to think I paid for 3d printed resin fire walls that I painted... these look so cool! It's got me thinking, I could hollow out the wall since it's 1inch thick and add an LED just for the hell of it...
That would be my plan - a lot easier with the smaller grippy led I showed too, less to hollow out 😅
@3:52 An alternate option would be to use heat shrink tubing. I dont know what the cost/speed/ease of use aspects would be vs using hot glue to get the same result. I just know that I typically burn myself with a hot glue gun and being able to use normal electrical heat shrink tubing would work just as well.
I found the heat shrink wouldn't shrink thin enough, I did try :)
good vid keep up the good vids you do
Thanks man :)
I use the used medicine cups that come with certain medicine bottles like from Nyquil, Robitussin or Immodium to make my markers. But it's gotten harder to find multi color LEDs now that Radio Shack went out of business. And most dollar stores only carry the white LEDs tea lights. So I may have to go back using a trick I learned 25 yrs ago when I did model train villages before they had multicolored lights. You thin out some enamel paint with a lil bit of paint thinner and lightly brush on a coat or two over the light bulb until you get the desired look you want for LEDs dont give off that much heat do you wont have to worry about it burning the paint on the light to get the color effect you want.
What I did for my black burned ground rather than using real charcoal I use black sand that you can pick up at a dollar store in the floral sections for home decor they use it to pour in the bottom of a vase. I even found some red sand and gravel that I added to my bases to give the look of hot burning embers scattered around in few places so they aren't in just one spot. But before adding the red sand if I want to tone down the bright shiney black sand I either cover it with matte mod podge or spray on a matte finish then glue on some of my red sand and gravel for those are shiney to give them the bright hot look of the embers
The infamous eyebrows strike again
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@@RPArchiveOfficial True 😂
I am going to be that guy because I must have missed it in the video, but where do you typically buy the LED's from? Especially the ones that flicker. I know that in the states they are easy to find the candles in dollar stores, but in France they are not so easy or cheap. Thanks and BTW this video is great. Especially how to create the simple replaceable LED "throwers". Awesome idea.
There's a full list with links in the equipment list in the description :)
You definitely have the flame appearance down.
Thanks! Gouging out the deep bits really helped.
I'm thinking about making standing candles using leds. Maybe you could show us how...??? :D :D :D
Like, for a mini table? My first thought would be use a 1225 battery as the candle holder and work a 1mm led wire around it somehow... But the holder would be comically oversized 😂
If you really wanted to, your best bet is 1mm LEDS with the magnet under the table, and have them sealed in place. Not my style, but it should work :)
@@RPArchiveOfficial Thanks for the response and advice! Love your videos (made some tables and magnetic books of my own), did not expect a response :D
I was thinking more of a floor standing candle holder (don't know the proper name). It might be possible to create a base from the battery and use the 'wires' of the LEDs to give it a wrought iron look
Ah! Actually that would be much easier, though it depends how many candles you want as each would need it's own 1mm led :)
You could use hollow styrene tube for the main pole though, and run the wires through it to a battery at the base...
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The rocks parts looks like a oreo cookie (6:11)
Haha, yeah a bit 😅
Quick question about the surebonder are you having to use an inverter for it? I believe they only come with a us plug?!? Great work BTW and great to have back 👍🎉
Preface this with I'm not an electrician, so this is not advice - but I've used mine with a us plug travel adapter for years :)
Craft the lights or... just purchase cheap lights that have a multi-color feature and remote. Sometimes it's easier versus cheaper, but when easier is still pretty inexpensive... I chose easier for more crafting time... ... but to each their own.
That's also an option, but they're often larger - hence why I did this :)
Drinking game: Everytime Matt says Hot Glue take a shot
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
Balefire!
I wish i was british just so i could get away with your awesome slang. naff is a great word
Poxy is another good one 😅
+1 to engagment metrics
Thanks man :)
*ahem* ... GREEN FLAME!
Easier way to do fire effects: use real fire/j
For real tho amazing video and I’m planning on making a few.
Nice! One of my less popular videos so its nice to hear someone's getting use from it 😂
want ash? just use ash. so obvious, but I certainly didn't think of it.
get video