out of every hobby ive had, the mini painting guys really seem to be the only ones in the youtube game who arent "competing" for views. You all watch eachothers stuff, comment sections always have brent and jeremy at the top every single time its very refreshing
Absolutely is this TH-cam community a good one. Good enough that if a terrain/minis channel doesn't link to Luke here, or one of his peers, I normally won't watch it.
You should follow the martial arts guys! Sensei Seth, Jessie encamp, Ramsey Dewey, martial arts journey, icy Mike. They all do videos together and watch each other's stuff and have regular collabs! It's awesome! It's the best community in TH-cam!
My local discount store has an array of great stuff for the hobby, from spacle and grout/adhesive for gluing foam and filling gaps in diy terrain to lolipop sticks and toothpicks for perfect scale fences and bridges, they really are a gold mine for hobby materials, and of course lets not forget the best hobby invention ever, double sided foam tape!
I've been using Poundland's No More Nails to base my scenery (you need a mastic gun, another £1.00 ) Before it dries I add whatever sand/gravel/baking soda combi I'm going with and it sticks to it nicely. Another £1.00 find is budgie sand and grit from Wilko, 500g bags. For washes I sometimes go with liquid shoe polish (black and brown) which is available in Poundland and many other stores stock their own brand for a comparable price, or you can go with Kiwi which will set you back a bit more.
Using cheap picture frames for small dioramas is a great idea. Especially for gifts to friends. Also like the trays, would need to check if any of the local cheap item shops has something similar.
Yeah unfortunately not all cheap shops have the silicon spot treys but they will all be slightly different for example mine had no treys but packs of 50 brushes going really cheap. It’s all just where you look really.
Something surprisingly hobby-handy from pound shops; Lights! You can easily buy clusters of several sub-par LED lamps in order to get dim backing lighting for atmospheric model photos. There is also the classic Tea Lights + Cotton Wool Balls + Black Spray = Light up explosion markers, too.
The Works & Bargain Books is also good for flat brushes for dry brushing or painting larger items or terrain. You will also find paint palettes in different sizes, & palette knives in metal and plastic + One liter of pva glue.
That's where I got my oil paints to give them a go on some test models. Few pounds for the paints, a palette and some synthetic brushes. All I needed to give it a go. I'm going to have to pop in again and see if there are some palette knives in.
And I got a self healing cutting sheet from Works - all the different sizes and cheaper than anywhere else. Also they will get your item from another store if it's not in stock - at no cost.
One thing I like to get from my 1€ stores are decorative rocks and beads and the likes. You know, the plastic jars full of small pebbles that you can buy to make decorative ground for, like, bathroom plants and little pebble gardens and the likes. One jar for like two bucks gives enough decorative little rocks that I can sprinkle over some spackle/texture paste which will probably last me a lifetime.
Oooh, I did a pound shop run not long ago, let me see... -glue gun -glue gun sticks -superglue (6x5ml tubes) -box cutter knives (my preferred style) -shot glasses (add a bit of blue tack for a painting handle) -filler -steel rule -clamps -make up brush for dry brushing -storage tubs I'm sure I've missed some too but that's all I can remember for now
Home bargains do baking trays for 99p I use the with magnets on the bottom of all my models. With a bit of effort you can either create a way to stack them up or put them in a box just a bit bigger than a4 and you don't have to worry about them falling over unless you drop them from a reasonable hight. If you use mounting tape to stick them in the boxes then you can if you really wanted to and the magnets are strong enough turn them upside down and back without a problem ( I don't recommend this unless you are crazy like me and I turned a tray over with a metal dreadnought that was stuck to the base via 2 magnets and the base had another 2 in it. So it can be detached if I want to use it for 2nd edition where the base is not needed.)
In the UK, the Works is great for cheap hobby finds. They have tons of budget craft supplies. I use my fancy W&N Series 7 brushes for detail work, but most of my mini painting is done with £2 multipack brushes.
I love those brushes, ive been in the hobby for about 20 years and they're hands down the best value ones ive come across. They do some cheap sets of acrylics that are good enough for terrain and some really nice storage ideal for a bitz box or two.
In my local £ shop I have purchased paint scrapers (3d printing) some nice storage boxes for my basing materials, sandpaper, files, card - all colours and thickness - knife blades and even a cheap craft knife and also chocolate for those long painting sessions.
If I might just add, those types of oil not to be snobby but cheap oils. Can have a high amount of oil and tend to dry shiney, so stick em on some cardboard over night. If doing something where that matters at least. Oh and people do check out, tk maxx, home sense and the range also for bargains.
Things I buy from Poundland? Black and Grey spray primers Super Glue, Poly filler, Expanding foam, Steel ruler, Craft knives. Nothing amazingly ground breaking but their DIY section is actually pretty well stocked.
I've used Tescos all purpose filler for my modeling, swear by the stuff it's great! Mostly use to go over paper mache hills. I do OO gauge railway modeling mostly, but I'm sure it could be used for war gaming! But yeah, cheap paints are fantastic for base work!
@@GeekGamingScenics Thanks, I'll give it a go but I do like using filler, since it's less than £2 a tub haha! Also slower drying is useful for me when I'm manipulating it over trackwork. But appreciate the advice! 👍
Cool video! I LOVE OUR POUND STORES there is so much to use in there, my favourite at the moments are make up brushes for painting and also removing dust from miniatures and bird sand which I use for all my miniature bases now. I purchased some 2 part epoxy resin glue which Im going to test on a base and see how that goes. :):)
Do love me a Poundland rummage, always get my primer from there, glue sticks for my hot glue gun, epoxy resin (barley use it so not worth buying those huge jugs) and there is always something you can use!
Sadly my local pound chain doesn't have a very good online listing of their exclusive crafting items as I have found jars of glass aquarium gravel in all kinds of colours that would be instant crystal formations for bases, more kinds of glitter then I can count, but probably the most interesting thing I found is one inch wide rolls of rhinestone mesh. You just unroll it and cut it to length, one of the rolls I found just happens to have square pyramidal shapes that look like they would work for those reactive armor panels you see on some modern tanks.
It's not as good as Geek Gaming scenics base ready, but from the pound shop you can buy broom heads and coir mats for your grasses and reeds. Kitty litter and vermiculite for your ground covers. 2-part epoxy for water effects. Put it all together and it will look shite, but very cheap!
For much of my painting, I use cheap brushes from the dollar store. They wear out and become bent at the end after a while, but they're effective while they last. (Also, the bent ones can still be used for some painting tasks, like blocking out colors; in some ways, the bend actually helps getting into hard to reach places).
At my $1 Store I’ve scored the following key items: -5 pack of small superglues. Great to chuck when clogged! - Flower pot sand / ballast - Toy spiders for kit bashing - crap toys and water pistols for Sci Fi terrain - Halloween skulls - Foam board - ‘Totally Awesome’ cleaner good for stripping g models. - 6 sided dice - cups for mixing - brushes for terrain - Tupperware to make a wet pallet!
I usually get super glue in small tubes, they have this small gold and silver glitter which works nice as coins on bases, sometimes you can grab a Harry Potter mini, I got a ok looking ghost, cups for stirring, 2 part epoxy for small amount of water, filler, storage compartment boxes for bits, qtips, and snack to keep you going :D
Wouldn't use the cheap acrylic paints for painting minis (that's an exercise in frustration), but they're good enough for terrain, and yes, the kind of stuff i've seen people kitbash out of pound shop supplies is mind-bending :D
I use craft paints for my minis (they're cheap minis, so I don't feel bad). Not the acrylics from the dollar store, no, I'm not insane. The slightly pricier kind from the hobby store. They're pretty thick and low in pigments, so getting them to work is indeed a challenge. You're constantly wrestling with thinning it enough that it can be layered, but not so thin it becomes uncontrollable. But you CAN use it. I wouldn't blame anyone for just springing for good model paints, though.
If there is an aldi store near you, there are youghurts with glass jars on em, the work great as painting handles. There are also coffee jars with golden rectangular lids, they work great as bases for small mini dioramas. Luv Luv Luv!
I'm with you on the basing stuff. I always find rocks and gravel and even sometimes those little faux glass shards for crystal bases. Plus tools. You find basic brushes, nippers, energy boards and files, glues, epoxy (your old water effects videos tipped me off to that actually -cheers!) And @blackmagiccraft hell yeah on the Doritos bro! 😂
Man, I love this video. I try to find cheap alternative but sometimes you can't seem to see the obvious ones like the picture frame. Please more of this. It's a great hobby but some people I know still think that it is very expensive.
Cheap acrylic paint in the tubes is also super great for scenic painting. Nothing hurts more than having to use your good tiny model paints for some big fat styrofoam rock haha.
One thing I don't see mentioned much are stainless steel condiment cups, like you might get a dipping sauce in at a restaurant. I got a pack of 8, 45mm tall cups for around $10 and I use them constantly. They're really versatile. They make surprisingly ergonomic paint handles, can keep small parts safe and organized during assembly, make great mixing cups or dip bins for basing materials, etc., etc. Because they're stainless, you can clean almost anything off them easily, and can reach for the Barkeeper's Friend in the worst of cases. They nest almost completely, so the few that aren't filling various roles around my work area pack away really small. Another handy piece of sub-$10 kit is a small ceramic palette. This isn't really an "outside the box" suggestion, but I don't usually see them marketed to model painters. Dried paints come off of these much more easily than plastic, and even more easily than metal in my experience. They're great for any metallics, particulate mediums, inks, etc. that you don't want to risk contaminating your wet palette sponge, or anything else you'd use a palette for. Most designs have multiple wide wells, which make them great for mixing, etc.
Here we have Dollar Tree. I grab all kinds of stuff there. Lots of toys that work for bits, foam board, little bottles, cork, they even sell CA glue, wood glue, and the famous modpodge
Best poundshop finds : - Packs of mini plastic toothpick/flossers- good for lots of uniform spikes and the other end can be used for other stuff like basing details -Pipe cleaners , twist them together, twist off some branches/roots then heatgun/hairdryer/lighter melts all the fibres and makes a dead tree - Flat sponges and tupperware box + baking paper = budget wet pallet
I have a local cheap shop near me, I'm in Cambridgeshire, and its £1.99 for 50 brushes in the sale, they are a packet of 50 red brushes with varying tip sizes/bristle thicknesses and they are quite good quality for the price. I mean they aren't by any means the best but for 50 brushes I'm definitely not complaining. Just thought I should let anyone from Cambridgeshire know.
There is a big difference between ATGNI (All the Gear No Idea) and the Skin Flints who spoil the Ship for hapeth of tar!! Being clever with your money by having your eyes opened to lower cost and easily available materials as you have demonstrated is pure common sense that unfortunately is often overlooked. Thank you for showing us there are other ways of achieving your goals. As usual another excellent video.
Cheap super glue is great for scenic work. It does the job and you don't waste your expensive stuff. I use it one bases where I'm doing a lot of rubble, etc that might fall off or get knocked off while gaming. I cover it in cheap super glue (then paint it) and it ends up rock hard and holds up well to gaming.
Try “The Range” for a range of supplies under one roof - rhinestones to hot tubs! It can be a bit hit and miss as to what they have in on any particular day (like most discount stores) but it’s one of those places where it is physically impossible to only buy the one thing that you went in for.
I have a three stage process for my cleaning. I leave the print on the build plate for all three. After the majority of the resin has dripped off after printing, I attach the Elegoo wash and cure adapter to the build plate and dip the print and plate in my 'dirty' isopropyl alcohol bucket. Use a toothbrush to gently clean away any film or goopy bits, dunk, clean, dunk until it's basically clean. Then hang it in the cleaner bucket and run the machine for 1m:30s. After that finishes I let as much of the dirty iso drip off before take it over to the 'clean' iso bucket for a few dips and final checks with a clean toothbrush. Lastly, I wash off the iso in my 'dirty water' bucket and use a clean toothbrush if I notice any final bits. After that, I'm free to scrape off the print before putting it in the curing station. I can clean an entire build plate in under a minute if I skip the wash stage of the machine and just dip/brush/dip/brush on simple parts.
Cheap make up brushes are really nice for sweeping plastic shavings off minis after you clean up mould lines. Maybe it's just super obvious but I have seen these brushes recommended in a couple of videos, but no mention of this use :) I keep finding little plastic flakes I've missed when undercoating and a little soft brush comes in handy.
lots of glues, ( resin glues for water FX yes I still use that one!) wire brushes, spray paint, there's loads of stuff in those places ( even toys for kit bashing) I haven't been for ages and had a good mooch around because of Covid. should be getting my second Jab soon however so time to stock up
I like to buy loads of stuff from Poundland, it's my 2nd home at this point. I'll do a full list of items, make a vid on it & zap a link to yours (since you're no doubt struggling for viewers/subs). Nice wee vid, man. Keep up the good work & especially those dreamy poses for the camera...you dirty tease :D
I visited the cheap-ass store just this week to pick up low priced stuff in my hobby projects. I do have to say though that there are hits and misses in what I bought: Brushes: bought a set of small cheap brushes. In the store I had to pick up several packs before finding one where the points were not crooked. I do assume that they will not last long, but as I mostly intend to use them for finer details on terrain and not on actual mini's it should be fine. Acrylic paint: for me this was a total miss. I bought a package of 36 paints, touting to have 'Artist Quality'. Alas the paint comes out pretty thick, yet the tiniest amount of water seems dilutes the paint to the quality of a wash. (as you can imagine, this means the coverage is virtually non existent) Sharp heavy duty hobby knife: I think this is my best buy. The knife is foldable on top of that the blade has an extra protective cover. It comes with 5 spare blades and you can put it in 2 stands (fully folded out and 45 degree fold. I the brand is 'Werckmann' which I personally didn't know before but I do have to say I like the quality. White primer and varnish: The primer (brand is 'Spectrum') is quite OK. I even used it on my miniatures. It covers well enough without being thick. The varnish of the same brand I am less happy about. I varnished two mini's and somehow the clear varnish matted the colors making the shiny gold of my stormcast read as dull? Double sided tape and paper tape: just really usable for so many things (as demonstrated in this video) Hobby mat: My cheap store also has A2 sized (or close) hobby mats. cheap and easy to put on the table to protect it. Spray can: I also found a spray can which was actually intended to be used for cleaning the house. It is however very serviceable to spray diluted PVA glue. Bonus: It came with microfiber rags which are just handy around the house :p On top of all that bought some other random crap and then the best part ... my spending spree cost all together around 20 euro. When buying stuff at the 'dollar' store though, I would advise you always to first test it out before using it in an actual project.
Great tips, gonna grab some oil paints next time I'm in a pound shop My last good hobby purchase from Poundland was the Daler Rowney synthetic brush set, size 6 and size 1 for a quid, pretty decent brushes and now my kids don't keep ruining all my sable brushes.... ;) The works also have great hobby stuff, I'm currently making my own hobby crate similar to the frontier wargaming one, from their wooden craft boxes, it's cost me £27 so far for all the bits ;)
Saving this for later when I can watch it properly. Brushes are good but there's some good stuff to be had in the garden section. I got some some stick edging to make a palisades for my dark age minis, garden wire for wattle fencing but that'll have a myriad of other uses. Even picked up a small bhudda to repurpose for some terrain when I eventually kitbash that undead samurai army.
Great tips, thanks mate, often go for a ferret round Poundland, sponges, cheap one use and dump brushes, occasional plastic plants with useable foliage. Always good for containers and pots for scenic stock, even used plastic plantable sticks to make stuff like shutters or gravestones.😉
There was me thinking we were about to hear that GGS products will soon be available at Poundland! (other Pound shops are available...) Great tips as ever mate! Silicon nipples... Essential requirements...
Yeah but in the likes of my case, our Pound shop closed down and went elsewhere that is not accessible for most folks, so any alternatives you can think of greatly appreciated as yes when ours was a working concern I used to go into it on a regular basis and buy some stuff I could not access elsewhere except online. So there you have it Luke-loo and a point of conception I told you about them oils before Jin-jon, years ago but do I get mentioned?
ok i was ready to disscard this video, thinking it was only another "cheap stuff you might need", but the diorama frames is something i had not thing about ever, good job man, good advice
I LOVE THE FRAME IDEA !!!!!!!!! i ll add a metal sheet on the bottom and get a few places so my mini can stick to it, and i will fullfill the empty space with something that matches my bases. Army on parade for cheap !
Poundland multi compartment organiser boxes are great. I found the artist acrylic tubes were a bit hit and miss in terms of coverage so will probably stick with Wilko tester pots! Charity shops are an ideal source of even cheaper picture frames and also old toys that can yield useful scenic bits.
I was using your airbrush thinner tutorial yesterday to save myself some money, you've come a long way from the days of telling people not to drink iso alcohol! Awesome to see! :)
Excellent video. I already have been doing the reading glasses trick, but it's cool to see it's being shared within the hobby group. I'm going to try the oil paints. Looks like an awesome entry point. Thank you, Sir!
Those oil paints is a great place to start if one is curious of the phenomenon. Getting into Artist oil paints can be rather costly, I just "accidently" bought a 37ml tube for 35£...
@@sirrathersplendid4825 hah, yeah there's cheap stuff too. The thing with artist grade paints is they price the paint after the cost of the pigment, so some are cheap, others can be expensive. If one is not paying attention, things can hurt the wallet.
Local green Pound shop has 'colour it' Desert sand 250ml spray paint, they probably work great for spraying desert things but I used them for painting thatch roofing
Totally agree with the cheap oil paints. I got a set of them from The Works here in the UK and they only cost me a couple of quid. I've not used them too often yet but they do an alright job for making washes.
Look at Luke, just being a shill for the pound shop empires :D I like the thought of getting oil paints in the pound shop (or 2€ shop it is here), I didn't actually think of that and now the shops are finally opening I'll be able to get some of this stuff. Diorama looks really nice :)
been using pound shop for, makeup brushs (good for dry brushing), extra craft blades, nail buffers for them annoying mould lines even there pva glue for basing :)
For your 3D slicer settings, I suggest you lower time on your first bottom layers, it will be easier to remove the print and your screen will endure longer...
out of every hobby ive had, the mini painting guys really seem to be the only ones in the youtube game who arent "competing" for views. You all watch eachothers stuff, comment sections always have brent and jeremy at the top every single time its very refreshing
Absolutely!!! Sharing ideas techniques and letting viewers know about the talented other TH-cam creators....... it gives you the feels am I right.
Like having jazzas mini box in the background
Absolutely is this TH-cam community a good one. Good enough that if a terrain/minis channel doesn't link to Luke here, or one of his peers, I normally won't watch it.
You should follow the martial arts guys! Sensei Seth, Jessie encamp, Ramsey Dewey, martial arts journey, icy Mike. They all do videos together and watch each other's stuff and have regular collabs! It's awesome! It's the best community in TH-cam!
@@joshelguapo5563 who cares I dont like martial arts thats really weird thing to say
Best hobby buy at dollar store are bags of Doritos at Dollarama for half the price of the grocery store 👍
HICKORY STICKS!
Sweet haul broski!
Came for the oil paints, stayed for the seductive glasses shot
My local discount store has an array of great stuff for the hobby, from spacle and grout/adhesive for gluing foam and filling gaps in diy terrain to lolipop sticks and toothpicks for perfect scale fences and bridges, they really are a gold mine for hobby materials, and of course lets not forget the best hobby invention ever, double sided foam tape!
I've been using Poundland's No More Nails to base my scenery (you need a mastic gun, another £1.00 ) Before it dries I add whatever sand/gravel/baking soda combi I'm going with and it sticks to it nicely. Another £1.00 find is budgie sand and grit from Wilko, 500g bags. For washes I sometimes go with liquid shoe polish (black and brown) which is available in Poundland and many other stores stock their own brand for a comparable price, or you can go with Kiwi which will set you back a bit more.
Using cheap picture frames for small dioramas is a great idea. Especially for gifts to friends.
Also like the trays, would need to check if any of the local cheap item shops has something similar.
Yeah unfortunately not all cheap shops have the silicon spot treys but they will all be slightly different for example mine had no treys but packs of 50 brushes going really cheap. It’s all just where you look really.
Something surprisingly hobby-handy from pound shops; Lights! You can easily buy clusters of several sub-par LED lamps in order to get dim backing lighting for atmospheric model photos. There is also the classic Tea Lights + Cotton Wool Balls + Black Spray = Light up explosion markers, too.
The Works & Bargain Books is also good for flat brushes for dry brushing or painting larger items or terrain. You will also find paint palettes in different sizes, & palette knives in metal and plastic + One liter of pva glue.
That's where I got my oil paints to give them a go on some test models. Few pounds for the paints, a palette and some synthetic brushes. All I needed to give it a go. I'm going to have to pop in again and see if there are some palette knives in.
Little wooden houses and stuff too, good for scenery base shapes
And I got a self healing cutting sheet from Works - all the different sizes and cheaper than anywhere else. Also they will get your item from another store if it's not in stock - at no cost.
Pound Land make up brushes. Perfect super soft dry brushes!
One thing I like to get from my 1€ stores are decorative rocks and beads and the likes. You know, the plastic jars full of small pebbles that you can buy to make decorative ground for, like, bathroom plants and little pebble gardens and the likes. One jar for like two bucks gives enough decorative little rocks that I can sprinkle over some spackle/texture paste which will probably last me a lifetime.
Pound shop glitter tubes. I glue and seal them on my Eldar with some home-made gloss thinner, to make a holo-field effect.
Lmfao that ninjon edit killed me 😂
I really wasn't expecting that!
Oooh, I did a pound shop run not long ago, let me see...
-glue gun
-glue gun sticks
-superglue (6x5ml tubes)
-box cutter knives (my preferred style)
-shot glasses (add a bit of blue tack for a painting handle)
-filler
-steel rule
-clamps
-make up brush for dry brushing
-storage tubs
I'm sure I've missed some too but that's all I can remember for now
Look at you getting all fancy with oils! 😀 Great result and a sweet little diorama.
Home bargains do baking trays for 99p I use the with magnets on the bottom of all my models. With a bit of effort you can either create a way to stack them up or put them in a box just a bit bigger than a4 and you don't have to worry about them falling over unless you drop them from a reasonable hight. If you use mounting tape to stick them in the boxes then you can if you really wanted to and the magnets are strong enough turn them upside down and back without a problem ( I don't recommend this unless you are crazy like me and I turned a tray over with a metal dreadnought that was stuck to the base via 2 magnets and the base had another 2 in it. So it can be detached if I want to use it for 2nd edition where the base is not needed.)
In the UK, the Works is great for cheap hobby finds. They have tons of budget craft supplies. I use my fancy W&N Series 7 brushes for detail work, but most of my mini painting is done with £2 multipack brushes.
I love those brushes, ive been in the hobby for about 20 years and they're hands down the best value ones ive come across. They do some cheap sets of acrylics that are good enough for terrain and some really nice storage ideal for a bitz box or two.
I am so jealous of your pound shop. The spray paints alone man....
In my local £ shop I have purchased paint scrapers (3d printing) some nice storage boxes for my basing materials, sandpaper, files, card - all colours and thickness - knife blades and even a cheap craft knife and also chocolate for those long painting sessions.
If I might just add, those types of oil not to be snobby but cheap oils. Can have a high amount of oil and tend to dry shiney, so stick em on some cardboard over night. If doing something where that matters at least. Oh and people do check out, tk maxx, home sense and the range also for bargains.
Nice tips.
Things I buy from Poundland?
Black and Grey spray primers
Super Glue,
Poly filler,
Expanding foam,
Steel ruler,
Craft knives. Nothing amazingly ground breaking but their DIY section is actually pretty well stocked.
I've used Tescos all purpose filler for my modeling, swear by the stuff it's great! Mostly use to go over paper mache hills. I do OO gauge railway modeling mostly, but I'm sure it could be used for war gaming! But yeah, cheap paints are fantastic for base work!
@@GeekGamingScenics Thanks, I'll give it a go but I do like using filler, since it's less than £2 a tub haha! Also slower drying is useful for me when I'm manipulating it over trackwork. But appreciate the advice! 👍
Cool video!
I LOVE OUR POUND STORES there is so much to use in there, my favourite at the moments are make up brushes for painting and also removing dust from miniatures and bird sand which I use for all my miniature bases now. I purchased some 2 part epoxy resin glue which Im going to test on a base and see how that goes. :):)
Do love me a Poundland rummage, always get my primer from there, glue sticks for my hot glue gun, epoxy resin (barley use it so not worth buying those huge jugs) and there is always something you can use!
Sadly my local pound chain doesn't have a very good online listing of their exclusive crafting items as I have found jars of glass aquarium gravel in all kinds of colours that would be instant crystal formations for bases, more kinds of glitter then I can count, but probably the most interesting thing I found is one inch wide rolls of rhinestone mesh. You just unroll it and cut it to length, one of the rolls I found just happens to have square pyramidal shapes that look like they would work for those reactive armor panels you see on some modern tanks.
It's not as good as Geek Gaming scenics base ready, but from the pound shop you can buy broom heads and coir mats for your grasses and reeds. Kitty litter and vermiculite for your ground covers. 2-part epoxy for water effects. Put it all together and it will look shite, but very cheap!
Their gel super glues were my most frequent purchase
Brushes. I’ve had great results with brushes from the Works.
Pound shop acrylics also excellent for terrain.
For much of my painting, I use cheap brushes from the dollar store. They wear out and become bent at the end after a while, but they're effective while they last. (Also, the bent ones can still be used for some painting tasks, like blocking out colors; in some ways, the bend actually helps getting into hard to reach places).
Defo need to get myself some of that tape and frames, fit a few dioramas I’ve been wanting to do. Great video bud!
Round 2? I love watching these kind of videos. Thanks dude!
At my $1 Store I’ve scored the following key items:
-5 pack of small superglues. Great to chuck when clogged!
- Flower pot sand / ballast
- Toy spiders for kit bashing
- crap toys and water pistols for Sci Fi terrain
- Halloween skulls
- Foam board
- ‘Totally Awesome’ cleaner good for stripping g models.
- 6 sided dice
- cups for mixing
- brushes for terrain
- Tupperware to make a wet pallet!
I usually get super glue in small tubes, they have this small gold and silver glitter which works nice as coins on bases, sometimes you can grab a Harry Potter mini, I got a ok looking ghost, cups for stirring, 2 part epoxy for small amount of water, filler, storage compartment boxes for bits, qtips, and snack to keep you going :D
Superglue and plastic pallets. The superglue comes in tiny tubes so you don't have to worry about de-crusting between projects.
Wouldn't use the cheap acrylic paints for painting minis (that's an exercise in frustration), but they're good enough for terrain, and yes, the kind of stuff i've seen people kitbash out of pound shop supplies is mind-bending :D
I use craft paints for my minis (they're cheap minis, so I don't feel bad). Not the acrylics from the dollar store, no, I'm not insane. The slightly pricier kind from the hobby store. They're pretty thick and low in pigments, so getting them to work is indeed a challenge. You're constantly wrestling with thinning it enough that it can be layered, but not so thin it becomes uncontrollable.
But you CAN use it. I wouldn't blame anyone for just springing for good model paints, though.
@@Bluecho4 As i said, an exercise in frustration. Give that to a newbie and they'll end up ragequitting. Quite possible but not worth the hassle.
If there is an aldi store near you, there are youghurts with glass jars on em, the work great as painting handles. There are also coffee jars with golden rectangular lids, they work great as bases for small mini dioramas.
Luv Luv Luv!
That coffee lid tip is genius!
I'm with you on the basing stuff. I always find rocks and gravel and even sometimes those little faux glass shards for crystal bases. Plus tools. You find basic brushes, nippers, energy boards and files, glues, epoxy (your old water effects videos tipped me off to that actually -cheers!)
And @blackmagiccraft hell yeah on the Doritos bro! 😂
Man, I love this video. I try to find cheap alternative but sometimes you can't seem to see the obvious ones like the picture frame. Please more of this. It's a great hobby but some people I know still think that it is very expensive.
Cheap acrylic paint in the tubes is also super great for scenic painting. Nothing hurts more than having to use your good tiny model paints for some big fat styrofoam rock haha.
One thing I don't see mentioned much are stainless steel condiment cups, like you might get a dipping sauce in at a restaurant. I got a pack of 8, 45mm tall cups for around $10 and I use them constantly. They're really versatile.
They make surprisingly ergonomic paint handles, can keep small parts safe and organized during assembly, make great mixing cups or dip bins for basing materials, etc., etc. Because they're stainless, you can clean almost anything off them easily, and can reach for the Barkeeper's Friend in the worst of cases. They nest almost completely, so the few that aren't filling various roles around my work area pack away really small.
Another handy piece of sub-$10 kit is a small ceramic palette. This isn't really an "outside the box" suggestion, but I don't usually see them marketed to model painters. Dried paints come off of these much more easily than plastic, and even more easily than metal in my experience. They're great for any metallics, particulate mediums, inks, etc. that you don't want to risk contaminating your wet palette sponge, or anything else you'd use a palette for. Most designs have multiple wide wells, which make them great for mixing, etc.
Here we have Dollar Tree. I grab all kinds of stuff there. Lots of toys that work for bits, foam board, little bottles, cork, they even sell CA glue, wood glue, and the famous modpodge
Best poundshop finds :
- Packs of mini plastic toothpick/flossers- good for lots of uniform spikes and the other end can be used for other stuff like basing details
-Pipe cleaners , twist them together, twist off some branches/roots then heatgun/hairdryer/lighter melts all the fibres and makes a dead tree
- Flat sponges and tupperware box + baking paper = budget wet pallet
*Luke puts on his glasses*
Me: Daaaaaamn, Nat20 on charisma.
I have a local cheap shop near me, I'm in Cambridgeshire, and its £1.99 for 50 brushes in the sale, they are a packet of 50 red brushes with varying tip sizes/bristle thicknesses and they are quite good quality for the price. I mean they aren't by any means the best but for 50 brushes I'm definitely not complaining. Just thought I should let anyone from Cambridgeshire know.
where about? I'm in bedfordshire right on the border so its an easy trip, i did just order 100 brushes from wish for £4 but they are all the same size
There is a big difference between ATGNI (All the Gear No Idea) and the Skin Flints who spoil the Ship for hapeth of tar!! Being clever with your money by having your eyes opened to lower cost and easily available materials as you have demonstrated is pure common sense that unfortunately is often overlooked. Thank you for showing us there are other ways of achieving your goals. As usual another excellent video.
Thank you Lukeypooh! Great vid as always :)
LUKEY POOH
Love the idea of using the frames as a base, brilliant idea.
Once I've finished moving, and dealing with my late mother's estate, I can't wait to try the frame idea.
Cheap super glue is great for scenic work. It does the job and you don't waste your expensive stuff. I use it one bases where I'm doing a lot of rubble, etc that might fall off or get knocked off while gaming. I cover it in cheap super glue (then paint it) and it ends up rock hard and holds up well to gaming.
I love how you always show how accessible this hobby is for a minimal cost.
Try “The Range” for a range of supplies under one roof - rhinestones to hot tubs! It can be a bit hit and miss as to what they have in on any particular day (like most discount stores) but it’s one of those places where it is physically impossible to only buy the one thing that you went in for.
I have a three stage process for my cleaning. I leave the print on the build plate for all three. After the majority of the resin has dripped off after printing, I attach the Elegoo wash and cure adapter to the build plate and dip the print and plate in my 'dirty' isopropyl alcohol bucket. Use a toothbrush to gently clean away any film or goopy bits, dunk, clean, dunk until it's basically clean. Then hang it in the cleaner bucket and run the machine for 1m:30s. After that finishes I let as much of the dirty iso drip off before take it over to the 'clean' iso bucket for a few dips and final checks with a clean toothbrush. Lastly, I wash off the iso in my 'dirty water' bucket and use a clean toothbrush if I notice any final bits.
After that, I'm free to scrape off the print before putting it in the curing station. I can clean an entire build plate in under a minute if I skip the wash stage of the machine and just dip/brush/dip/brush on simple parts.
Cheap make up brushes are really nice for sweeping plastic shavings off minis after you clean up mould lines. Maybe it's just super obvious but I have seen these brushes recommended in a couple of videos, but no mention of this use :)
I keep finding little plastic flakes I've missed when undercoating and a little soft brush comes in handy.
lots of glues, ( resin glues for water FX yes I still use that one!) wire brushes, spray paint, there's loads of stuff in those places ( even toys for kit bashing) I haven't been for ages and had a good mooch around because of Covid. should be getting my second Jab soon however so time to stock up
Poundland in the UK does a useful Grey car primer (and sometimes matt black), does the job well and cheaper than Halfords and other art supply stores
Great video as always - an eye opener to the Pound Shop possibilities!
I like to buy loads of stuff from Poundland, it's my 2nd home at this point.
I'll do a full list of items, make a vid on it & zap a link to yours (since you're no doubt struggling for viewers/subs).
Nice wee vid, man. Keep up the good work & especially those dreamy poses for the camera...you dirty tease :D
I visited the cheap-ass store just this week to pick up low priced stuff in my hobby projects. I do have to say though that there are hits and misses in what I bought:
Brushes: bought a set of small cheap brushes. In the store I had to pick up several packs before finding one where the points were not crooked. I do assume that they will not last long, but as I mostly intend to use them for finer details on terrain and not on actual mini's it should be fine.
Acrylic paint: for me this was a total miss. I bought a package of 36 paints, touting to have 'Artist Quality'. Alas the paint comes out pretty thick, yet the tiniest amount of water seems dilutes the paint to the quality of a wash. (as you can imagine, this means the coverage is virtually non existent)
Sharp heavy duty hobby knife: I think this is my best buy. The knife is foldable on top of that the blade has an extra protective cover. It comes with 5 spare blades and you can put it in 2 stands (fully folded out and 45 degree fold. I the brand is 'Werckmann' which I personally didn't know before but I do have to say I like the quality.
White primer and varnish: The primer (brand is 'Spectrum') is quite OK. I even used it on my miniatures. It covers well enough without being thick. The varnish of the same brand I am less happy about. I varnished two mini's and somehow the clear varnish matted the colors making the shiny gold of my stormcast read as dull?
Double sided tape and paper tape: just really usable for so many things (as demonstrated in this video)
Hobby mat: My cheap store also has A2 sized (or close) hobby mats. cheap and easy to put on the table to protect it.
Spray can: I also found a spray can which was actually intended to be used for cleaning the house. It is however very serviceable to spray diluted PVA glue. Bonus: It came with microfiber rags which are just handy around the house :p
On top of all that bought some other random crap and then the best part ... my spending spree cost all together around 20 euro. When buying stuff at the 'dollar' store though, I would advise you always to first test it out before using it in an actual project.
Great tips, gonna grab some oil paints next time I'm in a pound shop
My last good hobby purchase from Poundland was the Daler Rowney synthetic brush set, size 6 and size 1 for a quid, pretty decent brushes and now my kids don't keep ruining all my sable brushes.... ;)
The works also have great hobby stuff, I'm currently making my own hobby crate similar to the frontier wargaming one, from their wooden craft boxes, it's cost me £27 so far for all the bits ;)
Videos like this are a great way to help folks realize this hobby can be inexpensive. Thanks!
Saving this for later when I can watch it properly.
Brushes are good but there's some good stuff to be had in the garden section.
I got some some stick edging to make a palisades for my dark age minis, garden wire for wattle fencing but that'll have a myriad of other uses.
Even picked up a small bhudda to repurpose for some terrain when I eventually kitbash that undead samurai army.
Great tips, thanks mate, often go for a ferret round Poundland, sponges, cheap one use and dump brushes, occasional plastic plants with useable foliage. Always good for containers and pots for scenic stock, even used plastic plantable sticks to make stuff like shutters or gravestones.😉
There was me thinking we were about to hear that GGS products will soon be available at Poundland! (other Pound shops are available...)
Great tips as ever mate!
Silicon nipples... Essential requirements...
Poundshops literally was my highlight of lockdown!
Yeah but in the likes of my case, our Pound shop closed down and went elsewhere that is not accessible for most folks, so any alternatives you can think of greatly appreciated as yes when ours was a working concern I used to go into it on a regular basis and buy some stuff I could not access elsewhere except online. So there you have it Luke-loo and a point of conception I told you about them oils before Jin-jon, years ago but do I get mentioned?
Love it, you're just getting better and better, love to see your journey brow, great tips! and guys his store stuff is great!
Local Poundland in the summer has small bags of slate. In GW terms its probably about £1000 worth :D
ok i was ready to disscard this video, thinking it was only another "cheap stuff you might need", but the diorama frames is something i had not thing about ever, good job man, good advice
I often use the pound shop primer, black and white spraycans, there's always a good haul to be had of random goodies in the pound shop!
Very nice I'm a massive fan of the pound shop, I get all my blades and glues from here but also get paint and brushes, all the best, Garry
A pound saved is a pound made 👍
I LOVE THE FRAME IDEA !!!!!!!!! i ll add a metal sheet on the bottom and get a few places so my mini can stick to it, and i will fullfill the empty space with something that matches my bases. Army on parade for cheap !
I got some terrain for my Burrows & Badgers game today from the pound shop.
Love me a poundshop! Thanks for the poundshop love.
The make up brushes are really great for drybrushing, some effects are similar to the airbrush, expecially on the bases
Poundland multi compartment organiser boxes are great. I found the artist acrylic tubes were a bit hit and miss in terms of coverage so will probably stick with Wilko tester pots! Charity shops are an ideal source of even cheaper picture frames and also old toys that can yield useful scenic bits.
I was using your airbrush thinner tutorial yesterday to save myself some money, you've come a long way from the days of telling people not to drink iso alcohol! Awesome to see! :)
Baking soda, add it on superglue and it hardens almost instantly. Great for assembling, repairing, and filling in gaps. Costs almost nothing.
Our Dollar Stores often have 6 small paint pallettes for $1. Love those things.
I use champagne corks for painting handles, putting my alcoholism to good use and doesn't cost me anything!
I love your base ready products, makes basing so easy.
Excellent video. I already have been doing the reading glasses trick, but it's cool to see it's being shared within the hobby group. I'm going to try the oil paints. Looks like an awesome entry point. Thank you, Sir!
Miss this format of video, cheers mate!
I'm going to need to keep an eye out for those oil paints now lol. Great vid!
Those oil paints is a great place to start if one is curious of the phenomenon. Getting into Artist oil paints can be rather costly, I just "accidently" bought a 37ml tube for 35£...
£35? Argggh! That’s Sweden for you, lol.
Are there any ‘pound shops’ in Sweden? I guess they might be called 10 Kronor stores?
@@sirrathersplendid4825 hah, yeah there's cheap stuff too. The thing with artist grade paints is they price the paint after the cost of the pigment, so some are cheap, others can be expensive. If one is not paying attention, things can hurt the wallet.
Love it! Especially was not expecting oil paints to be on this one.
Local green Pound shop has 'colour it' Desert sand 250ml spray paint, they probably work great for spraying desert things but I used them for painting thatch roofing
Quite intrigued by the idea of the oils as a tester Luke. Make try them in the future and yeah this is a great way to just give it ago.
My Dollar Tree has a florals and craft section that has things like sand, gravel, rocks, etc that's a lot cheaper than craft stores.
Totally agree with the cheap oil paints. I got a set of them from The Works here in the UK and they only cost me a couple of quid. I've not used them too often yet but they do an alright job for making washes.
Great tips 👍
The advised I've used from your previous video is using the essential oils case to hold the paints.
Ok you have talked me into trying Oil paint as a wash!
Look at Luke, just being a shill for the pound shop empires :D I like the thought of getting oil paints in the pound shop (or 2€ shop it is here), I didn't actually think of that and now the shops are finally opening I'll be able to get some of this stuff. Diorama looks really nice :)
been using pound shop for, makeup brushs (good for dry brushing), extra craft blades, nail buffers for them annoying mould lines even there pva glue for basing :)
another cheap thing to do would be to have a walk in the forest ,pick some branches up, and there you go, trees
Daler Rowney Water Colour brushes, pack of 2 for £1 from Poundland - 2 sizes and decent quality.
I admit I’m a big kid. Silicon Nipples had me 😂
Glad you made this video. Some great ideas like the picture frames!
Very cool diorama Luke!
For your 3D slicer settings, I suggest you lower time on your first bottom layers, it will be easier to remove the print and your screen will endure longer...
thanks for the heads up for useful items especially the picture frames