Quick & Easy Home Made Sculptamold - New Technique
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 เม.ย. 2020
- Quick Home Made Sculptamold that is cheap and easy
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Very nice.. I remember back when I was a kid, we tried to make a custom wargaming table using chicken wire and plaster.. it was the heaviest mess ever! :P
TH-cam failing to let me know when there's comments! And that sounds insane, but kinda fun!
This is a criminally underrated video. Thanks!
What you are calling the incorrect method was PERFECT for creating stone/terrain similar to terrain found in Moab, Utah which is just what I am going for. Just a thought, you can apply your alternate (wrong) methods for alternative applications of the technique. I know I am grateful for the explanation of the two methods because I have used the needed method for two major RC tracks and it has worked amazingly well. Thank you.
I might be the elephant in the room, but I preferred the texture of the bad mix better than the other two. To my eye it looked more realist. Unless yo'ure dealing with very loose sand the ground is lumpy and bumpy. Even smooth car parks aren't smooth.
Thanks for this... that other stuff is expensive as hell!
Yeah, it isn't cheap but it is really good stuff. I alo watched lots of other vids and read up on it, everyone was trying to replicate how it looks, but I just simply don't think it's needed if you do it right. Hell even the non right way coul dbe useful for uneven ground etc.
Great video! I was worried that I would need to blend and shred toilet paper and dry it (don't have a hand blender or large oven), and this video solves my problems! Thanks, subscribed!
Brilliant mate, thanks a bunch
I just finished doing a huge hill on a 3x4 and was already displeased of the thought of needing to go through all the shredding, wetting toiletpaper, let it dry, and then mix it up etc.
just splendid!
Yeah like the thought of that is what drove me to play around to see if I could make it similar but quikcer. And while it's maybe not 100% the same, it's so close that I would gladly use it to bulk up for sure!
Thank you for this. I figured the toilet paper pulping method was overly elaborate. I've been experimenting with wood powder mixed with plaster, but will give this a go, too!
Yeah I am lazy and this is fine :)
Awesome tip, great time saver! Thanks for doing the research!
It all stemmed from being a bit lazy and not wanting to wet it, blend it and dry it. I thought what would happen if you just didn't...and well, I really think it works very well. My pleasure, thank you :)
This was extremely helpful! Thanks!
good advice.
Great video man, thank you for this and it is exactly what i needed at the moment. With the lockdown i'm doing a lot of terrain pieces for warcry.
Yeah I didn't want to do it when loo roll was in short supply but figured worth showing in case people could get plaster and wanted the same effect, and its cheaper :)
I'm definitely gonna try that. Thanks for the tip!!
I use it all the time for small amounts that I need quickly! My pleasure.
wish i had seen this earlier! the stuff cost a fortune here in Singapore. Thanks for sharing!
Been thinking about making some DIY Sculptamold lately, But I'm thinking of using Cellulose (paper) Insulation + Fine Casting Plaster from MB Fibreglass
Get a blender.
Plaster+paper=sculpting material.
Sponges+pva+acrylic paint=clump foliage.
Sawdust+acrylic paint=ground cover.
Dont be afraid of feeding the blender new things and see what comes out. Just dont feed it sand or metal.
If you want to add those do it manually after blending.
Heh yes, if you have a blender there's a few methods. I just wanted to show you don't need a blender.
good texture, nice work
Thanks, yeah I think for the price and time, this is a good little way of getting that volume.
If you consider how the toilet paper is made in the first place, the normal home method is pretty funny. Those fibers must be tired of going back between pulp and solid and back. Wet and dry and back. Again and again.
heh I wish you could buy the pulp cheaply and easily, that would be cool!
Thank you for the pro tip, homeboy
Not sure I have ever been called a homeboy before but I'll take it. Thanks :)
Thank you 😊
Absolutely my pleasure
This is so good.. So I can use your sculptur idea on my xps foam borads...
yeah it's great for adding cheap bulk and blending stuff together. Thanks, good luck
Good stuff
Thanking you :)
Will the mixture keep in a jar or do you have to mix when needed - thanks
Any advice on the best cheap plaster to use?
I thought your kid was part of the backround music lol
Heh!
Nice Tip! I am amused that the two videos I have watched about home made Sculptamold have both had cameos by small children.
Heh we had planned it all out (not sure who the other youtuber is though)
@@TerrainMadeEasy it was Luke’s APS. And comparing plans for this technique, I do like yours as it’s small batch based. My wife would kill me if I made something like this in bulk, lol.
@@nerdfatha I would say that even a little bit of loo role good further than you think!
Have you tried cellulose insulation fibre (Thermofloc etc.) rather than toilet roll? It's a bit pricey because it comes in bulk bags (10-12kg), but then that's significantly cheaper than the equivalent weight in shredded toilet roll. Just add plaster and water and away you go
I actually couldn't find it for reasonable price in the uk. It's almost too big to get dleivered, but I have tried that style, and I couldn't get it super smooth because you get the same problem, sometimes you don't get a good mix. Obviously mixing it better cna help etc. I just doubt I'd ever really need that much, 1 or 2 toilet rolls would probably do me for life.
@@TerrainMadeEasy Yeah, everywhere I've looked it's about £15 for a huge sack, but then it's the same again for postage costs - that is if they'll even deliver. Interesting to hear you're having issues with getting it smooth; another reason not to invest a chunk of cash on something I likely won't use all that often
@@childofthedarkrat Well that's why I made the vid, grab some cheap plaster of paris and do this method. It's maybe not the aboslye cheapest, but I think most reasonable for most people!
@@TerrainMadeEasy funnily enough, I've got a kilo of plaster of paris that I bought recently for tinkering with, so I'm gunna give this technique a go next
Would you be able to use this stuff to fill holes in your expanding foam hill project?
Hi Matt, obviously we spoke in the live stream but the answer is yes :)
I wonder whether a roll of toilet paper would feed into a paper shredder so that it pulled it from the roll automatically. That could certainly automate the most laborious part of the process.
yeah someone mentioned that to me, I would love to try it but don't own a shredder! Ripping up takes only a minute or so, but obviously its better the longer you spend doing it.
What if you are using boiling water? This helps dissolve the paper.
I like to add cheap black India ink to plaster mix so it goes on grey instead of white.
That's an idea i haven't tried!
Put the tissue paper through a shredder?
Heh I have no idea if that would work but it would be fun!
@@TerrainMadeEasy I think it would closer match the 'real' sculptamold.
I just use wood filler mixed with pva and sand. I've never tried sculptamold before.
I haven't tried that, feels like it would be gritty, which is good, but you can make big smooth land mass with this stuff :)
@@TerrainMadeEasy ah I see. I have used my mix for when I have already made some extruded polystyrene hill or something and want to make the cover on top look like dirt or mud. Essentially my mix is a mud mix.
@@Xaltotun Yeah I think just slightly different uses. Sculpatmold is godly for like doing undulating ground.
Put the toilet roll into a blender, then it will be super fine
Sure you can still do that, but I am just not sure it's needed, and the reality is you can't just put a whole roll in and blend it (unless it is the will it blend blender!). But you could tear it in to bits and blend it for super fine.
Ok, that seems a lot easier, I just thought it would be easier to do so
A blender, or an office shredder...
can i somehow whiten this? i want to make snow.
Hmm snow flock is sooo good for snow, you could try a drop of white paint in it, but it will go everywhere! Or you could paint it after the fact? Sorry!
@@TerrainMadeEasy i will paint afterwards as here in Europe i don't think i'd find whatever is snow flock :D
@@miraxterrik Try woodland scenics online or something, though I think geeks gaming might ship to EU.
The only flaw with this video is that you are chopping up TOILET ROLL during the LOCKDOWN! Are you MAD MAN!? Do you know how much that is worth these days?!!?!?
I wanted to do this video earlier....just as covid 19 was starting, but I waited till the panic buying was over!
@@TerrainMadeEasy love this, ha ha ha
@@ardithmartijn6260 Thankfully most people now have toilet paper hehe. Thanks
Toilet paper!
No idea what I called it but this is what I normally call it!
I was saying that toilet paper is worth a ton right now. But i guess it works both ways.
@@levibarnhurst862 Ooooo! Yes, I was going to do this just as covid 19 was hitting big time, but held off. All the madness seems to have calmed down now, and no shortages.
Ha Ha had you thought of the video before corona nobody would say anything about toilet paper