This was a fun build. If you spray on that watered down white glue after you put on the spices, it will lock them in better. Less falling off in later steps. But time for the real reason I watch these videos. The mystery word. "Pepe"- mache. You got me good with that one. You used neither the English word paper or the French word papier. I can't wait to be ambushed next time.
@JacquesofallGames
3 жыл бұрын
You're absolutely right about the watered down glue - it would have saved some of the flyers when I went in with the airbrush (and saved me some time cleaning out my filter). To be honest, the project already involved so much sitting around and waiting for stuff to dry I was happy enough to let the loose stuff fly away and get the rest locked in under the primer, paint, varnish etc. As far as papier mâché goes though, that's my usual French accent - given that I'm of Northern Québecois descent, you're going to have a lot of fun picking my French apart! I actually have a few French episodes in my backlog if you feel like immersion into the world of blended jouale and chiaque, hahaha.
@derdom1862
2 жыл бұрын
thx for the video! I'm just starting Team Yankee again in 6mm.....i will try to make some trees today but will use branches instead of those sticks just for the look.
@JacquesofallGames
2 жыл бұрын
Oh cool! I've read the Team Yankee novel and greatly enjoyed it, but never tried the game. I'm sure using real branches will look great!
@kevinhocking3531
3 жыл бұрын
Video format is pretty straightforward and easy to understand, techniques are interesting and well-explained, and the final products all look absolutely amazing! Well done and thank you for sharing. P.S. As beautiful as the trees are, the bases really stand out to me; something about them is truly incredible. P.P.S. Happy crafting and I will be looking forward to more uploads! Cheers!
@JacquesofallGames
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for the kind words, and I'm very glad you enjoyed the video! I find using a mixture of materials in my flocking does a lot for making the bases look more natural - once I started doing that, the quality skyrocketed! Now I'm trying to mix up what I do underneath by mixing sand and baking soda to get more texture in the mud, which I'll hopefully show off in a video soon(ish). Having a newborn at home has thrown off the schedule a bit, but I'm slowly regaining crafting time and look forward to putting more stuff online as soon as possible!
@kevinhocking3531
3 жыл бұрын
@@JacquesofallGames You are very much welcome and I really do appreciate the tips as some interesting ideas are coming to mind now 💡 Your videos have given me some great insight into how I can hopefully up my crafting quality a bit already; so thank you again and last but certainly not least: Congratulations on the child, truly a gift!
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3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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@richardburnett2961
3 жыл бұрын
Good for my RoCo 1/87 miniatures and my 20mm as well No good for my 6mm I have forests of trees for the 6mm I use Scupper, lichen and wire plus acrylic paint, two to three trees to a stand, trees without lichen or tops, just the wire to show burnt trees or conifers in winter I use canvas for the ground and paint green th areas to indicate the forested areas, no arguments about where the forested areas are!
@pavelstaravoitau7106
3 жыл бұрын
As someone that collects and wants to play (damn you Covid!) 10mm scale minis, I'm not really happy with just a couple of trees. I want to make a unified forest, and I think I found how to make it, using what's in this video. I have a big sponge that I also cut up a bit in an attempt to round it out. I can cut it up into a few big pieces and reglue them together in different ways. Add in some cotton balls to round out the shape. Then it gets harder. I want this forest to have a removable canopy in order to actually put in my units, so naturally I wouldn't want to have many trunks visible, so I'd need to mostly make them more outside and creat an illusion. I do not know whether to to just put in skewers or dowels from the start, or save them for later. Nevertheless, the rest of the process would be just like in the video, but bigger. Then I'll need to somehow make a base, stick in the skewers or dowels, stick the canopy on top and my troops would have a forest that's either an obstacle or a retreat.
@JacquesofallGames
3 жыл бұрын
That sounds like quite the project! I'm just spitballing here, but here's an idea of how I might go about making this hollow sortof forest. Maybe passing ideas around will help you solidify your process! Start with a base of whatever shape you want - 3d printed would be easy, since you can add slots for the dowel/tree trunks electronically, but you could do it with MDF and drill out holes. Put the holes around the perimeter at semi random intervals, maybe two rows deep to give some depth when looking at it on the table. Insert your dowels (ideally all of the same height, to help support the canopy/plug you would make next) into the holes to serve as the tree trunks to be visible from the outside, then paint up and flock the whole base contraption. Next, get a piece of sponge or old styrofoam (the surface doesn't matter because of what we do next) that is the size of the whole base, and another that is smaller and will fit inside your inner row of trunks. This second bit should be about as tall as your tree trunks, and can be painted black or dark green to represent the shadows deep in the forest (it'll just help support the canopy and fill in the empty space when you have your foliage on top). Glue the first piece on top of the second, then glue cotton balls, pillow filling, or your other preferred medium overtop of the upper layer. You can then seal and flock it as I do in my video. This would give you a base with some trunks but a large playable area in the middle, and a big styrofoam "plug" that sits on top of it when the forest isn't in play, and can be lifted off as one piece when you want to maneuver inside. Whenever you have the lid off, you can scatter some moss or other clutter into the hollow to make it look like underbrush. I hope that helps your brainstorming, and I wish you the best of luck with the project! Big pieces of terrain like that make setting up a play area a breeze!
@pavelstaravoitau7106
3 жыл бұрын
@@JacquesofallGames thank you! That's more comprehensive and organised than I could put it. Great idea for the internal support too! I've only recently started making terrain, so it's very exciting.
@JacquesofallGames
3 жыл бұрын
@@pavelstaravoitau7106 No problem! I have much more experience with models than terrain as well, so it's always fun to brainstorm a bit and expand my horizons! i hope the forests turn out well!
@uisgeuisce
3 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial Jacque and very much needed! To what scale does 6mm and 10mm correspond? I'm new to this... So not so clear to me. Is it 1:350 and 1:144? If not what would be the scales respectively and vise versa.
@JacquesofallGames
3 жыл бұрын
Hello, and thank you very much! That's a very good question, as the "figure scale" for wargaming is an odd system indeed. "6mm figure scale" corresponds to about a 1:285 scale, while "10mm figure scale" corresponds roughly to 1:182. The reason these measurements are so rough is that "figure scale" is, theoretically, based on the approximate height of an average human model, and not all manufacturers measure it the same way. Some measure to the top of the head, others measure to the height of the eyes, and so on. To a certain extent, with wargaming models "close enough" has to be good enough, haha! I hope that helps, and I hope you enjoy getting into modelling! Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment!
@uisgeuisce
3 жыл бұрын
@@JacquesofallGames Thank you very much! It was hard enough to find anyone to consult with... So truly appreciated! I guess I will go for 1:144 and approx that to 10mm for humans since already many tank and airplane models are available but I guess that navy I will have to model all from scratch to 1:144 (which is huge for ships). I owe you a beer! Thanks once again for your time and keep up the good work!
@JacquesofallGames
3 жыл бұрын
@@uisgeuisce No problem, I'm super happy to help! If you have more scale conversion issues, the following wikipedia page actually has a very comprehensive table you can reference for future projects: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scale_model_sizes Good luck building 1:144 ships, haha, that would be pretty immense! It would be very impressive on a tabletop though, that's for sure. Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions, I'm always happy to provide personalized info wherever possible!
@uisgeuisce
3 жыл бұрын
@@JacquesofallGames I was thinking to 3D print some parts and I'm willing to use any other material at my disposal as long as the results are good enough. Being that wood, resin or cardboard it works for me if it will give a decent result! I would like to keep you updated but I'm little bit slow with whole process since I wanna add special rules to the wargame, to make it more fun obviously. To be frank I find them a little bit slow and redundant keeping in mind the wargame simulators out there, that's why I wanna change it a little bit.
@JacquesofallGames
3 жыл бұрын
@@uisgeuisce 3d printing is super useful for that - I've been experimenting with it for a while now and while it isn't perfect for all applications, it has some great moments! Writing your own rules is a great idea as well, that sounds like a super exciting project. I definitely agree that wargaming needs to be quick and fun to be worthwhile nowadays, since I could always just fire up my computer and play a game much more quickly that will also do all the math and die rolling haha. Do you know what you will be basing your rules on, or will you be writing rules from scratch?
@livanbard
2 жыл бұрын
But ain't this trees too big, like they are bigger than the Mecha
@JacquesofallGames
2 жыл бұрын
That's a fair point! In Battletech, Mechs are normally described as about 3-4 stories tall, putting them between 10-15m tall. Out here in Canada at least, it's definitely not uncommon for many trees to be at least that tall, if not twice that high! As far as the minis go, the techniques would work for smaller or larger trees as well, to an extent. If you used smaller dowels or matchsticks, you could get much smaller trunks, and then you could coarsely grind the spices (using perhaps a pestle) to reduce their size while keeping some texture. In my case, I was aiming for trees that were large-ish next to my Mechs and small-ish next to my 15mm troops, so I could use them in as many contexts as possible!
@Barbernz
3 жыл бұрын
I am not sure why you say 6mm 10mm 15mm when demo tree is much larger. You can't use this method for trees sizes in your description. I would be interested to see a tutorial on making a 15mm or smaller tree.
@JacquesofallGames
3 жыл бұрын
I apologize if there is some confusion - by 6mm, 10mm, or 15mm, I am referring to the scale of human miniature models - the greek miniatures pictured next to the trees around 0:30 are 15mm models, for example. I will change the title of the video to specify that the sizes refer to wargaming scales! As for actually 15mm or smaller trees, that is an interesting challenge! I'll keep it in mind for the future, haha!
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