we have one week to finish a boards earth terrain let's go
now we are old pros at 40k but that's the problem we're old pros neither of us
has played a single game of 9th edition so we have to familiarize ourselves with any terrain
rules changes for warhammer 40k 9th edition it turns out the size of a 40k board has changed
kind of dramatically back in the good old days it was an obnoxiously big four foot by six foot board
but now it scales with the game size small games are played on 44 by 30 about the size of a small
dining table 44 by 60 the size of a large dining table and an incredible 44 by 90 which is the size
of the table you probably ate your school lunches on we're gonna stick with the old size it's what
we have gaming mats for and it should give us more than enough terrain to play any size game
of ninth edition oh yeah that's a pretty big [ __ ] monitor welcome to the chad station
through the power of technology i can plan everything out beforehand which is important
as we are incredibly busy tubers and every second of free time is precious
by using the computer i can map out exactly what i want and where i want it our terrain right now is
kind of lacking we have a hodgepodge of stuff that we've picked up over the years or made ourselves
but it's inconsistent half finished and far too often unpainted it gets the job done sure but we
can do better we should do better and we will do better this is what i'm thinking big rectangles
in the middle smaller rectangles around that and little cubes in between those this is what
it will look like very basically so it's time to get to work all i have to do is invent everything
terrain is the other half of the hobby you have tons of beautiful models but if you're
just pushing them around whatever's laying around your house you're missing out this game
isn't just about rolling dice and seeing who wins it's about storytelling it's practically
an rpg but instead of assuming command of one character you are assuming command of an entire
faction a group of warriors handpicked by you who are preparing to do battle
and having a real fake battlefield will make all the difference it's a lot like video games running
around a 3d environment gets you in the mindset to be immersed in a game but video games do that for
us for tabletop we have to do it ourselves and this is going to be the first piece of terrain
this is a big imperial tower definitely not compensating for anything i saw it in this old
games workshop book how to make war game terrain it's got real big tower energy if you know what
i mean it will provide good cover for models to hide behind big stuff is important to help smaller
units not get blast off the board too fast and when you think of terrain it's always big stuff
like this so to start out all these models first i gave them a thick coat of some filler primer
then i gave them a light dusting of some texture paint then i gave them a base coat of
black spray paints and finally a xenotholi sort of thing of some gray spray paints and to save
you guys watching me spend hours shaking paint cans i will demonstrate right now
i poured white into my airbrush and spilling it all over myself this is why i didn't use a white
rattle can spray paint can only do so much i want to apply some highlights and i need the precision
of an airbrush i sprayed lines of white onto the top parts of the building creating a gradient
now i have black gray and white all on the model it's all about that value
so i want to paint it light blue but i don't just want to spray it with an opaque paint so
i'm going to mix it with some medium you could do this with just water but i like it to be a little
thicker so i'm going to be using a medium or you could also use a blending compound i gave this
a gurgle and now the super thin blue mixture is ready for spraying it went on beautifully
tinting everything perfectly so it's blue and because of how light that layer of blue was
i was able to take advantage of the black and the gray and the white i sprayed on underneath
so it's already got plenty of value but now it's time to take it to the next step
and because this is gonna be a crazy crazy week i mean usually i paint a couple of models a week now
i'm painting dozens of huge pieces of terrain so i literally don't have time to mix paint and put it
in the airbrush so i'm gonna be making extensive use of inks because inks i can just dump in my
airbrush and they'll spray it beautifully first up indigo i'm gonna use this to force in some shadows
i sprayed this to give a subtle dark outline of features like these supports in the door next up
burnt umber this color i'm using to help blend the bottom of my buildings into the earthy board it'll
sit on after that a yellow this might seem like a weird one but i don't want a perfectly clean sky
blue building spraying this will give it a model green blue appearance a little bit of dirtiness
so now the model is basically done being painted thank goodness if it took any more time than this
there's no chance i'd be able to get it all done this week i mean there's still like a 50 50. but
it's looking good and now there's just a few key things i want to do to this to make it feel
done what no i'm not gonna make you templates i have other stuff to do you can figure it out so my
next step was to make a template for myself i want hazard stripes so i marked out a pattern and then
carefully cut it out then i mashed up my buildings and primed the spots i wanted hazards with whites
after that i lined up my template and gave it a spray so you might have noticed that it's not
yellow i sprayed it yellow using inks the black was too dark for the yellow inks to cover it so
this worked to yellow it up and then i added more color with orange ink this is my favorite
way to do hazards then for the best part of any project d masking it worked like a charm
a few last minute details i painted the aquila with silver paint using a paint brush for the
first time today and again i used orange ink to tint the silver gold the hazard strapping
took about as much time as it took to paint the entire model but i think it was worth it now it
has a really nice focal points and the only thing left is just a little bit of weathering i took a
full-size chip brush and began stippling on silver paint i lay this on pretty thick it'll do a good
job of bringing it all together and make the building look lived in and one done that wasn't
so bad maybe we can actually manage to finish this project after all i made another building
two down a couple more to go a lot more to go
this is the imperial firebase it was shall we say inspired by the old 40k cardboard and
plastic terrain it was interesting to reimagine this paper and plastic model into real materials
i like it a lot but mine won't be made of paper where the big dick tower is just a lump of line
of sight blocking terrain this model has a lot of services for models to interact with
they can enter it climb on top of it and hide behind it this will turn our battlefields into
a real king of the hill situation well maybe more like five-year-olds in a battle royale bob
should be cool can't wait to see what happens with it
wow i know that this is like the big centerpiece model and uh it definitely looks it lots of parts
okay now that i have everything organized it totally looks doable when it was a big
pile i was a little bit afraid of it but now that i have everything organized based on the
instructions this looks super easy i've built lincoln logs before i know what i'm doing here
damn this is a big boy it was not too bad to put together and look at it it's enormous
i gotta paint it boom just like that the imperial firebase is finished
in like four quick steps and like five or six not so quick hours it is
complete and it has some amazing board presence it's huge i cannot wait for all
of the other beautiful pieces of terrain to surround this thing that i still have to paint
oh boy this is gonna be this is gonna be a project i was thrilled with my progress in the firebase
but that was mid-afternoon i stayed up for most of the night working until the sun came back up
i was furiously building stuff painting stuff getting things ready and as the hours ticked
away my thoughts changed from the idea of finishing to just pushing through exhaustion
my only comfort was knowing that nick was in the exact same boat misery loves company
this is never gonna work at this point each building is taking hours and the bottleneck
isn't coming up with the designs it's making them actually 3d printable yes
you could let the machines print for days but i don't have much of a printer farm
time and materials are precious which means i have to come up with ways to hollow the
models and cut them into several smaller components this will allow me to print
with little to no supports speeding up the printer time another thing to consider is
switching printer types with an fdm printer the nozzle has to deposit plastic one line at a time
but a resin printer like the photon mono 6k has a large print area and allows for printing multiple
parts all together using both printer types will help me save time this is still taking
way too long though there isn't a law that says all the terrain must be designed during this week
and why not take advantage of my collection of finished terrain i don't see why not
and speaking of take advantage this terrain is available on our patreon over there we have tons
of high quality terrain stls and we are coming out with more monthly everything i made this week is
on there including all the terrain packs from the previous months dawn of war space marines dawn of
war imperial guard dawn of war eldar ancient ruins and this month's dock workers terrain all of this
is available at our ultrafans tier and is the best way to support us making videos and you get a lot
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let's get back to it again what i really need is time i can stall for a little bit by creating
some small duplicatable terrain this stuff often goes unnoticed but it really is what makes a board
scatter terrain accent terrain incidental terrain difficult ground these are the little things that
fill in the space between the real pieces of terrain and the great thing is they can be
duplicated indefinitely barrels and boxes are the perfect place to start if you want to get
into 3d design i'm working in vectorworks and blender but barrels are simple you could even
make these up in tinkercad the building blocks of 3d modeling just like drawing is coming up with
primitive shapes that the object is made of this camera looks complex to model but if you break
it down into small simple shapes like rectangles and circles it becomes a lot easier we're going
to copy this barrel all it is is a cylinder with smaller cylinders i made a cylinder with a
diameter of 16 millimeters and 25 millimeters tall then duplicated it and changed the size to 17.65
millimeters for the diameter and 1.85 millimeters tall those would be the rings on the barrel
then i aligned the cylinders and duplicated the rings keeping the middle rings in from the top
and bottom by eight millimeters then i grouped them together to combine all the objects to add
more detail i made a short hole in the top of the barrel and added a cap and there you go baby's
first barrel after making that you can play with the other primitives like the ring and tube which
have more properties to control your model it also might be fun to add these little rivets it might
be quick for you it might take hours but trying to create something is all that really matters
we have some papa bear big terrain mama bear medium terrain and so of course we needed some
baby bear little terrain to make it feel just right this stuff is my favorite to paint because
the easiest to treat just like a normal mini when it comes to painting i want to work fast
so i need to wrangle in all these small parts if i was painting more leisurely i would go one at a
time but for this i'm going to use sub-assemblies i stuck the three different types of scatter onto
different paint handles with double stick tape this way 50 some odd little things become three
big things much easier to paint and paint i did i sprayed the palettes gray then gave them a base
coat with what else burnt umber ink this gave them a nice uneven brown appearance then i put some tan
into my airbrush and sprayed this in lines across the two halves of each palette to show that the
flexing in the middle where there's no supports have been worn down and to add even more wear
and tear i did a generous dry brushing all over the tops of my pallets using a lot of paint in a
dragging motion to replicate small scale wood grain and there easy breezy beautiful pallets
next was the ammo crates these i primed gray and then airbrushed with a spot of white in the middle
of each one this will give some easy contrast and if i had a green ink i would have used it now but
green wash will work just fine i hosed my boxes down and while they were all still wet i sprayed
some watery military green on the sides of each crate while the paint is wet it should all blend
together nicely and on my barrels i gave them a simple dusting of some red ink and some cyan ink
now everything is painted i pulled them off their handles and got them ready for the finishing
touches i don't have a gold paint i really like so i put two drops of orange ink into my silver
paint and used this on all the eagles on the boxes then i took some silver paint and a large
sponge brush and began sponging some silver all over my boxes and barrels this will give them a
nice battlefield beat up appearance and hide any sloppage from my speed painting airbrush alright
they're done being painted so now it's time for the best part assembly and what's this tacky glue
i didn't want to use super glue as it doesn't have much surface area and used in these quantities it
still would have taken a long time to dry this tacky glue will do wonders and dries
a little rubbery so my parts may even survive some heavy handling or god forbid a drop this
was really fun i just got to play decorator and put my components into nice fun combinations
all right four down about 100 more to go
i just lost way too many hours to fixing 3d printers could you believe that printing 24 hours
seven days a week can lead to some wear and tear this bluetooth can happen when you don't tighten
everything down while the machine is hot or from wear and tear although i could clean this up with
a little heat i don't have time to do it luckily i have replacement parts and new air ducts ready
to make this baby purr this was it the final hours of the final day it's got to get done but i don't
know if it's possible i am running out the clock i always knew it would get to crunch time but i
was hoping it would be more cocoa puffs and less mini-wheats i was smashing out terrain like there
was no tomorrow but even at breakneck speeds it seemed we may have overestimated our abilities
we got a lot done terrain is really big it's simple to paint but size matters and the bigger
the object the longer it takes to paint designing isn't the problem it's the darn printers they can
only go so fast even though i tapped into the archives for designs printing just takes hours
and hours and hours we did it we got terrain done it maybe doesn't satisfy
all our hopes and dreams but it is mission accomplished jkoel thank you we didn't sleep
we didn't eat we spent 168 hours making and painting all this stuff and it's done
i didn't think i could do it but jedi master yoda told me do or do not there is no try
so i just did it i pushed and i pushed and it all got done painting is not exactly hard but i was i
just hunkered down and did it i can accomplish a lot and i didn't know i had it in me it was a full
load kind of week for me too some of these pieces really brought me back to my technical designer
days this modular decking is just like the stuff i worked on for the super bowl halftime show in 2020
yes this is real i really worked on the super bowl but look at all the different stuff you
can make with it you have legs decking and walls to make the platforms of your dreams
i really fell in love with these imperial guard buildings and putting them up on foam hills brings
me back to the good old days of handmade terrain although our 3d print stuff looks way better there
is a certain classiness to combining the two and it wasn't too hard to make either all these leaves
you can see are from a company called epic basing if you've gotten jazzed watching us build terrain
we have a few pieces of terrain available for free from our patreon a bunch of necron terrain and a
plasma generator that might just look familiar to you you can go download those print them out and
give them a try we also have seven terrain packs available to download on our patreon for the ultra
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