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@philgee486

6 ай бұрын

Wow, the printer's already sold out in the uk adapter version!

In response to the call to action's open question, I'll roughly quote Arbitor Ian when he was talking about old Warhammer rules: "... And then the tournament scene ruined it for everyone, as always."

@ironbomb6753

6 ай бұрын

Arbitor Ian speaks with wisdom. 👍

@alvaroblancoalvarez416

6 ай бұрын

So true....

@AmazingIsJesus

5 ай бұрын

Who is Ian? Is he as cool as Ian Crossland?

@chrisj9628

5 ай бұрын

I will say I have seen more creative army display boards at 40k tournaments than anywhere else.

"I paid one in whiskey and one in chocolate" - Suspiciously doesn't say which ;) Love the build, Alex. Great use of the sponsor product as well, most people don't consider printing terrain in resin due to the size, that printer is a monster.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

It is indeed a monster. I think hollowing things out properly and working with cheaper resins then resin printing is great for large structures.

What a joy is the appearance of a new vid by Alex, doesn't matter what the hobby subject, wherever his thoughts run there's a hobby understanding gain and a wonderful YT experience, the man is an awesome creator

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you dearly Phil

Bill and 52 m have great chemistry. I’d love to hear them do a weekly podcast or something. When 52 was on trapped under plastic he was a fish out of water the flow of conversation was forced but he had some extremely interesting ideas and ways of thinking. I re watched the episode a few times and would love to hear the what 52 would say if M+J few over to his side of the pond and crash his podcast . I bet M+j Would be twice the fish out of water and probably have some hilarious stories about the trip. Thanks for the great video 🎉

Dude this might be my favorite video so far. I love your camera work and editing and storytelling, and I loved the inclusion of the breaking sawhorse and just the overall craftsmanship on display, including the planning. Your thought process/aesthetic is one of those I wish I had more of in my own lol. 🍻🏴‍☠️

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you greatly TA!

Honestly, When it will be painted, your table will make me want to play on it. Heavily. The immersion will be 100 times better than Playmat and flat terrain. (if you can afford the storage) And that's the most important, I think all that work was worth it ! :D Thanks for sharing your journey.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Arek 👍

Usually I run KZread hobby videos in the background while I paint...but I can not help but watch your videos. The "filmography" (is this even a word?) is excellent and the you can make almost any subject interesting. Thanks for this video Alex, as me and my friends plan to build a big table for a long time...and keep up the good work :)

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 it’s kind of what I hope for. I enjoy the fact that a lot of people watching the channel do so on a big tv. Kind of makes it worth all the ads I hope.

Ive built two tables, a meadow with forest and a suburban meets urban settlement with New York style brownstone apartments. It really is fantastic fun!

I LOVE BILL MAKING STUFF. So awesome to see you two in the same video. Also you have such an angelic voice that makes watching your videos so calm and serene

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Bill's great! Thanks P

@Lavasioth

6 ай бұрын

I love that Bill has become a cameo punchline for tons of makers. Shows up, says something funny, poof he’s gone, lol.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

@@Lavasioth Saves him from having to clean up the xps mess left behind! :)

An excellent video Alex thank you, "In the first Video Alex created the ground (there was no sea) and lots of little sandbags to hide behind" I do love a good creation story.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Hah! Thanks Mick!

production quality is plain awesome, don't know why your channel doesn't have 100k+ subs yet

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

I appreciate that Nick, hopefully I'll get there one day :)

A bold choice, but I would expect no less from you, Alex! To help you rationalize this project: model train folks often start with 4x8 tables, and eventually take over entire rooms, or form a club to house their miniature worlds. So we don't have it that bad. Glad Bill was able to talk you down from the glue idea. To me at least, the dream is to design modular (e.g. 2x2) sections that have elevation changes, but can still recombine in interesting ways. It's a tall order, probably not a good first table. But maybe something to think about for the future... , *after* this one is done. 😉

I'll be honest, I was expecting a small scene where Alex's father was having some chocolate after geting the wood and the foam... That would have been meta as hell! Great work once again and I can't wait for the next part...

It's always a pleasure to watch one of your videos and to accompany the process, or rather the processes, that led you to the finished project. Your family and friends who can help you, the space you can use, it's just a dream. I had the opportunity to build such panels for GW for a few years and then use them for the individual shops in a large German city, it was a great time, even though it was work, it was always more of a hobby. The times are long gone, but the dream of doing something like this for myself and a few friends in my own four walls has remained. It's always a pleasure to see how such a dream could feel.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Cool stuff, thank you for sharing T!

I had done exactly the same style of board 15 years ago, i even made it with hi ges in the middle so i could remove the frame and store it away easier. With trenches and 3d terrain like real craters in mind i used 2 sheets of foam for the bottom layer and i sectioned the board into 4 segment, that could be theoretically replaced or turned to shape the battlefield differently. To my immense rage, it was all throw to the garbage as i stored it at my parents garage while i was building our real house. Could have killed my dad, if he was not our architect... and well dad 😂

Excited to see this one come together, Alex!

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Ben 👋

Alex brilliant video, the journey with you was as much fun as Bilbo took thankfully no dragon at the end. You could team up with zorpazorp to make a games table.. can't wait to see the next leg of this journey.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Isi 🙏

The buildup for this episode has me on the edge of my seat!

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Hi Ramirez 👋

I love it. I'm a massive fan of terrain on boards. It makes playing on them so much more fun. I'm also a fan of this being a modular board and being much easier to store and having multiple purposes. I'd love to have various boards for different games but there is only so much space one can dedicate to miniature building, painting and playing! Keep up the great work!

@sirrathersplendid4825

6 ай бұрын

Being a realist, I know I’ll probably never get round to making a gaming board. I’m trying instead to make up larger terrain pieces that can be plopped anywhere on the table and combined in multiple ways.

Getting your son started on whiskey at such a young age is so awesome!

Making a gaming table has always felt like an overly ambitious goal. Something that I've always wanted to do but was always afraid I'd never finish. This video makes it seem less daunting. Thank you for being the inspiration you are Alex.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Erik

nice! looking forward to see how this will turn up

Alex, This is going to be epic!!!!! Love what you’ve created so far 😊😊😊

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@cerisekappes580

6 ай бұрын

@@52Miniatures you are welcome 🤗

Great work so far, looks great!

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Ashley

Alex, thank you for sharing the video ! I enjoy the storytelling very much, even if the project is underway. The building is the journey. Good point! Guess you must have a happy father and a happy child now, loooking at the outcome. Must have felt good to do that together with them. :)

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

When you started with "first world war with magic" I shouted "Youjo Senki!" ("The saga of Tanya the Evil"). If you don't know this anime, watch it - it sounds like the book you mentioned! Amazing project, Alex! I'm looking forward to see the first textures and colors on the board :)

Reminds me of my father. He loved model train layouts. this is how I get him into wargaming lol. Great video!

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Indeed! Tell him to build a great model train board! And gently work in the idea you don't need tracks :)

Fantastic so far, and even better it's a project that someone can do even if they don't have any 3d printers. Looking forward to more of this project. Cheers!

I was ready to watch a 2 hour video about this but it was only 20 minutes long!!!!! Can't wait for more. Amazing content.

This is one of the most legenday boards I've ever seen. Great work bro!

@52Miniatures

5 ай бұрын

Well thank you humbly T!

1:15 This is exactly what I warn people about: Whenever you fantasize about a new game you always picture it painted and done, ignoring the amount of work. And in that fantasy it appears more achievable than whatever project you are currently working on. It's like swimming half way across a river and noticing that, a mile upstream, it's a little narrower. So, you swim back, walk a mile up stream and start swimming again.

1:30 in and it so relatable. So many great grandiose ideas and such weak follow through... One day, maybe something will get done.

I like how you're just doing you and not whoring to the algorithm. It feels way more interesting and genuine

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

We've all got to do a bit of that, but I try to just do my hobby as much as I can.

On the subject of using this board for AoS, I'm reminded of that time when Skaven accidentally gnawed a hole into the bottom of the ocean in Shyish. Skavenblight's lowest levels experienced cataclysmic flooding, before the intake leveled out. By the time the flooding stopped, Skavenblight had a massive surplus of water and zombies, and Shyish's sea level was visibly lowered. So I'm imagining the board could stand in for a portion of the Shyish coast where shallow seabed was exposed by this calamity. Rewriting old borders between Soulblight counties, and maybe revealing Realmgates previously submerged and unusable to all but the Idoneth Deepkin.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thanks B! It's a good plan. I mean. I'd definitely play any game on this board, I don't mind the "futuristic" bunkers in a fantasy setting. I mean... there's flying dwaves with machineguns already...

I am always grateful for the refreshing use of intelligence used in all of your videos. No matter the subject matter, you always break everything down in a very intelligent manner. You have an invaluable way of looking at everything from a multitude of angles that I feel are glossed over by many other creators. I usually don't enjoy when creators are speaking throughout their videos simply because it is rarely thought provoking. You however have a habit of expressing thoughts I have had but haven't fully formed yet. I look forward to your future videos with great anticipation. As always keep up the great work.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you humbly Paul!

If you find such a massive board too much work and filling up too much space, I'd highly suggest having a look at Necropolis! It's self-described as a "diorama skirmish game", with the board a tiny 16" X 16"! It very much encourages gluing everything down and making the most wonderful looking boards

I prefer to be cutting foam and forming terrain far more than actually using it after! Great video, great looking board!

It's always great to see new 52 miniatures content, i'm very excited to see where this goes next/how whatever ground covers and texture pastes deal with the flex in the substrate etcetc and the various wyrdwars additions to the sea bed scenery. And now im measuring my living room again and wondering if i really *need* to be able to get up from the sofa (maybe my opponent could have the option of directing their side semi reclined, roman senator style) It's always good to have a (hirsute or not) friend who can save you from yourself occasionally ...

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

There is also the wire and pully system of lowering everything down from the ceiling! I'm a bit scared of the flex vs textures I have in mind.. but I'm testing stuff out.

Wow, this is incredible. I really want to try this.

Love the storytelling and narration! Some of the best on KZread.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Ryan, I appreciate it.

Now this is something I need to recommit myself to. Looking great so far.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Isak!

I’d love to see you do something else for idols of torment. Like more music, or a neat piece of terrain.

Man I love listening to a 52 Miniatures video. Content is excellent and Alex's voice is very podcast worthy!

Absolutely love this video! Anytime I get the notification that 52 has a new video I watch immediately, always so insightful and well spoken. Also, does anyone know when they are releasing the miniatures for this game?

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you. I don’t know if they are, but if they will it will be through Wargames Atlantic probably. But there is a lot of 1st WW stuff out there and the possibility to kitbash

My god man, im gonna say it again, you have preached the bretherns lament on "realised" hobby life and actual life getting in the way in the pursuit. You encapsulated this perfectly, by stating "imagine oursleves actually enjoying" the fruits of our "hobby" work, as opposed to going to work, getting home, dealing with the missus and the kids, then sitting brooding over the Pile of shame, all the "OLD" projects, that i really will finish, hopefully, just hopefully before i expire. I have instructed my son, to tip my whole collection and pile of shame into my grave, so i may finish it all in the afterlife, like some pharoah or chinese emporer. Meet you all across the table in eternity, much love, xxx.

@52Miniatures

4 ай бұрын

Thank you humbly K. The fact that you have something to keep you busy in the afterlife is not to shabby.

Promising looking board! I have to agree with Bill, don't glue the boards to the table.

This is perfect for me. Been wanting to do a trench board for years

The autumn color from the freeway is glorious. And your Dad is a handsome man

one with whiskey, one with chocolate. OK now I'm off to watch the second half, I'm pumped!

@52Miniatures

5 ай бұрын

Glad your enjoying it!

Dont stick it down.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Indeed! When in doubt, call Bill.

This is epic! 🎉

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you guys 🙏

Oh buddy, that table is worth it. Don’t you dare talk bad about your/our table 🤣

Love your channel’s cameos. You are pretty cool too, I guess. 🤣

Awesome video, thanks! Looking forward to the next part.

I'm excited to see what this will become this is awesome and can't wait to see it finished.

I'm planning on making an expanding gaming table in 2' x 4' sections. Expanding all the way up to 8' x 4' in 2' intervals. Giving me a 2' x 4' for general use, a 4' x 4' for smaller boardgames and skirmish games, a 6' x 4' for Dnd, larger boardgames and standard size wargaming and lastly the full 8' x 4' for full size wargaming.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like a great plan!

The first 2 minutes of this video were so well edited and clean I had to watch it multiple times, great deadpan humour. Fantastic vid 🔥

@52Miniatures

5 ай бұрын

Thank you humbly W!

I have a 4x6 gaming table but storage is easier without terrain glued on it. Also a lot more versatile for a lot of different games.

This is going to look amazing when it's done, can't wait to see it!

Loved the video. A good start to a fun and inspiring series. 😊

That looks amazing and very inspiring. It is worth the time and effort, and I wish I had the time and effort to do this kind of build. I enjoyed watching this take shape so far. I'm looking forward to the rest of your work on it.

Who got paid in the whiskey and who got paid in the chocolate?

Oohhh yes, the classic whiskey bribe, always works

Great video. Oh, I can relate, all the games and projects started (usually after watching one of your videos 😉🤣) leading to a crescendo of nothing....how well said Alex. I love this table. I have a dedicated 8x4 train table I started with my son during covid that I soooooo wish I hadn't glued down. You will certainly thank Bill later. Cant wait to see how this all plays out!. Now off to start another project.....

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thanks man, I'm glad for Bills advice.

Crazy how I find this perfect video whilst working on a combat patrol board!! Your work is always so well thought out so I’ll be greatly looking forward to your future progress! For my current board it’s a ruined city with a canal sitting diagonally in one half, and parallel to that is a fortress wall of an repurposed bastion from a war 100 years ago. My board has handmade trenches sprawled throughout, going through the broken parts of the wall and the canal. It was funny that you also designed your board to look good for bolt action and 40k because I did the same!

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like a great board!

I've clicked the like button to express my support for the idea of the currency for a younger and older helper ;)

thoughtful and inspiring and beautifully shot as always--makes me want to take the plunge!

This is great. Looking forward to watch the rest of this beautiful creation.

This is a great idea for a board! Looking forward to seeing how this progresses. Amazing work as always sir! 😁❤️👍🏻

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

Your video style, editing, your voice and delivery are wonderful. Thank you!

@52Miniatures

5 ай бұрын

Thank you too!

I've been alternately enjoying, toiling, struggling, labouring, falling in love with, decending into apathy over and slipping into hatred with the process of creating a multi tiered modular Necromunda canal board. I wanted something to fulfill that teenage dream yet be practical in so much as that it could be set up in multiple configurations. I'm working from 6 405x810x6mm MDF base boards with xps canals channelled in that then can be broken down and stored away again due to my limited space. It's been ongoing for almost 5 years at this point around health problems, family and work commitments so this video struck a chord. Thanks for this. PS i'm so glad you decided against glueing it all down directly to the table. My sense of trepidation on your behalf was palpable.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

I hope you get the board finished one day, but yes, these projects really are massive

Alas, I made a comment about my family dancing on your video last night, but it was meant for a different video 😅 Your videos are still very entertaining, though, and keep me motivated on my projects. Stay well mate

@52Miniatures

5 ай бұрын

A shame! I had a mental image of a family dancing in front of my video. It was a fun image :)

@TheSentryRob

5 ай бұрын

@@52Miniatures Sorry, mate. I should have just left it up lol

Excited to see how the table turns out, and very jealous, unfortunately I just don't have the space for one. I think the point in the video about competitive wargaming standardising our tables, and making them more boring, is true. I have one friend who prefers gaming mats to scenic tables, because the dice roll more predictably, and are less likely to get cocked. He's right, but why would we optimise our hobby for dice rolling reliability? The minis are what's special about the hobby, we should lean into that rather than trying to compete with a casino table.

Well, that was fun Alex. You seem to have a bottomless well of creativity to draw from. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this progresses. Given your unique proclivities, I believe that you will find it even more entertaining as you go. It seems to me that the more you enjoy a project the more captivating it is for me to watch. 👍 Thank you. 🚀🪄✨🗡️🔫

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thanks man, I’m desperately balancing getting it done with bogging down into details

Looks awesome, looking forward to watching the next installment!

Love that your Dad has been to the Wensleydale Railway (Appleby). Great film as ever Alex.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

He's born and raised up there :)

Wow, looks amazing already

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Calle!

I don't know why but the line "I paid one in whiskey and the other in chocolate" amuses me to no end.

Completely worth it. Mine has a modular scenic, TV, and dry erase on a 2 point hinge so you can spin and lock in place. I did the 6x4 format in interchangeable 3x2ft pieces with roads and streams at specific points like a model train. This was my 3.1 version and took me 20 years to complete.

@52Miniatures

3 күн бұрын

I think dividing into three sections is a good storage and transportation solution too. I’m starting to realize that will be an issue for me

Hi Alex, do you pay in whisky? Well I'm your man! Great job, I think everybody wish to have such a table to can play with, perhaps we all are a little small kids inside, but now we can build what we just dreamed of when we were younger. Thanks for ma king us all dream again

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Thorik! It is indeed a dream, that takes a bloody long time do finish. Hah!

Fully agree about the tournaments simplifying and over-streamlining terrain and rules in wargaming

Oh me, oh my, that looks amazing!

Hi, you can smooth the filament layer lines by covering the printed pieces with thinned down green stuff, miliput or wall filler! Mix it heavily with water until milk-like and apply it to the printed pieces by brushing against the layer lines. It will settle in the crevices and nooks. Let it dry, maybe repeat and than prime the pieces. You will get an much better result. Hope that helps....😊 Great video and board by the way...

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip Hans!

This is my dream kind of board. I know it’s been 3 months or so and this stuff need time to breath to get the best result but I can’t wait to see he next video for it. I don’t say it to add pressure I’m just excited about it. I really enjoyed the last Ork painting video too. He looked phenomenal.

@52Miniatures

3 ай бұрын

Great to hear Sophia, I'm looking forward to finishing the table :)

Hi Alex ! Amazing video quality as always ! Love your approach to how you present this project in the context of your life and thought process. Looking forward to seeing the final results and the rest of your journey to get there.

@52Miniatures

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Alexandre, I appreciate it. Another video on the board will be up later today.

Awesome build mate,I wish i had the room for something like this 😅

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

You and me both!

Wonderful video. So looking forward to seeing this progress, and man, I'm jealous. Maybe someday I'll be able to make the insane commitment of such a board myself. :P

In Warhammer that hill will grant a bonus ap since it's to dang tall but from the looks of it most you can get is like on single tank on it, probably either a whirlwind or a lancer but they will be WIIIIIIDE open to getting shot back so not that huge of a up side, as far as the trenches and river and stuff goes I mean depending on if you let models in the rivere aka it's ankle deep, it can be a smart creative way for infantry to move along the board to get to a desired target like eradicators don't always need a transport now which is helpful to make them useful without another 260 points investment, land raiders will be great on this board the lazcannons and the size will let it cross without a bridge and be thematic for opening up and letting out a little hunk of something like hell lasters or the like

I really enjoyed this video, and am looking forward to the rest of the series. I'm excited to see your usual attention to detail, particularly light and visual composition, brought to a wargaming table. One thought I had is do you have enough taller line-of-sight blocking terrain elements?

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

I don't think I do... The ship will be large but the bunkers should have been maybe gun placements on hills... looking into it.

"I paid them in whisky and chocolate..." Dark chocolate and a whisky go well together 😂

Appreciate the call out to Valhalla this week! We play hnefetafl frequently, but I've been trying to get everyone on board with some more modern war games!

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

What is the metrics involved? “My squad of berserkers move 4 mead tankards”?

@2mOlaf

6 ай бұрын

I like to think of it as post-mead when, as the aggressor, you double-team the jarl's men while sopping drunk. Their skulls cleave easier having steeped in ancient honey-wine.

Awesome! Looking forward to this.

Yeah but that epic scenic wargaming table really ties the room together, does it not?

@52Miniatures

5 ай бұрын

I also plan on getting an elephant to recreate the effect at home.

I don't know which FDM printer you have but I reckon you could tweak it and get much more details and better prints overall. Can't wait for the next videos, keep up the awesome work!

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Indeed, I have tried that a lot and kind of given up.

That is already looking like a superb table. Really looking forward to seeing how it progresses and I always enjoy your thoughtful approach to your projects. I do think you could have got more out of @BillMakingStuff about his secret project though.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Hah! "He can't tell me anything about it"

Very cool. Only thing to note is that those dragon's teeth (tank traps) look absolutely tiny, real ones are 2-3x that big.

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Maybe they've been slowly sinking down into the old sea bed :)

I guess this is coming too late - the next video is probably already made - but I think I'd play a few games on the proposed layout before fixing anything in place. Looking forwards to seeing the folly in its finished state.😊

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

It's a good point. I work in realtime so I've not done more on the board than you can see in the video. I did plan on getting Karl in to check things for me again.

@peterdickinson4599

6 ай бұрын

@@52Miniatures Okay. Cool. I thought it would already be complete in the real-world. From experience - a test game or two on a fixed board can be very instructive. I was particularly wondering how the high-ground would function. I'm sure it'll be stunning when complete. Have fun. 😀

Fabulous and fun video as always! I have a request; please PLEASE add in Olaf’s head somewhere just as a fun “inside joke” that will bring continuous mirth far into the future every time you play on it or show it off to folks who have seen this video. 😂

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Great idea!

Honestly. I post a board building video & along comes Alex 🤣 Outstanding work!

@52Miniatures

6 ай бұрын

Hah! The more the merrier