Btw, I've been thinking of making some sort of social platform, where everyone can talk to each other. 🧟‍♂🧌🧙🧝‍♀ I don't know if it'll be a Discord Server, Facebook group or a dedicated website yet 🤔, but if you're interested, sign up here to get updates and an invite 💌 when it launches: eepurl.com/igrfUX It'll help me figure out how much interest there is and how much energy I should put into it. Thanks! 😊

@supervike1

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The one thing that our hobby world has lost has been the forums. Everyone just uses KZread, or Facebook or Instagram now, and it is hard to have a real discussion on those platforms.

@mikebouman2508

Жыл бұрын

I personally would like discord but thats just me, if other people feel the same like this post :)

@Micsma

Жыл бұрын

discord is defo the cheapest when it's small. Patreon contributions can help with that when it gets bigger.

To add weight you can put in leftover screws/bolts into the bottom of the foam, meaning you can use less sand so it wont take as long to dry.

simple, easy, effective. These are the words to describe the cult of crafting.

love this army stuff, you could also try a hesco wall or tower of some sort maybe, would be cool to see some bigger builds with hesco blocks implemented

those look perfect

Nice. I made some Hesco barriers myself a while back, after seeing them in a One Page Rules battle report. Mine were made using those 4x4x3 inch floral foam blocks they sell at Dollar Tree, the hard ones (though sufficiently wrapped, the softer kind of floral foam would probably work as well). Cut the blocks into 2x2x3 pieces, so they stood 3 in tall. Probably a bit too tall, in retrospect, but it made production easy. If I did it again, I'd probably chop them shorter. These pieces were wrapped on all but the top sides in duct tape, as I found it adhered better to the foam surface. Then came the drywall mesh, which as this video demonstrated doesn't adhere by itself to the tape very well. I eventually settled on using superglue to help it adhere. The reservoir in the top was filled with PVA glue and dumped with sand. I watered down some glue and soaked it in after the initial load had dried to keep the sand in place. Finally, I coated the whole thing in beige-colored waterpaper paint+primer. I sometimes get tester pots of paint+primer like this for cheap at the hardware store, if they make some spare. I didn't bother painting the mesh itself or the sand a different color. Both for laziness, and because I figured whoever made the barriers were designing them to match the terrain. So the canvas and metal mesh would be painted the same color as the sand. That's how I justified it, anyway. I might make some more barriers later, using a darker paint+primer for the dirt, and painting the outside a forest-y green. You know, just for variety of battlefields.

@metalman895

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Oooh I like the idea of using the floral foam! I might try some using the crappy packing foam I can pull out of the trash at work, since none of the edges show.

Looks amazing, definitely going to try my hand at this.

Might have to use this technique for my gundam dioramas

Short. Sweet. Effective. 👍

Looks nice! I've never seen these in real life, but I saw a tutorial on how to make them with 1" wooden cubes before. I never wanted to do that, but these giant ones look a lot more useful. I might have to make a set to go with my wrapped pallets from your earlier video!

FYI years ago someone uploaded a table made this way to bolter and chainsword. In that build they used wood blocks thus solving part of the weight issues you needed to account for here. Otherwise the same process. ;)

Excellent video

I just made these same way just smaller at 3/4 an inch cubed

The inventor of the Hesco Bastion died reversing his segway off a cliff whilst giving way to a walker.

@supervike1

Жыл бұрын

He was also the creator of the Segway.

@MattyRlufc

Жыл бұрын

@@supervike1 he didn't invent segway he just bought the company

I like this a lot! You're by far one of my favorite hobby channels. I'm surprised you don't use Modge podge more, rather than PVA glue.

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, man! That's awfully nice of you. 😊 Yeah, I do use it occasionally, but I'm not a big fan of Mod Podge. I find it too gloopy and that it tends to leave streaks. It can be diluted so that's less of a problem, but then it becomes less durable as well. It might have less of a tendency to contract with it dries than PVA, but I haven't tested that properly.

Looks very cool mate, Mesh tape is a great tool haha. I use it a lot too. Happy holidays man 😉🍻

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Happy holidays! 😃

Sweet, i was thinking about that just last week. How would you go about making a 40k variant? :D ;)

@MattyRlufc

Жыл бұрын

Stick a bunch of skulls on it. Job done.

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Fill it with corpses. 🥰

dude how the heck are you getting those cuts on that pink foam it looks unreallistically clean like holy cow

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

I don't remember, but I probably cut them with my Proxxon hot wire cutter. :-)

Seriously no idea what I just watched. What is a hesco bastion and why would I want to make one out of foam.

@Bluecho4

Жыл бұрын

They are a kind of landforming tool, used for disaster relief and the military. They're big canvas bags, lining a cage of wire mesh, that are filled with dirt or sand or gravel or whatever. Basically, the modern replacement for the old reliable sandbags, with the advantage being you can fill them all at once using digging equipment. Rather than having soldiers fill bags individually by hand. You can make whole fortifications out of it, which is why the US army loves them. I suggest doing image searches.