I knew a guy whose snipers consisted of a model railway bush with a lasgun poking out of it, and a flocked base with no mini.

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

That'll probably be what I do for my Ork Kommandos. Just a bush with arms sticking out. 😄

@Thatonedude227

Жыл бұрын

That is hilarious and genius

@erho2967

Жыл бұрын

Legit

@bancaer8515

Жыл бұрын

That sounds fantastic xD

@LostTexanTwitch

Жыл бұрын

@@thecultofcrafting if you do that, those arms need to be purple for +2 to sneak!

If you have spare heads you can press them into the claybody of the model and leave the face a bit uncovered to add extra charisma!

this is the real stuff right here, i see people waste whole models by just making them completely obscured under camouflage anyway. Spare heads weapons, or arms are always available if you want to add it in to look more recognizable as a model.

Really cool idea! I personally would feel more comfortable with either a black or brown base coat on the mini before adding the camo net just to be extra sure the color of the clay doesn't show through.

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

The paint in the gauze will "paint" the base model, and if that isn't enough, you can just paint it through the net. 😉

@10urion

Жыл бұрын

@@thecultofcrafting I guessed as much :D priming has just become so much of a habit

Great video. I love total scratch builds. I've used gauze in a similar way to add camo scrim to standard guard helmets (ref pics of US army in Panama helped). Painted the gauze a few colors, then when it was dry cut it into rectangle strips and layered them on the helmet. Great way to add personality to infantry.

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Cool idea! 🙂👍

@considerlizards

Жыл бұрын

*makes notes*

wow! i was skeptical at first when seeing the clay but it really looked good in the end! good job!

@mace8873

Жыл бұрын

As a guy who's built a couple of ghillie suits, and used them to a point where a bird landed on me, I wondered why he would bother using _any_ real model parts, because if the sniper did his job right, _nothing_ would be recognizable as anything but a part of the landscape. Guess it just goes to show how people are different.😃

Hi gang! If you've made something based on my tutorials and post pics of your creations on Instagram or Facebook, please tag me in your posts. I'd love to see what you guys come up with! 😀

Depending on what kits you normally use, you might have a number of spare heads. Wargames Atlantic, for example, adds lots of head options to every kit, so there's inevitably spares left over. You could stick these items on the clay and leave that part exposed, if you want to sell the effect of being a person rather than a mound of animate turf (with a gun). (Although I've always liked the concept of "Sod Men", humanoids made of grass and soil. Animate turf wielding weapons would be frightening to behold on the battlefield.)

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

I like that idea! 😃

@aaron1037

Жыл бұрын

I think they prefer the term 'groundskeeper'

@bip321boom

Жыл бұрын

Ifeel like adding faces and maybe a scope would take those to the next level.

@dziewiaty

Жыл бұрын

Thing is you would still have to cover most of the head to not go againsr the camo suit, we are hardwired to recognize face and shape of the body, even if it is only head, that's why wearing hats/helmets that change the shape of your head is the most important element

Great tutorial. I too likes the guy with the leaves. Maybe a combination of the guy with the leaves with the static grass base.

Getting flashbacks to all ghillied up

And now to put some of those random bits I have handy to use. For cloth - in case you had enough bits to not need as shapeless a ghillie suit, I'll offer the 'secret' scale modellers have been using for years. facial tissue (any brand will do, just make sure it doesn't have a fancy texture ) brushed with watered down PVA - it's what we've used for years to make 'tarps, etc'.

Looks fantastic! I think it could use a moulded scope on the rifle to give it the long range sniper feel.

Kick ass!! You can also do cultists in a similar way

Awesome idea. Nice and simple, yet very convincing.

good idea also for 1/35 scale figures !

this is AWESOME! definetly gonna try this tomorrow!

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Excellent! Tag me, if you post some photos on social media, I'd love to see them. Have fun!

All ghillied up, miniature edition. 🤌

Consider making an update vid where you develop this concept with more plastic or 3d printed bits. This has honestly the potential to look 100% legit.

This is so cool definitly going to make a squad

I once "painted" 100 skinks by spraying them down with aerosol glue and shaking them in a bag of flock.

Not bad, would have liked seeing the heads be swapped with guardsman heads though so that you could get some slight more dectail by showing the face through the camo.

so simple yet so cool, very nice work

If you had added spare heads in there, and maybe a scope here and there, I would have been sold. Neat little idea! Very cutesy.

That looks perfect. I wouldn't have ever guessed that a green painted blob with a stick would make for such a believable sniper mini. Now I have this crazy idea stuck in my head of trying your method out in the 1/100 scale. Obviously, the gauze is gonna be too out of scale, so I'll need to figure out a substiture of some sort. But I'm positive I'll figure it out eventually...

These are super cool, great job!

Fantastic, looking forward to building some grimy miniatures myself.

This is such a brilliant idea. I have to try that.

What a time to be a Catachan player 😃

Those are so cute.

the only thing missing is a scope sticking out the top of the gun.. you can go about this in alot of different ways, however i believe it would tie the entire model together. I remember getting tons of spare scopes with space marines.

Love the gauze idea

Cool idea! Nice realisation!

So good, I can hardly see the finished models👍👍

Really amazing, the suggestion to add a spare head is great, so it don't seems a vegetable's lump.

They look really cool

this is amazing I'm gonna do a squad right now !

Great tutorial thanks

I think I'll give this a go! Looks fun, plus no need to buy bits xD awesome work.

Wow really cool! I have some plasticard rods, so will try this!

Nice Ghillie suits. Very very budget wargaming friendly. Edit: Oh, also I subscribed 👍👍👍👍

Love it!! very clever

Brilliant.

these look incredibly easy and look fantastic

Yo i just found your channel! I used this technique on some Bolt Action minis and it turned well. Thanks!

Cool tutorial

Awesome sauce 👌

I just made a sniper for my Bolt Action US army from leftovers, head, springfield rifle, base and sprues for body. It works great.

defo need some scopes on top of those rifles poking out of the camo cloak. Right now they dont really look like snipers so much as spears or cattle prods haha.

Very cool ❤

great minis!

I'd love to see one of these as a cloak on a space marine

great video

10/10 made my own. Used sniper rifles from Victoria miniatures and it was a fun build to buff my new Cadia Stands kit a bit more for the least amount of effort and cost!

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Cool! 😃 If you upload pics on FB or Insta, be sure to tag me. I'd love to see them.

@jaredisley-oliver389

Жыл бұрын

@@thecultofcrafting I don’t have either of those unfortunately. I tried out your tarp idea but with those reusable grocery’s bags. That’s also works good!

Damn is soo a good idea and looks sooo awesome

YO! Love this idea. Personally, going to add a face into the mold and add that. Make it more recognizable as a human. Adds to the time limit though. Twenty minutes is remarkable!

AMAZING

Want to make a handfull of these, buy plants and place them everywhere in my house with a little sniper hiding in it

love it !

Wish i had these when i was young green army mem was the best

fantastic

Could totally add some heads to the blobs to give them a hood with a visible face. Very cool

I lovet this!!

Por favor sube mas videos de este tipo. Eres totalmente increíble

This is great. I might do this for eliminators and save myself $120

Really good vid!

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😊

I would think you would want to do a black paint coat on the mini prior to adding the gauze

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

You could, but there's usually enough paint in the gauze to cover the clay. 🙂

@samsolopeeps

Жыл бұрын

Tempted to use all my spare guns and do a 2k guard list!

I accutualy built these they turned out great very good vidiw

awesome :)

It was for flames of war but I made snipers with terrain on a base. After all the only snipers you can see are dead snipers

Really thanks for this video. I made artillery spotters for bolt action with only spare bases, leftover heads and arms and sprues. Head and arms are glued to sprue body/skeleton. And only them are visible, skeleton is hidden under camo net. Looks great and no one of my wargaming buddies have any idea there iade them from sprues.

Easy, just point at anything and say "there's a really well camouflaged sniper".

Now we need a raven guard in a corpse starch box

For added hilarity, I'll just call the modelling quits at 3:43 and paint them as is

buena idea

i was just looking for a way to make camo netting for my Russ tanks, I never even thought of gauze

Hi, I have only recently discovered your channel and love watching the Vids when you’re building sandbags or walls or equipment etc and would love to give it a shot. Is there a video for beginners on what equipment and materials you need to start off with?

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! @BlackMagicCraftOfficial made a video about equipment for beginners: kzread.info/dash/bejne/X6R7rqdxnc3Qgqg.html

Need a scope, but this is so cool

Scopes on the weapons would of looked so cool

Just random question, PVA glue, that is also just Elmer's glue right?

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, basically all the white glues are diluted PVA glues.

Interesting tutorial. Not sure why the models you were working on suddenly vanish though.

Really neat idea. Gonna have to make up a few in 1/35 for my dioramas. Not too impressed with the "ghillie suit" with static grass, most of the strips hang down on a real one, being thin cloth, while the grass stands up. The guy with the leaves was A#1.

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Nah, the ghillie thing was just an experiment that I kept because I found it funny. 😄 I'm thinking you could cut some short bits of twine and glue them on for a more proper ghillie look.

This is such a cool idea! Gonna probs do this instead of buying more Eliminators

what do you use as flock? awesome work mate

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, mate! 😊 For the bases, you mean? It's just a bunch of different stuff mixed together. 2-3 Wayland Scenics foam flocks, 2-3 wood flocks plus some withered leaves that I ground to a fitting size.

Seems like you coukd replace the gun part with a cocktail stick considering you cant see it once covered

How do you apply the grass upright?

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

With a static grass applicator.

I’m finding it hard to paint British DPM camo any advice ?

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

No, I've never tried that, so I don't really know a good approach. 🙂

Is washing up liquid just dish soap? I'm not familiar with it

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it is. Poor choice of words on my part, it seems. :-)

Bush “laughs in sniper”

I wonder if I could do this with my ww2 Germans or American snipers for bolt action

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

I don't see why not. 🙂

Full sized one???

congratulation, you made a blob-looking sniper xD

Economical!

amaniz

no scope?

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

360 no-scope! 🎯

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

If you want them, just glue a short tube on top of the barrels. 🙂

There are actually 30 ratling minis in every room you enter you just can't see them

Now I want to use this to make Kommandos :P

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Do it! 😎

@SableTwoSeven

Жыл бұрын

Have some choppas, stabbas, and weapons sticking out and you've got yourself some sneaky gitz!

But where is the sniper?

Are you danish by any chance?

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Yup! 🇩🇰

So basically you can make a whole camo army without using models for games like Bolt Action... nice.

@thecultofcrafting

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, one of my patrons suggested that too. 😄 You could probably make a fully painted set of infantry in a weekend.

I like creative convertions, but I feel like this one went too far. I think that it need anything hinting that there is a head there - maybe even a singular light/optic. with something like that it would look 100% legit