My grandfather was a wood carver. I have a wildcat carving (about 1/5 scale) that has rocks carved from wood on the base. He never finished it. He had the rocks primed, but that was as far as he got. A few nights ago I decided to paint them and give them some washes and finish it up. I've done a couple black washes and a brown wash so far. The brown wash gave them the appearance they have some mud on them. I may do a tan wash on spots to give the illusion it's mud that is drying. I did some dry brushing before doing the washes. Once I'm happy with the washes I'll do a bit more dry brushing on spots to give the appearance the wet rocks are drying out around the edges like the mud. I'll probably do a green wash in spots around the edges of the bottom rocks and may do some patches of moss with fine turf. It's been sitting unfinished on a shelf in my bathroom for years. After learning different techniques from you and some other crafters I decided I could do a proper job on the base. So far it's looking great. Thanks for the videos! Now this really cool cat will soon have a proper base.

yes! my main man The Terrain Tutor is finally doing a model of Detroit.

Excellent as always, Mel! My only contribution is it doesn't hurt to seal the MDF before painting. On some laser cut pieces, adding the smallest amount of water creates an ugly fuzzy texture. So if you plan on doing a lot of laser cut stuff, get yourself a sealer. I use Chesnut brand shellac sanding sealer and it protects the wood and gives it a lovely smooth finish. Incidentally, it's the same stuff Sarissa use to seal their pieces. If you're spray priming you can get away with some kits, but not all laser cut stuff is the same so it's always worth sealing just to be safe.

Something cool that can be added, murals. You always see them in just about every city, would be an excellent way to break up large walls. If you're not confident about your actual painting skills, you could use the same technique as the decals, just go grab big ones you like from a scrapbooking place. You could also use traditional decoupage methods with cool images/ads printed off the internet. Oooo and posters and wall bill boards are other dress up options.

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

I'd have to grab the decals for that one lol

I don't know why but miniatures just fascinate me...any kind, train sets, war terrain, this, whatever I just love looking at them!

@TheTerrainTutor

5 жыл бұрын

Why wouldn't you love making your own world? ;-D

That is a great tip regarding putting water on before washing it

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

Always wet wash mate

@Shano6084

6 жыл бұрын

TheTerrainTutor and now I know, thank you, keep up the great work

I love MDF terrain because it's levels can be left unglued. When playing games its nice to have access to the inside. Great video Mel!!

Lovely work there Mel. Thanks for the ideas. The shutters are a great touch.

great video! one of my favorite projects to date. keep up the great work!

You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this video, Mel. Nice one, matey!

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

I got your back bud ;-)

@JupiKitten

7 жыл бұрын

DrVesuvius70 Same here! Super excited for the urban/modern/zombie apocalypse stuff!

Loving the video, got me motivated to assemble my TTCombat MDF terrain.

Awesome work as usual, Mel!

Cracking Job Mel. 10/10 mate

Amazing video your detail painting and weathering is top tier

Those look brilliant, Mel!

such awesome building designs !!

Quite fascinating and great looking builds!

You really are a master of your art, man! Thumbs up high!!!

BIG fan of that colored primer from Army Builder! Great vid.

Really amazing tips in here!

nice one Mel, the wash-on-wet tip made it worthwhile alone

Another great video Mel

Good! Keep it up!

just stumbled on your channel , loved it , Thanks for putting it up :)

Excellent video Mel. Not into Zombie Apocalypse, but the techniques you have shown will apply to MDF buildings for historical games. Thanks for sharing.

amazing video! !!!!! loved it

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers bud

7:19 You can also dry brush it with different grey tones and in a circular motion. also add browns and sand colors, it will work well and come out it a pretty realistic and dirty way.

great job dud. i love it. thx for your video. greetings from germany.

Nice one Mel, this video was just fantastic. Well done mate, those buildings look great and didn't seem to need too much hard work to get great results. It's great to see the channel growing and the number of Subscribers increasing all the time. Cheers buddy and have fun mate. Joe

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers buddy

Amazing.

Thanks heaps Mel great tips!

Great stuff as always Mel. BTW have you seen the buildings from TTCombat? They produce derelict ones and the price is very good.

GROOOVY!

Cheers mate! This is brilliant! I'd love to see you do a more detailed vid on the burnout technique and graffiti techniques.

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Check the channel in an hour

@dealthagar

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mel! It's stuff like this that made me Patreon you!

Didn't know anything like these existed, have the Sarissa Precision site open now looking at their catalog.

For acrylic paint markers, Montana (which is apparently a German company) makes refillable acrylic marker pens with replaceable nibs. They also sell paint for those markers, so I don't know how well other brands would work.

This is cool as shit man I wanna get into doin minitures, lookin forward to ur videos

I’d have to sell a kidney to afford sarissa buildings

iv used a halfords red primer b4 thats that same shade of red for anyone interested :-) great video as always

Would love a separate video going through more graffiti stuff.

@MurderHoboRPG

7 жыл бұрын

Republiken i use posca markers. fat ones and sharp ones. and i look at normal graffiti on youtube and google and that helps me make fun pieces burners and tags.

@Hobbyrepubliken

7 жыл бұрын

Good idea! Thanks :)

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

When I've got something worth showing, I will mate

Currently doing an abandon apartment same as in the video. It's my first attempt, so this video is so useful. I'm hoping to eventually have a apocalyptic city for Gaslands as well as other games Also to note, you come across as a really nice, top bloke. I'd happily sit in a pub and have a pint with you.

@TheTerrainTutor

5 жыл бұрын

Always up for a pint! :-D

Are you going to put scatter terrain on the board or will that be done by the demo board owners? It will look fantastic with cars, bins, traffic cones and that sort of thing to break up the streets a little.

you are clearly a master and there isn't much i can tell you that you don't already know, but just in case you are unaware of it, scale 75 makes a wood effect paint, it is magic in a bottle. not that there's anything wrong with you wood (the boarded window and the like), i only mention it for the sake of speeding up projects where wood is involved and not necessarily for you but for others who may struggle with it.

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

I'll check it out mate, always looking for new tools and techniques :-D

12:33 I seem to not get any good results with washes on terrain at all. I always come up with dry brushing 3 colors and it does well for me. Find a color you want, but do the first brush/base color in a nuance darker (adding a raw umber or other dark brown, for example) and the third brush a bit lighter (adding a light tan). it makes everything look really rough and withered

Great video as always. It is of course a question of time but I would have added signs and posters to the buildings. Small pieces of paper glued up and weathered maybe?

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

So would I if I had the time mate

Mel when I get rich you can build Mega City 1 for me.

@idodaisuke4285

6 жыл бұрын

you'd be amazed to see how cheap ttcombat buildings are...

Great video! and by the sounds of your accent a fellow Stokie too :-)

Hay mell great work as always, I was wondering if you had done a tutorial on how to weather a burnt out building, and if not are you planning to make one? thanks for all the help you've really helped e to improve my painting.

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Check the channel in an hour

Hiya Mel, Great tutorial! Very inspiring. Any chance of showing how you got the smoke damage? Many thanks in advance.

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Check the channel in an hour

Painting these MDF buildings...my biggest challenge!!!

Mel Sir,...Do you have any way ro make 28mm Buildings ??? I mean Dimensions I could use with foam-core or insulation foam? Just asking!

Love the videos Mel. Have you made any Necromunda terrain.

@TheTerrainTutor

4 жыл бұрын

Doing that now mate

I've been thinking of airbrushing these. Any thoughts?

Great videos enjoy counting how many times you say yeah 🤣

Hey Mel, awesome stuff as always mate! What colours did you use for the non-terracotta buildings? Also, great tip with the acrylic pens, I had some years ago when I was more into terrain making and working in the design industry and had forgotten all about them so thanks for the reminder. I really must paint my TWD terrain one of these days, lol!

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Dragon yellow and skeleton bone mate ;-)

@brainspider

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate :) they look like nice colours and they yellow isn't the powerful and bright.

Where did you get the buildings,or did you make them ?

Great video! But what brand are those acrylic markers? Never heard of that kind of markers.

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Daler Rowney mate

I was hoping to see how you did the smoke staining on the brick. I suppose that a thick wash and feathering would be the way to go.

@richardokeeffe8375

7 жыл бұрын

Waiting for this bit too!

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

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Great tutorial Mel. Did you seal the MDF at all (before painting), or is the Army Painter spray sufficient?

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Just the AP primer mate, it's all you need

awesome video! What the graffiti artist ref you mention?

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Dread Lunn from Solvent Abuse UK mate

Just a suggestion. Seems to me the boards should have been attached from the inside. I know if I was barricading myself in somewhere I can guarantee the boards would be nailed on from the inside, meaning they'd be behind the window frames. t would add another layer of detail as you would get the effect of the boards and maintain the detail of having the window frames.

I Like your doing great

@armyrobotjedi7982

5 жыл бұрын

Great

kewl stuff, when painting or constructing, using a time lapse would be better than just pictures. j/s

Could you also add posters and such? Like official notices and such like from CDC etc?

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

Sure mate

What did you use for the boards in the windows? They look like patterned wood...

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

Coffee stirrers mate

hey i got a question those buildings there do you got any ideas on something that solid but in 1/72 scale also any place for 1/72 scale molds

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

try sarissa precision

Great video, thank you. Anyone know any good sources for mdf terrain in the US? I know some places will ship internationally but it's kind of a pain. I'm looking for fantasy and modern terrain pieces.

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Burnt in Designs

Why did you primer the cardboard to glue behind the Windows, when you gonna primer the whole thing and the black cardboard again? Did you tape them for the 2nd primer?

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

I have no idea

Did you have to treat the MDF before priming it? like with a sealant or pva or something? I hear it eats up paint, and can start to warp from the moisture. I have no idea what to do with my own MDF terrain, so its just sitting on my table unpainted.

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

I just prime it with spray primer, it's not water based, so no soaking up issues

@smaggegi

7 жыл бұрын

Wonderful! I really thought I'd have to go through all sorts of nonsense to seal the MDF, thanks so much for your help!

the humbrol Chromium Oxide weathering powder would give a good algae/moss effects to help break up the grey.

@RogerS1978

7 жыл бұрын

especially on the grey strips, a bit of gloss varnish would make it look wet and slimy

If you don't throw your MDF terrain out of a window or off a plane, there is never a need to varnish terrain. water/wood glue in a 50:50 mix is enough in any case, but IMHO there is no need at all. acrylic colors get very hard and durable.

would there be an effective way to make the smoke effect over the windows with out a airbrush?

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

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Looks pretty good Mel. The only thing I can say that it would need is debris. There isn't any. The final street layout looks like it's been vacant for a decade or more, but even then, there is always a bit of debris in the corners.

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

That's next weeks vid mate ;-)

@Elderos5

7 жыл бұрын

Aahhhh. Very well then. I'll look out for it. : )

Is this buildings for 1/35 scale?

Great work, I have a question, what did you use for the windows? How did you make the boards fit?

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

What exactly do you mean matey?

@ivanyukio9654

6 жыл бұрын

I wanted to ask if you boarded the windows before putting the black cardboard or did you out the boards on the windows after the black cardboard

Is there a yank version of the Sarissa building products?

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

Plenty of US suppliers mate, checkout BurntinDesigns mate

when will you be doing another live in the studio? (not the sunday night at home)

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Last night!

@1525kat

7 жыл бұрын

The problem is for folks outside of the UK timezones. Because it is not during early evening hours when many would be on their computers, we don't catch it live. In the Western US, it is 1pm. If you could send out a notice the night before, it would allow folks to plan a bit. It gets a bit frustrating to plan on being here at 1 on a tuesday and then not have it (and I realize that life happens and things don't always go as we plan, but a bit more consistency would be appreciated). Watching it later is ok, but we miss all the interaction of the live chat. And, now that I have been critical (!!!), let me say how great a job you are doing, so informative and full of detail. Thanks.

take a shot every time he says yeah... its a good video though ur channels pretty awesome

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Watch you're liver!

Something else to add other than just clump foliage would be small crumples of paper.

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

yep

Did you make all of those or are they kits?? Great video! 👍☯️👍

@TheTerrainTutor

5 жыл бұрын

Sarissa Precision kits mate

Can you buy these in America? I'm having difficulty finding them here.

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

No idea, soz

Awesome job. Is this for a movie?

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

For a rulebook mate

where I can buy those buildings....I would like to get it!!!

@darrenhardy9005

7 жыл бұрын

www.sarissa-precision.com/

What colour did you use for the grey? Brand and colour etc, I'm in the process of painting mdf ruins :)

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

It was just a dark grey from wickes mate

@danabbott1234

6 жыл бұрын

TheTerrainTutor that's exactly what I bought yesterday, £1 tester pots for the win! Thanks

Yeah

This vidio was uploadet a few minutes ago. But i alerady like it

Thank you very much for this illuminating video. I have seen that your buildings are all barricated. But my survivors are more impetuous, and - in perfect State of Decay style - they want to burst into my buildings to plunder all the good stuff they can find. My question is where to look for door hinges for Sarissa Precision buildings. I have bought "Retro Americana Gas Station" (www.sarissa-precision.com/Gas_Station/p1603368_16237224.aspx) from the Mantic Games site. Inside that building there are 3 doors, one of which is visible in photo. I really need that those 3 doors could be opened. Any suggestion for hinges? Thank you so much!

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

dolls house fixtures mate ;-)

What's the exact ratio of water and color in your wash?

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Depends on how opac I want my wash to be, I pretty much wing it mate

@Max-ou4zg

7 жыл бұрын

But what I am wondering is if you put something on the terrain before priming it so that the paint doesn't soak into the wood?

did u make these buildings or did u buy them?

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Sarissa Precision cityblock range

I can't stop crying myself, I really so joy. :)

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate

where do you get houses kits like those

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Sarissa Precision Cityblock Range

@tabletophobbies.terraintec2697

7 жыл бұрын

TheTerrainTutor thank you

@tabletophobbies.terraintec2697

7 жыл бұрын

TheTerrainTutor I really have to move to Europe much more model building stores and tools that side

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Nottingham mate, home of the lead belt!

@tabletophobbies.terraintec2697

7 жыл бұрын

TheTerrainTutor sounds good

I was going to say you need some grass/weeds on the roof area but then noticed you have some added in the end items pics. so ignore me :)

have u ever tried to make pigeon poop on the buildings

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

no but I should

Are those buildings 20mm or 28mm?

@TheTerrainTutor

6 жыл бұрын

28mm mate

@timsmith5335

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the quick reply. Your vids are top notch, keep up the excellent work

Whats the game called?

@pingASS_

7 жыл бұрын

Oh. Sorry Turf War Z

I became a patreon

@TheTerrainTutor

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome dude!

Nice mods.

"yeah"

NEET stuff gess got get some and do em good me add lights thats me will see others

having been to LA recently, it needs more graffiti and rust

@brainspider

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe with less people around the city got cleaner? lol!

@davidcervantes520

7 жыл бұрын

Fred Richards I