An idea for cheap and plentiful shelf mushrooms are pine cone fronds jabbed in up to the curvy part! Loved watching this come together

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

That is one bangger of an idea. im pretty sure I have some decorative ones somewhere. If it works, you will see it in a video. Will it be alright if I tag you to give credit

@benweinberg3819

4 ай бұрын

@@Crackminis absolutely! Hope it pans out. I've used the decorative ones myself (much less sticky) and since you can find them in clearance bins aplenty after the holiday season now is the time to hoard them lol

@emmamarx9284

4 ай бұрын

That’s such a great idea, I have a couple trees out back that produce very small pinecones and I’ve always wanted to figure out some way to use them, I’ve never thought of using them as mushrooms! Definitely gonna add some to my supplies. Thanks for the awesome idea!!

Fantastic work, and excellent story! The "archer nest" is a howdah.

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for that it was driving me nuts. I couldn't figure it out for the life of me

I've been planning to make a giant xenos monster for one of my armies but wasn't sure where to start. This really gave me some ideas, so thanks!

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

I am happy to help

Very nice! You are using the strengths of the material (the stringy texture of sprueglue) to add detail. Clever!

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thanks yea if I used clay, it probably would have taken me twice as long, and I think probably wouldn't have looked half as good . Also, weight is another factor clay is heavy. This really isn't

a structure on the back of an elephant where people sit is called a "howdah"

reminds me of the giant elephants from LOTR! love it

The foil is shiny/glowy because your lens is dirty. Nice build!

I love this build and the story was so awesome. I love your channel dude! You make some truly amazing work.

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. I felt like I learnt a lot with this one. I'd not used the sprue goo to make more than a blob man, so I'm proper happy with how this came out

Dude that is fantastic. Your textural work is wonderful.

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Cheers, mate. The Sprue good did most of the work .

Great work! Any plans for a turnip battle report? I would love to see a thematic battle based in the story

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Yes, I am paying on doing one, but I'm going to take me a little while.I'm very much still a novice when it comes to filming and editing, so I want to grow my skill set first

Bro, how has this super incredible channel not yet gained millions of public awareness?! These sculptures are the most incredible things I have ever seen in my entire life! great work bro

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

thank you hopefully some day as for now I'm just enjoying creating and I'm glad that people are enjoying what I create

One of the coolest Minis i have ever seen

@Crackminis

17 күн бұрын

Thank you

The surface structure is really hard to achieve in other ways, i´d suggest building a proper anatomy with a clay underneath and then use melted spruce sheets for a skin on top. It works well for this absurdity/undead/stitched look, but could be used more focused on any old skin subject!

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Yes, I totally agree with you, and it's a method I will be utilising again in other projects down the line. It will be interesting to see how far I can push it. I think maybe it would work well for a bust.

Love the elephant! Glad I saw this in my recommendations as I'm a big fan of Turnip28 as well.

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked it . Thanks for watching

Dang what a ride! Didn't know what the was going to end up like when you brought out the armature. But boy what a surprise and a treat or a video. Great work!

Poor, poor Gajah. Someone ought to tread the mists and bring the poor beast the peace of death. End his suffering, and bring revenge on the monster that took his happiness from him. (Using the sprue goo for an wrinkled, elephantine skin looks really cool. Might need to make some Chaos Spawn using that trick some time.)

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking of using the Sprue goo to make a great unclean one proxy. Eventually, I think it would lend itself really well to nurgle

Try used coffee filters for the cloth. Or used tea bag paper. And the basket might be referred to as a howdah. I've started using fine wire twisted together, then wrapped on, glued in place and then primed and painted for rope.

@looselycollected7505

21 күн бұрын

Also the Swollen Maglette magazine(free pdf download like the rules) for Turnip28 has some good tips on making mushrooms and fungus.

@Crackminis

21 күн бұрын

Thank you for the advice, and now I'm dying to try making rope out of thin gauge wire, and I'll look for that pdf aswell thank you

awesome, also never saw someone use sprue goo for sculpting, only cleanup or kitbash transitions

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

You should check out @MiniatureHobbyist he did a load of videos on the many uses of Sprue Goo fantastic stuff

so sick man thanks

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

No, thank you. I'm glad you liked it

fantastic beastie!!! liking the stry you made for it in your setting too!

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. I appreciate that I find having a little story makes it easier to finish them and brings them to life for me as I create

First thing would be to clean your lens. Second is use a circular polarising filter. It won't get rid of all the reflections, but you can spin it in place until you find the best amount of reflection reduction.

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

That's a great build!

Great job making the skin look realistic like elephant skin 👍 I believe that the “archer nest” is called a howda? (Spelling is not my forte, but my phone does an ok job) I have found that watered down ‘white glue’ or ‘modpodge’ helps when working with the string to create a look for the model and not dry out so quickly and it also helps when painting because it gives the string a coating which doesn’t “gunk” up the strands so you can actually see that it’s ‘rope’ holding the structure together… Intriguing storyline and I wonder what will happen next 🤔

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you, and yea, I think I'll switch back to soaking the string in modpodge. I might have been the mixture in the wicker man ep that was the problem just going to be trial and error till I get it just right

@Weez-2_The-Beez

4 ай бұрын

@@Crackminis I think that your water ratio to glue mix might be too much glue and not enough water… I have been working with literal strands of string with my 15mm miniature slingers (Dark Age/Viking games) so I’m watering the glue down very much to still be able to pick up an arms length away that the very tiny miniature has a rope with a rock attached to the end of said (string/rope) and make it believable

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

@Weez-2_The-Beez yea you might be right. I'll give less glue a try first for the next project. Thank you for the advice

@Weez-2_The-Beez

4 ай бұрын

@@Crackminis It’s always a good idea to do a couple test runs before you commit to a project so you know what the water and glue ratio is, that way you won’t over/under do it and screw up your final project. I would suggest trying it out on some small scatter terrain “test” pieces, that way you can see how the final outcome looks before committing to a bigger project like this one

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

@Weez-2_The-Beez yoir right, and I will be doing that. I've got some free time for once and want to test it out, making bunting. I'll probably film it and make it into a short

Wow, this is great!

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍 I appreciate that

Awesome build 😊 Can’t wait to hear more of the story 😊😊😊 Loving the channel ❤😊❤

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. I appreciate you watching, and I'll keep them coming

@cerisekappes580

4 ай бұрын

@@Crackminis you are welcome 🤗 Awesome 🤩

If the Great Proboscis gets a cold were all screwed. ☂️

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Now that's a fabulous mini

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

Your creations are awesome. Keep up the great work. I hope your channel grows quickly. I've watched every one you've release since I started subscribing.

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you, that means a lot

Fantastic build! Have you tried using hot glue to make mushrooms? You can simply lay down some wax paper and add a dab of hot glue to form a mushroom cap shape. Peel it and then use a toothpick shard as the stem, and cover that in a bit more hotglue. For more longer stems with a more properly bizzare turnip28 style, squirt hot glue above and into a bowl of cold water while slowly moving the gun around to created elongated twisting mushroom stalks. Looking forward to seeing more of your builds!

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

I have, but they come out very smooth. I put on a coat of liqid green stuff they came out ok, so I could try making them in bulk . I'm going to need a lot of them. And other types of mushrooms types

@ogbang

4 ай бұрын

@Crackminis you could try sculpting one mushroom in the detail you need and cast a ton of copies using Blue Stuff bars from Green Stuff World and filling with two part expoy like Aves etc. Dead simple to use for this job.

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

@ogbang I was actually thinking of, like you said, sculpting the shrooms and then making silicon moulds, but that would be a video within itself, but at the moment, I'm out of quick cure resin ive been makeing silicon fishing lures and used it to make a cast

The think on top is called a Howda.

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

Impressive stuff! How much did he weigh once you'd added all of the sprue goo to the armature? I'm assuming it's pretty solid once it's set?

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

I'm currently away from it for the next few days , but I didn't even think of this, so if you give me a few days, I'll definitely get back to you on that one but for now I'm going to guess 300-400g hopefully I'm close

So cool! I'm making one right now as well.

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Sweet, I hope I get to see it when it's done

Very cool stuff man, just found your channel, love those scratch builds - nice! Have a sub :)

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate that a lot

@PocketPigments

4 ай бұрын

@@Crackminis of course! Always looking for cool new miniature channels to follow :) And not enough that are doing cool scratch builds like this. Plus us smaller guys need to rise up! haha. Have a good one!

Great video when it comes to string contrast paint does it reall well coz it seeps into all the little recesses like a dream. Alternatively you can try mixing some paint with flow improver (or airbrush flow improver its the same thing), so it reduces the paints surfafe tension and seeps into it nicely. Also if you want "cloth" textures that last longer i've seen some good results of people using thin slices of tin that bent to look wavy (bit of work involved but it will last forever basically). The other option is using Kneaditite (also known as green stuff) - as green stuff dries with some flexibility in it, similar to how cosclay dries but i'd say green stuff is more flexible. Its also easier to add that wavy cloth pattern into green stuff but just rolling out sausages and blending them in to the "cloth" to give it some wavy textures. Hope this helps mate you've earned my sub!. Personally i didnt know sprue glue could work like that, i usually use sprue glue (bits of sprue chucked into a half empty bottle of tamiya extra thin model cement) to fill in holes and gaps on my minis and also i use it if im kitbashing and theres a connection thats a bit dodgy or has low surface contact, i just fill it with sprue glue, then once it dries a bit i fill the gaps with more sprue glue and THEN i use normal tamiya thin and brush it over the sprue glue to clean away the excess and it looks absolutely magic mate as if there was no gap inthe first place !

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

thank you for the advice, I have some flow improver to hand so ill give that a crack with this and the advice of got so far and a little trial and error I should have it looking really good the next time I use it in a vid And as for the sprue goo I didn't expect it to work when I first started messing about with it

really wonderful!

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

Wonderful job!

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

@alexfietta

4 ай бұрын

You definitely got a new subscription! Will you continue with Turnip28 ?

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

@alexfietta yes im going to revisit it. The goal is to build two armies, but I don't want to burn myself out doing all of it at once one after the other, although I do want a slug night really bad 🤣🤣

This is brilliant

@Crackminis

3 ай бұрын

Thank you glad you liked it

great work though I recommend you get a pop filter for your mike

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you, and thanks for the feedback. I'm constantly trying to improve and learn so little tips like this help me out a lot. It's appreciated

@vindurza

4 ай бұрын

@@Crackminis this will improve the audio quality and make understanding you easier ^^

Very cool!

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it

That's thick!

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😂😂

very nice. for the shining you have to clean the camera lens

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. I'll keep that in mind if it happens to me again, I thought it was because i changed my lighting set up. I should have checked that as well

SUPERB

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

That's cool

@Crackminis

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, it was. Alot of fun to make

\O/

Bo leet us

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

Finally, thank you so much. You are a star 🌟

@calvanoni5443

4 ай бұрын

@@Crackminis New subscriber too, your channel was recommended & the sprue goo usage is an answer to my sculpting prayers! That was overly dramatic for giggles. 😊

@Crackminis

4 ай бұрын

@calvanoni5443 Thank you, and im happy to help a fellow crafter.

@calvanoni5443

4 ай бұрын

@@Crackminis I've got a literal ton of sprues to use, now I see there's hope!