👻 I made a tiny LUIGI'S MANSION (ft. music by Qumu)

Hey Studs, welcome back to Studson  Studio where today I’m building   Luigi’s Mansion from the Luigi’s Mansion. But before we start grabbing random trash   to craft with, we need something hard  and board-like for the diorama base.  Mario? Ooh, like this piece of hardboard right here.  After making the corners less pointy,  I’m using a rotary sander to fill   the air with dust particulate that’s  perfectly formulated for lung damage.  But with the poltergust 3000, I can catch  most of that dust before it fills the air.  The edges now slope to the table pretty nice,  but I need to go hunting for some more thickness.  There’s the stuff. Oh yeah, got it!  Thank you, Luigi. This is one inch housing insulation foam   which will make a nice plateau for the mansion. I forgot the front needs a fence,   so begone. Off to the foam graveyard. I calculated the foundation to be   this many centimeters, then sliced out  the hill for the mansion to perch on.  Oh sickening. In a pinch, you can use  this as air dry clay. I’m laying out this   white log and rolling out a cobblestone  texture for the mansion’s front fence.  And remember to release the leftovers.  The fence is topped off with strips of air dry  clay, but it’s missing something sharp and spooky.  I bought a box of these arrow tipped food skewers,   which according to reviews, are  only used for haunted house fences.  Next, we must descend into the darkness  and grab this piece of foam core board   to start building the house structure. Basic shapes like rectangles just won’t do,   we need advanced trapezoids to  match the looming mansion aesthetic.  Then use hot glue unless you got Boo. Then I cut the corners for column space,   listen to this. Again.  You’re welcome. For the mansion columns,   I’m using plastic beads because of all  the details baked in, but these round   boys would be easier to use if one side was flat. It was tricky to hold these tiny beads in place,   but if you do it just right, you can gouge  a couple of nice scratches on your desk.  The beads are strung along metal wire  and secured in place with CA glue   before taking their final rest on the big polygon. And since everybody cheats, I’m stealing something   from Waluigi’s Mansion. Waluigi Time!  This dollar store door has too much good detail  to pass up, so I’ll just swipe this for Luigi.  Oh yeah, and I dug a grave through the bottom so  I could string in some spooky LED lighting later.  For the mansion siding, I’m weathering  coffee stirring sticks with a sharp knife,   but because of the LED lights I just mentioned,  I saved room for the two main central windows.   These holes need to be aggressively kicked  out for the mansion’s glowing eyeballs.  Now time to fill out the windows.  These horse shoe charms gifted from the centipede  horse will make pretty good window panes.  After breaking each horse shoe,  I glued them back together again,   covering up each seam with a rhinestone gem. Kind of a cool bonus about these arrow picks.   I only paid for the sharp end, but they come  with a rounded backside that will be useful   for constructing the rest of the window frame. And I’m super glad I glued everything on top   of parchment paper, because super glue  never ever stick that material. Never.  But it wasn’t too hard to remove  all these pesky paper hang nails.  Now let’s let all these Boos loose and use a small  piece of cross stitch canvas as the window grills.  And then just to make sure gluing all this  stuff together doesn’t look terrible, I gave   them a quick prime and they look 100% gray. And then it was time to start building up   the roof,, starting with a coffin  that’s about the size of two Luigis.  Then I briefly appreciated the mansion’s top hat.  But the hat isn’t just for fashion, it’s mainly  for structure so I can glue in these sloped   pieces of paperboard, giving the mansion its  requisite concave spooky Victorian aesthetic.  Oh, thank you mommy Hellen for your  nice selection of haunted jewelry.   The nice thing about old cheap jewelry  is the plastic is quite brittle.  I’m using various pieces of ornate  junk to make the dormer windows   that sit off the front of the roof. The messy blob of jewelry serves no   function other than gaudy visual noise, so  it’s right at home on a Victorian mansion.  Using a thin strip of craft foam, I glued  it to the edge of the roof as a trim,   mostly to hide the paperboard and various hot  glue crimes, but it also adds a nice thickness.  And that’s looking pretty decent, I’d  say I deserve gold in the mushroom cup.  The only part of these trophies I  really need are these swirly handles.  The actual mansion has a lot of these  swirly details, so these were perfect.  Then I spent an entire day cutting out a  lifetime supply of paperboard shingles.   The bad news is it was only enough for  this project, but the good news is…  The basic process is to lay out  shingles one strip at a time,   starting from the bottom and working up. Now it’s not just a lumpy cereal box.  Using some scrap recycled plastic, I chopped out  a bunch of tiles for the rooftop patio King Boo   battle arena at the end of the game. Whoa, look out!  Oh, this ghost is dry, it won’t need this  anymore. I’m lining the top of the roof   with a clothespin trim because details are  a decent match to the actual mansion roof.  And from that afore-mentioned Waluigi  dreamhouse, I’m recycling the door, but adding   on a couple earring backs as door handles. Which means we can finally start gluing   all the details into place, including  these windows and also these windows.  On the front of the mansion, the  windows are set apart by two rows   of ornate mushy GameCube graphics,  which I’m replicating with more   trophy handles… Ooh, mama mia!  And a handful of beads dangerously broken apart  by pliers. This had about a 50% success rate.   But also a 50% success rate at turning  beads into free weathering powders.  All this fancy mansion jewelry is glued down  with CA glue and then I officially committed   to gluing the house to the base. There are a couple other things   to build though, such as the roof attachments. Ooh, what does this look like? You might say horse   shoe, but you’d be wrong. It’s a Horseshoe Deluxe. The horseshoe doorway is attached to this   foam trapezoid, which gets wood  siding like the rest of the house.  And speaking of foam trapezoids, that’s  exactly what the mansion’s two chimneys are.   The design principles are basically  “Imagine Squares, But Wonky.”  Leading up to the front door is a foam  staircase which will get covered in dirt later,   then after that is the mansion’s actual staircase. This is made from thick chipboard or cardstock.   Followed by more thematically appropriate  beads and foam as the ornate stone handrail.  Time to prep the mansion for painting,  starting with a bath of black paint and   Mod Podge to coat the foam and paper surfaces  in a protective shell before spray painting.  Now we can move on to non-mansion-materials,  such as trees. If you only have access to   boring sticks, it’s pretty easy  to make it into a spooky stick.  This is a piece of wobbly driftwood that  was already rich with a spooky spirit.   All it needs are roots and branches,  which I’m adding using armature wire.  To beef out these skinny metal  bones, I’m using hot glue,   then using the hot tip to blend in the  glue to the wood and add bark striation.  After sculpting the glue roots, I did the same  thing to the branches, but ended up accidentally   hiding any indication of natural wood under glue.  But it’s okay, because now Hexxus is stuck inside.  And here’s the thick spooky  woods made of four trees.  I realized my fences were actually a bit  too long for the base, but that’s a lie. I   did it on purpose so that I could snap off the  ends as crumbling fence details. But suddenly,   I was addicted to the crack and needed to add a  couple more to the fence just for free weathering.  Between the two lengths of fence, I’m adding  more beads as fence posts, and the magic of   beads means I can run tiny LEDs through them to  act as torches, but stay tuned for that later.  For now, we’ll just glue the two posts in place. And now, it’s goop time, so get a napkin ready.  I’m using Sculptamold to bulk out  the hill and add some natural ground   lumps. I’m using about two cremated hamsters worth  of this mix, then getting it nice and wet until   it’s the consistency of expired artichoke dip. I spread the forbidden dip about a quarter inch   deep across the whole base, but since I wasn’t  quite ready to attach the trees, I squished them   into their spot now because the goop remembers... The Sculptamold will take about 24 hours to dry,   so in the meantime, let’s go do some grave  digging into the foam graveyard. I’m gonna   populate the front yard with a few freehand  cut gravestones using a piece of foam board.  I made eight headstones for the mansion’s  guests, engraving in some basic details,   but they’re missing a little something. Goop.  Did you think I’d go a whole video  without stippling that goop? Well,   you’re right (wrong). It’s October  and that means we stipple that ghoulp.  The mansion is still missing something. Mario!  That’s right: green Mario. But the scary part is,   I’m gonna use bootleg Luigi as a guide. The first step is to cover up these bones   with a thin layer of clay, then giving  it a quick bake so Luigi’s flesh and   clothes have something to grip onto. I’m planning to mostly show off Luigi’s   backside in the diorama, so I’m not too worried  about his face inevitably looking like a ghoul.  Big Pants. To help his overalls stick to his bod,   I’m using some tacky glue because it’s oven safe. Then I gave the Weeg some lumpy hair and a   hat with a brim that looks kind  of like a fingernail clipping.  I blended in some oversized ears balls, gave  him a long troll nose, then attached his two   scraggly strands of mustache, making  him look half ghoul and half smashing.  I’ll take the L for not being a great  sculptor, and then I’ll put it on Luigi’s hat.  And the final detail for this baby brother  is his shoulder vacuum, the Poltergust 3000.   A little half donut for the handle. And for the  flashlight, I used a small piece of a toothpick,   which will be connected to the fully baked boy by  a piece of an elastic hair tie. I singed the tips,   super glued the tube into place, then hardened  the entire band with more super glue to make   it easier to paint. And there it is, our  little guy is ready to suck some ghosts.  I primed everything off camera,  so let’s get down to painting.  I still have Luigi on the brain, so we’ll start  with him, who we all know wears green overalls.  Blue overalls and green hat The final diorama will mostly   be showing off Luigi’s booty, so the  back is where I spent most of my time,   finishing up with some lazy wet blending on the  overalls and shirt to give some color variation.  For the trees and roof, I started with a  dark green that doesn’t look like anything   because I decided to film the video with  green lighting to render it invisible.  And for the house siding, it’s also  dark green, but with some blue mixed   in to make a kind of spectral aqua. I was pretty messy around all the   windows and trim, so I kept a paper towel  on hand to lazily wipe away my sloppiness.  I based the ground in brown, even  though I’ll be adding dirt later.   The brown is just a catchall basecoat in  case there are any blank spots in my dirt.  The next step is dry brushing with lighter  shades of each basecoat. I’m using cheapo   makeup brushes to lightly brush on just the  faintest whisper of the ghost of each color.  But for the doorway, windows, and columns,   I’m using a metallic silver dry brush  so the details pop in the moonlight.  I finished up the chimneys with a turquoise brick  highlight, then glued the roof pieces into place.  And now squirt out the glue because it’s time  to get soiled. This is real live dirt from   the outside that you can scoop up for your  very own in all of your crafting projects.  And remember to dump off the extra because  that’s just free dirt for next time.  I’m sealing in the soil with isopropyl  alcohol and watered-down glue.  And the best part is: when  it’s dry, it looks like dirt.  And now we can start plugging in the accessories,  such as filling in the tree holes with their   matching tree puzzle pieces, and then laying  out the grave stones in the front yard.  This is looking pretty decent,  but it could be much more green.   It’s time we pay respect to the Great Grass God. I’m using a static grass applicator to glue on   just a few sporadic patches of unkempt lawn. The groundskeeper perished many years ago,   so the yard is in a great state of disrepair, and  the only way I know how to mimic a messy yard is   by using various sizes, colors, and textures of  flocking products from a hobby store near you.  Then I sealed the souls away  with watered down PVA glue.  The last flock is the goop flock. This  is roughly a 1:1 mixture of fine green   flocking and PVA glue. Once this moss  sauce dries, it will look less slimy   and more like a mossy grime growing in  all the mansion’s nooks and crannies.  And this goop is nice and thick enough to  make some suspended goop drips on the trees.  And the final dirty decrepit detail is some  touches of green and brown washes using oil   paints and mineral spirits. I switched between  colors without cleaning the brush or letting   the paint dry so that I could get some  nice blends between the green and brown.  Now let’s make it marginally moodier  using this string of LED fairy lights.  The first two bulbs are squeezed through  the bead fence posts for the torch lighting,   but for the windows, I made a very sloppy light  gel using yellow paint on clear plastic. One   of these will be placed behind the slit in the  doorway and another piece for the two windows on   the second floor to add some warm soft lighting. Then I hot glued together a glob of lights in a   way that would get me fired as an electrician  and secured them behind the yellow filters.  The two front LEDs are coated in hot glue flames.  And without further a-boo, let’s roll the  boo-ty shots. Thanks for watching everyone,   and a special extra spooky thank you to all  the newest supporters on Patreon, such as…

Channel: Studson Studio

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Length: 18min 39sec (1119 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 31 2021