Build a SHANTY TOWN! - Underhive Hab Block Terrain for Warhammer 40k, Necromunda

in the sprawling hive cities of the far future life is cheap and space is scarce citizens of the underhive build their modest homes with whatever scrap materials are available assembling makeshift shantytowns which cling like barnacles to the massive pipes and conduits that bring resources to the upper levels in these vile slums criminal gangs fight for supremacy and to wander down the wrong cramped alleyway is to invite certain death or worse [Music] welcome to eric's hobby workshop today we're headed into the under hive to build something that i've wanted to build for quite a while now which is a shanty town there's going to be a lot of techniques that i go over in this video some new some old if you've been watching the channel for a little while but let's get right into it because it's going to be a fun one all right so before we get started let's take a look at some reference images there are shanty towns all over the world they exist in many many countries in the developing world and they have some common elements between them and let's take a look at that so one of the things that we notice right away is they have a lot of corrugated metal and they have a very uneven roof lines and my favorite ones like the favelas in brazil are sort of built on top of each other in a really cool interesting way that gives a lot of shapes another thing i noticed is that some of them are very colorful and i really like that i like the idea that even though some of these houses are quite modest people still take pride in them and try to make them cheerful and aesthetically pleasing and that's really nice and i want to keep that okay so once i've looked at a couple images i'm going to start sketching and sketch out something that's just going to be a rough guide for me to build from just some ideas of what might be a fun shape what might look cool and my final build's not gonna look that much like my sketch but uh it's something to kind of guide me a little bit for when i get stumped so you can see what i'm working on here i've got little shanty-like structures built around a central pipe and there's a smaller pipe coming out that's going to be pouring water and i really want to have a staircase in behind here that goes behind the falling water i think that'd be really cool and yeah maybe a little culvert down at the bottom to have that water sort of go somewhere from this bottom reservoir that seems pretty cool all right with that done let's jump into the build before we go any further let's take a quick moment to look at today's sponsor raid shadow legends raid shadow legends is a mobile rpg where you put together a crack team of champions and scour dungeons defeating all kinds of enemies from dragons to evil undead sorcerers i downloaded raid a while ago and i really like pulling it out in those in between moments like when you're waiting for a train or when you're in line somewhere because it's really easy to jump in and out of the game my favorite bit 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big pipe that's going from one layer to another and so to accomplish that i used this cardboard tube that i got from the post office this is usually for mailing pictures and maps and other things that you need to roll up to mail and use some of this brown packing tape you can also get at the post office and wrap that around just to cover that spiral pattern that makes it look distinctively like a cardboard tube so i just go around that thing covering the whole thing there's a seam on one side but it's going to get covered anyways so it doesn't really matter but it won't have that spiral pattern which is nice so then with another length of the cardboard i'm going to trace onto some xps foam a little outer ring here for the culvert that's going to drain the pool that i'm going to make a little later on in the build and i just pull that away and then with a bunch of rough chunks of xps foam i'm going to do a little brainstorming here and just kind of feel my way through this so i'm just using xps foam to block out the rough structure of the base of the building this part is going to be concrete when it's finished and xps foam is a good way of getting that sort of featureless walls that concrete makes so once i have my pieces roughly cut into place i do a quick mock-up without any glue and that's about the shape i'm going for so when i'm satisfied with that i'm going to cut another piece and make that culvert into something that leads into the structure a little bit more so when you peer through into it you can see it sort of curving off and away into the darkness it's not going to have much detail back there because it's going to be very difficult to see back there but these little details add a lot when the thing comes together so next i'm using some gorilla glue construction adhesive to glue all the foam together i've been talking a lot about this recently if you watched any of my previous videos but this stuff is amazing clean up any excess with a little bit of alcohol and this stuff bonds foam extremely well it's very tacky right off the bat so you can build quickly without having to clamp anything because the lightweight nature of the foam and this tackiness of the gorilla glue really makes an easy workflow so here i'm using that piece of culvert and i'm doing what i described a moment ago which is i'm cutting the pieces on an angle and sort of curving them off to the left now this is not very precise as you can see and i'm just holding it together with some more of that brown tape but it's going to be just fine it's again one of those pieces that you're not going to really see so sometimes you got to cut corners here and there if you want to save a little bit of time you know what i'm saying so that's all i'm doing there it's just kind of cobbling that together save a little bit of time but uh end up with something that is a nice little detail still [Music] there you go you can see it's not perfectly smooth on the inside but who says it has to be what are you a culvert expert i'm not that's for sure and uh besides this is the under hive things are a little bit more ramshackle so next i'm going to keep adding some other pieces of foam to build out more structure right now i'm just kind of composing the basic shapes of the structure i'm trying to get a nice building block of an interesting shape to build on really and this is kind of a process that's totally improvisational i did do a sketch to plan it out but at the end of the day there's a lot of trial and error here there's a lot of cutting pieces holding them up see how they look cutting pieces of foam core making some shapes as you can see here i'm cutting the foam core on a bevel and an angle to get a nice corner piece and that allows me to make a nice boxy shape and i make a lot of sort of just boxy shapes like this and hold them up on the structure and see where they're gonna look good and once i'm satisfied with them i can trace out some chipboard to make a base and that'll give them some rigidity and also a bottom and i just build that way really improvisationally cutting trimming use a bit of hot glue to glue the foam core structure on and that's essentially my method for building these basic shapes now these foam core pieces are going to be the actual shanty houses themselves and you'll see why in a moment when i start cutting into them but generally speaking i use the pink xps foam for concrete and the foam core for the shanty houses themselves here i'm using a little piece of granny grating which is a knitting mesh that you can get at an arts and crafts store and i'm just test fitting for a little great for the culvert and the reason why is i want a little bit of detail i want a nice rusty grate in there and i want to further obscure your ability to look down into that tunnel there to kind of hide that there's not much to look at in there but so i cut out basically some of the extra links and that allowed me to get a coarser grid than that distinctive granny grading look you know granny grating is a great material but once you've been crafting with it for a while your eye can pick it up pretty easily so that's this modification is something that i've done in the past that makes it less instantly recognizable and uh i'm a little bit happier with that so there's that grid pretty happy with how that's looking now with this basic shape done i'm going to take my gorilla glue and i'm going to put it all around the perimeter being careful to make a nice seal and i'm going to glue that to a piece of chipboard i put quite a lot of weight on there to try to flatten it down because the piece of chipboard was a little bit warped which is annoying but these things happen and so i'm just going to pile some heavy stuff on there to hold it down like that's like you know a coffee grinder and a bag of glue sticks you got to work with what you got so next i'm going to cut off the excess chipboard from around the structure and there you go like a nice invisible base and the piece is nicely fitting onto that piece of chipboard there are a lot of custom pieces of chipboard that i cut and glued and onto existing shapes and that's just kind of done on an improvisational basis as well just kind of measuring eyeballing trial error here's a good example of why you need a dual temperature glue gun the glue was way too hot when i put this down and you can see it melted into the foam and didn't actually bond very well so i'm switching my glue gun to low and while that cools down a little bit i'm going to take an opportunity to dump some acrylic black paint into the back of that structure while the top is still open and paint it black in there because it'll be really difficult to paint in there once this thing is put together and this will just help you to have that stygian blackness that if you look down into the culvert nice okay so with a little low temperature hot glue i'm able to glue that nice block on there which is on a jaunty angle because i want to have this staircase reaching over from this lower level up to that level there now the stairs i'm using are o scale styrene stairs by plastruct i'll put a link in the description these are really great they're a model railroad kit and i find the scale is just perfect for the 28 32 millimeter warhammer necromunda scale so i really like these stairs i got a whole bunch of them for this build and they're a crucial component of it so check out the link in description if you want some here you can see i'm adding more little areas where the stairs can go on i really wanted this piece to feel like there were stairs going all over it like an mcesher drawing or something normally i use a lot of ladders when i'm building but since this is supposed to be a residential structure like realistically i mean even though this is the dark future these people still have to like carry bags of groceries and stuff presumably i mean i don't know maybe they have nutrients slurry paste pipe directly into their homes but i figured stairs is more appropriate for residential than ladders in any case so even though this might be there might be rooter slums that have just ladders i'm happy to have just stairs on this build and it adds really a cool appearance as well so here you can see i'm adding a box that i fabricated as a completely enclosed box and i'm putting that on the edge there with the staircase running along the side of it to the top of it and then i'm going to close that in with another prefabricated box and what that's going to do is create a really cool negative space under the stairs in between these two shanty structures and that's like an area that there'd be like some rats or something that's the fun part about improvising these is you get these fun little moments picking out so here's the tube from inside a roll of aluminum foil i'm cutting that with my hobby saw and that's going to be a piece of piping we're going to use in a moment i'll just add another little structure here to make sure the spacing's right and then i'll add a short length of pipe coming out of the central pipe and that's going to be a little waterfall down into the pool below a little later and it's going to be awesome you'll see add a little bit of cereal box around the outside to just give it more of a pipe like cladding at the end of it here's a tiny little window box type thing that adds a nice landing for the stairs as you can see this is kind of my process as i build i hold things up i squint at them i beat my head against the wall i hold them up in a different pattern and it goes pretty slowly to be honest but i think the juice is worth the squeeze because you end up with some really cool shapes when it's all said and done here you can see i've added another structure on the roof of those other two and this one overhangs the pathway that you would take to climb up the stairs below and i'm really happy with that because that's going to be a cool little dark alley when we're all done now here's a method for making walkways that have shown in some previous videos i add some sculptors mesh and super glue it to this little toy here these toys are called ruminate and they are a dollhouse building tool i guess like build your own dollhouse using ruminate and i bought a bag of them at a thrift store a while back and i'm almost out so i'm gonna have to buy some more um because i really like the way they work as these little platforms but as you can see they make nice little landings for when the platforms can't deliver out over nothingness and that contrast of the interior stairs going under the structures and these stretching over spans i think creates a really cool dynamic for this piece and i'm really happy with how that turned out so here's a little i-beam that i made out of pieces of chipboard just three pieces of chipboard of equal length glued together in an eye pattern and now i'm adding some plastic pipes these are just another cheap child's building toy that i'll put a link for in the description and get a huge bag of these for like eight dollars and uh and they're pretty awesome and as you can see these make some nice industrial looking pipes that sort of tie this in with the rest of the under hive aesthetic that i've been going for for longer pipe lengths i use pieces of dowel of a similar gauge and that's just because the straight pieces in the pipe sets are actually fairly scarce so you get a lot of you know t joints and actually like x joints that i've never used because i'm no plumber but i don't think an x joint is very common but that's neither here nor there as you can see we are nearing the top of the structure i made this piece exactly 12 inches tall and i'm gonna do a nice flat top and the reason for that is because i want you to be able to stack other structures on top of this eventually i'd love to have this continue up in a further build or add you know a existing piece on top of there maybe a games workshop kit some sort of industrial looking piece of machinery the sky's the limit really but here i'm using a little bit of pre-made spackle and filling in some of the gaps on my concrete pieces this is just a nice way to unify those pieces of foam so it looks less like it's glued together bits of foam and looks a little bit more like it's poured concrete now i'm making a bunch of doors my preferred dimension for doors is one inch by one and a half inch which is not exactly the ratio that you would see in a normal door in the real world but i'm pretty consistent with that across my builds and gives sort of a stylistically unifying piece it's also a width that a guy with a 25 millimeter base could actually walk through you can see i've made some chipboard support struts in a similar way to the i-beam and i use those to support my more precarious looking platforms as well this is another piece from plastruct which is a support beam and this adds a nice little bit of detail as well this would be pretty hard to scratch build very finicky thin pieces and so i prefer to just use the plaster pieces but you could easily make something like this just a little ib motor chipboard if you didn't want a spring for the plastruct there's a length of pipe i'll show you a little bit later how to make those pipes but back to the doors i decided to detail the doors with little bits of cereal board and little punched out pieces of plastic card and a good way to to add these rivets is to grab them with the tip of an x-acto knife and dip them in super glue and then apply them with the tip of your knife the stickiness of the super glue will pull them off the tip of your knife if you do it right and that's great so once we have the doors built i'm going to cut into the foam core but not all the way i'm going to leave that back piece of paper there and just cut into it and then scrape away with the flat edge thing in this case i'm using a file but you don't need to use a file and then put a bit of super glue in there and that's going to make my doors recessed which is gives a little bit more realistic detail i actually did six or seven different doors on the structure and they're all different and i think that adds a lot of character you can see this one here is made out of actually another plastrupt product which is a diamond sheet plastic card and i'll try to link that in the description as well although i was having trouble finding it a little while ago so fingers crossed here you can see i'm starting to add some corrugated paper to add that corrugated metal look corrugated paper is an awesome and cheap way to add a ton of detail to a rough industrial project like this and so are little pipes like this i'm using a paper straw and i'm wrapping it in masking tape and then once that's on i'm going to glue a little piece of cereal board around the outside to act as a pipe fitting and that'll just add some nice detail to these little pipes and we can apply those on wherever we want to add a little bit of detail i put some up here against the other pipe to add some more vertical detail and kind of sell the idea that there's plumbing and things running into these little shanty structures i made some windows in a similar way to the doors using the same sculptures mesh that i used for my platforms and then some cereal box to detail that and that gives sort of a nice what i would think is a little bit safer type of window where you have a metal mesh in it almost like if you remember at school they used to have those windows that had the wires in them so that if someone shattered it it wouldn't wouldn't really break yeah here i've made a little facade for one of my structures in here because it's so hard to reach in there so i built it first and then glued it in there here's a little bottle that i've had kicking around that i figured would make a cool little tank for something somebody's got going on maybe that's fresh water maybe they're distilling something maybe that's a furnace of some kind it's really up to your imagination but i had another window next to it and a little grate that i had lying around in my bits box as well and as you can see i've made a tremendous mess so let's tidy up a little bit before moving on nice i'm gonna add a little bit of mod podge and then a little bit of sand and that sand is going to add sort of grimy build up to the corners that's really going to sell the disheveled nature of the structure and i turn it upside down to get all that excess sand off give it a few taps and then i'm gonna come in with some black paint mixed with mod podge and paint that over all my foam areas to seal them in and also all the paper areas all that corrugated paper is going to get a coat of this mod podge as well because when i use some watery washes in the future steps i don't want it to warp the paper or soften it too much because that could be a problem next let's jump ahead to painting i lost a little bit of footage here but i spray painted it black and then brown and then i dry brushed it with a little bit of silver which you can see me doing here and that gives a nice base for the rusty metal that's going to be a large component of the structure and there you go you can see it's really coming together as an interesting looking structure at this point and i'm thrilled with how it's looking so next i'm going to make a rusty wash with some yellow paint some red paint and a little bit of brown paint and a lot of water and i'm just going to apply this pretty liberally all over everything it looks like you know that water if you make your craft dinner too runny at this point but it's gonna dry a lot more subtle next i'll take a little bit of grey craft paint and paint all the areas that i want to be concrete and just this piece here really adds a nice bit of contrast between that dark rusty metal and i'm really happy with how that's looking next i'm going to paint black and green mixed together to be the bottom of this little pool here i don't i want there to be an illusion of depth and that's gonna help with that i put a black wash everywhere and streak it onto the concrete bits a little bit which adds some realism next i'm gonna use this dap gel stuff it's like a clear sealant and luke's aps recommended this stuff to me as a water effect and it's pretty good it smells pretty strong but it's uh it's easier to work with than a silicon or something like that because it's easy to glue one of my patrons recommend i cut a hole in the grate so here i am doing that by the way if you want to become a patreon link in the description let's pour some resin guys i'm using two part easy caster as in which i warm up first because that helps the little bubbles disappear and then i mix it in two equal parts you know what i'm not going to tell you all the steps because just if you're going to use it just follow the instructions and the thing i'm just going to lead you wrong if anything but i will tell you that i like to use warhammer paints to tint it because they don't mess with it and tried and true method we'll stick with that now luckily this thing was not leaking out of anywhere which i'm pretty happy with so i get my big head in there and i blow on it a little bit to get some of those small bubbles out and then it's on to the masking fluid stage this is utrecht masking fluid this is for watercolor painters who don't want areas of their watercolor painting to be darkened and it's just a latex in and it dries clear apply it with a sponge to get a nice random pattern anywhere you want to have rust show later and then i start painting this thing some vibrant colors i go with blue i can't remember if i put it some places because it dries clear but anyways we'll just add some more whatever and a little bit of green i'm using a lot more color here than i normally do but i'm actually really happy with how it turned out so that just shows you know take some risks sometimes and sometimes they pay off nice fire engine red on this one you can see i'm not being totally thorough with the application of color and that doesn't matter because it's going to be so disheveled looking in the end anyways the central pipe i went with a nice white because um it just kind of ties in with some of the other builds i've done and a nice bright yellow on the bottom to get a good coverage with the yellow i mixed it with a little bit of white because white pigment is a lot stronger than yellow pigment and it really helps the opacity and a nice little eastery purple for the last one pretty good and then i'm going to dry brush a little bit of gray onto all the sandy areas and some of the steps just to add a little dusty appearance i start rubbing with my thumb and that lifts up the chipping medium and you can see it has a nice chip underneath and because i have res in there i've turned it upside down so that any flakes and stuff that come away fall upwards and away from the resin next i come in with some burnt sienna paint and just add some rusty streaks to the piece that's looking pretty good a few light ones onto the concrete as well ties the piece together a little and now it's time to add the waterfall i peel that piece off of the parchment paper and i just yeah okay what i'm doing here is not good it just kind of started wrestling with it and it started sticking to itself and that should have been a disaster but i you know i'm lucky i guess it kind of did stick to itself but that looks more realistic anyways water tends to kind of converge into a narrower stream when it falls out like that and it actually looks better so there's some mod podge gloss that i've applied and i'm now blowing through a straw to get a nice rippling effect and that's going to be nice when it dries and let's do a little bit in the mouth of that pipe as well and there you go that's my vision is to have a little waterfall that you walk behind with the guys pretty happy with that and we are done i'd like to give a huge thanks to all my patrons starting with my master crafter to your patrons robert riceholt joseph hobbs steven scott [Music] paypix69 nadia hamdi mike huey alice ferraris lich lord zomb and my new patrons tom marino clear forker jacob stevens hannes joseph jay ausum rucio eric lamoureux bernard holmock thanks everyone a ton i appreciate you guys so much if you like this video please like comment share subscribe and we'll see you next time

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Length: 28min 13sec (1693 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 21 2021

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