Making Miniature DUMPSTERS for Kill Team, Warhammer, Necromunda, Gaslands, or The Walking Dead

[Music] [Music] hey guys welcome back to black magic crafts this week I wanted to build something for a modern setting so I decided to build two little dumpsters these are really fun projects and they let me utilize a lot of ideas and techniques that I really can't implement into fantasy terrain and they can be used in basically any modern setting I plan on using these for kill teen but they could be used for games like neckerman de gasp lands Walking Dead any game that takes place in a somewhat modern or future setting probably has dumpsters all right so no foam in this one it's basically all paper products the main structure was made from medium weight chipboard which I've recently discovered is also called binders board it can be kind of tricky to find in person but it is readily available online I started by laying out the shape of one of the sides the neat thing about this project is that there are so many different shapes and sizes of dumpsters across the world that you can be pretty loose with your design I just based mine off of a random google image search and approximated the sizes I pictured what it was like for me to stand next to one in real life then used a miniature version of myself to see if it looked right if you don't have your own miniature of yourself don't worry just use any mini that's about the right height and if one of those jerks on the internet you can just use a troll mini this was actually really helpful and it made me realize that my first layout was way too big so I adjusted once I got the shape right I used the first one as a template to make more when doing this it's always really important to pick one as the master and use that same one every time to avoid compounding errors I cut out the pieces for the sides backs and France I know I said you could be pretty loose with your design but I also know that some of you don't want to go through the effort so if you just want to copy my exact measurement you can steal these ones here but I really think you should try designing some for yourself as it helps you learn scale see this is why you shouldn't worry too much about or copy my measurements because they're not necessarily right or good when I built this it looked right compared to my mini compared to the reference photos I had looked at it looked pretty decent and even now looking at it yeah it's still still looks right still looks pretty good but when I actually went out into the wild and filmed myself at a dumpster looking at it now these are these are too big this thing stands to about my mid bicep whereas on the one I made its about head height like you said there's a lot of variance in these things throughout the world but I definitely could have made this 20 percent smaller to make it more realistic to the ones that I have in my city again who cares it works well as Scouter terrain looks good and I'm sure there's dumpsters that big somewhere in real life I assembled these using regular PVA glue it creates a great bond on paper products to make this possible I use some painters tape laid out all the pieces added glue and then folded the box into shape using the tape to keep it secure I needed to then quickly make the bottom so that it would stay square while drying I didn't make these pieces in advance because I knew that if I did they would likely end up not fitting this piece is a lot better to make based on what the actual inside of measurements end up being after assembly we're not machines and we end up with variants in our build so it's important to be mindful of that and work around it I strengthen the joints from the inside with a little extra glue then left the whole thing to dry for about 20 minutes don't mind me you just throw some garbage after a long hard day's work well I knew that I would be using corrugated paper for my lids I still wanted something more stable as backing for it so I cut and glued some more pieces of the chipboard to fit again just using the piece itself to create the measurements while waiting for the glue to dry i pre-cut a bunch of strips of construction paper to act as cladding these strips would hide all the seams of my sub assembly and mimic the raised areas of metal that you often see on dumpsters it can actually be pretty tricky cutting little strips like this on a small paper cutter and you can end up with a lot of different sizes or even worse tapered pieces so I find it's helpful to use pieces of tape as registration marks at the top and the bottom to quickly line up the paper at the right spot for every cut this is a lot easier to see and use then the measurements indicated on the tool itself when I removed my tape it actually damaged the chipboard a bit thankfully for this project it didn't really matter as it would just add to some of the texture to what would end up being a fairly damaged and abused bit of metal anyway I mean come on it's a dumpster using my cladding I went around and covered every joint and corner anywhere that I could do this in one continuous strip I did this made my life a lot easier and makes for perfect corners I also just used a tiny bit of PVA glue that I spread out with a brush to attach these this pretty much instantly bonds the paper to the paper and I didn't really have to struggle with anything moving around on me while I worked as an optional step you could brush on a bit more glue on top and let it dry then using a nail file you can carefully sand the joints to make them a bit more seamless you have to use caution though as you can easily chew up the paper but if you know this you can do it intentionally in places creating a bit of texture that will look like rust or bad welds one really recognizable feature of most dumpsters are the rectangular tubes of steel on the sides that the trucks used to pick them up and dump them a hollow rectangle styrene tube would be perfect for this and you can certainly find them but I didn't have any so I did what I always do I looked around my shop and found something that would work I had these random strips of wood that were about the right size and shape maybe too thick but close enough I cut them to length and beveled the edges using a knife and some sanding and glued them into place this was perfectly serviceable the only real downside is that they weren't hollow now for the lid first things first I needed a hinge rod and again a styrene tube would be perfect but again I didn't have any or so I thought I actually had a whole bunch and you probably do too you just got to take a look in your medicine cabinet cotton swabs at least the ones that I have are actually little tiny styrene tubes remove the cotton and you got super cheap pieces that can be used for all sorts of stuff the only real limitation is their length I super glued them in place right on the seam of the lid and snipped off the excess I gotta admit at this point I was feeling super clever about this for the actual lid I needed something that would imitate the black plastic lids you often see on dumpsters the corrugated paper I used for metal was an obvious choice the pattern isn't perfect but it looks pretty darn good you could also make a more square pattern with strips of paper or even just leave the lid smooth to look like solid metal but I think the corrugated paper was the best choice for me to make the rod really look good I just used some leftover strips of paper with a little bit of superglue it was easy to wrap it around and make some pretty believable looking hinges for the latches on the lid I did two different methods one was a really simple one where I just cut a rectangle of paper to make it look like a padlock latch and the other I used a bit of miniature chain this chain was a bit more work and obviously costs a bit more but one of these rolls of chain is like under $10 and we'll provide for tons of projects I cut little pieces pin them in place then use superglue to stiffen them up after that I could just cut off the excess pin I coated the whole thing in Mod Podge I'm not really sure that was necessary here but I did it to seal all the paper so that any painting or washes didn't hydrate and cause problems I also spray-painted them out with a flat black primer because I prefer painting over that than the Mod Podge which I find to be a bit too glossy I knew I wanted to do paint chipping so I under coated the pieces in a burnt sienna to mimic rust in retrospect this color choice was too bright and orange and it tends to look better with a bit deeper of a brown I could use the airbrush here but it was honestly just faster to brush it on than it would be to set up and clean the airbrush plus I still haven't made that spray booth I've been planning and the weather is turning to crappy to work outside so I'm trying to limit my airbrushing to the tasks that really need it to do the chipping I first coated the brown with a gloss varnish I let that dry then coated it again in hairspray after the hairspray dried I airbrushed on a coating of green now the super fun part using a cotton swab and a bit of water it's really easy to chip away the paint in a pretty realistic way honestly this is so easy to do and it's a really rewarding and enjoyable process I highly recommend you try it out if you can [Music] the lids would stay black so they just needed a quick touch-up coat and while doing the black it was actually kind of bugging me that the side pieces weren't hollow so I attempted to fake that by painting out the ends black to look like they were I'm not sure if this was the right choice they don't look great close up but at arm's length it's totally believable so I think it was an okay decision I used a bit of sepia and rust-colored washes to create some grime and streaks I didn't coat the entire piece instead focusing on corners and areas where there may be drips I really wanted these to look dirty and gross I also did a very very very very light and minimal dry brushing of grey and a tiny bit of sponge stippling to create some more recent looking paint damage that wasn't yet rusty I really wanted these to have some signage on them I mean it's not a dumpster without some warning labels or company logos and there does exist transfer slide decals for this sort of thing model railroad companies make them and I keep meaning to buy some and I keep not bothering because they're only available on American Amazon and I just I just always forget until I need them so I needed another option I opted to spend 10 minutes gathering some images from the web and making a little file in Photoshop I shrunk down and duplicated a bunch of signs giving myself a few size options then I got them printed at Staples this is a pretty good solution it was fast and cost me only a few cents you can do this with basically any sign you can find online and with even the most basic free image editing programs all I did was cut out the ones I wanted and attached them using Mod Podge remember this is actually what Mod Podge is designed to do this is what it's for so it's both kind of nice and kind of funny to actually use it for the right purpose for once these signs of course looked way too clean and shiny and new so I gave them some washes to grind them up this was especially important on the edges as didn't want them to look like cutout pieces of paper it's funny because while I was working on these I sent photos to a few of my buddies and one of my friends a Danny from 3d printed tabletop asked me if I had weathered the signs I thought that was kind of comical because I whether literally everything I make I don't know if I've ever built a bit of terrain without some washes or weathering techniques I mean washes are like the auto tune or Instagram filter of terrain making they make everything look just a bit better hide a lot of uglies and I use that bit on everything I wanted to add some graffiti to these again there are decals available for these but again I don't have those really skilled airbrush errs could do them by hand but I'm not one of those people and I thought about painting them with a brush but that's harder than it sounds while I was at Staples grabbing my printout I looked for something that would work I figured if I could get pens that acted like paint I'd have a good shot at hand drawing some graffiti I got some paint markers that I thought would be perfect but they didn't freaking work at all I spent a ton of time trying to get them going and once they finally did they were just awful these are getting returned I also bought some whiteout pens I figured they would have accurate enough tips and that the whiteout should cover pretty well problem is that they were awful and uncontrollable totally useless for this application in the end the two metallic uniball pens that I got worked best but this limited me to silver and gold which was a bit unfortunate as I would have liked to have had white available I'm sure if I go to an actual art or craft store I will be able to find something in white that works and I'm convinced that this is a good method I also found that a black sharpie worked pretty well you can even use the metallic to do a sort of drop shadow effect to make it look a little bit more like graffiti before the metallic pen totally dried I brushed on some more wash and used it to cause some streaking this helped to give it a bit of a dripping spray paint look that I couldn't quite achieve while just drawing it on with the pen overall I think this project is super rad and I enjoyed the whole process I discovered some new things and now have some ideas that I can develop further into other modern builds I hope you enjoyed this video if you did hit the like button and let me know in the comments section feel free to let me know some other pieces of modern scatter train you'd like to see me make if you want to grab any tools or supplies for your builds head over to black magic craft dot CA there I have my essential equipment page I'll link to all of the stuff I use regularly and explain why I use it I'll also throw some links to some of the more specific items from this video in the description below if you get a lot of value out of these videos I make if they've helped you to discover a new passion maybe they've helped you bring the family together for something fun at family time or maybe they've just helped you save some money consider supporting black magic crafts on patreon it is because of the support there that I'm able to dedicate my efforts into making these videos and giving them to the community for free and I'd really love to keep making them for as long as possible that's it for this week guys this project was really really fun I liked it quite a lot I take guys I'll see you again next week

Channel: Black Magic Craft

Views: 86,090

Keywords: Black magic craft, making miniature dumpsters, tableptop games, garbage cans, dumpsters, containers, trash cans, 28mm, terrain, scatter terrain, modern terrain, necromunda, kill team, warhammer, 40k, walking dead, gaslands, painting graffiti, miniature signs, paint chipping, rust effects, scale modelling, scale model building, diorama tutorial, graffiti decals, miniatures, how to paint rust, how to paint terrain, post apoc terrain, post apocalyptic terrain, Marvel Crisis Protocol

Id: Rq55SOcRAVQ

Length: 17min 3sec (1023 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 11 2019