Warhammer Old World Terrain Tutorial - Ruined Medieval Rowhouses - MORDHEIM, D&D, Frostgrave, Warcry

a great man named robert jordan once said the time is like a wheel all that is old will become new again just like frosted tips are coming back so is the warhammer old world and in that spirit we're headed back to one of its best settings the city of the damned warthog [Music] hey guys and welcome back to eric's hobby workshop in this video i'm going to show you how to build this awesome set of medieval row houses detailed fully inside and out and accessible for your hands to put all your miniatures in there to have a vicious skirmish in the ruined city of the damned let's get to it camera's too far away today guys let's get to it all right guys we'll start this build from the bottom up starting with the base which i trace out on a piece of chipboard just kind of eyeballing it now i'd run out of chipboard but chipboard can also be found in the back of drawing pads and legal pads so i used one of those and it worked just fine this is one of my favorite materials it's versatile it's cheap it's got a low clearance to the ground shout out to weilock from wildlock's armory for introducing me next i used some sculptors mesh this is a larger gauge than i normally use but this stuff is going to look great as diamond planed windows so i used some matchsticks and i cut them into a little window frame that i then glued down with some white glue to make a little diamond planed window now there is no glass in this but that's fine because it has the right look and some of the glass might have been shattered by a shock wave from an explosion or something like that next i cut a small rectangle of foam core one inch by one and a half inches and this is going to be a door so i cut some planks to adorn this door with out of coffee stir sticks i apply a bit of white glue slap my planks on there and i get a nice plank door effect very quick and easy i had some cross braces to add some detail i'm going to make a couple different styles of doors because this is row houses i'm going to have three different doorways next i trim a piece of scrap foam this is xps insulation foam and i cut it into tiny bricks as you can see there's a lot of variation in the size of the bricks and it's not very precise i'm just winging this and choosing the size of bricks that i want the smaller they are the more realistic they'll look but that'll also make it more tedious so you want to make some compromises and make them a little bit bigger than you think i load these into a container and add some sharp rocks that i've salvaged from outside and give those a nice shake this little tumbler is going to round out some of the edges giving them a bit more of an organic and modeled appearance and next i turn my glue gun to low this is important if you don't have a dual temp glue gun then click the link below and get yourself one because it's really awesome and this will keep from melting the insulation foam so i start gluing my bricks down gluing them everywhere gluing them along the lines using my doors as a guideway for my doorways had brick after brick after brick just like a tiny little mason wood so you guys are probably saying eric when you built that ruined tower you made such a big deal about how tedious it is to do the bricks and you know what i'm a generally positive person so i only remember the good things about builds i just remember how cool it looked and how satisfying it was when it's done and i blocked out all those negative memories of the tedium and here i am again laying brick after brick after brick and you know what i'd do it again so as i'm breaking away here to add a little bit of really cool detail i'm going to put a hearth in this building and a chimney so i glue some stones together in a vertical arrangement and then using a mini to test to make sure it's about the correct mantle height i glue that into place and then i keep building chimney around that when that's done looking pretty cool i glue some of my pre-made windows in as i build and this gives the windows a nice embedded look into the walls alternatively you could build the walls and then cut in but that's a little bit trickier to get a nice balanced look because you can end up with these strange slivers of stone if you do that so i like to do it this way once i've reached a certain height i'll add a lintel to the door this one i'm going to do out of stone but you could just as easily do a little piece of wood i decided the middle house should have some timbers on the front so here i'm doing that technique where i cut it out and add the timber after you could easily have built the masonry around this timber but this works as well to embed the timber right in there [Music] i cut away some of the bricks i've already laid because i wanted to have a timber frame for the door in this middle house as well to differentiate it from the first house i also add a different style of window because i'm really trying to sell the look that this is three different houses pressed together and not just one long structure looking pretty good once i've reached two inches in height i had some cross beams you can rest these right on top of the stone or you can add some support columns that are exactly the right height you want out of wood which is what i've done here this wood is 3 16 of an inch balsa wood i normally like to use base wood for this because it's a little bit sturdier but also wood looks fine i'm building a small staircase here so you can get to the second level i'm using super glue because it sets faster and these stairs are pretty finicky to work with if you need to use white glue just keep moving around make a lintel for the second door in with a little piece of balsa wood and as you can see it's given it a different facade than the first house which i'm pretty pleased with i break off the beams at certain angles to allow the first floor to be playable if the whole floor was beamed as if the construction was new then you'd never be able to get a miniature or your hand in there i also glue in some beams on the side edge to make it jetty out on this side as well jettying is one of the things that really gives a distinctive medieval look to a building next i cut out some a shaped pieces from some foam core and i sketch out where i think my ruined section will be and then i glue that on to my beams and to my structure and this is the method i use to create the timbered upper structures and it's very gratifying to see the shape coming together as i do it a little bit of hot glue fix those on nice and quickly then using some more stir sticks i can start to add in some floorboards and get a sense of what my floor is going to look like making some more windows as i go you know it would have been faster if i just mass produced these windows but i ended up just kind of making a lot of them as i went that's part of my improvisational building process so here i'm making a structure that will jetty out on the second floor of the middle house and it's gonna be a sort of bay window and i'd really make it out of balsa wood and mesh and matchsticks same way i've used to do everything else but this piece i sort of pre-constructed before putting it on and that makes life a lot easier and adds some really cool medieval looking detail some of these balsa pieces are cut on an angle and able to make the structure work and that's easily accomplished with the knife that's one of the advantages balsa has over base wood is you can just cut it with a craft knife or a hobby knife and look at that looking awesome if at any time during this video you think wow i really like this content and i wish eric posted stuff with this more often well then head down in the links below and check out my patreon link by supporting me on there you can enable me to make these things more professional and more often and i really appreciate it we've also got all sorts of cool stuff on there like work in progress photos behind the scenes patreon only videos and a discord where we can chat about terrain ideas and inspiration so check it out and i hope to see you guys on there next i'm going to make some little shutters just because i kind of felt like it uh start by cutting some little pieces of cardboard and these are going to be the metal braces that sort of hold the shutters on these tiny little scissors help to cut a nice little point on there and then i'm just going to use some pieces of stir stick and glue those on there shutters are something that gives another little level of medieval detail and i keep plugging away at that brickwork i have to say after doing this in real time it's remarkably satisfying to see it go by a time-lapse speed next i use a sharp knife to cut a channel into the corner of my foam core structure and then add a balsa wood beam to give it that timber framed look making sure to leave a couple millimeters of clearance so it sticks out away from the foam core add a few more bricks to get up to the floor level and then i trim it with an x-acto blade to make it nice and flat i do this at several points just cutting the bricks where necessary to make sure i get the right levels i had some stir sticks to continue that timber frame look going around the model and adding details where appropriate helps to look at reference photos for this and pinterest is one of the best places for that i also have a reference photo thread on the discord on my patreon so check that out if you're interested you can see my personal pinterest pages on there i cut a little hole in the foam core and i push some balsa wood in and this makes the floor beams for the internal floors it also gives that realistic stud of the beam sticking out the front which is an awesome detail i framed the boundary of a window with some more coffee stir sticks and then using a sharp exacto blade i cut that window out this is another way of doing windows and it adds some visual variants from the toothpick or matchstick and mesh method i figured some of the windows would have been fully knocked out you can also add the details and the framing to the pieces before gluing them on like i've done here add another beam of balsa wood to the roof line and one's on the side as well and then i use balsa for the hearth in the second building just to give some differentiation from the style of hearth that i did in the first one for the chimney i just glue bricks to the wall all the way up to the top on the inside a little bit of wiggle and irregularity actually looks great here so i don't worry about that for the part of the chimney that protrudes above the building i use a solid piece of foam and i draw on the brick pattern with the ballpoint pen then cut into it to make it nice and deep with a sharp bladed knife and then i come back with the pen to make sure those grooves are nice and deep and defined [Music] then i press some tinfoil into it to get a little bit of a rougher pattern and it looks like that pretty good i keep detailing the structure with timbers here and there adding walls adding roof beams and just generally going around the structure adding what i think it needs next as i go this varied roofline is going to look awesome when it's done i was feeling a little saucy so on this side i went for a triple window nice i was trying to figure out if i wanted this side to jetty out or how far so i just kind of held it wiggled it around keep breaking you know all in all it's just another brick in the wall after a little bit of practice you learn to stick some out further than others this gives a nice varied texture during the painting stage to make the top of the archway here i decided to go for a rounded door so i made a little bit of an archway by gluing wedge-shaped bricks together and then once the walls were high enough i glued that in on top of the door frame to create a distinct look for the third house here looking pretty good gluing more beams in and i added a little balcony on this side with a little bit of a suggestion of a railing but most of it i left open so to make it easier for models to come in and out or to put a little walkway on if you wanted same as before i added some more structure and i decided i'm going to leave a hole on the left here as you can see and that'll allow some more access to the street so i mix up some gray paint with a bit of a mod podge and at this stage i paint all the stone work in a nice light gray color i haven't put in most of the floors yet but it would be absolute murder to reach all these places before so oh and look at that i shattered the staircase trying to pull it out well that happens should have planned ahead but as you can see it's much easier to paint all the stone work when i can reach it at this stage than to do it later on and with the gray going over that pink it's really starting to come together [Music] make sure not to forget my little hearth and all the other removable pieces like this little chimney i glue some more window frames into the upper floors here i like this little corner window here that's a great place for an archer to snipe from or something like that i keep adding framing bits as i go but for this part i decided to cut away more of the wall and leave sort of a half ruined remnant of a window this will provide some low cover and a little bit of a varied look nice next i dry brush all the gray parts with a lighter gray almost white this picks out some of that detail and adds some nice contrast then i start gluing in floorboards adding them to the places that i no longer need to reach underneath for this part here i added a bunch of floorboards in the normal way but i didn't really have the beam space to make that balcony accessible by floorboard so what i did was i added some floorboards as if somebody had come along and put some planks to make a little makeshift bridge this adds a little bit of character pretty pleased with how this worked out just laying those in there i think it looks great next add some more roof beams these are going to create a place to mount my planks that'll eventually hold the shingles these broken off planks give a real ramshackle look it really adds to the look of the whole thing when it comes together they also look great from the back side [Music] to make the shingles i start by tracing out some lines on a piece of cardboard such as cereal box or something 1.5 centimeters apart and then i cut those into strips i then come through and i notch them cutting part way through about every 1.75 of a centimeter and i notch these long strips all the way along and then bend back each alternating shingle and from there i trim every other shingle a little bit to vary the lengths this creates this awesome looking shingle pattern cutting those into the desired lengths i need and some occasional single ones i add some ramshackle shingles to my roof i want it to look pretty decrepid it also helps so you don't need to make as many shingles as you might expect if you were doing a whole roof that didn't have huge gaping gaps in it i'm applying these with hot glue and if you get these pesky strings just pull them away while you can because they won't look good once they're painted if you leave too many on it's inevitable that one or two will sneak its way through next using some white glue and some of the extra bricks i had lying around i'm going to make a pile of rubble in the corners here i don't want to add too much because i want to make sure there are some nice level surfaces for my guys to stand on i add some white glue to the corners of all the floors and i sprinkle in some sand next i paint over almost everything with a grayish brown color this is burnt umber mixed with a little bit of the gray paint from before burnt umber itself is pretty red and i wanted something that looked a little bit more weathered i think i even added a touch of green to this paint but when this goes on you can really start to see this as a medieval building rather than you know some stir sticks and foam very gratifying next i dry brush with some light grayish brown and i use a huge brush for this which is very satisfying after all these tiny brush stuff that i was doing and that starts to really pick out some of these details next i come in with an off white and i paint in some of the panels here to give that nice timber frame look that is so classic of medieval europe for a lot of these squares i just roughly come in with the big brush and then i come back with a fine brush to get the nice edges it's worth taking your time here because redoing the stage is a pain if you get any of the white on the brown but the results are great once you do it so i decided to do this on the two end houses and leave the middle house brown to again reinforce the idea that it is a separate house i also just really like the way it looked brown for the interior walls i used some of the same paint but watered down and i sort of make this brothy sloppy coat of paint that when it dries it has this horrible mottled texture that just looks like black mold and water damage and all kinds of stuff and so this is one of those techniques that's i think looks really good and is also extremely low effort which is rare and i'm pretty happy about next i come in with a dirty black wash this is just dark acrylic paint black acrylic paint and water and this really muddies everything up as well as adding some contrast to the corners which makes things look a little bit more crisp and hides a few of the mistakes and i kind of slap that on pretty much everywhere on this build next i'm going to use some incubi darkness to paint in the shingles you could paint them black that would look good too but uh this adds just a little bit more color variation and it's quite a nice color i like it a lot this is a games workshop paint and as i've said before i don't usually like to use model paints for painting something this big but i really like this color and i'm not going to use much of it otherwise i add a little bit of white i dry brush to pick out the details and edges and we are done [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all right i hope you guys enjoyed that video if you did please like share subscribe comment share i already said share hit that notification bell and head down to the links below to check out my patreon link if you want to support me on there or the amazon affiliate links are another cool way to support the channel where you can buy the stuff you already need and i get a little kickback and everybody's happy we'll see you next time on eric's hobby workshop [Music]

Channel: Eric's Hobby Workshop

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Length: 25min 20sec (1520 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 28 2020