Modular River Tiles for Wargaming and Tabletop Terrain
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2020
- In this wargaming terrain tutorial I'll go through how I crafted modular river tiles scatter terrain for wargaming or Dungeons & Dragons!
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Hey great folks! I hope that you like this weeks episode where I craft some modular river tiles for wargaming and various tabletop games! I am super happy with the way they came out in the end! Stay safe good folks! Lots of love! 💙💛💙
Escala n?
The final product looks really good. I have two thoughts: First, seal your modg-podg with some sort of clear sealer. It remains deceptively tacky, especially if you store the pieces stacked or with something on top of it. Second, for the whitewater areas, I think you would normally see more white in the shallows where the water is tumbling over or around rocks and debris, not in the deeper parts where it tends to run faster because of lack of obstructions. If there is white in the middle (deeper), there is usually a LOT of white along the edges, because all the churn in the river edges bleeds over into the faster running middle. But it still looks great!
That's some awesome advice and feedback!!! I will seal them with some gloss/matt varnish and thanks for telling me about the "white" rapids! :D
Good point, adding some shallow areas in the river would have allowed adding the small stones there, then dressing up white water around that area. Many streams have shallow spots that would allow foot crossing. Good build tho.
I used your process. It worked great! they are easy to make and the river tiles stay flat and are easy to expand and change up. Thank-you for making this video! It was very helpful and very enjoyable too.
That is so great to hear! Thanks for sharing! My pleasure! Just happy my work is of use! 👍😊
I looked for modular river tiles and yours were the best for what I was looking for, wonderful Man.
Of course, I built on what I had. My base was cut from vinyl floor tile (it already has a tiny wave texture). Cheap tiles here in the states work out to be 45 - 55 cent a tile. I used matte ModPodge and sanded grout as my borders, it stays very flexible and flat as your masterpieces. I have since built modular road tracks in the same style. Months ago I used the same base for 12x12 inch sea/ shore tiles. I love getting inspiration from our community. Cheers.
Happy you found my video, feel free to check out any other videos when you're in the neighborhood! 😀 Vinyl tile might be something I will look into! That sounds like an awesome solution! 👍
Just finished my river and it looks really nice. I did not use superglue but 5 min. epoxy. Thanks for the tutorial. Without you I wouldn't have such a nice river.
Great to hear Asgarth! These comments are the best and leave me with a warm fuzzy feeling inside! Thank you! 👍😊
This was a great idea to follow up your other terrain builds that scene of everything together just looks amazing great job.
Cheers man! And more to come!
Well damn!! Let me get my bathing suit. Who would of thought plastic card would of made such a cool river? 👍🤘
Hahahaha! I know right!? I was quite surprised as well! Thanks John! :)
This is the best modular river I have seen! Nice job Leif!
Thanks man! Yeah I am happy with these ones for sure! :D
I really like how low profile they are. awesome!
Thank you! Yeah I was aiming to make them superflat cause I am not a fan of modular water tiles that has a large rise before the well "water". Thanks again! :D
and also thanks for the great video on modular terrain, i was looking for something just like this, so your vid is a godsend!
My pleasure! Always happy to help! 👍😊
Two years ago, and Lief is still amazing ! The river tiles look cool...
Thank you kindly Frederick! Yeah these did come out well! Would do some things different today but entirely ok! 👍😅
The legos really sold the realism in the final shots :) Your terrain board is starting to look amazing!
Hahahaha! Yeah sorry about that! My sons table is right next to mine so we can craft together and spend some quality time! :D Thanks man!
It's like there is an alternate reality or a Lego Plane spilling over into this world.
This looks amazing, and very natural! Great job!
Thank you so much Carlo! 😃👍
This looks fantastic!
Thank you so much Scott! I am happy you like it! :D
This is kick-ass Leif! I really like your videos they are awesome at teaching different techniques! I've been planning cave tiles with a stream running down the middle but hadn't thought to make sure the mouthes on the end of each tile lined up! Thanks!
Thank you so much Frank! It makes me so damn happy to hear that the videos are coming to use! Thanks for taking the time to tell me! 👍😊
Your videos are the best Leif! Your intros always makes me chuckle and your crafting is superb! :)
Glad you like them! I try to make my intros a bit entertaining :D
Ahh yes....the element in which all Leif needs to exist.
These look aweskme! I love that they aren't super thick either. Makes them far easier to store too.
Too easy this week! :D Yeah 0,5mm thick and a bit thicker now with the tufts on! :) Yeah I was looking at other solutions but most were really thick to enable a resin pour which I just felt was not optimal! :) As always thanks for commenting man! :D
@@DevsDice of course! Sorry I was a little late haha. Thanks for making these videos :)
No worries man! Thank you for watching them! :D
Gonna be giving this a go! Great job looks good!
Please do Austinvickymoore and thank you so much for the kind words! 👍😊
These are great. Saw them on reddit. Had to see how you did them. Thank you for posting this.
Thank you so much for watching the video Wayne! :)
Looks great! 👍
Cheers Jampire! 👍🙂
These are beautiful!
Thank you so much Shelley Covey! Glad you like them! 👍😊
These came out really nice.
Thank you Florian! I am thinking of expanding this technique and doing some more variations! 👍
I'm inspired! Thanks, Leif!
That's awesome to hear!!! Thanks for telling me Mikee!!! 😀👍
End Product looks great!!!
Thank you so much Micah! :D
Simplemente MARAVILLOSO! Congratulations
Thank you so much! Very kind of you to say! 👍😊
WOW!! You are so good at this.
Thank you so much Drinda! I do try my best but there are plenty of more talented folks in the hobby! The important thing is that one has fun! 👍😁
Love these! So simple I'm gonna make some.
Thank you! Please do! Ping me if you have any questions or such! Good luck! :)
Great job man!
Cheers Jack! Happy you like them! 👍
Looks great , bud!
Thank you so much Tim! 👍🙂
Wow that looks really good. Great job leif. I can se it now, an army of vikings marching across the battle field!
Haha! Thanks James! Yeah and I might just try to make a longboat or something? They could go upriver so! ;)
Excellent tutorial, thanks for sharing 😉
Thank you so much Jay! 👍😊
Great video! The sections look very nice.
Thank you so much Chris! Yeah these came out nice but I think I will need to revisit these to create some larger rivers as well! 😂👍
this looks great
Thank you kindly Robert! 👍😀
such a cool idea!!
Thank you Katapillar! 👍😃
Amazing, Lord Odin himself would take to those waters. Great video, Epic ending shots brotha! My hats off to you with this one.
Haha! Lord Odin would be disappointed when the water did not even reach his knees! :) Thanks Jamie! :)
Definitely gonna do some of these
Good! They have served me well throughout the years! 👍😀
Those turned out great!! :)
Thank you so much Paul! :)
Really good looking river man GG
Thanks J! 👍😆
Love your videos! I have so many ideas for making terrain yet zero motivation to work on it haha
Thanks Woofy! Why the lack of motivation? Me personally, I try to make terrain I want to use in wargaming or D&D! Would that work for you?👍😊
Awesome!
Thank you Tom! :D
Great job, Leif!
If Junges is happy, then I am happy! ;) I miss you dude!
@@DevsDice Same here :)
These are truly beautiful! Well done Sir!
Thank you kindly Ken! Yeah I think I want to do wider and longer ones at some point! 👍😊
@@DevsDice Also, maybe some pools, or swamp. Also you could have a tainted swamp, or mystic pool, a more scary version. Just a thought.
Hi, I've just discovered your video as I was looking for ideas to create a river to my wargaming table. The river tiles look awesome and you are very creative. The tip about using the Mod Podge is also very helpful, plus the comment from Todd Shylock's about on using an additional sealer. Many thanks.
My pleasure Michael! I will most likely revisit this project and make some more pieces to be honest but they still hold strong as a favorite! 👍😊
This is a brilliant idea for a game board. I love that you can make any tile into a river feature with these instead of having to have an entire tile with a stream or river
Thank you Emily! Yeah these ones were a rare stroke of brilliance! 👍🤣 I really did not want bespoke tiles but more keep the flexibility as you mention! 👍😊
@@DevsDice How well did the Modge podge dry? Is it still a bit tacky even now? Or can you stack the river pieces on top of each other without them sticking together?
Excellent question! They were tacky as you mentioned so after a while I went in with multiple coats of gloss varnish. Eventually they became less sticky at least! 👍🤣
@@DevsDice good idea
Great video and epic music.
Thank you kindly! Glad you like it! 👍😊
I love your non cholent video style! I really like your style and you've definitely inspired a lot of my video style hahaha. Keep up the awesome work!
Thank you so much!! Happy you like them and I will try my best! :)
Leif! I was just thinking of building something similar! They turned out great, well done!
Ah that's great! Thank you so much! :)
Hiya Leif! New sub here. This modular river is great! I have wanted to make some for a long time, and haven't found one that I really liked... Nicely done!
Hey Kurt and welcome! Yeah I was thinking long and hard on what I didn't like with the various "solutions" out there. For me, I really did not want an unnatural "rise" to account for any resin or such so that's why my solution became the plasticard water tiles! :) Thank you for the nice comment and for subscribing! :) 👍
I know I'm late commenting on this, but this is hands down the absolute best tabletop river terrain tutorial on youtube. It looks so awesome and with no worry of warping despite a teeny tiny profile, which makes it all the better as a modular river. Well done. When I get around to making my own tabletop river, this is 100% the method I'm going to follow.
Better late than never Joe! Yeah making these river tiles just came to me one day! Happy you like them! 👍😁
very neat !
Thank you Vladimir! Happy you like it! 👍😃
Your river tiles look great!
Thank you John! Yeah I am pleased how they came out! :)
thanks for the advice around 3:53, i'm definitely not going to sit in a ventilated area, why not?? double the fun of course XD
Hahahahaha! Yeah go for it Stijn! 👍😂
Another top notch battle mat terrain crafting inspirational video! I like your style, man. Keep 'em coming. Cheers, --Bo
Thank you so much Bo! Btw, with a name like that you must be nordic? I have a bunch planned for 2021 so there will be more terrain for sure! :)
@@DevsDice Yeah, man--a Swedish Viking who was born in California. Someday, I plan on bringing the family to Sweden to check out our roots! --Bo Ahlgren
@@norcalonline1 That's awesome man! So how much Swedish do you know?
it works very well !
Yay! Thanks Ju Ju! 👍🙂
Excellent job sir
Cheers Christopher! :D
Excellent video! Love your work!
You must run some awesome games
Thank you so much Magnuswhitefire! :) My games are ok, usually not a lot of complaints! ;)
A fun tutorial!
Thank you so much Jefferson! 👍😊
Wow! Very nice
Thank you kindly P Led! 👍😊
Very nicely done! Just ran across your channel - subscribed!!!
Thank you so much Jim and welcome to the channel! :D
Very nice work. An awesome end result.
Thank you so much Stephen! 👍🙂
@@DevsDice I have now bought some plasticard to make some rivers
Really nice work där Leif - You got yourself a new subscriber from Sweden.
Thank you kindly Henrik! You also have a new sub! You are super talented man! Your channel for sure deserved more subs!
@@DevsDice Thank you :)
THIS WAS GREAT BUDDY THANK U...
No worries! Thank you so much for your nice comment! 💙
This looks awesome, love it. Maybe you can make a fjord section and a old wooden bridge too, that would look cool.
Sounds like awesome ideas! I will add it to the backlog! 👍💙💛💙
Love them! I’d put even more tall vegetation on them but that would make them trickier to store. This might be the best solution.
Haha! I was thinking the same thing and came to the same conclusion! :D I might create some simple modular "scatter weeds" actually...hmmm....Cheers Niklas!
Very interesting concept to use this plastic "cards". After watching many videos about making Modular River Tiles, I think this idea is the best :)
Thank you so much Marcin! Yeah I thought about this for a while and wanted to test it, happy it turned out good! :)
@@DevsDice No problem ;)
Nice !
Thank you kindly Dédale de jeux! 👍😊
Good work that looks awesome
Thank you Zayne! I think I will revisit this one in the future and create larger i.e. wider rivers! 👍😅
@@DevsDice paint a tiny gold ring at the bottom of one of them 😂
Hahahaha! Excellent idea! Where have I heard that before? 😉🤣👍
Wow! Those are the best looking thin river tiles I have ever seen. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you so much Jacob! Yeah I really didn't want to make the classic "flat" river tiles that had a large rise at the edges to hold resin in the middle. This just felt like a better compromise from my point of view and more easy to store away! :D Thanks for the nice comment! :)
I always enjoy your process. It's truly magic to watch you transform something primed black into something vibrant and wonderful. Excellent job! :D
Thank you so much N3on72! Yeah I do love the process as well! :D
Very cool. I'd love to see how this combines with your old stone bridge... I've been looking at other techniques for crafting rivers and so far this seems to be the most cost effective while also maintaining a considerable amount of realism.
Thank you so much John! Well I am fairly sure that the bridge had the river under it in the glamor shots? 👍😉
I watched that video last week. I'll have to go back and take a look.
Very noice
Thank you Kektus! :D
I've been looking at various river tutorials and not only did I think this one was the easiest, but I thought it had the best effect. So I tried it. And dude, this is my proudest terrain piece I own. Amazing tut that easy to do, thanks so much for posting this! I finally have some rivers for my table! I did skip the last step, though. I used nothing but the Modpodge and am very happy with the results.
That's is so awesome to hear Warsmith! Thank you so much for sharing this! 👍💙💛💙
I’ll try this myself. My previous attempt going back to the mid 1970’s I used a 9” across flats hexagon with a Heritage hump back bridge 15mm scale the river being about 1.25” wide using a ready mixed stone filler (so the river was sunk below the surrounding area.the problem was the hex had to be spot on and the planning no wasn’t good enough.
A 6’ x 4’ table should have 8 hexes on the 6’ length but the 4’ width was another matter my original scenario came out of Peter Youngs book Charge! And it didn’t look right, the bridge could be 9” off centre but I was fixed on a complete table whereas your method buts scenic where they need to be. We live and learn. Some take longer than others. Still 45 years late is better than not at all ☹️
So true Leon! I'll have to check that book out! Is it about wargaming then? 👍🤔
The intro was amazing, as always.
Thank you so much! :D
Nice vlog might be an idea to add a Ford or shallow crossing point
Thanks for some excellent ideas John! 👍😃
I absolutely love your channel. You make such amazing stuff it is super inspiring to me!
Thank you so much 😀 Hearing this makes me really glad! Thank you Ezrahutch! 👍😍
A wider ford tile would be a good addition. Either way I'm making these.
That is very true! Go ahead and have fun! 👍😃
These tiles are amazing, excellent job and excellent tutorial!
Thank you very much Fnordathoth! :D Happy you like them! :)
Amazing video as usual. The tiles look great and straightforward directions to make.
Cheers Blake! Yeah they were quite simple to make but very effective at conveying a river! :D
Beautiful little rivers, nice technique !
Thank you kindly Dominic! :D
These are great fantasy blue rivers. I wonder if you can get more natural tones to look as good. The colour progression really gives the illusion of depth.
Thank you so much Mark! I am quite sure that it's possible to get a more realistic tone for sure! 👍🙂
O for awersom
Hahahahaha! Thanks Paul! 👍🤣
A little bit symmetrical the "tops" (the vegetation), still amazing river.
Yeah I can agree to that for sure! 👍🤣
Nice. Very nice. And you did it with minimal faffing around with over-priced ‘water effects’!
Thank you 🙏🏼
You are so welcome Alistair! Happy you like it! 🤘😂
wow
Thank you kindly Matthew Spoon! 👍😊
Tought something was wrong when i didnt se this in my subscribethingy (thats the actuall technical term right?) then i remembered that this is youtube. Luckaly the weather in the north has made me a cynical bastard....ok my father not marrying my mother made me a bastard and the army made me cynical , but i digress. Awsome work bro.
Hahaha! You are a funny guy Christer! :) When it comes to your subscription flow, the only reason I can think of is if you haven't clicked that bell thingy and set it to "all notifications"! Thanks man! :D
@@DevsDice nope the bell thingy is set on all but you are right im sure usermissuse is at the hart of the issue. It might be all those obsqure sites i got to, to learn new languages that has given my phone a std or stds. Time to bring out the quetip( all the old timers that read this just whent ooooh and not in a good way.) and antibiotics.
Hahahaha! Just like my son when I tried to explain that computers can get viruses as well! :D
@@DevsDice yeah im telling my son about the quetip as soon as he turns 12 dont want him to be to much like me. I acutally cought a highly antibioticresistent strain of clamydia back in Stockholm in the late 90s. I got quetiped alot almost to the point that i could do the presidure myself, but did i learn? Nope, didnt even buy the rain coats. Nothing is as dumb as a hormone driven teenager. So im gona scare the crap out of my son.
Oh my you have lived man! :D
Those are really cool! Although I lack an airbrush, I may try to emulate those water effects on a diorama that I’m slowly building. I still need to get bloody Mod Podge, though (every store I go to is out). I’ll have to get some gloss type, too. Thanks for the great video. I hope that you are feeling better and staying safe.
Yeah if you don't have an airbrush then I would just wetblend the blue tones. It could actually look better to be honest. Yeah mod podge is good to have man! No way of ordering online to a store or something? Thanks for asking Ronald and yeah I am all fine now! Stay safe! :D
@@DevsDice - I ordered the Mod Podge online, sending it to the closest store for free shipping. I try to avoid public transit nowadays due to the pandemic,and walk to stores. Yeah, wet blending sounds good. Merci beaucoup.
@@DevsDice - I have a 2 oz bottle of Mod Podge from the dollar store. It should do for the practice rocky terrain I’m going to build before I tackle the larger diorama.
Yeah I hear you man. I am a social person but I practice my inner-swede when I am out and about! De rien mon ami!
That sounds cool! Do you post them on facebook or something?
5:31- Yeah…….. but you didn’t have to if you did what you probably should have done!?! What you should have done after the the black primer is go over anything that you wanted a lighter color with white paint/primer! But you would just do a heavy or light dry brush (depending on how light or dark you want that area)! And then when you paint the color you want there you will already have a lot of good blending with 1 coat (as long as you did a dry brush with the white)!!!
Thanks for the insight! 👍😊
Looks really nice! I would've given up half way, but turned out great. Impressive.
Thank you so much! Usually there is a spot where I also feel like giving up but experience has taught me that finishing it will usually change one's perspective. 😃
Looks amazing! I loved the legos on the floor in the background during the reveal. Looks loke my house!
Thank you so much! 😍 Yeah the Lego pieces scattered over a table is my sons hobby desk! :D
Lovely Leif, they look great on the table. A nice depth and great "flowy" action. Now... are you going to cut a mini in half, preferably one that looks like its drowning, use some splash gel around the belly? Splatter some mod podge on there...? Just as a nice little water feature? :)
Hahahahaha! I like the way you think Alex and you are half-right! ;) We'll see I guess :D
That was So Cool.
Light and Flexible to move around and use in a Variety of ways.
Your Bridges can span them for one day Access into Certain areas of the Map 🤙🏾🤙🏾
Thank you kindly Tobias M! 👍😊
Came out absolutely awesome...how much for my set lol
Hahahaha! Thank you so much! 👍🤣
Those look amazing.
Thank you kindly! Yeah they turned out ok didn't they? :D
You are a modern day Macgyver
Haha! As a child of the 80s that is quite a compliment! 😂 Thank you so much Jared Hair! 👍
Really well done. Great idea to use those plastic sheets. Where did you get them?
Thank you Jason! I ordered mine from Green Stuff world. They are called plasticard! 👍🙂
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Cheers John! 👍😃
Awesome video. Love all your stuff Leif. My hobby store was out of .5 mm but had .38mm so hopefully its not too thin. In your opinion would construction adhesive work in place of super glue? Thanks for any advice you might provide. I was going to use Sarissa terrain tiles but this sits so much flatter.
Thank you Thomas! I am not sure about construction adhesive but I think it should work even better. It's a bit flexible right? 👍🙂
@@DevsDice I used the brush on super glue but wasnt satisfied with the depth of coverage so i went back over it with pva. I am very satisfied with how it came out. Now I just have to do the "larger" rocks and prime and paint. I have no airbrush so Im thinking of spongeing the river bed. We shal see how that goes.
These look gorgeous, and I wad just looking for this so it really helped me out. I’m currently painting a hill giant, but it looks very bright and I wanted to darken it down a bit. Any tips. Great video man!
Thank you Matt! Well generally if you want to darken something down "evenly", I would use the glazing technique i.e. thinned out paint that you just glaze over the areas you want to darken. Is it the Nolzur one? If so which part is too bright? :)
It’s the Nolzur one, and mostly all the flesh parts are a bit brighter, especially compared to the pants so far
Yeah I would go in with a dark red glaze, now I am counting on that you want the Hill Giant to be "red-blooded"? :D
Red blood for sure! I’ll attempt some glazes.... but I haven’t done it before, thanks for the tip though!
So if I understand the issue, I had a similar situation with this miniature and I used some Bugman's Glow and Dark Red I think to tone it down:
ruclips.net/video/XTSy_8ibFT0/видео.html
Hope that helps! If you have any questions about glazing then I can tell you what I know at least (not an expert) :D
I think this is a very worthwhile terrain bit.
I'm eager to create my own and to create one for my desert biom.
I would say so Part Time Hero! Go for it I say! And have fun! 👍😊