Besides creating a masterpiece, the stories about the people and the creatures of the land, makes one feel the experience first hand. Great job, as always.
Now... did you know ahead of this that you could use this method to make treebark? Or did you sit back and say, "huh... that looks just like treebark"?
Love your work, really digging the monster old west feel. A camp site would be neat. Cowboys cooking monster meat over a fire. Maybe some kind of wolf/monster waiting just outside of the fire light. Just an idea.
This x100. Like a circle of steam punk wagons, a roaring fire, a spit, and an unspeakable horror in the shadows. You could use a light in the fire to create ambience.
The best part about finding "new" crafts channels is having a load of videos to binge and pump up my own inspiration. Thank you so much for the art - and that includes the stories, as I really enjoy listening and watch your universe come to life :D
I really like the freehand conversions that you do with the miniatures and the dioramas themselves, but what I feel most impressed about is the storytelling with the dioramas. Once you finish your last creation, you will be able to tell a story with miniatures, and that is something I have never seen done. well done.
You've managed to create a lot of consistent, coherent, high-quality work in an interesting world. Wild WIld West meets Fallout, and it doesn't look goofy.
Huge fan of this series. In the future I'd love to see a video featuring some of these so called "small to medium" size monsters. I'm particularly curious to see what sort of beings could become exotic pets
Sir, your imaginative modeling is what keeps me coming back but the story you are weaving with each additional build is just the cherry on top bonus. Thank you!
It's the mold release agent that is causing the CA glue not to stick. being a slippery oil to pop the parts out of the mold more easily, the torch burns it off and the CA can now grab onto the real surface of the plastic! Love the creativity!
The dust cloud works really well I think. I've never thought of using cotton wool in this way. I've seen it done as smoke a lot but painting it brown as dust being kicked up is a great idea!
I love this Futuristic Wild West Monster universe so much. I could see this universe making a fascinating cinematic universe, one to rival Star Wars and the MCU
I’m in college right now and living in dorms limits my ability to make miniatures. Your creative builds and videos are always the highlight of my week. Looking forward to the next Wild West installment!
I have built a lot of plastic models. If you leave the parts on the part trees and clean them with warm to hot soapy water with dawn dish soap in it, it helps to remove the oils that are used to release the plastic from the molds. Just rinse the dish soap off with warm water after wards. I learned this from a model kits build manual, back before there was RUclips.
This is so cool. The grey horse even looks like it’s been startled by the scorpion. Going through all your videos at the moment and I’m enjoying every one.
You speak the truth my friend... I have lost friends in the desert who did not follow that advice--you can never have too many wheels in the desert! BT-dubs every novice monster hunter knows you don't take mecs in the desert! Once again! Great job!
I think it would be pretty cool to see some kind of rattlesnake monster! Growing up in the West, they’re the most prolific of our dangerous wildlife, as something you can respect and call beautiful, but also fear and want to decapitate
Artists are always so critical of their work! I liked the cotton dust but if you don't you could always just call it stirred up tumble weeds... Great Use of a 'not so' fun kit!
What this inspires in my imagination is a "season 2" episode of Firefly. The crew of Serenity is on a rim world and find themselves being tracked by an overgrown beast of some kind, which turns out to be an overlarge scorpion. VERY cool build, man! Thanks for sharing.
When I was in high school we couldn't afford the official miniatures for our wargaming (Warzone). We had to buy the cheapest Chinese plastic soldiers and convert them with modeling clay (this colorful kind that you bake in the oven to cure), plastic bits from various packaging, and other random bits. I think that was a valuable lesson - that I can create stuff if I want to.
Heat trick is useful, would recommend washing all models in warm soapy water, usually use a sieve so not to loose bits. As for plastic cement, also look for Solvent cement for PVC-U, ABS, MUPVC can get at plumping and building merchant, DIY stores. Use for plumbing. We use spare sprue to check it. Hope that helps, and thanks for the vids as they prove really enjoyable and a good weekend chill and inform to.
great diorama, i would added dark red accents to the bumps on the scorpion and painted it a clear coat of black reactive paint since IRL scorpions glow under black light
i work in a thermoformimg factory. the reason superglue and paints might not be stucking is because of silicone, its sometimes applied to the film role to help keep parts from sticking to eachother/ the machiene. (either pre-applied to the film or sprayed on.) try using some rubbing alcohol and a towel to see if that helps. we do that if we accidentally get the silicone on the wrong side of the part.
I'd love to see a classic standoff scene in this world but with a gunslinger vs some kind of monster, maybe a large rattle snake? Could have some cool miniature tumbleweeds going through too...
I know this is an old video, but I'd given up on modeling and on miniatures and all that after a poor first run of it, but thank you Boylei, as you've given me the inspiration to try again. I'm excited.
Now this kinda makes me want to see some wagon pulled by a giant monster like a rickshaw. Monster hunters using monsters for hunting monsters; that’s an interesting idea
Definitely one of my fav channels on RUclips, just vibing and making shit. You’re explanations and stories are a major plus too I love it, thanks boylei
Great piece! You need more dust cloud. That's why it looks off. It should be a single cloud from the first horse to the last wheel with thinner clouds raising up throughout the pieces
This is one of the coolest dioramas I've seen. Scorpions are one of my favorite animals so of course I knew I'd like this one, but I was totally blown away.
As a general rule of thumb, the thinner the pincers, the more venomous the scorpion. There are a number of execrations to this of course, but, it is a good rule of thumb to follow.
I absolutely love, neigh am enthralled by, this whole steampunk cowboys and monsters world you have built. The world you describe is both fascinating and terrifying. It would be awesome if there was a video game that spawned from this. Witcher meets Read Dead Redemption 2 would be awesome!!!
Great story telling, wish I had your ability to shake up a box of parts and roll out a masterpiece! Majority of folks now can’t even put together a model kit with instructions and you crank them out from the instructions in your head! Waiting for Netflix to pick up your story and do a “Serenity” style western from it - well done!
Awwww, SNAP! Your skill is exceptional, sir!
And THANK YOU for the shout-out! I'm so glad the torch technique helped your gluing! :D
Even in writing I can still hear his velvety voice.
@@N1ck00 Me too
🙏 Crafsman the innovator.
I love this so much!!! TheCrafsMan is my hero
NO WAY it’s crafsman I love his channel ❤️!
Besides creating a masterpiece, the stories about the people and the creatures of the land, makes one feel the experience first hand. Great job, as always.
This would be a bad ass plot to a video game or movie!
@@MattandSadieBug A video game on this world would be so much fun!
@@chris_wizzudz I know right? This guy needs to write down his worlds 'bible', so a game, movie, or TV series could be made!
@@MattandSadieBug book series or tabletop game
@@jercaldin318 I wouldn't mind a Wild Imaginary West ttrpg lol
Now... did you know ahead of this that you could use this method to make treebark? Or did you sit back and say, "huh... that looks just like treebark"?
The latter
@@Boylei Roughly 100% of my advice comes the same way.
@@NorthoftheBorder lol
I hit the like button three times because I "Gotta Have It"
Coldstone was ahead of its time
Love your work, really digging the monster old west feel. A camp site would be neat. Cowboys cooking monster meat over a fire. Maybe some kind of wolf/monster waiting just outside of the fire light. Just an idea.
This x100. Like a circle of steam punk wagons, a roaring fire, a spit, and an unspeakable horror in the shadows. You could use a light in the fire to create ambience.
Yea that's a totally dope idea. Totally agree.
That's a great wild west monster hunt diorama 👏👏. Thank you also for the tip for using the super glue. Very helpful 🙏
Yeah it's little shares like that, that are so helpful. Have a good week.
If school taught me anything it's this - spare wheels are important but so are spare wagon axles and tongues. Watch out for that dysentery!
This is so cool. Love how that front horse is looking left like it knows something is wrong over there
Those are so realistic when I close my eyes and think about it I can see it so clearly they look that amazing.
The best part about finding "new" crafts channels is having a load of videos to binge and pump up my own inspiration. Thank you so much for the art - and that includes the stories, as I really enjoy listening and watch your universe come to life :D
I really like the freehand conversions that you do with the miniatures and the dioramas themselves, but what I feel most impressed about is the storytelling with the dioramas. Once you finish your last creation, you will be able to tell a story with miniatures, and that is something I have never seen done. well done.
You've managed to create a lot of consistent, coherent, high-quality work in an interesting world. Wild WIld West meets Fallout, and it doesn't look goofy.
Definitely got a Wild Wild West vibe from this, which in my opinion is a very underrated movie.
Dude I get unreasonably excited when you post another Alt Wild West vid, love these builds!
I love the placement of the first two horses and how they look like they've noticed the scorpion 🖤
Huge fan of this series. In the future I'd love to see a video featuring some of these so called "small to medium" size monsters. I'm particularly curious to see what sort of beings could become exotic pets
This is my favorite series of all time on RUclips.
I don’t know how long it takes you to do these every week, but i look forward to every Sunday! I appreciate your hard work in consistently uploading.
same!
Sir, your imaginative modeling is what keeps me coming back but the story you are weaving with each additional build is just the cherry on top bonus. Thank you!
The dusty smoke turned out great! Cool having the scorpion lurking on the side of the cliff like that
Honestly the way you just casually chat is so relaxing. You can also tell you'd have great banter
It's the mold release agent that is causing the CA glue not to stick. being a slippery oil to pop the parts out of the mold more easily, the torch burns it off and the CA can now grab onto the real surface of the plastic! Love the creativity!
Your movie scene builds are cool. But they feel like replicas. These builds truly feel personalized and original. Keep up the good work.
Hats off, impressive piece bro!
The dust cloud works really well I think. I've never thought of using cotton wool in this way. I've seen it done as smoke a lot but painting it brown as dust being kicked up is a great idea!
I love the dust coming off of the hooves and wheels! It really brings some excitement to a relatively simple scene.
I love this Futuristic Wild West Monster universe so much. I could see this universe making a fascinating cinematic universe, one to rival Star Wars and the MCU
I’m in college right now and living in dorms limits my ability to make miniatures. Your creative builds and videos are always the highlight of my week. Looking forward to the next Wild West installment!
Narration, choice of sound track and editing make this my therapy channel. Oh yeah…. the dioramas are inspiring too!
This series has really opened my eyes to kit bashing possibilities. No longer will I simply look past the historical models at the hobby shop.
Your creations remind me the movie “The Valley of Gwangi” from 1969. Super Cool!
I like that everything you do tells a story. Not everyone can do that.
I love how the front horse closest to the monster has its head up, spooked, as if it senses the monster lying in wait. Keep up the good work!
I all of a sudden remembered Bravestar, that was this western sci-fi cartoon, really liked it back in the day.
I have built a lot of plastic models. If you leave the parts on the part trees and clean them with warm to hot soapy water with dawn dish soap in it, it helps to remove the oils that are used to release the plastic from the molds. Just rinse the dish soap off with warm water after wards. I learned this from a model kits build manual, back before there was RUclips.
I love all your videos for your creativity and dry humor but I LOVE these Wild West builds the most. They’re so creative and the stories are awesome.
These are always incredible builds and are very inspiring - I can’t wait to see them all come together in a large showcase or diorama eventually!
Now I want to see one of those smaller monsters. A scene of a captured beast!
REALLY??? I say "cold plasma treatment or a flame, the cheaper easier alternative" and people laugh their asses off!!! :
Your stories make these ALL IMAGINABLE!! You are awesome!
This is so cool. The grey horse even looks like it’s been startled by the scorpion. Going through all your videos at the moment and I’m enjoying every one.
You speak the truth my friend... I have lost friends in the desert who did not follow that advice--you can never have too many wheels in the desert! BT-dubs every novice monster hunter knows you don't take mecs in the desert!
Once again! Great job!
Great video. A Diorama of the indigenous people training monster furs with the pioneers would be cool.
I just found this channel by accident. And even though I don’t like crafts that much I find this channel quite satisfying to watch
I think it would be pretty cool to see some kind of rattlesnake monster! Growing up in the West, they’re the most prolific of our dangerous wildlife, as something you can respect and call beautiful, but also fear and want to decapitate
That build made me a little excited to watch. Amazing, awesome to watch. If I never said this before, love the commentary.
Fire can get quite hot...and water can get quite wet.....sorry couldn't resist....totally love this series, utterly glorious.
Man, this whole series needs a adpation for movies!
Man this series is turning out to be awesome. I hope we can get a collection showcase sometime in the future.
The more I see this world coming together the more I get lost in it. Top stuff as always.
I'm indecisive if I want to live in that Monster / Wild West world or rather give a wide berth around it.
Awesome work!
Artists are always so critical of their work! I liked the cotton dust but if you don't you could always just call it stirred up tumble weeds... Great Use of a 'not so' fun kit!
I always watch your videos before I go to bed. Very relaxing.
What this inspires in my imagination is a "season 2" episode of Firefly. The crew of Serenity is on a rim world and find themselves being tracked by an overgrown beast of some kind, which turns out to be an overlarge scorpion. VERY cool build, man! Thanks for sharing.
I love how you throw in background info to your pieces.
you've inspired me to take up this hobby, never stop creating content because it's world class 🙌🙌🙌
This is WAY to appropriate for me because for the past few weeks, we've been having scorpion problems🤣🙌🙌🙌
Another day of being glad to live in New Zealand…
When I was in high school we couldn't afford the official miniatures for our wargaming (Warzone). We had to buy the cheapest Chinese plastic soldiers and convert them with modeling clay (this colorful kind that you bake in the oven to cure), plastic bits from various packaging, and other random bits. I think that was a valuable lesson - that I can create stuff if I want to.
I like how you turn yourself into a story teller too!!:)
i love how supportive the youtube art community is.
This series is one of my favorite fantasy worlds I've come across. Excellent work as always!
I always get blown away at the level of painting and detail skills you have. Truly amazing!! Have a great week ahead my friend. Terry
Heat trick is useful, would recommend washing all models in warm soapy water, usually use a sieve so not to loose bits.
As for plastic cement, also look for Solvent cement for PVC-U, ABS, MUPVC can get at plumping and building merchant, DIY stores. Use for plumbing. We use spare sprue to check it.
Hope that helps, and thanks for the vids as they prove really enjoyable and a good weekend chill and inform to.
Thank you for creating this scary world... with my phonescreen between us I feel safe to visit 😊💜
7:32 I love how you can take issues like that, and in certain cases use them to enhance the visuals.
These are friggin awesome. This a book series I would definitely buy!!!
Really loving this Western series of dioramas and vignettes! Very well done!!
I love this series of builds! They are amazing and I am looking forward to watching your world continue to grow. Thanks for another great build.
great diorama, i would added dark red accents to the bumps on the scorpion and painted it a clear coat of black reactive paint since IRL scorpions glow under black light
WOW! I appreciated that and imagined the railroad running through your entire city.
Cheers!
i work in a thermoformimg factory.
the reason superglue and paints might not be stucking is because of silicone, its sometimes applied to the film role to help keep parts from sticking to eachother/ the machiene. (either pre-applied to the film or sprayed on.)
try using some rubbing alcohol and a towel to see if that helps. we do that if we accidentally get the silicone on the wrong side of the part.
I'd love to see a classic standoff scene in this world but with a gunslinger vs some kind of monster, maybe a large rattle snake? Could have some cool miniature tumbleweeds going through too...
Another great addition and the rockwork looks incredible as usual... Loving the western reveal music at the end!
I know this is an old video, but I'd given up on modeling and on miniatures and all that after a poor first run of it, but thank you Boylei, as you've given me the inspiration to try again. I'm excited.
I really love the exposition and world building you give, really adds a lot of detail to the things you create. Keep it up!
Now this kinda makes me want to see some wagon pulled by a giant monster like a rickshaw. Monster hunters using monsters for hunting monsters; that’s an interesting idea
Again absolutely amazing. Cannot get across how incredible not only the scene is but the backstory as well
Wonderful stuff man. This story just gets better and better!
Each video I watch I get the feeling it's inspired from the wild west and hunt showdown
Love the different color horses! Realistic! 🎉
What a great imaginary genre brought to life! Well done and a pleasure to watch.
This series is SO GOOD!! I hope you make more of these insane dioramas!
Definitely one of my fav channels on RUclips, just vibing and making shit. You’re explanations and stories are a major plus too I love it, thanks boylei
Great piece! You need more dust cloud. That's why it looks off. It should be a single cloud from the first horse to the last wheel with thinner clouds raising up throughout the pieces
You are with out a doubt the Bob Ross of dioramas
You can never go wrong with the wisdom of..da.......crafsman.
Another cool build!
These are always so good, the worldbuilding is my favorite! Can’t wait for more.
I don't even finish your videos before liking them. Great work as always. Love your stuff.
This is one of the coolest dioramas I've seen. Scorpions are one of my favorite animals so of course I knew I'd like this one, but I was totally blown away.
The dust clouds look awesome and were the perfect finishing touch!
I feel like this would be a great world to explore in a game or dnd a campaign wargame could be really epic
As a general rule of thumb, the thinner the pincers, the more venomous the scorpion. There are a number of execrations to this of course, but, it is a good rule of thumb to follow.
I absolutely love, neigh am enthralled by, this whole steampunk cowboys and monsters world you have built. The world you describe is both fascinating and terrifying. It would be awesome if there was a video game that spawned from this. Witcher meets Read Dead Redemption 2 would be awesome!!!
you should do more of the "monster hunting old west" type builds because they look amazing!
Love the little pieces of history behind each of your projects. Hope someday we see your universe come to life in other platforms like books :)
Hey man, this was just a fun video with a cool kitbash! Thanks for taking us along!
Thank you very much for another quality upload.
Really enjoy watching your creations materialize.
Thanks again.
😎👍🏼
Great story telling, wish I had your ability to shake up a box of parts and roll out a masterpiece! Majority of folks now can’t even put together a model kit with instructions and you crank them out from the instructions in your head! Waiting for Netflix to pick up your story and do a “Serenity” style western from it - well done!
I'm just finding this channel. RUclips finally recommends something good.
Yet another great imaginative build. I love these. Come on someone who writes fiction needs to pick up this story.....
I suppose I could try that. I write a bit in my free time.