That precision nozzle for the glue gun is neat, I need this. Edit: The efforts your put to make your projects budget friendly are amazing, on behalf of broke people thank you Wyloch!
For stuff like the veins, you could also use a good quality colored pencil with a sharp tip. The high quality ones are very soft as to not tear your paint and they give a lot of color. Just apply a coat of varnish and it wont rub off. A lot of people dont realise that even pencils can be usefull while painting models. Pencils are also great for helping you freehand very delicate and small designs
I’ve always been too poor to afford the actual licensed D&D Beholder mini and have always wanted some BADLY. Now with your tutorial I can have as many as I want!!! Thank you!!! P.S. these look awesome
You're a treasure bro.I looked at all the pre-built scenery and its price and I quail at parting with my shekels.I also live in a small Canadian town so my local choices are limited.Then I found your channel and I get all these great ideas made from cardboard and household items and they look so good when finished.So now I get a sense of accomplishment,I learned something and I save my shekels.Thanks very much and may the Gods of Role-Playing always be with you.Cheers.
Hands down the absolute best tutorial I have seen for making a beholder! Great job, and I agree with many of the commenters here that they look store bought quality when finished. I love your videos and this is up there with the best of them; again, great job!
Lovely project! Great result! A helpful hint: Adding the base at the end of the building phase will result in a better join (no paint in the way) and an easier painting process (you have a good way of holding on to the miniature). You can protect your transparent base with tape or masking fluid during the painting process if you want.
Wow, Siskel and Ebert would give that video two thumbs up. We are also playing “Dragon Heist” and will eventually need a beholder. Great video and great timing for our group.
I've been making beholders for ages now, everything from 1/2" to 3" bodies. I used a paper punch to make scales, it's time-consuming but makes for a nice armored look.
I make up 'toy soldier' sets to give away to less well off parents - These will be modified as 'tentacled aliens' to attach the next space base I make. Nice tutorial. Thanks
@@franciscoalejandro7567 Not started on them yet but following this tutorial and adding tentacles from pipe cleaners coated in acrylic sealant seems a good bet. Everything has to be easy to copy so cheap materials and simple techniques so the youngster can see how it was done and have a go (that way when they grow up and become early adopters I'll get all my 'last season' stuff cheap!)
Very nice. Will have to make a few of these. Maybe use this idea to make a few of the beholder kin as well. I made a beholder before. I used a Styrofoam ball for mine. Melted in the mouth, used my thumb to sink in an eye socket. Glass bead for an eye, and smaller ones for the smaller eyes. I used pipe cleaners covered in hot glue for the eye-stalks, which made them thicker than yours look. And I used twine soaked with glue to give him dreadlocks which help hide the wire that holds him. ... it ... to the base. Two inch metal washer for a base. Yeah, he's big. Great job..
Another awesome build mate. Just in time, as I sort of need a beholder pretty soon in-game, so now about to follow your pathway. Thnx for sharing, as always.
I love how you just make the coolest stuff like it's no big deal. As always, thanks for the great vid! I'm going to try this because the campaign i'm running has a beholder coming up soon. I just hope i do half as good as you did instead of the "Nailed It" fails i usually do lol.
Wow ! Great work Wyloch ! I love your miniatures videos. You should consider doing more. I mean, i loved even the siege engines you did from warhammer even if i fon't play this game. I love the ingenuity. It always very inspiring to see how you overcome some issues. Thank you for this vid.
Just a thought.. Try using disposed contact-lens to create a cornea over the pupil/iris.. Will give some curvature, depth, and bit of light distortion..
Many years ago, I made a death-kiss from a ping-pong ball. For the tentacles, I used string soaked in white glue to give them some stiffness. For the center eye, I used a marble. The body texture was DAS clay. Just another way of doing almost the same thing.
@@WylochsArmory Yeah, I know, but at the moment it is the only sphere object I have now :D But, till the time I will start this, I will probably have ping-ping balls purchased too :D So many projects waiting, so little time...
Absolutely loved the video, right up my alley as I'm new to crafting myself. Your instruction helped me make a (zombie) beholder of my own along with some other cool monsters, so thanks so much for taking the time to make it.
Really cool build. Inspiration: When you were adding the brown over the beige on the belly, the build reminded me of some kind of fish monster. This build could easily be adapted as such, using the ping pong ball for the head and front body, and adding something to the back for the tail. Repeat the same hot glue body texture, working from head to tail and a similar color scheme as used on the blue beholder.
I've figured out that comb teeth also work very well in place of toothpicks. They're roughly the same shape and size, and they're less likely to crack or leave splinters than wooden toothpicks. Plus, you can get other types of combs with bigger/differently shaped teeth if you want a different look for your beholder.
Although I'm a maker not a gamer your tutorials are still incredibly inspiring. Your do-it-yourself approach is also inspiring, as from where I stand the whole GW shtick seems rather expensive and a little exploitative of the fans. Besides, creating is fun. [I just got the pun... the Eye of the Beholder - duh]
I've just built one of these although I used a mixture of Miliput and greenstuff to sculpt part of the face and the tentacles ( I'm not great with hot glue I'm a guitar player so I want to avoid burning my fingers). I also used a large half pearl bead for the eye it sticks out more ad looks like an eye just the horns and teeth to do which I will complete tomorrow Then Sunday morning I will paint it and mount it on a stand
I’ve made a few now, really fun thank you for the video! I don’t really know what I’m going to do with all of them though cuz I’ve never actually been a dm before or anything
Marvellously inexpensive & speedy solution. Great work & a fantastic tutorial. May try sculpting my own some day (with a no knives version). It'd take me a few days but this is how I'd do it... I would use tinfoil to get the basic shape, insert & glue the wire stocks in place (using calendar wire from a ring binder), sculpt a layer of milliput (so I could get the scales, texture) Then make the teeth out of a sheet of acetate & apply miliput to either side to secure & bulk. I'd likely use beads too for the eye stalks. Use green stuff putty (kneaditite) to create finer details (bulging veins, wrinkles, etc..). For the basing & such, I'd use all your techniques as they're the most efficient & cost effective
That precision nozzle for the glue gun is neat, I need this.
Edit: The efforts your put to make your projects budget friendly are amazing, on behalf of broke people thank you Wyloch!
Thx!
4:54 The difference between 4:54 and 4:56 is amazing. The primer coating really brought it to life by unifying all of the parts.
For stuff like the veins, you could also use a good quality colored pencil with a sharp tip. The high quality ones are very soft as to not tear your paint and they give a lot of color. Just apply a coat of varnish and it wont rub off. A lot of people dont realise that even pencils can be usefull while painting models. Pencils are also great for helping you freehand very delicate and small designs
These would go well with my gaming table made from an old ping pong table!
Gene Jordan ironic
Simply amazed. I wish we had models like this when I was a teen playing AD&D 1E in the 80s.
I’ve always been too poor to afford the actual licensed D&D Beholder mini and have always wanted some BADLY.
Now with your tutorial I can have as many as I want!!!
Thank you!!!
P.S. these look awesome
You're a treasure bro.I looked at all the pre-built scenery and its price and I quail at parting with my shekels.I also live in a small Canadian town so my local choices are limited.Then I found your channel and I get all these great ideas made from cardboard and household items and they look so good when finished.So now I get a sense of accomplishment,I learned something and I save my shekels.Thanks very much and may the Gods of Role-Playing always be with you.Cheers.
LOVE the orange beholder, my man!
Thx!
For someone not comfortable with making miniatures you do a great job! There is a lot of imagination and skill in your effort and they look great.
This is what I love about your channel. These are store shelf quality minis and I absolutely think I could recreate them. Thank you for the video!
Did this build with the wife and daughter tonight! They turned out awesome! Thanx for the great instructional.
This is SO HOTTT. And it's not made from any special materials, but from basically re-purposed garbage. So very awesome!
Hands down the absolute best tutorial I have seen for making a beholder! Great job, and I agree with many of the commenters here that they look store bought quality when finished. I love your videos and this is up there with the best of them; again, great job!
Lovely project! Great result! A helpful hint: Adding the base at the end of the building phase will result in a better join (no paint in the way) and an easier painting process (you have a good way of holding on to the miniature). You can protect your transparent base with tape or masking fluid during the painting process if you want.
Who would have thought !!!!! This is a great vid for getting a (relatively) expensive figure for not a lot of money and it looks awesome !!
Wow, Siskel and Ebert would give that video two thumbs up. We are also playing “Dragon Heist” and will eventually need a beholder. Great video and great timing for our group.
I've been making beholders for ages now, everything from 1/2" to 3" bodies. I used a paper punch to make scales, it's time-consuming but makes for a nice armored look.
Great tutorial! Def going to buy the pieces and this'll be my next, "can't sleep, make/paint a mini" project.
Absolutely brilliant..been watching you for years and this blew me away.
One of the best looking DIY mini I've ever see. Great job!
Awesome. You've given me a few ideas with making treants, roper, slimes, gelatinous cube, etc.
Great job! I like these better than most of the miniature companies' offerings. Nobody beats Nolzur's, but yours is right up there.
I agree Nolzur's is wicked.
I enjoy this video so much you got a new subscriber and I'm going to go make my own Beholder just need a hot glue gun, the one gun i dont own lol
I make up 'toy soldier' sets to give away to less well off parents - These will be modified as 'tentacled aliens' to attach the next space base I make. Nice tutorial. Thanks
That's pretty cool, how do you make them?
@@franciscoalejandro7567 Not started on them yet but following this tutorial and adding tentacles from pipe cleaners coated in acrylic sealant seems a good bet. Everything has to be easy to copy so cheap materials and simple techniques so the youngster can see how it was done and have a go (that way when they grow up and become early adopters I'll get all my 'last season' stuff cheap!)
That’s the first time I will do a mini project, thank you! U did an exceptional work!
This is fantastic!!! I also appreciate the humility you exude, even though you are incredibly talented. I will definitely be trying this build.
This guide was fantastic! I built one for my campaign and it’s awesome!
Thanks!
More miniature videos -this one was awesome!
Greetings from germany
Very nice. Will have to make a few of these.
Maybe use this idea to make a few of the beholder kin as well.
I made a beholder before. I used a Styrofoam ball for mine. Melted in the mouth, used my thumb to sink in an eye socket. Glass bead for an eye, and smaller ones for the smaller eyes. I used pipe cleaners covered in hot glue for the eye-stalks, which made them thicker than yours look.
And I used twine soaked with glue to give him dreadlocks which help hide the wire that holds him. ... it ... to the base. Two inch metal washer for a base.
Yeah, he's big.
Great job..
This is amazing. One of my favorite monsters, and it's so easy! Big thank you Wyloch!
This is really good tutorial , I don't have a lot if money at the moment but it really helps and they look amazing.
Looks like I'm buying some ping pong balls today. Love it!
Thanks for your work. I like it that you also tell what goes a little wrong or whats better to do.
Edit: Replied to wrong comment. To you I just say, thanks!
Another awesome build mate. Just in time, as I sort of need a beholder pretty soon in-game, so now about to follow your pathway. Thnx for sharing, as always.
I just had a go and made one awesome guy using this technique, thank you for the great videos! I got lots of buildings to craft next
So this is the first video watched of this channel but Im pretty sure it wont be the last. This is great!
Wyloch, guess who has two thumbs and is going to make beholders for Grim Dark Future...this guy!! Great tutorial, can't wait to try it.
I love how you just make the coolest stuff like it's no big deal. As always, thanks for the great vid!
I'm going to try this because the campaign i'm running has a beholder coming up soon. I just hope i do half as good as you did instead of the "Nailed It" fails i usually do lol.
Man those tiles are amazing
Looks great, but I am afraid you made it look easier than it is, thanks for the video.
The first time is always difficult. The second one took me about an hour to build (excluding painting).
Omg! I watch dozens of fantasy themed/D&D channels, how the hell did I only find you today??? Excellent channel.
Same for me... I am not that good with making stuff, but this lets me want to make it!!! I don't have the tools for it sadly. I NEED A GLUE GUN
This is amazing. Been trying for a good long time to pick up one of those DND beholder minis for my wife. Maybe I'll make her one!
How did it turn out? I made one, and then two mini-beholders to use as spectators and such.
@@franciscoalejandro7567 TBH, project halted halfway after loss of employment. Glad you made a few of them!
This is a really cool custom miniature, great job!
Genius, friend. So well done. Thank you!
This is insane. I'm definitely going to try this
I nice simple process. Very good job.
Missed a perfect opportunity for "Behold! A beholder from ping pong balls"
Super cool! I don't even play D&D anymore but want to build one of these!
Wow ! Great work Wyloch !
I love your miniatures videos. You should consider doing more.
I mean, i loved even the siege engines you did from warhammer even if i fon't play this game. I love the ingenuity. It always very inspiring to see how you overcome some issues. Thank you for this vid.
Absolutely incredible beholders
Thanks for tuning in for the premiere, btw
@@WylochsArmory only managed to catch the last of it live but watching it again from the start
Just a thought.. Try using disposed contact-lens to create a cornea over the pupil/iris.. Will give some curvature, depth, and bit of light distortion..
contacts shrivel up when they dry out though... maybe a drop of resin?
@@aubreyvictoria320 I picked up some googly eyes for this project 🤣
Amazing job!! These really came out amazing!! I will definitely be doing these in the future!
Many years ago, I made a death-kiss from a ping-pong ball. For the tentacles, I used string soaked in white glue to give them some stiffness. For the center eye, I used a marble. The body texture was DAS clay.
Just another way of doing almost the same thing.
I love this idea, very cool looking
Well, these looks amazing! I will need one soon for my game, and I am thinking to make it from polystyrene ball :)
Those aren't hollow, so it will be a little more work carving out the mouth cavity.
@@WylochsArmory Yeah, I know, but at the moment it is the only sphere object I have now :D But, till the time I will start this, I will probably have ping-ping balls purchased too :D So many projects waiting, so little time...
Very, very cool. You are the Wizard of Hawt-Glew!
Absolutely loved the video, right up my alley as I'm new to crafting myself. Your instruction helped me make a (zombie) beholder of my own along with some other cool monsters, so thanks so much for taking the time to make it.
Dude, these are great. The official beholder minis are damn expensive too
Thx!
Great work as always! As a follow up video suggestion you could go over making various other "skin types" for the beholders.
great xanathar coloring
Thanks! Good way! I tried to do it from model glue, but this option is more interesting!
Veeery Cool Tutorial! Great work!
Really cool build.
Inspiration: When you were adding the brown over the beige on the belly, the build reminded me of some kind of fish monster. This build could easily be adapted as such, using the ping pong ball for the head and front body, and adding something to the back for the tail. Repeat the same hot glue body texture, working from head to tail and a similar color scheme as used on the blue beholder.
I've figured out that comb teeth also work very well in place of toothpicks. They're roughly the same shape and size, and they're less likely to crack or leave splinters than wooden toothpicks. Plus, you can get other types of combs with bigger/differently shaped teeth if you want a different look for your beholder.
Used this technique but made the theeth out of epoxy, got reaaly good results, thanks for the video it actualy revolutionized my campaign plans
Although I'm a maker not a gamer your tutorials are still incredibly inspiring. Your do-it-yourself approach is also inspiring, as from where I stand the whole GW shtick seems rather expensive and a little exploitative of the fans. Besides, creating is fun. [I just got the pun... the Eye of the Beholder - duh]
I like your beholder!! 👍
Absolutely awesome.
I love your channel so much! Thank you for all these ideas 🙏
Such a cool build!!
Those look great! I'll definitely try this.
Rockin
Really want to try this
I've just built one of these although I used a mixture of Miliput and greenstuff to sculpt part of the face and the tentacles ( I'm not great with hot glue I'm a guitar player so I want to avoid burning my fingers). I also used a large half pearl bead for the eye it sticks out more ad looks like an eye just the horns and teeth to do which I will complete tomorrow Then Sunday morning I will paint it and mount it on a stand
They both look awesome!
If your camera has a macro setting use it for the up-close views to minimize the focusing problem. Love your creations.
Amazing work! Me and my dnd friends are going to make this😄
I’ve crafted beholders before but I bet yours are a lot lighter lol. I’ll have to try to make at least one more using your technique. This is cool.
Did you make one?
Francisco Alejandro no but I saw him make one in persons. He got it done in like 30 minutes.
@@FrankyDCrafter wow really? That's pretty fast.
Really fantastic
Loving this DIY thing !!!!! Keep it up !!!
This is amazing, I suddenly have a desperate need to try and make one of these! Subscribed!!
I’ve made a few now, really fun thank you for the video! I don’t really know what I’m going to do with all of them though cuz I’ve never actually been a dm before or anything
Excellent !
Nice and not seem to hard to do thanks you. Merci
Marvellously inexpensive & speedy solution. Great work & a fantastic tutorial. May try sculpting my own some day (with a no knives version).
It'd take me a few days but this is how I'd do it...
I would use tinfoil to get the basic shape, insert & glue the wire stocks in place (using calendar wire from a ring binder), sculpt a layer of milliput (so I could get the scales, texture)
Then make the teeth out of a sheet of acetate & apply miliput to either side to secure & bulk.
I'd likely use beads too for the eye stalks.
Use green stuff putty (kneaditite) to create finer details (bulging veins, wrinkles, etc..).
For the basing & such, I'd use all your techniques as they're the most efficient & cost effective
not many tutorials on how to build minis, very cool!
OMG this is outstanding!
dude just found this channel this is awesome thanks!
Rockin
Definitely going to have to try this!
Use the hot glue where the eye ball is to make it bulge out. Makes a huge difference.
I actually specifically avoided that look, I don't like it. The surface of the eyeball should be recessed from the body around it. Just my preference.
And thanks for the comment.
Sold! This video made me subscribe. Well done sir. Well done!
Perfect! In Brazil perfeito!!
Love this and can't wait to try and make one. Just need a better glue gun since mine is all jacked up.
Well done
The blue one would be a great mini for "The Xanathar". Good stuff!
That's what I google image searched for color inspiration. ;-)
I think beholders are my favourite monster!
Vraiment excellent, grand merci !!!
That is just to cool.
Holy this is so awesome!
Earned my sub. I'm making one of these as soon as I can get a pingpong ball.
Thx!
Totally awesome. How about a plant with eyeballs?
That's inspired! Well done!
O_O Earned a subscriber today, this was awesome to behold!