I'd love to use these techniques to make some imperial fortifications. I like to imagine that Imperial Guardsmen, along with their trenches, create all sorts of forts out of wood, prefabs, and perhaps even scrap, but they'd probably work harder on machining it so they don't cut themselves just looking at it, like Orky stuff would. I honestly think that, with some extra Imperial bits, you could make some convincing Imperial Guard fortifications.
When I was a kid my brother and I made loads of space marine fortresses out of polystyrene, the sort that comes as packing for fridges and watching machines are the best! Would love to see you do something with that!
Save everything, Paint and spurs. Ive herd a lot of bad things about their paint jars. So if I get any , first thing I do is switch it to squeeze jar. Great ork terrain.
Cut three 1 - 1.5" straight lengths of sprue, glue two in a flat cross shape, then glue the third perpendicular to the other two to make very simple, very quick tank traps. Can be used to prevent vehicle movement but you can space the traps so 25mm infantry can still pass through. Spray black, dry brush with metallic bronze and add rust as required!
I've also found that the snipped bits can be melted down in plastic glue to make some useful plastic gap filler. Love using sprues for terrain and extra stuff.... I have trouble throwing anything away lol.
Just discovered a cool use for square cross-section sprues. Pick up a cheap mini butane blow-torch from the hardware store ($10-15). Blast a section of sprue for < 1 second and it softens enough to twist. Twist and let cool (15 s or so). Keep doing this along a length of sprue and you turn a very rectilinear industrial-looking rod into a very organic vine-like helical element. Take several of these and heat the ends and mash them together with pliers. Then progressively heat sections and keep twisting them around themselves to make a gnarled tree-trunk. Splay the ends out to form roots. Now take one of those 'useless' curvy sprues you mention in your video. Snip off the rectangular frame around the outside and you're left with something that looks like branching tree-limbs. Use the same heat + twist method on those tree-limbs to make them look organic while bending them haphazardly to make the crown of a tree. Heat the end of the trunk you made earlier to melting (may flame a little), and do the same for the tree limbs, and then jam them together. Voila - a crazy looking (somewhat stylized) skeletal tree! I'm experimenting with easy ways to texture the sprue to give a more bark-like organic texture. PVA + fine sand kinda works. Hoping that PVA + sieved sawdust might look more convincing.
Nice use of old sprues there! I nevr thought of using them like that. The most creative use I ever made of old sprues was to create the edges of movement trays for Warhammer fantasy, with thin cardstock as the base (often taken from the GW boxes themselves, so they had appropriate artwork for the units deployed on them)
Can't get enough of your videos; It's like hanging out with mates and a cool dog. Makes me wanna get my arse in gear and paint my army ready for after the lockdown
Hey just wanted to give you a big thanks for your content, both from before and during this lockdown. You have actually inspired me to get into the loft and drag out some old minis and dried up paint. Managed to revive some paint with hot water and yesterday finished my first Ork Boy in well over 10 years, didn't even go horribly. Anyway, keep doing what you're doing, really appreciate it!
These are honestly much nicer and more effective than I thought they would be. I'll be making some of these with my toddler. They seem to be crying out to be turned into faces (maybe giving the top of each wall section mad orky eyes ..as representations of Gork or Mork?). Admittedly it might be hard to make that work well.. I'm coming away with ideas: great video!
That's great timing. I just started yesterday with an Ork tower that will be made out of plastic cards, spruces, leftover bits and maybe some other stuff that may catch my eye. The "fence" at the top so far are all wing and other bits from the Dakkajet kit. I also have some container like things that my meds are usually in as well as some blisters that I plan to use for other stuff. Frist time trying myself at this and there some great ideas in your video. So, big thanks and thumps up
I think the best ways to get rid of spray primer in tour fingers and nails is to scrub it with nail polish remover some times and then wash with warm watter and soap, scrubbing very well, it may get out eventually
Sprues dissolved in styrene glue make such a great texturing putty and filler I never have enough of them. Though I never thought to build terrain accessories with these. Good job !
I remember many many years ago back in second edition making walls by using a hot glue gun on baking paper and then using the gun to stick these together for frames. Other option was to make a plaster of paris mould and pump hot glue into it for making straighter struts. That's perfect for anybody with no sprues or a 3D printer. You could try this in a video.
'''Ey boss, we got sum real gud scrap wiv wot ta build da base with... but dey az these Uumie words on 'em.'' ''O Yea? Wotz dey sayin'?'' ''...Kelogz... Korn.. Flayks!'' ''Must be dem spikey boyz again... with der zoggin' Uumie godz... Jus paint ovva 'em!''
just found the channel, very relaxed and fun, just what I want from the hobby personally! I'm wondering how to apply this to fantasy ork settlements. I guess I could score some brick marks into the front and paint it grey!
Would you be able to do a painting tutorial for the Skitarii Rangers? They're the first set of minis I've gotten for 40k, and every tutorial I've seen with them either uses 20 different paints or leaves out a glowing blue effect. I really like the painting style you have and would like to see how you do the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Note for anybody with Tooth and Claw: the Incursor/Infiltrator sprues have a nice central dividing line. As busy as they are, you can use them (and other sprues like them) for this by cutting them in half. You need two for every building, sure, but you get four in the box, and similarly-sized and divided sprues are really common in modern kits.
Hey MWM! I am a rather new viewer but damn your figures look amazing. I wanted to start with WH40K as well but just simply have no experience in it and don't know what would be a good starter set for colors. I also couldn't find a list of materials you used for painting so I wanted to ask if ya wouldn't mind helping me out by making me a list of the essentials for any model. Cheers mate!
The first thing is what colors do you like or would want to paint your army of "X" to look like. By that I mean if you're going to be building and painting a Blood Angel's army the paint colors you buy are going to be very different than is you're building and painting a Death Guard army. Or if you want to do a custom army then you're going to pick the colors and painting scheme that you think that army should have. Other then that you should have a black wash, a dark brown wash and light brown wash. Also I would say Vallejo Paints are a good line paints to start with and there dropper bottles are easy to use and will keep the paints useable longer then most of the pot style bottles of GW. But you could always buy GW paints and transfer(it's a little messy and wasteful depending on how careful you are transferring) them to 15ml or 20ml dropper bottles if you wanted to help them be easier to use and help the life of the paint. I bought a bag of 50 of them on Amazon for about $5.00 USD.
@@Winterydee Thanks for the quick run down of info, for the start I will stick to a mainly Blood Angel style of painting with Citadel Paints just so I can get a start on what the colors look like etc. once I am good enough with that
Little did the Orks know there fortifications were crafted out of chaos... Korne Flakes.
this needs 100x more likes
Lol
MILK FOR THE KORNE FLAKES!!
There was a HUGE missed opportunity with the cereal.
@@willystormont8210 agreed
Makes Ork terrain, uses Imperial measurements, a true loyalist wishing to be saved!
Imperial Grots army next? ;)
Midwinter Minis Sounds like a plan!
Traditional Orky measurements ("Longah. Shortah. More ov dat. Das too much, ya git!") don't translate easily.
Imperial measurements + orky design + khorne flakes construction material = extra heresy
Yea
Those "useless" sprues could be used for making the branches of spoopy trees
They're also quite good to make torn metal rods coming out of destroyed concrete walls
@@sauronmauron6965 thats what i was thinking.
True
I think he meant useless for the purpose of making a frame for buildings like in the video
Orcs - the most ecofriendly fungus this side of the Cicatrix Maledictum!
U ain't seen da smoke that comes out of ork trucks have u
@@thanewargaming2572 Tru, but squigs mak for a gud non-belchy all-terny-tiv. Tho da Mech-boyz are da best at recycling.
Orcs are not just eco-friendly, they are the ecologie
@@alexistremblay3465 ROIGHT! Forget terry-formen, We'z expurtz at Ork'o'formen! HAA HA!
@@thanewargaming2572 Das good 'ealthy organic engine coking, that is. Good fur the lungz.
*_In the grimdark future, there is only... arts and crafts_*
Looted Kellogg's cornflakes, for a healthy WAAAAAAAAGH!!!!! which is ready to tackle the day ahead.
*Khorneflakes
Midwinter Mini : Builds buildings out of scrap material.
ORKZ : *Would like to know your location*
Next video, I'll make a new house for myself out of milk jugs
wuld like ti no ya locashun
@@MidwinterMinis ruclips.net/video/WxyTcFG0YH4/видео.html
If on side of the mat is imperial, does that make the other side CHAOS
Most CHAOS is base 8... however this is very logical chaos with it being base 10 system.
@@Winterydee tzeentch aproves of perfectly ordered chaos
Even worse, its metric!
love for metric
Iron Warriors approve logic and efficiency of the metric system!
I'd love to use these techniques to make some imperial fortifications. I like to imagine that Imperial Guardsmen, along with their trenches, create all sorts of forts out of wood, prefabs, and perhaps even scrap, but they'd probably work harder on machining it so they don't cut themselves just looking at it, like Orky stuff would. I honestly think that, with some extra Imperial bits, you could make some convincing Imperial Guard fortifications.
"So fun Penny joined me for it"
With no coercion? Heresy!
Hey, Guy, the Ork logos that you traced and carved out look great!
You should show Penny your work! She’ll be so impressed!
@@drpenny9844 #teampenny
I love these, they remind me of those original GW paper/card kits you could get
I love those things, too!
When I was a kid my brother and I made loads of space marine fortresses out of polystyrene, the sort that comes as packing for fridges and watching machines are the best! Would love to see you do something with that!
I appreciate the use of the verb "Schlop"
Cool. I actually really like the shapes in the “useless” sprues.
This is a very good *Guyde* for Orkz' Junktown.
I‘ve played Warhammer 40 k back in the early 2000‘s for several years and I did the same with old shoe boxes .Nice video!
Everytime i hear that music 11:31 it reminds me of my AMIGA days of when i played games.
1. Take trash and crudely take it apart.
2. Crudely put it back together and paint it in your clans colors.
3. ...
4. *WAARRGGHHHH!!!*
Nice video! That trick about breaking the acrylic medium by watering down metallic paint was very cool.
Yeah! I thought you'd like that little trick ;)
Save everything, Paint and spurs. Ive herd a lot of bad things about their paint jars. So if I get any , first thing I do is switch it to squeeze jar. Great ork terrain.
Cut three 1 - 1.5" straight lengths of sprue, glue two in a flat cross shape, then glue the third perpendicular to the other two to make very simple, very quick tank traps. Can be used to prevent vehicle movement but you can space the traps so 25mm infantry can still pass through. Spray black, dry brush with metallic bronze and add rust as required!
I've also found that the snipped bits can be melted down in plastic glue to make some useful plastic gap filler. Love using sprues for terrain and extra stuff.... I have trouble throwing anything away lol.
Dammit, i just threw out my pile of sprues, lol. They look absolutely fantastic! I'm totally gonna have a crack at this. Thanks for sharing...
A good variant of one of these is to stick wall sections on two perpendicular sides of the frame, to create a "corner" piece.
Just discovered a cool use for square cross-section sprues. Pick up a cheap mini butane blow-torch from the hardware store ($10-15). Blast a section of sprue for < 1 second and it softens enough to twist. Twist and let cool (15 s or so). Keep doing this along a length of sprue and you turn a very rectilinear industrial-looking rod into a very organic vine-like helical element. Take several of these and heat the ends and mash them together with pliers. Then progressively heat sections and keep twisting them around themselves to make a gnarled tree-trunk. Splay the ends out to form roots. Now take one of those 'useless' curvy sprues you mention in your video. Snip off the rectangular frame around the outside and you're left with something that looks like branching tree-limbs. Use the same heat + twist method on those tree-limbs to make them look organic while bending them haphazardly to make the crown of a tree. Heat the end of the trunk you made earlier to melting (may flame a little), and do the same for the tree limbs, and then jam them together. Voila - a crazy looking (somewhat stylized) skeletal tree! I'm experimenting with easy ways to texture the sprue to give a more bark-like organic texture. PVA + fine sand kinda works. Hoping that PVA + sieved sawdust might look more convincing.
Thats really cool. I've used srpues to make tank-traps, poles for barbed wire and other obstacles. Wouldn't have thought to make whole buildings.
Nice use of old sprues there! I nevr thought of using them like that. The most creative use I ever made of old sprues was to create the edges of movement trays for Warhammer fantasy, with thin cardstock as the base (often taken from the GW boxes themselves, so they had appropriate artwork for the units deployed on them)
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS ALL WEEK
Can't get enough of your videos; It's like hanging out with mates and a cool dog. Makes me wanna get my arse in gear and paint my army ready for after the lockdown
Bill-Murray-you-should-be-painting.jpg
Oh and I use to snip this plastiksprues in small Parts to use it as Basing-Rubble, because my bases are more or less desighned for City-Fights. ^^
I like the black nails, it's a good look
Just made some terrain with your video, turned out great. Thanks!
Hey just wanted to give you a big thanks for your content, both from before and during this lockdown. You have actually inspired me to get into the loft and drag out some old minis and dried up paint. Managed to revive some paint with hot water and yesterday finished my first Ork Boy in well over 10 years, didn't even go horribly. Anyway, keep doing what you're doing, really appreciate it!
Considering how much we pay for each model, all those sprues are truly precious. Nothing will go waste! and indeed, excellent result and great idea.
Necron green tube sprues make nice green crystals.
These are honestly much nicer and more effective than I thought they would be. I'll be making some of these with my toddler. They seem to be crying out to be turned into faces (maybe giving the top of each wall section mad orky eyes ..as representations of Gork or Mork?). Admittedly it might be hard to make that work well.. I'm coming away with ideas: great video!
This is the modern day equivalent of turning water into wine. I'll be Luke and you be Jebus.
Sweet baby Jebus
That's great timing.
I just started yesterday with an Ork tower that will be made out of plastic cards, spruces, leftover bits and maybe some other stuff that may catch my eye.
The "fence" at the top so far are all wing and other bits from the Dakkajet kit.
I also have some container like things that my meds are usually in as well as some blisters that I plan to use for other stuff.
Frist time trying myself at this and there some great ideas in your video.
So, big thanks and thumps up
They already look awesome when you showed them on instagram, but seeing how modular they are made them even better!
I think the best ways to get rid of spray primer in tour fingers and nails is to scrub it with nail polish remover some times and then wash with warm watter and soap, scrubbing very well, it may get out eventually
I also hoard sprue. The struggle is real.
Tip on making pannles look more orky is to cut the corners off not having perfect right angles always makes them look better for orks
That’s fantastic. Thankyou
Could use the more spidery sprues to make Trees for a Dark Eldar world or something like that
Flakes for the flake god, milk for the milk bowl!
Sprues dissolved in styrene glue make such a great texturing putty and filler I never have enough of them. Though I never thought to build terrain accessories with these. Good job !
There is nothing shameful about a pile of empty sprues. Its a badge of accomplishment.
i once used frames, an old hobby knife's blade and some cardboard to make a tiny guillotine. 10/10 would recommend using old frames in project
SKILLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!! MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES!!
I love your channel! I usually paint fantasy, but if I ever get into warhammer, I know the channel to visit for ideas.
When's the giveaway guy?
(Im helping penny reminding you)
Who? What? New account, who dis?
Good for making a Borg Cube. The real one, not the later ones with green lighting
I remember many many years ago back in second edition making walls by using a hot glue gun on baking paper and then using the gun to stick these together for frames. Other option was to make a plaster of paris mould and pump hot glue into it for making straighter struts. That's perfect for anybody with no sprues or a 3D printer. You could try this in a video.
And I just figured out how I'm going to make my spaceship interior terrain. Cuz it's not like I don't have a bajillion sprews. Great Idea.
Amazing idea! Ill try uild some skaven scaffolding,!!
Had to drop the like for the dog tearing up the sponge. Hilarious!
'''Ey boss, we got sum real gud scrap wiv wot ta build da base with... but dey az these Uumie words on 'em.''
''O Yea? Wotz dey sayin'?''
''...Kelogz... Korn.. Flayks!''
''Must be dem spikey boyz again... with der zoggin' Uumie godz... Jus paint ovva 'em!''
I’ve been using sprues to make spikey bits on a 30 year old rhino that I’ve made Death Guard. Gonna do it on a similarly aged Land Raider as well.
Great video as usual!
I enjoy the fact that you are using Kellogg's corn flakes to make terrain for a species that doesnt have sex or sexual urges
Very helpful will be using this on my board
Great idea
Dog is awesome
God you are a genius.... now i have something to do during corona...
I am going to try it
Omg is that a greyhound? He/she is so adorable!
great job my friend i defo wish did Orks lol :) i might try do a chaos version tho :) hope you guy's are staying safe :)
Brilliant video as always. Just got my.box of sprues out.
Also, I'd love to see you do some conversion videos in the future.
Having empty sprues doesnt sound like a pile of shame, more like a pile of achievement
I need some orks. Gretchin too.
Very creative
"Best to hold onto your sprues" *Looks menacingly at Star Wars legion figures*
Gotta save up the sprews! I love this. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
This would work for a Orc blood bowl stadium
11:05 "...maybe with fewer spikes..."
*Squints in chaos.*
so awesome, wish I had some orks to make this terrain make sense on the table, might do it anyway xD
Man...I am going stir crazy not being able to pick up the dark imperium set... I want to start!!
I'd love to see a modern tuorial tackling the old second edition era Ork adobe buildings!
Love it mate!
Woo! :D
Penny, slowly becoming a YT star! :D
just found the channel, very relaxed and fun, just what I want from the hobby personally! I'm wondering how to apply this to fantasy ork settlements. I guess I could score some brick marks into the front and paint it grey!
Would you be able to do a painting tutorial for the Skitarii Rangers? They're the first set of minis I've gotten for 40k, and every tutorial I've seen with them either uses 20 different paints or leaves out a glowing blue effect. I really like the painting style you have and would like to see how you do the Adeptus Mechanicus.
I have no pile of shame unfortunately HOWEVER A SPRUE PILE IS SOMETHING I DO HAVE
Alternative title Ork terrain blue peter edition
Greetings from nearby Sudbury! Hope you and Penny are doing well
Awesome video. This fantastic little project that can take hobby enjoyment to the next level.
Sprues are hard plastic so yes, you can recycle them.
Good to know
Chaos terrian for marines pr cultists maybe
You know, I'll build some cubes from that stuff. To expand my overpriced Deadzone terrain. Never thought of using the frames for that before.
2:45 nothing some electrical tape cant solve, just wrap that bad boy up and they will be good as new
Who likes lego
although i massively appreciate the tips, not everyone has access to sprues as simple as this (we aint all SM collectors)
hang on, how'd you get your hands on my gunked up pot of Lead Belcher...!
Note for anybody with Tooth and Claw: the Incursor/Infiltrator sprues have a nice central dividing line. As busy as they are, you can use them (and other sprues like them) for this by cutting them in half. You need two for every building, sure, but you get four in the box, and similarly-sized and divided sprues are really common in modern kits.
This isnt an omelette tutorial
Welcome to miniature painting;
Where we paint wood to look like wood.
You are DAYS late! Finally!
Your so cool, thanks to you me and my brother can finally do a blood angels vs death guard battle with scenery
Pretty sure I'm clipping the terrain off the Neromunda sprues he used to make this video.
Hey MWM! I am a rather new viewer but damn your figures look amazing.
I wanted to start with WH40K as well but just simply have no experience in it and don't know what would be a good starter set for colors.
I also couldn't find a list of materials you used for painting so I wanted to ask if ya wouldn't mind helping me out by making me a list of the essentials for any model.
Cheers mate!
The first thing is what colors do you like or would want to paint your army of "X" to look like.
By that I mean if you're going to be building and painting a Blood Angel's army the paint colors you buy are going to be very different than is you're building and painting a Death Guard army. Or if you want to do a custom army then you're going to pick the colors and painting scheme that you think that army should have.
Other then that you should have a black wash, a dark brown wash and light brown wash. Also I would say Vallejo Paints are a good line paints to start with and there dropper bottles are easy to use and will keep the paints useable longer then most of the pot style bottles of GW. But you could always buy GW paints and transfer(it's a little messy and wasteful depending on how careful you are transferring) them to 15ml or 20ml dropper bottles if you wanted to help them be easier to use and help the life of the paint. I bought a bag of 50 of them on Amazon for about $5.00 USD.
@@Winterydee Thanks for the quick run down of info, for the start I will stick to a mainly Blood Angel style of painting with Citadel Paints just so I can get a start on what the colors look like etc. once I am good enough with that