Thanks for the feedback on the Engraving Tool's tip - we're going to make the point sharp on the Precision Engraver and keep the tip a little more blunt on the Long Engraver. We'll send you a new, sharper Precision Engraver, so look for that soon! Thanks to feedback from you and other customers, we've been including the Sculpting Tool Wire Tensioner in our kits at no extra charge. Great tip on a unique use for the Engraving Tool - we'll give it a try in our shop, too!
Thanks for the comment. Like I mention the tool is probably great the way it is for larger scale work. I think this tool would be great for miniature scale if it had changeable tips. Would that be possible? If you had slip on tips with different points and textures I think it could be a huge hit for terrain builders and I’d definitely find some good uses. Please shoot me an email and blackmagiccrafter@gmail.com I’d love to try out some of the stuff I don’t have yet.
I’m also really glad to hear the tensioner has become a standard include. That’s great! Is this just for ones purchased direct from your site or would ones purchased on amazon include it now as well?
I used to do something similar for making wood textures on pipe lagging foam for LARP weapons back in the 80's, nice to see it working on a small scale too.
I want the whole thing perfected and guaranteed to be good before asking for a penny from people on Kickstarter. I also want to be ready to start fulfillment during the Kickstarter, not months after. I’m not messing around with this!
I use a heat gun on low directly on the foam. It can be a bit aggressive at first but back away a little and use sweeping motions like you spray paint. It does make you lose fine detail on small parts.
This probably isn't the kind of texture you're looking for, but I recently finished my first build and made a lava board to go underneath. This technique worked really well for lava. My wife thinks I could get some good looking water out of it, but I'll have to try it before I'm convinced. I don't see it as much use on a smaller scale. Acetone is much more useful for small tiles. Here's a link to the album imgur.com/gallery/unSsv.
Thank you for another great tip. Will try asap. And finally get to use that woodburning yoke I got and is sitting in the "unused" tools box but were too affordable to just walk by..... :)
Good stuff will try. On a side note have tried Durhams water putty. I use it in lieu of resin for silicone molding like your door. Quick drying smooth sandable ceramic like surface and super cheap (7 bucks US for 4 pounds powder). Way sturdier than any plaster material. Keep up the awesome work
I’d probably use it if I was just casting for myself, but since I’ll be casting thousands of pieces time is really important. I chose the resin for it 15 min cure time.
Now that's a kick-starter I'll help fund! Jeremy, I can only judge by the face I see before me on the screen, but, it looks as though I'm old enough to be your Dad, so let me offer you this "fatherly" advise: Never make it look too easy. LOL Yes, this video is very useful. Thanks!
I use the industrial foil we have at my work (chef) make a ball outta it and bring it home, it's slightly thicker and harder than the stuff I have at home.
Excellent work once again! Will you be putting up the mold and resin supplies you use for your project in the tools and supplies list at some point? I've been wanting to do this exact thing with minis! lol Also... Have you thought about possibly writing a crafters guide book??? Detailed instructions with some nice reference pictures. Heavy metal like cover?? I think that would be awesome! Just a thought.
Once the Kickstarter is over and I start production I’ll probably make some vids of it he process and post links to supplies. Book is something I’ve considered, maybe one day.
Interesting, never would have considered doing that. I wonder how it would work with my soldering tool...tests must be made. And likely burns will happen.
great idea... biggest pro is, that it is without preassure. i killed espescially very small parts with too much preassure... will try it. please more terrain tuts.... minis su**s... love your channel
I didn't go forward with it. I had no doubt it would be successful, and that was the problem. I would end up having to spend months of full time work casting resin for fulfillment which would be counterintuitive to the goal of rising the funds which was to be able to fund the channel. In the future I may set aside a certain amount of time to make some sets, and sell them as a first come first serve limited run.
I’m considering it but am still unsure. These require two part molds which is far more work and material to create than a one part mold that hirst sells.
Aluminium, man, Aluminium, not Aluminum, Have a look at the periodic table :) Great video, will give it a go if I trust myself enough to think I wont be melting the foam completely
If you're going to snark about dialectal spelling, you might want to pick a word that you can spell in your own dialect. In either BrE or AmE, there's only one "L" in Aluminum _or_ Aluminium. Oh, and "Have a look at the periodic table"? Try this one from Los Alamos National Laboratory: periodic.lanl.gov/index.shtml If you click through, you'll find this page:periodic.lanl.gov/13.shtml where "Aluminum" is correctly spelled. In the alternative, you might wish to understand a bit more about linguistics before you start linguistic peeving.
Yes but the English speaking world has little to do with the language that gave us the word, id est: Latin! ;) Well, a few latin words did find their way into everyday English, "mouse" comes to mind, and no doubt many others. So if you are trying to say you are the new Latin speakers and, as such, own the right to change its words as you see fit you may have a point.
Kudos for the "snark" remark, I assume it is from the Lewis Carroll masterpiece? Well done! As for the rest of your post that, I assume, is an attempt at a severe SJW remark against an evil man from the old world that fails to understand the delicate snowflake dynamics governing text speech, let's just say I am not really too fussed about the whole thing. No need to go any further, dude, or bro if you prefer. I think some of you also say "bae", whatever floats your boat Doug.
@@SebastienBlaueCookieFan - FYI: Sir Humphry Davy, the British Chemist who also discovered and named the following elements sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, barium, and boron; discovered and named Aluminum in 1808. However in 1812 an anonymous scientist wrote an objection in the British political-literacy journal, Quarterly Review and enough other British pompous asses also decided that it didn't sound sufficiently "Latin" and started writing it as Aluminium, stating “for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound.” So the word is really "Aluminum", unless you're trying to be Old British Pompous Ass. Also English started off as a West Germanic language, but was also influenced by the Norman language(Which is French influenced by Old Norse and Norse loanwords) along with Renaissance-era loans from Latin and Ancient Greek. Plus all of the loan words from French, German and Dutch. Which is part of the reason why the rules for reading, writing and pronouncing the English language are as messed up as they are, but also allows it to be an easy language to pick up being it incorporates elements of other major languages throughout history.
Thanks for the feedback on the Engraving Tool's tip - we're going to make the point sharp on the Precision Engraver and keep the tip a little more blunt on the Long Engraver. We'll send you a new, sharper Precision Engraver, so look for that soon! Thanks to feedback from you and other customers, we've been including the Sculpting Tool Wire Tensioner in our kits at no extra charge. Great tip on a unique use for the Engraving Tool - we'll give it a try in our shop, too!
Thanks for the comment. Like I mention the tool is probably great the way it is for larger scale work.
I think this tool would be great for miniature scale if it had changeable tips. Would that be possible? If you had slip on tips with different points and textures I think it could be a huge hit for terrain builders and I’d definitely find some good uses.
Please shoot me an email and blackmagiccrafter@gmail.com I’d love to try out some of the stuff I don’t have yet.
I’m also really glad to hear the tensioner has become a standard include. That’s great!
Is this just for ones purchased direct from your site or would ones purchased on amazon include it now as well?
Hey! How do you store all the stuff you make? I'd like to start crafting, but my house is pretty small.
On shelves.....which you can see behind me in various videos. I have a tour video of my game room you can check out.
We'll send you an email this morning. Thanks!
Thank you so much for posting your videos. I make fairy gardens. And I was able to start making my own stuff because of your videos
I used to do something similar for making wood textures on pipe lagging foam for LARP weapons back in the 80's, nice to see it working on a small scale too.
The simple genius of that method and the result is amazing. Great discovery!
You mean you are making sure your prototype and process works before making a Kickstarter to assure quality? What madness is this? :)
I want the whole thing perfected and guaranteed to be good before asking for a penny from people on Kickstarter. I also want to be ready to start fulfillment during the Kickstarter, not months after. I’m not messing around with this!
Do we have the same name. Jow many times do people say it incorectly
David Garcia patreon supporters see the videos a week early ;)
That's frickin genius. I've got that engraver and find that I never use it - til now
Soldering irons can usually be found for $3.99 at harbor freight and Fry's electronics if all you need to do is heat aluminum foil with it.
I really the idea. I have also heard of putting crinkled up as a sheet over the foam and using an iron to heat it up
That would be great for big open sheets! I’ll have to try it.
it does work lol
Fan from Saskatoon. Been watching for awhile. Great idea, hardly wait to see the Kickstarter.
keep us posted on your kickstarter, buddy...best of luck on the new adventure...Jim
I use a heat gun on low directly on the foam. It can be a bit aggressive at first but back away a little and use sweeping motions like you spray paint. It does make you lose fine detail on small parts.
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!
Awesome, will defenetly try this with my soldering iron!! Thanks man!
This is so cool! I love this idea! I will definitely be using this in the future!!
This probably isn't the kind of texture you're looking for, but I recently finished my first build and made a lava board to go underneath. This technique worked really well for lava. My wife thinks I could get some good looking water out of it, but I'll have to try it before I'm convinced. I don't see it as much use on a smaller scale. Acetone is much more useful for small tiles. Here's a link to the album imgur.com/gallery/unSsv.
Looks great. Ive used heat guns quite a bit for texturing bigger pieces and "weathering" wood xps.
Thank you for another great tip. Will try asap. And finally get to use that woodburning yoke I got and is sitting in the "unused" tools box but were too affordable to just walk by..... :)
Good stuff will try. On a side note have tried Durhams water putty. I use it in lieu of resin for silicone molding like your door. Quick drying smooth sandable ceramic like surface and super cheap (7 bucks US for 4 pounds powder). Way sturdier than any plaster material. Keep up the awesome work
I’d probably use it if I was just casting for myself, but since I’ll be casting thousands of pieces time is really important. I chose the resin for it 15 min cure time.
Good idea, cool shirt too
Great tip! Will try it out.
Now that's a kick-starter I'll help fund!
Jeremy, I can only judge by the face I see before me on the screen, but, it looks as though I'm old enough to be your Dad, so let me offer you this "fatherly" advise: Never make it look too easy. LOL
Yes, this video is very useful. Thanks!
ooh gosh. I'm already praying to god to make it works with soldering iron and actually turning my house upside down to find my soldering iron :D
Pro Tip: buy some Heavy Duty tin foil. When you ball/roll it up, the points and bumps are much harder and will leave a really nice, deep texture
I wonder if there's a readily available and inexpensive foil that would also be a better heat conductor.
I use the industrial foil we have at my work (chef) make a ball outta it and bring it home, it's slightly thicker and harder than the stuff I have at home.
Witch type white stone in iron rod what, s name ?????
Brilliant.
I was looking into making molds from foam, be it XPS or foam core. This technique will help a lot for making my own Hirst Arts style molds.
Yes, it creates a texture that transfers much better to molds and casts than just denying with foil. Also much easier to control and be precise.
Excellent work once again!
Will you be putting up the mold and resin supplies you use for your project in the tools and supplies list at some point? I've been wanting to do this exact thing with minis! lol
Also... Have you thought about possibly writing a crafters guide book??? Detailed instructions with some nice reference pictures. Heavy metal like cover?? I think that would be awesome! Just a thought.
Once the Kickstarter is over and I start production I’ll probably make some vids of it he process and post links to supplies.
Book is something I’ve considered, maybe one day.
New subscriber, great videos!!
This is crazy good! Congratulations on the cerebral connections in your head :-)
Hey you should wrap tin foil on your hotwire foam factory scroll table to see if it works :), might go even faster!
I don't think it gets hot enough. The more metal, the more the heat is distributed and that tool already runs cool.
Interesting, never would have considered doing that. I wonder how it would work with my soldering tool...tests must be made. And likely burns will happen.
Burns for the burn gods!
What temperature does the carving tool run at? My soldering iron is adjustable temperature, so I don’t know what to put it at
I’m not sure actually, and it’s not adjustable. You’ll have to experiment a bit.
Neato!
can't wait till you bring your doors to my door!
Awsome
You can pick up a soldering iron at Harbor Freight for about $3.00.
great idea...
biggest pro is, that it is without preassure. i killed espescially very small parts with too much preassure...
will try it.
please more terrain tuts....
minis su**s...
love your channel
Yea it’s great because you can texture while being very delicate and it’s tiny fragile pieces.
Any update on the Kickstarter for these doors?
I didn't go forward with it. I had no doubt it would be successful, and that was the problem. I would end up having to spend months of full time work casting resin for fulfillment which would be counterintuitive to the goal of rising the funds which was to be able to fund the channel. In the future I may set aside a certain amount of time to make some sets, and sell them as a first come first serve limited run.
Thanks for the response. Just getting into crafting terrain for D&D and 40k, your channel has been great. Thx.
That door you cast looks suspiciously like the dollar store doors I’ve been getting...
any plans to sell the molds, like Hirst Arts does?
I’m considering it but am still unsure. These require two part molds which is far more work and material to create than a one part mold that hirst sells.
Aluminium, man, Aluminium, not Aluminum, Have a look at the periodic table :) Great video, will give it a go if I trust myself enough to think I wont be melting the foam completely
An entire continent and the majority of the world’s English speaking population say it the way I do....sorry but you’ll just have to accept that :)
If you're going to snark about dialectal spelling, you might want to pick a word that you can spell in your own dialect. In either BrE or AmE, there's only one "L" in Aluminum _or_ Aluminium.
Oh, and "Have a look at the periodic table"? Try this one from Los Alamos National Laboratory: periodic.lanl.gov/index.shtml If you click through, you'll find this page:periodic.lanl.gov/13.shtml where "Aluminum" is correctly spelled.
In the alternative, you might wish to understand a bit more about linguistics before you start linguistic peeving.
Yes but the English speaking world has little to do with the language that gave us the word, id est: Latin! ;) Well, a few latin words did find their way into everyday English, "mouse" comes to mind, and no doubt many others. So if you are trying to say you are the new Latin speakers and, as such, own the right to change its words as you see fit you may have a point.
Kudos for the "snark" remark, I assume it is from the Lewis Carroll masterpiece? Well done! As for the rest of your post that, I assume, is an attempt at a severe SJW remark against an evil man from the old world that fails to understand the delicate snowflake dynamics governing text speech, let's just say I am not really too fussed about the whole thing. No need to go any further, dude, or bro if you prefer. I think some of you also say "bae", whatever floats your boat Doug.
@@SebastienBlaueCookieFan - FYI: Sir Humphry Davy, the British Chemist who also discovered and named the following elements sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, barium, and boron; discovered and named Aluminum in 1808. However in 1812 an anonymous scientist wrote an objection in the British political-literacy journal, Quarterly Review and enough other British pompous asses also decided that it didn't sound sufficiently "Latin" and started writing it as Aluminium, stating “for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound.”
So the word is really "Aluminum", unless you're trying to be Old British Pompous Ass.
Also English started off as a West Germanic language, but was also influenced by the Norman language(Which is French influenced by Old Norse and Norse loanwords) along with Renaissance-era loans from Latin and Ancient Greek. Plus all of the loan words from French, German and Dutch. Which is part of the reason why the rules for reading, writing and pronouncing the English language are as messed up as they are, but also allows it to be an easy language to pick up being it incorporates elements of other major languages throughout history.
I would take heat gun to foil and press it in foam..
Dem doors tho...
Whatever happened to this? I I have been watching your videos since December of last year and never heard about a kick starter from BMC.