I know the feeling. I made some 40k towers out of foam board about 2 months before I found lukes channel and I wish I had waited now. I reckon one day but I think we all use the "one day" and never get around to things.
Very nice effect here, and well explained. I'll mention one ice trick: If you drop superglue from a few inches into water, it will set almost instantly into quite nicely random icicle shapes. (Vary the height to vary the effect.) Then just glue into place on your base or dio.
Only just found this vid, so pls bear with me! Um, sorry if I'm being a bit thick here, but I got through 3 or 4 tubes of Superglue and all I got were some lumps on the bottom of the container. 2 misshapen blobs hung from the top but the rest were just going nowhere! What am I doing wrong? Do you use a particular brand of Superglue? Mine were all from the 'super-cheap' outlets - maybe that's where I went wrong? The water I used (it being a hot day 'n'all!) was from the cold tap but not icy.
Love it. Great idea with the cling wrap. Here’s an idea. Based on how the colors turned out near the bank, I bet using the white paint in resin technique spread in a really thin layer over a deep blue would make the white blue translucent effect seen in glacier type ice.
I started out watching Luke Towan. Love his work but I'm thinking there is no way I can be that OCD when I'm building. You're WAY more my style but you still maintain similar quality to him. I definitely enjoy both.
Awesome video! Thank you! I've been building Frostgrave terrain a lot lately and now I'm kicking myself for not thinking of using the cling wrap and resin to make cracked ice! I've been pouring the resin with white paint and then building up faux ice chunks with gloss medium, which takes FOREVER and you can't get the sharp angles I wanted... You're saving me HOURS of time and effort!
That was really helpful 🤩🤩. Thanks for being so generous n sharing all of your experience. We all know your not the typical modeller taht gets stingy in sharing secrets. We support you!!!!!!
Don't think I would do anything different not too familiar with resin. Your work is top shelf sir ! Love the videos you posted on you tube. Hope to see you back in the future . Till then cheers!
Great vid. For cracked ice I use clear rock candy crackle effect paint by holtz. Just paint a thick layer on and it cracks while drying (like the GW basing paints but clear) a quick white drybrush on the edges and it looks ace. Done several frozen ponds etc by applying it over water effects.
Nice! didn't think of cling film i used greaseproof! definitely another effect to remember!... when i did mine i did clear, clear with tin foil beneath (about 8mm of resin) which gave a nice clear reflective hue to the resin... (when i say clear i did a 6inch tile and added a few drops of blue printer ink to the resin for a sky blue sheen). For my 2nd experiment i added some fine snow flock to the resin (really eyeballed it) and it wound up looking like really packed ice or permafrost! if i can find the tests i did i'll chuck a picture on the facebook group! Good Stuff!!!
Hi Luke from Spain, I recently join your Channel, first of all, please apologize my english level but I'll try to do my best, I'll like yo thank your videos, they are really impressive, I use for muy snow effects kitchen flavour mixed with the resin when It is not fully dry, that way I get a very realistic effect. Again THX for tour videos and here you have a new friend. Regards Luke
I'm amazed that I have some knowledge that may make your life easier when using hot glue. Run a little isopropyl along the hot glue join, capillary action will pull the iso into the join and it will simply release. The guys that make model aircraft out of foam board when repairing crashed models
Great job Luke! You should look at D.M. Scotty's ice features. He works on a smaller scale, but he does some really good work and doesn't mind sharing. And like you, he tries to use inexpensive materials whenever he can.
Up until this video I had always shred away from resins due to lack of info & used Vallejo’s water effect instead. But on large areas that’s expensive. Not any more. Thanks for this series of videos. I’ll be using that tip on shaping the water with an airbrush this evening.
Outstanding series! Enjoyed everyone of them. From my foxhole you’re the pro not those supposed non helpers. You share and teach for the whole community! Keep it up!
I was assembling some GW tyranids for a friend and he had me assemble the exocrine leaving the haruspex head and claws which he’s let me take to use in a diorama. My idea was to model it coming out of a swamp or something but I’m thinking it might be a good idea to have it coming through the ice at the edge of a lake or something to eat a marine or something. I’m going to give that a go and see what I can pull off. This stuff really helps Luke
Not sure if you’ve had this tip yet but paraffin wax looks really convincing as frozen ice. You can melt it and fiddle with it as well. Lots of great tips though with what you’ve shown so far.
This came out brilliantly! Its a shame that no one seemed willing to help; as you said, just sharing information isn't going to take anything away from their business (assuming it was business related). I've yet to play around with any ice effects like these myself, but this is definitely an inspiration. In all actuality, your final look reminded me very much of the "ice sheets" they sell at Precision Snow and Ice, just an easier DIY version. I'm most definitely interested in seeing more videos like this on a variety of subjects; I shall rack my brain and see if I can come up with any cool suggestions.
That looks beautiful! Especially when you poured in the white-tinted resin. I got ice no tricks to share, I only started building a few weeks ago, got a good tree trunk technique worked out - if you're interested in not making them from several yards of wire :P
I am doing a Christmas Village as well. I have learned so much from watching your videos. I have watched a few of them several times. This is my first diorama. Thank you Luke
Yo Luke try out the Products from KRYCELL PRECISE ICE AND SNOW...just google it. Its the very Best Products for that kinda Stuff !!! Cheers Michael JayCan
I have a few thoughts for you. there are several different types of snow available in craft stores and at Christmas time you can get them at dollar stores and department stores. Also you can buy several different grades of white, iridescent, or opalescent glitter. There is also very fine glass glitter. You could mix some of these together to achieve different effects for the snow and ice very cheaply. Also when You make the ice as it starts to cure you could sprinkle snow or glitter on it to get a little extra sparkle. Just some thoughts, what you did here was great. I am enjoying your videos so much. Could you make a Dickens's type town scene in winter for use with Lemax or Dept 56 buildings?
Man...you amaze me with these videos. You have made me want to start doing these, but as a novice and put them on YT. All love will be sent to you with each episode.
Great ideas. Just a heads up for the future, water freezes in the deeper parts first. meaning you wouldn't have ice along the shore and open water out further.
@@GeekGamingScenics Glad to hear that Luke. When I cut foam board I still use a safety ruler, and I was a joiner for over 30 years lol. Value my digits to much, perhaps a warning to the not so experienced then .
I’m really impressed with how this is coming out! I’ve seen a product that is actually made to create a broken ice effect. Similar to the technique you used, but the material is more brittle. Yours turned out brilliant though...so my info is likely worth shite 😂..... Fabulous effect you did though.
That is awesome, so serene and you can just imagine yourself fishing down by the bank or walking the dog on a crisp winter day. Great work! I'm just getting into terrain building with my daughter and just recently found your channel ... love your tutorials. Subbed. :)
LUKE BUD!!!!!! that looks awsome if people don't want to share tips means to me they can't improve they need a few lessons from you. I wish i could do things you do no matter how much i watch. Keep going with the vids I may get there one day!!!!!!
I really really like that effect. Nice work! I've been playing with water effects and have turned to your videos for help before, so thanks for that. When I've attempted ice effects before I was doing a frozen ocean so I layered the resin on thick over saran wrap. After it was set I used a jigsaw to cut it the way I liked and glued the pieces in place before back filling the gaps with more resin. It looked good but I think next time I'm going to use your method of mixing white paint in instead of an ink. Anyway, great job!
Letting the first layer of resin dry, and then adding white watercolour and ISO to the waters edge, makes the white colour creep out like ice when it's first forming crystals.... Try it on some black (wet) paper to see how the ISO makes the colour spread. I haven't tried it with acrylics (watercolour painting background) but it looks lovely on top some resin using watercolours.
Me too! This fascinates me & so glad I found these clever folks, have helped me Big Time w/ planning my lil Xmas snowscape decorations!!!! Thank you fab Scenic Brits!
was definitely a good series, your videos are always very helpful and loaded with tips and tricks. an idea i had for you while watching would be to add a bit of white paint to the ice itself while its curing on the saran wrap so it's not so clear
Running a Christmas themed one shot D&D game this month for our group. Wish I had a lot more time to prepare some encounters with some really cool ice and snow terrain pieces. Keep up the great work you do! Love learning and seeing new techniques.
Super awesome and badass! I find it hard to find info on making ice and wintery scenic stuff! This will be super helpful whenever I get the supplies to start doing this stuff!
This is gonna sound excessive, but if you do want to shatter that top layer of ice effect, you can wrap your resin ice sheet in plastic wrap, then drench it in liquid nitrogen. Then just slam it flat down on your work bench and it will shatter into smaller pieces pretty quickly.
Had quite a struggle myself recently trying to come up with ideas for something very similar, i'm going to try out candy glass in pound store epoxy to see if i can do the same effect cheaply, love the vids mate there an amazing help, keep up the great work
Something I did when I made a frozen pond was use a scrunched up carrier bag to dab on a lighter colour of paint under the resin. Adds an allusion of the water moving under the ice
What I've found that works well, on a small scale, is broken glass. Be careful, because it's glass, but you can take that, dry brush light blues and whites onto it and it makes for some interesting effects. Just my 2 cents
Am I the only one here who watches these videos with no intent to build terrain? I just find it interesting.
Nope, I watch all of his videos just for the pure interest
You’re definitely not alone. I dream of one day making a table, but that’s been in the works for years ;D
I know the feeling. I made some 40k towers out of foam board about 2 months before I found lukes channel and I wish I had waited now. I reckon one day but I think we all use the "one day" and never get around to things.
Fallen Empire no...ur not alone. Love watching things be made......
Same lmaooo
Very nice effect here, and well explained.
I'll mention one ice trick: If you drop superglue from a few inches into water, it will set almost instantly into quite nicely random icicle shapes. (Vary the height to vary the effect.) Then just glue into place on your base or dio.
I'm going to have to try that. Thanks for the idea.
I’m going to try that tomorrow! Sounds potentially great 👍🏻
Does the water temperature vary the effect?
That is a great tip Thank You
Only just found this vid, so pls bear with me! Um, sorry if I'm being a bit thick here, but I got through 3 or 4 tubes of Superglue and all I got were some lumps on the bottom of the container. 2 misshapen blobs hung from the top but the rest were just going nowhere! What am I doing wrong? Do you use a particular brand of Superglue? Mine were all from the 'super-cheap' outlets - maybe that's where I went wrong? The water I used (it being a hot day 'n'all!) was from the cold tap but not icy.
Love it. Great idea with the cling wrap. Here’s an idea. Based on how the colors turned out near the bank, I bet using the white paint in resin technique spread in a really thin layer over a deep blue would make the white blue translucent effect seen in glacier type ice.
I'm planning to make a Christmas village. You sir, a bloody legend.
I started out watching Luke Towan. Love his work but I'm thinking there is no way I can be that OCD when I'm building. You're WAY more my style but you still maintain similar quality to him. I definitely enjoy both.
I know it's an older video, but thoroughly enjoyed this series
The Ice, Water and Snow look FANTASTIC!!!
Awesome video! Thank you! I've been building Frostgrave terrain a lot lately and now I'm kicking myself for not thinking of using the cling wrap and resin to make cracked ice! I've been pouring the resin with white paint and then building up faux ice chunks with gloss medium, which takes FOREVER and you can't get the sharp angles I wanted... You're saving me HOURS of time and effort!
That was really helpful 🤩🤩. Thanks for being so generous n sharing all of your experience. We all know your not the typical modeller taht gets stingy in sharing secrets. We support you!!!!!!
Don't think I would do anything different not too familiar with resin. Your work is top shelf sir ! Love the videos you posted on you tube. Hope to see you back in the future . Till then cheers!
Great vid. For cracked ice I use clear rock candy crackle effect paint by holtz. Just paint a thick layer on and it cracks while drying (like the GW basing paints but clear) a quick white drybrush on the edges and it looks ace. Done several frozen ponds etc by applying it over water effects.
Nice! didn't think of cling film i used greaseproof! definitely another effect to remember!... when i did mine i did clear, clear with tin foil beneath (about 8mm of resin) which gave a nice clear reflective hue to the resin... (when i say clear i did a 6inch tile and added a few drops of blue printer ink to the resin for a sky blue sheen). For my 2nd experiment i added some fine snow flock to the resin (really eyeballed it) and it wound up looking like really packed ice or permafrost! if i can find the tests i did i'll chuck a picture on the facebook group! Good Stuff!!!
Luke Fellows ON ICE!!!
That is a really great piece of work. The freezing water under the ice is particularly effective.
Hi Luke from Spain, I recently join your Channel, first of all, please apologize my english level but I'll try to do my best, I'll like yo thank your videos, they are really impressive, I use for muy snow effects kitchen flavour mixed with the resin when It is not fully dry, that way I get a very realistic effect.
Again THX for tour videos and here you have a new friend.
Regards Luke
I'm amazed that I have some knowledge that may make your life easier when using hot glue.
Run a little isopropyl along the hot glue join, capillary action will pull the iso into the join and it will simply release.
The guys that make model aircraft out of foam board when repairing crashed models
Great job Luke! You should look at D.M. Scotty's ice features. He works on a smaller scale, but he does some really good work and doesn't mind sharing. And like you, he tries to use inexpensive materials whenever he can.
Up until this video I had always shred away from resins due to lack of info & used Vallejo’s water effect instead. But on large areas that’s expensive. Not any more. Thanks for this series of videos. I’ll be using that tip on shaping the water with an airbrush this evening.
Thanks for sharing your techniques. Definitely going to give this a go.
I like these types of videos as they are down to earth and not too complicated or technical. Good basic info
Outstanding series! Enjoyed everyone of them. From my foxhole you’re the pro not those supposed non helpers. You share and teach for the whole community! Keep it up!
Very cool…pun intended! Great modeling!
I was assembling some GW tyranids for a friend and he had me assemble the exocrine leaving the haruspex head and claws which he’s let me take to use in a diorama. My idea was to model it coming out of a swamp or something but I’m thinking it might be a good idea to have it coming through the ice at the edge of a lake or something to eat a marine or something. I’m going to give that a go and see what I can pull off. This stuff really helps Luke
I wanna see that!
Not sure if you’ve had this tip yet but paraffin wax looks really convincing as frozen ice. You can melt it and fiddle with it as well. Lots of great tips though with what you’ve shown so far.
Looks spot on . I stippled the mod podge on thicker not worrying about full coverage then blow it in pulses to give more splits between the waves.
Beautiful. Just like a Bob Ross painting!
Thanks you. Am about to make Navy Seal attack soviet submarine stuck on Ice sea . I love your content . Help me a lot.
Considering its your first attempt i think you have nailed it looks fantastic.
Whoa..way cool...outstanding...
I'd really love to see a volcanic lava theme and an enchanted forest theme for this kind of dio series, keep up the great work Luke :)
Brilliant and love the background music
Your too humble you kicked ass! I'd give you every bit of know how I had if I had any to give.
That's a freakin' masterpiece!
Brilliant,just found your vlog very helpful thanks.
This came out brilliantly! Its a shame that no one seemed willing to help; as you said, just sharing information isn't going to take anything away from their business (assuming it was business related). I've yet to play around with any ice effects like these myself, but this is definitely an inspiration. In all actuality, your final look reminded me very much of the "ice sheets" they sell at Precision Snow and Ice, just an easier DIY version. I'm most definitely interested in seeing more videos like this on a variety of subjects; I shall rack my brain and see if I can come up with any cool suggestions.
So cool! This is the most natural looking ice scene with instructions that I’ve found. Thanks for sharing!
This is super cool and looks great! But I want to see the Kraken video!
same!
That looks beautiful! Especially when you poured in the white-tinted resin. I got ice no tricks to share, I only started building a few weeks ago, got a good tree trunk technique worked out - if you're interested in not making them from several yards of wire :P
Luke simply stunning, for your first try or your 100 try, that looks amazing, I will try this.
That broken ice is genius! I love how it looks, and the creation of the sheet is brilliant.
Wonderful realism.
Really appreciate you trying to troubleshoot this process. Thank you
I don't think you needed some help, I got a perfect impression of a frozen river.. congrats!
Thanks for the great info, and for not being shady about the knowledge you have and are still acquiring. Looks amazing!!!
I am doing a Christmas Village as well. I have learned so much from watching your videos. I have watched a few of them several times. This is my first diorama. Thank you Luke
Luke, you are the 'Rembrandt' of diorama's!
Yo Luke try out the Products from KRYCELL PRECISE ICE AND SNOW...just google it. Its the very Best Products for that kinda Stuff !!! Cheers
Michael JayCan
Totally Awesome! Has given me some great ideas for my WWII Easter Front frozen battlefield Diorama.
Thank you so much for this! And you're right. Trying to find a tutorial or any tips for frozen lakes/ponds is hard.
I have a few thoughts for you. there are several different types of snow available in craft stores and at Christmas time you can get them at dollar stores and department stores. Also you can buy several different grades of white, iridescent, or opalescent glitter. There is also very fine glass glitter. You could mix some of these together to achieve different effects for the snow and ice very cheaply. Also when You make the ice as it starts to cure you could sprinkle snow or glitter on it to get a little extra sparkle. Just some thoughts, what you did here was great. I am enjoying your videos so much. Could you make a Dickens's type town scene in winter for use with Lemax or Dept 56 buildings?
I'm so motivated to go out and buy some resin and give this a go! Bravo lad this is amazing!! Big thanks to you for this channel mate
Man...you amaze me with these videos. You have made me want to start doing these, but as a novice and put them on YT. All love will be sent to you with each episode.
Simply stunning! Amazing to watch you create something so comprehensive,
What a legend, thanks for the advice buddy
Great ideas. Just a heads up for the future, water freezes in the deeper parts first. meaning you wouldn't have ice along the shore and open water out further.
You are a very talented man Luke. Thank you for sharing.
This will all come in handy when I start Frost Grave
Amazing Result mate and well explained.
Thank you very much!! I feel much more confident making a winter landscape for a Tiger!! Happy new year from France!!
Beautiful Ice effects! Yeah more Sci-Fi please.
Thanks,Luke,I now know how to do a diorama of a submarine breaking through the ice pack.
Luke get your self a safety rule for cutting before we see you with minus a finger ! Oh great vid by the way
@@GeekGamingScenics Glad to hear that Luke. When I cut foam board I still use a safety ruler, and I was a joiner for over 30 years lol.
Value my digits to much, perhaps a warning to the not so experienced then .
I’m really impressed with how this is coming out! I’ve seen a product that is actually made to create a broken ice effect. Similar to the technique you used, but the material is more brittle. Yours turned out brilliant though...so my info is likely worth shite 😂.....
Fabulous effect you did though.
That is awesome, so serene and you can just imagine yourself fishing down by the bank or walking the dog on a crisp winter day. Great work! I'm just getting into terrain building with my daughter and just recently found your channel ... love your tutorials. Subbed. :)
LUKE BUD!!!!!! that looks awsome if people don't want to share tips means to me they can't improve they need a few lessons from you. I wish i could do things you do no matter how much i watch. Keep going with the vids I may get there one day!!!!!!
love it! this whole dio has turned out beautiful!
I really really like that effect. Nice work! I've been playing with water effects and have turned to your videos for help before, so thanks for that. When I've attempted ice effects before I was doing a frozen ocean so I layered the resin on thick over saran wrap. After it was set I used a jigsaw to cut it the way I liked and glued the pieces in place before back filling the gaps with more resin. It looked good but I think next time I'm going to use your method of mixing white paint in instead of an ink. Anyway, great job!
Letting the first layer of resin dry, and then adding white watercolour and ISO to the waters edge, makes the white colour creep out like ice when it's first forming crystals.... Try it on some black (wet) paper to see how the ISO makes the colour spread. I haven't tried it with acrylics (watercolour painting background) but it looks lovely on top some resin using watercolours.
Me too! This fascinates me & so glad I found these clever folks, have helped me Big Time w/ planning my lil Xmas snowscape decorations!!!! Thank you fab Scenic Brits!
Great series. Really enjoyed this tutorial. Love that cracked ice technique
was definitely a good series, your videos are always very helpful and loaded with tips and tricks.
an idea i had for you while watching would be to add a bit of white paint to the ice itself while its curing on the saran wrap so it's not so clear
looks amazing thank you for sharing
A face only a mother could love. Great diorama though!
Great Series, puts a lot of information together.
This looks absolutely stunning! Great work man!
I was doing sylvaneth in the spring I am so tempted now to just do everything in winter and ice effects now.
Running a Christmas themed one shot D&D game this month for our group. Wish I had a lot more time to prepare some encounters with some really cool ice and snow terrain pieces. Keep up the great work you do! Love learning and seeing new techniques.
Super awesome and badass! I find it hard to find info on making ice and wintery scenic stuff! This will be super helpful whenever I get the supplies to start doing this stuff!
This is gonna sound excessive, but if you do want to shatter that top layer of ice effect, you can wrap your resin ice sheet in plastic wrap, then drench it in liquid nitrogen. Then just slam it flat down on your work bench and it will shatter into smaller pieces pretty quickly.
You are really great Luke. Watching these videos is so entertaining and interesting. You are doing a great job in each and every one of them.
Enjoy your videos, I to had trouble finding how to make ice. I found this works for 1/35 scale .paraffin,right color and break like real ice
Great tutorial mate , thank you for doing one in ice , like you say the community sucks on this subject , respect bro ✌🏻
Great stuff now I just need to learn what I need to do snow n water models 😉👌
Fabulous video looks amazing
Amazing. Thanks for sharing..
Had quite a struggle myself recently trying to come up with ideas for something very similar, i'm going to try out candy glass in
pound store epoxy to see if i can do the same effect cheaply, love the vids mate there an amazing help, keep up the great work
Something I did when I made a frozen pond was use a scrunched up carrier bag to dab on a lighter colour of paint under the resin. Adds an allusion of the water moving under the ice
thank you for making these videos luke they have been amazing to watch!
Absolutely superb. Shutting your channel down was a real loss. Hope you're doing okay.
another +1 for this series Luke.. enjoyable and informative and good to watch. Well played, Sir. < applause >
Hi Luke. Brilliant job with the new mini-video series that you are doing now. Keep on these lines mate you're onto a winner!
Fantastic video
Wow amazing work, very nice very well done and of course very well explained, thanks for your videos.
What I've found that works well, on a small scale, is broken glass. Be careful, because it's glass, but you can take that, dry brush light blues and whites onto it and it makes for some interesting effects. Just my 2 cents
This is beautiful! I dont know that ice seen many snow terrain builds!
Looks great to me
I've loved this series of videos! I'm definitely up for watching more.
Beautifully Done Luke
I like your handy ass applicator tool ... I'm sick of inhaling more static grass than i put on bases :D
yeah more sci-fi! :) Beautiful ice man! You're definitely 99% the way there if not perfect.
Thanks so much. Great video and very helpful.