Let's Make - Cheap & Easy Foamboard Bunkers & Pillboxes Scatter Terrain
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In this Let's Make, we continue our battlefield basics scenery series by looking at some simple techniques to create awesome looking ww2 foamboard bunkers and pillbox terrain.
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Great Work.Thumbs up.greets from germany
TheTerrainTutor are you from Stoke mate?
Making Miniatures With Max just curious, thought I recognised the dialect 👍
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cheers Mel
I almost feel like I'm watching Bob Ross make Terrain. Love your style, and I'm certainly picking up some techniques.
thanks matey
"...and then we'll just add some happy little battle damage here... *you* need to decide where the bullet holes live in *your* world...."
If you want just a little bit of extra detail you could use cut up paper-clips and glue them in the larger bits of battle damage before painting. Makes for fairly convincing re-bars :)
You know what I love about you Mel is how accessible your videos are no big crazy power tools like I use. Love your work Buddy and BEAUTIFUL bunker:)!
Can you imagine me with power tools????
You would be AMAZING!!!!! Oh dame you already are! I'll have to invent new words for what you'd be:)!
Hi Mel, watching your tutorials are helping me make better terrain on my train layout and I am making a castle for my son's D&d campaign, thank you very much
Rick, aka "the plastic butcher "
Cheers bud, glad they help
Great idea on making a realistic looking bunker. It looks like concrete forms were quickly stacked and poured. There are so many possibilities with your technique. I already got ideas for an Infinity Ariadna complex.
Nice one matey
So fresh and so clean. Loved how easy you made it seem, please make more videos like this. Keep up the awesome work
Plenty more coming mate
Verry nice tudor. Made my first bunker an im hooked! Im a big ww2 collector in Iceland and i have started making copy of an ww2 millitarybase that is close to were i live. Thanx😁
You could put pins on the roof that way you can take it off when you want to but don't have to worry about it falling off
I`m in the process of building one of "your" bunkers in an eyeballed 1/35th scale. Hope to incorporate it into a diorama I`m working on. As you say Mel, simple and easy way to build one. Thanks for making your videos...I`m a big fan and plan to use many of your techniques in the future! Cheers!!
Might work well to add some magnetic strips to it as well, fitting them in around the roof in order to keep it from coming apart if bumped. The cheap, peel and place ones would actually work really well for it.
The walls added to bunkers are called defilade's. Your bunkers look great Mel, I will be having a go at these scaled down for 15mm soon, Cheers for the vids :-)
Thank you Mel. Yet another awesome tutorial for your battlefield basics series. I've been populating my Bolt Action table with terrain from this series and I think my table will be having a couple of these!!!
Very nice buddy!
Very neat idea Mel, need to up scale to 1/35, really like the method.Cheers .
inserting some magnets to help align/hold on the roof would be cool...
that's actually a great idea since I'm always moving my figures around on my ww2 dioramas.
Thought the same thing. Much easier to put things inside
Este modelista é extraordinário.....além de fazer estas maravilhas....partilha os seus conhecimentos.....
You are a genius mate. No two ways about it.
Al
Dude, that's ingenious. I scratch build my own ruins and such. I always wanted to build a bunker, and I never tried because of the concrete form lines. Never once did I think about stacking it up.
Thanks friend, I'm off to the hobby store!
Crack on bud!
Don't sell yourself short Mel, you say it doesn't look pretty but from where I'm sitting it looks bloody amazing! Great job 👍.... I wonder if that foam board stuff will be able to be cut using a foam cutter?
The paper stuck on either side of the foam board might slow the foam cutter down but I guess if you have the wire hot enough it should burn through the paper as well.... I guess there's only one way to find out 😉
Thanks buddy. Good luck with using hot-tools with this stuff, I've never had good results, cardboard is just too tough for my tools
Peel the paper off 😉 then cut
That's awesome, Mel. Looks exactly like the old pillboxes where I live. This is a great technique for making cast-concrete structures.
cheers bud
Wounderful work. Thanks for the tip
Mel even though it was made quickly, it looks realistic, because the real ones were also made quickly, it looks awesome good job.
thanks bud
Atlantik Wall bunkers had plenty of holes, even here in Denmark, where there was very little fighting. That is because the holes are not necessarily bullet holes, but often were part of the camouflage. The workers would nail pieces of cloth on the inside of the mould to create these holes. It had the effect of breaking up the large concrete surfaces, that might reflect the sunlight, and reveal the position of the bunker.
Oh, thanks for the tip mate
Nice Mel, Its amazing that you can still keep up that energy after doing so many videos. You remind me of a kid in a video game arcade. lol
LOL, I barely feel like i've got started, I mean, I'm still covering 28mm greenfield. It'll be interesting to see what I'm covering in a decade or so mate
One "yeah" = one whisky shot hehe
Nice work, love your style
You looking at the tip of the bottle, 'oh you git', that was what cracked me up here
Mel, just want to say that it looks bloody awesome mate... great tutorial, cheers mate. 👍🏻
Thank you so much Mel for all your videos I have learned alot I made my first foam bunkers today and I don't think it's too bad for my first try
Awesome sauce buddy!
I get some good ideas watching your videos. I'm literally about to make the sandbag bunker you made. But my miniatures are 6mm so my sandbags will be very fiddly. Thanks for the inspiration dude..
ty ty ty mel , I was not far off on this idea in my head. ty so much
Really good ideas and technique, along with a great personality! Excellent video! Thank you!
This is really a talent of artwork here. Keep it up with all these. You sure are one amazing guy.
Thanks matey!
That was just what I needed after a shit day. Thanks Mel. I think I will be making some of these very soon.
this format for the painting stages was really smart, works out beautifully! :D
and, awesome as always Mel!
thanks bud, I'm playing with different ways of doing things
Just tryed using a pricision screwdriver to give bullit holes small enough and gives a good effect to foam board. 👍😜
Great tip!
Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much
you're welcome mate
Thanks for making this tutorial "Marine Proof". Great job, mate. SEMPER FI!
It looks really good and quite realistic.
Nice one Mel. I'll be sure to make some of my own. I'm hoping to get my mates into playing skirmish battles with me using the old Necromunda rulebook. Finally found a PDF online and I'm dying to play.
Nice job Mel
Wow looooks amazing ...im trying to build my own maquets now,,,,and youre a great teacher with your'e movies on you tube so many thanks,,,,,and greetings good sir
That is too cool I'm definately gonna build some like this scaled to 1/64th I like making hotwheels dioramas
Super tutorial mate! Dead simple and the finished product is awesome as always! ;)
Nice job Mel. You make it looks so easy!
Great tips, i did not even knowv you could use filler on foamcore
Using some of this to make stuff for the judge dredd game. Thanks!!
I'm going to make 4 or 5 of these tonight
I would add magnets to the top and bunker to hold the top on.
Thanks for an awesome tutorial Mel. I've been meaning to get some quick terrain built for a while to populate my table for 40k, this will come in really handy.
Going to try it on a Commando diorama
All of your work is nice...
You did this so good that looks so easy.I like to start right now and I am sure for me,it's not going to be that easy!
Thanks for the great tutorial!
Wow! Excellent dude! Great job!
Good looking result. :)
Really good thanks
I'm so glad I found this channel! One quick question, if you don't mind: wouldn't it make more sense to put the battle damage after you've painted it, to avoid covering the battle damage with your paint?
EDIT: Answered my own question because then you'd just have to repaint the damaged bits.
New to the channel but love it. Keep the videos coming.
Welcome matey!
Cheers for this, very nice result and easy to follow. I actually did a very nice looking bunker using your video. Any plans to do a Necromunda terrain series or at least some tips for that sort of terrain? Thanks and keep up the great tutorials!
Oh yes ;-)
I am acctually saving your videos in a playlist because im planning on making a war series
Just save my lets make playlist mate, the battlefield basics series will be perfect for you.
@@TheTerrainTutor if u have enough time can you make some trenches from ww1?
These are great. I really like the idea of combining these with your cork bark hills to make the bunkers slightly underground.
Have you considered making any Sci Fi fortification style terrain? either for something like terminator or for gates of antares
I've got plans to cover scifi stuff in the future mate
Covering the future in the future l like it
Very good job!!!!
be so making a few of this now I know how to
Crack on bud!
Great work !! as always!
Amazing work man!!! keep it coming.
Well done mel !! ... really nice work
Many thanks for showing and keep up the good work ;-)
You put some hooks in the roof and add some came netting you got yourself a real looking machine gun bunker.
great video!
looks nice
its really really cool
Great video!!
nice work mate my teacher is gonna be happy about it (not perfect english)
Splendid how-to!
Could you make a country style house or cottage with war damage. Like the ones in ww2 France..
Awesome tutorial. Thanks
Wow...That's awesome! But, what I am needing is a rather large French style fort from the 1700'ish.
quite specific there mate ;-)
LOL...Something like this www.castlesandmanorhouses.com/pics/bourtange.jpg
I think i need a template to work from.
that's a hell of a build, time to hit google maps and grab your template mate
Yeah, no doubt. But worth it. Given that this is for my nephew's history report, I won't complain too much. And he is helping me. LOL.
Though, thankfully, I have talked him in to doing this one instead because of the time restrants.
garyritchie.com/txp/images/104.jpg
Love the shows and things you show us, but what about the 1/300 or 1/285 people out there?
We'll get there eventually
Mel, do you think it would be possible to sand down the rougher sides to keep things a bit more even? Cheers for the video, keep up the amazing work!
If you're careful, sure mate
@TheTerrainTutor My daughter objects to the term "Guys" ...and she has a point! Still a lovely video after six years, we're starting off with this. Thanks!
hey mel can you help me did you or can you do a Alantic wall for 20mm i love the video of the trenches great job mate and thank you for these great videos and the time you put into these great terrains thank you rob.
Check my d-day board in the projects playlist mate
Love the videos.
Could you tell me where you get the expanded polystyrene you use for your hills?
Nice
well...I know what im making this weekend
Are still work on the Burma Build I'm relying on you for my jungle project.
Slowly mate
Hi love your tutorials ,I know this might be very basic but do you have one on sealing the models to finish.thanks
Check the back to basics playlist mate
Great build! Reckon it would work if scaled down to 15mm? Or would the size of the layers of concrete (the width of the foam board) be unrealistic?
unrealistic unless you use 3mm foam
@@TheTerrainTutor thanks Mel, thought that would be the case! Keep up the amazing videos and tutorials!
dope
cheers bud
Oh Mel I love you
I love me too ;-D
Sorry if already asked but: THe water filler mix, is it water mixed with filler (if so, what ratios), or (from what I could see) is it filler on the brush, then quickly dipped in water?
It is but there's no set ratio, it depends on the filler
Hi Mel, Can you please tell me what size of the model figure do you mostly work with? 1:120, 1:87 or 1:160? Like what was used for this bunker?
Great tutorial as usual :)
I mainly work in 28mm wargaming which is 1/58 mate
The trick with wargame figures is that they're specified by height, not by a real scale. Proportions of sculpts are typically very odd relative to the proportions of real people (much larger heads, for instance), so getting something to a believable size is as much a matter of eyeballing as measuring.
But the closest model railroad scale is usually S (1:64).
Mel, thanks for your quick reply. I started with 40mm and everything started to become weirdly large and difficult to handle. I will try 28mm :)
Could you link the teamplate used to make the bunker?
Didn't use a template, all the measurements are in the video mate
@@TheTerrainTutor ok, i read this in your voice ^_^ after few vids i got it struck in my head XD, wonderful tutorials,
Sir....if i dont have the filler like yours, can i use floor grout? will it have any bad effect to the form board...? Thank you for your tuts :)
Should be fine but do a text piece first
What is the base made out of. Can you provide an example of where to buy the materials?
Epvc foamboard, free scrap from signprinters
Hey mel ,
Is there any chance you can do a vid on europian houses at all buddy ?
Which period?
WW2 or so round that er very rustic looking if you dont mind , i know
i can do a wee surch on you tube spend 30 - 60 mins look and find one
but i have found you have the easyist videos to follow.
Cheers Pete
We'll cover them at some point mate
That would be really nice. I'm looking forward for that video. Greetings from Portugal Mel
6:05 that heavy breathing thou
I think he’s laughing..........
Please, could you tell me what are the exact measurements of the walls in centimeters? I don't understand English very well and I get confused with inches. Thanks.
would I need to make the walls any higher or longer for a 1:35 diorama? I'm not really into wargaming but id like to use this same concept t make a Normandy scene and id probably put a few German sentries inside.
a 1:35 figure is about one and a half inches tall
This is for 1/58 mate
holy crap your amazing. how did u learn all this?
Just practice mate
A few live sessions a go, I was talking to a chap on the live chat, who is a bouncer from Norwich - which one of you lubberly lot is that?
How would you go about making tents? I'm building a display board for age of sigmar and need to build some mediveal marquee style tents for my freeguild force. Great vid btw.
corbaniaprime.blogspot.com/2011/11/scenery-tutorial-making-tents.html ;-)
Awesome, thanks
What mm is the epvc? And what would your use for a 1:35th scale I’m new to the hobby and want to try a bit of scratch building