How to Make D&D Elementals out of Hot Glue!
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
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A proper tutorial! I show you how to make elementals for your tabletop games completely out of hot glue!
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At 1st. I thought it was a dumb idea. Then it looked like it works. I have to try it.
Haha it definitely works
You can use a can of compressed air duster, turn it upside down and spay the liquid out on the hot glue as you'er extruding it from the glue gun. It cools the hot glue down near instantly solidifying it. I use that technique to make ooze monsters for DND. If you use this though be careful spraying the liquid out of the compressed air duster, if it gets on your skin it can cause frostburns, also this shouldn't be done unless you're in a well ventilated area.
Awesome idea! I will definitely give that a try!
For fire elementals, I recommend dry brushing with a metallic, color shifting red paint. This really helps it catch the ambient light for a dynamic look even without a tealight.
Oh very cool! I have been wanting to play with colour shifting pigments for a while.
The intro is everything
Haha thanks !
The jump scare at SHINY nearly killed me. But you’re so talented!!! They all look fantastic. You’re ready to live your best avatar life.
Hehe thanks !
Bravo bravo as Sakka would say
Can you show us how to do that rest of the elementals?@@NicheCrafts
@@obsidian1612 Pretty similar methods for air and water but if you're interested I can maybe make a short explaining the process!
@@NicheCrafts yes please!
Never thought to use hot glue as a frame, I tend to use whatever wire I have on hand. Nice video and I'm happy to see someone else using hot glue in unconventional ways.
Oh I love me some hot glue.
Ayoooo I’m subscribing straight off the strength my mans body wave game in the intro 🤌🏾👏🏾
Bro ate that 🔥🔥!!!
This is the greatest compliment I have ever received 🙏
@@NicheCrafts Fam I was already invested in the video, but I just happen to dance so when you hit tha smooothest body wave out of NO Where! I got anime Protag Lit 🤌🏾 thank you for the Experience.👏🏾🔥
@@Lord_Senpai13 haha hell yeah.
These look great and I love the idea of using the light in the base of the fire elemental. Framing and building out makes total sense. This gives me some ideas thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you so much! Love that
What fantastic tutorial!
I was both informed and entertained, thanks for all the effort you made putting this together 👍
Thanks a lot ! Had a lot of fun. More to come!
I have a similar fire elemental that I 3d printed with clear filament. I used different color Sharpie markers to provide color and still allow it to remain transparent. It worked quite well. I did the same with the water and air elementals but used less.
Oh nice! I wouldn’t have thought of that!
Okay this is cool as hell is the totally new technique for me that's very simple and the way you're able to incorporate the tealight was really clever. I would have planned the designer on having a hollow space to fit the tealight to begin with so the tealight could be removable
Interesting! That would be helpful for replacing it if it ever stopped working!
Best hot glue sculpting vid Ive seen so far. Thanks!
Cheers!
Been making some custom stuff for the past few weeks looking up various channels. This is the most unique take on the hot glue elementals i've seen. Really like the look of the water elemental. Really enjoyed the video man. Keep up the awesome work. You've actually inspired me to make my first youtube video making a couple of custom minis. Thanks for the great content! Please keep it coming!
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Wow! That means so much to me. I’ve also just started making videos. I’m so glad I’ve inspired you to do the same! It’s very fun! I’ve got lots more ideas and more videos to come!
@@justinm6839 thank you so much! Means the world to me
Another great video. I had to show this to my daughter so we could chuckle together at the intro.
I love that
When I paint translucent, or clear, figures, I use food coloring mixed with Mod Podge.
Ooooo. Gotta try that
@@NicheCrafts 🖖
Great idea!
Noice - I think I'll use some glitter hot glue to make a glitter elemental.
There's also glow in the dark hot glue.
Oh awesome! That would be great for oozes!
Really astounding tutorial, I wouldn't ever tought of such an idea, contrast paints should work well either, but using food colours is great 👍😁
Thanks! Really appreciate that.
Great video/editing! Looks like a fun project. Subbed. This channel is gonna blow up :p
Thank you so much. That means. A lot
lmao dude honestly probably the only time the bits on these tabletop channels have actually made me laugh. "thanks, hot niche"
Haha I’m very happy to hear that.
Such a great idea. Would have been awesome to see you create every one in the set. The water elemental is such a chonky cutie patootie. I think he is my fav.
Oh, and amazing intro!
I was robbed for sure. I will make a shirt at some point showing how to make each !
Turned out good. I know a certain cleric who will likely start making some for all the elementals and their various sizes.
Haha excellent
I HAVE to try this! Maybe using a foil or wire armature if going for an opaque figurine? Lots of smoothing and sculpting tools while the glue is still hot? I think I am soon going to have my own army of custom mini figs 💜😅
Amazing. please send pics if you do try it out! @NichPatzelt on twitter! And tin foil and wire makes for a great armature!
Another trick is to start your model in a bowl. Then as you build upwards you slowly fill in water to keep up with the level of the hotglue. 3D printing without a printer 🙂
Interesting !
First time here.. those are really sick minis... thanks for sharing your tips
Thanks! More videos and tips to
Come !
The elementals look really really great!
Thanks!!
This is a cool idea! I don’t make d&d miniatures but I’m gonna experiment with this technique… I’m building a custom action figure that needs new hair… might try it for that!
That’s so awesome! I am so happy to hear that! Good luck!
Great work Niche. I love how the water elemental wraps around the mini base
Thanks. Really wanted their whelm to be represented in the mini.
Everything changed when the Hot Glue Nation attacked!
lol :)
I am definitely going to have to try this method for a fire elemental. I have used similar methods for air and water elementals already.
I also made an earth elemental using sand over a toothpick armature. That one is a bit heavy. I'll probably try your hot glue method for earth as well.
Awesome. Please share if you do !
Contrast paint works well, paints used from Warhammer labeled contrast if dried produce the effect desired
Good tip!
Lovely results, and great advice! I'm new to the hobby and glad to have found you! You have obtained item: 1 new subscriber
Amazing! Welcome aboard! I too feel new to the hobby so I'm right there with ya
IT IS helpful or entertaining AND glamourious i like it like it YES i doooo =))
Thanks a lot!
Bro this is so helpful I play with my friends and break half my flimsy bought ones
Glad to help! Please share if you make them !
im kinda interested in making all of them light up, red for fire, blue for water, white for air, and green for earth.
I would also be inclined to make them pretty big, with multiple LED's inside, in order to maybe use a double-A or triple-A battery compartment, and on-off switch, in the base. This is generally for convenience, as AA and aaa batteries are Literally Everywhere.
Oh please do! send me pics if you do it!
@@NicheCrafts unfortunately, that is probably gonna be a very long while, on my end, because i am absolutely nowhere near a place in life, where i can make mini's and terrains.
Still, if you or someone else want to take the idea and run with it, then more power to ya. :)
❤ Love the intro! 😆
Thanks! Hehe
Water not bad, Earth looks good [but face it easy to make],
Fire looks like a crystal project that went wrong, and Air?
like someone did a massive spunk.
Lol
these turned out great!
Thanks a lot! They're a lot of fun to make
@Niche Crafts I'm literally doing it right now for my game on Sunday! Your video was the first helpful one I saw and it inspired me to make goo monsters for my next session!
@@CeeLoGreen666 amazing!!!! I love that
Looks really good! I like the water one and the fire one. Question, does the small amount of heat from the tea light melt the glue at all?
They’re pretty low heat so I don’t think they’d be able to affect the glue but I haven’t left it on for hours so I’m not sure. Haven’t melted yet !
They are looking great (one Like from me).
Thanks a lot! Appreciate that
I really appreciate your video 🙂
That means a lot :)
Genuinely brilliant, love them ❤
Thanks!! Me too :)
With the wind elemental I would have done the same thing with the fire elemental But use a green LED And replaced the Orange one And done the same thing with a blue one for the water, And for the earth Put the led up in the head section
May try that next time !
Great stuff!
Thanks !
fantastic.
Thanks! :)
You could use this to make slimes and gelatinous cubes too!!
Absolutely ! And you should !
Great video! "I know a much more time consuming method" lol
Hehe thanks !
great tutorial, TY!! If you want the glue sticks clear bring water almost to a boil and dip the stick in until totally clear. You think some Vellaho acrylic ink would work well for the dye (im totally new to all this)?
Very cool tip, Thanks! They should work but I have never used them before so I would do a test first!
nice builds. have you tried making the glue into crystals with a tea light?
Not yet. Hot glue crystals has definitely been on my list for a while now ! Haven’t thought to use lights for it. That would be sweet
@@NicheCrafts just the same process as you already did just cut up the glue into crystal shapes
Dope❤
Thanks a lot.
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Oh myyyyy
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Phucing AWWWWSUUUM idea!
Thanks !!!
@@NicheCrafts I just now made one but I used a tea light that can be remote controlled to be different colors so one figure is a fire, ice, lava, water, plant monster!.
@@JC-ew5ss Incredible!
Awesome. I feel buying the minis of these is kind of a rip off lol.
I made some black slimes with black hot glue
Totally. I’m here to put wiz kids out of business
This looks so much fun. Did you just stick gravel on the earth elemental?
It is! And yeah kind of a mix of any rocky things I could find. Gravel. Plaster bits, cat litter.
@@NicheCrafts Nice!
Where do you get the led tea lights from, tried the dollar tree ones but once removed from casing these can't work as the switch has nothing keeping it stable. The one you are showing had something holding switch in place other than the casing.
I’m in Canada so mine are from dollarama.
how about a tutorial on how to make hot glue
Hot Glue doesn't "dry" it cools down.
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great video
Awesome! Thanks!
hot glue doesnt "DRY" it's cooling down
audio and video are waaayyyyy out of sync
it seemed to have been corrected.
Seems fine to me
Very weird. Thanks for letting me know. But its working fine now?
@@NicheCrafts Another viewer here. Seems like it's all fine as well, for me at least. Might just be a thing on that person's end. Otherwise, great video! Keep up the good work. I was surprised at seeing only 107 subscribers on your profile, because I thought you surely would've had more!
@@hamingnu6610 Hey, thanks a lot. I just recently started the channel. Hoping to build a bigger community and make lots more videos!
6:55 thats an awesome idea. elemental on its own OR with a mage summoning it
amazing
bruh that intro was hialarious for no reason rofl....W's in the chat? W's in the chat???