How to make a board for motley crews.

Transcript

We’re back with part two, uh, or not really a part two, but a continuation of my last video. This time, we’re turning this little tile we made into a MLY cruise board. So, I have hopefully a good idea. And actually, at at this point recording, I do know that it was a good idea. So, I I’ve taken a ruler and a tape measure here.

And if you’re if you’re looking at it and you think it’s weird how it doesn’t line up, and that’s what I was pointing to here, uh the nine inches on the tape measure is different from 9 in on this ruler. Uh which is normal. Um no, no two measuring devices are going to be the same. But what’s important is that I have my increments matched up from the top and the bottom. And now I just have this this jute twine here.

I am going to lay it out in a grid up and down, left and right to form uh pretty much one inch squares so that I can have a grid pattern before I throw some flock on it. So, I’ve already cut all my strings and what I’m doing is I’m just taping it right down to the desk uh or trying to tape it right down to the desk. I’m keeping it tight so it’s really right up against the board. And that way my hope is that I’ll be able to put some glue down and then put some flock on it and keep this grid pattern. So I’ll be back taking a moment real quick.

This is the size base. Look at this. My bow woken boy. >> Uh this is one of Ben B. >> By the way, I’m launching a miniature company, but he’s on the same base size.

And I’m just making sure these lines just a touch because of how I measured it. So, here is super awesome time lapse. Uh, this was this was definitely a case of measure twice so I don’t mess this up. Uh, go back through and just check I checked all the grid patterns before I actually started gluing. And here’s another sick time lapse going across.

Um, at this point in time in like in real time, I was very unsure of if this idea was going to work. I was I was afraid that I wasn’t going to be able to actually keep the glue in place and here I started just globbing it on and it actually it worked pretty well. Some of these I’ve intentionally not filled in all the way and I wish I had the idea more but I think that that would have been a cooler way like uh if I had left some not totally grass but still the illusion of grass. And so now I’m going to come in from the top. I should have put something between the board and my desk because now I’m just going to make a big mess.

But you always need to put more flock than you think you need to do. And I’m gonna hope that by coming in straight down that the flock doesn’t get under that string and we get a grid pattern. And if we take this thing out of here and we don’t have a grid pattern, I’ve got a plan for that. But I’m hoping that this does enough of a job. Okay, I’m just taking a little tiny peek.

And I don’t know if you can tell, but I think it’s working. I think it’s gonna work. Uh, maybe. So, in real time, this is actually the next day after I I laid this out, and it’s still wet. Um, I I just couldn’t wait any longer, and I wanted to see if the idea worked.

So, I ripped all this up. Uh, dumped it all over my desk. If I do this again next time, I’ll definitely put something between my desk and the board. But I I actually I taped the board to the desk, too. I forgot to mention that earlier.

So that way nothing shifted. So the board was taped. All the measuring instruments were taped. But you can see here it looks pretty great. Uh there’s a couple couple more things we need to do to it though to really finish it up and and perfect it.

And here, this is with all the excess knocked off. You can see that the grid patterns held up in most places. And now we’re fully dry, too. So you get the right color. But I’m going to come back in and reestablish these grid lines really throughout the board.

So, what I have here, Golden High Flow Acrylics. These are very translucent paints. Um, and once you start expanding out of like miniature paint brand paints, there’s really a lot of great products out there, especially from Golden. Usually, this is something that I would airbrush, but it’s going to be perfect for this. It’s essentially perfectly wash uh wash condition.

This is transparent brown iron oxide. Uh, that’s a mouthful. So, I just thrown this in the Altoids palette. At this point in Virginia, we’re still very much in armpit season, so it’s it’s really so humid and wet here, but I don’t even really need a wet palette, and I haven’t been using one for the last couple of months. So, this big thick brush.

I’m only going to show you the edge so you can get an idea. uh when you do use these high flow acrylics, they have gloss medium in them. So, you’re going to want to come back through and matte varnish if you if you do purchase these and use them. So, that’s the only thing it helps them flow into the cracks, which is another reason they’re great for washes if if you want to use an acrylic wash. The other thing I want to talk about is because we washed this board or not washed because we dry brushed this board with that khaki almost white color.

It’s very uh not very it uh it’s very good to wash it still because you can tint the board. And this is what I was talking about in that other video and I hopefully I’ll remember to link this tomorrow. Link that video tomorrow. But it’s going to take washes very well to totally change the vibe of the board. So, by doing this, we’re just we’re warming it up.

We’re making it look a little bit more whimsical instead of more of like an ashy brown. But really just shows you how versatile it is. So, here’s what it’s going to look like. I’m going to go ahead. I’m going to hit all the different lines.

One thing I didn’t think about, and if I was smart, I would have, and on the I’m actually making two boards, and the second board I’ll do it differently. I didn’t think about how the flock would soak up the paint. So the the squares shrunk a little bit, but they still fit perfectly underneath the base, which is what I wanted. So now, because that flock sucked up the paint and and actually darkened up, I’m coming back in with a dry brush of more fang brown to lighten it back up. And it still wasn’t quite where I wanted it.

So now this is sunny flesh tone uh from Vallejo again. Dry brush. I have a a thin makeup brush and uh I’m just going up and down through the lines. And you can see I’ve already done half the board and that other half blends into the borders. So boom.

There we go. Highlighted, matched back out. Still not quite done. It’s still It’s just missing that little little piece to finish it up. So I’m adding grass toughs.

I’m poking poking a little hole with a pencil in, adding super glue, and then just using a pencil to push these flowers and the grass toughs in. And here we go. Uh I think it looks great. The only thing missing now is a border, which I’m I’m still waiting for some wood to come in. But here we go with our peradeth mini.

Thanks for watching. I will see you on a couple of days for the next one.