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So this is a massive gaming bard I commissioned for Wargames Atlantic. You can check them out here and they are going to be using this board a LOT in the future showcasing all the crazy stuff they have over there. wargamesatlantic.com/
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You should try video game terrains
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hey, what mask do you use when casting resin
Wife walks out of the house. 2 minutes later your hobby takes over the whole kitchen and half the living room. Relatable.
Man you sound like someone I know named Floyd lol
Shovelling in flip flops with......socks? Saskatchewan confirmed. Epic build as usual!
Came to the comments to say the same thing
I do that in Georgia(US), in December.
lol Knew I'd be getting a comment from someone on those socks. Can always count on you Jeremy. Haha
@@JGMoore that’s because Georgia has wimpy winters 😂 (I’m from Michigan)
Sock are why you have feet, awesome build by the way.
This is amazing. Excellent work!
Thanks Jon!!
It’s good to see townsends here
Holy Moly, Jon plays tabletop games?
All of my hobbies are starting to overlap. What even is going on
This is about as wild as the time AVE showed up in Matt Colville's comment section.
Hey guys, ignore the last min of black screen. Accidentally got that in there. Trimmed it off in the yt editor but takes a while to process.
Advert padding.. 😉
Awsome... But am i the only one to think you play in the direction of the width and not the length... wich cause the rivers to be at weird spots.
I always wish we could see some quick clips or even photos of games being played on these boards - would be lovely + nice to appreciate the scale, and even get a review - or friends' reactions to seeing the board
This looks like you've gone outside and taken a small cutout of the actual world, then glued it to a table. Absoultely love it. I would love to try my hand at something of this size--maybe I don't need a kitchen table.
The good side of a lockdown is having more time to discover new things, such as dioramas and terrain builders. I've watched all your videos so far and i'm both amazed and inspired by each and every one of your builds. As a question (and possible challenge?...) I'd like to ask you if it's possible to make a "floating" island, Avatar style. Maybe use the waterfalls as support for the structure, i don't know, just wanted to put the idea out there. Looking forward to the next build!
My Dad came in as I was watching this and said that we should do our battles on it, amazing work mate, love your terrain videos
Haha, nice. Thanks man 🙂
I wish this channel wwould come back. Wherever you are Neil, I hope you are good,
This zooming out and turning camera while timelapsing is impressive tech! :O The table is just bonkers!!
Yeah, what an awesome visual effect! So satisfying to watch.
So glad your getting into middle earth strategy battle game, such an underrated but amazing game!!!
Preach
Indeed!
i want to get into it but cant find a copy anywhere
@@MadManMatrix try scribd, they have a one month free trial and you can download a bunch of documents for free.
@@MadManMatrix all the books are on games workshops site for order. Games Workshop is quite restrictive of online copies, so there isn't many places you can find them for free unfortunately.
Socks in flip flops, I knew I wasn't the only one! I am going to try your insulation foam and plaster of Paris for my next project, thank you!
Imagine the dnd campaigns you can have in his workshop. Magnificent! Truly inspiring!
Neil! You outdid yourself. With the board but also (and especially) with your video production. Absolutely loved seeing the new techniques you were trying out. Especially the gliding time lapses. Amazing!
Awesome Neil. I had my fingers crossed when you tipped the board for the resin.... I love to see your method for measuring the Envirotex is the same as mine :)
Your so far the best terrain builder I've seen and found in my two years in mini painting. Just stunning and thank you for sharing your skills with us.
The production quality on the video is insane; the camera pan at 5:31 was genuinely beautiful. Incredibly well done!
Epic build! The dowel idea is fantastic ! Would love to see a video just about your video making process... setting up shots; video editing, camera rigs. I think a lot of people might find that interesting!
Awesome idea to tip the resin while it's still drying. It successfully simulated the flow of water better and quicker than you could do by hand and it looked great! As said elsewhere, the camera changing positions during the time lapse was a neat effect too! I would happily watch longer time lapse clips!
Hey thanks for the feedback on the time lapse! I’ll definitely keep the suggestion in mind for the future. And yeah, I was pleasantly surprised with how well the resin trick ended up working.
Very nice! Back in the early 1990's a fellow in our group had a 9x5 foot table like that, sans cliffside, we would wargame Renaissance, English Civil War, Thirty Years War, and Ancients on 3 - 4 times a week. Nothing like seeing hundreds of beautifully painted miniatures on nice terrain!
Lovely; that's a truism. Thank you so very much for breaking down your process and sharing it with us! This is something that I will be referring back to for a long time, to be sure. Additionally, the lighting in your videos is just grand!
It goes without saying how amazing this build/video is. Have to admit it reminded me of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, (love that movie) when Roy goes nuts and builds the huge mountain in his home. Outstanding and inspiring work as always 👍🏻
"This MEANS something!" 😆
Evan Hughes. Now I have to watch it again. “TOBY YOU ARE CLOSE TO DEATH”
Saw the movie about 1978. Totally agree with that comment. I knew it reminded me of something!
After almost 8 years lurking in this hobby, I just recently got my first minis. I basically covered my fingers covered in plastic glue, my paint job looks awful, and I have no one to play against. But none of the matters to me. Because stuff like this comes out of this hobby, and I hope to one day get here.
Hang in there. I've been in the hobby for years and still make a mess out of my projects quite often.
What Chris said. Good on ya man for learning at your own pace and enjoying the process. One of my favorite quotes: "The only person we should try to be better than is the one we were the day before." In general, this is the best way to approach life. OK sure competitive sports is another thing, but for our day to day the above rule is the way to live and get the most satisfaction out of the things we apply ourselves to. Be proud of how far you've come from when you fist started. :)
@@RealTerrainHobbies totally agree, been model making form the Airfix plastic bag days, and still as things developed there is always something to learn, and yes my harshest critic is me so that is the only person I have to satisfy, keep at it and enjoy what you do, its a hobby for life.
@@CrusaderSports250 You cannot beat the hobby, I started with Airfix in the UK at about 5 years old. Bought all the yearly catalogues and just wish I could have afforded all the kits at that time when visiting the local model shop every week. Branched out into collecting diecast aircraft, tanks etc and metal figures in virtually every scale I now have the finances but not the time unfortunately, although I don't think my credit card company is complaining. Just need a bigger house and some decent display cases etc!
Wow! Just wow! This looks amazing. Every aspect of the terrain is just fantastic. That river is so lifelike as well. Excellent work! 👍
My man just cutting some water and then BAM 21:18 The MXR Plays old end song plays and I'm flooded with nostalgia.
I imagine a group of teens playing d&d in this diorama, don't know about you, but I would love
I have a (suppressed) creative side just waiting for my lazy, procrastinating side to take a break and burst out from my seams. I have been searching KZhead for the past few days for the right inspiration to trigger my creativity and making things with paper mache clay was almost doing it for me, but just wasn't quite doing it. Then I seen the giant miniature of a nature landscape. While I could never commit to a project that large, you've still inspired me to try to make nature- based miniature landscapes. I love your detail and this video has given me some great ideas. Yer awesome!
Fantastic Neil. I used to play the 1st Ed of WH40K, I loved how campy it was. I dreamed of having a table like this!
Amazing work. Plan on getting involved with making much MUCH smaller scale dioramas but watching your work will no doubt help
Thank you for the great tips! I LOVE IT
Didn't expect to see you here!
Love that you made this modular instead of just one big board. Great walkthrough of everything you did as well. Looks amazing as usual!
Splendid ! Imagine making a table with this kind of terrain integrated in it ? Like a table with glass on top and inside you'd have an epic diorama ? That'd be super cool
Looks amazing! I made a one by one meter Osgiliath board with a resin river 7 years ago in ninth grade. This gave me so many ideas to how I couldve done it better.
What an epic build :) loved it, loved the whole way you put this video together ... that idea with the resin is AMAZING; both the white water, and then timing the tip to get ripples... genius! And thanks for the shout out :) you really are the man, and any time you want a game of SBG just give me a shout; come visit Bulgaria and we can get some games in ;)
Would love to see you do a shire board or diorama from LOTR
Ooh! Bag end, with the hill that comes off to show the interior! - - - While I'm dreaming...
That crazy son of a bitch, he's actually doing it!
@@vampyrjack just finding the channel and that's the next one I'm watching.
What an epic build - really impressed about how much information you packed into that video. Would love to build something at this scale one day!
wow.. love this board. ages since i played wargaming but.. on a board like that it is really worth it. Would love to see this board used how you described it too.
this is truly amazing, and the best part is, you can use this for whatever, you could use this for medieval, civil war, tank battles, literally almost anything, well done!
Dude, Everything you build is just amazing. I am blown away... yet again!
Wow! Beautiful and epic as always. Getting into Middle Earth SBG seems like a good opportunity to please the Dark Lord with something less lush than usual: evil terrain! Ruins of Dol Goldur perhaps? Thanks for another great tutorial.
Superb project and build. Congrats on the giant board, Neil.
man, it's always a joy watching you work on your projects. You really seem like a great, down to earth guy with a real passion for his hobby. It's just relaxing to watch your projects unfold. And on top of that, it always motivates me to do some work myself :)
Thanks a lot man. Appreciate the kind words. Glad you enjoy the vids and really cool to hear it motivates you as well with your work. :)
wow, I'm speechless, every time I see your video you make a work of art. You are an example to follow. Congratulations you have excited me once again!
This is an amazing build i love it. At 15:38 when you cut the woodland grass it makes a small fire.
Really cool you did this for Wargames Atlantic. They're one of my favorite companies out there right now.
This is a great build! I do like the water effect, a very natural flow. Timing is everything to achieve this I guess
Doing boards like this have really brought me into a love of carpentry. Also, most of my family are carpenters or have been carpenters, so it's nice to use my family taught skills to further my craft and further my hobby.
Awesome work, I'm recently back into middle earth wargame and your videos are very instructive and inspiring to build my terrains
Hearing your announcement of taking up MESBG gave me a flurry of excitement. I can't wait to see some of the terrain and scenery you create for that! I always thought the Tabletop World buildings looked like they could have represented Bree or an old Arnor town.
Amazing as usual you keep inspiring and help growing the tabletop community.
I rewatched this to find out the insulation you used. Now I can make my terrain and dioramas on a budget. Thanks you!
This is amazing! Your video has inspired me to try my hand at this, I bought myself a foam cutter like you use on amazon, and I am collecting scrap styrofoam at work. Gonna try to make something using as much recycled material as I can to cut cost, and be eco-friendly!
that would be an amazing board to play on. I am just getting into the Middle Earth game myself. Looking forward to seeing some terrain to give me ideas. i eventually want to make a huge Helms Deep board. keep up the good work man!
Nice, a Helms Deep build would be so cool. Thanks!!
Wow, another great build! Excited to hear you are considering MIddle earth SBG. You should do a Mordor or Rohan table!
I would definitely be down for that at some point. :)
Stunning dude!!! I’ve been wanting you to build a nice realistic wargaming board for a long time :) awesome awesome stuff man
Thanks man!!😊
I work in modular home construction and I can attest the the fact that if you use liquid nail, it isn't ever coming apart. It's hell to work with but it does it's job extremely well
a shop that I used to play at back in the 90's had something similar to this. There's was a little more flat though, but slightly bigger too. I think there's was 3 foot by 12 foot. They used to split it into 3 sections for tournaments and events. It is a lot of fun to play games on a table like that. It adds so much more to the games. it was part of the reason that I started playing Rogue Trader/Warhammer 40k way back when it first came out.
So jealous, you are truly skilled. Amazing!!
I learned so much just watching this one video! Epic!! Thanks for making such a detailed video :)
Absolutely amazing work!
I've seen another channel use a different technique for ripples in water. They put a thin layer of mod podge over the cured resin and use an airbrush to make the ripples. This would work better with bigger bodies of water, but the technique has a good result
Glad to see you back at it. Wonderful board.
What a FANTASTIC build! so awesome!
yo some of these camera shots are some next level shit. Love how you keep upping the video content and quality with each upload.
Love this idea of having the boards interchangable! Difficult and impressive build!
Bro, I am right there with you. The number 1 thing that brought me into tabletop wargaming was my love for modeling. You got some great content, thanks for putting in the work.
Haha, that’s awesome. Thanks for sharing that and thanks for the compliment on the content🙂
Amazing work! I play Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game and have several 1000+ points armies. Moria and Harad are my favourite. I will totally be using some of your techniques when I build my new board!
I have never seen a board so elaborate. I am so impressed. 4 x 8 ft is kinda the perfect size since it's the size of lumber sheets and foam board insulation. Can't wait to see something more mountainous or a cyberpunk motropolis.
Neil, This beautiful project of yours reminds me of when I commented way back that I had issues with dust collecting on display pieces. I might have found a solution for that (or in my case at least, you'd probably have to modify it because of the sheer size); "Display coffee table". Apparently there are some for wine or DIY tables. But It shouldn't be too hard to steal part of that design and modify a nice/cheap Ikea coffee table which has a glass top. I just wanted to share my epifani which people of course already thought of, take away from it what you will. ^^ Disclaimer: Of course there are alternatives, such as display cases or shelves but I've never been a huge fan of them. it can so easily look cluttered or out of place.
Oh nice! Yeah that's a great idea. I need a solution for my table top world board. It really big too so I thought about getting a custom cover made. I'll have to look into the Ikea tables though for other projects though!
I Love this idea Neal, I am going to be making me a portable HO scale train Table and DAMN BAM you do this, AWESOME BUDDY! Thanks SO much for the timing! This is a Perfect IDEA for my build!! THANKS! LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!
Hobbit Strategy Battle Game... LOTR Strategy Battle Game... etc... great fun and the rules flow well. I've played many types of these games and these ones (Middle Earth SBG) play well and have a great fantasy feel. ... and on your terrain, it'll be magic!
Turning the board so the resin pooled a bit was a great idea ... very realistic to have 'waves' in water with whitewater instead of smooth. Awesome job!!
This is so good. Thank you for doing this. Great video.
What a beautiful table! I love your music too.
Just wow, Epic! Great work, well done!
LFCI or Loose Cellulose fibre is the stuff mixed with Plaster of Paris to make the Modelling clay like material.
beautiful board, picked up some great tips for making mine. Cheers
Dream of having the space for something as fantastic as this. Own all the figures, vehicles and diorama accessories required in virtually every scale but just need a larger house at present. Unfortunately I don't think my bank manager see's it that way! First time I have seen your video's. New subscriber best wishes from the UK.
Just subbed after you said you're getting into middle earth sbg. Thats my favorite game
I've never played strategy games myself (I was P&P player when I was young) but I gotta admit - this is beautiful piece of work, man. i admire your dedication and attention to details.
Excellent job! Congratulations
Dude thats freaking beautiful, I would love to have something like this.
that was such a great build! love your channel man!
Holy hell, that is impressive!
Fantastic work and production quality. This looks like a perfect LOTR board.
That is really impressive. It looks gorgerous. Really well done!
21:47 The blue light reflecting on the rivers looks like something out of the Feywild.
My first video from your channel. After watching it, I have the duty to subscribe. Greetings from Argentina and congratulations for your talent.
Welcome aboard and thank you very much!
One of the best ones yet. Spectacular stuff. Thanks for the content.
Great job, Neil 👏 I'm happy to be out of the lobby, repairing is a lot easier and I don't need so much room anymore... AND IT PAYS TREMENDOUSLY WELL!
I found the channel after this video so I never got to see this one. Thank you KZhead gods for finally putting it in my recommended! This came out so incredible like always
This is incredible, Amazing bro
This is so f...ing amazing. Wish i had the skills, money and space to make such a project.
Inspired and gorgeous work!
Great work as always! I was a little nervous when you tipped up the boards to get the ripples in the resin, but oh man does it look good.
haha, yeah me too! Thanks man!
This is amazing!! Well done!
Amazing work! You are a little artist.
Recording the video, make the board at the same time must have take a lot of effort all together! Well worth it super good job
Oof. This is really making me want to properly sit down and plan out a Fords of Isen board . Content is amazing as always and a fantastic resource so thanks for sharing!