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[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

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[@BowedSiren640Xbox]

What are all those bottles on top of that shelf?

[@Jobiwan501]

Bowed Siren they look like beer bottles to me.

[@gigichiriac1105]

I cant visit the site

[@amadeusgamer7000]

just says "Hello bards"

[@brantleyhudson2892]

That site is way broken. Nice video and build though

[@Rare.99]

I wanna see everything you have put together in one big scene

[@nerdynurgle7777]

yeah, that would be awesome.

[@seanknox5785]

I’m so inspired but I know my stuff won’t look .5% as nice

[@Pootis_grenade]

It would take up 4 tables

[@Runehammer1]

holy balls thats great

[@dsnod1]

The only think I think you're missing is stairs that lead from the edge of the tiles to the table. I think this is the coolest thing I've seen on the channel yet. Keep up the good work!

[@MonkeyJedi99]

That 1/8 inch leeway is the genius touch on the idea. Thanks for your work and for sharing your crafting with us!

[@survivorjohnny44]

Um... WOW. Your ship build sent me on a spree of making at least 6 ships of various sizes and styles (not counting the row boat sizes). This vid may consume many hours and add a lot to my table. I'm running a world that has been flooded and I could see ruins sticking up from the waves. Well done brother

[@AdamBragg]

That's a cool idea. All you'd need to do is give the pieces a watery base instead of a rubble & sand base. I'd check out The Crafting Muse's channel as well. She did a vid a while ago on painting a stone dock which has some great ideas on adding moss and shading with paint to give stonework that grungy, "rising from the waters" look.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

That sounds like a really fun game! If I was running a few encounters at sea, I wouldn't hesitate to drop these on a water board even thought the base doesn't make sense. If I was doing a LOT of sea based encounters I'd craft another set that had swirling water bases. That would look really cool, but obviously would have limited use so you'd need a lot of sessions at sea to make it worth the effort.

[@survivorjohnny44]

I'll check that out thanks.

[@survivorjohnny44]

I want to keep it more modular than adding waves so that will have to stay "theater of the mind" this whole campaign sprung out of your long ship and DM Scotty's Dwarven ship

[@bigbawss3273]

I need to get started on working on stuff like this cause I recently got into D&D 5e and I got a tabaxi/catfolk character who is on this *campaign* floating island called RA that my friend is dm'ing for me and Id like to eventually attempt dm'ing a Hellish citadel campaign.

[@3DPrintedTabletop]

Really great concept, Jeremy. I especially love this little mini towers/pillars in the center to help add some variety and break up the negative space. Now time to get crafting :D

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Thanks, those mini pillars will also get a lot of general use in dungeons and whatnot, very handy.

[@3DPrintedTabletop]

Black Magic Craft That's pretty much how I see all of these ruins being used in my game :) Thanks again, Jeremy!

[@recoilification]

Thank you SOOOOOO much for these tutorial videos! My wife and I are just learning D&D now finally in our later years and we love it! The terrain is a must for us as we enjoy the visual part of the game as well. Your tutorials are easy to follow, packed with information, and very enjoyable. I've definitely found a new hobby thanks to you!

[@bitzbox]

These are amazing and I really want to try this! My favourite tutorial of yours so far!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Thanks!

[@WylochsArmory]

Very nice, that preview at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="180">3:00</a> looks phenomenal.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Thanks man :)

[@mikepalmer2219]

This fits with an idea I have been kicking around. It's good to see it fully visualized before I started making anything for it yet. Awesome!

[@tarnocdoino3857]

Just found your first Five builds vid and I’m smitten. I love the 3”x3”’s and the ruins. Just in time for a long weekend of hobby.

[@theGhoulman]

God: "I have created the heavens and the earth!" BMC: "Hold my ale..."

[@JoeSarahBilton]

Great stuff. Very inspiring ideas - I'll definitely use these techniques when I add to my Frostgrave terrain. Thanks for taking the time to share

[@adroehm]

This is so good! Time intensive with each individual brick, but it looks so great when you’re done!

[@tinockerjoe]

Thank you for the information, instructions, and inspiration. I’ve been enjoying building and using my tiles and have started building my ruins. Already started on my 2nd set of bricks because, as is probably typical, I WAY underestimated how much I’d need.

[@hankhillz]

Thanks for the health n safety plug in the video. Its one thing I've always appreciated.

[@acmaurer50]

Very inspirational! I made some walls out of pink foam scraps I had lying around. If the strips don't yield perfect stones--this is ruin-building and so much the better!

[@earlkriewall7251]

Yep, this was exactly the style I was looking for. Thank you!

[@dominiccruz1201]

I am so glad I found your collection of videos. It has been very helpful in answering a lot of the questions about building miniatures. Your brick method has been eye opening with very useful tips. I am carefully selecting my supplies and tools as you suggested. Thanks again for all your help.

[@shy-borg342]

Whelp, now I got my project for the weekend. This will be great for making randomized ruins for my Necromunda games! The 80’s dystopian look of the classic game would look great for it, with faded neons and earth tones in the blasted rubble. Truly inspiring stuff man, never stop doing what you do.

[@shitmonkey]

your attention to detail is amazing. I don't play DnD but I really like your sets.. I watch other diorama and train modeling videos and I really think you are definitely a master craftsman.. thanks for sharing

[@printandplaygamer7134]

Beautiful, practical and inspiring. This is your best project yet, and that's saying something!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

That's a big compliment. Thanks!

[@John-qg7rq]

Long time subscriber and completely agree!

[@randyftz]

Top 5 BMC video! An instant classic! Great work JP!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

That’s what I like to hear :)

[@matthewrichmond3427]

Agreed such a great idea

[@IBeScrappyDoo2]

Another great and inspiring build... anything you can make that allows for multi uses is awesome !! Thanks again!!

[@epicdungeontiles]

The edging on those blocks looks amazing, I need to try this when I get the time they look fantastic!!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Thanks

[@danieldavis7388]

Great project! One of my favorite ones from you! Great thinking, man!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

That's a big compliment. Thanks :)

[@Angry_Primate]

This is awesome. I will definitely be using this to make my dungeon pieces

[@nowthisnamestaken]

Great work and with a very good straight forward delivery, Thanks man. Love your work!

[@koinukasuka]

been watching your videos the past week-ish and think I'm gonna give this a go, especially since backing a kickstarter for some scenery and housing for tabletops, this will pair very nicely :) enjoy your videos, keep em up :D

[@TheRunesmythe]

As always, these look absolutely amazing! I really need to get a Proxxon cutting table; I'd love to do something like this both for tabletop rpgs and wargames.

[@RollforDamageRFD]

Now these are ruins! Hands down the best set I’ve seen to date. I thought you even went hurst art for a moment. Very well executed man!

[@Sejdr]

These walls are excellent to use around the Gloomhaven board pieces as well to give more of a immersive feeling to the game.

[@tabletopgeneralsde310]

Great looking walls. Very nice explanation and easy to do tutorial. 👍

[@danielkrause8464]

That is an amazing idea, dude! I like that you can use them as walls for dungeon tiles too.

[@bobjustbob3743]

Thanx man, started creating my own modular ruins :-) had some pir foam, these dont melt so i had to cut it with a knife. but still the hot glue did its job :-) used the shaking in a container with sharp stones way to make them rough this motivated me to also make my own flock from sawdust. now i have some nice ruins with plants, static grass and flock

[@arrowofdeath999]

I do really LOVE your crafts! Thanks for that amazingly detailed tutorial! Best wishes from Austria

[@petertumminaro4528]

Best project so far! I would make a whole dungeon in this style.

[@abelpaoli6836]

Wow, what a great video! You have to be the most patient person I've ever seen!

[@matt30512]

Nice video man. Very easy to follow.

[@trevorlang8635]

Those look ridiculously amazing! Very inspiring!

[@mousebyte94]

This is awesome. I look forward to trying my hand and something like this.

[@photogfrank2146]

I started out just looking for some ideas for something to build for my daughter & son-in-law to help them and their friends enjoy D & D a little bit more! But I love your videos so much that I've been binge-watching them! I now have a whole slew of things I'm planning to build for them! I would love to support you on Patreon but I am retired and my SS only pays the rent. Keep the awesome videos coming, Jeremy!

[@GeneCavalcante]

I was planning something like those. Thanks for the tips!!!

[@Mayo.SPK.]

Made myself a set of these over the weekend! Thank you so much man!

[@weaktwos]

Great timing! I was looking for a tutorial like this!

[@NegatveSpace]

This is really cool I wish more was like this. I play war games and putting buildings down on the table was always really annoying because they were never what we needed or have anything to do with what the scenario is. This might even get me into making some as I haven't wanted to do mine but these are also more easy to store when not used. The best of both worlds!

[@richardlogue9770]

Awesome! Also make a bunch of individual stones and bricks to scatter haphazardly over the whole thing after it is laid out. Add a little extra element of ruin to it all.

[@MaxDMCrafting]

Great once again! Great also the combination with your ruin tiles! Thanks J!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

The system works! :D

[@AleinaTravyre]

Hey Jeremy. I love your work and it has inspired me to start doing some crafting of my own!

[@benweinberg3819]

With no exaggeration: this looks like a straight up resin kit! After your door kickstarter finishes, I have a hunch you could get some seriously interested buyers for a set of these. Awesome work!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

I’d love to, and would actually do a much nicer sculpt for that. Problem is that’s a lot of resin $$$. Maybe one day though.

[@dreadknot69]

Uh...what kickstarter?

[@benweinberg3819]

I may have misspoken as he may be releasing them direct. I was under the impression though there would be a kickstarter to accrue funds for the mass production molds

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

I had announced that I was planning on doing a kickstarter to release some of my own original resin Dungeon Doors. This may or may not happen, still undecided. I may instead produce a small batch and just sell directly, first come, first serve. After much thought I realized that doing a kickstarter may actually put me in a situation where I have WAY more orders than I want to produce myself, which would take away a lot of time from my main focus which is this channel.

[@jeffdunehew]

Just found your channel last night. Already subscribed. You make some awesome stuff. I've only just gotten into D&D (always wanted to!) but I've always been an artist. I wanted to recommend that you use small magnets on the sides of pieces. You can cut from the bottom and push them up in it to where it's not showing on the sides but still close enough that it works. You can use magnets on one side and small pieces of metal (washers work great) on the other.

[@marmank]

Really great stuff. I watched a bunch of your videos now and I really like your work.

[@Starolfr]

Ingenious - and gorgeous!! Well done, mate.

[@Draculord666]

I'm a brand new sub and huge into DnD and Wargames, so it bogles my mind I haven't heard of you before now. I just wanted to say I've binge watched a good part of your channel and you put out some amazing looking tutorials that are very easy to make yourself. You got me hooked on the good ole foam and mod podge style of terrain building! I would love to see some Dwarf inspired architecture videos, I'm a massive fan of that Dwarven style, cheers!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Cheers, glad you found me. Tell your friends :)

[@JoyousOblivion]

Good god man, this is genius. My girlfriend is starting a Pathfinder game for her kids and I have been trying to figure out what I could do for dungeon scenery for her. You are a hero. Liked and subbed.

[@daniels3584]

Good thing that I had the day off work today. Already started on my set. I love your work!!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Just about the best way to spend a day off from work.

[@analoguefantasygaming8513]

These are incredible! Seriously impressive.

[@shaundaly1134]

Fantastic. I had a similiar idea about side walls for double use as Dungeon Walls & wargaming scatter terrain.

[@filip4396]

This is so making me want to create some Dungeons and ruins! All I need now is, well, everything 😐

[@hypersapien]

I'm not a tabletop gamer, but I love watching your videos. It's interesting how a lot of your modular techniques and concepts overlap with video game asset design. It might be a fun experiment (although labor intensive) to make foam modular parts like this, then photoscan them to make digital assets...hmmm..

[@wizzarin424]

Great Build, will be building this one - thanks. You could also make a non- rubble build for dungeons or castles that are not in despair.

[@thomartinthroat]

I made my modular ruins following this guide. I used bricks made from white food trays I had waiting for recycling, I think it's PET. Made a ton of 2cm x 1cm bricks with the same procedure BMC shows here. I ended with walls of 9 or 10 rows high, which I think look better than large bricks. More bricks=more work tho. I made the characterization with a tin foil ball, a pen for drawing cracks and tore some tiles after the assembling and painted with pva+black paint followed by grey+brown dry brush and light gray dry brush (really dry). I'm super happy with the result Thanks for this, BMC!

[@ozisnice]

Oh, this is a great idea, can be used for lots of tabletop games! Bravo!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Very versatile.

[@gcs79]

Really, really nice and easy. Congratulations and thanks.

[@WhiteBoyGus]

I have just gotten into this hobby, and your videos are a great inspiration. I think another embellishment I would add to the interior of the walls is dungeon decorations. I'm certain adding something like torch sconces, skeletons, booby traps, and/or chains would be a really nice addition.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Then they wouldn’t be modular. Those additions would look silly when using them for outdoor ruins 😉 think reusability!

[@metajock]

Sweet set, these look great. Well done with this design.

[@TheLordcyrus]

Dude this is some great stuff. Gonna be up late tonight crafting now thanks!

[@philRminiatures]

Awesome modular ruins, have to try them one day, superb and realistic!👍👍

[@terrain4print]

What an excellent modularity this gives, good job!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Thank you :)

[@mobiggun]

Man just want you to know how much your videos make want to craft. Which is a lot! Very motivating and fine to watch!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

That’s the goal :)

[@haz-mattstudio6074]

These are awesome. Just got into this and I can't wait to discover the rest of your channel as I go foreword :D

[@Ryulin18]

I'm about 9 days into making a set of tiles for myself and now you do this to me!!! Damn you!!! I love your work.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Don't stop, keep that momentum rollin!

[@zenwolf3081]

Super excited to make these!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

You won't regret it.

[@quassisbelltower9408]

Wow I really like those. Now I have to make some in the future. They would go good with my magnet dungeon tile 2.5 if I wanted to go that way. Just another awesome build by BMC!!!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Thanks. Yea, if you've got magnets in your tiles you could totally throw some in these to make them work together.

[@MrNtlman]

Ima try and do this over the weekend... I just hope I have enough paint lol... this looks friggen amazing

[@christophercox5566]

I love the technique you used to both cut and texture the bricks. The marking and then snapping off of each individual brick is so STUPID BRILLIANT to get the free texturing on the ends. Will be using this going forward. Thanks, thanks, thanks!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Yea, it was my first time doing it, and I like it a lot better. Looks more natural, with no real extra effort. It's also oddly satisfying to snap them :)

[@christophercox5566]

Yes like popping bubble wrap . . . mesmerizing!

[@embergrit2305]

Great work! Im gonna have to do this too.

[@derekroe8856]

This is one of the best things you've posted!

[@johneberts2918]

this is really a great way to build walls and ruins thanks

[@fturfler2]

You are crushing it! I love this system. I'm inspired to try to do the same with papercraft.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Nice, the principal of the design is what's important. The materials and execution are irrelevant. It would work perfectly with papercraft.

[@serufel]

Love it! I really wanna make these!

[@harmony1454]

I've been trying to figure out the best way to make modular ruins. Thanks for the video!

[@nidhoggcraft8953]

Great job ! I like its modularity. In particular, considering the thickness of the walls, you can create 3, 2 or 1 inch wide corridors. This combined with the small pillars that can also be used as obstacles would give fantastic configurations for under pressure exploration !! Cheers

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

YES! Even if you are doing no wall, negative space dungeon tile layouts like I do, you could use some of these sections on top of the tiles to squeeze the corridor where there has been some cave ins and stuff. I didn't even think of that. But that's whats great about designing things with modularity in mind, there are more uses than you can even plan for.

[@BadgerRobot]

Perfect timing, I was just thinking through ways to make some "ruins" for skirmish games. I do 3d printing for my terrain, but the planning is the same. You helped me out a ton, I took liberal notes for my project. I also plan on adding some broken window frames and doorways to some of the long walls as well.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Yea, you could easily adapt this concept to 3d prints.

[@Fnordathoth]

Such a great project, absolutely love this!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

thanks :)

[@Palpatine4Senate]

This looks really great!

[@stuartfarrell6729]

this is precisely what i need ill be building my out of dollar stor foam for now but this kills several problems at once for me thanks

[@bravesirrobbins4849]

This is insane! SO cool.

[@nostalgicstudios7414]

Awesomeness. I love these videos. they're great. keep up the awesome work.

[@MeatSim9]

That is amazing. At first glance, I expected expensive resin copies of single wall pieces you made. But you hand cut and glue and painted EACH ONE. I am definitely saving this video for later. I'm not currently into building miniatures, but when I do, I will want to see this video again, for sure.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Most of his stuff is designed to be relatively easy and cheap for us to be able to copy, imitate, or be inspired by.

[@JimmyDeeola]

Yes please. I will make loads of this. My only problem is that I dont have any foam cutter :,( This may convince me to buy one tho! Simple and great! Love it.

[@JCrain31]

These are awesome! Looking forward to making my own set soon.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

This set is worth the time and effort to make.

[@shiroidaruma5046]

Great job man, some really inspired work here! Another brilliant idea!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Thank you :)

[@MrGlickClick]

Well done sir! I love your artistry.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Thank you :)

[@rustyshackleford3874]

Great tip about the mess it makes. I used to do a lot of the texturing and stuff while in bed watching TV and it drove my wife crazy =) Between the sound the wire brush makes and the dust i create....I am no longer aloud to do that in bed

[@noahms456]

Nicely done. Very inspirational! I may try a build like this of my own for Frostgrave. I don’t have a proxon - I wonder if I made the bricks slightly more “Colossal” sized if I could do it with a very sharp blade... Hmmmm

[@chrisalonso1603]

Working on mine looks real good man

[@allensaulnier6357]

Those are awesome!

[@kevinhammond9445]

Another great build. Love them!

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Thank you :)