Casting Custom Bases for My Newest Army!

[@EonsOfBattle]

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[@ValiduzZ]

I *love* the step-by-step descriptions not only HOW to do it. But WHY you do it. 10/10 tutorial. Both entertaining and informative.

[@theGazzer]

Jay, your upload schedule is monstrous - you are a beast, man. Please go on holiday or something because you deserve it 😭😭🙏

[@davidmartyn5044]

HOW? Is he gonna keep the content coming out?

[@efenex8303]

Maybe he has, and they have videos they prepare earlier that are Jay just talking for a bit as they probably are easier than his full painting ones

[@marcosayase]

@@efenex8303 I hope is and it makes sense because damn they upload like crazy - which I love but still

[@ZiggyRa]

Jay is by far my favorite warhammer youtuber

[@jc7997aj]

You should check out MajorKill. He's pretty awesome too.

[@BrunoTorrentsRodríguez]

Mine too!

[@Jademalo]

You can skip the whole water step - volume is volume. The line the sand makes in the cup is the volume to fill the moulds, so if you make that much total silicone it will fill that amount. Water and silicone don't have the same density either, 100g of silicone is a lower volume than 100g of water.

[@captainweekend5276]

I think the part that makes it tricky is he has to mix two parts evenly which is tricky since he needs to measure them separately so they don't start reacting whilst he's still measuring, so he'd need to be going through three mixing cups for every pour which is a bit wasteful, whilst water is lower density than silicone it appears to be accurate enough give or take a few floz.

[@Jademalo]

@@captainweekend5276 You still need to use multiple cups per pour, that's just the nature of two part mixtures like that unfortunately. You could potentially fill a cup with the sand volume and mark it, empty that, fill to the mark with water, weigh that, and then double the weight and mark again. That gives you one cup with two marks for the amount of silicone you need, so long as you dry it properly.

[@PeteOfDarkness]

Jay could just weight half of sand and use that as reference guide.

[@iamnotgonnatellyou]

A suggestion for future casting: The stuff you trimmed off of these casts to get a flat surface, you can reuse those trimmings in your next cast to save a bit of silicone. Pour in enough silicone to thoroughly coat your bases, then you can sprinkle in chunks of old castings before filling it the rest of the way up with fresh stuff. The chunks of old silicone help fill up the volume of the mold all the way so you're using less new silicone to fill the same amount of space!

[@anthonyconvery6304]

9:09 yo that Ork is painted so well 💙

[@Bartsman123]

1:44 Imagine slapping someone with that mould

[@MrMattyP]

Does he have an OnlyFans 🤔😂🤣

[@chaosof99]

This year slightly taught me what it is to be you, Jay. Just around the time you announced you started a Drukhari army, I had also just started one. In the video I made a comment that 2000 points could be knocked out in a month rather than the year you planned for it, though of course you paint to a much higher standard than I do and have more projects. After that I finished two Combat Patrol boxes plus some extra models and earned a New Year New Army medal for it. I have painted 0 Drukhari since. I was sidetracked by a move and then other projects such as adding another 1000 points to my Salamanders, a 127 model strong Kroot army, an Ordo Xenos box when the Imperial Agents got a Codex, and most recently Kill Team for which I painted the whole Hivestorm box, the Gallowdark terrain and several other teams. So definitely a very productive six months or so, but the Drukhari models I still have in my backlog do really need to be attended to at some point. So many minis, so little time.

[@terrencemiltner1005]

That homemade stir stick is awesome.

[@Ironwthin]

If you keep wobbling these casts like that I will get crazy man its so funny

[@Theklacks]

Harbour Freight has a pressure pot that you can use for casting with some very minor changes. Works good for around 80$

[@Riddler_von]

I love you taught us about uv resin and oumuo or whatever for easy molds. I stick part of a barrel or crate and use them as stuff sticking out of my bases. Push a couple Ork faces into a mold and you have bodies to climb over. Expand my Scarabs swarms as well. Thanks

[@caiohcoutinho]

Whould love to see how all of those bases look when painted ❤

[@lifedragon99]

Paper towel, or sponge, or cotton and super glue are how some people glue rocks together for terrariums and aquarium hard scapes. So it should last a long time.

[@wedgetailleather]

4:43 well, more likely live heads sticking out from the ground with bags of chemicals flowing into the buried body to keep the subject alive while insects eat their faces… that’s more likely than skulls on dark eldar worlds. But skulls also work. 😂

[@rexfrancorum7173]

You can use Lego to build the frame for the molds. No glue necessary!

[@alexwilson1411]

@EonsofBattle have you ever considered making a series of just basic basing/painting tips and techniques? It would be a big help for new/returning/ or even hobbiest looking for alternate ideas on how to do things. I think your video layout and channel would be perfect for it.

[@utahguildstudios]

Those bases turned out amazing!

[@leventhumps3861]

I love how they came out

[@TacDonut]

Awesome! I gotta start getting a base design together for my imperial fists army

[@gabrielegranocchia]

dark eldar is probably the next edition big box, it's the only faction that would benefit from a big rerelease, like Necrons and Tyrs before.

[@Brotherarmz32]

Just getting started in minis and 40k. Your videos have been helping me get started and full of great cheat codes. Keep up the good work homie!

[@mordecaitoth6703]

Great work! Thanks for sharing!

[@richardfox4803]

You can extend the working time of the silicone by putting in the fridge overnight. It would probably extend the shelf life as well. For 3d printing, the PLA filament is probably the closest in type to the GW bases, rather than resin.

[@knightsljx]

you can literally print HIPS, the same stuff miniatures are made off, though the bases might be ABS. But PLA is faaaaaarrrrrrr from the actual bases and not recommended. They soften easily with heat and become brittle when exposed to air

[@daili4917]

I've been watching Trent over at Miscast, in comparison Jay feels quite different - in a good way! It's the difference between careful planning versus "fuck it, we ball!", I love both you guys and it looks like you got great results 👍

[@DanielKrongaard]

Anyone know where you can get the thin superglue being used? Great video as always Jay.

[@draxib9715]

he dilutes with water i think he said in earlier episodes edit: ah he might have bought the starbond brand of super glue

[@edoardoluppi6455]

@@draxib9715 water usually activates superglue, so I doubt it might be that lol

[@Rakatan384]

Then there's me basing my Death Guard like "Mud is mud, 👌"

[@Iamda613]

I still can’t believe he doesn’t have millions of followers he really deserves it

[@RaVirrTheTrader]

Jay. JAY! ...this was cool :3

[@TheCrunch4000]

The real question we need answering; how do you manage paint on your brush if youre trying wetblending and must switch colors quick; use multiple brushes? Single brush? How to wash a brush?

[@DKnight768]

Looks awesome. How safe is it to manipulate? Like, does the process release fumes or is it toxic to touch it?

[@Cerderius]

I'm surprised that jay being the Dollar Store wizard isn't using a rubber spatula to get every little bit of silicon from the cup.

[@ArnovonDargen]

I genuinely tweak when jay makes a dark eldar video as a salamander dude 🥴

[@Xatxitor]

16$ of silicon mold and maybe as much of epoxy pour. Awsome result

[@anthonywaggett9317]

I am still using silicon moulds from over 10 years ago.

[@totalCoolerUsername]

I think Jay refers to the literal box contents shelf live, not finished moulds

[@kikolokopo_toys]

JAY! If you leave your silicone molds without anythingninside them, they will shrink overtime

[@jamescameron-clarke2560]

Neat! Speaking of bases - is there a current Cobalt Keep code?

[@runswithscissorsranch]

Legos work good for making your mold

[@evanfish4505]

Crimson fists jay! Embrace the best imperial fists successor chapter!

[@jeffpetersen6284]

I could assemble and paint the orks sitting in my box, OR I could go buy a bunch of new materials and make a few dozen bases with no minis to put on them.

[@pabloalonsolasagabaster658]

nice bases bro

[@ChaseDaOrk3767]

I sure could use some more bases

[@markallen3088]

pixelate that mold!

[@noregrets3925]

Recasted skulls nice knowing you jay gw is gonna send their vindicare lawyer

[@o7_AP]

I was waiting for him to say he won that eBay auction against Scott XD

[@johnhuntsman4525]

Bro is flapping that mold around like nobody biz lol

[@Mirioman]

Waiting on a howling griffons paint job

[@celeryman14]

Any cheap recommendations on where to get those slate rocks?

[@mrrselfdestruction1077]

1:40 do not watch this part out of the corner of your eye... I was like "wtf is he shaking".

[@namelessband4L123]

Ima need all 20 leigons jay 😂

[@bingorobins1010]

I need to do some custom 1k sons bases, can't find any decent videos for some lol

[@natebeynon3266]

Pls more tau its so underated

[@realfoxhours3846]

There is a court of the archon though? It’s a kill team

[@raincoast_bear]

Wait - Eldar are on 32mm bases now?

[@marcopritoni7182]

Did you leave the space for the magnet at the bottom?

[@euansmith3699]

With these bases, the bottom is the magnet. Jay is using flat magnetic discs of the fridge magnet style of rubbery magnetic sheet. 👍

[@righter8665]

Always enjoy the videos @eonsofbattle. If your thing is hands-on homemade stuff this is awesome. But like many “make it for less” type videos after you factor everything in, it’s just as expensive if not cheaper to purchase these things. Special tools (or making them as Jay did), materials, time spent, and the inevitable mistakes and imo I’m better off buying resin bases from my LGS. I love creating and part of the hobby is just that but after years I realized kit bashing or building from scratch cost more money and resulted in an inferior result. Jay’s bases look great, no doubt. Keep up the great tutorials

[@Kelsey-w4x]

Nuts. Balls even

[@arsynknox2051]

Day one of asking Jay to paint a pestilent skaven army

[@jamesknox2327]

Is this a re upload? I feel like I've seen this before

[@edmott1138]

This looks like a lot more work than 3d printing. For small numbers I am sure 3d printing is cheaper, so why do this vs 3d printing?

[@grinzler702]

Legos makes a better mold box

[@obsidjan2100]

He was kinda lucky that the density of water and silicone isnt that big of a difference, otherwise the weighing part wouldnt have worked at all.

[@ninjated6533]

paint knights

[@Kitbash.Carnage]

❤️👍🔥

[@schmitzvi]

Why not just 3d print?

[@henrytrimble4929]

1:40 please stop swinging that thing around in my face😭

[@Haruki2009]

Day 115 of asking Jay to paint a skitarii

[@footrot17]

Dunno why you’d lie. We can see your previous comments

[@totalCoolerUsername]

How old are u? 12?

[@wheel-worried5003]

Still got a point though

[@Haruki2009]

@@footrot17 but I commented on his previous video :(

[@francismcpeake77]

@@footrot17to be fair it says he has over 100 comments on this channel and I have seen him before

[@FilliaPhine]

Hallo

[@henrikhasell4470]

Great video Jay you did a fantastic job as always. One comment - using a drill to stir your silicone was a bad idea. As you already mentioned yourself it introduced a lot of bubbles. Your pour technique mitigated some of the issue but in future gently fold the mix instead of vigorously whisking. I know this because I bake cheesecakes - the same rule applies if you don't want air bubbles in your cake.

[@targetacquiredofficial7905]

11th here im finally early (hello from australia and from the admech)

[@ericexaybachay]

Is Jay sitting down behind that table? Or is he really standing? 🤔

[@euansmith3699]

I like to imagine that Jay is like an Ad-Mech Magos, with lots of mechanical legs.

[@ericexaybachay]

​@@euansmith3699A short-stack Techpriest

[@ericexaybachay]

​@@euansmith3699A short-stack Techpriest

[@halkeye20]

Thats not cardboard. That's single wall corrugated board

[@lazzyman1495]

Please paint any admech model

[@tristanmojica6666]

Day 1 of asking my glorious king Jay to paint more death guard or his hive fleet 🙏

[@dinosbricks6015]

Another army 😮

[@mikeg9516]

Le epic

[@markbradfield7916]

*** Message from James Worksop **** We know where you live Jay!! You owe us 3cent in royalties and we expect to be paid.

[@Lizardwizard2112]

You might be able to save even more resin honestly, silicon has an atomic weight larger than water so I wouldn’t be measuring out your resin based on weight but more so on volume.

[@thairel5571]

hey jay , love the vid , do you have by any chance the names of the products you make , were i live we dont have many stores that sell these products , and i want to be sure i have the correct one or i can order the corect ones , keep on going man , love al the vid ive seen

[@JarJarThinks]

Day 3 of asking for crimson fists.

[@wickbom86]

This is actually strange. Crimson fists seems like a nobrainer when it comes to the space marine series

[@JarJarThinks]

Hmmmm strange…….

[@e_m_met]

Reinforcements! Excellent work Brother.

[@JarJarThinks]

@@e_m_met The crimson fist shall not be ignored brother!

[@moseley_waz_here8301]

Peak Content

[@adrianrivadeneira4418]

Lol

[@e_m_met]

Crimson Fists Next, please. (Sorry for my late post, I forgot about Daylight Saving)

[@euansmith3699]

🤭🤭🤭

[@evanfish4505]

Indeed Brother!

[@modelmanjohn]

Quit waggin your silicon in front of us.

[@Ashi8No8Yubi]

Didn't you JUST have a sponsor for bases...?

[@5Btjes]

For bether silicone casting tips watch Rober Tallon videos

[@MRARSON-v6t]

Day 199999999999999999999999999 of asking jay to paint a warlord titan with only the smallest brush

[@totalCoolerUsername]

😂😂😂

[@sjmarham]

Lego is good for walls,.

[@smileydog5941]

Can you do al challenge where you try to paint little green army men and little plastic cowboys and indians?

[@Marcoyolo571]

Wait, isn’t this a reupload?

[@blake-peace]

nito

[@graveyardgxblin]

Wow, I never thought that I'd hate a base with no rim with as much passion as a currently do. It's awful. Stop.

[@Xpert4Life]

isn’t this a very old video?

[@MyDddavid]

No

[@Kotosanji]

Looks like revisiting the moulding because he wasn't as successful last time

[@chaosof99]

@@Kotosanji Not unsuccessful, just needs different sizes for different models.

[@thesoothsayer9223]

Sacrificial taco bell cup

[@Haruki2009]

Day 116 of asking Jay to paint a skitarii