D&D Modular Wall Mounted Torches, Gibbets and Banners!

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

The banner PDF that's free to everyone is uploaded to the channel Patreon now: www.patreon.com/RPArchive Hopefully you guys get some use out of them :)

[@Mad_Matt_27]

why haven't these videos gotten more views, your work and presentation is on par if not better than most of the guild masters of the table top crafters guild.

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Wow man, hell of a compliment! Feel free to spread the word ;)

[@inspirationforge4578]

love the flame technique

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

It's a cool little trick, I'm thinking of experimenting with more roughly moulding it in future to make it more flicker-y...

[@yazzperiano3257]

Dude... You complied all diy tabletop stuff in a common modular system!!! Best craft from the last 3 years!

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Thank you man, it's taken a fair amount of thought to do so that's nice to hear!

[@OblivionPiano]

Those torches are adorable, I love how you make them.

[@Forinsyther25]

Love how modular this is, can't wait to see more from this channel! :D

[@BellydancerMaliha]

I really enjoyed this video. The gibbets especially are great, and I like the modular nature of these items. Thank you!

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Thanks! Modular is usually the goal with my projects :)

[@cavemanworkshop]

These are great projects for detailing terrain! If you have any WHFB Army books from the “Old-Hammer” days, you could use copies of the banners within them for different themed builds! I think I’ll be blowing some dust off of a few of my old shelved Warhammer books to try this... 😁

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Good idea... Now to find where the hell I put them...

[@andrzejfigaj2229]

Your modular system is wonderfull, simple yet thoughtfully designed with astonishing extendibility. Additionally the banner concept is so inspiring: different shapes, extra long for towers, burned/thorn, it may may be even used as arras/gobelins (hanging carpets). Btw simple way to model waves on banner/flag instead of tin foil is to soak it in PVA. However it is more suitable for hand-painted banners since it may blur prints, but is is great for thorn one made from wet kitchen tower.

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Thanks! There's actually a few extra banners mentioned/shown in the LED fire pit video. They're also all available for download on my patreon (including future ones I release) - if you wanted to use them :)

[@MarushiaDark316]

An idea I had for this build - instead of gluing the bottom of the torch in place, you could make a small ring or cup-shaped holder at the bottom to keep it in place and make the torches removeable. If you keep some torches with just the wrapped paper towel, you can have removable flameless torches as well for certain context-dependent scenarios. :)

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

You Could indeed do that, but make the ring tight, from experience that design would be fiddly/easy to knock out of place :)

[@leiflohne3096]

I love this playlist but I have to say I LOATHE the american measuring system 🤣 I make my squares 8cm x 8cm and my painting is shait, yet.... It is fun stuff ❤️ Thank you, RP Archive

[@michaelshort1411]

I recently went back and changed how I make my banners. Rather than making my banners the 3 1/2 by 1 inch like I did, I only did about 1/2 or 3/4 inch on the back half of the banner from the center square to fold over and glue to the front. I only did this for the banners that will hang from the battlements or over the door of the gates to the castle since your never gonna see the backside of the banner anyways. Thus allowing me more space on my paper to include almost twice as many banners to design and print. Which this way it also saved me on printer ink in the long run and have plenty of space to make more banners. And I only print the double sided banners if they are going to be carried like a war banner. I also used an old artist trick from my youth if only printing these as battlement banners rather than using tin foil which works great. Instead if im making the single side printed banners. before gluing it to the hanging post spray it with hair spray like Aqua Net or some other hair spray brand as long as its the permanent bond and while its wet bend it into your wavy flag as the hair spray dries it will hold the shape of the banner that way once it all sets up itll create the wavy look. You can also use a couple of dowels spaced apart and drape your banner over them and use spray or brush on mod podge to coat the banner paper and then let the banner sag to its own weight from the mod podge to curve over the dowels letting gravity do the work for you, but it takes a while for it to do that. But it takes time and is slower than using the tin foil sandwiched between the halves of the paper method as RP Archive suggests. Ive had some good results using the hair spray method.

[@thomasmanley9118]

I love all your videos dude! Keep being Awesome!

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Thank you sir!

[@draklithsDen]

Nice job sir...and your editing skills are great!!

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Haha! Well they've much improved since this one 😅

[@michaelwallace3858]

I like the aluminium foil trick. Gotta try it!

[@chrisdehaan2181]

Thanks for the videos, you have a bunch of great ideas. By the way, I am currently watching your videos from Sun Peaks. It is very quiet here!

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Thanks! Had to look up 'sun peaks', looks gorgeous, I'm a bit jealous haha

[@chrisdehaan2181]

RP Archive I thought you had been up here seeing you wear the T-shirt on most of the videos....

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

@@chrisdehaan2181 Ah, of course! No I'm not so lucky (yet), I just picked up the t shirt locally, I'd love to go somewhere like that!

[@mathiasschultz7745]

awesome series! so much to try!

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Thanks Mathias! Hope you enjoy :)

[@RaiderAvian]

Some towns, villages and fortresses you hang other symbols on their walls like shields or flat carved symbols of their deities (which can be made with clay or thin pieces of foam for raised details.) Others may hang warning posters that could just be stuck into the walls. I imagine extending the top side to become a tab to insert into the walls or add a small flat tab to paste different posters on, Lastly, one can add vine panels if you want to give players an option to scale a wall by climbing on the vines. you can use a plastic sheet (thin but sturdy), spray with a mat sealant to get rid of the gloss, then one of two methods. You can glue brown strings (prepainted to avoid a mess) on the sheet, then cover with patches of flocking for leaves, or another method is to cover the surface with leafy cut-outs (sort of like confetti or the leaf flocking. some spices may look like tiny leaves though might deteriorate over time unless painted and sealed). The transparent film helps as a base for the leaves while you can strategically hide the mounting tabs for walls. It could be covering a whole wall if you have enough, or be a coming down one spot for convenient climbing expeditions. Just a thought, I love these videos and hope the channel gets to keep growing. Keep up the great work, they are wonderful.

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

The vines technique isn't too dissimilar from something I considered for the future :)

[@echodelta2426]

Very cool. This is a tutorial I was waiting for since I saw these accessories in your earlier vids. Love the trick to glue tinfoil inside the banner to give it the flowing look. What are those minis your display?

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Thanks :) That depends on which minis you mean? The bugbears, dragonborn, wolves, bear and halfling are wizkids, the barbarians are frostgrave, the dwarf is atlantis miniatures, the farm animals are warlord games, and the tiefling is a conversion I did years back from a GW high elf mage, I sliced the top of his head off and replaced it with horns from a GW Beastman Gor mini.. And there's probably still one I forgot to mention!

[@echodelta2426]

@@RPArchiveOfficial Thanks.

[@michaelshort1411]

I had to make my banners 3 and half inches long by 1 inch to make them fit on a sheet of 8 and half by 11 inch sheet of paper in my printer and I used Adobe Illustrator to create them. Unlike his at 5 and half inches long by 1 and half inches wide. Most flags or banners wouldnt have been that long for real. They seem to big in proportion to everything else. By doing them at 1 inch by 3 and half inches I'm also able to get 2 rows, 2 each kind of banner of 18 banners on one sheet or regular size paper. But aside from that great work I love all your ideas

For goblets try pellets for an air pistol. Just put them head down.

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Interesting, I'll have to look into it. I would have thought they'd be too big though?

[@bigopeefish9800]

Don't you wish the measurements were in millimeters? So much easier!

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Honestly? Not really. Metric measurements don't divide up very well (it starts becoming 2.5 mm quickly), where imperial measurements work for division really well I find. Plus almost all rpg/wargames use imperial as a scale/base :)

[@jacobhope6164]

🤘💀🤘

[@ronkrueger-capt_koron6112]

When I watched you make the torches, you had me very confused when you said kitchen roll. I had to look it up. We don't have what you call kitchen roll under that name here in the US. When I looked it up, it's the same as what we call paper towels. Having seen the description that they were the same, I understand what you were trying to say. I figured this would help you when you do your videos to let us poor Americans understand what you were talking about.

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Haha! 😅 Fair enough, some of the differences in language are easy to forget :)

[@ahenchman8656]

And here I was thinking he used twist ties. Thank you, Ron, for clearing that up.

[@anthonyclark1504]

I think u crafting is great. Your camera doesnt allow me to see the details because it's not zoomed in enough to see what ur actually doing. Thanks if can improve the zoom

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Thanks for the feedback! I've got a closer shot on some of my newer videos, usually where the piece is quite small. The main problem is I can't justify spending a lot of money on a new camera until I get more support for the channel on Patreon, so I'm still recording with my phone. Which unfortunately, has no zoom that doesn't lower the quality (digital zoom)...

[@smilinrat]

So you're just wedging the sticks on the back between the gaps in the blocks? It's not entirely clear from the video because you don't actually show it. I thought maybe you were jabbing them into the foam.

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

The holes are pushed into the foam using a sharp cocktail stick, then the accessories have a cocktail stick trimmed to the same length with tip rounded off, and pushed in. The expanding nature of the foam means it holds the stick securely but not so securely you can't remove it :) All of this is at a 45 degree angle so that even if the slot does become loose, the shape of the peg will hold it in place. Though looseness can generally be filled up again with a little mod podge!