How to make a lava terrain game board for D&D, Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40k

[@Zadjan]

The D&D group I play with is currenting running Descent into Avernus, as head crafter I appreciate having resources like yours to help create!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

That is awesome... Although my group weren't running through DiA they did get caught up in Elturel for a short while and plan to return to help the cause. This set was built for that stretch of their game and it was frustrating that by the time they got to it we were deep in lockdown so it was used over a live camera feed... as yet they haven't returned there to play on the physical terrain! I reckon that they will be on it by the summer of this year though ! Glad that you enjoyed it :)

[@Is_This_Really_Necessary]

Definitely the best lava effects I've seen thus far.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Well thank you very much... some of it is being re-purposed into a new project but I am really desperate to get back to this particular build and add to it... the time is very nigh 😂

[@ElegantWaste3522]

Thanks so much for this! really helped me in painting a lava pool in a D&D map iId 3d printed!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Wow awesome... I haven't yet dived into the 3d printing arena, I am sure it will happen one day! Good Luck

[@JoesphEKerr]

I always learn something from your videos - thank you

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Oh my goodness... thank you, that is so kind to say. I am glad that you enjoy them :)

[@gardoniangardonian844]

Easily the best lava terrain I have ever seen. What a truly talented and creative artist.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Wow thank you 😀... it has been so well received by everyone that I have several plans on expanding it 😊

[@bobterwilliger007]

I was going to comment this same thing... So few tutorials on an actual whole lava board

[@mordor-focker]

The colours on those "cliffs" that border the lava are absolutely unreal. I need to make this and soon. Thanks for your time and thanks for sharing Sean.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Not a problem... I loved doing this build and I know of a few others who have done their version of it too! I still have had little opportunity to play on it sadly but I really am looking forward to adding more and more to it!

[@mordor-focker]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles I made something similar with lava on a much smaller scale recently but I used painted egg shell for the partly solidified bits on the surface of the lava. You have to lift a few pieces away with tweezers when you press it down into the pva but it gives some really nice natural shapes with some gnarly cracks in between.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Oh wow thats a really cool idea, I may give that a try on the next batch of terrain for this table... thanks :D

[@Atmoseeker]

These came out great! I'm a big fan of using EVA foam for terrain, so it's fantastic to see some new techniques

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Brilliant :D... I have since piled up a bunch of ideas to expand on this set, I hope that you caught the first follow up... cheers!

[@CarbonKnights]

Incredible looking table! I don't know what else to say, but I subscribed!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Thank you 🙂

[@Zeros_Hobbies]

The thematic feel of this table is so impressive, great work.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Ah cheers Zero... very much appreciated... and it was good to chat 👍

[@Alduric]

Fascinating stuff, love the way you do things, especially calm and strong voice as well

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Hah hah... glad that you enjoyed it, the missus would agree with you 😂

[@stevef6523]

This is seriously impressive. Each step I was thinking "that's not going to work, surely?" and you totally pulled it all together brilliantly. Although that cracked surface lava effect looks horrifically tedious, it also looks so much better than I thought it was going to. Well done!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Hey Steve … your comment here totally slipped through the net so my apologies 🙂… there were a couple of times there I thought the same thing but it definitely turned out and I have applied similar principles in more recent builds to great effect too. I Still have plans for additional sections to this set though 😀. Cheers

[@JakePrytherch]

I LOVE ALL OF YOUR ACTIVITY

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Aaah cheers jake 😁

[@adamdahlberg4403]

This is the exact video I was looking for! thank you.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Awesome... I am glad that you found it helpful, I am so looking forward to getting back to this build and doing some more stuff with it!

[@glennguimond1323]

I’m glad KZbin recommended your video. This is great. I’ve subscribed and can’t wait to check out some more videos!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Ahh, cheers Glenn... I am glad that you enjoyed it and that KZbin is finally recommending me 😂! Let me know your thoughts on the others that you watch 👍

[@CampaignTerrain]

Another great one! I'm always amazed, as I've used EVA for decades, yet every time I see your stuff, I'm blown away. I truly appreciate all the new (at least to me) methods you've been sharing

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Wow... thank you I am blown away by that! 😁

[@RetroChallenge]

Man the blue dry brush is so nice !

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Thank you so much... I really do want to get an update out on this set!

[@Terrainosaur]

Knarb sent me - three months ago. This is fantastic! Both in the sense of excellent craftsmanship, and a real sense of 'fantasy' as a genre. Well done.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Wow... thanks! It won't be too long now before I release the update to this, glad to have you along... and thanks Knarb!

[@KnarbMakes]

This is a fantastic work of art Sean! Thanks for sharing, so many great techniques to learn from here. Those cliffs turned out spectacular.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Oh cheers Knarb .... I am seriously chuffed with it, there is more yet to come 😉🤣

[@BeardClipper]

This looks great! A really awesome result, and some cool techniques that you've really demonstrated very well and very clearly. Brilliant stuff!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Ah cheers mate... i am blown away by how well received this one has been 😁

[@adriannaranjo4397]

This is absolutely stunning, the end result was so lifelike I'd really be interested in a beach/ocean set of tiles. The yin to this ones yang

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Thank you, I have it on the agenda to follow up this with several other terrain types and certainly an ocean set is in the plan 😁

[@NuggetsDungeonTerrain]

Fantastic thanks Sean. It's great to see a true artist do terrain!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Wow thanks... that’s some high praise 🙏

[@marylynn9297]

Wow, this is so good can’t wait to see what you make next 😃

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

I can’t wait to get them finished and on the table... almost there 😁

[@OverboardDM]

Very cool. I'll be doing a lava Terrain video soon. But it won't fill a full size table like yours. Very nice my man.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Ah cheers mate... I look forward to seeing where you go with your build 👍

[@m3verse]

Another GREAT build Sean! Nice breakdown of the techniques, and the finished product...WOW! I'd play on that all day. You've got a whole table there, I can't wait to see the expansion set.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Hah hah... indeed I am looking forward to you guys being able to see what’s next, very excited!

[@sebastianobrischetto866]

Good evening Professor. Unique and spectacular work! A hug from Italy ❤️💪🏻

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Heh heh... lovely and thank you very much!

[@thisfool89]

And this just went into my favorite list. I will be using this on my first battle matt build. I won't be doing the cliffs but like a partially molten lava flow.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Awesome 👍. If you pva layers of cling film together it will form a pretty rugged matt that you can also roll up 😁

[@uniquewargamingterrain9125]

Great idea im going to build a bridge over lava soon and this video helped give me some ideas thanks buddy

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

I am working on exactly that too 😛... won’t be out yet for a while though. Good look with the build 👍

[@uniquewargamingterrain9125]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles thanks buddy

[@uniquewargamingterrain9125]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles I will check out some more of ur stuff later on my 1st thoughts are very well done

[@andresbaruchvazquez8173]

Woow awesome! Thanks for the great idea!!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Pleasure... my apologies that I missed your comment! Hope you got chance to do something similar

[@AngriArtists]

Fantastic work. I may steal all your ideas. Just a mention on the plastic wrap, I will try it for sure but also I have had a similar look from news papwer. Might be easier to eork with I dont know. Once again love your work.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Hey thanks... I only just found your comment tucked away here 😂... but yeah newspaper is great but you may find that it wont give the same texture as the clingfilm. Anyways you may well have done your version by now so I hope it worked out :)

[@beningham9782]

A tip for finding XPS - Pharmacies get some of their cooled medicines in boxes of XPS foam in the UK, worth asking if you can nick some

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Huh… well I didn’t know that! Thanks for the tip 😁

[@ImaginationHobbies]

Quite amazing! Do a water board next with islands!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Hah hah... for sure, I am falling over the number of ways I want to take this and I hadn’t even thought of that one 😀 cheers

[@ImaginationHobbies]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles no prob! It would be really cool! And probably quicker than the lava build. Epic stuff! Good job!

[@ImaginationHobbies]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles on the flat "board edge" sides always make them drop off into lava as a shear drop. It will give you more modular options. Hope this helps for the future.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

@@ImaginationHobbies hey yeah thanks... I have been giving some thought to that so I may attempt an adaptation at some point to do that 👍

[@robertcoble1445]

Wow great work mate

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Thank you very much 👍

[@SpencerIngraham]

Go around and finish the edges to make ‘em stackable.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Heh, these are actually going through a major overhaul at the moment hopefully giving them a new lease of life... and some shiny hot new additions :P

[@pezpengy9308]

i just discovered your videos and im really enjoying your explanations and your technique! for those of us more classically trained nerds this is a real treat! as a sort-of artist myself i like your attention to the process and physicality of the creation and not just the final result. bravo! also, i live in and grew up in hawaii where as a child i played in the lava fields (we used to dip pennies into the flow with water pump pliers then rapidly polish the basalt and sell them to tourists for $10 a pop... good times! until the national park service caught on....) when you speak of the glow of the magma you have NO idea... im going to do mine as a resin sheet so i can light it from below. well done on the cooling bits of crust but they do tend to circle around eddies in the flow. at least ours does.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Oh man thats amazing... witnessing a genuine lava flow is right at the top of my list of things to do before i pop off!... funnily enough I have been looking at expansion to this set that will utilise underlighting... totally let me know how you get on :) and thank you so much for what you said there, it really has made my day, glad that you found me.

[@nazteeb]

This is absolutely stunning! I already use eva but only as flat maps and hadn’t thought of the multi height! Also I was just planning on creating something like this but nowhere near as detailed as this. Very inspirational.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Thank you Paul… the follow up episode to this is due out soon and it gets crazy 😜

[@TheGrungy1]

I love the paint application. Lucky I can get eps pretty easy. But the paint is a useful idea.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Brilliant... let me know how you get on!

[@TheGrungy1]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles will do.

[@28mmRPG]

that's pretty damn crazy and cool...

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Why thank you... looking forward to updating it with some pretty crazy themed scatter 😂

[@28mmRPG]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles I'm not a warhammer or epic land-battle type of gamer. I pretty much use my mini's for Sci-fi roleplaying games (Traveller mostly) So my setups are usually small... I do like watching this kind of stuff and the innovative ways you guys use materials. Can't wait to see more.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

I have boxes of stuff getting ready for some sci-fi terrain later this year. Just need to get my hands on some games to justify it first, I have plans 😁

[@BarbarianBristle]

Outstanding! Thanks for the inspiration

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

I am very glad that you enjoyed it Nate 😀and very glad to have you along for the ride!

[@rorgier10]

Hey, I've looked everywhere to find the right kind of lava terrain on youtube and could never find it untill this one. Love the way it is modular and looks amazing. I did manage to get my hands on XPS foam and would love to know the measurements of each piece since I do not really know what I want to go for yet, but your dimensions look really great for a varied table everytime.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Well I am glad that it’s the perfect fit for your needs 😀. I worked it out that if I did 15 10”x20” tiles in total I could lay out a 5 tile by 3 tile set up giving me 50-60” play area. I have plans for some additional tiles to suit other purposes but they have worked out extremely versatile at this dimension for sure… Don’t forget to also check the scatter terrain follow up episode for some crazy shenanigans to stick on these tiles 😂. Hope that works out for you 👍

[@rorgier10]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles I have seen the other scatter terrain videos aswell and can't wait to see more! Also started with the project now and in full swing, just hit a small roadblock at the moment. Just used the plaster filler to make the textured rocks with some actual small rocks in there, it is looking fabulous, but the rocks are not that well sticking to the boards. with minimal use some of them come loose very easily. Do you have some recommendations for fixing this? I think PVA might work, but for me that is only aivalable in small bottles and the cost for them goed up quite high very quickly if I need to also seal my rocks and plaster. Wish I could send some progress pictures, but youtube isn't build for that.

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

@@rorgier10 great to hear that you’re getting it done! Another often overlooked method of adhesive on a broad area (if you can’t get pva in quantity which would be my first choice) is cheap hairspray… you have to be pretty generous with it, allow it dry and possibly apply subsequent layers. It dries pretty quick, I recommend do it outside and with the cheapest hairspray you can find! The plaster itself should only require water to make a paste with. Another option is acrylic caulk which you can thin just a little with water, or use neat… you often find these tubes in bargain stores that have a little diy section!… you can also pm some progress shots on discord if you use that abscnth#0766 👍

[@DarkMatterWorkshop]

Awesooooome !

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Heh heh.... well thank you 👍

[@primafacie5029]

Why are you at only 300 subs? Great stuff... A bit more of banter while working wouldn't hurt tho

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Hey man thanks... I am working on those subs 😂

[@barrycarter9289]

Hello Sean I am involved with the 2022 Games ,RPG, Cosplay, Convention at Bournemouth International Centre., on the Weekend of 12th and 13th February..... I know it is short notice now , but it would be wonderful if you were able to bring a set up to the show .. There are competitions for 40K Sigmar etc and I am sure your work would be a highlight of , what is becoming one of the premier shows in the country I would personally like to meet you and thank you for the inspiration I have found in your work Cheers

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Wow… okay that sounds pretty amazing! I have been considering what the deal is exactly by attending a con with a set-up maybe you could pm me with some kind of idea? In principle I would love to but I will have to check my calendar first… thanks Barry!

[@barrycarter9289]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles Hi Sean... Let me speak to the organisers and get back to you.... I am sure they would be delighted to see you at the show...... One other thing I tried to email you , but I got an " undeliverable" message

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

@@barrycarter9289 hmmm… my email address is [e-mail]

[@barrycarter9289]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles Sean I think it's a problem at my end but I sent an email to the beachhead organisers... Hopefully they will get back to you

[@alexanderkahle2384]

Super ❤

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

@@alexanderkahle2384 thank you very much 👍

[@MacucaLaBella]

A. W. E. S. O. M. E. 😲

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Thank you very much 👍

[@xPiggsyx]

Amazing ! I was thinking about doing something similar. How is the warping on the Modules ?

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Heya... little to no warping at all but if you are using EVA you must remember to heat seal it before applying any coatings, it will go flexible when you do this and then harden considerably. I also glued in EVA cross pieces on the underside to reduce flex across the flats. Good luck 😁... and don’t forget to come show me what you did 👍

[@martinspinosa6035]

sorprendente tecnica

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Thank you :)

[@SpencerIngraham]

Dude, it’s like watching the Native Americans use up every part of the buffalo 🤔 Good work!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Cheers mate 👍

[@biglord02]

nice

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

Thank you very much!

[@JerryChavez-p3o]

PVA glue dries under plastic wrap???!!!

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

indeed it does 😜... but keep it thin with little or no water!

[@2112-e1s]

why did it take youtube 2 years to show me this?

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

hah hah... probably because I don't work well with the proverbial algorithm 😂... but I am glad that it eventually did !

[@2112-e1s]

@@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles I hope more people get to see this. Really impressive work

[@Terrain_Craft_Chronicles]

@@2112-e1s cheers mate... I will be returning to this set as I have big plans for it especially now that AoS and 40k etc are back on the table for me :P