Making a Wizard Tower For The Best Game Ever (it's Mordheim)

I made a wizard's tower terrain/diorama piece that I'll be using for Mordheim and as a display board for my Nurgle Diaries army. I used a whole bunch of new techniques in this build, a lot of sculpting, a lot of moulding and casting and I got to try some scale modeling techniques too.
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[@Miscast]

please subscribe because I have an icecream cake in the freezer for when I hit 100k and I really want icecream cake. thanks.

[@ScratchBashing]

send a slice plz

[@brightdarkness420]

I cant double subscribe :(

[@TJtheBee]

I would subscribe again if I could. We gotta get you that cake!

[@drakedragonking4698]

I would if I could but sadly you can only subscribe once

[@FaultyTrack]

@IceCreamGaming lol

[@ScratchBashing]

"Stones are heavy" -Miscast 2021

[@Miscast]

lol

[@masonbarber871]

They are though. It's something easily overlooked that can come back to bite you.

[@100acatfishandwillbreakyou2]

"Feathers are lighter than steel..."

[@skazdal]

My dream centerpiece: ruined cathedral. A nearly whole table ruin, gigantic and modular.

[@Khether0001]

I saw your comment and remembered this video I saw, search on KZbin for the following: "Great for 40K - Rampart: Modular Terrain for Wargaming" I hope you like it! =)

[@indiminiatures8079]

A giant living mushroom, with arms and legs, that a couple of gnomes have made their home. They've just cone to mordheim to observe the chaos, while riding their mushroom boi.

[@benstephenson9251]

That is so sick

[@p11_studios]

Would it stand up right or on all fours? Or actually, does it have four legs? Do the hands/feet look animal or like vegetation? Trying to get a good idea of what this looks like in my head 😂

[@indiminiatures8079]

@@p11_studios it would have super gangly arms and legs that would be way to long for the body. They would be some what humanoid in shape, but super emaciated. The gnomes are just there to vide and watch the show, maybe crack open a few meads

[@indiminiatures8079]

@@p11_studios It would also be bipedal

[@nullstudios2989]

@@indiminiatures8079 MAKE IT

[@MrPug-dt4sd]

Make a giant chunk of warpstone in a big trail of debris on the ground like a shard from the big comet, and have some skaven mining stuff i.e. scaffolding, drills, dead, skaven, really big rats, etc.

[@figrollin]

This is great. Love this idea.

[@pixelcutterofficial]

Just an idea, a potion waste pipe would be awesome. Tons of bright colours being spilled out into the dark surrounds would look brilliant... I think

[@Miscast]

That's a really cool idea. I lhave lots of rainbow pigments I could use

[@jherazob]

You want fluorescent paints for this, just undercoat any surface with light colors or even white beforehand

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

10/10 would eat that wizard and take his house. my man - Looks amazing

[@datboi6358]

I think town hall that is living would be awsome, like a kinda mouth door and arms sticking out the windows vibe

[@Miscast]

ooooo nice idea

[@antoinerossignol9355]

You mean Castle Grayskull?

[@st4lsell123]

Upon reading this, the movie "Monster House" came to my head. Go look it up, but dont watch it. Its pretty bad.

[@sasha-noelleord6780]

I'd love the see something big and ruined by meteor impacts, maybe with an exposed basement with some tells of a skaven infestation

[@Miscast]

Oh that's an awesome idea

[@thatguy8637]

Skaven infestation? The hell are you talking about. There are no such things as skaven!

[@noisemarines3902]

@@thatguy8637 Its just old wives tales and drunken baboonari. Nothing to see here.

[@eyefivefive]

Miscast: "The trees are nearly older than me: Me: "Oh boy those sound pretty old" Trees: 1996 Me: "God damn kids get off my lawn!"

[@SparkSovereign]

I heard "it's Mordheim" and I'm already super excited. Can't wait to see more!

[@Miscast]

Cheers!

[@SparkSovereign]

@@Miscast I'm rewatching to burn the ideas into my brain, and your excitement is infectious. You might have gotten my local group to pick up Mordheim again!

[@wildtangent6890]

The colours make it look like an old-style Terry Pratchett book cover

[@noxiousbones]

Something about how messy, genuine, carefree and relaxed your process is makes it super enjoyable to watch. Also makes my a bit jealous that I don’t have a workshop to let my creativity run wild.

[@jackwinstone2945]

I heard nurgle diaries and got instantly excited, anything like that related to miscast is honestly the best 😁

[@Miscast]

Thank you!! :D

[@pitophyllis]

This is true

[@danielcrum2551]

Nature: makes rock Sculpter: amazing I’ll take ten

[@EricsHobbyWorkshop]

That was brilliant! The colours really add something special. I am getting that Mordheim itch again from this!!

[@Miscast]

Yeah, lets to a mordheim thing eric!

[@torymiddlebrooks]

Please do! I would love to see you build the Stout and Pitcher, a (in)famous Mordheim tavern run by Busty Gwen.

[@Neknoh]

A great backdrop and centerpiece (if you're still looking for one) could be a piece of the old ring-wall standing on the edge of the town, but seen from the inside and both collapsed in places and lifted/pushed up by the deformed city after the comet hit. So parts could be standing on warpstone-riddled cliffs, torn up from the ground, whilst other parts got ripped apart or fell in on themselves. The wall would also (likely) be much older than even the wizard's tower, and would also include several towers of its own. For inspiration, have a look at the wall of the medieval city of Visby in Sweden, the wall is still standing and there are great photos of it from all kinds of angles.

[@cavemanworkshop]

Beautiful work! And is there a tutorial coming for the “USB-powered Hot wire foam cutter”? Please? 😁

[@propmadelarp]

Yes! What the hell?! I want it!

[@logbreakr]

Ayy, he's back lads!

[@jemmoore1051]

Could try a treeman/ent logging mill to supply magic timber? Seems quaint yet gruesome. A overgrown jetty into an undead swamp? Great video as ever.

[@ScratchBashing]

7:42 *mustard and jelly cliff*

[@NatesMiniatures]

At least the casts not turning out the way you wanted them follows the channel name of Miscast :P

[@MassakerHuhn]

Would love to see the grand library of Mordheim. Maybe broken in half, exposing the Bookshelfs and the forbidden knowledge hidden inside. Maybe some Chaos worshippers left their mark inside? Love your Nurgle Diaries and Mordheim even more! Keep up the good work!

[@sudonahm6940]

Old Halloween decoration skeleton turned into an either abandoned city or passively occupied city so It gives the impression of occupation and rot at the same time. I think it could be a really large centerpiece where the majority of the "skeleton" of the piece is assembled, and each skeletal structure piece has a different scale of occupation.

[@sudonahm6940]

I added some thoughts like a river running through the rib cage and a shipyard has been made around the ribs using them as a scaffolding. the skull has lookout posts in the eye sockets and the pelvis is made into this big bowl shaped village that is reminiscent of the Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings. the ribs have a sort-of transit system that connects the skull to the pelvis.

[@kesteph3]

A modular town center would be awesome. You could have elements of a market place, government buildings, an armory, banks, housing, etc.

[@BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

😳

[@Haunted_Gallows]

You know what you have to do now.

[@andresparedes-vincent2851]

A cool build idea would be the corpse of an enormous giant with a butcher or dismantling community building ramshackle cranes and shacks bolted the ribs. Most of the body would be underwater to keep the scale large and not have to build the whole thing, plus it can be swampy. I like this idea because its a nice combination of organic and man made parts

[@Miscast]

Oh man that is very cool! Thank for the idea!

[@riverdelavidawilliams9624]

A gigantic Dam or Abandoned Quarry with a medieval shanty town built along its walls would be such a cool build for Mordheim. Maybe just have a huge pit in the center of the table with shack lining it’s walls and a river or lake water falling in over one edge

[@mikehirst1605]

That roof-looking-like-a-wizard's-hat has me thinking: a wizard's hat covered in little shingles and with a tiny balcony. When wearing the hat and speaking it's command word you appear as a tiny figure on the hat's balcony. Entering the door leads you to the wizard's tower and the hat just falls on the ground, possibly halfway across the world. Exiting the door on the balcony makes you reappear at the site of the hat. The hat and the roof are always identical in shape and form: if you crumple the hat, the roof crumples. If the twilight sun is shining onto the roof, the hat emits a soft warm glow.

[@mikehirst1605]

@@tiagopesce ohhh that's great. Any other wizard-y hat inside the tower will be subject to mockery and ridicule, possibly assault in the form of flying books or acid vials

[@felixbillington6151]

That looks bloody fantastic. A big rocky mountain with a ruined temple, either derilict or taken over by some nurgle worshipers. I feel like that would be another great piece

[@Gyrokosher]

I like the idea of a colliery, little mine entrance with upturned carts and rubble/slag heaps.

[@Beaut_Beau]

I love Mordheim too, such fun we had back in my teenage years

[@Boylei]

Love this build so much. Great job on 100K! You’re killing it.

[@Link122]

I've always dreamed of making a giant trojan squig that's really intricate. Tower looks fantastic btw, love seeing the unconventional process. Reminds me of my own brain!

[@st4lsell123]

EYYYYYY!!!!! LOOK AT YOUR BOY WITH 100K!!! Been with you since 20k and you deserve every one. Love you man

[@Khether0001]

For the roof shingles, you get a similar effect if you make a strip and don't cut them all the way through, keep the individual shingles of a strip attached to each other near the top edge, you can then overlay them and for the effect you did here you can just shove a few loose shingles in between the strips here and there, it is a bit easier and still looks very interesting.

[@Miscast]

Thanks! Yeah that's what I did for my walking house build and I have template on miscast.co! The Eva foam is especially good for that because it's stretchy you can seperate them by pulling on it gently. The round roof on this project needed a bit more love because of the weird shape it was easier to do single shingles.

[@johnacton4077]

Since I started watching you a few months ago. You've heavily influenced how I view my hobby. You seem to attack projects with no fear. And problems appear to almost excite your creativity. Since I started watching you especially the sculpting videos. I have dove head first into milliput and greenstuff tinkering. And it seems like once a week I'm bravely sculpting a display base or diorama piece. And having a blast learning the material and broadening my horizons. 10 years into this hobby. And I can't thank you enough for being the awesome man you are. No fan boying here lol. You attack your projects and the way you paint and everything from sculpting. Is your style. And it's fucking incredible. Keep it up please!

[@negotiableaffections]

I'm speechless, that is fantastic. How about a large cave system next, with water effects incorporating a 'Dead Marshes area? A river on the Wizard Tower could be flowing into it to connect the two pieces.

[@southaussielad2496]

Got to agree with Mordheim being the best game ever. I got the boxed game back in 2000 and have been hooked ever since. Thank you to everyone that's keeping the spirit of Mordheim alive❤️

[@HerrMatom]

Awesome. The Right thing to Watch after Work! Thank you for that. The Stone and Rocks look really, really cool. Project Idea: A Fallen, Chaos soaked, fortress or a Bastion of some sort

[@frisky8119]

How about a ship.. just a random wrecked ship on the battlefield. No context

[@Miscast]

That's a really fun idea. I love it

[@KingInmature]

Love that idea

[@FSNanashi]

Great idea! I'd love to see a huge boat on top of two buildings acting like a bridge of sorts, like the Marina Bay Sands hotel, just magical

[@Bluecho4]

In an urban setting, you could have it sitting on the roof of another building, as if it crashed there (or was built around).

[@st4lsell123]

The wizard summoned a tornado and used it to lift the ship from the harbor and brought it down on an enemy fortress or building.

[@Nosculptor]

I want to live in this tower. The hat-attic would be my hobby space!

[@electricmeatpuppet]

Amazing. Maybe some kind of nurgle corrupted comet/impact site type thingo? Maybe hints of something horrid crawling up from a hole or crater in the ground with glowing deposits lodged in the surrounding soil.

[@durpyflabergazm9339]

Talking about a suggestion for a mordhiem board piece, maybe having a large manor that’s had a rupture or quake split it, perhaps with one side barely being supported and the other leaning slightly at an odd angle into the other. What if the rift has a little bit of the fleshy chaos, stringin out of the cracks idk :p

[@FrankyDCrafter]

Dude, you are unbelievable. Im blown away by every single episode you make.

[@Miscast]

Thanks Franky! You're the best!

[@FrankyDCrafter]

@@Miscast hope you don’t mind I dropped your name on my next video. Don’t worry, nothing but good words. 😁

[@Miscast]

@@FrankyDCrafter I'm honoured Franky!

[@terrainaholic]

VERY IMPRESSIVE!!!!!!! Builds like this are a chore to start but are AMAZING to finish!!!! Glad all that hard work payed off and inspired us all:)!!!

[@chaoslord_craylos6669]

A cool idea I had for something you could make would be like a ruined castle and stuff that nature has overtaken. Like trees and moss and stuff with like a dark brick broken castles would be amazing.

[@akatamarian5269]

It is simply better than perfect. It embodies everything I love in Warhammer. Thanks for your work.

[@benweinberg3819]

Dip washing model trees is a great way to set them to scale better out of the box, never thought of that! Love the overall look, it REALLY looks like some of the late 80s/early 90s citadel terrain

[@Miscast]

Thank you! That's really awesome to hear

[@NiallyWially]

What about a Dock with a ship that has been beached due to the meteor and made into some sort of weird gathering place for adventurers travelling via sea to Mordheim? Your build looks amazing by the way. Your channel is hands down the biggest inspiration for me picking up this hobby! I also have you to thank for opening my eyes to the Inq28 movement! Much love, from Scotland.

[@campbellfamily1928]

Cannot imagine the amount of love and time put in to this build. Turned out really amazing!

[@Harvey-de9oi]

I think either a broken church or bit of cathedral where part of the warpstone comet smashed into would be pretty sick. Having the polarising gothic imperial art works and religious iconography next to or around the glowing green mini crater, with the local landscape itself being corrupted by the taint of chaos.

[@BillMakingStuff]

Beautiful piece.

[@yuxnux]

I'm so glad I've gotten back into Mordheim a few years back. Its the best game, hands down. I love the setting, I love making warbands and I love making terrain. The community on FB is fantastic as well!

[@figrollin]

My vote for the rest of the table would be; A) have this tower be a cliffside tower that overlooks the sea. I'd love to see your take on crashing waves and mist. B) have a giant waterfall that goes into the sea. It makes no sense which is kinda why I like it. "Cos magic!" C) have a shipwreck. Cos shipwrecks are cool. Maybe have it at the base of the waterfall, as if it crashed om it's way down. I appreciate that's all kinda mad, but when you said upstaging this awesome build that's where my head went.

[@andytate5670]

your tower with the rood on is the spitting image of one I built a couple of months ago my was 3 and a half feet high and had hanging gardens

[@kaoticneutralcow4094]

adding to a past suggestion by Captain Stefano : a port in a valley which looks like a dried up lake and has dirty puddles, ponds, and pools with the taint of nurgle creeping up and outwards

[@spartan9933]

Maybe a broken down castle with some of its inhabitants fuse to the walls, floor and so on, with living trees, weird chaos stuff in general. I remember reading/hearing stuff like that happened when the comet hit Mordheim.

[@silence_dais]

This reminds me of Merlin's Tower from Sword in the Stone and it really makes me want to build that when I have the supplies and space because that would be awesome to have as a terrain piece for gaming!

[@LiliaArmoury]

love that i unintentionally came back to watch this on it's anniversary and still enjoy it

[@KnarbMakes]

Love the framing/art in the background as you build. You are a true artist my friend!

[@bergeaadland6648]

Suggestion for next Mordheim piece - Make a town hall with a square outside and meteor craters pockmarking the square

[@drdrub]

You gotta build a castle. That’s obviously the next logical step. This looks fantastic

[@matthewseed9376]

A section of old castle that your nurgle circus has set up camp in with carts and decorations. Could have lots of verticality and tons of nooks and crannies to put nurgley details in. Would also go with mordheim.

[@thenar]

This was a fun build. Thanks for sharing it. Nice design.

[@roosterchains]

Where the meteor hit would be awesome, not sure possible. It would be cool, because the surrounding areas would have all sorts of different people and things who converged on the hole.

[@deividgarmar]

Some circus tents, and maybe a circus carp?

[@bronze4871]

Me and my mates are definitely inspired by your work but mostly your attitude man! Thanks for being 100 in each video!

[@FoxAndHyde]

Looks excellent bud, really worth the time you put into it and I hope you find lots of uses for it and the moulds in the future!

[@Shot5hells]

these videos are so inspiring! And I love how chill but clearly very into it you are

[@corneliusperkins7363]

Fantastic and inspiring build, and you blew my mind with using clay in the silicone molds instead of resin. I have a dozen silicone molds which I made which have been sitting in a box waiting for the weather to warm up enough to cast outside, but holy moly I could just force clay into them and bake up a batch. Thanks so much for doing this video.

[@opalshield8759]

Fantastic result mate! Looks amazing!

[@nazteeb]

That is a fantastic build! Absolutely stunning!

[@jaredb2252]

watching you build things is so inspiring, and makes me want to start making tabletop terrain from scratch!

[@bryal7811]

I'm a sucker for living animated objects. In the merchant quarter have a living wagon with various magical goods for sale (Only to other objects of course, no humanoids allowed.) Various smaller animated objects are underlings to the wagon, transporting goods. It can be anything from crates with broomsticks for legs to living cages given life by magic running off with their "cargo"

[@ronrader8714]

Another terrific build! Love it!

[@iamoSlothy]

Thermal plastic has been a huge help in the hobby, I now just buy certain kits for their unique bits solely to copy n paste it for kitbashing

[@kevincooper4177]

Outstanding! I've watched many tower builds and this is one of the best. I love the paint job.

[@KimHarderFog]

Love the Stormwind'esque (from Warcraft) coloured shingles. Great job!

[@ryanhocking6416]

I’d really like to see some kind of gladiatorial pit /coliseum idea could be really cool

[@historicaldelving5426]

Incredible build! Well done!

[@summonlessermaker]

This video was my first introduction and it has been really great discovering it since then.

[@NerdCraftHQ]

This is fantastic! Especially love the paint job.

[@bengamingames5002]

This is so cool, absolutely stunning what you created. Thank you for inspiring us!

[@brandonelsdon-bird8310]

That is really cool man, im blown away st the talent and patience

[@hmuffin4036]

You're soon hitting the 100k and it's completely deserved ! You and your band of creative friends never cease to amaze me great projects and this piece is another awesome example of that. Keep up the good vibes !

[@maxthon4085]

Looks AWESOME

[@griffinotte7659]

This is absolutely insane! Really inspiring work bro

[@Morganistalking]

Love the thermo plastic. Great build mate, looking forward to more.

[@dlemieux93]

Really digging how this turned out

[@tonyharwood8408]

The tower looks awesome. Thanks for the tutorial. Tony

Woah that was really good. The thermo plastic is genius!

[@TheImmersiveWorldCrafter]

This is a lovely vid for a gorgeous build with loads of mischief and character. It will fit in nicely with Mordheim. It’s great to see you back making some terrain, Trent. I have been enjoying Arcane Ugly, and your Nurgle Diaries too, but THIS is why I am here.

[@TheRavenhelm]

Looks brilliant!

[@skiesquiggles7319]

You are just... so inspiring. You're just out here doing what you love and it makes me feel like I could do that too.

[@pineconeduck9148]

Wow, your sculpting skills are getting better and better. Great work, mate. Now I want to see it on the table!!!

[@ConjuredCraft]

You managed to get a whole bunch of different materials blended in really well which is a testament to your painting, nicely done! Super inspiring for when I have space to make a display table one day.

[@arcana5899]

Your content is always a treat man, keep up the quality work.

[@amvemusic]

That looks amazing! Keep up the good work!

[@ranipahn994]

This is really impressive, I’m glad I found your channel, love it !