Making a Beautiful Pool with a Startling Occupant

#Diorama #Resin #Scary
This week, I made my second cross section diorama of a hot spring in Yellowstone. The hot pool I recreated this time is Emerald Spring in the Norris Basin. The diorama is set in my Wild Imaginary West and houses a mysterious creature that travels from pool to pool searching for bones and waiting to drag unsuspecting prey into the hot water.
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0:04 - Prepping the Minis
0:38 - Inspired by a Road Trip
1:03 - Dante's Seven Levels
1:30 - Carving the Levels
1:52 - Organicness
2:19 - Sculptamold
2:45 - Painting Mini Miners
3:25 - Sculptamold 2
3:32 - Debris
4:09 - Painting the Pool
5:08 - Installing the Dam
5:40 - Resin
6:19 - More Resin
7:06 - Most Resin
7:22 - Freed Resin (acrylic removal ASMR)
7:41 - Cleaning up the Sides
8:06 - BLK 4.0
8:20 - Happy Accident
8:40 - Wrapping Up
8:58 - I Called it Good
9:20 - Outro
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[@beebitbit3080]

what makes it even more terrifying is that this thing comes up for air, so it does need to breath It *chooses* to live in these pools.

[@4ae109]

there are mammals that live in the water and have to come up for air

[@beebitbit3080]

@@4ae109 none of them have hands

[@Lovelessh3art]

​@gfries4906 they also don't *leave* the water, nor do they live in acidic and near boiling temperatures. Yes, whales and dolphins breathe air at the surface, but they're ocean borne and restricted creatures. This thing is actively choosing harsh environments to live in when it *could* choose to live elsewhere.

[@endersquid1132]

I mean it could be a walrus type creature that can spend extensive periods out of water but is still built to survive in water, who knows if this thing has legs maybe it just flops from pool to pool lol

[@aaronfraire9073]

@@4ae109 Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), and pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses) do _not_ have FRIGGIN' HANDS!

[@zoellaanne9101]

I would love to see some more variety in coat colours for the horses in future builds! They’re almost always bay and I feel it would be fun to have a pop of something else eventually

[@rhonemeyer4277]

I agree!

[@jimroberts3009]

I agree. I love the builds a lot but wish he would use more brighter colours for the animals and people figures, sometimes. I feel that he uses too much of the Autumn colours like browns, yellows and ochres, etc.

[@sprucehouse9]

Me too! And it can be done - I recently painted some of the horses from the IMEX Sioux Indians set, a Buckskin and an Appaloosa. They came out great and added a really cool touch to the scene. There are some good horse coat color charts online.

[@dapperdanny2957]

How about you guys do some horses and send them ,that way you guys can see them in future builds.

[@OnlyAnairaGirl]

Those colours are the hardest for monsters to spot, so people try to only have bay horses and drab colours. Maybe. I just made that up. Lol

[@The_Cranky_Painter]

I recently found your channel after stumbling across North of the Border, and I've been glued to it ever since. As a hobby painter of middling skill, your tricks and techniques have been incredibly helpful. Thanks for what you do! The Wild Imaginary West is awesome, and tremendously encouraging as I work on a setting of my own!

[@louisstokes1498]

That is just him in a nutshell

[@bird_b0nezz]

yo i love adam, here fucking hilarious

[@nikolajjensen4453]

Adam the goat

[@DisconnectedVoid]

This is basically the same way that I found this channel! Only for me it was much less recently.

[@Aikurisu]

Ha, gotta love it when those happy little mistakes end up good for the final result. Love the colours, too!

[@MiaJiyar_XOXO]

Do you think you could make a ww1 diorama? I have been making one for school and would love to see how you would’ve gone about it

[@garymontagano510]

I'd love to see one with trenches and stuff

[@jovishark]

if you dont already watch him, Night Shift makes exclusively world war dioramas in very similar styles

[@RosinaEmilyW]

I’d particularly love to see some Appaloosa or black tones, especially since black horses are so hard to paint on small scale while retaining depth and detail.

[@Tomy_Yon]

From beneath it devours 😊

[@HunterGloege]

Sounds like the name of a Meshuggah song

[@runascarlet2623]

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers….

[@tankythemagnorite9855]

​@@runascarlet2623kills King, ruins town

[@vanessarider5708]

When you said no animal can survive in the hot springs, I immediately thought of flamingos. Can’t find anything on them interacting with Yellowstone specifically, but they can drink boiling water and chill in water so acidic and salty it would melt your skin. Terrifying!

[@MacMeaties]

Exactly! Flamingos for most people are just silly pink stilt birds but they are actually goddamn flying fallout ghouls.

[@WilliamG09]

Well they are 400f though

[@Tidalyze]

You should do a model of two gangs fighting eachother, each with their own tamed hulking beast!

[@IronTiger58]

That’s a really good idea

[@SparksDarknight]

Your Wild Imaginary West series has become one of my favorite modeling series to watch, each time I see one I stop what I'm doing to watch

[@wyatthill2802]

How time passes, I remember the last Yellowstone model, I didn't realize it was YEARS! ago lol, very good job boyli

[@thisguyhere44]

I'm a huge fan of Yellowstone and love visiting these boiling hot and extremely acidic waters of the park's hot springs when we're able to make the trip. I often remember that first video you did and was happy to see you revisit another one. Love the videos and your work!

[@cocoanut6593]

These videos tickle my brain

[@pinguinpastete2118]

im going to start soon with making dioramas, u and north of the boarder are the holy reson for that

[@3mix4m67]

Best of luck for this new adventure !

[@pinguinpastete2118]

@@3mix4m67 thanks mate kompressor just came :)

[@roninparker]

dont forget the wormie dealies and eyes and teeth!

[@pinguinpastete2118]

@@roninparker true XD

[@edanwallgejw]

Beautiful resin pour Boylei! Great jeaorb.

[@wormish_squirmish_III]

The other hot spring video was the first one of yours that I saw. It called for an immediate subscribe. Happy to see more!

[@markmywords3581]

This is absolute ART.

[@johndean2110]

Cool. Reminds me of the creature from the black lagoon. 👍

[@jovishark]

another hot spring cutaway yessss! yes! your first hotspring video was the first one i ever saw of yours. i was really pulled in by the soft voiceover and the respect you have for nature. i havent been to yellowstone in a few years but i think you capture its colors and its gestures so well.

[@funwithmadness]

I think it might have been me that suggested adding the pigment to half of the resin in a large batch to keep the colors consistent. I know I've suggested to people in the past. If it wasn't me, I'll still take credit. ;) That, by the way, is an amazing resin pour! Very hard to do something that large with no bubbles, boiling (yes, folks, this stuff boils when poured too thick), or noticeable pour lines.

[@Nat1videos]

Love it Caleb! You are so good at cramming a story in to the Diorama with just a few details... really lovely man!

[@carrie4910]

The hot spring (and sneaky creature) looks AMAZING 🤩 You’ve done a phenomenal job recreating the hot spring!

[@Straswa]

Masterful work Boylei! Love your resin productions.

[@TheTransportationFanfromCA]

I think another W.I.W diorama I would love of you did is a train wrecked by a monster that died on the tracks/or got crushed by the train

[@lionessoftor4139]

The Wild Imaginary West is my favorite! I would love to see monsters as companions or work animals. As we know humans will pack bond with anything and there will always be 'that guy (or gal)' who's willing to try. I'm already excited for you next video.

[@ramboturkey1926]

now that's a good pour

[@splatter_proto]

Absolutely gorgeous

[@DafyddRoche]

Amazing work Caleb. The hint about tinitng the hardner then mixing with the main resin later is excellent. LED's that only switch on when motion is detected in front of the diorama would have been epic. :)

[@majstks3333]

some of the best content on youtube!

[@Swedsman]

That is obviously a giant Tardigrade down there, those tough sob's can survive anywhere

[@Haromour]

subtle forest fenn call out, nice

[@thomaseasley2938]

Yo, Boylei! Apparently local folklore holds that dragons live in Yellowstone. Maybe you could make a Yellowstone dragon diorama, or even have the mystery creature be one of these dragons if you wish

[@snsnplpl]

what better place for a dragon to incubate it's eggs than in a hot pool? The dragon should not look like a european or chinese dragon, but more of a cross between a grizzly bear, porcupine and eagle.

[@ptorq]

I think you mentioned "only its glowing eyes were visible." It might have been nice to embed a pair of small LEDs in the cave at the bottom of the pool.

[@bird_b0nezz]

this is why i subbed, like goddam dude, this is just so cool, and i love the style of your videos it’s so casual and easy to watch

[@arronjones6985]

Absolutely fricking awesome! You just get better and better my bro. I think you should write some short stories off the back of your imaginary wild west. Your character back stories are amazing. When you get one out, can you send me a link so. Can buy it 😉

[@NickG6623]

I’ve read about 12 books now about early American mountain men and their adventures, hunting and trapping through the Rocky Mountains. All of there tails about first stumbling along Yellowstone and the natural wonders there are amazing. They couldn’t believe what they were seeing. And no one back east believed them, when they described the geysers.

[@Eliezer-73Comics]

Hello friend, this is the first time I have written to congratulate you on your Diorama Projects. I rarely write to the creators of the channel because many times there are few who read the comments and respond, but I always leave you a Like. Thanks to you, I was inspired to start making dioramas because I saw one you did about three years ago, from STARWARS titled: ''Tank Ambush Aftermath Diorama''. And after seeing that work I started to create my own. Well, what I wanted to ask you is a favor, I have reviewed all your videos and I see that you have not made one of Halo when you can and if you want, make one of Master Chief vs The Covenant, I know that you will be excellent. You can be inspired by any combat of the new HALO series. Well thank you very much for everything and keep on giving us the best as always.

[@LSW-GUY]

All the people who have commented (11:04PM Sydney Australia time) have not even finished the video yet. (Nor have i but that’s not the point)

[@EF-RX-78-2]

realistically almost everyone hasn't

[@EF-RX-78-2]

(in roughly 15 seconds they will)

[@LSW-GUY]

I just finished

[@alienrobotcommando]

Loved it!

[@Ozzeeart]

This is amazing! I made a similar one but based on the Harry Potter movie!

[@timzwicker]

Here's the thing: as a multi-console gamer, yes, there are diminishing returns to simply making consoles more powerful, and selling your games on their graphical capabilities and technical features. However, more powerful consoles are enabling new experiences that simply aren't possible on previous generations or earlier hardware. Yes, development costs go up with more graphically complex games. It's still also possible to develop fun games of lower graphical complexity for regardless of hardware specs, as demonstrated by indie studios. In all likelihood, the major selling point of the Switch successor over the original will be graphical performance, and this is fine. You need both: focus on fun, and the wow factor of new experiences.

[@modelermark172]

Well done, Boylei! Even if you omitted the monster, this hot springs diorama would be a winner! That said, the monster is the only sign that this diorama is part of your Wild Imaginary West, and not a depiction of an actual, historical scene. (Maybe if your miners had a Forestall on one of their mules . . . ?) Regardless, this deep-pour resin scene is incredible, and I'm looking forward to more of your Sunday Morning videos! Thanks for sharing your imagination and techniques with us! 158th Like.

[@reddogterrain]

Fabulous

[@caititititi]

As someone who has been watching your videos for a long time now, it is really astonishing to watch your progress during the years. This diorama is stunning and I’m so proud of you for finding your groove with the resin. Great job!

[@MastinoNapoletano420]

If there are organisms that survive in the depths of the ocean right on hydrothermal vents...I am sure something can survive in the hot springs.

[@Wibblewobble1987]

Hey i live in grants! Thats about 2 hours from Albuquerque! I know a few places you could check out if you ever visit in new Mexico again! 😊

[@debbralehrman5957]

Nicely Done👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹

[@hermit_-tp4ex]

love your stuff keep it up

[@jthomas6080]

Stunning.

[@animatorxstudios100]

emerald spring looks an awful lot like sapphire spring, but maybe that's just me. btw, I love the x-men reference!

[@jasonshiers5771]

So satisfying

[@joaquinvalverdi5777]

idea for wild west video Winter has arrived in the west and a group of bounty hunters have to fight Bigfoot in the mountains. greetings from Argentina

[@Aussie6490_gaming]

Love the content, keep it up man 👍🏻♥️

[@ClarkeDesign]

Would love to see you do another video about airbrushing your minis. Hints, tips, techniques about how you go about getting them so realistic.

[@David_B_Dornburg]

Cool build, but kinda disappointed that you didn't do the glowing eyes of the creature.

[@Vegvysyr]

Hot springs? Boiling Hobby Time!

[@crapparc]

Have you ever read the comic Manifest Destiny? It's about Lewis and Clark going exploring and finding a great many horrible monsters. I feel that perhaps this comic might give you some inspiration. Full disclosure: I love Manifest Destiny and I could never accomplish something like you do, so I'm hoping you'll do it ;)

[@natewoodford]

gosh YES i need this series back ... wild west creature stuff and mythology >>>>>>>>>>

[@ColinRichardson]

I was about to ask if this was a re-upload, but no, just a similar topic

[@calebsimmons8539]

I appreciate that the wood veneer is cheap but the real question is whether the veneer is eco friendly

[@saywerh2560]

Monster: I don't need to ably to physics

[@p.strobus7569]

“No animal could survive the near boiling and highly acidic waters…” The extremophiles of deep sea vents have entered the chat.

[@Hunta1357]

Do you think you could make a ww1 diorama? I have been making one for school and would love to see how you would’ve gone about it.

[@theblackgoatofthewoods]

I love your crafts and I wish I could do same things. You think you could do some things based on Love, Death + Robots from Netflix? Like the crabmonster or spacespider?

[@TophSinex]

Been a watcher for a while, and wanted to thank you for your hard work and creativity. I love the Imaginary Wild West set, but I'd like to ask if you've considered doing any more Biblical dioramas? I know you've done at least one in the past for the channel but I always loved artistic expressions of faith and personally I'd love to see more of it. Your diorama videos are always a delight either way and help brighten my day, and thank you again.

[@PKTCrafts]

Looks beautiful man! I’m glad you used veneer. I was like «nooo» when the xps showed through.

[@RoyWeller]

Also spraying fine IPA onto resin works to pop bubbles if you don't want to risk melting edge details 😉

[@wesleychem]

I love the creativity and how amazing your builds are. It would be great to see a behind the scenes video and do a bench walkthrough and show how you record your videos!!

[@Cowardly666]

Really like your Dioramas. Have you considered doing something Fallout related?

[@charlessapp1835]

Can you PLEASE do an erupting geyser. You could have the eruption created by a underground monster!

[@Kaleb-uc3el]

I just now got the notification of this video because I have been in Yellowstone all day, neat timing

[@BlazingImp77151]

ngl I thought the title said "Something Something Yellowstone Hot Spring" when I first scrolled past it.

[@richardfinney6127]

In 1890 a group of gold miner prospectors went to what is now yellow stone park to pan for gold little did they know there is a monster that lurks in the hot springs that is looking for it’s next meal the monster of emerald hot springs

[@ThePixelPear]

I wonder when you'll do something with the grand canyon so much inspiration there, river monster giant bird giant goat/mountain lion.

[@adamcurrey4456]

it was an accident that made it look like it was actually boiling or at least had heat. but now. next time it wont be an accident on a slightly shift base as it drys.

[@iamnotgonnatellyou]

Lovely diorama! I think I subscribed to you back when the original Yellowstone diorama was one of your newer videos, so it's neat to see a callback to an "OG" Boylei video. I do have a question though: Why do you always apply the wooden veneer to the diorama, and *THEN* paint it? It looks so tedious carefully painting around the edges with a tiny brush, and I'd be super paranoid about slipping and smushing black paint onto my carefully crafted diorama. Can you not cut and paint the veneer with a big brush, and THEN stick it on, then just do a bit of touchup if needed?

[@ikeduley6361]

3:13 I found it quite funny that you mentioned we were thinking “no animal can survive in the hot spring pool” like you did because at that moment I was in fact thinking “man that monster has to be so tough and wicked to live in a place like that” pretty much just before you made a comment about it lol

[@Sage-cw2hy]

Great video. The end result looks great. We're going to Yellowstone next week for 7 days. I will be definitely telling my kids about the monster in emerald springs 😁. Does this monster have a name?

[@Boylei]

No name yet!

[@mannyoliveira776]

​​@@Boyleiwould you consider selling me your diorama? There have been a couple I have interest in. I could electronic transfer you the cost, or paypal?

[@thermalserpent4269]

How about a build related to caddy or champ with a monster hunter boat chasing it with a hunter on the lake monsters back

[@Phanterinos]

If i was an Hollywood producer i would buy the rights for your " Imaginary West" and make a series. Love all the details

[@colbykennedy4327]

You should make it look like a giant ant lion with claw hands, ant lions throw sand to nock their prey into their pits. This monster could spray the boiling acid water for a similar attack

[@thegreatgoldfilms6311]

I wonder how many dioramas of Hot Springs does he have to make until we see the monster living in the pool?

[@controlvids6079]

I thought the monster would be some sort of shrimp because some shrimp feed off of and live close to hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean

[@garzilla7123]

I like how you made it light enough to be able to see the creature at the bottom. That is really great. Love The Imaginary Wild West. 👍👍👍

[@Trainsaregreat365]

I'm so glad the wild imaginary West is back

[@darrylhilbig6459]

Subtle as always. Especially with the horror elements.

[@orionsarrow1025]

Yay! I love when you do the hot spring it’s gorgeous! You should have one with a geyser some time!

[@DocFleg]

Dang, that must have been such a great road trip! Jealous. Great video as always. 😊

[@leXie1337_chan]

I'm surprised that those prospectors aren't bothering with bringing Forestalls! But then, nothing could survive in the nearly-boiling and highly acidic waters of Yellowstone...

[@carteradams3523]

Your one of my favorite KZbinrs! Thank you for being so awesome!

[@Trashbash_Creations]

Outstanding as usual! Your "wild Imaginary West" concept is just brilliant!

[@8pumpchai]

I'm so glad you practice safety while you create your masterpieces... I'm always so worried for those who don't.

[@GrandmaLoves2Scuba]

I love your narration almost as much as your artwork. 😊

[@mrjayjayrox740]

Nice

[@bloodrunsclear]

Hollywood is completely out of ideas so I hope someone watches even one of these videos and goes 'we make a movie based on this'

[@emilyr2836]

While you were describing the creature, I was envisioning something insectoid, possibly mantis shrimp inspired. The humanoid hand is far more disturbing...

[@Zotemann]

Wasn’t emerald spring the one were somebody fell in and the colours disappeared?

[@Dmate89]

Can you please name the song starting after the acryllic sheet removal? Thanks in advance

[@BurningFPS]

Was not expecting long hair

[@GamingKinda]

If you had painted the veneer prior to applying wouldn’t you have to worry less about cutting in?

[@default_the_skulker]

Ba ba bo we

[@cookiedudegaming]

Well said