Quick Terrain Tips - Easy Gap Filling!

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[@TheTerrainTutor]

Got any tips I can add to these ones folks?

[@TheTerrainTutor]

It's ecoboard mate, hdf, B&Q used to sell it but they dropped it down to £2 a 2x4' sheet when they discontinued it, so I bought all my local store had. It's all stacking 8 sheets high across the attic :-D

[@stockvillain]

Sweet Jupiter, that piping bag is brilliant!

[@vincentshaw8442]

Great Job Mel, hadn't thought of using the wife's trowels before ;) With the piping bag, you can use a ziplock bag too. Just add filler, add paint, mix, nip the tip of a corner and Bobs your uncle, you're piping

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Nice idea bud!

[@RobMcCauslandArt]

The plastic things you mentioned are called Palette Knives and most oil painters do use them to almost sculpt the oil paint. I've painted entire paintings with them. They are great! Oil painting is 1 part painting and 1 part sculpting, at least that's how I think of it. Anyway, great show as always! Cheers!

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Thanks buddy

[@adraxagatone8480]

Awesome quicktip, Mel! Please keep on doing quick-tip-videos!! I watch your videos over and over again ...

[@BoulderCreekRailroad]

Nice one Mel :) I think there are a few different names for those tools depending on who you ask... Artist spatula, trowel or palette knife to name a few :) Great tips!

[@TheTerrainTutor]

There's loads of suggestions in the comments, I've found the artist version on the bun/bap/batch question mate

[@joel4166]

I think there called a pallet trowel or knife lol great channel learning tons!! Thanks! Cheers and and keep em comin

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thanks Mel .

[@johnnickerson9037]

DIY stores have grout bags that would also work and they are made for sanded grout :)

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Nice, cheers mate

[@IDICBeer]

Great share

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Cheers bud

[@WGRevival]

Inspiration comes in the strangest ways. Your signing this hill got me thinking of white horses on the sides of wargame hills.

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Awesome matey

[@bhubbard491]

What's the fun of working on terrain if you're not gonna get grubby? :) Good tips, Mel. Thanks.

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Ex flocking actly mate ;-)

[@pblackcrow]

For shorelines, the piping bag might work.

[@langlest]

great tutorial :) I can't wear gloves when I'm doing things like that because I like to feel what I'm doing, I'll definitely try the icing bag method when I make my diorama

[@TheTerrainTutor]

I'm the same on the gloves, just prefer the feel

[@Kinolens]

any tips about creating trees? thanks great vid by the way

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Foliage playlist buddy

[@ianhorne2884]

pro tip for those cheap pipeing bags , if you try and force to much through the end at once you'll split the edge seam

[@sal4m4nd3r]

any benefit to the "lightweight" spackle? It was recommeneded to me for display boards but doesnt seem to dry hard. Also I love Mel! "I got me a spoon, I got me some filler" There is noone happier then mel with unfinished terrain.

[@gianniclaes5244]

yea!

[@AJsWargaming]

The white tools are called "pallet knives".

[@AJsWargaming]

Well here in the United States that's what we call them.

[@avenger038]

hiya Mel great tip!!! I like to ask a question if I may ? I have got the games workshop modular gaming board and I am making a river for it. I would like to make a river section that flows down the hill of the modular board. I was thinking after watching you do the cliff walls using foil. that I could mold some foil over the contour of the hill and use bandage and plaster of paris to make my river . then let it dry completely and then use filler to smooth the river out and then the usual build up the banks with air dry clay and then finish it off with texture and flocking and painting . what you think ? is there an easier way ? your thought are much appreciated :) .thank you !

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Think more waterfalls than rivers going down banks mate ;-)

[@avenger038]

i am doing a water fall but I need a way to mould the base of the river/waterfall to the contours of the gaming board hill that's already done . I am making a modular river to run down the centre of the games workshop citadel battleboard and I want the modular river to start at the top of the hill so I can do a waterfall down the hill to meet up with the flat parts of the river. GW battleboard is 8 x (2' x 2') with a moulded hill in 4 of the 8 boards. I hope I have explained it a bit better lol. I am buying some styrene to try and mould the water fall and build the top of the river section . I am going to incorporate an eleven bridge and gate and build it quite rocky . fingers crossed . it might be a bit easier than using plaster to mould the slope. thanks forgetting back to me . I am also planning out laketown 4 x (2' x 2') boards all covered in water with a town built on walkways and platforms . any tips on the water boards . I will make 1 2' x 2' board using water effects just to try see how it comes out as I have never used water effects before. but cheaper the better as long as it looks affective!

[@redgreen09]

the graet british backing show got you to like the pastary bag ider likethe paint knife to the mini flipers and last thing me i will just put whighr glue and gravel and flook it now think iren on tranfurs fore us to get and like have stikers thay be eazer to maill think of it see tomorow

[@themobius5869]

Great Video Mel! Does anyone know where I can get the foam he is using for the hill I can't seem to find it anywhere!

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Try jackodur insulation

[@themobius5869]

Thanks mate

[@omerZauber]

The metal ones are called Painting Knives. The plastic ones are probably called that too.

[@ryanperalta3046]

Omer Zauber its not painting knives its pallete knife.

[@omerZauber]

Pack Rat Daddy actually, he held both.. the one on the left was a palette knife, the 2 others were painter knives

[@billd.iniowa2263]

Nice tips Mel. (Your ideas, not the ones for the icing bag. Altho those are nice too). :-P

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Cheers buddy

[@peybolariza7482]

Hey, nice video!!! Just found your channel a week ago and i watched almost two full playlists :D I just have one question, is there any difference at the time of building between what i think is filler(i am from spain so i cant exaclty know if its filler :/ ) and what seems to be "plastic filler"?? because i got some "plastic filler" in my basement. Im planning to start this hobby this next summer thanks to your videos :D

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Yeah, ones an acrylic paste and one is a plaster powder base. Go with the plaster option, spackle/joint compound

[@peybolariza7482]

TheTerrainTutor Thanks, soon ill be building some nice ruins :D

[@wayneclayton5426]

Pallet Knives.

[@sirreal420]

i believe the word you were looking for is "trowel"

[@johnnybakblast457]

Spatulas, that's what they're called

[@patricklefevre1342]

If you don't have pva-glue sticking in your hair and bits dangling from your ears after terrainbuilding, then you've half-arsed it!!! :-D :-D :-D :-D

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Exactly!

[@patricklefevre1342]

:-D

[@patrick.bastiaensen]

you can make roots this way i think

[@TheTerrainTutor]

I imagine you could mate

[@georgetaylor5482]

Mel all are great ideas, but if your not getting grubby whats the point? Use your hands and fingers when ever possible.

[@TheTerrainTutor]

I know what you mean buddy!

[@MurderHoboRPG]

pallete knives

[@everlett1122]

Pallet knives

[@mrcosplaycaleb9847]

Yea yea yu yay arrrrrrr stop with th yea yea yea