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Ridge cap, fascia boards, it's good to hear the real names used. Plus, as in reality, they really finish the roof.

You could back the first row shingles with card stock.

My kids and I have used many of your build tutorial videos to make Mordheim/D&D scenery and this series on foam houses with the roofing techniques gave me the idea to search through my wife's sewing supplies... turns out that we own various fabric shears that leave patterned cuts. So I cut cereal box board into strips with the shears, then bent the pattern left by the shears, glued the strips as if they were rows of shingles. Paint, highlight, seal and it reduced the roof portion of the build from the most time consuming into a much more relaxing step in the build process. Now the build process is so easy that we can batch build entire villages to help expand our terrain collection. Black Magic is a great source for tips on saving $$ in hobby craft builds. Most tabletop tutorial channels give the impression that *anyone can do this* but the technical skill or cost of supplies leave the builder with an (expectation VS reality) feeling of failure *but* Black Magic tutorials stand out as being the most helpful in my experience. Our builds have improved our technical skills, improved the look of the completed projects and saved us money along the way. I've even used some of your methods in my volunteer work with youth mental health initiatives. I had overused traditional painting/sculpting in my lessons and turned to hobby crafting in my art-therapy lessons and the majority of my students really enjoyed the tactile feeling and messiness of the build process. These are great how-to videos!

That looks awesome. Can't wait, my dad is coming over so we can have a build party. I got the Proxxon and he got the foam. This is a bit ambitious, but can't wait to have a session using our tiles

I don't even need a house like this but now I want to make one because you made it look fun. Very direct instructions. Your channel has inspired my new hobby of terrain building. Keep on brother and thank you. 👊

This is one of your best technique demos yet! This is a brilliant method to save time on shingles and it'll save us all hours and hours of work!

It is amazing how many years worth of tips, tricks, and clever ideas are all captured within these very concise/helpful videos. I can't imagine how long it would have taken me to figure out some of these creative techniques on my own. Thank you for everything you've done for the hobby & crafting community!

I’ve had success adding wood texture to card stock, by modpodging, letting it dry, then giving a wire brush treatment before painting

I do not own a hotwire cutter, Yet... but another option is to buy thin sheets of eva foam. They are almost as thin as cardstock and you can texture them with a wirebrush. Just mark the sheet and cut with your scissors and you get an almost exact result ;-). great video again! btw, the sheets you would want to use are 2mm thick. I've used them for many things, even made a witcher costume for my son. although i did use several different thicknesses of foam for the costume.

Thanks for your amazing videos Jeremy! I got a mini for my boyfriend's 13th Age game and I was so nervous to paint it because I didn't know how and I didn't want to ruin it, but your basics videos made it worry free and easy! I started watching your channel because of those videos and I've loved every one since. I may not be up at building level yet, but your technique videos and guides make everything very approachable. You're doing great work for the community, thank you times a million!

I mass produce shingles and boards from foam picnic plates and take out containers.These take texturing very well and are sturdy. I cut out, sand, texture and paint the whole bottom piece, then gang cut the shingles or boards. This also works well for stones and bricks. Michael

I know this video is 4 years old but cereal boxes can get wood grain texture using embossing folders that are traditionally used in greeting card making. It is thin enough to run through an embossing machine however this does take extra time as you would only be able to emboss a 5x7 at most sheet at a time. Thank you for the videos they have opened a whole new window to my crafting tool box

I like this idea for getting a lot of work done in a short amount of time, Thanks for sharing this technique.

Great job in creating the roof. It's a great reference video for making shingles, something that everyone hates to make. Thanks for sharing.

I decided to do a frontier log cabin on of XPS foam individually cut logs textured with a wire brush just as you do with your Tudors. However, after many failed attempts at doing the foam shingles I hit upon using sections of basket splint. The material is cheap and often found at thrift stores. You can cut it with scissors. Snap it to the desired width with your fingers or razor knife. It bonds well with hot glue or wood glue and takes no longer than cardboard, but is far more durable.

Actually, I liked a lot how the card stock roof looked on that piece you showed us, but probably not for a fantasy setting. It would be my fight candidate though for a steampunk setting. Now for the strips you made. Holy cow, these are way thinner than I expected. You need so little material for a full roof that it's got to be very cost efficient. The entire build has most likely the best Beauty/Simplicity ratio from all videos I have watched. Well done. And now for the best part, the painting and the final touches.

These shingles look pretty good,(great) actually. May try it out down the road. Can't wait to see next week's video, the painting. Keep 'em coming.

Super clever technique. As someone who is still on the fringe of actually building something, these videos are insanely encouraging!

Texturing before cutting is a novel idea; your creative approaches to relatable issues are top-notch!

You could add texture to cardstock using a heavy body gesso and a stiffer, more wiry paintbrush. The paintbrush would create high and low spots in the gesso, leaving behind a decently realistic wood texture. The downfall is it may not be as deeply textured, or may not give the type of wood texture you're going for, but with a strong paint job, the texture would show through. You could also stipple/sponge the gesso on to create a more modern, asphalt roof shingle texture if you wanted.

12:03 the planks above door have to go across the wooden beams, not paralel with them. for stucco surfaces I use plaster in tube (small packages , 200 g for fine repairing on the walls. Mosly for a holes of nails of the pictures before painting walls) and that pasta is easy to use and apply. To evenly apply to the wall I made a small tool :) from one match stick and little square of cardboard. It looks like miniature showel for the snow :D

Thank you so much for all of you videos and content. I hope that you and your family are all doing well. Keep up the great work. Take good care of yourself. Thx!

I'm enjoying this series quite a bit. Please consider doing another multi-part build. 👍

I struggled with this very thing a few months ago. Truly genius and very beautiful!

Looks awesome Jeremy! Because I live in a country that doesn’t exist (Australia) xps foam is more or less non-existent , so for my shingles I use sheets of 3 mm eva foam. I don’t need a hot wire cutter tho, a hobby knife and scissors do the job. For wood grain texture I run a ball point pen up and down the shingles a few times. Its flexible and light weight, don't have to worry about it breaking off the edges. Anyways great tutorial mate look forward to your clips weekly.

Love this new series. You’ve hit an amazing stride with the tutorials.

I am loving this series!

def gonna use this method when I'm going to create a medieval city skirmish table. Thanks for the tips, keep up the great work.

I watched your video to get pointers on the ridge cap. I used the 1-in wide wooden craft sticks which I cut into rectangles. I had problems with them curling up with the glue I used but as they dried they flattened back out. For my ridge cap I think I will use posture board the same way you did yours and I will use a hot glue gun also. Thank you for having such a professional video

Awesome! Just plain awesome. I need a Hotwire table badly, I've cut bricks for one building with a knife but I can't cut them that thin...I've tried. Sweet vid, I like that house!

Just a note for getting texture on card stock roof tiles. I mark the tiles out on the back of the sheet, then on the other side, i paint it with 50/50 flexible caulk and pva glue and using a chipping brush pull streaks into it in one direction. The texture isnt as nice as foam, but it does work, and has the advantage that i can pre-paint the sheets. Make 2 or 3 sheets, and paint them slightly different tones, then cut them and mix them up to get variation in the tiles which looks awesome.

I’ve done individual shingles, card stock, and strips, and strips by far is the easiest way to shingle. Great video!

Great looking roof! I am loving this series.

Lovin' the way you created a master! Hadn't thought of that. Awesome stuff as usual, dude!

Use cardboard shingles, paint on a thin layer of wood filler, let dry, apply wire brush to put a texture in the wood filler.

I followed a VERY similar process; with one major difference. I used sheets of flexible craft foam. Pro: Fast, and no need for a hot wire. Con: Takes a little more 'convincing' to texture it. It likes to spring back, and clean cuts will 'heal'. I textured the entire sheet first, then cut it into strips. Great video!

This is a wonderful piece, its turning out brilliantly.

You have perfect method to make shingles. Loving it and thanks👍

Also your music choices have been awesome! very creative/energizing

That is just a wonderful idea! Once again you show a very useful technique! thanks Jeremy

There are a couple of ways to get the texture of a wood grain on card stock. You can use a firm bristle brush with texture paste and paint it on. The other method is if you have a sizzix and some texture plates with a wood grain. May be tough to get the right scale though. Great video!

Really cool method! Thanks, BMC!!

Thank you for that method for wood shingles, cannot wait to give it a go - added to my build list

Awesome technique. Exactly what I was looking for. Thx

Looks great!

I haven't tackled a building yet, but based on my experiences from other things, I propose two ideas: 1: Get the wood grain on cardstock shingles by swiping on some 3D fabric paint with a ratty brush 2: Use EVA craft foam sheets. Can be stacked up and cut with a hot wire, or with a blade. Might be a bit harder to texture, but this is a foam that tends to bend instead of break

Looks like absolute perfection to me!! And an awesome tutorial as always! :)

Just watched this as I was curious how you made the shingles. Thinking about it I would have thought that if you produce a Template from stiff card, take your time to cut it to the correct shape, as per your video. Then pin it to a 1" piece of foam and cut on the Proxxon, used the template as a guide, after which you slice layers off the 1" thick block. Keeping the template ready for next time.

Great job! I can't wait to see the house painted. ^_^

the master of the shingles really sold this idea!!! will be using this method in my next build for sure!

I have had great success with card stock as slate. I take the strips and lightly bounce one of my armor dishing hammers (or just a ball pein) until the entire surface is textured.

Awesome. I'm so looking forward for that bad boy to be painted.

You can put wood texture on the slick side with a pen. Just do it before you prime it. Or you can use a wire brush. I use a wire brush and a pen on popsicle sticks. (Wow it looks fn good too) then torch em before paint. Sometimes I even puncture holes for nails and slice it for individual slabs, I’m telling ya,it looks like real slabs of wood. Oh and also,I’m making shingles tonight for a tower and I haven’t tried it before but..I weld so I have some thin grinder pads and they feel and look like real shingles. I’m gonna try that out. The rest of it I did the technique above with popsicle sticks. Man these two together should look super realistic

Thanks for the tutorial, this is going to save me so much time.

Wow this is a good idea. I might even try taking the time to make a template out of chip board to help with the process of carving the master strip initially. I wonder if using that and shifting it left or right or flipping it upside down would help give your master strips some slight variation. If a master template or two worked, this technique could be even faster although I guess it runs the risk of being less organic at that point.

Great job!

before cutting cardstock I sand it with sand paper on a big surface (in one direction) making slitely "woody" look .Then I star cutting in lines .

So just a note about texturing card stock tiles; I've been playing around with the idea, and I wet a piece of an old 12 pack soda box (brown side not printed) and ran a wire brush on it, and got something almost like a thatch roof shingle. Haven't actually tried to cut it out or use it yet, but something to consider if you want to add some variety to shingle textures

Damn! Look at the brains on Brad! Great idea here!

Just great!!!

Very, very amazed. I am working on a full abandoned cemetery. When I finish, I will try to get you some pictures. I was curious. How would you do Tiamat?

I work in a very similar manner, similar to the second method all via proxxon cutter :) About scratching I've used the teethbrush too, but now I roll the thin sheet with wood-pattern green stuff roll. Easier and less stressing for the foam.

I ❤️ these shingles... so realistic. Have you ever done a thatched roof?

Excellent video tutorial! For a suggestion on texturing cardstock for shingles, draw a buttload of semi-straight lines with an ultrafine ballpoint pen, like .3mm fine. I suggest also using a spent pen that way you're not wasting ink just drawing lines. Also, I'd use chipboard as it holds the imprint from the pen better.

On the final/edge shingles, I back my xps foam with card. a bit of a hassle, but it is really only for one row, and makes them quite a bit more durable

What? No drip edge? LOL Looks great, Jeremy, And excellent piece. Can't wait to see the paint job.

Sheet styrene is a option I have used in scale modeling. I drag a heavy grit sandpaper to create the grain but I bet your steel brush would do it too.

Wow, great job! Not sure how you come up with this clever technique but I wish I saw this before my Troll Skull manor roof. What I did was much harder. My steps 1) I made many thin strips, textured, cut slots. My shingles are at least 2x thicker than your shingles as a result. So... because I have hotwire (brought through your link) I will definitely use your technique from here on.

I know you've focused on building projects. I'm curious, have you considered showing them in a game play setting? Like Frostgrave or even D&D?

Love it 👍

looks good

thank you!!

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I wish i had a love emoji this needs one lol thats just awesome!

thanks for sharing this is so helpfull :)

Gees. Lovely job. Gotta get me a Proxon.....

Very nice ... i think balsa wood works well too for shingles !!

I loved it

I had just about decided against buying a proxxon before this (since appliances keep breaking and needing to be replaced). But now it's definitely back on the wishlist

Nice technique.

You, sir, are a foam master builder.

To quote Homer Simpson, "It looks like you've come down with a case of the shingles."

I have learned so much from watching your video's Thank you.

It’s clearly more work, but I like using the suski method. Although I’m tempted to try this method. Always good to have another option.

If you have 2 or 3 masters made of foam, are you then mixing the shingle strips up to get a random variety of shingle shaped strips to introduce a lot of randomness into the roof?

The proxxon wire cutter came today and my daughter said “was it black magic himself who delivered it?” Lol! :)

This is genius! 😳

I'm thinking this method could be improved by creating a silicon mold of a foam shingles roof. This way, you would end up with shingles slabs to glue on cardboard directly. The tricky part is finding the right resin for the job, it has to be runny and flexible enough to fill the details and avoid cracking when dry. There is a resin additive called Flexer that claims to make two-part epoxy resins flexible.

Beautiful house, lovely work. One question, when you're making bricks, what are their dimensions? Im looking for something that isnt going to look way off scale for Frostgrave ruins/buildings

your work is so fucking incredible! I only play DnD online, since my friends moved away, but I still wish I could build that stuff just because i love miniatures! all of your stuff has so much character, it's very inspirational.

I use balsa wood. It comes with a wood texture of course and you can get it in sheets thin enough from the start. Obviously it's not so good for representing slate tiles.

Will get a Proxxon through your link soon

You could use a paper press for a woodgrain. You maybe know someone who can make you press templates with a woodgrain.

I like cereal box shingles. I roll mine up first. It crinkles ot and looks somewhat like woodgrain.

You could stack the foam prior to cutting on the hot wire table so it is equivalent to cutting a one inch foam board.

Just finished a house with this method of shingling, and I found it was vastly easier to not apply any wood grain to the shingles, mill every thin strip, then apply wood grain to the finished roof.

Fantastic tutorial! Seems to be much harder when you do not have hot wire cutter :P

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I use coffee stirrers with texturing