I have no intention to make this. I have no interest in modelling. This tutorial was more interesting than the last 4 Hollywood films I've watched!

Once I got past the "yeah"s and "whatcha call it"s, this is a great tutorial. Another subscriber here.

Wow that looks fantastic! I've seen someone do a rocky hillside using bark from an old pine tree but that cork bark takes it to a whole new level! great job! Cheers.

Quick tip, rather than cutting wedges you might find it easier & faster to fill those large gaps with a bit of crumpled up basic kitchen tin foil. Once you get the filler on you can’t tell a difference, and it’s surprisingly solid compared to its weight.

In the past year I've taken up the hobby of crafting terrain and monsters for my D&D campaign. My players love it! And I've become obsessed with crafting. This channel is amazing. I love all the techniques and different materials that are used. Although my genre of gaming is fantasy, I still have a heavy war game strategy aspect to it. Kudos for all the great videos.

I'm sure its been said several times before but I just have to add that I am amazed at what you do with things I would never have thought to try. My girlfriend even watched a couple of your videos with me and got excited to help me attempt to make stuff you make. You are an artist and I hope your endeavors are fruitful. Keep it up and I so appreciate you having opened my eyes with your techniques!

If anyone's like me and used to do this years ago, but thinks they no longer "have it"... I recently made a piece and it was like riding a bike. Don't be afraid! :) Man, a decade ago it felt like I was like the only one on the internet making this type of stuff, with these same materials (making a mint on ebay btw), now there's TONS of resources! I love it. I might have to scale up the operation in the future! Thanks for the video man.

Mel, This was just fantastic! I could have watched this for hours and the best part was, as I watched it, I could see small gaps etc... and was wondering how to fill them only for you to then explain how to fill them and make the end result look so realistic it could have been a photo of a real hill. It's like you were inside my head answering my questions as I thought of them. You are without doubt one of the top terrain modellers on the planet! Top marks and well done sir!!

This just took the cork bark for my tarantulas terrarium to a whole new level!!!!!! 😲🤤

Thanks for being really fucking serious about that warning. Thanks for appreciating our safety, mate.

I don't even play games that need terrain, never have but this is fascinating. Making dioramas is a hobby in itself even if you don't then use them. I could see myself getting into this but what i'd do with the final product I don't know...

There's a spot in the park by mine looks like that, just a few weeks back i was thinking about ways i might make similar terrain, then i just found your video- this will save me a lot of trial and error. Thanks

Great looking rocky hill. I have not used cork. I have uses the excluded polystyrene. I like the advice on hiding the not so great bits here and there. Thank you for sharing!

My favorite bit is at the end when you say 'look at that for results'. In the background, I can clearly see Burnley 2 QPR 1 in the newspaper....which was a great result for us Clarets! Nice vid Mel, I'm definitely going to be giving this a go in future.

I'm watching how to make cork bark rock faces & just wanted to say that it already looks like some of the rock cliffs I've seen of yours from the past before you started work on it. Just giving ideas back.

great stuff, absolutly love the way it makes a sort off cliff face, great for ambushing in wargamming.

I love this piece of terrain and a great tutorial. I'm going to make a couple of these about half the size for 15mm scale games. Thanks Mel 😃

Have a bag full of this stuff I haven’t used yet. So pleased I watch this video health and safety warning.

Don't worry about speaking your mind about things you might have made differently, it's helpful to know about. Cheers mate

Where I live I can literally walk out of the house, walk down the hill and find loads of cork trees and hence cork bark. Will use this method.

I've only recently discovered your channel, but I can't stop watching your videos! Fantastic work :) I don't do wargaming, but I think I can adapt some of this stuff to make some cool Dungeons & Dragons or other similar miniature based RPG battlefields.

Just finished mine today! Thanks for all the videos!

I was looking for videos on how to seal cork and couldn't find any. I decided to just go ahead with the terrain (double layer cork banks with a creek). Initially I figured Elmer's would seal it, then I tried rubber cement. Eventually I got it to work, but the cork absorbed so much resin that it's become more like a cork brick. I'll defiantly use the PVA and water 50-50% for the next knight titan base down stream. Great vid!

Wow. That is one great looking hill and the cork really does look similar to a rock face. Thanks for sharing.

Wow, that cork detail really pops. I'm going to have to go search out some cork bark now. Thanks for the vid!

Gorgeous piece of scenery.

These are absolutely amazing. I play D&D, but man... I wish I had friends (and the room space) for wargaming lol.

I HAVE WATCHED EVERY ONE OF YOUR VIDEOS....AND ALL OF THEM ARE OUTSTANDING. KEEP THEM COMING MATE. FRIEND FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND

Gunterlyk VanDerhoek is der vanjal waj ! Gielie valdernk , Cork ist nys , sporis is danja , vel danja . Ja peta dust massc . Goon shuw . Danks.

Hi and thanks for this. I'm just starting out building a N gauge model railway and I find your videos to be extremely helpful. Cheers!!

this is amazing! Man your tutorials and finished products are beautiful man!

Cracking video Mel, clarity seems much improved too!

although i have no interests in making this or tsbletop gaming, these videos are totally awesome! amazing how much detail goes into making these. loved the video!

That is an amazing looking cliff/hill!! :O

Cork bark is amazing for many purposes. It's also biodegradable and non-polluting, unlike most foams, plastics and polymers. It's just not sterile. xD And yeah, people should wear filter masks when dealing with anything that produces airborne particulates, not just with resins and spores.

Great results and really thorough video - thanks!

I was looking forward to the final stages but then it was all covered in a quick montage. Great work as always though.

Looks awesome Mel I definitely want to have a go at some cork bark after seeing this. Thank you for the work you do.

Great stuff! Really nice limestone/karst type outcrop. Thanks for the tutorial.

Beautiful!I'm going to have to try to find some of that! I got the woodland scenics molds, but it seems like so much work and heavy. I like this idea better

drink every time this guy says "ya"

very cool video I'm not into Wargaming but I use your tips and tricks to build 1/6 dioramas and accessories :D greetings from Belgium

ive only just subb'd, and i can tell you, i am totally hooked on your work, and channel! definatly binge watching your entire video collection. thankyou for the brilliant content.

Excellent tutorial as always!

Brilliant as usual Mel!

That is a tip top hill. Thanks for the info about deadly, lung eating mold.

Beautiful groundwork! Thanks for the tip on the reptile cork. I have been searching in vain for gardening bark chips but it seems they downsized the chips to finer mulch; I guess it works better for gardening but useless for terrain making.

Nice work! And good job in giving the warning!

Hi mate, your tutorials are better and better. Keep up the good work. If it's useful for me it's useful for a looooot of people.

Awesome stuff mate

That's absolutely stunning

The final result is amazing!

have watched 2 of your vids and now I am subscribed for life :) so much inspiration!

Brilliant tutorial Mel !!

you do some great videos mate , keep up the great work !! hope you are feeling better . and 2017 is awesome for you !

In 10:30 you break off pieces that made quite a nice arch. You could have let it be and use it as a base for cave or passage under hanging rocks...

Excellent video tutorial. I've never used cork before so found this very useful since I've been contemplating using it for a while, plus I really want to make some cliffs for some Malifaux terrain.

donkey ages? love it!

Another great video Mel, I'll be sure to use some cork hills in my next build!

Expanding foam to fill in those gaps would work great as well.

another eye-opener! thank you Mel!

You can harvast birch bark and willow too..

This beats the ever-loving crap out of everything i ever made as a kid

Great video mate the safety tip was a great idea well done for pointing it out bro :)

That looks very good! Much better than any styrofoam solution.

You're a wizard. Thanks for the video

Excellent work! Very inspiring.

Cute, yeah, you've made a Teletubbies Hill, yeah

Damn gorgeous!! I am inspired!!

That's just a beautiful piece!

That is great, I gotta get hold of some cork bark...

Looks amazing. I had never heard of using cork before, so thanks for bringing it to my attention. Have you considered tinting the cork rather than painting over it? It has such nice natural modeling of colors already baked in. Seems a shame to waste.

This looks amazing! Great tips and great inspiration. Thank you!

Great video mate I like the bit about the foam I get mine from B&Q

Top work, inspired me to have a go... Thanks

The times I have worked with natural cork bark I have left it unpainted and gone with the colours of the cork itself with tends to resemble a sandstone which is weathered in some areas (darker) and broken in other areas (light and fresher). Good tip about the white mould! There is no good reason I can think of that this cannot be sterilised in a microwave oven. Microwaves are used to sterilise in hospitals as the radiation kills anything living. Put small pieces of cork into your oven on an old plate and give them one minute on 'high'. Take them out and check them and if they are OK give it another minute or two on high. Do not do this with WET cork, dry it in sunlight or on a radiator for a few days first. Wet cork will boil and may go 'pop'! B

Super. Really love this technique.

Have you ever thought of using silicon moulding rubber to make "rock moulds" from unique pieces of cork bark. This will enable you to use portions again and differently for other models?

Thats amazing amazon will be ordered from tonight :)

Perfect! I really likes your work.

Thank you man! ive been trying to make stuff for the past forever and your channel is definitely like inspiration crackXD if only i had the time and money (and steady hand) to create these cool things

very inspiring, great work

Greetings, just to say I very much enjoyed your vid. - pierre from New Mexico -

Excellent video, buddy.... will copy that

kinda pricey but i am really diggin the way this looks in the end. i may try this with a sack of landscaping bark and see how that looks.

Wow Mel, there are times you really talk to extensive. But other than that, thats one brilliant tutorial again. Thanks mate. I will defenitely try this. Cheers, Daniel (from Holland)

What if you made a silicone mold of the bark? Then you could make infinite rocks!

great work as always!

That looks amazing! I would like to make one soon, however I have based my warhammer 40k death guard models with a rocky-grey colour with toxic puddles. Should I still do a green hill, or would a toxic wasteland hill with a dead tree on work?

Hello Love your programs . Let me tell you what I use. If you go to your nursery they sell bags of bark in many many small sizes that you can then glue to your mountains. I'm from South Africa 🇿🇦 don't know if you would have it that side in the UK . You should be able to find it. Regards Shaun

i love your ''keep calm and eat cupcakes'' mug!

love love love love this tutorial and base!

Sculpt a mold would do just fine as well.

Hey Mel. I stumbled across your stuff recently and I can't get enough :) that looks amazing!! I'm doing rock work at the min and that's a perfect solution. after such inspiration my cork bark is on order!! Sorry if someone's already asked but would you happen to have the names of the paint colour from wilko. I've sub'd mate and told my modeling friends about your stuff. fab all round. well done. Will.

Hi TheTerrainTutor i'm watched allmost all of your terrain/let's Make vids they are awesome and very usefull! Maybe you can once try to make a rivier/lake with a bridge on it.. keep going the good work.. bye bye from the Netherlands!

It's not really the only tree we have them here actually cork bark elms! There English elms really just a flaky bark one I have a few in garden as bonsai trees

This is really realistic terran. Awesome!! How did you slice to slope the mdf board? Sandpaper?

Love the video as always man! I never thought of using cork before, I'll have to give it a try. Just a thought though have you ever looked at using the wood chips they sell for the bbq? They sell huge bags of the hear in the states.

Awesome! Gonna try it asap!

Looks amazing!