I'm getting there bud, bit more tweaking to go!

Welcome to the hobby mate, crack on! ;-)

As soon as I saw that I felt a bit silly! Time to get some pukka pies in lad!!!! Mince pie and mini mince pies tines perfect!

Crack on!

Thanks bud

Superglue for the win!

Bill, you've just saved my sanity. My lovely clay rings slipped clean off the mdf once dry. Cheers mate.

Probably going way to serious :). But other factors can affect trajectories of artillery shells, cannon balls and bombs. like change in wind direction (which affects long distance shots). Also manufacture quality of the gun and shell can cause variation, which can cause shots to lean side to side or fall short of the target. both could explain the pattern of craters on Mel's piece. Any how they are brilliant and simple to make craters!

Agreed. I was thinking specifically ACW cannon fire, but you are correct.

All good answer but it's kinda down to that's the most memorable layout for me

Awesome, thank you!

Yeah?

Check the back to basics playlist bud, there's a few in there

I'd use the fire trenches I did in the trenchs lets make mate

Watered down PVA glue, is the standard go-to Mel uses.

Ah right, thanks

They're just either 3mm mdf or a cd mate

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Thank you kindly good sir!

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Thanx buddy.... let's check out if the deliver to Germany

HTL World, bei Karstadt haben die, meines Wissens, auch modeliermasse :D

Don't water down the pva too much when you glue it down and then remember to seal it with watered down pva

Sounds like they didn't bind, next time a little water on the base will help a lot mate, with the current piece, just glue them back on with a little pva mate ;-)

+TheTerrainTutor all sorted Mel. I am the proud new owner of 6 snowscape craters. You are a bloomin' genius mate. My son is chuffed to bits 👍

a bit of mud and grit mate, just around the bottoms

Thanks matey -appreciate it.

No reason why not mate

If you're going to do have, you might as well just make it out of other material matey

If you can get it thin enough mate

you'd still have the shiny cracks issue and if you're going to use foam, you might as well make it from foam mate

matt walling and ceiling paint

watered down pva

Thanks

Using a squirt bottle is helpful and easy for application.

I suppose you could but it would probably suit concrete/urban rather than field craters mate

Yeah your right it's better for that I'm still doing a siege project and owe alot of my success to your brilliant vids :-)

Forbidden Planet, but its online here - www.allposters.co.uk/-sp/The-Legend-Of-Zelda-Hyrule-Map-Posters_i15093009_.htm

now that's especially cheap :D

not for craters as such

Normally it just needs basing in a similiar style mate

TheTerrainTutor thanks mate, I’m new to this and currently working overseas. When I get home I want to start my own Diorama. I have been watching all your videos and it’s been amazing and given lots of sound advice. I’m a former royal marine and have been looking for some inspiration from your videos. Thanks for the response

Javis Scenics is where I get mine

TheTerrainTutor Thank you. I was sure that you produced it himself😉

TheTerrainTutor Maybe you know how to do flock to the house? Maybe filings (sawdust), PVA and paint?

Fill any gaps with a bit of filler mate but wetting the cd before applying the DAS really helps

sieved ballast

Only the best for my terrain!

Elmers

That a bit like the build overviews mate, I'm trying to keep the let's make concise but I (it's a me thing) still feel that I should show each step being done, even if only a small part. It feels more like teaching than explaining that way ;-)

I know, mate. I liked the old tutorials and I always enjoyed your rambling as well, but I also understand the appeal of professional development for your patreons and additional viewers and I'm sure you won't scare your old followers away by tightening the flow of your videos. I must admit you made big steps the last months or even weeks so I'm happy if I can help by supplying my observation. I'm not saying you should leave out things that need deeper explanation. But if you review the bit I was referring to or some of the moments in the sandbag video, these are rather easy bits you first explain and then kind of repeat it by showing. If you mix that up and bring your explanation into the part where you present the result of your repetitve action (that you left out) you'll be straightening that up for the viewer, who will receive both info and result at once in a single package. Either way, it's the content I'm interested in, so I'm watching anyway, but I think it will push your presentation foreward a tiny bit.

Completely get what you're saying mate and agree but like many things on here, they may not be the right way to produce vids but it feels right to me. Essentially, you're right, I know you're right but I don't want to offend you by saying I'm still doing it my way, I just feel so strongly (personally) that I should explain and show. That being said, I am making a mental note to move towards explaining while showing, after pointing it out, I have noticed there's a definitive theory then practical approach that runs as an undertone to my vids. Just to give you a heads up, the original in-depth stuff hasn't stopped, just a break while I get settled into the new studio. The plan is to have an equal balance between lets make (complete pieces) and in-depth (technique/technical) vids in the future. I hoping the nature of the let's makes (actually building complete stuff) will let me off the hook on the indepth stuff, so I can go really indepth (and ramble) on very focused topics without having to produce a full finished piece with all the added instructions. Fingers crossed, those that just want to know how to build xy and z will have complete focused tutorials with the lets makes and the true terrainiacs will have the indepth stuff to expand their skill base without the added repetition. Feel free to give it a month and feedback again, although no too frequently, I'm a rather slow typer so can't promise such a comprehensive answer as this time but I thought you deserved the effort on this ;-)

Glad you're giving this a thought, mate and your efforts are much appreciated. I'm probably a much faster typer than I'm a thinker in English as it is still my second language. So that is what slows me down a bit. Anyway, even if I wouldn't like you, you wouldn't offend me by having your own way. I expect people to be honest as anything else is just distracting. I know you're a reasonable person and take your time considering things, so it's all fine. :) I also don't think there's a wrong way in doing videos, just conventions viewers are trained to receive. This can be even seen as a tool in theory, break patterns and codes to archieve a certain effect or follow them to guide recipients. I also think the theory then practical has it's place with the in-depth sections. That's your scientific proposal of what, how and why you want to research before you start experimenting and then finish with your analysation. Of course it makes sense as basic structure for a let's make as well, but it's a question of economics in detail how you process the presentation. I'm just watching the channel for a year or so, but it's enough to have recognized you experimenting with speeding up or jump cutting so I think there's the itch in you to make it more compact compared to just letting it roll like in the beginning. And I think for the let's makes it's the perfect approach to be more compact, because average viewers neither have time nor patience. Believe me, I've been writing music and movie reviews for two decades and I'm still on the painfull route of killing my darlings, that's how they call getting rid of your habbits, don't they? So maybe if you want to make these videos more compact, try setting up goals. That's what I learned about writing, where goals can be to analyze yourself when writing and try to use or avoid certain types of words or stay within limits. That's like learning to gain control. A thinkpiece of my pointed out example probably would be ask yourself if you're explaining things that are going to be (self-)explained. Like "I'm going to play you music while I'm doing this" and then you play music. People will get that anyway. If I were you and wanted to play with my viewers, I'd shoot a complete video without yeahs and watchacallits, you know we love for this, so just try to tease with it and see if anything happens. If you're crazy enough look at this video and think about how much more you could speed up something in the same vein and then try doing it even two or three minutes faster. I know you're creative, so maybe to archieve this you discover overdubbing as an off-narrator in the middle section will help you tighten that part for example. You've taken so many huge steps recently I'm curiously waiting what surprise you come up with next and of course I'm looking forward to the more in-depth stuff as well. I guess in the end we're all tinkerers loving whatever we do and trying to get better at it our pace and that's what makes us "alike". Hope you take my feedback as positive and encouraging as it's ment, because I sure wouldn't take the time watching and taking part if I wouldn't appreciate what you created with the channel, mate. So, let's make! :)

That's a lot to take in mate, baby steps hey lol

Never seen the stuff before and by the looks of it, they don't ship to the UK mate

Bummer! It's fun stuff, you'd like it!