So, how do you handle your mass priming/sealing folks?

Simple things do bring you pleasure...Like the irony of using "No more nails" to glue down all those nails. Great job.

In the past I've done something similar with a big hunk of XPS with a bunch of push pins in it, but it was really a temporary solution. This is really great and I need to make a few. For those looking in North America roofing/shingle nails are what you want to be looking for if you're unfamiliar.

I've never heard of a wet board before so I can honestly say "I've learned something that will really help me with my Gaming as I work on my terrain" THANK YOU MEL

Wow Mel .... You've NAILED this one .... Sorry, couldn't resist. Great stuff again . Stay safe buddy

Black magic craft sent me here. Subbed immediately.

Nice "tip". Straight to the "point". I think you "nailed" this one Mel.

At 7:30 in, I thought you sounded the Bob Ross of terrain, to be sure. Rock on, man!

On your way to a fine-looking iron maiden, Mel!

Brilliant! Gives me the idea to blue tack normal miniatures to nails before clear coating as well.

Put a couple of rails underneath to raise it half an inch from the underneath surface. Will make it much easier to pick up.

I used to do it the hard way, now I have a new project! What a great idea!! Thank you!

I seen this title and thought "What the hell is a wet rack?" I had no idea. Pretty interesting. I'm glad I popped in. :)

Just a funny observation, but does Mel ( with his idiosyncratic hand wringing, etc.) remind anyone of Floki on the Vikings telly programme?

Nice vid, as usual, mate. I use the same sort of rack for bulk painting minis (removable nails for 15mm, dowel pegs for 28mm and bigger dowels for larger stuff), starting with base-coating in place and then lifting each one out on its stand to do the different layers by hand, then finish with sealing coats back on the rack. For terrain, I have mostly used sheets of MDF or timber off-cuts, but recently I had the idea to use inverted plastic planter pot trays from the gardening centre inside cheap plastic trays on the bottom, which seems to work quite well - as most glues and paints won't bond well with the plastic and the inverted planter pots have a ridged pattern that holds the terrain pretty much straight with limited contact points. May be worth others trying, so I thought I would share. Keep up the content, always enjoyable and informative.

Well...this is gonna come in handy on the new table. No more stacking on paint caps for me! Thanks for the Birthday idea Mel.

I built a small spray box, with a spinning surface. I used a Lazy Suzan rack for the rotating surface then built some walls around it on 3 sides, it’s big enough to spray paint and seal anything I build, and convenient enough to carry in and out of my apartment whenever I want to use it.

im a huge fan of this kind of video, 100% making one for terrain, but maybe also a smaller one for airbrushing minis

Mel I put my wet boards on a lazy suzy from ikea, easy to rotate the board when spraying.

A pretty neat idea, that would work with any building application when it comes to painting, thanks for sharing!...Bill

To prevent runoff, cheap window insulation tape (available in the dollar/Euro/pound shop) might be a reasonable alternative. It's normally about 5-10mm thick and it's waterproof. Alternately, simply go around the edge with a line of hot glue or caulking.

I just might have to make a small one for minis. Looks like it would be better than my thick cardboard that I use now. Thanks Mel.

Great idea Mel! For those in the states those are roofing nails. And if you have the time you can take a hammer and blunt the ends...just so there not super sharp.

What a simple but brilliant idea! Love it.

Awesome idea. Think ill look into this.

Bloody good job, Mel.

Stonking idea brother. I use a lazy susan style turntable specifically designed for my spray both. However if you go to one of my original videos from years ago you will find two different paint racks with custom built turntables. One uses a microwave spinner, the other marbles. Building one of them to place under the rack would allow you to spin it rather than lift it. Lot of work, but it's an option. I found the microwave spinner worked better than the marbles by the way.

Clever and so nicely done, wonderful job!👍👍

I mount everything on to sticks to spray then push them in to a peace of ram foam. Make then easy to hold and prime and then the stay stood up in the foam to dry u should try it 👍

I have seen posterboards with a 1 inch grid on them. I bet if you were to punch the nails through the posterboard and then glue down the whole thing to the foamboard it would be a success without having to draw the lines and glue each individual nail. I may try it when I make one.

May I suggest using some bathroomsilicone for the border? That makes it really watertight ;)

great idea

I need a couple of these! Also, love your attitude.

Great insight! Thanks, I look forward to the drying rack.

I hadn't thought of this, this is inspiring!

Bed of nails - do not fall on it. Ouch! Cool idea. Thanks for all the great videos!

You gave us a good idea how to make spinners then! 😎

I use Paint pyramids for my bigger railway stuff. The plastic ones can be fixed to a board if needed. They stack so are easy to store. The metal ones from Axminster are heavier and stay put. Great for in a spray booth or on a painting turntable the point support is small so if the item is to be coated on all sides the marks are small. Amacf

Great job, I will definitely be making one. Thanks

nice job

Love it Mel, me thinks I will be making one of these asap, thanks for the vid, :)

Brilliant!

Gluing down nails with ‘no more nails’ 😂

A great idea which can also be used in a circus act. On a cautious note... dont trip and fall while using this. You'll be auditioning for the next pin head movie.

Excellent! Added to to-do list.

Just peel and stick on with a 2 inch square backer plate the spacings a bit wider but saves the grid step and the gluing nail heads fast and easy careful the tips are sharp but can be nipped off

So many puns, love it! What happens when you use no-more-nails on nails? You get a watchamacallit!

Simply brilliant! Thanks.

Cheap wire cooling rack with newspaper underneath. I don't have the room for a specific wet rack. If I had the room then I would most definitely make one of these.

That's genius. No more fingerprints dried into my terrain.

I use longer nails then what you do for one reason. I double my boards, what I do is have one board that is flat, the baseboard. The second board is my drainage board, I have it so I slightly angles to the middle and to the front, to where I have a cutout in my retaining wall as well as have this point jut out slightly so it can hang over a table so it all flows down to one small point without having to stop what I'm doing and drain if I'm doing a lot of stuff in a day. I have a bucket under the drainage opening for all the liquids to drain into, usually something with an attached handle that I can hang on a nail on my work bench, or if I'm in the house I can hang it under the opening with a hook made from an old coat hanger that is slightly squashed together and one end turned into a hook and just place my wetboard on top of it, just remember to have enough of a gap in between the two wires so it doesn't get into the flow. This is what I do for my mobile wetboard. For my static or bench wetboard, I have a retaining wall that goes all the way around without a cutout in the wall. What I do instead is have a hole in the middle of the board and have the drainage board slope slightly to the center. I have a tube that fits into the hole that reaches to just below the rim of the bucket where I have drilled the same size hole in the lid of the bucket so there's no runoff or splashing.

Terrainiac drinking game, take a shot everytime Mel says Whatchamacallit.

I use a lazy susan in my spray booth.

Nice

Ductwork insulation stick pins would make this faster and easyer to build I'll see if I can find an example of what I'm referring to right quick and share

I've always just put a few blobs of blue tac under my bases to lift them off a base board. If I did as much terrain as you I'd definitely use your method, but as I mainly do miniatures I'd be worried that that the force of the aerosol would blow the lighter, plastic figures across the nails. What do you think, Mel?

Just pop into your kitchen. Take a look at your oven and see about using a roasting tin with a wire rack 🤔

Could hardly see you next to your bit of paint on the table at the start, hard trouble spotting you!. your jumper blended in too well hahaha.. Also.. no more nails is liquid nails in Australia

Get a standard cardboard box from you supermarket, cut top off at 60 degrees. Done! 2 minutes.

Great vid mam keep it up

Hi Mel! Love the video.. as per usual with your channel 😀 One question, what were the nails called? I probably need to do some research as to were I can fins such nails here in Norway so want to get the name right. Appreciate the answer.

The general rule for MDF can easily be summed up with the quote "it started off as a good idea". Dealing with MDF (especially cutting it, yuck) is a nightmare.

Wait a minute... so every Fakir sitting on his bed of nails is basically waiting for someone to come by and prime and seal him? Well, those people are really misunderstood. Thanks for opening my eyes ;)

I thought that "Wet Rack" was a category on Pornhub? Polly-utherain? Is that made from Parrot Pee? Seriously though, I've heard of a wet rack before. That's a useful looking idea. Using the big, flat-headed nails is really great lateral thinking. It is nice to see you looking so happy with the finished article.

Hey there. Couldn't you just sand down the nails a bit so they wont be SO pointy?

Chicken wire?

Well think this is a first... I've got everything to do this 😂

Dropped you a message on Facebook but basically a plastic doormat

Lol Be careful it's a big board of nails. The warning you tend to think never needs to be mentioned buuuut there is always uncle Jim...

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That things scary! Don't trip and fall onto that thing!!! 😨

yes the fun bit and SCIENCE if well mell did this and cool bit stand on it bare foot and put whagt on it will not get hart as like a bead of nails and lie on it you not get hart if do one nail yes but the butch all one time it support the weight and will not get hart neat stuff SCIENCE ay will see more as he post more to see