How do you guys approach the dilemma of building interiors?

Your Canadian Critic needs to be a recurring character.

False. You are currently building a life-size, playable kitchen.

I like to construct my buildings in a sawtooth fashion such that the walls are attached to the roof, but the doors and windows are attached to the floor. This adds more dimension and dynamic to the interrior space than just having a flat rectangle, but it doesn't obstruct much of anything. Also it is a good idea to design all four sides of the house significantly different from each other, that way you can take it off the table, turn it around, put it back on and all players see a completely new building that looks different from the one before.

dude your models are amazing. you can really see the hardwork and love you put into them. glad you found a way to make a living doing something you enjoy

I completely agree with you. I'm running a campaign that takes largely place in a city with 10.000 inhabitants. It would be such a hassle to actually build huge multilevel temples, warehouses and homes. Instead I crafted DnDNext-style building fronts to be able to quickly layout streets and squares. If the PCs enter a building I either just go theater of the mind or put out my dungeon/tavern tiles that are a combination of your style and wylochs connectable tiles that I can pre-assemble.

Guess I'm gonna reveal my age but back in my day we just used minis a battle mat and our imagination. That said I must admit that the addition of crafted buildings and the dungeon tiles and such add an extra dimension of cool. Just recently stumbled upon your channel and I love it. Can't wait to see what you come up with next.

Folks should just be grateful to have a GM who makes miniatures at all

Ey there bud, don't you wanna separately magnetize those building walls and roofs so they can each be removed, eh?

That two story building is beautiful. I'm not a D&D player, but I am an environment artist and I love the work you do =)

Your buildings are really nice, and I dig the interiors with no walls. Reaching into small buildings with foam walls makes me nervous. Very easy to dent or break something by accident. Especially if we've been drinking. 🍺💨

I really liked the idea of removing the walls with the ceiling, it's a very smart move!

I really like all your diverse building builds. I'd like to see the two-tired 'inn/tavern' you've got built. I've been wanting to make it for ages.

Brilliant! I'm sold and will forever make my buildings like this from now on. Thanks for the pro tip.

For what it is worth I make up sets of 'toy soldiers' for youngsters and usable interiors always go down very well, seems to be a 'human' thing. Working doors (hinged with a scrap of cloth, or for barns and the like with a strip of soft drink can folded over the edge of the door with a paperclip passed through and attached to the building) are also appreciated even though they are hardly ever actually used. To save money (I give my sets away) I use thick corrugated cardboard salvaged from boxes things come in for the walls, covered with newspaper and glue to hide the edges. Sometimes I print up paper wrappers to add exterior detail (that works okay in 20mm) and I also print up a mirror image with wallpaper on it for inside. That extra layer adds strength but adding a book case or a filing cabinet (strip wood with thin card doors) to the corner inside really beefs it up. Kids usually look after them but parents . . .

I was looking for anybody who's converted their actual home into a tavern But I found this, and your crafts look AMAZING dude! Not what I was looking for, but certainly interesting and cool

Man, big fan of your stuff. Have recommended your channel to anyone I know that plays d&d or pathfinder. But I was gonna say man, you should totally cam your game sessions, as it would ve awesome to see these bad boys in action. ( you may have already and I may have simply not found it ) but none the less. Keep the content rolling!

That thumbnail says it all: you know what you did here--took it to the next-- --LEVEL!!!! ;) Seriously though: this video marks the beginning of the next chapter of our hobby and you should be proud of that! Well done, Jeremy!

Man, this series needs to be getting some more love! Big thumbs up from this guy!

I am not at all interested in gaming. But I LOVE miniatures. Especially interactive miniatures. and I love to create things. I've always liked to sculpt creatures and characters but I finally decided that they need environments to live it. And the kind of crafting you are teaching is PERFECT. I love all the detail you are able to put into your builds with pretty simple tools. And this method of showing the interior without having to take apart the exterior is something I am SO going to use!

10:42, "The Doobly-doo," Been watching Colville?

Fricken magnets

Since I like to have some pre-made room layouts what I did was make a handful of interchangeable bases with various designs that all fit into standard building dimensions. It's a little more work but especially in a city based series of encounters inside buildings I don't have to worry about building room layouts on the fly, just set up the few buildings and use the bases that correspond to the area of town they are in. Everything else is the same.

Thank you. I've been trying to figure out "granny grating" for most of a week's worth of terrain videos. "Plastic canvas." Yeah, that'll work really well!

This is giving me so much inspiration! I am losing my job this month and I am going to spend some time crafting as I look for something new! This is allowing me to have some peace and hope and I'm so grateful for your showcase as I can use it for ideas! Thanks a lot BMC!

I'm obsessed with this channel even though my group does theatre of the mind...

you could paint the base to show where are the walls, windows and doors

I draw a whole building front on one side of white cardstock that is roughly index card sized (usually larger), and on the other side I draw a floor of planks, cobblestone, or dirt strewn with rushes. I lay the cards flat on the table side by side, building front side up, with the negative tabletop space representing streets and corridors. When the players go inside the building, I flip the card over and may set down paper furniture and NPCs as the situation requires. It's fun and extremely modular, but obviously not as fine a craft or as realistic as constructing buildings, and the scale is not always precise, but it's good enough for my kids, and it requires them to fill in the gaps with their imaginations. Time/movement is node based and in hour turns, so they hop from one building to another like a chessman to do their thing (interact, trade, eat, craft, rest for HP). If they get involved in a fight, time switches to seconds per turn.

Oh man, Those buildings are beautiful. I'm so inspired now. I made a couple of houses before but didn't know how to deal with interior and seeing your house bases really fixes that whole problem. I really like that big stone house with the fireplace, the first two story house you showed, i might try and make one like it myself for my games. Do you have any Blueprints / Specs for that building?

I was absolutely stuck on my buildings and how much work I was looking at when I got to this video and it turned it from a give-up project to one of my favorites so far. Connect the roof and walls. So simple but smart.

These are great. I have been following your tutorials to build my wife houses for her Halloween and Christmas village. I have also been buying minis for the people of the village. I haven't played D&D but I'm accumulating a collection.

I love that you called it the doobliedoo. The two main channels I've been following are you for crafting and Matthew Colville for DM Theory and that's one of the things I've loved about his channel.

Oh man, wish i had seen this last week. Attempted my first building and kept the walls attached to the floors. Guess i know what I'll do for my second building.

I really liked the no walls look. Theater of the mind is most of our games. But thanks to you, now i have to build things.. Lol. Love your channel. Very quality work man. All my buildings look like outhouses..or at least what in outhouses..

Thank Saradomin I watched this. Thank you so much!

new to the miniature environment building but have been playing d&d since 1st edition. love your channel and willing to learn

I cannot believe how real these look. I have no idea if i can get that good but you have inspired me to try

Yes yes yes! I’ve been trying to figure out how I want to make some crafted modular towns (I have a ton of 3d printed Fat Dragon stuff I live dearly, but I love the look and feel of handmade, more). This video came at the perfect time.

Love the idea of having the walls attached to the roof. Genius. Actually I hate "playable" interiors because most buildings we make/use are not really to scale and are too small to do anything meaningful in.

DUDE THANK YOU you are so right on with the roof/walls single peice! Thank the gods I watched your video before my own project. I like your base: simple but detailed, thin to be practical but thick enough to give a raised look with the stone facade around the outside like a real foundation. Awesome

"..in the Doobely-Doos.." Matt Coleville anyone? :) Great Video! I learn so much from you!

What about the magnets? :-)

Hey mate, I've just got into d&d but used to tabletop warfare years ago. I'm not looking at helping the guy that got me into d&d with map making and sceneryetc. These videos and tutorials are making me drool...stop it, (please dont). Haha this video has solved one problem we discussed of cluttering. Keep up the good work. I'll send you some photos of so stuff I've done once I get round to it. Keep it up pal.

May have been said, but the other advantage of removing the walls with the roof is that you can multi-purpose the base. As long as the floor is the same size, and the door is the same location, you only need to make the "cover". If you make the front steps a separate piece, then you add even more flexibility.

I have never made any terrain before, but I intend to when my children are older. I will say that I like how RP archive approaches terrain, because I feel like the modularity of it makes each piece so much more useful, and for playability it’s almost like a legit set. Having fully constructed buildings makes them reusable, but they are fixed as what they are. I like that his walls remove so they can be configured as any number of buildings, and two or three walls can be removed.you still have access, but you can also make and number of buildings. It takes more time per piece, but I feel like after a few months of making smaller pieces, you have more flexibility.

Great buildings, and your suggestions make a lot of sense. Although I've always thought about doing the interiors with the walls included attached to the floor. Have to start playing around with foam core. I looked at some store bought buildings, thought about buying them, got a nose bleed when I seen some of the prices! wish to make some of my own and hopefully look at least half as good as your buildings. You do awesome work. Thanks

Sage advice BMC. I was thinking of building a tavern/inn with playability and this video really clarified things for me. Definately just going to build the footprint first, then the main structure after. This channel has become my go-to for crafting advice. Thank you.

This is beautiful. I never use terrain when GMing, and one of the reasons is it always gets in the way. This solves that issue.

Jeremy this video was great!!! Thank you for sharing, this is what I was saying it helps out. Your buildings are fantastic!!!! See you next week sir!!!

This is my favorite mini craft channel.

I still come back to this video for ideas and techniques, thank you !!!

Really love this solution to playable interiors. Typically see the walls left on the base version, but as you say that's basically in-usable in a real game, just looks nice as a model. I haven't started my collection yet but I'm definitely taking this route.

Came for the building tips, stayed for the Hoser Critic. More please!

I've been wondering about that "bump & grind" build since I found your channel and saw it on the self. You have made so many awesome things. Thanks again for sharing your work man.

"you don't need to put magnets on everything" i am still laughing now haha XD

How to use it videos are nearly as how to build it videos. Thank you Jeremy.

Beautiful buildings and great advice

So many great ideas from this video. I don't think I've worked up the courage to try something this detailed yet but I'll try one day! Thank you for the info!

almost 20 years I am involved in the miniatures games and I have ALWAYS heard of people screaming they wish a playable inside and NEVER seen anyone using the mentioned inside rooms ingame :D PS: discovered the channel yesterday. I am amused! Keep goin'! (and I am a styrofoam scenery maker too :) )

i think my favorite is the "Bump and Grind" XD

"Down in the doobly-doo" I see we have another Matt Colville fan here

Well done. Haven't seen this sober look at interiors on youtube before.

big Fan of your work. keep it up! you inspired me to buy a proxxon and I've been making some small models. I also recently picked up a Epax X1 to make my own designs and Models through AutoCad, since my real profession is Architect for designing custom homes and this COV19 has given me lots of time on my hand. you and Danny From Miami Rock!

Jeremy, this is simply genius!

I think that this is the easiest way to produce a playable interior by far! Really enjoyed the brief showcase!

Fun fact, @11:23 the bottom of the floor most likely would have been earth unless the owners were fairly wealthy or could afford the stone. It sometimes used wooden floors, but because they would rot so quickly it became impractical. At least for those styles of buildings.

Wow. Those buildings are all freakin' gorgeous! Reminds me of a Warhammer Fantasy village.

Great points about how many surfaces to paint, your approach makes a lot of sense. Also, lovely builds as always.

WALLS AND ROOF THIS IS THE WAY

This makes so much sense.

Make buildings playable if needed but mostly make them markers. when one wants to enter, you remove the building and have a drawn-on battle map to show interiors. for the 2nd storys, have paper cutouts of interior w/grid to place onto when/if they go up there.

“Down in the dooblie doos”

I learned a lot! Thank you! ❤

Totally agree with footprint only approach!

It is very timely that I watched this video. I just got given some Styrofoam packaging (I work in Styrofoam because it has been free, and I don't mind using spackle or brushed PVA) from a vertical fan, which gives me about a foot of foam w/ a roughly 6" interior round cavity. I just need to hot-wire and knife the outside to round as well and build a modular tower. This video gave me some inspiration on how to do the floors and I will incorporate contours and/or keying to help align the pieces when assembled. I should be able to get 6 floors plus an attic into the build. - - No magnets.

I recently DM'd Lost Mines of Phandelver for some players new to D&D. Our story resulted in a big showdown in Phandelver between the big bad and the players who were inside the mayor's manor. For that session, I built a two-story foam core building because I thought much of the fighting would take place inside the building (I used a removable roof and separate second story). I kept the walls attached to the floors, because door and window placement were key to tactical decisions. The fight ended up taking place outside the building instead, so a "playable interior" wasn't needed after all. Such is the life of a crafting DM.

Been scouring for videos on interiors, this was some amazing content ty BMC

me boy a copiar aver si puedo hacer las Casitas para mi belén 🤣🤣que bello arte 👏👏👍🇨🇴🇪🇦

Very nice looking buildings . For those that like using the door and Windows you could use sir that attached with..... Dare I say it MAGNETS. Sorry couldn't help myself. :)

My first playable interior piece I made as an L shape so you can see the interior and two of the walls and most of the roof is just implied. It could be imagined as a larger structure as well or have modular walls added later i suppose too. I also like the Canadian critic.

I get what you are saying about not doing the interior. I was thinking of doing something like 1/4 height walls in order to indicate the location of windows, doorways, etc. when the players are in the interior of the building. That way you can still move and see, but you have a better idea of the features of the space.

Holy crap you just blew my mind with this setup. I can't believe I never thought of this. Have you ever crafted furniture or anything like that?

I like your pragmatic philosophy, definitly going to build interiors like you recommend....no more stupid Walls...

Thanks for this vid, i was working on a house, almost complete and i saw this and it will make my build so much better

Beautiful style of how to do this I have been trying to figure out how to do something like this for some time. When I do some new crafting I will be using this.

Your builds are so amazing i wosh i had the skill to make something as awesome as what you make

Very interesting hobby. You seem to really have an all around grasp on it.

From Argentina. You are amazing! Thanks!

I know this is a year old video but I have a question: When you remodeled your kitchen, did you put magnets on the fridge?

I do similar things. I put a 1/4 inch "wall" on my bases that I use for clip on doors and windows ala dm Scotty and wylock

This is great. I was attempting to make the Trollskull Alley Tavern from the waterdeep dragonheist game since i found some great custom maps for each floor and wanted to make them into a model. I honestly handt thought of having the walls come up with each floor as its a 4 story building plus a basement. If i manage to complete the project i will try to post it

6:50 🎵dont you know you never split the party🎵

I don't grid out my terrain, but grids only come into play when things are occuring in close proximity. For most ranged combat (bows, crossbows, throwing axes etc) a grid isn't required, all ya need is the distance to the target. The exception is ranged AOE attacks. the grid is constantly used in close quarters combat. I "invented" a shadow grid for my games. It's just popsicle sticks cut & glued into a grid. My is six 1" squares × six 1" squares. Ya place it on a clear elevation stand or hold it above the minis in melee combat and the shadow makes a grid in the terrain. if it's not melee, I just use a tape measure to determine distance & kite string to determine line of sight.

Your work is absolutely incredible! I LOVE it!

been watching your vids the past few days. really inspiring. going to try to make a very small set of common buldings and scenery to start.

Amazing video as always

Make a build video of some of these buildings!

Man your building crafts are amazing! Awesome paint job too!

I was thinking about this build, and I would really like to see how it would look if you put a magnet inside of the foam, to make it easier to keep things in place during a campaign.

really beautiful buildings!