 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today. We're gonna talk all about a thing I both love and hate today. It's time to talk about display boards. Let's get into it The strict techno man sir that is Vincy V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vincy V So every year Tom and I go to both the holy events in Chicago So this is holy wars in the spring and holy havoc in the fall These are team events run by Steve Herner a really awesome guy who just has the most incredible tables you've ever played on and For this event because it's a doubles teams to player event both Tom and I put together an army a Thousand points each and every year we have a ritual where we have to make a new display board Some years one of us handle it some years the other this year We decided to have a little more fun and make it together So in this video I'm gonna take you through how we made our display board and actually show you some of the footage of us creating it what we're working on and how we go about you know sort of getting to a Finish display board that's ready to go and at the end. I'll show you how it all turned out so We're not gonna head over the desk instead. We're gonna head out to another part of my basement where we were working on it Let's go check in and see how we're getting along right Tom. What are we doing? We are building a board for holy havoc, you know, that's right. So what time is it? 204 in the morning. It is in fact two in the morning now Tom you did a lot of pre-work on this, right? Yep, everything you see and How much time have you say would you say just just getting into this point where we have this this board built? What did that take of like working hours? Yeah, sure Okay, so we're let's call it ten hours into this project already And now we're just gonna actually start all the painting and stuff like that and detail work. Is that right? Yeah I mean a lot of what is like there's a lot of like work a little bit. Let it dry work a little bit Let it dry, you know and we were just doing some last-minute touch-ups and fixes and things like that because nothing ever comes together Exactly how you think it's going to nope All right. Well, let's get this primed at 2 a.m the key materials for this start are really The most important sort of foundation of what you lay down. That's things like the pink foam the dap, which is a sort of spackling paste And then the sort of indoor bark to do these rocks and build things up as well as Heavy cork and other elements like that now. I've linked all of those elements down below With some Amazon links So that that way if you're curious you can find them And if you happen to pick any of them up it does help support the channel and doesn't cost you anything extra But those elements are how you sort of build up your initial You know ground and hills and space and rocks all the natural terrain is done through a combination Of those elements the bright side is most of those are pretty cheap and easy to get your hands on From there it then goes into the other elements you want to use so that might be things like GW terrain Or trees you made yourself or even more rocks or you know, whatever Yeah, one of the most popular things that I always did when making display boards was hit up the pet store And find cool like little Destroyed buildings and columns and little coliseums and stuff those things are incredibly cheap They can be repainted over very easily And they look great on your display board. They tend to be pseudo in scale It doesn't really matter who knows what these ancient ruins are and because they only usually cost a couple bucks each Because they're just meant to sit in a fish tank You can even do things like smash them with a hammer and break them up and even smaller ruins if you need to so places like the pet store or the craft store are Really a great place to find those additional elements on top of the things like the pink foam This back link paste for the ground the indoor bark for the rocks all those elements They're gonna make the sort of base of your display board. This is the next step you build up from there All right, so Tom here's where we are after priming it sat overnight and Feels pretty good. What are we doing now? Well, we have a couple cracks Yeah, I didn't fill earlier. Mm-hmm. So we have some in the this is a print by the way from Anthony Bulkastro and who provided it for me longer ago than I want to admit and It's a wonderful 3d print But we need to put it to you I put it together But I didn't do crack filling before we primed which was a mistake But you know it they really showed up so we're gonna have to probably do that next and then we also the sides of our thing broke Off here they got they got loose and now this is flappy. Yeah, it's foam core and spray paint You know that happens sure so now we have to clean stuff up and then we actually start painting So Tom, how long do we actually have to finish this today? Probably about eight hours. Yeah. All right. Well, let's see what we can do I'd be remiss if I didn't mention 3d prints. So as you can see we're working with that big castle. This is another element of Another something that's really come into to its own recently in the 3d printers are becoming cheaper and more accessible and easier to use so this big castle is a 3d print we got and It's really great for this kind of thing the nice part about printing especially in this kind of scale is you can really use any Kind of print doesn't have to necessarily be resin though. It can be Generally when you're dealing with terrain it doesn't and especially on a display board It doesn't have to be the super finest highest quality and that's an important point to make when you're working on and painting this thing You're not going to be holding yourself to the standard of Some individual 28 millimeter model you want to make it look nice And a lot of the ways we do that is through things like finishing and weathering and steps You'll see us attack later on But when it really comes down to it, it's two feet by two feet by usually about two feet of space depending on how much vertical Things you put into the display board you're just not going to be able to paint that much Surface area to the same level unless you want to take months on your display board and frankly most of time It doesn't really make much of a difference You need to treat this like a terrain project where you're relying on simple colors simple highlights and then Doing a lot with like weathering and pigment and oil washes and just things like that to make it look gritty Grungy and in the world. It occupies. That's the best way to sort of Sell the illusion that this is a real place for your figures to then go stand out and hang out on All right, so let's see you we got we got all our base colors down here. Take a look Gonna rotate it around there. We go give the spin The sweet sweet 360 shot and absolutely as you can see we've managed to bust two of the side panels off Which Tom will have to fix later. It'll be fine. It'll be fine What are we doing now? Hey, this is just an opportunity because now I can burrow in and do LEDs That's that's what he says he's gonna do. We'll see everybody if that actually happens or not So Okay, what are we doing now Tom? What's our next steps? I think we're gonna do some weathering probably some weathering and streaking so we'll play with some enamels, and then I don't know what do you think do you think we should transition to doing some of our our dry brushing and That some are probably some more weathering first. Yeah, I think it's largely a lot of yeah, so it's we need to add some shadows That's gonna be some streaking grime on the building stuff like that That'll dry up fast enough, and then we've got to then early Yes, it'll be a big dry brushing phase because we need to get rid of the castle itself. It's not going to be blue so we got it we got a you know actually Desaturated with everything, but yeah, that's our next steps. All right, cool. Let's get amongst it As I said weathering is one of the most important things you can do There's a lot to the the weathering as you'll see us using here I do things like use a lot of pigments and a lot of oil paint washes and stuff like that But beyond that just grabbing simple contrast paints and using the airbrush to apply what looks like staining or weathering All of that stuff can work and and be Just as valid of a way to weather but rust Vertigree Dry pigment for dirt and moss getting out some dirty down products Anything like that is going to go a long way toward Making the place feel lived in and credible as a location in a real world All right, Tom, how long we've been out this now today? Six hours six hours. Okay. Well, let's see how we're doing I'm gonna bring it in here a little bit We're how we feeling. Yeah, I mean we're making progress. Yeah, absolutely got some base coats down Got some weather or not weathering, but got some dry brush and pigments down We learned that streaking grime doesn't come off these resin models with all this matte paint with all the texture very easily Not resin models, but yes printed PVA. Yeah, yeah That that was that was a fun adventure Yeah We're making progress at least we saw some weathering to do we need to Work on some of the depths here Some of the shadows in the walkway And then give me give me a full spin around there Yep, and then we'll transition into some full weathering as well. Yeah Some vertigris how to get some vertigris and stuff on all this metal pieces. Yeah Yeah, but it's coming along. I think we're I think we're making good progress Yeah, all right six hours down a couple hours to go. Let's see what we can do All right, so here we are another what hour or two gone Rotate me around Tom. You can see we got some water effects in there now The beach all touched up everything's weathered Lots of use of pigments. We're missing trees where we are missing trees. That's fine. It's okay. They get it. They get it So Tom What is the importance of pigments in this kind of like display painting? Creates variation for us. So it creates what you might call as you say visual interest. Yes, right? Yes and so that it It distracts the eye and directs it around and moves it As you're looking at it. So yeah, I mean we used a Stupid amount of pigments a lot of pigment. Yeah, it's very useful when you're making using display boards There's where we are overall And I move over top of it there Yeah, we have some wave effects that we still want to do Maybe up next fine final steps some tufts. Yeah some wave effects. Maybe a couple little touch ups here and there But yeah, pretty much we've got our got our display board nice and ready And then I'm gonna do on the other side of this I'm gonna do some LEDs and some Some LEDs and Yeah, it's some additional and we'll do some finishing stuff in the next couple weeks. I look forward to it. All right, let's bring it home Lastly water effects. So water effects is something we did do on this board and it was actually really easy Now when I used to do resin pours and water effects I would get traditional two-part epoxies something like magic water and you mix them together equally and you pour it and then You wait a day or two for it to really fully cure maybe longer depending on how deep it is and It's very easy for it to get messy and for it to spill everywhere Frankly, it's pretty frustrating That is until I discovered the beautiful world of paste jewelry making. Yes So paste jewelry or sort of fake jewelry Is made through UV curing resin now some game companies have recently come out with their own game-branded Versions of this stuff. You do not need to buy that. It is way too little for way too much money This product has existed for years. All you need is a UV flashlight And a bunch of this resin. I've also linked that down in the description But this resin is much more jelly jelly like it has a higher viscosity that right? It's the one that flows less And so, you know, it's more like molasses And when you lay it down, you can really like just hit it with the light a little bit to slow its movement Then continue pouring it then hit it with a light again and then continue pouring it It's very easy to work with I actually have a recent video all about working with water effects and resin You can go check that out if you want to see more on how to do these on how to work with the UV resin But it is my go-to for all water effects All right It's all done or at least as done as it's getting today. We've still got to fix the sides Yeah, right because those broke off. Yeah, but that's no big deal. You can see we've got the waves down here Let's uh, let's Crashing waves at our beach at our hidden little thing there. You said you might do some lighting We'll fix the back and we'll clean up the sides and give it a finished feel Yeah, it'll have it'll need like it'll get a new or replace the panel. That's on the side Yeah, I'm gonna dig in and do some LED lighting underneath for the cave I got our little blood stains hidden in here. That's a little what dark deeds have been done here All right, and there we go. There's the there's the sanitarium. Yep The view from the actual front sort of entrance of the place. You're all right Good. Yeah You know overall not too bad Tom, what do you think about this one? Yeah, it was a project less than 20 hours It's for sure. Not bad at all. Aspen. What do you think over there? How do you feel about it? What about these girls under here anything girls Lyra? Nothing, okay. Oh, they're tired too. Everybody's tired, but hey thumbs up for the dog is absolutely there we go Yeah, all in all pretty happy with us came out Tom. Thank you for spending the time building it building it is always the Honestly really annoying part So I'm glad you were able to do that man. I really appreciate it Another year another board. Yeah, what's the lesson here if you're gonna build a board have a friend Yeah, do this as a team do it as a team so you get to hang out and just talk instead of like staring at something and it Feel because it doesn't feel like a momentous task when you're sharing the responsibilities. Absolutely as always Apes strong together. All right, cool. There we go. All done. We'll show some shots of it When it's actually finished finished, but maybe some models on it. Hey, there we go There you go. The board's all done. I'm gonna show you some pictures of it and stuff like that We did end up winning best display board at Holy Havoc. So that was incredibly rewarding and awesome Thank you to Steve very much in the rest of the Holy Council who chose us as the best display boards That was very rewarding certainly After you know all the work that we put into it. I'm very proud of this board and what we made Let's look at it. So here's, you know, the board and how it ended up looking with all of our models on it and I think it came out pretty cool all in all you can see that this you know sort of room you kind of see it in the background This room is just full of amazing display boards I really like how ours came out and how it finished But there's a bunch of other awesome display boards in this room looking around I was absolutely blown away by the displays from everybody and One of the things I'll say is though I often hate display boards because once I'm done with the tournament I don't know what to do with the thing They're very hard to store and stuff like that I will say being at the tournament and looking at all the incredible displays that everybody made Looking at all this awesome art that was that was there for me to sort of take in all these armies laid out on them I have to say it was Pretty darn cool. So darn it display boards. You got me one more time But there's ultimately how ours came out couldn't be happier with it. Thank you again, Steve very happy that we took home the prize there for best display board and As always I want to say thank you very much for watching this if you liked it give it a like Subscribe for additional hobby cheating We have new videos here every Saturday if you've got questions on display board or boards or anything hobby related Drop that down in the comments below if you want to support the channel as I mentioned There's links to everything for the display board down in the description below Those are Amazon links if you go click through those and then buy any of those products or anything else through the link It helps support the channel and I really appreciate it if you want to there's also merch We also publish games myself with Uncle Adam's part of snarling Badger Studios. 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