Making XPS Foam Bricks the EASY Way! TERRAIN BUILDING!

#BlackMagicCraft #Episode108

This is the BEST (that I know of) way to texture foam bricks in large quantities. It is as easy and fast as you could possibly want! Love it! Thanks James Mikulski for posting the idea on the TCG, sorry I couldn't recall the name during filming.

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[BlackMagicCraftOfficial]

Do you have a better way? I have a hard time believing it get's any simpler than this technique but I'd be happy to be proven wrong! I forgot to mention the method of just crushing and moving them in your hands. That also works for small batches, but it rarely gives me as much of an effect as I'd like. PS: After some searching it was a TCG member named James Mikulski that posted this idea. Thanks James!

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[jamesmikulski]

James Mikulski. I was the one who posted in tabletop crafters guild

[NightShiftScaleModels]

Managed to cut about a million bricks in one evening, such a cool technique and video!

[mitchellsink]

As a CNC Machinist, I can tell you that this is the same way that we deburr and round sharp corners off of small part like screws, bushings and other smaller sized pieces. All we do is put a bunch of the parts into a motorized tumbler with a grade of rocks (literally) and a little while later, presto.

[snarkback]

Your videos are helping new crafters years later. Great Channel. Thank you.

[russguerino]

Its a year later & I finally tried the tumbling method of making foam bricks - You have probable tried this, but, I added some acrylic paint & a little water, to the tumble can - I now have aged colored bricks - thanks for sharing this method.

[aaronbono]

My parents got me a rock polisher / tumbler when I was a kid. I hope to God that they still have it.

[AdamBucceri]

I made a million bricks, and I just put them in a box with a big textured rock. Shook it for about 5 minutes, and it rounded all the edges nicely!

I approve of this technique.

[Erioinx]

I just recently started watching your channel and picked up some XPS foam today. Bricks for modular dungeon walls will be my first familiarizing project. I was a little intimidated by foam terrain. Your builds have convinced me to try it out. Thanks for all of the videos!

[neabezshen]

I have to say this made it a lot easier. When I went outside to get rocks I realized living in a concrete jungle made it a bit more difficult to find actual rocks, however there were tons of broken concrete and pieces of mortar around. This was actually a boon. I grabbed them up and used them. They textured the bricks wonderfully, I may have had to shake the can a bit more but there was an added bonus. All of the mortar "rocks" start breaking up as did the concrete. I realized this was actually a good thing. After dumping out the can and picking the "rocks" up and putting them back in the can and putting the bricks in the container I use to hold textured bricks I was left with a mess where I dumped the can. I grabbed another container and swept it off of my work surface. The consistency of the mess was ideal for flocking ground on mini bases and around the walls. Sort of a two for one texturing method. Thanks for sharing this trick so much time saved.

[Illersvansen]

Me: It's probably gonna need some specific equipment that I'm not gonna bu-
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[jefffisher]

Using a similar idea I also paint groups of blocks before using them, put a bit of water in a jar with some paint, throw in a handful of the foam bricks after doing the rock texture of course and shake them up with the paint, put them on a screen to dry. Do this with several hand fulls using different colors and you can use them pre-painted. Then I Mod Pog them with the clear Mod Pog, then Black Wash, and finally a spray of MinWax Poly.

[Splatterpunk_OldNewYork]

Genius. love the ingenuity that your channel provides. Makes the grind of building maquettes less painful and more pleasurable. Styrofoam is so malleable.

[LukeTheWindowCleaner]

Really been enjoying your channel buddy. My brother and I just started building foam sets and your videos are Extremely helpful.

[dukeironfist]

Dude! I was thinking of this technique a couple of weeks ago when I was making two Dice Towers for some kids at our local game store. My thoughts were that the foam wouldn't stand up to the rocks...and therefore never tied. LESSON LEARNED! Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Thanks for this and all the other videos you do. You make this Canadian proud.

[gamemakerO]

I started to make dugeon tiles a few weeks ago and by now I have 2 9×9 4 4×4 9 3×3 and a couple small stokes and 3 dugeon stakers I used your video and it was easy tank you and keep doing what your doing

[simonmcquillam]

My daughter has a kids toy for polishing stones, basically a small toy mains power cement mixer, I'm totally stealing it for this!

[jeremyjones]

I really like that it textures all sides of the bricks. I got about halfway through my tower before I realized I wasn't paying attention and had more than half of my bricks on backwards.

[TwistedMindChern]

Another great video.And as i saw is
James Mikulski's technique so well done to both of you ;)

[johnandrews]

Wow, that's ingenious!  Thanks for sharing.