Spooky Gold Mine With An Unwelcome Guest

#WildWest #Mine #Spider
This week I made a mine! This gold mine in the wilds of the Imaginary West is occupied by a extra large and terrifying spider. This build was inspired by Terraria, Minecraft, Stephen Biesty's incredible cross sections, and @LukeTowan

Materials:
XPS Foam
Balsa Wood

Supplies and Equipment:

Paint List:
Citadel Contrast Wyldwood
Citadel Reikland Fleshshade
Citadel Nuln Oil
Vallejo Mahogany
Vallejo Dark Vermillion
Vallejo Gloss Black
Vallejo Medium Gray
Citadel Agrax Earthshade

Music:
MojaveSundown - Richard Keefer
Gallop - Tony Petersen
Back Home - Turpak
Pedros Last Stand - Joel Schwartz
Relax Yourself - Sleeping Ghost
Slow - Otno
Blood Moon - Kevin Graham

Disclaimer: Some of the actions seen in my videos could cause bodily harm. I am not responsible for anything you do while attempting to recreate what you see me do.

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[francisco]

Hear me out, a market where the hunters sell their loot. Like with scales for weighting, different merchants with monster parts, cages with monsters inside (which I believe we still don't have). You can make it big witha lot of open space. It would be a great addition to the town!!!

[rlt]

The spider isn't there to kill anyone. She's there to help with the mining. It's her silk that's holding the elevator. She's surprisingly adept at helping them all out and is earning her full share of the profits :)

[StudsonStudio]

The Californians delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of the Rockies... shadow and web.

[zacharykamm]

The concept of a spider so big it fills an entire tunnel like an octopus in a bucket is terrifying.

[taylormarcellin]

Being a miner myself and doing rehab work on old mines in Alaska, this is pretty much spot on. The only thing I’d have to say is that the headings the old miners tunneled into were only about 3 feet tall by 2 feet wide. They did that for ground support and didn’t use any timbers in the headings, only on the main foot wall (main access tunnel). Still a very spot on diorama!

[TheLawDawg]

I work in the mining industry in CA and I find your diorama very convincing. The old timers made setups like that all the time. Not sure how many giant spiders they had to fight but who knows. Good job.

[sgtpepperspray]

That "Californian's favorite colors" joke was seriously brilliant.

[philsoldierX]

YouTube’s recommendations seems to have lead to another side of YouTube I never knew I would love. I really do love watching the craft of people with more skill than me make some incredible things.

[consumeproduce]

I had all the Stephen Biesty books as a kid. loved the pirate ship one. held on to them for over 20 years so I could finally give them to my nephew when he got old enough to appreciate them. there's something mesmerizing about cross sections.

[randomnumbergenerator-tx]

The red and blue joke was so good. Good job on the build!

[UnShredded]

Oh God I wish the tour of the final result would've been longer, your work is unbelievable, it transported my mind to a remote location. I was running a million stories on my head but it ended abruptly. Amazing work.

[Jarethenator]

Do you have a mini museum where you keep all of these pieces? They're all excellent and theme so well together.

[AussieBall_Animations]

This model looks FANTASTIC! If this does not turn into a movie i’m rioting

[carlosspeicywiener]

There's a model of the orphan girl and neversweat mines in a museum in my hometown. First, I can't believe how enormous it was, at one point, there was more room underground than in the town, a lot more. Second, I always thought it was just creepy looking and just frightening thinking about being that far down and so far away from any exit or anything. Now add the possibility of a creature of some kind, well that's a solid nope for me. I'll just go work in the fields, where at least you can see the monster coming.

[nlrexx]

genuinely impressive build. I love hearing your process for making these.

[FTCloser]

Now that's a cool build! I have an idea for another in the Imaginary Wild West. Could be a scene on a meandering river (the people LOVE resin) with a boat that uses a mech leg as a pushpole to move along in the shallow water. It could stumble across a giant crawfish in the riverbank or something like that, or maybe it's a logging boat that comes across a giant beaver and dam.

[x_gldwlf_x]

Epic video, I can't believe you made that all (mostly) by hand! Also I loved the terraria shoutout.

[completelysober]

A cool one would be a lone traveler camping next to a fire in the woods, but spread between the trees is a pack of small monsters. The light coming from the central location of the flame would be cool.

[Themaxwithnoname]

I met Stephen Biesty as a kid, and got him to sign his then latest book which was Castle.

My mom took me to an event at the local excellent kids book store, Wild Rumpus, Biesty was supposed to be signing books and having an event there like an hour later, and I figured that we'd totally avoid the wait if we showed up early.

So we did. I told him how much I loved Man o War, and he pointed out some of the other details in Castle, like the kissing couple that appears in each image, who isn't the spy.

Cool guy.

[AFreakingAxeCH]

The way this looks, the Spider looks like it's just chilling with the miners and having a little chat with them while they work