hi its will from stormthecastle.com and what I have here is a short diagram a tutorial on how to use cork in your dioramas now I really like to improvise and find a lot of different materials rather than buy them I do buy materials but I like to improvise like you've probably seen that in my cemetery diorama where I use popsicle sticks toothpicks this guitarist Bob quark which makes for a really good material for making dioramas especially if you want to make rumbles like for a battle scene or for a desolate wasteland or something like that poor comes out really good because and it also makes some good rocks and cliffs so the couple things I wanted to say about cork is it comes in a lot of different configurations like them for instance this King dish is actually a rubber cork from a wine bottle so can we get the cork you want from a wine bottle you have to watch for that these are these are some courts that are composites their cork that's ground up and then formed into quark now this is very common in wine bottles and you can actually buy bags of these they're okay to use but they're not as good you know you break them up with a pair of pliers and but the consistency isn't as good as they'd like it what I have to have some more options here I've got a sheet of cork here which can be used if you get see the cork getting the stick you can I would say some important boards for a dollar and it's almost useless I can get maybe a little bit out of it but the sheet of actual cork on it's very thin attach the card or something the best option is to get real cork but real quick and get this bag and I have them I'll have a link to this I got it from amazon.com and I'll have a link to this on my website tutorial that goes along with this video so if you want to buy this bag that comes in a lot of different shapes but you can see this cork is really nice it's got a nice texture it's real cork so this is going to be this this stuff is going to be really nice for making rubble for your diorama and I will show you the steps that I do to do that and make it look like realistic rubble okay so we've got our cork and I've explained all of that to you now I'm going to show you the tricks of how to do it what you got to do is get yourself some fives variety different types of pliers and you can start breaking that cork up there nice spread to pieces and see how the real cork breaks into beautiful odd state see how that's odd shaped like that that's really nice so you've got a lot of nice rub over there you don't want to cut it with a straw it'll be too artificial but that that's that comes out good so I get a variety of shapes and sizes just you know take it up sing on with the regular with some of the synthetic cork it's actually sometimes very difficult to break up you're not done ya think this snaps kind of clean so it's very difficult to get rub a lot of it but you can if that's the only way you can go then just keep working out but you've got an awful lot of of this to contend with so you could keep working at it to break into pieces and get yourself some nice bubble pieces you know I've got some basic Rumble here then I'm gonna using this diagram it's all I'll show you the next step okay I'm starting to experiment with the court in the rubble and you can see it's starting to take a little shape what I've done here too is I've used one wall unit and I've cut it into several pieces and I scattered those around so it's almost like as if this was some kind of an ancient temple or it's an ancient structure and important thing about rubble is you know you you want it to look natural like for instance there's a lot of it around in stone the broken wall and some of the teams have been tumbled and tumbled overtime down the hill you know and there's some near the wall so you know you move this cork around right now I haven't glued in and you this down what I'll do next is once I find a configuration that I'm happy with I'll start gluing the pieces into place and then I'll paint them and it'll look really good I'll also paint the walls push the walls are optional but if you're gonna have a diorama you're not just gonna have a diagram or a rubble you're gonna have buildings and structures in it so you know that settles the rubble will accentuate that so I'll get back to you as I make more progress there's a nice view of the diorama so you can see the walls and the rubble and everything okay this diagram is starting to come along then you can see I've got on my Clark there it's all glued down nicely it's all dried it's ready to be painted I'm gonna have some fun with that and after that I'll paint all of this and you'll see that it looks so much like regular rubber but now that you know the painting scheme will depend on your diorama so now pretty good just a basic little bit of rubber woman you can really go crazy with the rubber ball you can you can pile this up and make this a real big war scene anything you want but Clark looks really nice because it's got all that jagged shape to it so I want to paint up all the stuff and then I'll show you the completed diorama okay the rubble on this diagram is complete and I wanted to point out a couple of things to you and reinforce a couple of points see the rubble follows a nice pattern where it's rolled down the hill either when it was destroyed or over time that's kind of nicely going to think about that some pieces are still standing and it's all painted up looks good looks realistic and I use a few different methods of making of painting the rubble and I explain that I use an undercoat a white undercoat then I paint it with gray and then I wash it with black and then I touch it up with various colors now there's more work you can do on this something like this to make it look even better it's like like these Tufts of grass I have here you can put some Tufts of grass in between the rubble as if they're grown around it and that looks really nice and I do have a tutorial that shows you how to make these Tufts Tufts of grass really nice you can also like something like this this wall here you can put a little bit of green texture on it to make it look like vines are growing up and you can even put some of the green texture on the rubble so it's really good it's good for fantasy scene it's also good for war scenes and it come out really good and cork is very very effective for doing that so this hour this rubble tutorial is pretty much complete I have more pictures more instructions and exactly how to do this and including parts materials where you can buy this these walls like this and this and I actually have the the actual cork packages that I like that I buy I have links to that if you wanted to buy that same cork on my website the URL is in the description of this video so thanks for watching I got a bunch more videos coming a whole mess of videos coming on but it along with some interesting things the next video is going to be a the first part I thought of sculpt your own fantasy miniatures you