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When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories,
the best place by the fire was kept for the...
Dude! I was talking!
I'm sorry, it was I was talking! At last I got to talk!
It was a bug But at last I was talking!
It was a huge one dude!
For making little fantasy world Jason and Lumi were known, with rubbish that other people had thrown.
Despite being long time friends, they didn't always get along.
I don't know what you want to do Here we go again with the "I don't see it"
It's two days like this already! Yeah, but I just don't know what you want to do here.
Hi guys!
I made drawings, a f***ing scale model I don't care if you made drawings, or dioramas and then break them
I don't even care if you make a powerpoint. Look I don't like it
Ah! So now it's that you don't like it?
What are you talking about? I just don't... I get the castles, the emerald castle here
Hi! How are you? and the bloody creepy one. I'm ok up to here, but this one here
The truth is that I don't come to the workshop very often. No, because apart from that I don't like getting dirty like them,
Lumi and Jason are all day arguing, like a married couple, about artistic stuff, creation and design.
And I don't know anything about that because I'm more a reading person.
You're thinking about f***ing Shenron but we're talking about Smaug, the red dragon from Krynn,
a motherf**ing village eating dragon
One of the problems with working with Lumi is that everything has to be done just as he has thought it out.
According to what you want to do it's the same if we play on the table like this, or like that.
But the game is played from corner to corner!
There are some days that he just doesn't get things, doesn't want to understand, doesn't understand them, and shuts down.
He's a control freak. Everything has to go though his hands. He gives no freedom.
Now I understand Anakin! He's my Obi-Wan, he's holding me back!
From Tale of War we received the challenge of making a gaming table with a happy lightful side, and another dark and creepy.
And instead of making a gradual transition we thought of making a crack opening the earth in two,
and that would have divided the realm into one side still intact and happy and the other drown in darkness.
Instead of just having a crack out of nowhere, why not place Jack's giant beanstalk -was it Jack in Spanish? Was his name
translated?- Jack, the giant beanstalk... put it in the middle of the... I've messed it all up, haven't I?
It's common when making gaming tables to make a wooden frame, using pine wood for the actual frame and MDF
for example in this case as the upper base.
The wooden frame, looks cool, but I really still don't see the necessity for it.
You've got a rigid and resistant base, and also very light. And the gap beneath allows you to put cables underneath in the
case that you should want to place lights or mechanisms on your table.
The real estate bubble crisis has really affected us, because less buildings are in the make and it's very hard to find
polystyrene sheets in trash cans or "borrow" them from building sites.
So we went to a construction material wholesale store and we bought 3 and 4 cm thick ones.
Up till now, when working with polystyrene we have relied on our box cutters, and it's normally worked for us.
But for this game table we had to cut very large polystyrene sheets, and shape those sheets, the truth is that
the polystyrene cutting table has indeed come in handy. But I don't get to use it very often.
These sheets allow us to create volumes for different heights so we could shape the crack into a valley, and also allowed
us to make all the corners -thats where the books will be placed- at exactly the same height.
The Yellow Brick road is made out of the same polystyrene.
Using the same techniques that you've seen us use in other projects, cutting, sand papering, and carving the bricks
with a xacto knife Clio working!!
afert we shape them with a pencil, apply a white primer and then painting work.
In Tale Revision each player places a book on his or her corner of the table.
An that's where the miniatures are deployed, on top of the book, the aim of the game is to destroy your opponent's book.
This indicated that we had to create iconic elements on the corners with enough space for a book to fit.
We knew for sure that we wanted to put the Yellow Brick Road on the table so making a Emerald City was an obvious move.
It's completely made out of polystyrene, and the crystals have been made by cutting and sand papering.
If on one side of the table we had the Emerald City on the opposite corner we had to have a creepy castle.
For once we made what our friend Gas Braña asked for A pleasure of course.
And we've made the Cinderella's castle but a bloody, gloomy, dark version of it.
The walls of the castle we made them from scraps of the same polystyrene, we marked them with the xacto knife, shaped them
with a pencil, just as we've done on other projects.
The three towers that delimit the walls are made from thick cardboard, cover with EVA foam on which we carved the bricks
The roofs are made with cardboard... well if you want to see more about the making of the towers click on the link
to our last episode of "Thingys" (Cosicas)
The Yellow Brick Road branches out as if they were octopus legs, and around that he carved stalagmites with a
solid-point burner and afterwards filling all the gaps with a blood effect leaving the tips sticking out.
And it really gives the creeps.
We've made the area of the road that would be where the crack has formed, as if the giant beanstalk had broken it
from below, making it look as if broken upwards.
We tryed to keep the road of the happy area as intact as possible and clean in its painting. The road on the creepy side
has been broken, we sunk many of its bricks, it's very dirty, and at the end it's broken into pieces, and there's
even a rockfall or landslide over a part of it.
The mine was an element that Jason didn't quite see, nor understand, nor visualized, but for me it was a very representative
place, to create a dark, scary fairy tale place, a mine that holds forgotten treasures nobody dares to recover,
and a place where surely a dragon would have it's nest and it's treasure.
I don't quite see the dragon lair as a creepy place. I like dragons a lot, I hear that dragons eat people...
Yeah. Of course, dragons are pretty and friendly, tell that to Bilbo.
Dragonheart really touched me.
In making the mine we changed materials. I made a basic structure with cardboard, normal cardboard from boxes, roughly
cut, and stuck with a hot glue gun until I got the shape I was looking for.
Then, with a little help from my sister-in-law, we made a paper paste, basically paper, toilet paper, torn up and mixed
with white glue and water. I put some paint in the mix, to get a base colour and making later painting easier.
You have to mix it up very well, until you get a paste that you can apply on to the cardboard, and making the mine walls.
Once it dried it started to incoporate little stones to acheive texture, bigger stones to simulate landslides,
we actually created a rockslide over the Yellow Brick Road, and applied stucco paint, which is nothing else but
paint and sand mixed together so it creates a texture. You get some cheap and very very nice mountains.
on the opposite corner of the dragon's mine, this is on the happy happy side next to the Emerald City,
we decided to make a mushroom circle, a sort of place where the fairies would live.
The top of the mushrooms are also made out of polystyrene scraps, cut to get the shape and then sand papered.
For the mushroom trunks we used something I found at the Asian providers, polystyrene cilinders.
The same, we cut them to get the desired shape, sand papered them, applied a putty layer on them, stuck a wooden rod through
them, stabbed the top to it and stuck with white glue, and when it dried taking advantage of the wooden rod,
stabbed them on the table.
On the creepy side, we had to place the typical crooked cartoonish evil faced trees. The tree's skeleton is made with wire,
plaited, and joining several plaited groups of wire in order to make branches and so on and I sculpted
normal, ordinary school clay on top of that.
For the giant beanstalk we used the same procedure with wire like the trees, but a lot bigger, wrapping it in paper, and paper-mache
Damn youngsters...
Hey! Who's telling the story?
Weariness and hunger had affected our heroes.
Little Red Riding Hood, aware of the situation decided to take them the afternoon snack she had prepared for her grandma.
Aren't you hungry dude? Tell me about it... I had a salad for dinner!
At least you had something for dinner.
Hello boys!
Sno... snowhite?
Does this mean that we don't get anything to eat today either?
Unless we get a f***ing poisoned apple No please, no more fruit.
You! Storyteller. I'm ok with that in this episode I'm in a costume, I can even put up with that in this episode my solely
role is to feed these two, but hadn't we agreed that I was dressing up as Snow White and not Little Red Riding Hood?
Yes... Snow White...
Snow White got to the Scratch Attack workshop carrying the afternoon snack she had prepared for our heroes.
Snow White in the tale wasn't carrying food, or snacks or anything, right?
No. Well she fed seven dwarves.
With disgusting apples? No, with stews...
Boys! Did you really think that I was going to bring disgusting apples? Who do you think I am?
F*** the diet!!
Get out the way you bast***, gimme a cookie... cooookieeee
Oh! Pardon me. I didn't realize.
I was reading this random book under this beautiful landscape and I hadn't noticed your presence.
You might be asking yourselves where am I,
well, I'm going to tell you. These are my lands, yes sir, my territories.
How did I manage this? Actually it's very easy, through the power of imagination.
Look, what you have to do is stop watching crappy programmes like that Scratch Attack one.
Two dudes rummaging in the rubbish to make gaming terrain? Have you ever heard of such a thing?
The goal of any wargame or miniature game is the power of imagination, that's why, that's why I am here.
To recommend you to watch the Special Week that El Quinto Destino organized a few months ago about the Spanish company
Tale of War's miniatures game, Tale Revision, and stop watching nonsense.
Because remember boys and girls, power resides in our imagination.
Well in that and in having a bluescreen.
Sorry, sorry, sorry!!
As I was saying...
As I was saying,
As the Tale Revision miniatures' style reminds us of manga, cartoons, even of ninots, the wooden dolls that they burn in Fallas and Hogueras
the chromatic range to use was clear, we had to use bright and vivid colours, that could even bring children's illustration.
The painting of this gaming table has actually been a lot of fun, at least for me.
Because I have been able to learn different techniques, which as always I have been doing wrong.
Lumi gave me the task of painting the Emerald City, and through this painting I have learnt to make gradients, and how to apply lights
on the edges. And it's came out picture perfect.
For the evil trees what I did was paint several different colour layers. First a black primer, then brown and after a greyish green,
and then with an iron bristled brush, you scratch it so it shows different coloured tone streaks,
The for the eyes and mouth I used fluorescent paints, cause they look very nice.
One of the best things about painting this tables is that I got to paint the happy side
A lot of complaining at the beginning of the programme but he really got the opportunity to unleash his cheesy side.
Normally I don't get to use the colours that I really like, the 90's colours, the acid house colours, that kind of vibe
and here we got fluorescent greens, pinks, purples... not to mention getting to incorporate glitter on gaming terrain!
Glitter... I mean, really?
For you!
The worst is that it suits this table, so we'll see if we get to use more glitter in the future, it might be.
Actually Ive got a couple of ideas that...
Lumi's such a brute, he painted all the lava crack with a sponge and stippling.
The truth is that visually it's come out quite appealing, but specially for this project I have missed having a certain tool,
I really don't know what for, we're the best!
My kingdom for an airbrush.
Dude, stop with the whatsapp already, we're working!
What are you talking about? I've got it plugged in over there, my battery ran dead.
Oh! Sorry.
Of all my work on this table, the piece I'm most proud of, apart from the giant beanstalk that is rather nice, is
the chocolate house. For the chocolate house I found in one of the "material bags" that my sister-in-law and nephew frequently
bring, a chunk of polyurethane foam
painted pink, with it's effects and gradients and so on, it's candy cotton. That's certain.
I really like the whole set, with the chimney and the candy garden.
With a bigger oven!
Well, do you see it in the end? Yeeeev!
Very good The truth is that it's incredible!
Certainly it's the most original gaming table we've ever made. It is.
It's different from what we've ever made.
I'm more used to making sci-fi stuff or or junkyards, bunkers...
Industrial and all that, but this has been incredible.
In the end, the idea we chose for our name, although there were many cool ideas, like Orlando's
The one about making the books? Making the books,
or Toni who told us to make the stall Ah yes, the magic street vendor stall
But in the end the one we chose was the one sent in by Videador, was it Videador?
I think so Videador from Hungry Troll? That idea was to make a sign post.
You might think that we have chosen the easiest one, but in fact it was the idea I had though from the beginning,
True.
We could make some house rules for the environment this table does call for something like that.
That the trees can catch you, or a mist in the mushroom ring the poppy field
that if you cross it walking you fall asleep! Just as in the Wizard of Oz's Emerald City.
Well, the Emerald City or... The Fortress of Solitude.
If you paint it blue, it's Superman's house. White.
Well ice.
Well... Blue, white, ice...
Now the next challenge is to make the same table, but out of sponge cake and fondant.
And afterwards... Eat it
You're hungry too, aren't you? Yep. But don't know what's more appetizing, the chocolate or the mushrooms.
And that's who they managed to create their little fantasy world.
Many more adventures awaited them in the future,
like that time when they save the planet Mars
but that's a story that will be told some other time.
What?
Come on dude that was a great story That story is off the hook!
Mars saviours! Mars saviours!
Storyteller you're useless! When we... Ganimedes Protectors!
The Conquer of Pluto! Pluto conquerers!
When we travelled back in time to stop World War II.
You're welcome! You're welcome Solar System!
A medal or something at least Something! Something!
What are we? Chewbacca? Eh? Do we look like wookies?