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We're one year old already.
And next year a cake
-Armando Jesús!
-Your beverage milady
-You may please withdraw
-What are you doing with those nerds? They used to ask me.
-Look for a proper job, they used to say to us.
-Youtube is alive!
-Hello mutants and mutantettes!
-Well we would like you to know that August is the worst month to be in Alicante.
-It is terribly hot -Nauseating
-Apocalyptic -Sticky
-Despite all this we have found the strength to leave the swimming pool and come here to work. Why?
-Because Youtube money, doesn't come on its own.
-No. So we've came to El Dragón Escamado to present this month's project.
-At Desafio Wargmes in Zaragoza, Oscar Celma from Resina Planet dared us
-Dared us, literally dared us -Yes he said it several times.
-He dared us to make a prision to be used as a -Gaming table
-As a gaming table for his game Euphoria Miniatures.
-Well Oscar, we've got something to say
-For you -For You
-We've made it.
-Hey! Hold your horses! I suppose that first we'll have to explain all the process first.
-In Euphoria's setting we have supposedly reached a total peace or a total coexistance of the human race
this meaning that prisions would be no longer in use.
-Euphoria takes place in the year 2073 so instead of making a typical contemporary prision we decided to
concrete mega block were prisioners would be locked up with no sunlight nor whatever.
-For this project we had to hurry up a bit because we wanted it to coincide with the last days of Euphoria's Indiegogo
-We couldn't get ourselves lost in detailes, we had to get straight to the point.
-We had to pull out all our scratch techniques and most important of the materials we had on hand.
-And little pieces and stuff of our stash. This is where we went a little mad.
-For god's sake!
-We've seen tons of 80's and 90's action films that take place in prisions so there were many pieces we wanted to put
inside our prision.
-The main idea was to make individual floors so that you can pile them one on each other to make different levels
or put them side to side on the table as just the one game table of corridors and corners.
-The main feature of a prision would be the cell blocks so we decided that three of those floors would be cells.
-The first step we had to take was to design what would be the actual prision map.
-Then I started to take the measurments straight on to the foamcore sheets and draw the blueprints directly on the bases.
-Making this gaming table has been basically like making a giant puzzle. What we did was cut out the walls and its sections
and so on and then we cut out slots on them and on the foamcore base and just assemble all together.
-We have glued it all together and made big blocks, but you can use this techinque to create detachable scenery.
-There are different types of foamcore
-The one we have used is the one centimetre thick size.
-We prefer to work with the grey cored one.
-Because that grey foam can be carved with nearly any tool. And give different shapes, make cracks, bricks, whatever you want.
-When using glue to stick everything together, the foamcore base tends to bend so what Lumi did was directly place some
weights on top so that it would dry off keeping the base straight.
-Using different sizes of rocks, stones and gravel helps keep the ruins looking more natural.
-And there's Jason sealing them off with a mixture of white glue, water and paint.
-Foamcore is a quite expensive material but if you use a bit of inventiveness you can find it in many places.
-Paint stores, department stores and so when they change advertisements o seasons all this signage is thrown away.
-If you know someone or just ask they will probably have no problem in giving it to you.
-A laundry is a must have in a prision because inmate usually escape through the dirty linen trolleys.
-It's a topic and a classic, so we had to make a laundry.
-The washing machines are made from a childrens paint set that belonged to my nephew that caught my eye on the seeing them
for the first time and I knew they were perfect for this, a laundry.
-I just masked the lid on one side with plastiline and on the other with painter's tape to be able to paint them leaving
the centre transparent to make it look like a washing machine glass door.
-In my mind one of the most attractive pieces we've made for this table is the showers.
-We used both the foamcore grey foam centre as well as the polysytrene sold for insulation.
First we marked the tiles with a scalpel and then with carvers we pronounced the joints, carved the corners, we sunk
some squares to create an effect of caved in tiles. You can carve damages and so o n.
-This part is really laborious but the final result is amazing. But there's nothing you can do against cervical pain.
-According to our concept of a concrete mega block, the courtyard couldn't be the typical open air one, so we chose to do
a inner courtyard, and would surely be the only place where inmates could see the sunlight.
-As we wanted to make the courtyard a quite lot higher than the other pieces, the foamcore proved to be to short,
and anyways we ran out of it. The thing is, packaging polystyrene. We took several pieces of which we liked their shape
-We cut sections our to fit one on to another and we cut sections out of the shape of the packaging itself to make the windows.
-As they said on "La Bola de Cristal" (a famous old spanish kids tv programme) "You can't do it alone. With friends you can"
-Several days Lumi's nephew and sister-in-law have been round to help us out and we've had them slogging away.
-Child exploitation.
-What are you doing? -Putting filler on the prision walls.
-You spread the filler on like this and the you dab a little to leave spots on it so when it dries it's rough for painting.
-We used the typical filler, crack filler or whatever, sold in tubs in the hardware stores.
-This is for me, one of the nicest parts of wargames or making scenery, the fact that you can involve family and friends,
with no regard of age or hobby knowledge, because in the end, there is always something that they can do.
And this is a very practical way of intoducing them to the hobby.
-And in the last two days that we had to finish the project really fast, if it's not for Raquel that painted the courtyard for
us, we wouldn't have had time.
-I also have to say that Dis has also been two, or three days to help us, and we've had him applying filler.
-Thanks to everyone for sending us ideas on how to incorporate our logo inside the prision.
-The truth is that there were some really good ideas that we would have liked to use but maybe due to lack of time we couldn't.
-So as proposed by both Maet Rastaban and Toni Perez we have placed our logo on the screens of the control room.
Because in this prision they are also suscribed to Scratch Attack.
-I made the entrance tunnel to the courtyard from a metal cd rack that my sister-in-law gave me that came just right,
plus, now that we can work iron in the workshop there was no excuse not to use it.
-One of the main characteristic features of a prision courtyard, has to be a bench with weights.
If not, it's not a proper prision. At least it's not a 80's action film prision.
-The door that would close off that entrance tunnel is made as if it was leaning, as if it had fallen of a hinge.
-Inside that marvellous world of Asian suppliers, we found some small packets that had tiny silver earring hooks for camera bases
On the next corridor Lumi found some small diamond thingys, presumably for customizing cars. Perfect cameras.
-For the cell doors what I did was use a bird cage my sister-in-law brought, cut out sections, make crosspieces and ready to go.
-Lumi found a pillbox, the typical plastic pillbox, and used that to make lockers.
-The control room screens and the boiler room control panel are bits from an old Transformers toy.
-Little pictures, keepsakes in the inmates cells. Actually one must a have been a huge Clio fan.
-There is usually a chapel in a prision. Lumi this time had a great idea, he decided to place a Buda statue on an altar.
-Really, I'm slightly mad, and I would never finish a scenery, I would be adding details until judgement day arrived.
-Being able to finish this one in two weeks and show it to you... and specially with our record.
-I have always wanted to make a prision as a gaming table, and now at last, well we have our gaming table. And it's a prision.
-Also I liked the fact that we took it to "El Dragón Escamado" and played some games with other people and show them Euphoria
and to be able to share with you all what we do in the workshop in a more inmediate way than on a small youtube screen.
-In the future we will do this again, so keep an eye on our Facebook because when we can we will be doing more things like this.
-Well mutants and mutantettes we hope you very much liked this month's project and that you play Euphoria as...
-Is this becoming a habit or what?
-Lumi, you were playing.
-Yeah, but I already finished. -Well we can't be waiting all afternoon
-Well, you got battered or what? -You wish. I made a comeback with Kabuki and gave a wicked fist salad!
-Actually, this game is lots of fun. And it's easy, everything's prepared we can teach you in minutes.
-What a shame! If you had asked me a few minutes ago. I'm meeting my friends to have a drink. I'll see you in the workshop, ok?
-Ok! -Bye!
-At the workshop! -The workshop!
-The day that she comes to the workshop I'll throw a party. -But getting dirty
-Putting filler on, carving foam, smelling the dust.
-Well, come on, this is ending already isn't it? -Yes
-Suscribe, like and all that youtube stuff. You've got till August the 15th to take part in Euphoria's Indiegogo.
-So, run! -Be quick, it's coming to an end already!
-Come on, let's play another game. See ya! -Right! Bye!
-The is the first project entirely made in our new workshop. Yeah, it's a nice workshop, a neat working area, lot more room,
-Lumi, what you looking for? -Some gauzes I had kept for the laundry linen.
-When working at Lumi's we got used to having grandma around talking to us, we had the computer and watched the wrestling.
Here we are alone, closed inside four walls, and there are times that we just lose it.
-Haven't we got fabric anywhere else that we could use?
-My name is Ralph! -Specially Lumi.
-What? Are you cutting your pockets off? -Yes!
-Just when I thought I had seen nearly everything.. cutting off your trouser pockets!
-Tadaaa! I got fabric!
-Cut off the backside ones! No really, help me cut them off. -This is not normal.
-The laundry without linen wouldn't have been the same.