I made a Miniature HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE out of junk // Ghibli Crafts

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hey studs welcome back to studson studio

today i'm crafting this house moving

castle model out of junk and whatever

else i can conjure from the trash can so

we've got a lot of work to do

look at this beautiful mess first time i

set my sights on it i knew i needed to

try building it

this is going to take the full force of

my garbage collection since i'm going

for a size that still comes pretty close

to tabletop scale and i know you're

wondering about dog scale it'll be about

the size of one birdie

we'll start by assembling a loose body

shape using trash

after months of hoarding plastic i

pretty much ended up blowing all of it

on this project starting with the grand

prize you get for eating a gallon of

kimchi you can almost envision how this

big oval will soon become a walking

castle

get that out of here

one of the things i was most worried

about was having strong hips to support

the weight that will ultimately rest on

the castle's chicken legs

i used way more hot glue than you can

actually see the only thing left to do

now is to paint it clear atomic purple

so we can see the insides

noodles now i've only seen the movie but

as i understand it the book describes

the castle as four looming towers

bespelled to hold together around an

instant bulgogi udon bowl

i also have tons of these instant rice

bowls one of which will be used to plug

the neck hole here

okay

and another one will be bisected to

become the bones of the castle's jaws

all of these additions are just for

bulking out the general shape of the

castle so i wasn't too concerned with

being quick and dirty and just gluing

random junk together solid dressing

bottle the back of the castle has a

platform that sort of tapers up and

outward so i'm adding an extra rice bowl

here which will be covered in bricks

later check out this nut jar

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the top and bottom have an ideal bulbous

taper for wizard architecture the castle

turrets seem to get wider as they rise

which is important because wizard

aesthetic is to build things that look

like they'd fall apart as soon as

they're released from their spells

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the noodle bowl ended up not being quite

tall enough so here's an inch of foam

carved to taper upward to add more real

estate for the central turret

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this christmas bobble will be the bones

for the domes of each turret make sure

to carve this side into magneto's helmet

to fit this very specific space

here's another nut jar for the central

turret as you are learning about all the

food i put in my body

this container could stand to be a

little more thick though so let's bulk

it out with a layer of foam board that

will wrap around with hot glue

quick balance test

bad

we'll make the legs later but for now

these cardboard kickstands temporarily

hot glued in place are enough to keep

the castle upright

this big smile is another rice bowl for

the front turret but it's a bit too flat

on the top so i'm going to use a piece

of this apple crate somebody in the

comments mentioned how it seems

unnecessary that apples are sold in

plastic and i agree but these wasteful

apples are great for crafting

i'm plugging up this nut tube with a

cardboard cap here a wizard and then

topping off the rest of the turrets with

a couple more domes

the transition from the castle face to

the turrets needs to be a little more of

a gradual slope so i'm bulking out the

upper lip with a foam strip then using

strips of hot glued paper board to get

the general shape

the silhouette is looking pretty alright

but i don't like this jar dimple on the

back here so i need to cover up that

booty but don't worry you still get to

see a little booty

on the rice bowl back here i wanted to

add a little cobblestone patio that in

hindsight you'll never actually see

because of how much junk it gets covered

with i've talked about this specific air

dry clay before but i've decided i

actually love how bad it is i can't get

it to not crack while drying but the

cracks always end up looking like free

weathering

i'm using a classic recipe for making

foam bricks after a medium dice they're

aggressively tossed in a dressing of

rocks

this will take it from this to this

wow

with bricks it's kind of looking like a

castle now they call this a castle i

carved a faux stone foam battlement

around the cobblestone area then i

finished up the bricks around the

backside but they really feel like

they're missing a little something

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the back side just like the face side

gets a paper board strip treatment to

blend the jars into an overall more

cohesive blob

and now it's time to bring out the big

guns

my neighbor nancy dropped off a large

offering of these conical lids which

will make excellent cannons for the top

of each turret and they just so happen

to fit in these dollar store game pieces

which will help the cannons look

properly mounted on each dome

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it was hard to film this next part

because the clear plastic is kind of

invisible to the camera but for each

dome i cut up pieces of this apple

container to make mini overlapping

layers of metal plating then i accented

each plate with an overindulgent amount

of rhinestones as rivets

[Music]

suddenly way more than i planned on

doing it was at that moment he knew he'd

have to continue placing rivets at a

consistent level of detail

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the bottom of the apple container has

what i guess you'd call feet which have

this very cute dimple that will work

very nicely as turret armor to hug up

nice and close to the cannons

more bricks

and then another little baby cannon made

out of a glue cap

tofu containers yes i'm using just a

small piece of the corrugation as an

inset for gluing into the foam which

will later house some sort of tube

detail

i just can't stop eating nuts if they

keep supplying me with these beautifully

beveled jars

the best trick i have is to try to use

the geometry of these plastic containers

to your advantage by fitting them around

the geometry of your model

it's kind of like making up a model kit

on the fly

oh and here's the promised tube for that

inset i mentioned and then a piece of

riveted rice bowl for this little

section

but we can't forget this little turret

hiding over here

the cannon i believe is a piece of a

plastic spray bottle no rivets rivets

now we're flipping back over to this

turret which confusingly looks like all

the rest of the turrets but hopefully

this context helps as we jump around to

various sections of the model this tower

like the others features cannons and

overlapping pieces of recycled plastic

as metal plating

if you're a gun pla builder you might

recognize this side skirt from the

ultron gundam which i'm using as a

little input where a pipe section will

be connected to later

next we'll need a fire demon to help

bend some plastic oh what a pretty fire

this gundam beam rifle is now just some

generic pipe detail

do you like my bracelet it's just some

plastic and rhinestones that will be

more flattering on the castle as a strip

of riveted metal to help break up these

two sections

hungry

oh did you know you might have some

crafting supplies in your fridge take

out containers like these sometimes have

very interesting textures that make

somewhat convincing metal plates after

you add a few rivets and pipe details

which i'm making from this lollipop

stick

if you're working with fire and plastic

make sure you're in a well ventilated

area and wearing a mask this plastic was

thin and soft it only took a quick

second to heat up to be bendable but i

still mask up just in case and here we

are back on the turret on the other side

just to confuse you i refuse to tell you

what i'm doing because it's the same

techniques as what was done on the other

side but i will tell you about what i'm

doing here which is making a ladder out

of pieces of styrene rod and armature

wire

okay suddenly we're going to work on

something different because i got bored

and wanted to make the balcony where

sophie says wow water

i'm using coffee stirring sticks here

and thinking a few moves ahead by making

more deck than i actually need but you

can never have too much deck as they

always say then use something heavy to

weigh the wood down as it dries

in all sincerity thank you very much for

this

now back to the deck

slice off just the portion that you need

and then for the metal railing use some

metal railing

the balcony will later get attached to a

building portion which i carved out of

foam off camera i gave it a black paint

and mod podge coating then made a few

door and window details using coffee

stirrers

for the rivets i have these tiny tack

nails which i'm stabbing right into the

foam after a micro dip in pva glue

i made the canopy by heavily mod podging

this piece of fabric then masking out

the stripes so i could splotch on the

alternating red stripes with craft paint

we'll set this piece aside for now so we

can work on this tall glass of water

over here

i sculpted this zveldt structure out of

foam using a craft blade and a pencil to

help accent the brick and crack lines

for the roof i made rows and rows of

shingles using a method i first learned

about from eric's hobby workshop if you

alternate the shingles like this you can

give preferential treatment to just one

row of shingles with a little trim which

will add a lot of nice variety in

shingle length once all the rows are

glued down

i made a set of window shutters by

splitting coffee stirrers in half then

gluing them down with a wisp of

breathing room between them

the other windows are too round to use

coffee stirrers so i sliced out the

window panes using a craft blade and

some scrap paper board for the bottom of

the building it's more coffee stirrers

then chunks of takeout chopsticks cut to

very specific lengths so it could nestle

right up against this turret

oh i'm lost computer show me my build

progress cool we've done some turrets

and these two buildings keep an eye out

for this throughout the video so you

don't fall too deeply into the unending

void of details

now let's go get lost over here

i was very excited to find these

nostalgic beauties at a secondhand store

the other day these will add some nice

roof variety but i also think fish scale

shingles give a nice cozy ghibli vibe

they also give a nice ghibli vibe

next for this little platform down here

that i barely noticed at all i'm using a

plastic lid as a base tailored to size

with some plastic snip so that it can

fit the castle's oblong booty

after a layer of bricks and a layer of

modeling paste i wanted to add a floor

and underside using air dry clay and i

remember there was a comment a while

back that mentioned adding pva glue to

the clay to prevent it from cracking and

after a very sloppy application it

worked kind of okay though it did make

it way harder to sculpt i let it dry a

little bit then just decided to glue it

in place and let it do the rest of the

drying on the castle

hey what do you think the function of

these curved pipes are they kind of look

like human ears to me so that's what

they are and that's music to my ears

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i'm outside now because i needed an

extended plastic melting session the

wind calcifer only obeys master how we

took a bit of patience but the wind

frustration definitely beats indoor lung

damage i also have some of these

interlocking pipe toys which i ruined

with fire in such a way that i could

glue saxophones and pipes together into

something vaguely ear shaped with a

little bit of epoxy green stuff i made

it look like it's been repaired and

patched up with metal plates this has

the added benefit of hiding actual seams

as well

alright ears done who's ready for tongue

the tongue looks like it's made out of

overlapping metal plates i think this

milk bottle should be a good starting

point i prepped the bottle by cutting

out all the rings at their deepest

indent to use as the tongue rings but i

can't remember what this thing is it's

on the tip of my tongue

oh saxophone i'm using this segment here

as the tip of the tongue which i'm

gluing to some roughly carved foam to

use as the tongue bones basically just a

structure to hold the plastic rings then

i'm sliding my way up the tongue with

larger and larger rings that get wrapped

and secured with hot glue 200 rivets

later most of which will be hidden deep

in the throat and the tongue's done

and hey as long as we're working on

details you might not ever see let's

fill out the mouth with a bunch of wood

and bricks

for the mouth floor and pallet we're

going to pop into some prangles and as

they say the once you pop the fun just

continues for an indeterminate amount of

time

if you don't have prangles just gluing a

bunch of broken coffee stirring sticks

to paper board works too this was a lot

easier than trying to glue the sticks

directly into the mouth but i'm going to

tell you right now that i really regret

not painting it before gluing it in

there and the back of the mouth is air

dry clay that i rolled over with a brick

texture roller that also will be a

nuisance to paint

continuing with the list of face details

we're going to tackle the nose next

which is one of the more iconic details

in my mind

i've already started harvesting this

gundam for this project so why not

borrow its back skirt which is already a

beautifully detailed five-sided polygon

i drilled out a couple nostrils

making sure to tear up the plastic along

the way then accented each nostril with

a delicate slice of this shampoo pump

bottle tube after rivets and a couple

more gun plot pieces it's a nice little

pig nose

the game plan here is to cover up all

this paper board with plastic kicking it

off with this piece from that plastic

apple container which is really just

some base structure to help mount the

nose to

for the eye sockets i'm using two of

these dimple pieces from the apple

container then adding on a couple

plastic tile spacers but just the ring

section

this will add some strength but it's

also a new convenient place to add

rivets

and i almost goofed and put the eyes up

here before realizing nope they go here

for the corners of the castle lips i

glued a bunch of coffee stirrers to a

piece of paper board hot glued them in

place then got ready to make those

kissable lips

[Music]

the curved ridge on the bottom of this

thick plastic salsa container should

provide some structural stability to the

bottom lip one technique i did

occasionally was to cut tiny windows

into the plastic so i could hide details

behind it such as this gundam fist

punching out of the hole to add some

subtle detailing

everything was made nice and rough with

a good sanding so each piece held strong

with just a bit of ca glue

and then for the chin that is mostly

obscured on the underside of the mouth i

used another one of those apple

container domes to round out the whole

thing

okay do not emulate this next technique

for cutting plastic i don't know why i

thought scissors would get through this

but i'm very lucky the blades didn't

slip

a hobby saw or plastic clippers would

have been the superior choice

for pretty much all the lip pieces on

the upper mouth go fetch these extremely

niche and specific gundam parts that

you're keeping under your desk or follow

the more accessible option and use

random junk plastic cut to the right

size just like i did for the bottom jaw

hmm i don't know what this is do you

please let me know if you do i found it

recently at a thrift store where i've

been trying a new technique of crouch

walking to find hidden crafting finds

they're usually down here

you should try it there tends to be lots

of broken stuff at the backs of shelves

especially in the toy section that a

cashier would likely be happy to get rid

of just make sure to ask nicely when i

do this foraging technique i try to

always buy something so i'm not just a

scavenging goblin i'm a customer and a

scavenging goblin any red piece you see

is from that gunpla kit i threw up on

the screen a minute ago except not this

slightly off-red maroon piece this

gundam groin belongs to this guy

a couple more bedazzled gundam pieces

here

this is a plastic piece to use for the

eyebrow area i tried to use the curve of

the bottle to my advantage

remember you can never have too much

deck so put a bit here followed by the

bell nozzle of a gun plot kit

next continue dismembering gundams and

take this ankle for the corner of the

mouth here

this is the hot sauce limiter that big

salsa puts on the end of their hot sauce

bottles

after a couple gear charms and some

rhinestone rivets it makes a fairly

convincing rotation point for the jaw

here speaking of the jaw i added some

broken coffee stirrers to make the mouth

a bit more dilapidated

mayonnaise squirt bottle

i need my face aesthetically pleasing

and perfectly proportioned so this was

definitely the hardest part of the build

ninety percent of the progress i made

while crafting was just four dimensional

chess in the void of my mind i spent

most of my time just staring at garbage

and trying to figure out how this

non-existent model kit was going to go

together whenever i got to cut and glue

a piece together it felt like a triumph

oh what a pretty fire

seriously i couldn't have made this

build without cleaning everything i

could from scratch bashing he has true

junk vision and is so good at unifying

garbage into something beautiful

and with that we've reached full face

all right face done time to deliver howl

his hot bath water with this boilerpot

over here

we won't need fire

we'll need this fire hydrants toy

i'm slicing off its two arms and

combining it with the cap from a bottle

of ramune to create the chamber and for

the pipes that deliver the steam or the

magic sauce the castle runs on i'm using

a couple of these 90 degree bends from a

set of pipe toys

throw on a couple more mysterious gundam

pieces from the bit box and it's done

eventually this piece is going to go

right here but forget about it for now

because we need to make another one on

the other side starting with a broken

piece of a recorder i found at a thrift

store

coupled with tank wheels pipes and

rivets this one is done too

may all your baths be scalding hot

next we're going to make the little

tacits that protect the castle's chicken

legs

for the general shape crack open a ripe

ping-pong ball

and harvest several of the wedges gluing

one on each of the hips

and then for the scales or tacits get

ready to make a mess with some yogurt

gotcha

i like the plastic that these containers

are made of because they're very

flexible and easy to work with

these plastic scales make a lovely nail

manicure but for today we just need to

throw some rhinestones on them and then

glue down two layers of scales onto the

hips

and then a strip of craft foam to hide

the mess

what about this very minor gear

component that doesn't really matter

it's part of a shampoo pump bottle metal

gear charm part of a plastic tank model

a bead cap and then it's done

quick progress check

next we're going to build all of the

various room attachments that hang off

the side of the castle a lot of these

employ very similar techniques and

they're pretty basic so i'll do a very

cursory explanation of each one this

building will be nestled under the pipe

so i filleted off a bit of foam in order

to squeeze it into its perfect cozy spot

that actually goes for all of the

buildings they're all made of foam

specifically for ease of slicing and

fitting for the windows some

cross-stitched canvas has window panes

and we'll call it good

and here's another building that looks

almost exactly the same as the last one

except for the key feature of how the

foundation of this one is tailored to

fit around the curve of a pipe

there is nothing unique to tell you

about this little only shack down here

but i thought i should show it to you

just so you know they're not forgotten

that last building was nothing compared

to this absolute show stopper up here

the biggest thing i learned on this one

compared to the last few buildings was

how cross stitch canvas windows look

much better if you wedge them into cut

out foam holes

this building is also a fancy twofer it

wraps around a turret with a wood shack

on one side

this next little crumb of a building

serves no purpose other than to fill the

armpit of the castle here you sound so

sinister

good

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all right that should be all the

buildings on the left side how's the

progress looking

nice uh oh i think i missed someone

there's one more little guy hiding up

here behind this turret

i made this platform to give the house a

little bit of elevation covered a foam

block in wood siding and then topped it

off with a chimney made from a shampoo

pump bottle

for this thing which is what i assumed

to be one of the castle's numerous

open-air sewer vents i used this very

ribbed portion of a cap from a printer

ink refill bottle nestled it into this

piece from a plastic apple container

then topped it off with a bead cap so

the pollution can vent out

if you have any extra saxophones just

use them as miscellaneous pipe detail

wherever

we'll attach it later after painting

let's continue moving along to the back

with more plastic filler such as more

gundam kit pieces and another boiler

chamber pipe combo made from the

mouthpiece of a broken recorder more

pieces from a fire hydrant toy and

anything else tubular this pipe glob

will ultimately rest between the

castle's webbed flipper wing things

which we're making right now

these beautiful butterfly wings look

like the webbing is made out of mini

overlapping metal plates held between

five segmented fingers we'll start with

the webbing i've been saving a lot of

these takeout containers because i

really like the ridge details on the

sides i cut and sanded a bunch of pieces

like this and after lining them up these

boneless wings are almost ready to take

flight but i prefer my wings bone in

with an armature wire skeleton hot glued

at the joints

i'm actually impressed with how sturdy

these feel

butterfly i recently learned from miss

cass about the powerful combo of green

stuff and milliput using a one-to-one

ratio of each it creates new and

improved light green stuff that's easier

to sculpt than green stuff alone yet

slightly more flexible than milliput on

its own i thought the working time was

supposed to be almost 2 hours but i had

maybe 30 minutes tops before it started

to harden up so i had to go quick

hurry up please i made some faux rivets

using the end of a plastic tube then

covered the webbing in more pieces of

that takeout container to add a plating

effect

to connect the wings to the castle i

need something to mount it to

the tips of these tube toys happen to be

the perfect diameter to fit the finger

segments of each wing i used a lot of ca

glue and accelerant to create a strong

weld for each tube then i should be able

to insert these wings into place after

painting is done

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i think there's some sort of illusion

spell that keeps adding more houses on

this shot every time i look at it

from this broken star wars speeder tank

i'm using the windshield frame to mount

a nice deck

on top of this deck goes an improvised

house made out of foam since this

building's on the back of the castle i

thought maybe this can be the bathroom

but as you know it's the new wizard law

that witches and wizards don't use

toilets so this can be sophie's toilet

and here's a sewer pipe coming out the

top

next let's get our hands on this thing

dangling between the legs which is the

door where sophie first enters this also

includes the rest of the junk that hangs

off the back

i found one of these kids echo

microphones at a thrift store

sometimes i ponder the moral dubiousness

of an adult depriving children of

potential toys just so i can take them

home to break them for crafting these

pieces kind of look like an industrial

vent to me

i mounted them on a piece of chipboard

to match the width of the castle and

then added a little maintenance door for

this section now time to fill out this

deck with a bunch of sticks

the texture on coffee stir sticks is a

bit too smooth on its own so i taped a

bunch to a box and roughed them up a bit

i filled in this section with a piece of

yogurt container plastic then here's the

thing i found on the ground and i have

no idea what it is kind of looks like a

metal beam so i'll add it right here i

drilled some holes for inserting some

osha approved railing even though hal's

fines are innumerable then i pre-glued

some stirring sticks to a piece of paper

board for a top deck

and here's a cute little stairway isn't

that wonderful

i accidentally extended the door past

the top of the deck so i'm adding some

foam and plastic to help transition

between the height differences

then i added a bunch of bricks to help

transition it to the rest of the castle

but it's missing something

every build is incomplete until it has a

horseshoe charm somewhere quick fit test

under the wing zone and this door

section is done but it's not the door

section you might have been thinking

[Applause]

i carved the main shape out of foam and

added bricks off camera ultimately this

dongle will hang down right here after

some modeling paste for brick texture

the main defining feature is the metal

scales that cover the top and the bottom

[Music]

the door is pieces of coffee stirring

sticks a tiny armature wire door handle

paper board hinges and a few rhinestone

rivets

now back to the castle because i almost

forgot to pay attention to the belly the

underside is covered in a frightening

amount of details but we can take

shortcuts because it's barely seen

from a salsa container i used earlier i

added a few rivets and that should be

decent enough to cover the majority of

the real estate then i had this tank

tread which makes a nice collar

occasionally i would place some of the

buildings in their place to make sure

they would be crowded in junk details to

hide the seams when i glue them in later

i didn't reference the movie too much

but instead decided to just improvise

with whatever junk i had on hand like

this leg which had a nice vent that fit

perfectly right here and then i used a

broken bubble wand to fill the rest of

this gap

this shot's just for the gunpla fan so

they can keep seeing me desecrate the

master gundam you can never have enough

exhaust pipes the castle is covered in

tubes leaking goop so i added tubes

wherever there was space

if one of your tubes is emblazoned with

the insignia of the rebel alliance just

put a bead over it and call it good now

hold this in your mind for a second

while we fill in some more gaps over

here with plates and rivets

okay good now put it there

nice

this was part of a noisemaker party

favor that this building will mount to

then the rest of the gaps are train

wheels and zip ties because i can get

away with whatever recognizable junk i

want to

more riveted metal panels but for this

next section let's throw down a row of

wood boards around the neck

someone tweeted this movie poster at me

and i noticed there's this little pimple

under the chin that i forgot this little

wood shack will go right here but i need

to camouflage it with some miscellaneous

junk pizza time

these miniature tables that come with

pizza have three free tubes that can be

heat warped into whatever shape you need

next with this thing we're going to this

build to the other side let's fill this

gap with some bricks

and maybe a tiny turret looking out for

any attacks coming from the underbelly

as i was filling out this section with

more junk plastic plating i ran out of

super glue but then i figured heck why

not just use the cap as another exhaust

pipe but all those tiny belly tubes

barely count as exhaust pipes those are

exhaust pipes

this fire hose squirt gun is already

pretty close to chimney shape i gave it

more of a whimsical shape by adding the

bell from a broken recorder and replaced

the trigger with more pipes because why

not

with a second squirt gun i embellished

the top with a deodorant twist knob part

of a water filter a couple pieces of

plastic pipe then mounted the whole

thing into the inner part of a plastic

spray bottle

the rule of threes means we need one

more large smokestack which i happen to

find in the form of a children's

telescope during some junk foraging in

the wild

this one's pretty much good to go

[Music]

i mixed up another epoxy putty batch of

green stuff and milliput and added

various plates and patches all over the

smokestacks to give them a more

ramshackled appearance

for the eyes or maybe their snail

tentacles this star wars speeder has an

engine on the back that is secretly an

eyeball tube

i like the design of this piece because

it means i don't have to make it from

scratch it gets us about 90 of the way

there the only addition i made was an

eyelid from a tofu container the eyes

are asymmetrical so the second will be

conjured from this junk and maybe a bead

i stole from bill

but the crown jewel is the grinder from

a salt and pepper grinder

then i just arranged the chunks of junk

in a way that looked most aesthetically

pleasing to me and glued them each

together

then to make all those random pieces

more cohesive i added a cable made out

of a hair band which is a little trick i

picked up from scratch bashing and with

that the face is complete

we're almost there just a little more

junk pile left to go

oh no

okay listen i know we already built 100

redundant houses but great news

there's more

but these ones are the most interesting

ones and that's not sarcasm i'm

temporarily placing the chimneys where

they're gonna go so i can see how much

space we're working with here three

point four by two point three three

three three three inches write that down

the foundation of this building is in a

regular hexagon covered in wood siding

sadly this structure is almost

completely obscured in the final build

and only serves as a platform to elevate

the next two stories

the underside of this building almost

certainly doesn't need this many wood

supports because they'll be invisible

but i just can't help myself at this

point i made the next floor to overlap

the roof with a little bit of

nonsensical overhang again wizard

aesthetic

and it just wouldn't be wizard aesthetic

without a spindly tower covered in

stones jutting out from the side

somewhere at the top of the tower goes a

circular penthouse with a classic

conical wizard roof

and then to make these plain walls a

little bit cooler ranch i carved in a

few areas where the siding has broken

away to reveal the bricks underneath

chimney

shingles

and then sneaky boards to cover up the

seams in my phone

then a little bit of modeling paste for

stucco texture and we'll call this one

done

for the last little unassuming wood

shack up here i started with a chunk of

foam with a notch cut out to that foam

goes a very shallow barely steepled roof

then a couple windows

but then i realized that this building

is missing something you can see it

right here

and here so i made a coffee stirring

stick cross because this building is in

fact a church i wasn't aware that howell

is religious but in the english dub of

the movie howl is actually christian

now that i know this is a church this

makes what i was going to place right

here seem like a wild choice in this

nook i'm adding a chain and a hook the

pre-made orange beam was from a micro

machine toy then i added a couple gears

and jewelry chain to it

i probably should have glued the hook to

the chain first but this is more fun

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nice catch

the castle is covered in nonsensical

chain gear garbage like this and as long

as we've built this one let's build

another one that gets a whopping 10

frames of screen time

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the starting point is this wishbone from

a classic set of micro machines

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i glued the two tips together and then

added a couple gears and the threaded

rod from a deodorant stick

this geared catwalk is going to connect

to yet another building that will sit

behind the wings on the back

not much interesting to report about

this one it's more foam and coffee

stirring sticks except i did have this

very cute little trap door that comes

off the roof here

hey kind of interesting thing i learned

is that everything's made up and the

details don't matter in fact the castle

details change between almost every shot

in the movie which means if i tell you

this corrugated metal shanty exists in

the film you legally have to believe me

i added a lift arm with part of a spray

bottle but we need to eliminate this

chain wobble

and now we have a nice little chain

popsicle

off the back of the castle there's a

very inadequate propeller though i

prefer the flight version from the end

of the movie so i'm going to combine the

two concepts just a bit

i have this pre-made propeller from a

micro machines toy but it needs a little

extra beef to be a more appropriate

scale for the castle

i glued on these angled wedges to a

bunch of coffee stirring sticks and

that's looking much more powerful

we've saved the highest and lowest parts

of the castle for last at the very top

of the castle there's a crow's nest and

some catwalks the main part of the nest

will be this plastic toy bucket which

will sit atop this very stiff bubble tea

straw here's a random toy beam i found

at the thrift store which fit on the

straw with a little bit of off-screen

drilling i truncated the beam and added

a few catwalk details such as this cross

stitch canvas as metal grating and a

safety rail but we need a way to scale

this junk so i made a ladder out of this

mesh insert from the mouth of a plastic

jar

as a little more visual noise here's a

scratch-built propeller and a random

spout

for the crow's nest itself i cut off the

top to make it a little more squat and

capped it off with a roof made from this

dome lid of unknown origin

i found this on the ground at a place

where sports happen and i have no idea

what it is

i'm using just this part as a hat for

the crow's nest and here's a chimney

after adding some chains and rivets off

camera the crow's nest is done and that

means it's leg day

the castle needs to have stupid strong

stumps to hold up everything so i'm

using two pairs of metal curtain rod

brackets they squeeze right into the hip

sockets have a built-in knee to mount

everything and are extremely sturdy

but if this thing falls apart once it

stands up i'm probably gonna scream

we need strong lower legs too

that hurt my hand so that means this is

strong enough

to beef up these thin bones i'm going to

make some classic bill making stuff bead

bot legs

to start make sure you accidentally glue

your legs to your table surface

and then remember that this is what

parchment paper is for

i strengthened the knee joints with more

beads and lots of ca glue and accelerant

and lastly these chicken feet need some

talons

after gluing in the toes i feel pretty

happy with how these feet turned out but

they're actually the second set i made i

had a grand vision for zero dollar

garbage feet made from dog poopy bag

cardboard tubes and a bunch of leftover

plastic palm trees but the end result

looked way too thick and had to go

and there they are at the full load of

all the parts ready to be painted oh

wait papa needs his checkbox

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i kept all the pieces separate to make

them easier to paint and to make the

final assembly more of an exciting

reveal so take one last look at this

hideous hodgepodge of colors

i'm priming everything in flat black and

then also flat black because i'm

probably going to run out at some point

then i hit everything with a grey

xenothel highlight to make these primer

shots more interesting to look at

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everyone loves a good coat of primer

so glad it's not a disaster now let's

grab a brush and start slapping some

colors all over everything yeah slap it

on

i'm going to use cheap generic craft

paints mostly but for the metallic

paints i need something with more actual

metal flake in it wait what are you

doing

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there's a lot to paint but my plan for

going fast is painting one color at a

time starting with everything that is

made out of wood

sorry if this edit is confusing we're

going to jump between sections

constantly but dividing it by material

made the most sense in my head plus it

meant not having to wash my brushes as

often which is a thing i do not like to

do the main wood strat is a be sloppy

because we can clean up later with the

other colors and b over brush without

getting too deep in the crack so we can

retain the dark recesses as shadow

this first pass is translucent but i

don't care because the lighter browns to

follow will hide this cursory paint job

this is where i learned the importance

of brushing those hard to reach molars

for the inside of the mouth i was less

concerned with doing a good job as i was

with doing a paint job just get that

brush in there and wiggle it around

until everything has paint on it now

that it's all base coated we'll take a

lighter brown just to hit the edges with

a dry brush

if you have to choose between good fast

or cheap when it comes to dry brushing

use a makeup brush so you can choose all

three it does a decent job knocks out

everything very quickly and requires

very little thinking only wiggling a

brush next we're going to tackle all the

house siding which is all cream colored

we're going for a stucco appearance with

this color i don't remember the specific

name of this shade though do you that's

bone oh right bone it took about three

coats of creamy bone to cover up the

primer but you can use any shade of

almost white that you have on hand look

at that subtle off-white coloring

a tasteful thickness of it

how old you're gonna make me blush

you're so supportive of my painting

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okay that's all we're done with the

cream sections now i've learned my

lesson with yellow and base coated this

building in orange first to help the

yellow coat feel warmer in the recesses

i dry brushed the edges in silver

painted the deck and trimmed off a piece

of my painted fabric for the canopy i

super glued on some armature wire but

we'll assemble it at the end so forget

about it for now

next we're going to focus on the roofs

roofs there are many

for most of the roofs with shingles i

stippled on a dark red followed by a

coral dry brush to subtly highlight the

edges

but for some rubes you got a terracotta

especially the corrugated paper roofs to

help imply that they are made out of

clay tiles

and why not throw in a nice purple roof

too just for cuteness because it feels

appropriate for these fish scale

shingles with a lovely light lilac dry

brush oh quick thing about windows real

quick

after painting the panes of this tall

boy i finished off the grills with a

piece of green paper board so i could

just glue the pieces on rather than

having to delicately avoid painting the

windows

i believe i gleaned that smart order of

operations from a mechanical fiend video

then i gave each pane a light green

highlight to help them pop a bit

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for the bricks i'm unifying everything

with a quick and sloppy first pass in a

grayish red that i mixed up then i

picked out the chosen bricks and added a

little variety with a family of similar

colors red

gray

and some tan

and i applied the same color scheme to

the bricks on all the house attachments

too the colors are a bit too vibrant so

i'm muting everything down and blending

them together with a nice warm gray that

felt like it could play nicely with all

of the colors

next for the material i've been afraid

to meddle with

after priming everything the metal

plating was looking pretty decent but i

noticed a few gaps in the armor so we're

filling the gaps with a sludge of brown

paint and baking soda to hide the holes

and add some rust texture

like this deep crevasse that you could

fall into

i tried to focus the goop on just the

gaps but was inevitably very messy so i

blended it out a bit for a more natural

look which i have decided was my

intention all along

and don't forget to rust up that

underbelly

adding to that basic brown let's dab on

a little terracotta to add some depth to

the color

now for the non-rust shades starting

with old brass which i dry brushed over

the legs to retain the dark primer in

the deeper recesses

for the wings i wanted them to have a

two-tone effect a stippled copper over

all of the wing membranes then a

dry-brushed gold on all the wing fingers

then i added some wear and tear with a

dry brushed silver

speaking of silver dry brushing just

keep doing it make those turret domes so

dry and so silver i felt a bit bad about

how dry i was making the brush so i

rewarded it with a quick exfoliating spa

then after a thorough drying it's back

to more dry brushing primarily bouncing

back and forth between copper silver and

maybe the occasional bronze for the rest

of the castle but why dry brushing in my

mind the finish of the castle is very

worn and aged it's a neglected antique

which dry brushing helps emphasize by

retaining the dark primer in cracks and

around rivets

this is not a factory fresh castle this

is a beast constantly buffed by the

elements

the result is some decent color

gradation across each surface almost

giving it a pre-shading effect around

each panel without having to use an

airbrush

we're just about finished painting this

tetanus inducing smorgasbord which will

bring us to the final step to finally

tie everything together

weathering we'll start by making a few

homemade washes but this time it's

dangerous

we're going full respirator because

mineral spirits are poisonous please

wear a mask or go outside because the

side effects of rooting and stuffing

just aren't working

i've completely converted to oil washes

and can never go back ladies and

gentlemen if i say i'm an oil man you

will agree

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i wish i could tell you the perfect

proportion of mineral spirits to oil

paint but it doesn't exist like

water-based washes i used a paper towel

to dab off the extra before it pooled

and dried and here's a little flavor

taste for how the wash looks about 15

minutes later

i love how rich these are looking i feel

like i'm cheating

working with these washes does require

more prep and cleanup but i think the

results are worth it provided you have

ways to avoid breathing in poison

i'm doing several passes of different

colored washes but everything is first

bathed in burnt umber to start with the

unified base weathering contrary to the

belief in my brain the castle is not

fifty shades of brown but many vibrant

hues of red green and blue splotched

everywhere i'm going to add more

colorful washes later but for now please

enjoy these four peaceful minutes of

assembly without me talking over it

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am i enough yet father

not yet my child there's always room for

flocking

i'm mixing up a moss paste using glue

and fine green turf but don't toss this

pesto on your pasta just yet it's not

for your mouth it's for this mouth

i'm adding a few streams dripping and

growing down the lips because the castle

practices terrible oral care i'm also

using this pureed spinach as a gap

filler around any buildings or anywhere

that moisture might accumulate like at

the drippy tips of every exhaust pipe

it's an all-purpose goop maybe it's

pollution maybe it's algae maybe it's

moss maybe it's grass stains from the

castle getting too rambunctious when

it's romping in the alps

flocking is my favorite and i just kept

adding more until it was no longer movie

accurate

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as promised it needs a little more color

by way of oil washes

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we've reached the end my friends thank

you deeply for your patience as this

project stretched thrice as long as

expected special thanks to everyone on

patreon for their support and another

special thanks to demon gummies for

lending me this lo-fi music track

stick around for the rest of their song

and 185 patreon name shout outs thanks

for watching and let's roll the beauty

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