Sculpting Realistic MINECRAFT Diorama ｜Air Dry Clay

the other day I was hanging out with two of my biggest fans when Sebastian asked me my favorite looking gamer YouTuber well because I'm more of a clay type of YouTuber but we made a compromise I promise to sculpt him and his sister a custom-made Minecraft diorama I decided to go all out and make everything from scratch including the clay for this DIY clay recipe you'll need a few simple ingredients I did a more detailed tutorial on this a few weeks back if you're Keen to have a go yourself [Music] after a trip to the microwave and a bit of kneading the dough will be soft and flexible without sticking to your hands if it pulls apart like this you've likely added too much cornstarch instead it just separates smoothly like a teardrop now the clay is ready to be mined into all the different materials I'll need for my diorama so I divide it up into the different portions with acrylic paint foreign [Music] Contraption from wood to create a little Cube Factory line but I didn't account for the softness of the clay making it impossible to cut the squares straight away without it all just sticking to itself instead I make a second device to square everything off and then luckily there's a thing in Minecraft called night time giving me the perfect excuse to let the clay dry up a bit and while the air dry clay does its thing I've made this little Montage of me sculpting all the other elements for the diorama [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign this last part A little but since daytime has come back around I'm going to return to my cutting device and this time it works like a dream then I use this DIY Gallatin to split my bars and make some thinner planks for building a deck and a pier [Music] once all my materials have hardened it's finally time to construct the diorama I've decided it's going to be a swamp cottage which I imagine will look a little bit like this chalk masterpiece I'm gluing everything together with super glue but you can also use hot glue or of course PVA glue as that is literally what the clay is made of [Music] foreign [Music] I'm using planks to construct the dip and adding some pillars so we can race the house high above the resin swamp that will go underneath [Music] foreign of course it's not a swamp without oak trees and Vines so now it's time to assemble some Greenery [Music] and in order to have something to attach everything onto here's a real piece of wood that I prepared earlier I'm sealing it with PVA glue and once that has dried and gone clear it's ready for the house to move in or on or whatever houses do [Music] foreign to keep stiff dry on rainy days it's time to step up the pace before nighttime catches up so I'm hot gluing all my grass and dirt to the base in preparation for the rest and pour that's coming up next and which will really make this swamp come to life [Music] foreign [Music] I need to seal the edges and build up a wall so the resin stays where I want it I'm building the walls on plastic packaging which I'm bending to the shape I want and then hot gluing along the base [Music] the epoxy resin is a two to one ratio between part a and Part B [Music] I'm also adding a touch of ink to give the swamp order a slightly dirty look then I mix the patch together and stir until the color is mixed evenly [Music] I'm pouring the resin high and slow which helps any small air bubbles to escape [Music] I also decide to add a bit more ink to the surface and I'm loving how it's starting to look like algae foreign [Music] has cured I could remove my plastic walls and though there's a little bit of cleanup needed on the edges this is going to look amazing when it's finished I'm making a few details stand out with a bit of paint and then I'm going to add an edge wash over the whole building to tie everything together a bit more [Music] after waiting down the house I slept around a thick acrylic wash before wiping it all off again on the high points [Music] then I'm adding a few extra Vines to the house and some more colorful plant specimens to brighten up the landscape [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] wait did you notice the boat there yeah I decided the house needed some occupants so I went ahead and sculpted a little boat and a Minecraft boy and a Minecraft girl to resemble the two tiny humans that this model is dedicated to I also decided to cheat a little and sculpt them in polymer clay so I wouldn't have to go through another nighttime cycle for more DIY clay to dry [Music] foreign place it's finally time for some beauty shots [Music] foreign the final result to my little fans [Music] Minecraft Minecraft Minecraft Minecraft [Laughter] [Music]