How to turn cheap hot glue sticks into glistening model crystals. In this video, I make a large batch of these crystals and use them to build crystal patch scatter terrain for use in miniature wargaming and tabletop roleplaying games.

This is a handy method of simulating transparent or translucent crystals (especially the technique for increasing clarity). It would be easier to just buy them premade from resin or plastic, but sometimes you only need a couple or you want a certain shape. In those cases, with a little time and mere pocket change, you can facet yourself some beautiful fake gems.

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CONTENTS
0:00 Intro
2:20 Making the Crystals
8:50 Bases & Assembly
10:57 Results
13:52 Outro

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MUSIC
"Crystalline" Amulets
"Glacier" Patrick Patrikios
"Komorebi" Futuremono
"Lament (Golden Light" Devon Church
"LoopCaught" Andrew Langdon
"New Horizons" Futuremono
"Obelisks" Jesse Gallagher
"Through The Crystal" Jeremy Blake
"Voices in My Head" Quincas Moreira
"Walking in the Sky" Nico Staf

Images
Cristales cueva de Naica.JPG
Alexander Van Driessche
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Celestite (Crystal Cave, South Bass Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, USA) 52 (8320044669).jpg
By James St. John
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