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Behind the Forge: Wizard Castle, Re-painting my Old Art & Mega Robot

I Made a 3 Meter Tall Robot (Extended + Early Access)

Hello everyone!

Back with a new early access and extended video for you guys! Dont forget to drop your Behind the Forge questions below!

All the best from us!
Martina & Hansi

I Repainted My Art — 18 Years Later (Extended)

Hello and happy new year everyone!

This is the first project of the year, and it's a painting one! I decided to dig out some of my old paintings from the last 18 years and try to repaint them now with my current skill. This was a super fun challenge, and I recommend everyone who has dabbed into the arts to do this! It would probably work just as well for other medium as well.

Anyhow, hope you are all doing great and enjoy this early access! Have a wonderful weekend, and thank...

Fantasy Castle Templates - Patreon Exclusive

Hello everyone!
As promised, here is a pack of the templates we created while working on the castle. This can be used in particular to create jigs for pillar creation, cutting out windows, and/or bricks. They are both in SVG and PDF format, so you can use them with your regular handsaw/exacto knife or laser if you have access to that.

Thank you all for you support, and have a peaceful holiday celebration!

Download templates: 2023-12-20 12:32:49 +0000 UTC View Post

I Built the Castle of my Dreams (Extended!)

Hello everyone!

This is what we have been working on for the last 5 weeks! We have been trying out some new techniques, and this all culminated in this grand project. Definitely our favorite diorama build so far! ... And this time it comes with a rather large Patreon Exclusive template pack that can be used by a laser, by hand, or the best: the combination of the two. The template pack is not entirely done yet, so we will drop it in a few days from now!

Anyway, hope you're all hav...

Behind the Forge December Livestream!

I made a 12.000 page bookbinding abomination!

Hello everyone! 🌸

New video this weekend, whoo! This has to be the dumbest (and also one of the most fun) project we've ever created, turning an entire book series of 14 books into 1 megabook! 📕 It was SO much fun doing the carving and trying out real gold leaf for the first time, and it was definitely a bonus to see Daniel Greene's reaction to it at the end hahah 😂

Unfortunately there was no early access this time, as shipping times took longer than expected and we had ...

Early Access: Cryptic Merch + Sketchbook Set!

Hello everyone! 🌸

Hope you're having a good week so far!

We just wanted to let you know that our most exciting (and anticipated!) apparel merch drop is happening this week, whoo! We've made an early access page for Patrons only where you can order it: https://nerdforge.store/patreon (password: "mangobreak"). There's a 10% discount applied if you order from this page 😁

I ha...

I Turned my Kitchen into a Post Apocalyptic Bar (Extended)

Hello everyone! Again back with a large project, both early access and likely quite extended (just about to start chopping it down to the final video). We hadn't planned to do two large projects back to back, but since Martina is a long term Fallout fan, and they approached us with creative freedom to make whatever we want, we just had to pull out the big guns again. I can promise you that next project will be a smaller one though... This was a blast, and I love making stuff that we will be u...

Behind the Forge Livestream (in 1 hour)

I Got Revenge on my Brother With a Custom Anime Car (Early Access)

Hello everyone!

In this video you're going to meet Martina's third, and oldest, brother (you saw the other two when we painted murals in their rooms a few years back), Sebastian!

We were contacted by Genshin Impact a long time ago for a custom build, but we couldn't figure out exactly what to make. If you remember way back we did a Genshin Impact styled leatherbound book, which was very fun, but we didn't want to repeat ourselves and do something like that again. So we spent qui...

I became a dark lord to be less socially awkward - Early Access

Hello!

Back with another video, taking it outside this time!

Hope you enjoy this concept, it was... challenging, to say the least!

Hope you're doing great this weekend!

All the best,

Martina & Hansi

I Built a Dark Gothic Fantasy City in 20 Days (Extended)

Hey everyone! 🌸

Finally a new project video! 🥳
This one was a lot more work than we thought in the beginning, but oh man I'm glad we pushed through and completed it! Also, during this project I've realized that the secret to making big projects is just to expect it to be way less work than it actually ends up being, and by the time you realize how much work it's gonna be you're too deep in it so then you just have to finish it ahahhah 🙃

Also, if you wanna have a look ...

Behind the Forge: Wizard Study, Dragon PC & Mountain Painting

I Painted on the Tallest Mountain in Northern Europe (Early access)

Hey everyone!

Come with me to a painting adventure on the tallest mountain in Norway (and northern europe!) Its time to be redeemed from last years failure! Enjoy the early access!

All the best,

Martina & Hansi

I made a Dragon... but it's a PC! (Extended + Early Access!)

Hello everyone! 😁

Time for a new project! This time with a proper sculpting challenge! 👀

This one was such a fun build, and I really think it's the cleanest PC build we've done to date 🤌 Let me know what you think in the comments, and remember to post any questions for Behind the Forge below! 👇

(also if you're early the video might not have processed yet, so the quality isn't the best - just give it a little time, and it'll be good again hahah)

Hav...

Prints early access and discount code!

Hello everyone, hope you're having a good week!

Just wanted to let you know that this friday the prints for the 100 hour perspective painting goes up for sale. The prints are numbered and signed, and we have made them available to Patrons early so that you all have a chance to get one in case they sell out quickly. We have also gotten you a 10% discount code which is "ikindawantgoatmilkrn" that you can apply at checkout. Please don't share it!

Here's the link to the print: <...

I Built a Wizard Study... in my entire room

Hello!

First of all, apologize for the missing early access. We have been at this project for such a long time now, and now being nearly a week late, we just wanted to get it out there!

With that out of the way, what an amazing project this was for us. A tad too much work for the timeframe we had, but we learned so much and succeeding in doing something so ambitious always feels amazing!

Remember to post your Behind the Forge questions below if you have any!

Al...

BtF #26: Makers Central, Mage Tower, Big Book, Resin Painting

I made a 100 layer resin painting! (Early Access!)

Hey guys! 🌸

Here's our newest project - making a resin painting with 100 layers! This was a fun (and ridiculous) experiment, and this time I really think the 3D effect is much more visible (although it's more visible in real life than on camera 🤔). What do you think about the project? And what other motifs could look cool with this method? 👀

Remember to post your BtF questions below!

Also, hope to see some of you at Makers Central this weekend! 😁

Take care,...

I made a spellbook... but it's stupidly huge (Early Access and Extended)

Hello everyone!!

After a short break, we are now back on our regular scheduling! Thank you so much for the patience between now and the last video, we know it's been a month since last time you saw any content from us, so we are super appreciative of all of you who are around supporting us even through this silent period. But now we are back, with a superfun project that really tested our abilities in a few different ways. Strength included! Trying electroplating in a project was reall...

We took a break (finally!)

Just a little appreciation post, update and travel log! We have been making content for about 7 years now, and in that time we have been students, full time workers and now full time content creators. As students and workers we had the safety net of a scholarship or a payslip when we needed a few days off, but as full time content creators we are fully reliant on our ability to consistently produce content. Both Google adsense and brand deals pays in terms of generated views in a timeframe: e...

I spent 20 days building this giant wizard tower (Early Access + Extended)

Hello all of you!

Behind the Forge yesterday, Early Access today! Busy week :D Hope you're having a good tuesday, and as always, don't forget to post your BTF questions below.

This is probably the largest project in terms of physical scale we have done. We have to keep challenging ourselves :D It was a lot of fun to work on something this large though, I hope you enjoy!

Martina & Hansi

BtF #25: Old Projects Review, New Finger & Book Painting

I painted on all my favorite books (Extended Early access)

Hello everyone, hope you had a great weekend!

Here's the early access and extended cut of the upcoming video! Let us know if you have any questions for Behind the Forge by posting them below!

Have a great monday!

Martina & Hansi 

I lost my finger, so I made a new one! - Early Access!

Hey everyone! Hope you're doing well! ✨

Here's one of those mystical early access videos you might have heard about! For some reason the "Skjera" in "Skjera Bagera" vanished, so apologies for that hahah 😁

Hope you'll enjoy this video, and have a wonderful weekend! 💜

- Martina & Hansi

BtF #24: Old Projects Review, Zelda Nintendo & Perspective Painting!

I hate perspective painting, so I did it for 100 hours

Hey everyone! 😁

Finally, there's a new video! 

Since we took a little time off during Christmas it's been a long time since the previous video, and so we had to push to release this video as soon as we could. So with the tight deadline we didn't have time to make an AD-free early access version, hope you'll understand 🙏

I also hope you all had a great New Years and holiday break! We took a bit of time off to relax during Christmas, which was nice and rejuvenat...

I Turned my Nintendo Switch into Zelda (Early Access)

Hello all, good evening!

Hope you've had a great week, we just finished our most recent project and can finally present another project video, right in time for the weekend!

In this video we also briefly cover a bit of the LEDs and how we solder that together, as a few of you have requested this to be a part of the extended editions.

Let us know if you have any questions for Behind the Forge!

Martina & Hansi

BtF #23: Our recent projects + WORKSHOP TOUR!