Lindybeige

A history of early motor cars, while making a model of what is supposedly the world's first car, but is it? This video was an utter nightmare to edit. It involved many days of work, very numerous and inexplicable computer crashes, the sudden loss of two days' work, and multiple attempts to render, s

The last in the current run of scenery videos. There will be more one day, but this is enough for now. You may note that the thumbnail has been used before. One of the comments in the last dungeon scenery video was that I would get far more clicks if I showed the whole layout than with an arty compo

It is a follow-up to the other recent one on dungeon scenery, which I hoped crafters of that sort of thing would find inspirational. I have called it 'More Inspirational Dungeon Scenery' and you can decide for yourselves which word in that title is described by 'more'. Yes, the title on the thumbnai

I haven't done one on this topic for years. Here, I take you through the scenery I made at my last house, which has been sitting on the shelves, waiting for the day. Model dungeon scenery to inspire the would-be evil overlord, part one. (YouTube)

A new project. A new hope. My next suit of armour (YouTube)

A viewer generously sent me some retted flax, and with with my friend Mark, I made a bowstring out of it. Did it work? Watch and see! Making my own bowstring (YouTube)

With one week to go to Tewkesbury, could I get my armour to a wearable state? Includes ancient Egypt, and some spectacular cradles. Can I finish my armour in one week? (YouTube)

I had to get my armour ready for the refight of the Battle of Tewkesbury. Here, you see me spend a day at the workshop, where several things were sorted out. Racing to get my armour ready (YouTube)

I hit hot metal with a hammer a lot! I talk about this and that. Then more hitting! Ever met a journeyman? I have! Forging an arrowhead - plus digressions (YouTube)

Never restrict yourself to things that you are good at. Also, never try to make your first basket and a video at the same time. Learn from me. Basketry - the ancient versatile craft, as demonstrated by an incompetent (YouTube)

Back to making things at long last! I motor-mouth my way through hacking up bits of plastic foam, and make some model scenery. Making models with a hot-wire cutter (YouTube)

Remember that sword? 'Arnander'? I have managed to find time to get back to it. Forging a sword - part four: linishing and quillons (YouTube)

No special lightsabre effects were used. It really looked like that. Forging a Sword - part three: heat treatment (YouTube)

You are getting this one a day early. The riff raff will see it tomorrow. Decent model shops are getting rare. Helsinki has two, and one allowed me to shoot a video inside it. Some reminiscing, and some mild ranting. Proper Model Making - a rant against the decline of good model shops (YouTube)

Arnander takes shape! Forging a Sword - part two: fuller, bevels, straightening (YouTube)

The mighty Arnander takes shape! Here is how I hammered some steel into something a bit sword-shaped. Forging a sword: part one - the basic shape (YouTube)

I was the guest of The Cut and Thrust Collective, and spent most of a week there forging a sword, but before I could forge a sword, I first had to learn the craft. My apprenticeship as a blacksmith - forging a nail (YouTube)

I made this armour when I was seventeen, and that was when I was in a boarding school in the country, before the internet got going, so I had just my memory and a couple of books I owned to go on. It is like the child I am ashamed of, now being shown to the world for the first time. My first ever ar