First face - adding a "lived in" look to the back of a building
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- I have added the rear face of the tall building on Station Road - my model of a run down West Yorkshire street set in 1993. In this video I explain why I started with the rear face, and how I used simple methods to add curtains and window frames to this tall building.
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Thank you very much! Welcome to Chandwell!
Wonderful work as always Michael. Playing catch-up today. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
Thanks again!
As always full of hints and tips and a great example of time, patience and a passion for the hobby. The trains are part of CHANDWELL and run through it - as in a real life situation Great job Michael
Thank you as usual, Alan! Many thanks!
Always sending gratitude from the United States. Love these videos only thing that could make them better is if they were longer. Wishing you success and expansion of Station Road in 2024.
Thank you very much and I’m happy that you like the videos and my work. I’ll keep them coming!
Nice to see Iris taking a keen interest in things!
Hahah - you spotted her. It's her favourite place at the moment. That and being underneath our feet, anyway!
Great work. Your layout is brilliant. 👍
Thank you!
Always fascinating to watch how the building comes together Michael. All clever stuff. Cheers Euan
Thanks Euan. I added the glazing over the weekend and it's looking even better now. Can't wait for you to see.
I'll bet "Rice's Language of Buildings" was not just a randomly-selected book! Can you tell us what impact it might have had on Chandwell's development?
I must admit I was just about to look the book up when I saw your post!
I have that book - it’s quite brilliant!
I went back and paused the video to catch the title of the book. Will look it up!
It is a wonderful book. I was never interested in buildings or architecture until I stared making Chandwell. All of a sudden I found myself really LOOKING at buildings, especially in cities. This book caught my eye and I am glad I bought it. The main impact it has had on Chandwell has been for me to appreciate proportions and to educate me WHY the buildings I copy are how they are. But must importantly, I can talk about things using their correct names. When I started, I would use terms like "this sticky-up bit" or "these knobbly bits"... Now I can confidently say "this pediment" or "these dentils" :)
A fantastic bit of modelling Michael, looks stunning.
Many thanks!
Looks to me like you have some cellar space under the houses on Station Road, Michael. Irrespective of the fact that no one will ever be able to see into the cellars, I think you should consider providing a bit of below ground atmosphere down there - maybe a few broken bikes, packing cases, messed-up furniture, piles of coal and so forth. Or, as it the Shipley-inspired building has been part of a brewery, maybe some kegs and brewers' equipment. Quite easy to do in N-gauge, I'd have thought. All your viewers will know what's hidden down there... Above ground, it's all looking better and better. Or maybe that should be shabbier and shabbier... Thanks. Tom (from France)
Yes there is lots of space underneath the buildings. I will be using it in some locations around the back. The Nags Head pub near the top of the hill will have cellar steps round the front.
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One reason l can see for allowing for the "cellars" is the base of the layout is pretty much all at one level while the height of the streets and surrounding area varies. This way the structures can be built so that they rest against a solid surface and the holes cut in the "street level" will hold them in place properly.
Hi Michael, I’m blown away by this one - your new video and sound effects really have the wow factor here and I thought your videos were top notch professional as they were! Excellent job.
It’s really pleasing to watch how easy you make this all look, layers fitting together, card floating on PVA to precision, it’s so satisfying to watch knowing that everything is so small, watching on YT makes things seem a lot bigger.
Love the curtains and effects, mine would be a prawn madras, mushroom rice and chips (my signature dish since I was about 18!) after a few in The Weir. I fear The Earl would be a bit posh for me and I’d have to be on a proper late night to entertain Pockets, maybe after the curry house closing time.
Cheers Michael and another top job, best for now, Alex
I'll have one of those prawn madrases too Alex! See you down there tonight?
@@Chandwell Imagine that, at 1993 prices too 😝😝😝
New lighting? Looks very good!
Yes! Well spotted! Thank you.
Useful AND entertaining Michael. As always. 👍
:) Thanks Peter!
Always interesting to watch your builds, thanks for sharing Michael. Regards Barry..
Thanks Barry!
Another great video! Thinking about why Chandwell is there, I guess it must be to do with cotton or maybe wool. Do you reckon you'll do a mill, or (going back a bit further) a row of weaver's cottages with those distinctive top rows of windows with (wait for the word from your architecture book) stone mullions? :-)
Thanks Mark. Yes, Chandwell is definitely an old Mill town. I have a large open corner ready for my industrial scene and it will be dominated by some kind of mill. I'm thinking Salts Mill from Saltaire, or Lister Mills from Bradford, or maybe even my local mill, Greenholme Mills of Burley in Wharfedale, which for a short time its "New Mill" was the largest water-powered mill in England. Exciting stuff.
@@Chandwell Last one sounds really interesting. I can see the murky abandoned tail race emerging from its collapsing portal now...going to need a whole shed-load of those N-gauge shopping trolleys :-)
As always Michael you have aced it. I like the fact of building from the inside first. Thank you for always sharing your ideas and tips. Looking forward to seeing the finished build. Otto
Thank you Otto. The real thing is two weeks ahead of this video, and it is looking really good now. Can't wait for you to see it!
I'll have a lamb madrass with a side of bobay potatoes! Cobra? Twist my arm then!
I’ll meet you down there.
What size crochet hook do you use (asking for a friend👱🙄😂 ). Keep up the good work Sir, always enjoyed.
I have two - a 0.5mm and a 0.75mm. I use them interchangeably and don't prefer one over the other. It is my favourite tool - useful in so many ways! Tell your friend they will love it! 😂
Have you tried a lining pen for window frames, as it allows you to use any colour and can make some very ornate windows without much effort.
I've never tried a pen. My fear is that my hand is not steady enough and I wouldn't get the lines spaced with enough accuracy for the frames to be convincing. I like the ever-so-slight 3D look that the paper gives. Sometimes I use a double layer of label to make the frames look even more defined. The large ballroom windows on the Royal Scot at the back of the layout use that technique. I use watercolour paint if I want to colour the frames. There are red ones, brown ones, blue ones, black ones, and even a bright yellow one scattered around the layout. What goes into a lining pen? Is it paint, or ink? I assume paint as the ink would not cover the acetate...?
@@Chandwell Hi Michael, a thinned paint is used. I line the back and front of the windows to give a 3d look. I draw out onto paper the design of window and stick down the plastic over it and follow the lines either freehand or with a ruler and compass, I find it very effective. Hope this helps/confuses, something new to try. Look forward to your updates.
ah! That’s clever. That never occurred to me. I’ll definitely consider trying this. Thank you.
Michael Great update for the tower. Starting to see Old Brewery Building converted into Apartments, Shops and Restaurant in many towns of similar size to Chandwell, some are basic functional like Shipley others more elaborate like Old Unicorn Brewery in Ipswich, keep a look out in UK Towns with Victorian Era buildings Looking forward to how this develops. Ian
Cool, thanks
@@Chandwell Michael when out and about or looking at stuff online, you can start to spot the rather distinctive shape of a taller tower with 4 sided roof. You see so many from those that are still a Small Brewery’s like in Southwold, Suffolk to those converted like in Shipley to mainly commercial use. It just really sums up a town growing during the Victorian Era. Well in Chandwell you had the Mills and Railway, so Small Brewery’s were part of the scene but guessing Foxton’s built something bigger and sold that one off for commercial use. Ian
Quick thought. I went back and looked, and you seem to always use white frames for the windows. It's like every building in Chandwell has PVC windows. A lot of the older, bigger, and dingier places would have painted wooden frames, especially things like pubs and restaurants. It might be an idea to consider printing some of the frames in colours to suggest that.
Good thought, but I disagree. The “Freddy’s Cellar” building has brown wooden frames, Lassbrookes has red ones, Club Passion has black ones, the back of Revs has blue ones. Each of those videos shows the technique I use for colouring frames. Most are white, that’s true, but in my experience, even with wooden frames, white was the most common colour. Watch out for next door to this current building as there are some quite special windows planned for that one, and they will not be white!
@@Chandwell Fair enough, it's all coming rushing back now that there were some exceptions. Intrigued by what you have planned for that missing building, I guess there were reasons why you were saving it for last on that block. Have to say, every time I see wide open spaces on rural layouts now I'm always seeing it as a waste because there's so many buildings they missed out on making. Honestly, sometimes I forget Chandwell is supposed to be about trains. :P
LOVE your videos. Are you using card stock or cardboard for your buildings?
Thank you. I am afraid I don't know the difference between those two terms, as they are not commonly used here. I use greyboard in 0.5, 1, and sometimes 2 millimetre thicknesses. I suspect that's our term for "cardstock", but it may be our term for "cardboard"...? Sometimes I use cereal packet card which is about 0.7mm thick. There is a video here that describes my tools and materials, and there are eBay links in the description of that video to the actual products. Hope that helps! ua-cam.com/video/-QvdNFST7WU/v-deo.html
@@Chandwell The terms is used here but mostly in arty and crafty circles.
Card stock is the stuff that you buy from art supply shops and specialist suppliers in the UK. It is used for painting, crafting, printing on and so on. It is usually sold in big A3 sheets. It is often coloured and / or textured although plain white is common enough.
Cardboard is what the ever environmentally-conscious Amazon send to you, sometimes with a small item enclosed.
good vid nice up date vid thanks lee
Thanks Lee
4:37 Michael, so who's the youngling absorbing every word and action. HMV eh 🙂
Hahah - good spot! That is Iris. She is a 9-week old sprocker spaniel. She loves to sit on my knee whilst I work.
The Hong Kong Hermit wrote that he thinks Chandwell is supposed to be about trains. Aaahh, no! Chandwell is about Chandwell, and the trains are incidental, just as the real world trains are incidental. Chandwell teaches all about architecture and how to build a better mousetrap. Arthur
Hahah I don't know WHAT Chandwell is about these days. It's definitely not just a "model railway layout" in my eyes.
I am a little disturbed that your videos continue to give the impression that Chandwell is only a model town. I am currently attempting to assemble material for a Wikipedia article on the actual town, which unaccountably has not yet been written.
You may be interested to know that I have in my possession some valuable fragments of a manuscript: Annals of ye Parish of Chanderwell, 1689, by Humphrey Scrokyngs, the ‘Chanderdale Seer’,
and a battered copy of the very rare The Antiquities and Natural History of the Borough of Chandwell and of Chanderdale, by the Revd Henry Lowte Montacute Hoyle (A.B. Oxon), Headmaster of Chandwell Grammar School, published and printed by the Chandwell Echo Company, 6 Church Street, Chandwell, 1878 (price 26 shillings and 6 pence)
Those publications sound fascinating, I would love to hear more. One other viewer wrote a Wikipedia article and sent it to me a year or so ago. I'd be fascinated to see how accurate it was now that you have those genuine titles to cross-reference against!
Please send me the article
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@@johnharding9022 Please send me an email : hello@chandwell.uk and I will send you it.
I wonder if any bright spark could produce an N gauge smell module? Hmmm that smells like a great curry house 😅
That would be cool!
No chairs. Standing room only?
Good spot! The tables were an eye strain enough. I am not mad enough to try to make N scale chairs! But seriously though, once the glazing is in, the room is in semi-darkness, and you're looking at the layout from a typical viewing angle, the lack of chairs will not be noticeable. It's just the hint of an interior that I am looking for.