Made from paper and card! Stone domed tower for the town hall finished!
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Scratch built stone tower made from card and paper using simple techniques! The tower of the old town hall is made from paper and card, including the domed stone roof.
In this episode, I show how I approached the building of the tower using various techniques such as making cylinders and using discs of card.
The Chandwell town hall building is almost finished after six weeks of scratch building from card and paper.
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Michael, you’ve amazed me once again. Great job on the tower. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
Thank you Roy!
The Chandwell Lantern, bringing light to them as want to see and dazzling them as can't such as posh buggers from Leeds.
Dazzling!
What a fabulous building your town hall is!! 😍
Thank you!
Superb Michael, using just paper and card you have created a wonderful building..
Thank you!
A complete work of art ,your patience and skill are top notch
Thank you!
Love the leaded glass in the tower! Well done as always!
Thank you! 😊
Well done Mike town hall looks brilliant done a nice job of that tower and u got a quick selfie in as well lol 👍
Thanks Steve! Yes, a quick selfie! :)
@@Chandwell ur welcome Mike don’t blame u either 🙂
Superb work there and the result is just incredible! Cheers from Sweden!
Thank you! Lovely to have a viewer in Sweden!
Caught up finally . . . I'm supposed to be on weekend support cover but getting my Chandwell fix is far more important 😂
I'm going to have to make more videos for you now!
Bloody Hell mate, you blow our minds
Thank you!
Brilliant!!! I'm amazed every week at your modelling skills
Thank you so much 😀
Top job mate. Arthur
Thank you!
Very nice!
Thank you!
Genius!
Thank you!
Smashing
Thank you!
Just love watching these videos. Your work is excellent, Michael.
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Glad you like them!
Genius. Amazing work.
Thank you very much!
Looks great.
Thanks!
The Tower Lantern could be Chanwell's answer to Chetsterfield crooked Spire
:)
you are talented!!
Thank you!
Michael. I don't know how you manage to get better and better with each stage of the build. Wonderful work. Thank you for sharing your ideas. Pete.
Thank you Pete!
Wow Michael, this is just awesome the way it carries the scene.
I am going to try the water spray method to my cylinder and cone creations. I've used steam but it takes a bit of time. Think you nailed it with the process!
Thanks Again,
Don
Glad it was helpful!
Brilliant! The old cereal packet stash must have taken a hammering to do all that.
I'm off to York this weekend too, but not until Sunday unfortunately. Hope it's as good as I remember having had a bit of a hiatus. Cheers
Have fun! I've not been for a few years either and I am looking forward to it.
Hi Michael Just amazing work, wow! I will be at York but on Sunday, it should be a good event. Thanks
Have fun! I really enjoyed the show yesterday.
Tricky, tricky, tricky. While that dome is below your usual standard of perfection, it looks more than fine from normal viewing distance as you say. Wonderful effect overall.
It certainly was tricky to do, was certainly lumpy during the build, but I'm over the moon with how it looks in its finished state. I think the next time I have a dome to make, I will use some of the alternative techniques suggested in the comments and see how they work out in comparison.
Absolutely love this building Michael. It has real character. The mix of ornate Victorian stonework with the tacky bed shop and nightclub makes it a real standout feature of Chandwell. Awesome work.
Thank you very much! I really wanted to evoke that sense - once-grand, beautiful buildings repurposed in a tacky and cheap way. It is seen all over the place but seldom modelled, I find.
Good video thanks lee
Glad you enjoyed it
The tower really is a beautiful achievement. I hope you are justly proud of it.
Thank you. Yes, I am very pleased with how it looks.
Those ultra fine framing elements are amazing - did you do it without a second try, Michael?
The dome is a interesting sum of so many different techniques and ideas - well done, I really like it.
All the best
Valentin
Thank you. I did start it once and then stop as I had the spacers the wrong width, but other than that, it was first try!
Inspiring as always! I noticed that you changed the design of your thumbnails and titles....
Yes! Thank you! I straightened them up and made them a bit cleaner.
BRILLIANT! I am grateful for the work you share as I have been struggling for YEARS trying to brainstorm methods to build custom models of stone buildings. Thank you so much for sharing your work!
Glad to help!
Superb work on the tower. How you work out how to make the tower still amazes me. A great watch as usual.
Thank you! Cheers!
I seem to recall the great John H. Ahern employed a similar technique of building up layers to create a lighthouse. Wonderful work!
Thank you - I'll have to see if I can track that down as it sounds very ineresting.
Amazing work so far on that building !
Question : Is there anything you cannot build ? 🤔
I am beginning to believe that you can. 🙂
Haha - thank you. I think this one is about the limit of what I can achieve in N scale.
This is not a flippant comment! I was studying your beautiful buildings and, as I looked, I realised that there was something missing, especially round the dome - pigeon droppings! Don't overdo it, although put plenty on the horizontal ledges where the guano lives! Great stuff.
Good point! I'd never thought of that. I will have to have a "pigeon day" and decorate some of the buildings a little bit.
Tissue paper and dope, like an old-school model aircraft wing, might have worked for the dome. Just a thought, certainly not trying to carp, I don't think I could come anywhere close to what you achieve.
Any suggestion is always welcome! Thank you. Yes, I wonder if something like that would have been a better technique. One to keep in mind for the next dome, I think!
Amazing! I can’t wait to hear what you plan to do next in the members update this weekend
Roofs!! I have three alternatives and I can't decide which one to go with. Members' update tomorrow morning.
Absolutely brilliant. I'm fascinated by your skills and how to produce such detailed models in card. Really enjoy your videos
Thank you so much 😀
Beautiful. And as always, very well designed and engineered.
Thank you very much!
Dear Michael, love your town hall build. Very interesting how you achieved the cylindrical shape and dome.
For the different ‘form’ pieces, next time you may consider pre rolling the card and paper, or even using your wet method. Think that will definitely help improve the crispness of the the different parts.
Also, on forming the dome, to avoid crumbling, it may be helpful to laminate 2 or even 3 layers of paper over the base structure. Depending on the amount of supports, the first laminate layer could be built from ‘triangles’ only covering two beams. With a slight double overlaps for the very first triangle. This will provide more glueing surface for the next triangles butting up to the first one, left and right. These triangles can be made with one crisp side and a single overlap for the next one. Until all the beams are covered, which will leave the closing triangle, which doesn’t need overlaps on both sides. A second layer in the similar fashion, or with a surface covering two triangles will strengthen the base layer.
When necessary, any dents or necessary corrections can be achieved with some wet Sculptamold, and sanded down after it dries.
This way I perform domes for storage tanks or water towers. Cheerio
Thank you for your detailed suggestions! I think there is some really good advice here, and I will definitely be referring back to this the next time I have a dome to make. Thank you again!
Simply beyond stunning. Have you any thoughts perhaps of turning these magnificent structures into a book of card building construction? The only problem Michael is whether you would file the book in Model railway construction or in the religious section under Bible of Card Construction. Your work must be the goal of every card modeller. Fabulous construction and narration as always.
A very happy Easter to you, your family and subscribers.
Cheers, Bob
Thank you very much, Bob! I've never considered a book before. I don't think I am anywhere near the standard to be able to distil my work into a book. But maybe one day..! ?
@@Chandwell You underestimate yourself Michael. Bob
@@ChandwellYou’re the one setting the standards Michael! These are the best buildings on UA-cam by miles and a book would be really popular.
Brilliant work as always Michael, the top of the dome looked a real challenge, would balsa wood (sorry about play on words) been easier to use to crave the small sections on the top of the dome? Thanks for sharing, building taking great shape. Take care regards Barry..
Maybe, Barry! I've never tried to carve anything before, and carving a sphere with a diameter of only 5mm sounds like a challenge, not to mention the 1mm sphere on top of it! I would worry for my fingertips! :)
@@Chandwell Michael I meant the small finer detail strips on top of the dome (sorry not the dome itself) regards Barry..
@@barryturner2916 Oh! Yeah, that makes more sense. I'll have to give that a try one day.
As accomplished as ever this really is something Michael. The care you had to take to make that work is quite astounding. I am going down to York tomorrow so we may get to meet with a bit of luck. Stephen
It was a shame I didn't see you on Saturday, Stephen! I kept my eyes out for you, but I did hear that trains north of Newcastle were all blocked, so maybe you didn't even manage to get down. It was a good show this year. The N Guage York Station was something else - I've never seen anything quite as astonishing as that. And the twilight-lit Steel works was super, and it was great to see Staly Vegas, which was an early inspiration for Chandwell.
@@Chandwell Unfortunately I didn't make it down. Sadly a person was hit by a train between Morpeth and Newcastle. Never mind there is always next year and I will be at Warley in November. It does sound as if it was a very good show. Stephen
another awesome video , have you ever thought of doing green screen so you can walk in chandwell and appear at windows etc
No; I've not given that any thought before! Not sure I'd be able to do it justice! :)
You put a lot of work into that dome, as you do into all your other structures, but I can't help feeling that you'd have achieved a better outcome if you'd made the (basic) dome from papier-mache - no measuring, no cutting! Then apply the ribs and other detail after you have a hemispherical dome.
Yeah, I did discuss papier-mache with a friend before I settled on the "petal" approach. I thought I would get a more consistent finish with the petals rather than relying on my eye with the papier-mache. On reflection, I don't think the petals made much of a difference. I will give the papier-mache a try next time perhaps, and then be able to know which method works best for me.
The wetting technique you used on the wall to achieve the curvature would have worked equally well to smooth out and aid the curving on the dome petals. Stuffing the space between the quarter curve support framework with tissue paper or the scrap strips from a paper shredder will help support the following layers as well 😉. Excellent work as ever, more impressive that it's N scale, and so tiny!
Thank you - that is good advice. I didn't think to wet the petals.
Very good! I like the refined dome petal technique since the Victorian Hotel part 15 - which technique do you think works best?
You have a good memory! This one worked more accurately, as the petals were exactly right rather than just a lucky guess. I think they needed to be a bit thinner (less wide, rather than thinner paper) to really curve properly, but it's definitely a step in the right direction.
Archietectual masterpiece....i cant spell...dont' bring this up !
Thank you!