N Scale Jersey Barriers | Art in Precast Concrete | CCMR At The Bench #10
Вставка
- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In this edition of CCMR at the bench, we tackle the humble jersey barrier. This is my approach to making these everyday objects into little works of art for N scale industrial scenes.
It is the minutiae which adds so much to your layout. My sincere compliments on your patience and precision.
Thank you Mel!
Wow, is it a dream ? My best modelers, that are excellent, good teachers, that put on line same subject, same day. The former in HO, and here, just a few hours after, in N.
Your both so good, can´t believe it. I deserve to borh of you the gold medal !
How can us, your "student" can dream of better approche in 2 different scale. !!
Am i dreaming ? ❤❤❤
Saw that. Glad the unconscious modeller hivemind has possessed everyone to work on the ubiquitous prefab barrier.
Totally agree Daniel. Boomer and I couldn't have planned it better even if we'd actually planned it!!
@@dexecuter18 that's for sure. Prefab concrete really can be elevated to an artistic element on a model train layout. It was awesome to get that point made twice in a day.
Very nice tutorial! Love your use of reference photos. I really appreciate you attention to detail. Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely! With Google street view, digital photography sites like Flickr and other resources it’s phenomenally straightforward to find prototype images for inspiration. Especially useful when you don’t live in your subject location anymore!
Incredible work and references as always Eric. Model railroading is always at its highest art form when the mundane is point of focus. Your eye is spot on!
Have a great week!
Scott
Thanks Scott, you too!!
Fantastic modeling!
You have a great skill to use wood material.
I’m especially impressed about the consideration for bird poop stains.
As a N scale Poop modeler myself, I admire your efforts to recreate bombastic birds attacks which we often neglected to think about.
Thank you very much for reading.
Bird poop has come up recently in a few conversations below videos on this channel, so makes sense to dive in and acknowledge its existence in model form!
Excellent tutorial on the wet on wet technique. Great to use on any weathered surface. Just starting work on some laid-stone walls and plan to use this painting style to bring out the detail. Always look forward to your ‘At the bench’ editions. Thanks!
Thank you Brooklyn, hope you'll share your results! I've got a stone retaining wall that needs some treatment too. Thank you for supporting the channel!!
Nice work as usual. Must be Jersey barrier day, Boomer Diorama released a Jersey Barrier episode today as well :)
I know!! That was a huge treat and a great example of unanticipated coordination :). I learned a lot from Boomer's video that I hadn't thought of when considering how to detail these. I found it fun to watch them as companion pieces and complementary approaches to a similar problem in modeling.
Jersey barriers are everywhere, even in Indiana, I guess we stole them!
Apparently they were first used in New Jersey for highway lane separation in the '50s hence the name. They are everywhere for sure now!!
Beautiful model.
Thanks Alan!
You are doing really cool, on the edge of what's possible in N Scale, work bro. Thanks....these videos, as well as your layout, are so cool and very well made.
Much appreciated Doc, and thanks for supporting the channel!
@@ChicagoCrossingRR was it you who created the Checks Cashed Here lit sign? I couldn't find a video/pic for it but I thought it was you
@@docwithnodegree3416 that's a scratchbuild I made for the building, correct.
Really great how to video! I love how detailed your scenes are! I’m requesting a quick video on detailing / weathering that old rail yard truck!
Thanks Dr. K! Yeah I've had a few requests to do some weathering on that truck (it's a nice Atlas model). Probably high time to do so!!
Awesome! Keep up the great work my friend!@@ChicagoCrossingRR
@@Dr.K_N.Scaler thank you sir!
Great job on the barriers. I'm torn between the wooden ones, Osborn models, or 3d printed ones. Both turn out well.
Hi Sean, frankly I think either the osborn (like I used here) or 3d printed models will yield a good result if properly handled. A limitation of these Osborn models is the amount of texture needed to sand away - in n scale, it's sufficiently tiny that I find I've always got some of that pattern left over and have to keep at sanding.
Great work! I have some 3d resin printed ones that I might try the same technique on - wood looks to be easier though than carving into resin.
The resin will take nicely to a blade or drill (I've used a blade to chip away and 'crack' resin bin block models on my layout), another option that I saw in Boomer's video on the topic today is using a Dremel with a small cutting head on it to 'damage' the prefab forms. Probably too aggressive for this sort of soft wood but probably perfect for resin.
Another great video! Some of the ones I've seen around town have been beat up pretty good and you captured that aspect very well. Did you try a small wire brush for aging/defacing the barriers? I thought about buying an HO scale version and then using a few of the barriers to create a mold so I can make numerous plaster versions for an industry (Mike's Jersey Barriers). A while back I watched a few videos on DIY mold-making and was trying to come up an idea for a simple first project. Might even embed some floral wire into the plaster. Or I could just buy Jersey Barriers from Shapeways, save a lot of time, and wait for you to build the mold, cast the barriers, age / weather / detail them, and, of course, film the video, lol.
Hi David, for these a wire brush wasn't particularly necessary vs. sanding or chipping. I can imagine that for larger 'concrete' applications that could provide nice texture. Absent your own 3D printer I think it's worth buying good models, plus it'll be a long time before I decide to make plaster casts of something this tiny ;)
@@ChicagoCrossingRR
With the realism/detailing you have achieved, sometimes I forget you're modeling in N scale. You're right -- save the mold-making for something (much) larger, lol.
pro tips!
Thnak you!