Let's Make - Shipping Containers (Modern Urban Series)
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2017
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In this Let's Make, we tackle creating shipping containers to bulk up your industrial areas.
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Still using this "let's Make" years later. You're one of the best Mel!
I'm 4 years after
I hope this guy makes his fortune. I really do. He's helped me out on so many railroad projects with amazing building tips like this.
"and everyone likes nice smooth bottoms" "i do anyway"
noice
Same
I prefer them like a stucco birdcage, rough on the outside but heavy
I like smooth bottoms and I cannot lie, you other gentlemen can't refute it.
I have learned so much from your videos - thank you for making these. I really like the way you teach the techniques in a straight forward way and show less expensive ways of getting these results.
This time I will use woodprix to make it.
Good option I think :)
"Everyone likes a nice smoothe bottom."
Indeed sir. Indeed we do. 😉
If you use the stencil, you can use a jabbing brush or sponging technique to make the logo look weathered. Especially for smaller scale models, where spray painting or airbrushing it can look to clean, and you wont have to deal with cleaning up the overspray.
Modeling since 1998, you are the first decent an awesome artist. Congrats
Thanks
I found your video through Black Magic Crafts. Thank you for sharing your ideas on this.
A good bit of advice I've seen is to make a stencil for corrugated surfaces out of the same corrugated card/plastic you used for the surface, so it fits nice and snug and helps cut down overspray
Great tutorial Mel. My 13yo Daughter is smashing out eight of these that match your exacting standards!!! She has even researched and added her own Bio hazard and hazardous goods symbols for some of them.
Awesome sauce, tell her I'm proud of her! :-D
Thank you Mel ! You’ve helped me take terrain building to a whole new level!
If I made a bunch of containers together, some with open doors, some with holes in the sides, and all with their tops removable, I could make a shipping container house. Maybe even a shipping container village.
That would be cool!
I was going to say that these days, that might be the best way to build a house in real life... except I remembered that even shipping containers are scarce and going for 30 grand a pop 😬. Best to stick with tabletop terrain.
Or a fire base
awhile ago my family and I started playing d&d and we wanted to make some terrain pieces. I had been watching your videos for awhile and decided to try some of the techniques and made a really nice rock piece.
Awesome matey
An idea: you can use tea packaging for 25 tea bags inside. It's a small rectangle box made of cardboard, not so thick but with some reinforcemente inside it will be just fine. And the rest it's pretty much the same, primer coat and weathering effects. Nice job!
Hi Mel YOU ARE BRILLIANT AT YOUR MODELLING VERY VERY INSPIRED
I WAS IN A RUT IM 65 I NOW FEEL 25 & GOT IDEAS OFF YOU IM IN MODEL HEAVEN
CHEERS MATE !
Crack on lad! ;-D
There's a thing called turning off caps lock
I lived in a container like this for 15 months in Iraq. This tutorial is perfect. Add 5 rows of sandbags around the bottom and a layer of sandbags to the top ("protection" from mortars, 18 inches of sandbags on the top and enough to lay behind at the ground level, but once they settled you'd be hard pressed to tell it was more than 2 layers on top, then give it a plywood front with a regular sized door and it would be absolutely perfect (the doors were folded back to the sides and a 2x4 frame and plywood front replaced the doors with a makeshift plywood door with no handle). Also, from your sand bag tutorial you mentioned only putting the seam on one side, that would be absolutely correct. They'd make a sheet of cloth a little more than twice the width of the bag, fold it over and just sew one side, then sew the bottom and turn them inside out similar to a pillow case. When we filled them we'd tuck the tied end under when laying them down, so you wouldn't even see the tied ends at all anyway, just make it random which bags had a seam out vs seam on the inside of the wall.
talk about an oven bud!
Another hit out of the cricket pitch. Thank you. Really well done.
This guy is awsome, he dont cut corners in his work. Amazing atension to ever detail nice 1 mel
These look crackin Mel. Used your vids for year for more natural terrain but need some modern/sci-fi stuff. Winner!
You can also use corrugated cardboard to make metal roofing, and if you are hard pressed for some barrels (this is more for 1/6 scale) you can just use some bean cans.
Craft stores sell a paper crimper that you can put thin cardboard or paper through to make the corrugated effect. They cost about $15 US.
This guy is great. His energy and love twords the craft really draws you in. 👌
Sir, you are brilliant in your resourcefulness and creativity. Thanks for sharing. I hope to apply this in the near future.
Crack on!
Would you believe I was literally searching online for the sale price on the Reaper Bones shipping container model when this video popped up in Chrome?
Considering it only went up an hour ago, I would say the hobby stars have aligned! :-D
Actually the algorithms in google looked into Christopher's soul and divined he needed to see your video. (truth!)
Glue the ribbing on first, snip off when dry. much easier and less fiddly. :)
This was awesome, Mel. The metallic bits really sell it. It'd be cool to do a few containers busted open.
Wow! Fantastic looking piece!
thanks bud
one of my favourite terrains thank you Mel !
Only thing I would add is a drybrush of the top and side edges with a metallic paint. Maybe even add bolts if you really wanted to go further.
Truly you are a wizard! Much love from Denver, CO.
But I'm not Harry? ;-D
This was whatchacallit. . . a good video. Lots of really good whatchacallit. . . information. I really whatchacallit. . . enjoyed it.
I am absolutely going to have to try this. I've been wanting to start some Infinity terrain
amazing Work mate! gonna Make These for My Infinity. Love your channel!
I got an idea about creating company logos - maybe if you'll be cut out template in the same corrugeted paper on the plain side and put corrugated side to container it should cover all the spaces for the spray paint to go under the template.
Might be tricky to cut but go for it mate
Another great video. Appreciate the step by step breakdown and the tips
been watching for a while, shamed to say I haven't subscribed til now... I was sitting there telling a buddy of mine I wanted to make a cool looking shipping container board for some urban warfare skirmishes... then like superman, you show up right when you are needed in my feed! thanks brother! Keep up the good work!
Ssshh ..... I'm batman!
Sweet container! Thanks.
Let’s make tutorials are excellent for me. A newbie to the hobby. Thank you
Love this build, fantastic, so helpful. I’m in the process of making an Orky shantytown inspired Bloodbowl Stadium, so a couple of these shipping containers will fit in perfectly.
Thanks for an excellent tutorial 😃👍🏼
One thing; if you make the "smooth bottom" removable, or skip it altogether, you can make russian-doll style containers of diminishing sizes for super compact storage, or use them for transporting fragile bits like trees.
I likes that!
Thank you so much because of your tutorials my track is becoming pretty sweet
When you use a stencil on corrugated cardboard, just affix your spray can to your table with clamps, and prop up your stenciled container at 30 cm of distance, before applying a couple of coats. The result will be much cleaner, and you will not need any touch-up.
sweet, i have an new thing to do with my foam board scraps. thanks man
Nice one Mel
If you take a metal rod, lighting it unitil it's really hot and poke that into the foam and plastics, it'll looke like bullet holes :)
Destercire Ultimatefan light a toothpick on fire and press it. Very similar effect, with a little ashy gunge from the burnt toothpick. Goes a little faster than a hot wire and kickstarts your weathering.
Been looking for a way to make shipping containers in 15mm scale and I think this could be scaled down to work perfectly. Love your painting technique for weathering effects. Well done video.
Cheers bud
Holy smokes, you are very talented and incredibly creative! Great job.
Cheers mate
This is awesome man, I completed two of them, and I used bent copper wire in a "c" shape to put lift points on the top, and used my pin vise to put bullet marks into the corners so it looks like someone was taking cover there while being shot at. Last I painted a large Imperial Aquilla on them, and on one I used my airbrush to make it look like someone vandalized it. This is a great piece, and I plan on making many more - something like multiples stacked or crushed to provide points of cover, or areas where marines can climb to higher cover points. I'd been wanting to make something like these for a while but couldn't think of how to get the textured sides - I can't believe I didn't think of corrugated cardboard! Thanks again!
i love everything about this video ... Bang on mate !
Thanks very much dude. Great tutorial.
Very useful ideas. My friend built resin molds for a container design and you can also make them out of plaster.
That's smart mate
The blue tack tip very good
I loved this episode! I started watching your vids because I am a model railroader and was looking for different techniques and ideas...now I want to break out my Mechwarrior stuff and start gaming with them again...sigh...I don't have enough time in the day for two hobbies...sigh.
Mechwarrior on a railway layout ..... ;-D
I don't do railroad or wargaming (anymore... no friends into it in my new home). I paint gunpla and do layouts and diorama for them. Turns out, I spend more time on terrain than on the gunpla. I actually find it more rewarding, since the gunpla is a product I am customizing and the terrain is something I made myself.
I got some corrugated card from Wilco awhile back from the craft section, worth a look guys.
Great tutorial Mel!
Another great project video. The kits cost about $21.00 for 1/35 scale 20 footer. I have been searching for the best ways to do one of these and I think I found it. Thanks again.
Hope it helps bud
Really amazing tutorial.
Thank you so much this is very helpful for me. Im doing a model container house to spend my holiday at home
Wonderful stuff Mel. Well worth my Patreon-age! Can't wait to finish up my urban/apoc board and post pics to the facebook group.
I'll look forward to seeing it mate
Huge fan from Saudi Arabia
Mixing imperial units and metric system drove me crazy! Lovely video keep it up
Welcome to Britain! :-D
Excellent. i couldn't have found this at a more opportune moment. Great build & paint that's sowed more than a few ideas as i embark on some Kit Bashing based around Shipping Containers.
Noice.
I really like the tip about using poster tack to keep the piece off the surface to prevent pooling. Worth the time of watching all by itself.
Rather than using strip styrene, did you consider using angle styrene for the corner bracing? It would be trickier in some ways but easier in others, I think.
Also, poster tack on the back side of your stencil can dramatically reduce overspray. (It's also really useful for camouflage frisket if you're painting armor ... or military containers.) Further, it will hold the stencil in place while you spray so you don't have to use a hand for that.
It's a good tip mate ;-)
I try to keep my lets make as simple as possible materials wise but that stuff is great for foamboard buildings etc bud
Thanks for the tip!
There is always at least one tip in every single vid he does that is a major game changer. Or maybe that's because I'm so new to the craft. I dunno, but I'm watching!
Cool..Am gonna make 1 soon..cheers
Awesome awesome work! Learnt so much. Just wanna say a very big big thank you!
cheers buddy
Fantastic work. Thank for the inspiration, I will give this a go for BMG terrain.
Hope it helps mate
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Lets start up the 'Containiacs' :D Heee heee Another amazing design, build, and tutorial Mel
I don't think I could handle that lol
I just found a rather large roll of corragated cardboard at Staples , here in the USA. It cost me about 15 bucks for the 12" X 35' long roll. They call it " Rigid Roll"...for packing up picture frames, etc. Staples also sells yard sale signs that are corragated plastic and around 2 foot square, for 9 bucks.
Nice find mate!
TheTerrainTutor ..yeah Mel, I searched high and low for the last 2 days and that was the only place I found it...I'm in "South Jersey"..lol.
Finding all your awesome videos is seriously helping me make some cool battle scenes! Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks mate
Thats great!
Great tutorial.
A light dusting in a beige tone on the lower half of the container (kind of like a dusty vehicle) adds a lot to the piece. A little goes a long way.
I'll gove it a go matey
Cool, hope it adds a bit extra!
well done
Nice one Mel. I'm about to plan an urban neighborhood for sci-fi and this is exactly what I was looking for. Are you sure you're not some intergalactic mindreader getting us humans addicted into building tiny worlds of our own?
Yep, that's me :-D
plOT TWIST
PIZZA HUT MEDIUM PIZZA BOXES!!! has small corrugated cardboard. and pretty easy to peel off one side!!
TTT shipping! awesome!
Late or lost every time!
TheTerrainTutor from that weathering i could tell its been lost already
Caulk and paint, make it what it ain't. Nice job, nice vid. Thanks. subd. Door side looks best.
this is top notch man
Cheers bud
just discovered the channel - what a great job on these containers! Subscribed. Well done
Welcome aboard matey!
Great Video! I was thinking these would work well for Gaslands.
I really needed this video
Hope it helps you mate
This is great. Only thing I would add is the toothbrush splatter for dirt.
Glad you liked it buddy!
Like the shirt Mel!
Thanks so much
Great video Mel, already have some TTCombat MDF containers. But this will come in handy for making my own. Especially if I consider doing a 3x3 cargo bay or storage area. And need a lot of containers, it will save me some money.
I bought a cardboard corrugator on ebay a while back for £5.
Nice build mate, good luck!
as soon as i saw this video i subscribed...and its the first video of yours i saw.
Love it! Thanks!
Thanks!
Hey Mel, awsome video, on my channel i made some aswell, the perfect size, i found, are dinosaur cookies boxes :). That's what i use and i hotglue corrugated paper on them :)
Nice find mate
Corrugated cardboard is in all cardboard. If you look at the inside of the cardboard box you'll see it has corrugated bits inside. You can take off one of the pieces to get that
Yeah, but that's a right pain mate, I've tried it many times lol
TheTerrainTutor true lol but if you're strapped for cash or there's not a craft store in the area
you are a great guy, and i love your videos, but if i had a quater of a shot any time you are perfectly honest with us ...
i´m perfectly honest with you,
I´l propably be dead.
scratching is always good!
scratching is a passion !
well done :)
Robert
those coffee holders that look like a sleave usualy have one side corigated
Top tip bud
Happy birthday 🎂 bondhu your time ⌚ the beginning of next year or two of the things that you can find it in my head
You read my mind.
Nice , but for more real container you forgot the number, for your TTT company I sugest TTTU 123456-7, which is painted in the left door , and both sides in the uper corner. Cheers
I like this guy I like the way he's so jolly! 😋😀and i have new ideas for gamma world rpg!
A great build Mel! I agree with your assessment of the weathering, it is too heavy handed. I looked at some references and most of the weathering occurs at the end where the doors are and along the bottom third. Sure, there are some really trashed containers, but the majority aren't as heavy, or more importantly, as evenly weathered as yours. Also, I saw a lot of patches of colour on the sides of containers to cover up logos, etc. This could be easily done by deliberately putting on patches of off-shade colour before doing the weathering. As for the edging, I think 5 mil might be great for the vertical edging, but the horizontal edging is usually even narrower, maybe 3 mil? Anyway, these are all "perfectionist level" nitpicks. Your build is as always, awesome and even done straight up as per your video still makes for a great terrain piece. I hope you continue to do more videos like these, they are very interesting.
always room to improve bud ;-)
True, although I really like how your build vids often give all the techniques so people can decide if they want to go for the final 5% of fiddly details, plus with the basics one can easily modify to suit their preferences. BTW, how would you do an open cargo container? The plasticard might be too thick and the cereal card is too thin for open doors.
Go with plasticard mate ;-)
Yes! Been hoping that you'll do a container video. Love you Mel!
(Also congrats on the election. Go Corbyn!)