You know what I love about Adam - his energy. As much as he is a skilled craftsman, this guy is a brilliant and energetic communicator. What a great guy
As an architecture student, it is highly pleasing when after so many months taking lots of time to even do a third of what he did, you start to notice how to work faster and better. Your awesome dude.
I'm an architecture student and I make with this stuff all day everyday. So fun to see a non-architecture channel make a model with it! House looks great!
Adam is probably the most dedicated person I've ever seen, his hands are so steady, he's willing to put hours and hours of work into his projects and is so knowledgeable.
This reminds me of my mom when we were building a new house. She made some drawings to show what she wanted to the architect. He said he couldn’t do what she wanted so she rolled her eyes and came back with a model she made out of foam core. Turns out he could do exactly what she wanted
My folks bought a three story brand new house complete with gold shag carpeting and avocado appliances for TWELVE GRAND in 1970. They upgraded a few things like grass, fencing and a completed basement which brought the price up to 16 thousand dollars. My parents sold it for 25K after VN war ended. Today the house has been sold twice for over a half million dollars.
@@benrichey2593 Considering your average middle class wage could easily afford such a rate I'd take it! The key element is time taken to pay it off. But thanks to widening inequality, and property being used by the wealthy to stash their cash, owning a home is becoming more and more out of reach to many people.
Nice! I have a lamp dimmer that I'm not using, I'm gonna try that. Another thing I did was plug my gun into a socket with a remote, like the kind that people hook up xmas lights to. Works great for turning it off and on without reaching for the plug.... a remote with a dimmer would be amazing
What's the best glue for using poster foam board strips as a border against each other. I'm making 5ft mosiac letters to put balloons inside. People use hot glue but the Hot glue isn't working for me.
I loved this project and completed my own favorite childhood home, foam core model last week! Didn't have the benefit of blueprints, but with old family photos and Google Earth tools, I nailed it. Thanks, Adam!
Thats a huge house you lived in! oh wait thats just the basement and first floor.. oh wait.. two more floors coming.. and only a years salary! what happened to our lives
Where I live, the cost of housing has risen so much in the past 30 years, and the neighbourhoods have too. So my uncle bought a house in a kinda undesirable part of the city in 1970 for like $50 k. Now, the neighbourhood is a very affluent one and his house is worth about $2.4 million. This guy is so awesome that he refuses to sell his house to leave it for his kids.
Well, different country, but where I am house prices have become 10-15x more expensive in 20 years. About a 10% (sometimes more) increase per year. When you consider that wages often don't even keep up with inflation, that is one SERIOUS price increase. For the US in particular I've seen stats that show that inflation-adjusted wages have actually been going down since the 1970's... In other words, while your bank balance might be larger, your income in real terms (the stuff you can buy) has actually gone down, not up. Prior to the 70's it was definitely increasing consistently, but after that point it's basically been stagnant/decreasing. Depressing huh.
ZodiacProd, What happened was people bought into trickle down economics and income not keeping place with inflation and basically corrupt politicians not fixing the problem.
My mom has made a few of these. She's mostly retired from building homes these days, but was a custom home builder and always drew the plans herself from scratch (she had an architect turn her drawings into real plans she could turn in for permits, but she originally drew them all by hand, not using a computer). On several of the really nice ones, including the house I grew up in, she put together foam core builds that were a similar (the same??) scale to this.
A good way to dispose of Xacto blades or other razors, just get some painters tape just cheap masking and wrap in in some tape but flattened. Example: Take the Xacto, lay in on about two inches of tape, fold the tape on itself to it sticks around the blade on all sides, then just wrap that in some more tape. Safe, fast and it'll stay that way. There's no way it can fall out or whatever. Just a tip for whoever.
+Glenn A Yeah, I've just had those knocked over, and they don't fit utility or scraper blades which I use alot for leather and stuff. Plus I buy masking tape by the metric butt-load, so I've got some to spare lol
+Glenn A Yeah, I've just had those knocked over, and they don't fit utility or scraper blades which I use alot for leather and stuff. Plus I buy masking tape by the metric butt-load, so I've got some to spare lol
I was totally going to comment on your HUGE childhood home, but I'll save it because of your very reasonable explanation. Thank you for the excellent video Adam.
"Choosing the same foamcore thickness for all walls demonstrates a lack of understanding regarding building construction systems" "Where is the North?" "Using the same color and texture all aroundbreduces the general understanding of your design choices" The list goes on forever, - Most Architecture Schools everywhere
Great build. Now take pictures of textures like wood flooring, door trim etc. and print on card stock. Use post it note glue (comes in a glue stick at the office and art supply) so it's prepositional and isn't going to drive you crazy getting it down. Do the interior and exterior and it really will be an architectural model.
Depends where you buy...just paid 80k for 3400 sf, 5 /4 on and acre ...110 years old needing nothing more than time (stripping paint off woodwork etc)...in south Georgia...
As someone who works with foamcore and exacto blades on a daily basis at work, the first rule we were taught (and teach) is to packing tape old blades onto scrap foamcore and then tape some extra scrap on top. Takes 30 seconds and could save someone thousands of dollars in doctor bills, not to mention the pain of an injury.
Trashmen get paid fucking bank and their health insurance policies are locked in if you are working for the township. i like to hide sharp objects in my trash cans, give the guys a reason to collect some workman's compensation!
One dry scorchingly hot day, Adam Savage was on his way to work sees a young man who looks to be dishevelled and disorientated, Adam pulls up to this strange man and asks if he needs help, the man replies "Please sir, I have been lost in the desert for 2 and a half days, I'm hungry and very thirsty", unfortunately Adam has no food or water in his Prius. Adam being a great man takes this clearly distressed person to his workplace, on arrival Adam seats the mysterious guy in his workshop whilst he goes to get food and water. In Adams absence, the man sees a soda can sitting on a work bench, in his desperation to feel a liquid of any kind trickle across his lips, he lunges at the can of soda picks it up without thinking and presses the cold aluminium to his dry cracked lips, tips his head back and swallows what very little soda remained, suddenly...he realizes...he just swallowed 29 very sharp but not that sharp xacto blades; shredding his insides within moments, a splutter is heard and then a thud. Adam returns gleefully with a hop in his step thinking he has just saved somebodies life, but oh boy, was he wrong.
I had the same thought. Storing those blades in a soda can will prove fatal one day or another. You don't even need a desperate man, just your regular moronic teenager.
besides, having one of those blades in your mouth is enough to cut you up REAL bad. it wouldn't be fatal, but it'd be very painful and very uncomfortable. in fact, trying to "spit it out" (which is what a regular person would reasonably do in that situation) would probably just put you at greater risk.
House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
+Riddla26 Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph. (P.S. I am an actual Yorkshireman)
Adam, I love what you do, however when I make a foam-core model, I use spray adhesive to glue floor plan onto the foam-core, this eliminates the transfer process and give you a much more accurate plan to build up from.
My dad and I built a client's custom home (dad was an architectural designer) with this method. Dad used magic markers and glued cut out exteriors and interior walls for colors as well. Thanks for posting this Adam.
I built models like this in high school and in college in architecture school. I always just spray-mounted the floor plan directly to the base foam core, and cut out the floor footprint directly using a straightedge and the printed lines of the plan. That would have saved a lot of time.
Adam, you have brought so much fun and entertaining reality and science to so many of us...it is fun to watch you enjoying the fruits of your labor in a shop of your own, exploring the things that made you the artist that you are. Thank you. Sorry if I got a bit too wrapped up in sounding profound.
Had to build one of these last year in art class. But unlike you, I wasn't able to switch out the blade of the knife every 5 minutes, i had to use one that was already dull as hell for the entire project. It was a pain in the ass.
I have a rotary cutter for fabric and I always use the file. Those blades are expensive and you want a sharp edge when you cut into layers of fabric :-) give it a try also on a side note- those files with 4 or more sides for nail buffering are quite good because you can use a different "grits"
im more upset that he throws away perfectly useable blades and probably has for a long ass time, just because it wont cut the soft material youre working with well doesnt mean it doesnt have another application
I am just getting started with diorama building and I have been struggling with different glues to put the walls together. I’ve tried all kinds of different crafts glue. I’m so glad that I found this video because we have PLENTY of hot glue! No other video I have watched mentioned it. 🤷♂️
Hi Adam, instead of cutting the template, drawing the lines, flipping over and drawing the lines again to transfer: it’s way faster to use a projector and projecting the schematic on the foam board to trace it. This way you don’t even have to print the schematic out. Another solution is to use “graphite paper”. This is a thin sheet of graphite you drop between the schematic and the foam board. Now you can directly draw on the schematic and transfer the lines. No need to cut and pre-draw the lines on the schematic.
Thanks Adam! My 8-year old son is totally into drawing floor plans and architecture. He LOVED this and want's to visit your workshop and have one like it someday.
So. I remember first watching this when it came out, and thinking it was super cool, and it is, but I was really impressed by the level of procession in the cuts and all that. But now, I'm in my third year of my architecture degree, I really appreciate that level of procession, for someone who was not classically trained to make architectural models to be able to look at the plan and section and even know how to read it is incredible. We aren't even allowed to use hot glue because it is so difficult to use and make it look good. He does it with easy. Its absolutely breath taking.
First, you grew up in an extraordinary house. Second, I've built several foam core or cardstock structures in 1/87-scale (HO railway) with great success. Third, I'm toying with a 1/24-scale structure to support my hobby work in the same scale and this video has been very helpful. Thanks!
The steel blocks with all the holes that Adam is using to hold the paper down, or the walls up, is a 1-2-3 block named because it is a 1"x2"x3" block of steel. Handy for what he is doing with them but really from the machine shop side of his cave. The holes are (typically) threaded to hold down things on the machine tools. Well Adam explains all this at 7:00 but I jumped the gun.
+cemx86 I'm glad you did. Now i don't have to look up why it's called a 1-2-3 block, or what it's specifically used for, because I was curious. I thought maybe the 1-2-3 had something to do with the size of the holes and wasn't sure what their purpose was
jack duffy I was wondering the same thing, then I realized that it is probably because he didn't build the landscape around the house, and the first floor is a basement, so that probably attributes to the weird shape.
+TheFancyUmbreon you could have the design printed on A1 paper complete with the wallcoverings brick structure and stuff like that and stick those prints on the foamcore before cutting it out and glueing it together , if you make colourprints you could allmost end up with a dollshouse when doing it this way youre prolly need to take the thicknes of the foamcore in accound if you buttjoin them together , then again you could make slantcuts and whont see any foamcore sticking out you prolly need to stick the outside on cut it and then stick the inside up to have them alighn
+Olav Schneider that would be hella expensive. A much better route is laser cutting the parts out of cardboard/paper. I honestly love the laser cutter so much more than the 3d printer. Im lucky to have them available to me in university, but if you do not have that try googling it. a lot of cities do have places that offer laser cutting that is priced per minute. For me I get it for 1$ a minute, but the local shop does it for 1.5$ so a little bit more. if you are cutting paper or cardboard it won't be too much money. Foam core does not laser cut well though, the core shrinks under the paper making it not very structurally sounds. Another option would be to use a very thin wood.
I have made scale building models from both Matte Board and Foam Board. I usually used Spray Mount and attached Floor Plans directly on top of the Board. Then, I cut out the Perimeter. There is additional detail that is already on the Floor Plans. Ditto for Exterior Walls, Spray Mounted Exterior Wall Elevations on top of Board and cut out. Windows and other details are on the External Elevations. Internal Walls with Door openings were plain Board with no Interior Elevations. Roofs are always a bit challenging.
I just imagine him as a kid saying, "Mom why do we have to have a mansion, I always get lost," by the way he's 3 and in his room shaking after getting himself lost in the basement when he couldn't reach the lights. His build was a big house, and the sad thing is my friends say my house is a mansion and its 2 floors with an attic, 3 sets of stairs, a room that takes up 2 floors 4 bed and my parents sitting room, also 4 bathroom, a kitchen, my dads home office, and a front and backyard. THINGS HAVE DECLINED A LOT RECENTLY.
Amazing, it looks so Great ! I had built one by cardboard, the eadge looked bad and not satisfied of it, you finished it only one day, that's unbelievable.
Nowadays, a house like this would go for $500 grand and up! That's why I told my dad to not sell the family Camaro. It would fetch $50 grand easily because it had so little mileage on it. Unfortunately, he sold it to a friend.
You can still find a house that size for 300-500k, just not in some city like san fran or new york. Location is key and your money will go much further in areas with lower cost of living or low land prices
Nuffel Bagget, The American dream now is just that, a dream! In so called " world class " cities like NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Miami, you have to pay anywhere from $250,000 - $500,000 and up to buy a studio or one bedroom condo, especially if you want a downtown or near downtown and nice location. A house like that in the above cities would probably go for at least $3,000,000! You've also gotta remember that the cost of living was much lower in the 1970s than today, there were fewer people around back then, and the dollar was worth much more than it does these days.
I live in Southern California and our house is a town home that shares a wall with the housing next door. It has 2 stories, 3 bed rooms, 2 bathrooms, and a super duper and i mean super duper tiny backyard. Our house alone if sold could buy three 2 story houses with huge yards and backyards with pools in Texas.
That was so impressive for one day. After it was done I had a thought. Wouldn't it be cool if the floor was cut out of thin perspex? So you could visualize the whole house without taking floors off. My only frame of reference to something like this was the game The Sims, where I'd never ever make a house on more than one floor because it was annoying not being able to see it all properly. I hope this inspired people all over internet to start making foamcore houses.
He's right about the 70's housing market. Especially like '77 and '78 my pop was going to buy this huge brick floating staircase mansion in belle terre port Jefferson NY for $60,000 it would go for 4.5 million today
the funny thing is some other jackass would yell at you about inflation, but the wages probably scaled to pay a lot more the they do today scale wise. so yeah 60,000k then is probably like 1mil in today's money but the ratio they got payed back then was a lot higher today so it was still affordable. conclusion : prices went up while wages went down. 'murica
+Mr. McClassy I'm so with you on that. This country would flourish if wages kept up with gas, milk, home taxes, electric bills and most important real estate
Archnerd trick: for a cleaner finish at points where joints butt, cut one of the pieces a little longer (the thickness of the foam core, to be exact.) Score the inner paper layer and foam, peel it off, and the remaining layer of paper can be glued to cover what would otherwise be the exposed foam edge of the other piece. Looks nicer.
Remember this was a new house in an unpopulated area. This means the land would have been cheap. Furthermore Wages used to be higher and everything cost less for everyone in the past. He is rich now though, because of mythbusters.
Wow! This is INCREDIBLE! I’m going to practice a bit w cardboard before I do the foam core, but we’ve recently retired and I’ll try this for a plan for a stone cabin I hope to build one day! (If not-I can dream about it!) Thanks!!
Adam, there's actually a trick that the King of Random showed when cutting foamcore where, you apply the paper directly to the foamcore itself with some glue (such as photo album glue) and then, when you use the foamcutter, it /can/ go through the polystyrene, but not the paper, leading to very smooth cuts. Or at least, that is how he said it worked. Can you explain (if you knew about this trick) why you prefer transferring your designs manually? Is it because of glue residue?
I just found this I'm making a 1/10 scale garage for my hobby room to display my 1/10 RC cars and trucks. And this is so much easier then thin plywood . Awesome video thanks for the ideas.
Find a bonus clip from this week's build here: www.tested.com/premium/568250-one-day-build-bonus-foamcore-memories/
I would love to see u teach us how to make a small battery fog machine. Very useful for some cosplays
That's a great use for a time machine, to go back in time and buy a large house at a bargain price!
@@ericcuascut2475 ㄷㅊㅌ ㄷㅊㅌ
Would love to see it painted and furnished, maybe with a little Adam at his work bench making a little model like this. 🤔🙂
@@ericcuascut2475 dry ice in a thermos maybe?
You know what I love about Adam - his energy. As much as he is a skilled craftsman, this guy is a brilliant and energetic communicator. What a great guy
So true! Adam is just great
Yep ! I'm better though.
check out Colin furzes channel, it's great
love your vids JurassicCollectables
From what I know of him he's in a perpetual state of suspended exhaustion.
Me - Oh sweet the house is almost complete!
Adam - Yeah so that's the basement done.
I was thinking the exact same thing !
Dead lmao
haha good point! :D
I thought the same!
Ned G-M he had a freaking mansion for a house as a kid
As an architecture student, it is highly pleasing when after so many months taking lots of time to even do a third of what he did, you start to notice how to work faster and better. Your awesome dude.
I'm an architecture student and I make with this stuff all day everyday. So fun to see a non-architecture channel make a model with it! House looks great!
YO RICH KID CHECK OUT YOUR BIG HOME!
+Talon Seitzinger haha
Damn, you beat me to it!
gg
+Talon Seitzinger Watch 12:53 :P
+Evren Uçar I know I was just joking haha
no insulation, no dry wall, no plumbing or electric. its amazing the code inspectors allowed construction to continue.
XD OMG that's genius!
Not even a roof!!
Foam core IS insulation... as for the other stuff, well, why do you think it was so affordable?
Lolololol
And at the end he said his house was big... pfft yeah right my house is literally 24 times the size of that thing
What I thought it was a big house turned out to be just his basement...
Marcos Vinícius Petri was searching for someone who felt the same way 😂😂
Marcos Vinícius Petri I know right
Marcos Vinícius Petri same
Marcos Vinícius Petri. ikr
honestly, aha geez
I would've put magnets on the corners of each floor so the house stays together but it isnt completely shut and is easy to open
You wouldn't do shit, that's a fact shit bird.
@@WILLYLYNCH. the fuck?
WILLY LYNCH ahahah fuckin idiot, people like you piss me off
@@WILLYLYNCH. You're a terrible person
@@WILLYLYNCH. LMAO!
Adam is probably the most dedicated person I've ever seen, his hands are so steady, he's willing to put hours and hours of work into his projects and is so knowledgeable.
me: "wow, thats a big house!!"
adam: "and thats the basement!"
yea lol i was like.. damn adam used to be just like me and then he said... HERE GOES TTHE SECOND FLOOR
This reminds me of my mom when we were building a new house. She made some drawings to show what she wanted to the architect. He said he couldn’t do what she wanted so she rolled her eyes and came back with a model she made out of foam core. Turns out he could do exactly what she wanted
The 70's sounds like a great era to buy big houses
It was. The 1970s built some of the biggest commercial homes
People that bought houses then and are trying to sell them now are finding it difficult to sell their homes for 4.5 million dollars. Imagine that.
My folks bought a three story brand new house complete with gold shag carpeting and avocado appliances for TWELVE GRAND in 1970. They upgraded a few things like grass, fencing and a completed basement which brought the price up to 16 thousand dollars. My parents sold it for 25K after VN war ended. Today the house has been sold twice for over a half million dollars.
Yeah if you wanted a 17% mortgage rate it was awesome.
@@benrichey2593 Considering your average middle class wage could easily afford such a rate I'd take it!
The key element is time taken to pay it off.
But thanks to widening inequality, and property being used by the wealthy to stash their cash, owning a home is becoming more and more out of reach to many people.
This inspired me to make a model of my own childhood home! I'm working on a 1:1 scale of the cardboard box I grew up in.
hahaha,,, so how do you plan on keeping the 1:1 home?
Karen, he's doing a 1:1 of a cardboard box.
Lmfao
Rpodnee
I myself am working on the trash can I live in. It’s going great!
★MineOrbit★ You still can’t keep a cardboard box inside a cardboard box
Me: Hmm where's did I put my soda? Oh there it is...
Adam: NNNNOOOOOOOoooooooo...
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oh wow im going to crush this can with my foot....
+ranwolf76 You know how I got these scars???
Brian Cofer
I do now... *whimpers in pain*
... 👍 💉
I love this project. So simple and so personal. As a model builder foam core and xacto knife are like canvas and brush.
This is an excellent idea to build a physical model for a virtual memory palace. To get it in your head, so to speak. Thanks.
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY "Damn, Adam was LOADED growing up". He fucking read my mind. Nice going, man
He always does this. I start to think something about the project and bam, answers it for me.
If you want to control a standard hot glue gun, you can use a ceiling fan dimmer circuit. Also works for soldering irons!
This ^
Nice! I have a lamp dimmer that I'm not using, I'm gonna try that.
Another thing I did was plug my gun into a socket with a remote, like the kind that people hook up xmas lights to. Works great for turning it off and on without reaching for the plug.... a remote with a dimmer would be amazing
What's the best glue for using poster foam board strips as a border against each other. I'm making 5ft mosiac letters to put balloons inside. People use hot glue but the Hot glue isn't working for me.
Just seeing Adam again is about to make me cry Mythbusters was my childhood :)
+TMP Productions™ Mythbusters only lasted 2 seasons.Then they got the "others" and the show was never the same or very scientific again.
+SuperDashRendar
doesn't matter.
i hope it will be replaced by something normal and not by pawn stars or ancient aliens
+SuperDashRendar Also, Dash Rendar was never and will never be canon.
I loved this project and completed my own favorite childhood home, foam core model last week! Didn't have the benefit of blueprints, but with old family photos and Google Earth tools, I nailed it. Thanks, Adam!
I love watching these one day builds. I need more
Thats a huge house you lived in! oh wait thats just the basement and first floor.. oh wait.. two more floors coming.. and only a years salary! what happened to our lives
He doesn't say what that salary was... Homes were indeed more affordable in that time, but one that size wasn't to many.
Where I live, the cost of housing has risen so much in the past 30 years, and the neighbourhoods have too. So my uncle bought a house in a kinda undesirable part of the city in 1970 for like $50 k. Now, the neighbourhood is a very affluent one and his house is worth about $2.4 million. This guy is so awesome that he refuses to sell his house to leave it for his kids.
Well, different country, but where I am house prices have become 10-15x more expensive in 20 years.
About a 10% (sometimes more) increase per year.
When you consider that wages often don't even keep up with inflation, that is one SERIOUS price increase.
For the US in particular I've seen stats that show that inflation-adjusted wages have actually been going down since the 1970's...
In other words, while your bank balance might be larger, your income in real terms (the stuff you can buy) has actually gone down, not up.
Prior to the 70's it was definitely increasing consistently, but after that point it's basically been stagnant/decreasing.
Depressing huh.
ZodiacProd, What happened was people bought into trickle down economics and income not keeping place with inflation and basically corrupt politicians not fixing the problem.
This is the best series on this channel.
My mom has made a few of these. She's mostly retired from building homes these days, but was a custom home builder and always drew the plans herself from scratch (she had an architect turn her drawings into real plans she could turn in for permits, but she originally drew them all by hand, not using a computer). On several of the really nice ones, including the house I grew up in, she put together foam core builds that were a similar (the same??) scale to this.
i guess adam grew up without a roof over his head
+Nick Revine Ba-dum-tiss.
+Nick Revine I thought the same thing
+Nick Revine He did say that they weren't rich. Roofs are expensive and lacking one made the house much more affordable.
+Nick Revine. I'd hope being a modeler at heart, he will one day finish off the house with a roof and cladding.
+Nick Revine lol I know this adam had a roof
My dad has said before that it figures the kid he never talked to in high school was Adam Savage.
epic fail
Liam Arduino ur dad is savage... u get it?
A good way to dispose of Xacto blades or other razors, just get some painters tape just cheap masking and wrap in in some tape but flattened. Example: Take the Xacto, lay in on about two inches of tape, fold the tape on itself to it sticks around the blade on all sides, then just wrap that in some more tape. Safe, fast and it'll stay that way. There's no way it can fall out or whatever. Just a tip for whoever.
+Glenn A Yeah, I've just had those knocked over, and they don't fit utility or scraper blades which I use alot for leather and stuff. Plus I buy masking tape by the metric butt-load, so I've got some to spare lol
+Glenn A Yeah, I've just had those knocked over, and they don't fit utility or scraper blades which I use alot for leather and stuff. Plus I buy masking tape by the metric butt-load, so I've got some to spare lol
I was totally going to comment on your HUGE childhood home, but I'll save it because of your very reasonable explanation. Thank you for the excellent video Adam.
Holy crap. I think two of those boards would more than enough to build mine.
This brought back so many memories of being in Architecture school
Exacto
Yo rich kid! check out your big home!
Lol
Architects would say, "This model is not complete without the roof, ground context and most importantly a figure to show scale."
absolutely
exactly
"Choosing the same foamcore thickness for all walls demonstrates a lack of understanding regarding building construction systems"
"Where is the North?"
"Using the same color and texture all aroundbreduces the general understanding of your design choices"
The list goes on forever,
- Most Architecture Schools everywhere
I love Adam being "retired". A lot of content.
Great build. Now take pictures of textures like wood flooring, door trim etc. and print on card stock. Use post it note glue (comes in a glue stick at the office and art supply) so it's prepositional and isn't going to drive you crazy getting it down. Do the interior and exterior and it really will be an architectural model.
Broken Wave what has he done to deserve that? Maybe you should shut the fuck up
a one year salary in 2016 will buy you a 1 bedroom foamcore apartment at 1:24th scale in some shady neighborhood
+superkaboose1066 Yeah, and the question is: Why is that so?
+superkaboose1066 In Germany you are paying 30 years salary for a small house... growing strongly.
+Snooooozel yeah... Our 125 square meter house was pretty expensive... More so cause we live in Hamburg.
omg, at the time 1:24 in the video, he says 1/24 scale. hahaha
Depends where you buy...just paid 80k for 3400 sf, 5 /4 on and acre ...110 years old needing nothing more than time (stripping paint off woodwork etc)...in south Georgia...
I’d love to see more builds like this! You have a whole chapter for cardboard in your book - so I’d love to see your process.
yo check out rich kid over here
+opsimathics lmfao
+opsimathics 13:10
Haha, yeah, sure :0
a year's salary was STILL a lot of cash to us poor folks...
+bob rew yeah, i don't even make 10k a year!
then again, i'm still a minor...
Thank you Adam for considering the safety of garbage men and women everywhere! 🧡
I found the garbageman or woman.
As someone who works with foamcore and exacto blades on a daily basis at work, the first rule we were taught (and teach) is to packing tape old blades onto scrap foamcore and then tape some extra scrap on top. Takes 30 seconds and could save someone thousands of dollars in doctor bills, not to mention the pain of an injury.
I thought it was common sense not to throw blades into a trash bag with no kind of protection
unicorns yeah, well common sense is at an all time low these days so......
Trashmen get paid fucking bank and their health insurance policies are locked in if you are working for the township. i like to hide sharp objects in my trash cans, give the guys a reason to collect some workman's compensation!
One dry scorchingly hot day, Adam Savage was on his way to work sees a young man who looks to be dishevelled and disorientated, Adam pulls up to this strange man and asks if he needs help, the man replies "Please sir, I have been lost in the desert for 2 and a half days, I'm hungry and very thirsty", unfortunately Adam has no food or water in his Prius. Adam being a great man takes this clearly distressed person to his workplace, on arrival Adam seats the mysterious guy in his workshop whilst he goes to get food and water. In Adams absence, the man sees a soda can sitting on a work bench, in his desperation to feel a liquid of any kind trickle across his lips, he lunges at the can of soda picks it up without thinking and presses the cold aluminium to his dry cracked lips, tips his head back and swallows what very little soda remained, suddenly...he realizes...he just swallowed 29 very sharp but not that sharp xacto blades; shredding his insides within moments, a splutter is heard and then a thud.
Adam returns gleefully with a hop in his step thinking he has just saved somebodies life, but oh boy, was he wrong.
This needs to be a movie.
I had the same thought. Storing those blades in a soda can will prove fatal one day or another. You don't even need a desperate man, just your regular moronic teenager.
*****
You are grossly underestimating what a regular moronic teenager is capable of.
besides, having one of those blades in your mouth is enough to cut you up REAL bad. it wouldn't be fatal, but it'd be very painful and very uncomfortable. in fact, trying to "spit it out" (which is what a regular person would reasonably do in that situation) would probably just put you at greater risk.
Great storytelling skills 😮😄👏
As an architecture student, when I saw his pencil I was like “Hells yeah! Blackwing!”
Ok
House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
wait...what
+DSMoe You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
+Riddla26 Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
(P.S. I am an actual Yorkshireman)
+rdouthwaite LUXURY
+Nihad go watch 'Deadpool'
Next you should add some neat smd white leds in every room with small wires and some furniture!
Adam's childhood basement is bigger than my entire house.
yuppp
+JordyNorm I dream about being able to live someplace as big as his basement.
It's not the size but how you use it ^_^
placid renegade I've been waiting for this comment. Nicely done.
That was freaking sweet! Thanks for taking us down memory lane Mr. Savage!! 👍
If this was 4 hours long, I'd still watch every second of it.
This is too short !
Adam, I love what you do, however when I make a foam-core model, I use spray adhesive to glue floor plan onto the foam-core, this eliminates the transfer process and give you a much more accurate plan to build up from.
Yes!!
I just saw your comment - See mine above!
Oh this was awesome, I hope they'll do another video going through the details of the house!
You know what would be cool? A stop motion animation about some chapter of Adams childhood in it.
My dad and I built a client's custom home (dad was an architectural designer) with this method. Dad used magic markers and glued cut out exteriors and interior walls for colors as well. Thanks for posting this Adam.
You can tell he wasnt rich because his house didnt have a roof.
LOL
They couldn't afford paint or furniture either. So sad.
And his house was just made out of foamcore hahhaha
Wadwizard ZOL not even windows or doors.
I know all these strungles...after Ken divorce me I live like a pauper...- Barbie
Ahh, a one day build... the only reason I sub to this channel :)
+Max Klein not my only reason but a HUGE part of me subscribing xD
I built models like this in high school and in college in architecture school. I always just spray-mounted the floor plan directly to the base foam core, and cut out the floor footprint directly using a straightedge and the printed lines of the plan. That would have saved a lot of time.
+Patrick94GSR i dont know why the great adam savage didnt do that either.
Adam, you have brought so much fun and entertaining reality and science to so many of us...it is fun to watch you enjoying the fruits of your labor in a shop of your own, exploring the things that made you the artist that you are. Thank you. Sorry if I got a bit too wrapped up in sounding profound.
Had to build one of these last year in art class. But unlike you, I wasn't able to switch out the blade of the knife every 5 minutes, i had to use one that was already dull as hell for the entire project. It was a pain in the ass.
But the blades are not all that expensive. You can get a pack of 100 pcs for something like 10€.
It's trivial to sharpen a #11 on a whetstone, if you have one of those around.
i sharp my blades with a paper nail file.... works okay
I might have to try that.
I have a rotary cutter for fabric and I always use the file. Those blades are expensive and you want a sharp edge when you cut into layers of fabric :-) give it a try also on a side note- those files with 4 or more sides for nail buffering are quite good because you can use a different "grits"
adam:*puts blade in soda can*
2 hours later
*drinks soda*
Thanks now i have a image of adam swallowing a whole soda can in my head.
Right. Because Adam doesn't have the common sense to not drink out an empty can he just put an exacto blade in.
@@myfinalheaven9590 you're fun
It's a different can
im more upset that he throws away perfectly useable blades and probably has for a long ass time, just because it wont cut the soft material youre working with well doesnt mean it doesnt have another application
that is a huge house but! wish we could have seen a photo of it
I am just getting started with diorama building and I have been struggling with different glues to put the walls together. I’ve tried all kinds of different crafts glue. I’m so glad that I found this video because we have PLENTY of hot glue! No other video I have watched mentioned it. 🤷♂️
imagine a can full of those exact o blades and someone thinking it an empty one and trying to crush it
Brutal
+Michael Surridge or takes a big gulp of it
I am the unimaginable.
Reminds me of this: watch?v=J6oaq5FNY7s (it's a "magician" trying to crush the cup without a nail in it but fails and has his hand messed up)
dude stop spreading malware links
Hi Adam,
instead of cutting the template, drawing the lines, flipping over and drawing
the lines again to transfer: it’s way faster to use a projector and projecting
the schematic on the foam board to trace it. This way you don’t even have to
print the schematic out.
Another solution
is to use “graphite paper”. This is a thin sheet of graphite you drop between
the schematic and the foam board. Now you can directly draw on the schematic
and transfer the lines. No need to cut and pre-draw the lines on the schematic.
Foamcore is the lightest of the Metal sub genres .
+Jonano 12 It's also usefull when making aluminium stuff, just melts away! Oh yeah, I watch Grant Thomson! :)
Thanks Adam! My 8-year old son is totally into drawing floor plans and architecture. He LOVED this and want's to visit your workshop and have one like it someday.
When he turns 13 get him the Sims 4 games !
He had a giant house, if I had to do this for my house I would be done in like 10 minutes
The time-lapse music is funky as hell.
So. I remember first watching this when it came out, and thinking it was super cool, and it is, but I was really impressed by the level of procession in the cuts and all that. But now, I'm in my third year of my architecture degree, I really appreciate that level of procession, for someone who was not classically trained to make architectural models to be able to look at the plan and section and even know how to read it is incredible. We aren't even allowed to use hot glue because it is so difficult to use and make it look good. He does it with easy. Its absolutely breath taking.
Adams basement was bigger than my house! lol XD
Same
same, like 20 times bigger than my row home apartment.
same .__.
Its bigger than my appartment and the one next to ours combined! 😂
were going to be using 1 tool: the exactoknife.. *pulls out table saw*
Funny first thing I thought was damn that house is huge. Even as a model its huge.
First, you grew up in an extraordinary house.
Second, I've built several foam core or cardstock structures in 1/87-scale (HO railway) with great success.
Third, I'm toying with a 1/24-scale structure to support my hobby work in the same scale and this video has been very helpful.
Thanks!
Everything is your favourite thing of all time Adam ;)
+Ross Bishop And he has a lot of friends.
+Ross Bishop Gotta love people that are enthusiastic.
The steel blocks with all the holes that Adam is using to hold the paper down, or the walls up, is a 1-2-3 block named because it is a 1"x2"x3" block of steel. Handy for what he is doing with them but really from the machine shop side of his cave. The holes are (typically) threaded to hold down things on the machine tools. Well Adam explains all this at 7:00 but I jumped the gun.
+cemx86 I'm glad you did. Now i don't have to look up why it's called a 1-2-3 block, or what it's specifically used for, because I was curious. I thought maybe the 1-2-3 had something to do with the size of the holes and wasn't sure what their purpose was
That's a very different layout, would love to see some pictures.
man i love adam soo much he just gives a humble vibe
I wasn't wondering why it was so big, I was wondering why the fuck did it look so weird
jack duffy I was wondering the same thing, then I realized that it is probably because he didn't build the landscape around the house, and the first floor is a basement, so that probably attributes to the weird shape.
what looks weird about it?
jack duffy it looks odd because those are interior walls. there is no exterior skeleton that makes the house look comolete
That's what she said.
same reason, the 70's
I recently designed the house I'd like to own in Sketchup, and I kinda wanna try making it out of foamcore now.
+TheFancyUmbreon do it and come back and share it with us!
+TheFancyUmbreon 3D print it!
Mmm Sketchup
+TheFancyUmbreon you could have the design printed on A1 paper complete with the wallcoverings brick structure and stuff like that and stick those prints on the foamcore before cutting it out and glueing it together , if you make colourprints you could allmost end up with a dollshouse
when doing it this way youre prolly need to take the thicknes of the foamcore in accound if you buttjoin them together , then again you could make slantcuts and whont see any foamcore sticking out
you prolly need to stick the outside on cut it and then stick the inside up to have them alighn
+Olav Schneider that would be hella expensive. A much better route is laser cutting the parts out of cardboard/paper. I honestly love the laser cutter so much more than the 3d printer.
Im lucky to have them available to me in university, but if you do not have that try googling it. a lot of cities do have places that offer laser cutting that is priced per minute.
For me I get it for 1$ a minute, but the local shop does it for 1.5$ so a little bit more. if you are cutting paper or cardboard it won't be too much money. Foam core does not laser cut well though, the core shrinks under the paper making it not very structurally sounds. Another option would be to use a very thin wood.
I am designing my own house, and this is a great ideal for building a model to see how it all fits together.
Thank you!
I have made scale building models from both Matte Board and Foam Board. I usually used Spray Mount and attached Floor Plans directly on top of the Board. Then, I cut out the Perimeter. There is additional detail that is already on the Floor Plans. Ditto for Exterior Walls, Spray Mounted Exterior Wall Elevations on top of Board and cut out. Windows and other details are on the External Elevations. Internal Walls with Door openings were plain Board with no Interior Elevations. Roofs are always a bit challenging.
I have love drawing bunker ideas since I was a kid. Im gonna try this on some of my designs :D
Adams basement is bigger than my house
True
Edward C same
Same
Edward C don't fill bad, he lives in San Francisco. Have you ever been to San Francisco? You couldn't pay me to live there.
House? You my friend lived in a castle !!
I truly enjoyed watching this video. Years ago I made a 1/12 foam board model of the apartment I grew up in. It was fun 😊
I made a scale house out of foamcore years ago, and I made it in 1/24 scale too. I used a 1/24 scale Jeep diecast car to put where the garage was.
cool, i made it 1/12 scale!
@@capitalm417 I love 1/12 scale, making 1" = 1 foot is easy and fun
@@xINVISIGOTHx yep, that's exactly why I did it, but the only downside is that it's too big.
I just imagine him as a kid saying, "Mom why do we have to have a mansion, I always get lost," by the way he's 3 and in his room shaking after getting himself lost in the basement when he couldn't reach the lights. His build was a big house, and the sad thing is my friends say my house is a mansion and its 2 floors with an attic, 3 sets of stairs, a room that takes up 2 floors 4 bed and my parents sitting room, also 4 bathroom, a kitchen, my dads home office, and a front and backyard. THINGS HAVE DECLINED A LOT RECENTLY.
Knife, ruler and glue... and a table saw and sandpaper and a hot glue gun and glue sticks and 123 blocks and a band saw and an engineers square.
Going back to the simple tools!Roflmao.
Amazing, it looks so Great ! I had built one by cardboard, the eadge looked bad and not satisfied of it, you finished it only one day, that's unbelievable.
Nowadays, a house like this would go for $500 grand and up! That's why I told my dad to not sell the family Camaro. It would fetch $50 grand easily because it had so little mileage on it. Unfortunately, he sold it to a friend.
A house like that was affordable in the 1970's? What ever happened to the American dream...
Depends on the location really
You can still find a house that size for 300-500k, just not in some city like san fran or new york. Location is key and your money will go much further in areas with lower cost of living or low land prices
In Tampa, FL I've seen houses with 10,000 sq. ft. of living space alone go for sub $500k. Location, location, location.
Nuffel Bagget, The American dream now is just that, a dream! In so called " world class " cities like NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Miami, you have to pay anywhere from $250,000 - $500,000 and up to buy a studio or one bedroom condo, especially if you want a downtown or near downtown and nice location. A house like that in the above cities would probably go for at least $3,000,000! You've also gotta remember that the cost of living was much lower in the 1970s than today, there were fewer people around back then, and the dollar was worth much more than it does these days.
I live in Southern California and our house is a town home that shares a wall with the housing next door. It has 2 stories, 3 bed rooms, 2 bathrooms, and a super duper and i mean super duper tiny backyard. Our house alone if sold could buy three 2 story houses with huge yards and backyards with pools in Texas.
That was so impressive for one day. After it was done I had a thought. Wouldn't it be cool if the floor was cut out of thin perspex? So you could visualize the whole house without taking floors off. My only frame of reference to something like this was the game The Sims, where I'd never ever make a house on more than one floor because it was annoying not being able to see it all properly.
I hope this inspired people all over internet to start making foamcore houses.
+Clay Mann Thats actually a really good idea
He's right about the 70's housing market. Especially like '77 and '78 my pop was going to buy this huge brick floating staircase mansion in belle terre port Jefferson NY for $60,000 it would go for 4.5 million today
the funny thing is some other jackass would yell at you about inflation, but the wages probably scaled to pay a lot more the they do today scale wise. so yeah 60,000k then is probably like 1mil in today's money but the ratio they got payed back then was a lot higher today so it was still affordable.
conclusion : prices went up while wages went down. 'murica
+Mr. McClassy I'm so with you on that. This country would flourish if wages kept up with gas, milk, home taxes, electric bills and most important real estate
$60,000 then is not even close to a million today..in fact it's a little over $200,000.
I think he means the actual value of the house became about 4.5 million, not $60,000 adjusted for inflation.
+RobotFreakGames yes! That's what I meant.
foamcore sounds like a new experimental genre of metal hahaha
Archnerd trick: for a cleaner finish at points where joints butt, cut one of the pieces a little longer (the thickness of the foam core, to be exact.) Score the inner paper layer and foam, peel it off, and the remaining layer of paper can be glued to cover what would otherwise be the exposed foam edge of the other piece. Looks nicer.
What a pleasure to remodel your childhood place!!
That size a house was gotten on a middle class one-year's salary in the 70's?!
How freaking far we've fallen...
It's a big pit and we're still falling.. . ... .. . .. . . .. . .
Boomers are on the way out and when they go housing is going to collapse. Great to buy, gonna suck if you already own.
It'd be a cool video if you decorated it too! good job, love your work!
1 year's salary. DAMN houses used to be cheap!
he's just lying, just leaving it out there.
+LT “John” YV
He's probably not
1 year salary for a rich person ye :p
He's probably filthy rich then.
Remember this was a new house in an unpopulated area. This means the land would have been cheap. Furthermore Wages used to be higher and everything cost less for everyone in the past. He is rich now though, because of mythbusters.
Wow! This is INCREDIBLE! I’m going to practice a bit w cardboard before I do the foam core, but we’ve recently retired and I’ll try this for a plan for a stone cabin I hope to build one day! (If not-I can dream about it!) Thanks!!
Adam, there's actually a trick that the King of Random showed when cutting foamcore where, you apply the paper directly to the foamcore itself with some glue (such as photo album glue) and then, when you use the foamcutter, it /can/ go through the polystyrene, but not the paper, leading to very smooth cuts. Or at least, that is how he said it worked.
Can you explain (if you knew about this trick) why you prefer transferring your designs manually? Is it because of glue residue?
+adrian palmer yo chill
If I tried to do this I would just start cutting and slapping it together from memory and end up with some janky, uncomfortably symbolic mess.
I thought he was done when he finished the basement because im like yea thats a pretty big house then hes like ok now time for the first floor
noice profile pic :P
I just found this I'm making a 1/10 scale garage for my hobby room to display my 1/10 RC cars and trucks. And this is so much easier then thin plywood . Awesome video thanks for the ideas.
this is some great wikipedia material!