I watched Dan's video before starting my JS Models kits and adding in the mortar courses makes a huge difference! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IaLtaVnvWC4.htmlsi=MuUhOynEAvAxX2BS
Hi Railstuff (sorry I forgot your name, apologies) It just shows what you guys and girls have to do just to make us 'vistiors' happy so we can buy a few odd bits and pieces at shows. You guys are truly very dedicated people to the hobby world. Thank you for attending and turning up at events and shows, even if there is very little return in it for you. Thanks
Thanks Peter. Some parts are hard, but I love it too. Seeing the layouts, meeting fellow modellers, catching up with friends... That makes it worthwhile. The early mornings and manual labour I am less keen on! It's Adam by the way :)
Hallelujah brother Hallelujah. I have just tried to make a hill about 1 meter x 400 mm. I made a polystyrene form and used air dry clay. At the moment it's almost dry but it's full of bloody cracks. It seems clay shrinks , plaster expands. I guess it's take 2 now.
An apples to oranges comparison. The Vollmer 47607 Single Track Engine Shed is an equaly detailed kit. Or alternatively the Wills engine shed would make for a better comparison.
And I thought I was the only person to use a pipette like that, but I apply the layering spray via the pipette, and it works superbly for small areas, by opening the top of the layering spray and sucking it up, much better that the basing glue and more accurate than spraying.
Nice...Love these videos especially when I have the same component kit as you, but still waiting on some more pieces. I guess the bowing was caused by the moisture and also the weight which was my initial fear. I would suggest some foam inserts at the ends and in the middle to redistribute the weight and reshape it. I intend to put a train on top so will need to do this I think. Arches can be red brick, London yellow brick or grey brick...it really does depend on what you are modelling. Originally I was going to paint mine (when I have assembled it) red brick but seeing yours not sure now...maybe grey. It depends on what your layout palette is going to be and whether it will fit in or conform....Mine is a London scene with London red buses, so still not sure. Will have to go back and look at some photos....Cant wait for your next video and thanks for posting:)
This is a great idea....love the idea of a street scene with just a diorama of the arches and a train track above. How is the finish of the bricks? Deep enough to paint brick red and add a white wash for the mortar before wiping away?
The Knightwing kit looks quite continental European to me, rather than British. The laser-cut kit looks more British to me, although it's obviously a stone building, not brick. I remember that back in the 1970s, Airfix used to do a nice plastic brick-built engine shed kit (the right size for one tank engine). I think it was also possible to use multiple kits to make a larger shed, if I remember correctly. The competition in those days was various types of card kits, and the plastic kit had more scope for weathering etc (card warped as soon as any wash was added).
If you weathered the plastic kit would you like it better? If the plastic kit is as it was out of the box and you compared the laser cut kit as it was out of the box... Would you still have the same opinion? Apples with Apples comparison so to speak... 😉 Happy Modelling 👍
Hi Adam, An interesting insight into pigments. You have a like and a new sub…and I’ve been shopping at your online store..! Best wishes from a very wet Wirral.
I would suggest that when assembling things like this you use the top edge to make alignments not the bottom. The top is always seen, Any finger poking or viewing parallax alignment faults made when aligning to the bottom are magnified when they effect later additions at the top. The bottom alignment errors can be grassed or dirtied over, the top ones are there for all to see for ever. The same for the inner wall and coping, align the top edge.
This is designed as a stone not brick building. I don't think Jonathon would have designed the kit with bricks more than 4 times scale size. Doesn't detract from the techniques used and some parts of the North West and Scotland do have red sandstone.
I do love laser kits, I`ve had many fairprice kits, plastic seems to have fallen behind as theres little 00 houses and i`ve gone faller or heljan or the older Hornby kits which are still made under gaugemaster, I seal the brick work with matt varnish after painting then if your doing a motar wash or i sometimes use tiling grout, it stops the pre painted surface be rubbed off.
Thank you RAILstuff This was really clear and made the process simple. I appreciated your pacing and honest/practical directions. My son and I are working on his first landscaping project and I wanted to try out plaster cloth. Your tutorial made it easy. If we make a video with our project in the next couple of week, I'll be sure to tag your channel.
Good video. It hadn't occurred to me to try cat litter as ballast, but now I know not to try it. Also, I've heard that Chinchilla dust can be used for ballast but have not tried it. Not sure whether that would result in any cost savings.
