Yes! At the bench. Love the weathering on this building. You can see the years piling up with every stroke of the brush. Dust… every model railroaders nemesis. I’ve come up with an interesting solution. A small static mop with the moa fronds does the trick as long as you stay on top of it. I’m binge watching so it’s on to part two. Thanks for posting, as always. 😊
You make a good point that these really are all nice basic techniques that most modelers know. Knowing how to use those basics plus prototype research really can make all the difference.
Hi Eric, An excellent video with fantastic weathering options to truly elevate the quality of the model. Definitely another one of the things I need to do and want to do as I make my second pass on many of my buildings that I did in my Michigan city area of my layout . Thank you as always have a good week. Scott
Hi Eric, good to see you back. A comment say those old buldings should see a new life in résidential condos. Here an example. That 7 story building is one of them. Here some historical facts. Old industrial neighborhood along Lachine canal, ancestor of actual St Lawrence seaway. On south shore once CP followed it with myriad of customers. On the north CN did the same. There was a rotating bridge ( now replaced) over the canal with CP passing below. Today a bike path. To serve clients, CN had a diamond crossing its double main lines. The leg going east is still in service. The west one and canal´s line is gone. That explain the buildings wall curve shape. I invite all of you to continue your visit from 84 to 144 St Augustin street. In days when transportation was on foot or behind horses carriages, all those industrys served by ship and train needed workers. So they lived close by. If you would see St Augustin street homes on a layout, all of you would complaint about non prototypical and a joke. The 84 Google it in 84 St Augustin, Montréal. You´ll see it in Flickr with a 1959 shot. Quite different house with with wood walls covering and a door and balcony on second floor with now gone CN switching tower. 84 is ugly with its triangular shape. Same for the next two adjacents ones. With plaster wall and different foundation location, closer to the street, aong lintel above window, remnant of once big garage door. 96 with skylight windows and metal roof. Those tiny houses in a low income mills workers era. 102 stones foundation with air vent. The large opening goes back to days when horses were parked in stalls in backyard. It´s still there from Earth perspective. 102 is newer with a more modern approach. It was builted on a lot where former homes, probably destroyed by fires. It´s no more a single family home. Bigger two story can house now tenants and fresh immigrants working in nearby mills. Notice the more expansive facade bricks and cheaper ones on the sides. An economical way to give a more luxury look. 110 to 126. 4 survivors tiny one family with a more common rural look. Builted in pairs, still spiffy and well maintained. So the same and different with windows skylights. Then, the shock of the "future" with freshly builted cubic style. The "orange" one, very narrow plot with a roof access, different facade materials. And with 144, new sidewalks, hence lighter concrete color. But orange is younger with asphalt patch on sidewalk and street for water and sewer pipings. I stop here. I think to build that street. May be some look alike omissions, but for sure a big discussion subjects with those so different houses. Ok, here a bit extreme, but who said that unprototypical can be believable ? Except one, they are all narrow, 11 of them in 300 feet of street. Hope you´ll take the time to visit them. They can be colorful, with extreme changes as centurys passed and good neighbors to your railroad served industrys. For a huge condo project you have the Redpath sugar refining in Montreal from 1854 to 1980. The plant expand with always more brick buildings addition. Sugar cane was received via ship on the canal. Boxcars for shipping bags of sugar and even in their own tank cars for the liquid syrup (Model Power made them in HO scale). They even had a huge railyard of coal storage, today R R Donnelley is location (Earth 1548 rue St Patrick). Opposite was CP track with modern concrete sugar silos. The type of Eric´s buildings can be modified infinitely. From rusty metal on top of brick walls. Why not a freshly shiny replaced one ? Outside emergency stair case. Far more work but better looking than an enclosed boxy addition. And where else your emoyees can go out to smoke ? Nice work Eric. Pretty sure more additions will come. Endless fun project. h 20:44 earth.app.goo.gl/?apn=com.google.earth&isi=293622097&ius=googleearth&link=https%3a%2f%2fearth.google.com%2fweb%2f%4045.47684172,-73.57925533,20.45944405a,0d,60y,163.74720482h,91.72262508t,0r%2fdata%3dIhoKFk56NUFDVm90aDc5VDN6enNwcUpTMmcQAg 😊😊😊
Hi Daniel - funny thing about Chicago, so many of the old industrial buildings are now beautifully tuckpointed and renovated condo conversions that I'm often left trying to dig out 'historical' photos from maybe two decades ago to figure out how they look when they're actually used for industrial purposes. It was a sign of the times when Walthers repurposed the Hardwood Furniture kit to be a loft/condo structure. That's a wild-looking building you shared.
@@ChicagoCrossingRR Modelers can work so much. Sometimes it´s almost endless. I modified my comment while you read it. There´s more stuff. I love those century old type. Far more than dull square warehouse style of the 70' like your friend in BC. Also smaller freight cars on sharper curves hence less precious real estate. Glad you like it. Just like on your layout. Workers must live somewhere like in your downtown housing also commercial. A two for one. Cheers😊
@@danielfantino1714 It's true the more modern stuff isn't always as fun to look at as the old buildings :). Goes to show how much one's environment will dictate what they model. What I really enjoy about old buildings in the modern era is just how much they get adapted, leading to clashes between modern and classical styling. There was a big sheet metal-siding penthouse on the actual Cassidy building that will be fun to represent in model form.
Funny you mention. I'd been thinking about the model layout from Mr. Rogers and how prior to this project, the Cassidy Warehouse probably would've been at home on that layout given its somewhat toylike appearance :)
Excellent weathering work my friend, that model really represents Chicago factories,I can think of several that are very similar. It's too bad we're losing more and more of our manufacturing history,i can remember living in Cicero all my life watching them demolish the old Western Electric plant. My heart kinda sunk when they knocked it down,now that would have been a building to model. Now i heard they want to knock down the old Damen silos. Slowly history being obliterated.
It is too bad. I keep an eye on the Chicago Architectural Conservancy and it can be pretty depressing to see wonderful old structures disappear. Cities are dynamic places but there are just some things worth hanging on to. I can't say whether the Cassidy building truly was one of those, but I sure was used to it being around!
That concrete turned out great! I'll return to this video when I do some more work on my own buildings - some of my background flats have the same style of wall.
Well, this video was timely, Eric--spookily timely as I'm currently building a plastic brick background building for a photo diorama/micro-layout in HO. On my last major structure I could use apply and wipe with craft paint for the motar because the motar grooves were deeply etched in laser-cut wood. But the current structure has smaller bricks with very shallow motar joints between them. And they'll be even shallower after painting the brick. I have some Buff Tamiya paint so I can test your method. I also have Tamiya panel liner, but I suspect it will be too thin for this application. And I'll experiment with the pencils I have, too. So thank you very much and Cheers from Wisconsin!
Hi Andrew, glad we're in sync on projects, should be fun to compare notes. Depending on the molding you may need a few cycles of paint addition to really get the joints looking good. Shoot me an email with some photos as you go, interested to see how things progress. For the cinder block and brick applique I ended up using tamiya model putty as an experiment, which worked strikingly well. I wouldn't advocate for such an expensive item on a whole building, but maybe explains why some folks will use something that has a much better gap-filling property in those settings.
That looks great. Always so nice and inspiring to see fellow N scalers go in depth with detailing and such, I hope I'll manage to do the same sort of detailing on my planned layout. By the way I just subscribed earlier today and there's a new video already. :D Looking forward to part 2.
There's a lot of payload in taking one's time and letting things evolve. Even if you don't get to this sort of detail initially, there's always time to go back and do more :)
Looks serendipitously awesome!😅 really nice work though, as usual, can hardly wait to see the next installment. I'm going to have to try your techniques, I have never thinned paint down that much, and was not thrilled with the results
Thank you Steve! Let me know how things turn out. Like any other of the mortar techniques, outcome can certainly depend on the material and relief of the brick.
A master modeler at my club used earth tone color pencils to do his brick work and he said when you cannot get anymore color on it spray dull coat on it and keep going the dull coat give back the ruffness to take the color of the pencil
For guys just starting to try weathering this is a must video. Question did you use any wetting aid in your water for your wet on wet prep before you applied the diluted paint? If so what did you use? The building looks great. Adding layers of age just like the real thing, most of the modelers I know layer and seal before the next one. Air brushing makes this simple and quick. looking forward to the next one.. Eric you hit this one out of the park.
Thanks Will - appreciate the feedback as always! I didn't use any wetting aids, just plain old water. It is important to clear coat as you mention. With wet-on-wet I'll usually coat the building after a painting session but typically not between colors, really depends on the effect I'm going for. Thus far in the process the airbrush hasn't made its appearance yet as a weathering tool versus the means for painting HVAC equipment, window and door panels, etc. But I anticipate there will be a few more layers of weathering once everything is installed on the building!
