How foolish! A personal look at an April Fool's prank that was a lot of fun from start to finish 

Magic, it is said, is not tricking people with cleverness; but putting so much effort into a task that no one would ever believe that it could possibly be a trick.

As I said on the original, for a throw away prank, the level of modelling is still such a high quality.

Do you know how long I was googling "dye drying works" "Victorian dye drying works" "ancient dye drying works" "ancient victorian dye hut" etc??? You totally got me

I fell for it. You'll be hearing from my solicitors in the morning...

I twigged when I saw the turntable observer's tower that "something" was afoot. But the whole idea of a dye drier was so plausible I gave you the benefit of the doubt until the calendar forced "April 1" into my consciousness and the light bulb exploded.

I saved it to watch later - I’m a sucker for April fools, but with the cover blown “I won’t be fooled again” PS was that a bottle of Springbank on you’re top shelf - I’ll be round for a wee dram later (it’s the best - well after Penderyn!! Cheers Jeff

Whether playing an April Fools prank or modeling Station Road in Chandwell, your InkScape skills are amazing!

Best April Fool's prank I've ever seen! And, I fell for it as well!

Thank you for the entertaining daftness, and for this follow-up video! And I'm quite chuffed that you quoted one of my comments as being one that you appreciated.

Got me, hook, line and sinker… you do deadpan faultlessly!

I was one that bambusald but not harm no foul. Part of what sold it for me is I live and in the USA and don't know much about Great Britain. I did keep saying to myself that it was an awfully thin building but what do I know I am not from there. The rest of the back story help sell as well. Thank you bring a smile to my face and for the hard work do in producing videos for real or fake buildings.

Brilliant. I fell for it. but was baffled how it would operate. But then the Industrial North is a strange foreign world for us down South 😁

🤣Just finished looking at some old railway goods yard turntables on old Ordnance Survey maps (Bingley and Wolverhampton in particular) and this video appeared as a recommendation. Then was scratching my head, a turntable viewing tower? 🤣 Awesome creativity and craftsmanship.

Ha, ha, what a donkey. I watched the video 4 times before I convinced myself that it was suss. It was like something out of the Scratch build section of The Great Model Railway Challenge. Nice one Michael.

Before I caught on, I was wondering why build it so narrow. That was a good one you played on us!

This was a very clever April fool, it took me two watches before the penny dropped, and I think that was thanks to your your deadpan delivery and that brilliant ‘old’ engineering drawing. The cleverest April fools are ones that are nearly believable and this was just that. Thank you for lightening the day!

The turntable observation tower had the aroma of rodent but the dye drying building I took at face value. Which was pretty much it’s one dimension. A Swann Morton No3 cut above Michael

Great follow up video Michael. Well done. Roy.

Curses! I was taken in. I even Googled it to find out more. 🙄

You may have opened a can of worms with this; "Fantasy Buildings We'd Like To See." Brilliant! And now, for a "Can Of Worms Canning Factory, circa 1878".

Best April Fool ever. I was googling drying works for a while before I realised!!

Pffft! You made the Easter bunny cry with this one.!

I'm still chuckling about this. Glad I gave you a worry - it's just payback for tricking me in the first place. 😂

I watched this and thought I don't remember those details of the dye drying works. And then I remembered. I had sat down to watch it, dozed off and then had to leap up and do something else. I failed to get back to it so I missed the joke. Bother!

I thought at first it was YOU what had been taken in by a perfectly typical Victorian April Fool's joke. There I was thinking "Poor Michael, great modeller, lousy researcher", and then didn't wait for the outro. What a relief. I can still rely on your research.

Had me going too! What made it even more believable was that I'm a town nearby there is the remains of a Georgian or victorian building, where only the front face wall was left standing, and it bore a vaguely similar style to your dye drying works. i never knew its purpose but when I saw your extra slim building I thought "hold on, was that one of those?" 😅

Yes Michael, That was a real hoot ! 😊

You got me. I think it was well presented enough to work just right. I had thought it odd it never really got placed in your layout.

I did wonder, especially when I saw the date so prominently displayed in the video, and the depth of the building didn't add up at all, but I then wondered if it was the facade of a former building the had been given the "Chandwell Treatment" and the rear had been demolished so it kind of made sense then. I now sincerely hope you get an itch on (or in) a part of your anatomy that you cannot reach 😂😂😂

I'm glad someone else pointed out that it's yoohoo. I've known it as that for 55 years. Officials wear yooniforms, not ooniforms 😁

I’ll put my hands up to this, and admit I was taken in, even though I thought the similarities between building and cassette too much of a coincidence. The ironic part of me believing this? In the eighties, I worked in an ex dye works building, that was typical of any late Victorian red brick industrial building of that era🙄🙄🙄

That was a good one!

Hilariously genius😀😀 Also superb use of card modelling and AI. What worries me is when AI gets too good, politicians will be able to lie even more than they already do!😳😲😲

Of course I was mistaken with my comment in the previous video. The facade is strangely looking like the facade of the cottage in Taskmaster.

Got me! Hook, line and sinker. Can I ever again trust anything this man says. Although, in my defence, we are used to trick buildings in London (check out 23-24 Leinster Gardens). Not sure if they had tape casettes in the 1860s when the Metropolitan Railway built these. Well done Michael. I'll be ready for you next year!

LMAO! That was so funny... I was chuckling this morning and almost spilled my coffee, what a hoot! Definitely make modeling fun. Like the way you pulled the whole thing off. The coolest thing is how you applied your creative genius to pull it off, very cool!

You guys pranks deserved to be successful as you had put so much effort into them. Well done indeed. Arthur

You should add it to Chandwell!

I enjoyed the 1 April video, but really like this one showing how you pulled off the charade. The recreation of period drawings was extremely interesting to me.

I was completely taken in!! Never spotted the clues.

Well you fooled me completely, but in my defense my knowledge of obscure Victorian-age structures is close to zero.

Great prank 😂

Now I really, REALLY want to make a cutaway model of some Victorian dye drying works to show the interior :D

That is brilliant-so creative! Thank you! 😊

Well I feel like a complete plonker.

Doh! I met my friend in Hebden Bridge and was telling her about these thinking it was real! The only confusion I had was if that was the only article you had about one, how did you know they had all been demolished? My only defence is I was suspicious enough to check the time the video was posted and thought it was in the afternoon 😐 great work on the building though 👍

Very good 😂😂😂, I’m to busy working on mine I just took it for granted.

😂 nice one well done 👍

Being old enough to know better, Even in this episode having missed the first, I am embarrassed to say I did not listeni n immediately. But I suppose we can blame It on my age considering I still have an 8-track mind, Which it turns out not to be a good thing. Jumping from one project to another without actually starting at the beginning, ending up somewhere in the middle project, trying to get to the beginning of another. All the while, wishing I could just get to the beginning of my favorite project, Instead of getting side tracked, 8-tracked, By all the others. 😢 😂

I went back to the original video and ..... I got trapped by the magic of your modelling skills. Did not see one of the clues you gave ... Not even the really weird obsevation platform for a turntable. I thought the best comment was "ooohoo" or "YouHoo" . I was wrong I thought the patent for the glue had been bought to England by August's sister April. But I do have a suggestion. Perhaps if the Building could be used for another purpose it may be saved. A Starbucks was suggested. The required extention could be of ??? I dont know I'm just not that creative.

I have to admit, i figured it was an april fools joke in the first 5 minutes as soon as i saw the tape shape of the building But its probably more to do with the fact i am from yorkshire, we would build something dafter 😂 (for context i was reccomended that video 2 months after April first ....i have no date context 😂 )

A corking video sir!

Are you going to raffle it off or have a competition for it ? I think it looks great and would love the chance to win it.

oohoo is the correct pronunciation , it is the german word for owl

Wasn't Dye Drying a launderette in Wales?

good vid on channel keep up the good vids

I'm embarrassed to say I never noticed, although in my defence I watchied it just before bed.. oh dear, oh deary me...I'll get my coat.

harmless fun

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If it was turned into Starbucks would they be serving skinny lattes?

Can you link this newbie to Adrian's one please?

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Britney Scroggins is real though, isnt she?

Michael Thanks for a great update and a real, ‘Behind the Curtain’ moment of how you both do things and the effort you put in behind the scenes.I sort of guess you might have a 1st April funny video up your sleeve by your comments o& been delayed and lack of real members update. But I thought it would be good to play along. For the non Uk Viewers we have along tradition of April Fools day jokes in all forms of Media, one of the most famous been the BBC 1957 Spaghetti Harvest narrated by Sir Richard Dimbleby. In my comments I used the phrase Loof Lirpa or Lirpa Loof which if read the letter right to left spell April Fool or Fool April, which has used many times with these sort of jokes. So I had the idea of how to comment depend on what Michael showed. Yes I did find an Austin Mitchell Book from the early 1970’s which was a Yorkshire Joke Book so thought quoting with the Loof Lirpa phrase was idea. The railway one is from April 1986 when a Uk Magazine Rail Enthusiast said a locomotive 31 200 had been named Railtour Express with photos of loco with it new name other magazines fell for this the even reporting this, later a photo with name plate upside down appeared in print. Great Update Michael. Ian

Spotted it within 45 seconds, but was greatly impressed with the level of effort you put in, and the incredibly straight face you kept while doing your bits to camera.

You may think no one constructed something so narrow but apparently when Liverpool docks was being renovated they demolished a listed warehouse near to the Grade 1 listed Albert Docks and had to repair/rebuild the ornate frontage so your 'dye drying works could have feasibly existed. Excellent leg pull and great modelling as usual, wish I had your abilities.