Making A Simple Scenic Base For Your Armor Model (Morser Karl, 1/35 Trumpeter) 

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO, muh friends

"MAH FRENS!" = start of a great weekend. Would love to see you do a base like that with a nice stain, then a high gloss varnish. Make the base look like a piece of furniture.

As a 13 year old obsessed with modelling and tanks, this channel has been a huge inspiration for me. Thx night shift!

You know its a good start of the weekemd when you see a Night Shift popping up in your youtube feed

Seeing uncle Nightshift dry-brush his diorama and explaining why and how just feels so good. It's one of the very first techniques I learned for painting basses and terrain for dnd and wargames, but hearing him talk about it makes it feel less like a "beginners cheat" and more like a valid modeling technique. Thanks Uncle, loving your content recently!

Uncle Night Shift! I would absolutely love to see you do a diorama in which you implement the subject vehicle firing! This model especially would look so cool with plumes of smoke and flame following a massive mortar shell out of the barrel

"to blow anyones socks off into the stratosphere" ... Oh man!... That made my day! 😂

One hint - if you dont know already: The Styrocut (i think you have one besides the Proxxon - the Proxxon might have this feature as well) has a little brass inlay around the hot wire inserted in the worktop. It can be pushed upwards and be used as a guide. Turn your cardboard-styrofoam with the cardboard down and glide along the brass inlay - you will get much smoother cuts.

Great feeling hearing the “Muh frends”

What ever you want to do ,do it. You are an artist .

As spectacular as the Karl Morser Geträt is, your diorama skills and techniques make this build over the top. It's cranked up to 11. Great job, Uncle Night Shift. Kudos, muh friend.

Hi Martin, you said you are no expert at figure painting but let me tell you your figure painting is as good if not better than any on you tube, I can watch your videos all day my friend.🙏👍🏼

Well done, muh friend

So im going out on a limb and say the ellipses are oval and this is a lozenge shape....amazing stuff as usual and the new schedule is good for you!

Absolute master of his craft and so beautifully presented. The high quality camerawork, editing and narration serve to enhance the joy of seeing Uncle Night Shift produce yet another stunning piece of work. Thank you sir.

Make the Schwerer Gustav next time! That would be epic! Nice build.

Mind blowing how you make them realistic on a very high level. I’ve said it several times but you’re still one of the very best on the internet

A superb model, you should be happy and proud of it. And we are thankful for sharing your art with us.

Very happy to see you are back, MUH FRIEND! !!

Dear Martin, if you ever consider Merch: Start selling „Real Earth from my Garden TM“ A small zip-lock bag with a few grams would do. Its a nice support i would do and i could boast with a model that have „Real Earth from YOUR Garden“ 😂

Fantastic result! Well done!

The work on the base is by itself a masterpiece...Inspiring!

What a mighty beast this model is. ✔️ . Next…

Thank you for making my Friday evening more enjoyable. The week is not the same when you aren't here.

Great result! Marvellous work, my friend :)

Sometimes a diorama doesn't need to tell a story, just be an adjective to it. Something as simple as the addition of the two shovels in the foreground to provide perspective, using something we've all likely had in our hands, to demonstrate the grandness of this beast. Hopefully I speak for most of us... In regards to your "time for a change" video, you do you, we'll be here to follow along. You & SpruesNBrews are two of my favorite youtube modelers, and have been a great inspiration for getting back into the hobby after 20 years of life flying by... keep up the awesome work!

Poetry in motion. So effortless. So a masterpiece end result. Will apply the diorama techniques for my King Tiger ( F13 Companie Fehrmann AFV Modeller Issue 18) entry in this coming June competition.

Thank you Uncle! Wonderful work!

This is a beautiful project

Uncle Nightshift, thankfully you have made a appearance this week, it always great to see one of your videos, I am working today and it is a very slow day, so watching modelling video is the ideal thing to do, best regards from Australia and keep doing what you do best, when you have the time to film/edit. 👍👍👍

Thank you , Uncle Martin . 🐺

Awesome finish MAH FRIEND! :)

I like your work because I love your work but because it feels like chatting to a friend just seeing what your upto it's nice just hearing someone being positive & enjoying something the love doing

You have always the best idea for your dioramas..... Very inspiring.

The grass looks very realistic, just like my lawn...😂

Another GREAT vid!!! 👍👍

Try this: By having the cardboard/template side of the foam base nearer to either end of the hot wire, you can reduce the amount of deflection when cutting, which should leave nicer more consistent edges. You can see in the video how much the wire bends above the cut. By symmetry it's moving as much inside the cut.

Another masterpiece of building and painting. Like how the tone of everything really meshes.

Superb finish, just the right amount of everything in my opinion, base texture, colour and figures. What you have tells the story a break and a bit of maintenance between ops

You are a tremendous modeller. Your technic in everything you do at modelling word, it’s an inspiration. This is Art. Thank you 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Tanker on the left in 19:26 is just Saul Goodman💀

The whole model is really well done, the base is very fitting, it truly is a monster kit.

My friend! Looks amazing!!! 😊

Excellent work. I’ve said this before but, especially with you last few comments about artistic freedom, you should DEFINITELY look into gunpla. Especially any of the grunt suits like the Zaku or Leo. The Zaku has definitive WWII Axis vibes and are a perfect slate for complete artistic freedom. You’re not constrained to “this vehicle was only in X location, once during Y year.” It can be anything you want, from any time you want and can be painted in any way you see fit. If there’s any person I’d love to see paint a gunpla… it’s muh Uncle Night Shift.

I think this turned out great, it has life to it, that you can never get from an old black and white photo, without going over the top and feeling fake. A bigger base may be cooler in most cases, but I think it works here, for simply getting the point across. I also like that it's tall, I don't know if the greater visibility from that height was intentional, but it works. It's like a good solid chunk of Earth cut out, instead of looking like a piece of cardboard with dirt and paintbrush hairs glued to it. This makes me want to build a tank, or maybe a train that came off the tracks decades ago and has been left to sink further and further into the mud.

Outstanding result. I like the story it tells. The story is, in fact; the engineering behind all that effort. The figures keep perspective. Very well done and very well thought out.

Did you built a totally destroyed tank already? I`d love to see such a project, showing all this burned and devastated interior, etc.

This is a perfect example of a small amount is enough, i]the base shows the Karl Morser of superbly. Well done.👌👌

Thx for show us. A very great Model and Base. For me GOLD

Uncle night shift returns!

Your skills are those of a true artist! The Da Vinci of scale models!!

It whould be so awesome to see a burned down tank-wreck from you! (Great video keep it up!)

Can we get a shirt the just says MUH FRIENDS! Love the video! I always continue to learn from you! Thank you!

This was great fun to watch!

Awesome build Myyyy friend!

I had such a bad week. I was super happy to get home and see this upload! hope you are doing really well with the new schedule and feeling lots better ❤

The ground looks excellent - completely realistic to my old eyes. And I think your balance of the size of base, number of figures, relative to the Mortar was spot-on. And, thank you - I'm going through a really bad time right now, and just simply hearing you say "Muh Friends" cheers me up!

You give me some great ideas. Very nice, thanks,. Gary from .ct.

What a beast of a German mortar. And a massive diorama to properly display it. I like the 25:00 run time, good for you, man. Less weekly posts - but longer videos. Smart decision. I totally get it.

Awesome, brilliant video, cant wait to see what comes next.

When you make a radius make sure to use your tool in a sort of digging motion to get a nicer finish

Uncle nightshift has done it again! Great project finish on this huge Morser. Like the simple base set up. Makes the model stand out better.

Very nice build!

Highly instructive throughout. Lots of common sense observations and cautions. An expertly made Karl. Just one recommendation = on the level side of the ground you can still have cavalry or foot bound soldiers (engineers, infantry, etc.) walking past. It would create a lot of interest due to far more activity. It would rid you of the anti-climactic feeling. Dark brown coloured horses are surprisingly easy to do.

That sir is the perfect base for that beast. Well done !!!

Many thanks again young uncle. Outstanding. Let’s all take our time.

this is quite an impressive model and diorama. Watch her videos every Friday and it's always fun to see how something very unique is created

A fantastic result for ‘Thor’ Uncle! It looks just awesome, and the build series for this model was a joy to watch. I am looking forward to your next project. Stay safe, and greetings from 🇦🇺!

A nice paint to use for covering the wood fineer is using black latex paint… when you apply it it starts of being grey , but when dried it gives a smooth flat black surface … you will like it ( and it is waterbased) … Ps. Love your work 👍🏻🤙🏻❤️

Excellent as usual!

It's a long weekend here in the Philippines and this vid is the best way to start it!

Sir, your attention to detail never ceases to amaze me. 😎

Love it. Awesome build, awesome paint job and awesome scenic base. Well done as allways.

It took til now [after watching you for like 3 years] to finally figure out the way to describe your painting style/color choices. At least through the filters of your camera, youtube compression, and my monitor, your models have a recolored black & white newsreel feel to them, like modern documentaries from WW2 where they use AI and CGI to approximate the colors. It gives your figures a surreal uncanny valley vibe, especially the exaggerated skin warmth and muted uniforms from your pre-shading/glazing technique. It is pretty unique. Because of the nature of the figs I do [sci-fi/Fantasy, 40k and D&D mainly], my style is 80s cartoon saturated colors, using alot of wash and drybrush with a gloss or satin finish. A friend of mine has a old comic book/sunday comic strip vibe to his figs, with faded colors and a matte/flat finish, mainly because of the cheap paint he insists on using: krylon grey automotive spray primer and dollar store poster paints. We did a test once, choosing the same model [a reaper dark elf with scimitar and kite shield, his favorite figure] and colors, just differing in technique and paint brands, his looked like the 70s D&D cartoon, mine like the art in the 3e rulebooks. I have to try your method, it might give me a good looking yellow figure for once [been trying to paint Bumblebee from Transforners in 1:72 scale, he's 3" tall], and have to strip him and try again, he loses too much detail with my colored primer [citadel wraithbone, an eggshell color] and contrast/wash paints approach.

5:56 looking at the ladders with the dirt right there, I was thinking that there would have probably been some dirt where the boots were climbing up and down them. Brushing a little on the the middle area of the ladder would also make sense considering the boot prints you have leading up to it! Love your videos, thanks for the enjoyment!

Another, smaller WW1 tank could be interesting. One of those early turreted tanks perhaps?

Great work as always. Since you are talking about doing something small and creative, how about a vignette where the focus is a few figures, rather than a larger model? Or maybe a sci-fi subject.

Makes me want to see you do the the 400mm extra long Soviet artillery. That would for sure make the Karl Mörser jealous lol. Beautiful diorama’s as always.

Thanks for the figure hints..I have acquired a few figures in 1/16 scale to paint and weather.😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

Hello sacrée maquettes super travail bravo

Superb, like always!!!!

Nice, now I want one...

100% prefer these longer videos

Time for a schwerer-gustav!

incredible work,

I love your work and videos very well and i learn a lot from them. I build over 15 Years now but last half year i can't find any motivation to do modelling. But your videos make me happy and more motivated to start modelling again. Keep op the good work i love it!!!

An excellent project, and very enjoyable to watch the progression through to completion. 👍

A huge, and beautiful, project. Very well executed and an excellent result. I wish I was half as good as you are.

Thank you, uncle night shift. You really entertained me with your skills and explanations. I look forward to your next one 👍

Model i diorama jak zawszę przepiękna!!! Ale najfajniejsze jest że w głosie znów słychać radość z tworzenia a nie tylko rutynę 😁! Warto czekać na następny projekt!

Shoot, man :) 32.000 views in 20 hours? I don't think Marvel trailers have that much! Brilliant video. Again.

I think such huge models like that always ask for lots of figures to be shown working on them. Sort of like an anthill-like atmosphere. Would be more realistic too, as a lot of personell was needed to service them.

This is a really interesting vehicle. Came out great, well done!

I haven't made a scale model in at least two years because I just haven't had the time. But I still love watching all of your videos as they come out, keep up the great work!

Simply awesome 👍

First time I've watched your video with my almost-four-years old son and he is stoked :D Great content as always, Uncle :)

Excellent work as usual. Thanks Uncle Night Shift, aka: Uncle Martin aka: My favorite Martian 🤣

Excellent, Thank you Master!!!

Dear Martin, Outstanding! Thank you for sharing. This is my favourite channel to start my weekend. Best Wishes Johnny

Such a beauty. I believe, this model didn't require a delicate scene, since it's not the harmony and blending with the environment which is important in this case, but the excellent engineering, the colossal dimensions and tiny details of the vehicle, and a deatiled scene would draw the attention of the spectator. One thing I would have added, is some dirt grains and sand on the ladders which would get knocked off the crews boots while they were climbing them, but it's such an insignificant detail, that it's not even worth considering. Other than that, it's sheer perfection. Although most of them were rather impractical, there is something about the gigantic warmachines of the Third Reich which I simply adore, and this model captures it perfectly.