Have said it before and will say it again, you don't post vids that often but when you do they are well worth watching every minute of them. Thanks Luke this will be handy for a forth coming project of mine.
Luke Towan estimado, una vez mas me brindaste 7 maravillosos minutos de relajación completa, les envió un fuerte y gran abrazo a tu esposa y a ti, saludos desde Chile. PD: no imaginas lo feliz que me harías al enviarme un saludo a mi. Atte. Tonny Jorquera
I\'m not sure but ,if anyone else needs to find out about building a model railroad layout try Panlarko Amazing Railroad Planner (just google it ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my colleague got cool success with it.
These are great. I don't even have a layout yet, but I think it would be a soothing activity to make a bunch of these pallets. The places I've worked in the real (giant) world where we had stacks of pallets, there was variety in the painting and labeling, indicating different customers and so on. I would enjoy mixing things up where you apply the red paint and throw in some different paint schemes, and maybe different levels of weathering and spillage. Thanks for another cool video.
I'm curious how good it would look like if you use all your amazing technics in 1 giant railroad scenery with a fully working train loop, amazing scenery with tons off details, wouldn't that be a nice idea for a new Luke Towan project? Aside the tutorials a episode of the rail road scenery! :)
So I know I'm not alone on this, but I want to make sure Luke gets a chance to read my comment.....I've just finished watch 3 of your playlist, EVEN though I've seen them all and constantly find I'm just as entertained and satisfied when watching them over and over. Just love all you do.
Fascinating! I love this stuff, even though my trains have been in several boxes in the garage for about 20 years. The kids finally moved out so, maybe, just maybe.
Awesome job Luke!!! Your videos are always interesting. You have such patience and your models always look so realistic. Keep up the great work and keep the videos coming!!
Love your absolute attention to detail Luke. When I saw this video it reminded me that some time ago I 'collected' a bunch of stirring sticks from a well known coffee outlet, thinking that I would use them for something. Just measured one of them and they're about 1.33mm thick x 5mm wide and 190mm long. They would probably work for pallet construction with a bit of tinkering, but they would obviously be harder to cut than PS. The real bonus though is that they do not need to be made to look like wood because they already are wood ! Regards Mark in the UK
what's up Luke?...just wanted to let you know I got the pallets and magnet you sent for being a patreon...i gotta say man, these pallets are absolutely amazing in person...a very big thanks to you and all you do for the hobby...peace my friend...
Cool 😃 Glad you enjoyed the tutorial, not sure where the idea of angling the chop-it came from... just popped into my head after spending 20 minutes chopping small bits of styrene. I remember thinking "There has to be a better way"
I make sure I watch one or more of your videos before I go to sleep even if I seen them would love to see a winter theme HO scale build just an idea love your vids
Luke these look so real its amazing, you have inspired me to get back to trying to build HO scale models and I'm going to try to recreate my old family farm in HO scale
Excellent tutorial. Fun fact: I don't think I will focus too much on industrial scenery in the near future, but I watch your videos as entertainment. Always inspirational and very well explained. In some point I would like to make a 1920s diorama based on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. I envisioned a street scene and the pallets may come in handy to detail a delivery truck or such. I could also see that a laser cutter comes in handy with such a project. Only catch is that you can't cut styrene easily with a laser cutter, so birch or bamboo it is. Using the sanding paper for texture is a good idea, I always use wire brushes, but for such a small scale and the small pieces the sanding paper is easier. Anyhow, thanks again for a great video and keep up the good work.
Thanks mate, good luck building the diorama, it sounds like it will be a fun model when you find the time to start 🙂 You could possibly build the pallets using thin balsa or bass wood as well using a laser cutter... That's a tool that will be added to my list in the near future!
2 hints for the Chop-It: 1). Placing a thin “self healing” cutting pad on top of the flat table will prevent cutting into the base, and still results in a good cut. 2). If the blade has carved a groove in the base, push the fence pins out, unbolt the hinge and relocate them 90 degrees on the base, and drill/remount the parts there. Then use hint 1!
Hi Luke, Many thanks for another great tutorial! I'll try to do palettes by your method from genuine wood. I think it will be much cheaper than laser cut. It remains only to be as patient as you are:). It's interesting. I know all these techniques but not a little gags you use. Thank you very much once again!
Saw your mine diarama video being shared on Facebook via Ladbible. Guys were going off how good it is and betting it took you over 100 hours to get that far. I reckon it took about 5 or 6 hours over a couple of days. Your doing great stuff Luke and these pallets are cool. I may have to resize for my N scale. Thanks man.
Thanks Angus, believe it or not but some of the larger dioramas do take quite a long time to build, 100 hours is a little excessive however the Gold Mine diorama I made to close to 70 hours to finish! Glad you're enjoying the videos 😉
Hi I've been watching your videos for quite a while now. Although I haven't done any model building since I was a kid, which was a very long time ago, :-) I really admire the way you come up with all these different creative techniques and ideas to build everything! Definitely a thumbs up! :-)
Hi, i love your videos !!! You're so talented !! I'm so happy when i see a new video from you haha !!! But it's always too short, i want see your videos all the time, every days !! haha Congratulations from France ! 😊
Nice video I build most of my scale items too mainly I work In the N scale area with is a very hard thing to get to look realistic Thanks for sharing your video
It's very satisfying when you finish building your own small details, it must take a lot of care and patience especially for you working in N scale, well done 😃
I want to know ..... where the friggin’ hell do you store all the finished projects ? After seeing your rustic scene in the glass dome display, you inspired me to create a 1/24 scale camper trailer model and camp scene diorama but it’s now gathering dust in my garage ☹️ where do you store them ?
If you want some more depth in the color, just heavily dilute a darker shade of brown with water and brush it over the whole thing. The wash will flow in the recesses and add some shading, and it will also soften the rather harsh colors of the drybrushing.
There's just something about watching someone who's that good doing what they do. I've made scenery and painted models for years, and I can tell you: he is quite an artist... :)
Question: I'm looking to improving the lighting in my videos. Would you mind telling what setup you use? Many thanks, very entertaining videos. Keep it up
Hey mate, I use LED light panels that I built myself using strip LEDs to achieve a light temperature of approximately 4700K. I use 5 panels in total each made up of 300 LEDs, As for placement I have two panels behind me one on each side and two panels in front of me again one on each side and lastly I have one light panel directly next to the camera. So basically there is one light for each corner of the desk and one light in line with the camera. Hope that makes sense? 🙂
Once again, excellent work! I've got a similar chopper from a different company, and will look to make similar pallets but for closer to 'O' scale. I wonder if I should use plasticard or balsa for it. Balsa would likely be cheaper and possibly have a natural grain to it. I'll see, but thanks for the hints! I used to do pallet control for a transport company I worked for. You wouldn't think it, but those things cost millions in lost cash every year when they aren't properly accounted for or returned. I know far too much about pallets, lol :)
ha ha... that's amazing! I know people around me like taking pallets to build backyard furniture! The chopper should work fine with plasticard and balsa, I've used it to chop up bass wood and balsa with no problems. Good luck building your pallets
I live on a farm that was once very large at over 150 acres but when my dAd was born there was a flood in our town so large that we had to sell most of the equipmant and land. Now it is only 21.5 acres with only three tractors and some very small corn and hay equipmant. We still have pallets and some other things we use cause we had to sell our tractor with arms. We cant use the pallets anymore cause we dont have anything to pick them up with
awesome stuff as always man...as a long time fan I've decided to reward you monetarily for your efforts...I've just become a $10 a month patreon...can't wait for your next vid...peace...
This is insane. Amazing work! As always. I had a question btw, I have some fake snow. If I just spread some mod podge and do a thin layer of fake snow (no hills/ raised areas, just a layer). Do I have to spray it with wet water? Thanks.
Good job Luke. Just wondering if there is going to be a video soon on how to make a recently burnt out toyota landcruiser wreck (one which has just been burnt in the last couple of days and the grass and terrain around it is burnt)
So my question is why did you decide to use styrene instead of wood? I make mine in a similar way using wood and you dont have to worry about the painting also wood is a fraction of the cost of styrene
I have made a few different types of pallets using strip wood as well however in my case it can be hard to get strip wood that is the correct size, the hobby shop I go to (in Australia) only has a very limited supply of strip wood however they have the entire range of evergreen styrene and the strip wood they do stock is similarly priced to the styrene anyway. I still find I need to paint the wooden pallets as well, although it's much easier because I simple stain them with diluted inc, it only takes a second.
