Wow! You even used the correct road markings, from the 1:1 guidance manual! As a retired Highway Engineer I see that most modellers just do what they think looks right and often isn't. As a PS the coloured lines and symbols on UK roads are mainly laid down with a 5 to 10 mm thick plastic material, hence they can last longer than straight paints used in other countries. I look forward to your next update on Chandwell.
I have, as promised, watched it again, and all I can say is that if Chandwell doesn't end up in an art gallery it should. Your layout is beyond hobby, beyond craft - this is a piece of art in so many ways, It is social comment, it is skilled draftsmanship, and artistic clever problem solving. You sir are a da Vinci in the making.
You are definitely some kind of genius Michael. Maybe a nerdy genius, but there is nothing wrong with that. I never knew the UK government road marking manual could be so interesting. Thanks. Tom (currently in Montreal for the biodiversity conference, with covid (me, not the conference), and the temperature is minus 8).
Michael this is great, I’m getting to the point I need to start thinking about road surfaces on my layout so this upload is perfect timing! I scratchbuilt a 1930s style shopping parade last week, when I did I test print to look at the hipped roof I scaled the shapes down by half so it would all fit onto one A4 piece of light card. As I’m modelling OO gauge this showed me the size the building would be in N gauge - I was really surprised! It was a lot smaller than I imagined and made me appreciate even more how skilled your work is. I don’t even think I could attempt things like complex window frames on N scale, or at least not at the moment. You’re a true craftsman. Thanks Michael and best for now 👍🏼
Thank you. In reverse, I was shocked by the size of a 3mm building when I made one with Liam. 00 is bigger again. I think it’s because each dimension (width and height) doubles therefore the volume of a 00 building is 8 times bigger, I think. Regardless, it is a surprising difference when your used to one rather than the other.
Finally, someone who has faithfully reproduced the very unique style of UK road markings. I feel road markings often let down what can be very impressive scenes but unsurprisingly you've nailed it. And my OCD was triggering until you noticed you'd not left the space on the road entry markings adjacent to the centre line! 👍
Superb, Michael. A Masterclass in Inkscape.I'd like to bet that the Inkscape developers never envisaged it being used to design the roads in Chandwell, or indeed, Chandwell itself. I really MUST get more Inkscape practice in. George
Michael Now That You Have Your Curved Road Markings See When Your Camera Panned Down Below The Viaduct It Reminded Me Of A Certain Set Yes It Reminds Me Of Coronation Street Just Before The Posher Houses, The Business Units, The Garage & Mike Baldwin's Factory Were Built When It Was Just The Rovers Return & The Terraced Houses On The Left Hand Side Of The Original Set At Granada Studios Manchester. Your Townscape Is Coming On Mate Keep Up The Excellent Work On Your N Gauge Layout.
having watched some guys repainting the road markings at a crossroads right outside my window this week, you've made something much more precise than the real thing… however it _looks_ spot on!
Another great and informative video. I dug out my youngest sons old train set for my grandson and I’ll be having a go at making him a little 00 gauge station. I’ve just got to go back to the start and watch the Inkscape videos.
Absolutely fascinating video, and fantastic results. However, there is no way I could even dream of being able to do this., given my technology abilities. I will still watch as I am all ways amazed at you results, and I’m sure there’s a generation who will more than capable of following your teachings.
@@Chandwell 100% inspirational, for me your approach is just incredible and I love seeing new technology being used so effectively. Also your calm presentation is a joy, my most eagerly awaited you tube always.
What a lesson Michael I was able to follow in principle and understand the end result but this is completely over my head if I had to but it into practice. Great info about road markings and sizes, thanks for sharing regards Barry..
I enjoy watching the model development and building (vicariously, as I lack the patience to do it myself). Your 'cinema effects' stuff is always subtle and clever, the TB-style ending to this one was delightful.
Thank you! I am pleased you like my video production as well as the model. I don’t know much about video terms so I’m interested in what “TB-style” means.
It’s a series of steps, each one building on the previous one. It’s just 2D inside a computer program, but the similarities with modelling in the real world are really striking.
Michael, this was a very nice video. You explained a lot of nice features of Ink Scape and how to apply them. It was a clear and concise instuction! Thanks!!!!!
Nice tutorial! Always like when you give other examples of techniques you've used on previous builds and add new twists. This really adds to the hobby, stirs the old grey cells and get me motivated to be more creative. The onlt thing missing is a process to stretch more hours into a day.
Well, fascinating as your tutorials are, the Luddite in me eschews all contact with modern technology. But for anyone at ease with computers this is obviously the way forward. Being a retired Art teacher helps me to take a far more laissez faire approach to scenic features particularly when I model a more distant age (1930s/40s on my North Cornwall layout for example). But I absolutely admire the results you achieve, and Chandwell is (a) believable and (b) the sort of place I would quite happily live in real life!
There's nothing wrong with being a Luddite! I think that this is what makes our hobby so special. There are many way to achieve beautiful layouts, and so much scope to explore what interests and fascinates us. I'd love to have an artistic flair that didn't need technology to bring out, but then modern technology is just an evolution, I suppose. Paint and brushes are "technology" in their own right. I am sure my children will be doing things that I will have no idea about in twenty years! Thank you for your kind words about Chandwell the town... are you SURE you would live there though? It's a bit grim! :)
I'm going to have to watch this one a few times, my brain couldn't keep up. My fault Michael, not yours. This sort of tutorial (for that is what this is) should be more widely available 'coz it's brilliant.
Hi Michael. Another brilliant video, thankyou. When you glue your printed roads down onto your layout, how do you disguise the paper edges. I can't see the joins in your pictures but they must be there!
I cut them with a brand new scalpel blade, and take care to angle the blade ever so slightly inwards . I then run a grey watercolour pencil down the edge and carefully butt the edges together. It's not perfect but it works OK.
Great video! l am looking forward to try this myself. Are you using some special printer or paper? When I am printing a colored picture with my printer, the paper often becomes a little wavy.
Thank you. If you use basic copier paper, it will tend to wave a little as the ink bleeds into the paper. Have you tried using photo paper? I use a basic brand matt paper, and it works really well. There are more details here: ruclips.net/video/-QvdNFST7WU/видео.html
@@Chandwell I haven't tried photo paper yet, but I will give it a try for sure. Thanks for the link. I looked through your uploads to find a video like this one, but must have missed it. Very helpful!
Hi I am at the start of building my roads and buildings on my Ngauge layout, and find inspiration from your videos, having just retired I will now have plenty of time to make building your way. I noticed you use a board to stand your buildings on /pavement, could I ask what size is the thickness of this and is it card or hardboard, I like to get a kerb side drop to my roads. Have a good weekend and stay safe. Thanks
Hello! Thank you for watching. I usually stand my buildings on 1mm card. I sometimes use 0.5mm or a 1.5mm base made from 1mm and 0.5mm for a bit of variation. If I’m modelling on a hill (which I usually am), I use multiple layers of 0.5mm card rather than one layer of 1mm as it bends to the contours better if you build it up.
I’m getting to the point on my layout where I want to start putting in roads so I’ve rewatched this video a few dozen times :) One question I had was how did you translate the actual space on your layout to Inkscape? I have my roads drawn out on my layout and they have some subtle curves in them. Is it just careful measuring or did you use some other technique? Because my layout is small, I took an aerial photo of it and resized it to n gauge scale in Inkscape so I have actual forms I can just overlay. But on a larger layout this might be unwieldy so I’m looking for tips on getting “real world” road dimensions into Inkscape.
I don't think I have any tips there. I have used the photo method before, but on a larger layout I think I would just use careful measurements and by using cheaply-printed mock-ups, I would adjust until I had it about right.
Hi Michael hope your well liking the latest videos. Struggling now how to create pavements with kerb my pavements are tarmac any help appreciated I understand breaking apart the corners but what about the Kerb ?
I always just print a straight strip of Scalescenes kerb and slice them to the middle and bend them round. The instructions in the Scalescenes kit explains this process. Good luck!
Hi Michael another varnish question (!), with a road surface would you still use a matte and then on both sides of the paper to seal it all in? Or glue it into place and apply a seal once in situ? Protecting the surface is one of these things I've recently started to think about a lot 🤔
You are an incredibly patient man! Superb models! You use Inkscape foe designing, but I only gave an iPad Pro 10.5 inch which is unsuitable for Inkscape. Can you or your followers suggest an alternative please? Thank you, Mike
Hi Michael up to give way signs now thanks for all your help. Found out problems on IMac have to use cmd key opposed to Ctrl key for certain operations. Also made mistake of duplicating which I had to ungroup before stroke to path. Thanks again brilliant had to watch a few times but learning a lot from your videos just making a few notes now to remind me of operations.
Is it possible to access the UK roadway marking regulations documents from the 90s? Or are you restricted to only current roadway markings? Love your channel. ♥️
Know it’s been some time as have been I’ll. I’m having problems with pattern along path foe white lines and getting hollow lines, tried everything , any ideas please
Sorry to hear you've been ill, Derek. Hope you're improving. If you've tried everything, I don't think there's anything I can suggest. Hollow lines? Are you sure they're not just shapes with a line colour and no fill colour? Try selecting them and clicking on a fill colour. Failing that, there are a load of RUclips videos that go into more depth about the Pattern Along Path path effect.
@@Chandwell hi thanks for your kind reply. It was as you said fill colour. Trying now to understand why I am having trouble breaking paths for doing the yellow lines as not just making a stroke on pavement with no fill as one side the highlighted stroke is going down to the centre line ? Will take another look tomorrow, and try and find a video on RUclips must be doing something wrong.
I’m sorry but without being able to see what you have started with or what the awful result is, I have no way of guessing. Try drawing two rectangles, one overlapping the other and union those. That should teach you how Union is supposed to work and then maybe try again. It sounds like you may not have done a stroke to path or missed out one of the other steps.
Thank you for your response! And sorry, my English is far from perfect. Here's what's happening: I have been trying to understand since this morning (I am a beginner, I downloaded the program yesterday...) ruclips.net/video/USngaRVSULY/видео.html@@Chandwell
Hi - it looks as though they are still lines ("strokes") rather than shapes. Please try clicking the dark and light orange shapes and doing a "Path" > "Stroke to Path" first.
Hi Michael I have had problems printing on my hp printer borderless unless I save the file as a pdf then print do you have same problem and if you don’t what printer do you use
Hi Derek. I never try to print borderless so I don’t know. But I always export to PDF and print from there, simply because I like to keep copies of everything I print.
Not sure what you mean Derek… what do you mean by “getting videos”? There is a members video every Sunday. If you don’t receive notifications from RUclips, you can check your notification settings. All my videos are on my channel page. Members-only vidoes are on the Membership list here : www.youtube.com/@Chandwell/membership Unfortunately I have no control over how and when RUclips sends notifications.
@@Chandwell hi found videos on my phone but I pad says content not available on this device ? I’ll check what’s happening and let you know thanks for getting back to me
The RUclips iPad app does not give access to the Community section of channels. It is very frustrating. You can access it on an iPad by using Safari and going to RUclips that way.
Getting used to Inkscape doing roads but having problems union top and vertical road selecting top road shift then vertical road and path union and repeating this for pavement. To be able to move the shape I have to click top road shift and then click vertical road and then can move as one shape but as soon as I do the same for pavement have to do the same, Once done they do not stay as one shape what am I doing wrong ? Any help appreciated thanks😅😮
@@Chandwell when I select both roads and path union they stay as one shape when moved , but if I select both pavements and path union they also stay as one shape but if I select Road or pavement they are not one shape but two separate shapes
@@derekmurton1656 you can only Union something that is a path. So make sure it’s not grouped and make sure it’s not a line and that you remembered to do Stroke To Path…
It's a really tricky balancing act; the video needs to be useful to people who already are experts in Inkscape whilst being helpful to those completely new to it. I tried to go at a pace where with the use of pause and rewind, newbies could still learn. There's a huge wealth of Inkscape training material out there already, so I didn't think it worth reinventing the wheel - this video took about 30 hours of effort as it was.
Wow! You even used the correct road markings, from the 1:1 guidance manual! As a retired Highway Engineer I see that most modellers just do what they think looks right and often isn't.
As a PS the coloured lines and symbols on UK roads are mainly laid down with a 5 to 10 mm thick plastic material, hence they can last longer than straight paints used in other countries.
I look forward to your next update on Chandwell.
Thank you so much!
I have, as promised, watched it again, and all I can say is that if Chandwell doesn't end up in an art gallery it should. Your layout is beyond hobby, beyond craft - this is a piece of art in so many ways, It is social comment, it is skilled draftsmanship, and artistic clever problem solving. You sir are a da Vinci in the making.
That is very, very kind David! Thank you!
You are definitely some kind of genius Michael. Maybe a nerdy genius, but there is nothing wrong with that. I never knew the UK government road marking manual could be so interesting. Thanks. Tom (currently in Montreal for the biodiversity conference, with covid (me, not the conference), and the temperature is minus 8).
Haha yes I am a nerd for sure. Hope you feel better soon!!!
Truly inspirational Michael. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
Thanks Roy!
Michael this is great, I’m getting to the point I need to start thinking about road surfaces on my layout so this upload is perfect timing!
I scratchbuilt a 1930s style shopping parade last week, when I did I test print to look at the hipped roof I scaled the shapes down by half so it would all fit onto one A4 piece of light card. As I’m modelling OO gauge this showed me the size the building would be in N gauge - I was really surprised! It was a lot smaller than I imagined and made me appreciate even more how skilled your work is. I don’t even think I could attempt things like complex window frames on N scale, or at least not at the moment. You’re a true craftsman. Thanks Michael and best for now 👍🏼
Thank you. In reverse, I was shocked by the size of a 3mm building when I made one with Liam. 00 is bigger again. I think it’s because each dimension (width and height) doubles therefore the volume of a 00 building is 8 times bigger, I think. Regardless, it is a surprising difference when your used to one rather than the other.
Finally, someone who has faithfully reproduced the very unique style of UK road markings. I feel road markings often let down what can be very impressive scenes but unsurprisingly you've nailed it. And my OCD was triggering until you noticed you'd not left the space on the road entry markings adjacent to the centre line! 👍
Hahah. I was so focused on getting the line in place I missed the gap until later. Glad I caught it!
Wow, that is pretty intense. Will try to follow it all and hope my brain does not hurt too much. Excellent stuff.
Good luck!
Very clever Michael. I’ll have to invest some time exploring Inkscape. Cheers and have a Merry Christmas. Cheers Peter.
Thank you Peter. It takes time to learn but it’s so rewarding.
Superb, Michael. A Masterclass in Inkscape.I'd like to bet that the Inkscape developers never envisaged it being used to design the roads in Chandwell, or indeed, Chandwell itself.
I really MUST get more Inkscape practice in.
George
Thanks George!
Thanks I only asked as when doing difference in Inkscape you can lose part of the object ?
Thank you very much indeed, Derek! 🙏😀
A scratch builders guide 101. Awesome. Really really good.
Thank you kindly!
Only two words: Fantastic tutorial!
Thanks a lot.
You're very welcome!
Michael Now That You Have Your Curved Road Markings See When Your Camera Panned Down Below The Viaduct It Reminded Me Of A Certain Set Yes It Reminds Me Of Coronation Street Just Before The Posher Houses, The Business Units, The Garage & Mike Baldwin's Factory Were Built When It Was Just The Rovers Return & The Terraced Houses On The Left Hand Side Of The Original Set At Granada Studios Manchester. Your Townscape Is Coming On Mate Keep Up The Excellent Work On Your N Gauge Layout.
Haha. Yes it does a bit.
having watched some guys repainting the road markings at a crossroads right outside my window this week, you've made something much more precise than the real thing… however it _looks_ spot on!
Hahah. Thank you!
Another great and informative video. I dug out my youngest sons old train set for my grandson and I’ll be having a go at making him a little 00 gauge station. I’ve just got to go back to the start and watch the Inkscape videos.
Brilliant - good luck! Let me know how you get on.
Absolutely fascinating video, and fantastic results. However, there is no way I could even dream of being able to do this., given my technology abilities. I will still watch as I am all ways amazed at you results, and I’m sure there’s a generation who will more than capable of following your teachings.
Thank you! I hope it inspires you regardless of the approach you take!
@@Chandwell 100% inspirational, for me your approach is just incredible and I love seeing new technology being used so effectively. Also your calm presentation is a joy, my most eagerly awaited you tube always.
Superb lecture Michael 😁Having got right through to the end, I amastonished at how much work has gone into this. Thanks Bob
Thank you Bob!
A great challenge, taken by you with knowledge and skills, Michael. Was very interesting to watch at.
All the best
Valentin
Thank you Valentin.
Well done Mike that was really good nice road looks more realistic 👍
Thanks 👍
Fantastic video!
Thank you.
Excellent tutorial!
Thank you!
This is seriously impressive.
Thank you James.
Just watched your tutorial in Inkscape for making your roads. Looks absolutely brilliant, but very complicated to learn. 😊
It takes a long time to pick it up, but it’s worth sticking with it.
Amazing computer skills giving realistic results. What a pleasure to witness your working in practice. Thank you.
Thank you Robert!
What a lesson Michael I was able to follow in principle and understand the end result but this is completely over my head if I had to but it into practice. Great info about road markings and sizes, thanks for sharing regards Barry..
Thanks Barry!
Excellent tutorial Michael, well done 👍
Thank you.
This looks fantastic........and useful for station platforms with warning edges.
Yes, you are right: that’s a great idea for this technique. Especially if the platforms are curved.
I enjoy watching the model development and building (vicariously, as I lack the patience to do it myself). Your 'cinema effects' stuff is always subtle and clever, the TB-style ending to this one was delightful.
Thank you! I am pleased you like my video production as well as the model. I don’t know much about video terms so I’m interested in what “TB-style” means.
@@Chandwell sorry, not a technical term... I found it very reminiscent of a Thunderbirds episode ending credits sequence!
Hi Michael - absolutely fascinating 👏. Inkscape is such a powerful tool when in the right hands ! Cheers Euan
I love Inkscape Euan. It’s so helpful to this modelling lark.
That is a very useful tutorial Michael. Fascinating how to build up the road and junction. Stephen
It’s a series of steps, each one building on the previous one. It’s just 2D inside a computer program, but the similarities with modelling in the real world are really striking.
Michael, this was a very nice video. You explained a lot of nice features of Ink Scape and how to apply them. It was a clear and concise instuction! Thanks!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great stuff. I learnt lots of new Inkscape techniques.
Thanks Martin.
Chandwell, now that's plannering.
Roads well able to handle traffic, even the rubber-necking posh buggers from Leeds.
😂😂😂
Really really helpful stuff would like to see more practical Inkscape videos.
Thank you. Watch out next week where I muse over what to do with my Inkscape videos.
Nice tutorial! Always like when you give other examples of techniques you've used on previous builds and add new twists. This really adds to the hobby, stirs the old grey cells and get me motivated to be more creative. The onlt thing missing is a process to stretch more hours into a day.
Thank you so much!
I would definitely buy an online Inkscape course for modellers from you. You are a fantastic teacher. Thank you for this!
Thank you! You are very kind.
hi Micheal yes the Irish traffic manual are brilliant for the road design and markings well done another great video how draw roads and markings
Thank you Brian.
Fantastic video tutorial loads to take in and practice thank you so much
Thank you!
Well, fascinating as your tutorials are, the Luddite in me eschews all contact with modern technology. But for anyone at ease with computers this is obviously the way forward. Being a retired Art teacher helps me to take a far more laissez faire approach to scenic features particularly when I model a more distant age (1930s/40s on my North Cornwall layout for example). But I absolutely admire the results you achieve, and Chandwell is (a) believable and (b) the sort of place I would quite happily live in real life!
There's nothing wrong with being a Luddite! I think that this is what makes our hobby so special. There are many way to achieve beautiful layouts, and so much scope to explore what interests and fascinates us. I'd love to have an artistic flair that didn't need technology to bring out, but then modern technology is just an evolution, I suppose. Paint and brushes are "technology" in their own right. I am sure my children will be doing things that I will have no idea about in twenty years! Thank you for your kind words about Chandwell the town... are you SURE you would live there though? It's a bit grim! :)
I'm going to have to watch this one a few times, my brain couldn't keep up. My fault Michael, not yours. This sort of tutorial (for that is what this is) should be more widely available 'coz it's brilliant.
Thank you David!
Very impressive tutorial Michael! Must learn Inkscape at some point as it looks like a very powerful tool for the techno savvy modeller! Cheers, Ian.
Inkscape is a godsend for me.
Absolutely stunning Michael 👍think am going to have to get a laptop lol
Hahah. That’s the only downside isn’t it!?
excellent video dude
Thank you!
Have you considered running an Inkscape workshop? You’d sell out every session. Ps. Where are the potholes? 😮😊
@Phil Kirk: where are the potholes? At the last count, the 4000 of them moved down to Blackburn (Lancashire)
@@jeanbonnefoy1377 hah yes! And another 2000 of em here in Sheffield 🥹
😂😂😂
@@jeanbonnefoy1377 But they're very small.......so invisible in N lol
Hi Michael. Another brilliant video, thankyou. When you glue your printed roads down onto your layout, how do you disguise the paper edges. I can't see the joins in your pictures but they must be there!
I cut them with a brand new scalpel blade, and take care to angle the blade ever so slightly inwards . I then run a grey watercolour pencil down the edge and carefully butt the edges together. It's not perfect but it works OK.
good vid look good keep up the good vids thank
lee
Thanks Lee.
Great video! l am looking forward to try this myself. Are you using some special printer or paper? When I am printing a colored picture with my printer, the paper often becomes a little wavy.
Thank you. If you use basic copier paper, it will tend to wave a little as the ink bleeds into the paper. Have you tried using photo paper? I use a basic brand matt paper, and it works really well. There are more details here: ruclips.net/video/-QvdNFST7WU/видео.html
@@Chandwell I haven't tried photo paper yet, but I will give it a try for sure. Thanks for the link. I looked through your uploads to find a video like this one, but must have missed it. Very helpful!
Hi I am at the start of building my roads and buildings on my Ngauge layout, and find inspiration from your videos, having just retired I will now have plenty of time to make building your way. I noticed you use a board to stand your buildings on /pavement, could I ask what size is the thickness of this and is it card or hardboard, I like to get a kerb side drop to my roads.
Have a good weekend and stay safe. Thanks
Hello! Thank you for watching. I usually stand my buildings on 1mm card. I sometimes use 0.5mm or a 1.5mm base made from 1mm and 0.5mm for a bit of variation. If I’m modelling on a hill (which I usually am), I use multiple layers of 0.5mm card rather than one layer of 1mm as it bends to the contours better if you build it up.
I’m getting to the point on my layout where I want to start putting in roads so I’ve rewatched this video a few dozen times :)
One question I had was how did you translate the actual space on your layout to Inkscape? I have my roads drawn out on my layout and they have some subtle curves in them. Is it just careful measuring or did you use some other technique?
Because my layout is small, I took an aerial photo of it and resized it to n gauge scale in Inkscape so I have actual forms I can just overlay. But on a larger layout this might be unwieldy so I’m looking for tips on getting “real world” road dimensions into Inkscape.
I don't think I have any tips there. I have used the photo method before, but on a larger layout I think I would just use careful measurements and by using cheaply-printed mock-ups, I would adjust until I had it about right.
Hi Michael hope your well liking the latest videos.
Struggling now how to create pavements with kerb my pavements are tarmac any help appreciated
I understand breaking apart the corners but what about the Kerb ?
I always just print a straight strip of Scalescenes kerb and slice them to the middle and bend them round. The instructions in the Scalescenes kit explains this process. Good luck!
Hi Michael another varnish question (!), with a road surface would you still use a matte and then on both sides of the paper to seal it all in? Or glue it into place and apply a seal once in situ? Protecting the surface is one of these things I've recently started to think about a lot 🤔
I glued mine into place and then added two coats of Matt and one of ultra Matt.
I glued mine into place and then added two coats of Matt and one of ultra Matt.
@@Chandwell Thanks Michael
You are an incredibly patient man! Superb models! You use Inkscape foe designing, but I only gave an iPad Pro 10.5 inch which is unsuitable for Inkscape. Can you or your followers suggest an alternative please? Thank you, Mike
I use Vectornator on the iPad but it can be frustrating with just the touch interface.
now all you need is a pavement pizza outside a pup and you have authenticity to a new level
Hahah. Good idea.
What I admire is that there was no reference a all to mathematics!
I did a few divides by 148! 😂
Hi Michael up to give way signs now thanks for all your help. Found out problems on IMac have to use cmd key opposed to Ctrl key for certain operations. Also made mistake of duplicating which I had to ungroup before stroke to path. Thanks again brilliant had to watch a few times but learning a lot from your videos just making a few notes now to remind me of operations.
Glad it helped
@@Chandwell hi Michael how do you model kerbs on bends ?
Cut a strip of curbs. Cut out little triangular notches from the outer edge to the centreline. Then just glue and bend around.
@@Chandwell thanks
Is it possible to access the UK roadway marking regulations documents from the 90s? Or are you restricted to only current roadway markings?
Love your channel. ♥️
Thank you! I didn't look very hard, but I didn't find anything 1990s specific.
@@Chandwell thanks for replying! Cheers.
Know it’s been some time as have been I’ll. I’m having problems with pattern along path foe white lines and getting hollow lines, tried everything , any ideas please
Sorry to hear you've been ill, Derek. Hope you're improving. If you've tried everything, I don't think there's anything I can suggest. Hollow lines? Are you sure they're not just shapes with a line colour and no fill colour? Try selecting them and clicking on a fill colour. Failing that, there are a load of RUclips videos that go into more depth about the Pattern Along Path path effect.
@@Chandwell hi thanks for your kind reply. It was as you said fill colour. Trying now to understand why I am having trouble breaking paths for doing the yellow lines as not just making a stroke on pavement with no fill as one side the highlighted stroke is going down to the centre line ? Will take another look tomorrow, and try and find a video on RUclips must be doing something wrong.
@@Chandwell sorted it was as you said thankyou
Edit: Meant to reply in the main comments but replied here by mistake. Hope Derek is better now 👍🏼
Feeling a lot better now thanks had heart problems
Hi, sorry for my question, but when i try to "union" (2:56) the result look awfull and not like your video... Why?
I’m sorry but without being able to see what you have started with or what the awful result is, I have no way of guessing. Try drawing two rectangles, one overlapping the other and union those. That should teach you how Union is supposed to work and then maybe try again. It sounds like you may not have done a stroke to path or missed out one of the other steps.
Thank you for your response! And sorry, my English is far from perfect. Here's what's happening: I have been trying to understand since this morning (I am a beginner, I downloaded the program yesterday...) ruclips.net/video/USngaRVSULY/видео.html@@Chandwell
Hi - it looks as though they are still lines ("strokes") rather than shapes. Please try clicking the dark and light orange shapes and doing a "Path" > "Stroke to Path" first.
Hi Michael I have had problems printing on my hp printer borderless unless I save the file as a pdf then print do you have same problem and if you don’t what printer do you use
Hi Derek. I never try to print borderless so I don’t know. But I always export to PDF and print from there, simply because I like to keep copies of everything I print.
@@Chandwell hi I’m not getting any member videos only screenshot ? or any non member videos ?
Not sure what you mean Derek… what do you mean by “getting videos”? There is a members video every Sunday. If you don’t receive notifications from RUclips, you can check your notification settings. All my videos are on my channel page. Members-only vidoes are on the Membership list here : www.youtube.com/@Chandwell/membership Unfortunately I have no control over how and when RUclips sends notifications.
@@Chandwell hi found videos on my phone but I pad says content not available on this device ? I’ll check what’s happening and let you know thanks for getting back to me
The RUclips iPad app does not give access to the Community section of channels. It is very frustrating. You can access it on an iPad by using Safari and going to RUclips that way.
Getting used to Inkscape doing roads but having problems union top and vertical road selecting top road shift then vertical road and path union and repeating this for pavement.
To be able to move the shape I have to click top road shift and then click vertical road and then can move as one shape but as soon as I do the same for pavement have to do the same,
Once done they do not stay as one shape what am I doing wrong ? Any help appreciated thanks😅😮
I’m sorry Derek but I can’t work out what you mean, so I’m not sure.
@@Chandwell when I select both roads and path union they stay as one shape when moved , but if I select both pavements and path union they also stay as one shape but if I select Road or pavement they are not one shape but two separate shapes
@@derekmurton1656 you can only Union something that is a path. So make sure it’s not grouped and make sure it’s not a line and that you remembered to do Stroke To Path…
@@Chandwell thanks I’ll try again did read there is a glitch in latest version for Apple Os users so may have get earlier version
@@Chandwell think I’ve found the problem as I grouped together to be able to move to print canvass and then duplicated and didn’t ungroup
Nice but you move far to quickly from one stage to the other.
It's a really tricky balancing act; the video needs to be useful to people who already are experts in Inkscape whilst being helpful to those completely new to it. I tried to go at a pace where with the use of pause and rewind, newbies could still learn. There's a huge wealth of Inkscape training material out there already, so I didn't think it worth reinventing the wheel - this video took about 30 hours of effort as it was.