North American Train Crews From Modelu (338)
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- Modelu offers some of the most realistic figures in a variety of scales for various eras and prototypes, including the North American transition era of the 1940s-60s and modern era 1970s to present. Although Modelu is a UK based company they have scanned people dressed in costumes appropriate fro North American train crews and can print them out in 20 different sizes from N to 5" scale. I have ordered a lot from them and they ship via Royal Mail International Service at rates competitive with US shipping costs. You can order direct on their website at www.modelu3d.co.uk and in the UK they have a number of dealers who carry their products.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:54 Updates
3:00 Modelu figures
5:32 O scale samples
5:52 HO scale figures
7:22 Different painting technique
8:40 Black shadows first
9:02 Then white highlights
12:40 A cork base
13:49 More painting
16:08 Wrapup 
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Larry, you are one heck of a good guy! You must sure truly love your wife to step away from making consistent, long content while she's healing! Prayers for you both!
Larry, two things. There is a gentleman in Toronto, CA that does scanning, he comes to some US train shows and scans as well. His RUclips channel is miniprints. He also did a video recently on this painting technique and used rattle cans for the black and white.
Great of you to help your wife, sorry to learn of the injury to her wrist!
I want to tell you and the rest of your subscribers that although the items form MODELU were on backorder, they shipped from UK in about three days after I placed my order! Great supplier to deal with. Thanks for this great information!🚂
Alan really is a great guy and when it says backorder that just means they need to crank up the 3d printer and push the go button so turn around can be very fast. I usually place one big order at a time which helps offset the cost of shipping.
I remember watching that video on the figure painting recently, good topic!! Nice work!
I truly hope for a speedy recovery Larry. Much appreciated your still taking time for content.
Thank you for sharing. 👍
Wishing the Mrs. a speedy recovery.
Excellent video as always.
Larry, sorry about your Mrs., I pray she heals quickly & doesn’t have much pain/discomfort. Do take care of her as well as you yourself as you are both precious to your & our families. 🚂🚑🙏🏽
I have to chuckle at the tubby Modelu3d modern engineer. The realism is TOO much!
Too many KrispiKreme doughnuts while waiting for his train orders!
These are really nice figures. I have examples in 00 for my old British layout and I have a set of HO figures which I use on my model railroad. Thanks for the video Larry, hope your wife gets better soon
Thank you for taking the time to share this information Larry. I have found painting of tiny objects like figures a challenge, your suggestions will be helpful.
Wishing your wife a full and speedy recovery from her fall.
Hi, instead of gluing the figures to the cork I drill a hole in one of the legs and then glue a pin in that hole, then you can pin the figure to the cork for painting
I have become addicted to these and I have a model of myself when he came to a local railway open day here in the UK
I saw them at the London Festival of Railway Modelling this year and was seriously tempted to get myself scanned. Maybe next year.
I meant to get scanned at Warley last fall but them got sidetracked and never made back to his stall.
it is something I really want to do, I can then get copies of myself in 00, HO, TT and N, that should cover all the bases. Definitely next year@@TheDCCGuy
@@thebritishrailroader I have me in OO and N for my son and O gauge for the excellent detail you get in that size
@chriscox4023 definitely going to get myself done next time I see them
Mini prints has started doing this.
I just bought a big bunch of them from their GB website. Arrived in about a week. Great figures. A bunch of Vallejo paint just arrived today.
Be aware that you need to dilute the paint a bit to create more of a wash and build up the color in 3 or so coats in order to preserve the effect of the white and black undercoat. As I showed in the previous videos I mox my colors in a watercolor palette and have one well filled with IPA to dilute the paint before applying it.
I use earthquake putty put onto the top of a pill/vitamin bottle (with a flat top) to hold my minis.
1. The earthquake putty is reusable and doesn’t stick to the mini
2. pill/vitamin bottle fits into your hand very well
Sorry to here about your wife hope she gets well soon!
Very informative video Larry, lots of useful tips and techniques
Tell her to get well soon 🙏
Actually there is someone 3d printing laser scanned US Crew Mini's in the USA if you ever watch What's Neat This Week Podcast with Ken Patterson, they went over it a few weeks ago.
Bernard at Miniprints does full body scans.
Excellent video Gary. I have been painting my figures using similar techniques. Many years ago, I found a container full of champagne corks and they make great holders for the figures. I model in O scale and I drill a small hole infoot of one of the figures to insert a tiny piece of brass wire which I attach with ACC. The brass wire is then pressed into the cork and after painting, I can either snip the wire or drill a hole in the base of my layout to hold the figure. Again, thanks for a great video. I leared a lot from this. Also, a company ip here in Canada scaned me recently and I will soon receive a figureof myself to place in the cab of a loco. Fun stuff. I hope your wife recovers from her broken wrist. Regards, Keith Stamper
Hi Larry FYI Yarmouth Model Works in Canada is retailing these figures in both HO and O scales so a source of supply on this side of the pond.
Yes, I finally heard back from Allen with a link to your site last night and will mention it in my video tomorrow. I searched the web several times last week and couldn’t find it for some reason, even though I had seen it a month or so ago. Good to have a NA source although that $40 min could be a real hindrance unless folks consider the reduced postage from Canada compared to the UK.
There is a guy here in north American figured from Canada mini prints check him out
Larry, I was terribly sorry to hear that your wife broke her wrist. It’s times like these that we recognize just how much they do. Those are very nice figures and thank you for sharing how to paint them. Can you now share how to see them? Lol.
NIce video, Larry. I've been watching the war gamer figure painter videos for several months now. The black and white priming method is called Zenithal Priming. To get the best light and shadow effect it helps if the paint you put over it is on the "transparent" side (not completely opaque). And more than one coat may be needed. I've tried it with mixed results (due to my basic skill level). Ultimately I resorted to using a dark acrylic wash for the recesses and dry brushing for the highlights. In any case, I've found watching the war gaming miniature painting videos to be very informative and wholeheatedly recommend them to model railroaders who paint their own figures. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Yes, I’ve just begun to experiment myself. I found a wash of acrylic paint diluted about 8 parts thinner to 1 part paint and built up in 3 or so layers gives enough coverage without obscuring the black and white undercoat. Unfortunately at this small scale it is almost impossible to do the outlining of details and painting in face details like eyes and lips. Facial hair is also “fun”. However for my cab crews that kind of stuff isn’t necessary so I concentrate mainly on the figures around platforms, loading docks, and focal points. You step into a whole new world when you start watching the military weathering and detailing videos!
@@TheDCCGuy Next time I'll use more transparent paint and see if that works better for me. I mix matte medium with regular acrylic paint to make it more transparent. It works well when weathering freight car trucks.
Miniprints is a usa company that does the same
one more comment, the address in the video description should be with the "3d" after modelu ;)
Thanks, fixed it.
Yeap I got scanned from miniprints
Hey! Which software you use for writing text on your video's thumbnails. Please reply me.
I use the Affinity image processing program which like Photoshop lets me insert text on the images before exporting them to jpegs for thumbnails.
link in description does not work
Got it fixed.
How thin is your sugar before spraying ?
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