Are these realistic shop fronts really made from paper!? Tiny N gauge paper shop fronts
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- I have added the first two shop fronts to High Street in Chandwell - a bookies and a fashion shop of questionable taste. These were really easy to make - they are simply layers of paper on top of a bit of scrap acetate packaging.
Making buildings with paper and really simple materials is a great way to cheaply make model railway buildings, or buildings for any other purpose. Other than printer ink, these shop fronts cost almost nothing, and they look really convincing on my N Gauge layout, Chandwell.
Scratch building with paper craft and simple materials, making models and buildings with cheap materials such as card and paper. This is Chandwell!
I am scratch-building a run-down Yorkshire town using card and simple materials. In this episode I use layers of paper to model a couple of shop fronts for my 1970s style High Street building.
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00:00 Introduction
00:23 Planning a scratch-built pair of shop fronts
00:41 Using Inkscape to draw a shop front for a model railway layout
01:21 Using layers of paper to make components the right thickness
02:01 Using a simple photograph for the interior of a model shop
02:28 Cutting layered paper components
02:57 Construction of a shop front with paper layers
03:16 Using scrap acetate to build a convincing model glazed shop front
03:57 Colouring white paper edges using watercolour paints
04:39 Fixing model posters to a model shop front using tape
05:08 Making a tiny model sign for a shop front
05:19 Mounting a model shop front into a model building scratch built from card
05:29 Oops! I made two mistakes!
06:06 Adding paper mannequins to a model fashion shop 
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Yeah. As a community policeman in Chandwell I can confirm the window was put through by a Chandwell fan following a 0-4 defeat the previous week. The suspect has been apprehended and awarded 100 hours community service and a Halifax Town season ticket as punishment. Love it Michael!
A community policeman... don't you mean THE community policemen...? the police budget in Chandwell is spread thinner than the Sellotape that Michael used to support the signs... I understand that serious offenders get two season tickets but no community service as the two season tickets are considered punishment enough. This is someone who knows the meaning of punishment, living, as I do, in Rochdale.
There isn’t much ti say here. Maybe the police station (very small) would be on Station Road.
@@Chandwell You then need a small PC Kirk arresting the Chandwell fan ;)
This is great! I'm working on an HO scale street front of older buildings, got stuck for ideas on how to develop the look of it, and then watched this video. The way you've done this is inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! Have fun with your builds!
Brilliant Work Michael - Loving your work!
Thank you so much!
Chandwell, where the retail experience is beyond belief. Little wonder them posh buggers from Leeds keep sneaking in to see how it's done.
They buy return tickets though. Don’t they know the advice of Britney?
Great work, Michael,
Thank you
Lassbrookes: very witty -- I love it!
Brilliant work as always, Michael.
Glad it made you smile!
Fantastic work! Your hand cut paper looks like it came out of a laser cutter.
Thank you!
I do all my buildings in paper/card myself, but I laser cut everything at my local makerspace. Have you ever considered looking into getting your stuff laser cut? Even if you hand cut the texture wraps but get the cores laser cut it could save you hours and hours of time. Great for cutting out tiny detail parts and things do. I made some stairs like the ones you made in your commercial building but I was able to just mass produce a bunch of identical risers and glue them together. It's a powerful tool!
I'm investing in my own laser soon and I want to experiment with a hybrid of printed textures on card with laser-etched texture. But it means getting 100% spot on perfect alignment.
More great work.
Thank you
Hi Michael - I love it, mistakes warts and all. Boarding up covers so many sins LOL
Regards Chris
Oh it does!
LOOKS GREAT, THANKS FOR SHARING
Thank you.
I love the boarded up window! It just fits the scene. I can imagine some football hooligans causing the damage after a disappointing match for Chandwell . 😁
Yeah… it’s very Chandwell isn’t it!?
Lovely detailing Michael👍 And I love the name Lassbrokes 🤣
Andrew
Glad it made you smile Andrew.
Brilliant as always. Thank you for showing non-perfect outcomes and how you overcome them. So many are just perfect, and certainly make us feel a bit inferior.
Thank you!
It could be worse Michael. You might decide on the ultimate challenge and move from N to Z 😦😦Lovely work as always Michael, and nice to know that even you can make the odd mistake. Cheers, Bob
I honestly don’t know how people manage with Z!
I love how you remedied the upside down poster in the window!
Haha. It had to be done!
Absolutely cracking tutorial. My high street is still with the planners but in a year or two building should start. I will be trying your system. Thanks for showing it so well.
Barr.Devon
Thank you! Good luck with your street when the time comes.
Love this clever use of interior details and the curve is totally brilliant and makes for some reality that I have rarely seen.
I have recently acquired a set of water color pencils and find that using these on the edges of my card sections...(I work in HO so its a little thicker) ... and then gently brushing a wet paint brush over the markings. So far, no bad effects
Your inspiration continues
Brilliant. Watercolour pencils were an amazing discovery for me.
Excellent.
Thank you!
The boarded up window makes it! And the reductions signs in the clothes shop - brilliant. How about a laundrette, with those neon pink or yellow posters they used to have?
Oh that is a good idea!
Loving the focus on detail Michael-if you are at Warley please come see our n gauge effort, Stanley Jct (b73)
Thank you so much! I love Stanley Junction, it’s a beautiful layout. Would love to see it in the flesh but unfortunately I couldn’t make it to Warley. I hope to go next year.
Fantastic Michael - so simple but effective - layout just gets better and better. Cheers Euan
Thank you Euan.
Very nice
Thank you!
Great work ....I admire your skills at n gauge I model oo 👍💯👍another top vid buddy loved watching high Street develope 👍💯👍
Thank you!
Hi Michael, you truly are a genius with patience and papercraft skills. This looks amazing and knowing about N gauge it really is full of detail.. All the best, Chris
Thank you Chris!
Another work of art Michael. Genius idea to cover the upside down poster in the window. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
Thank you Roy!
Hi Michael The shop fronts are indeed very, very well modelled, I was right with the bookies then , lol. Great work as ever on your layout, Thanks
Thank you!!
Paper? Surely there's some Unicorn poop in there! Those windows look incredible....don't worry about it. Actually, I'm sure upside down posters occur in the 1/1 world too!
Haha yes I am sure they do. And so far I’ve not found any unicorn poo!
Great video Michael, as a suggestion, not often modeled would be a magistrates court, main reason for the suggestion is the grand frontage (often unmaintained, so in poor condition) and building sides are cheapest bricks money could by in the way of contrast. The one in Burton-upon-Trent springs to mind as suggestion.
This is a great suggestion! One for the list for sure. Thank you. Love the contrasting sides idea.
this is really great, well done 🙌
Thank you so much!
@@Chandwell have a great day 🔥
Hi Michael, I have a new found respect for your knife work. My boys and I attempted your windows technique and we were good right up to the internal timbers of the windows. You truly are amazing. In the end I took the print down to officeworks and had them print the window frames straight to acetate. And my windows are HO scale 🤣
Thank you! I am glad you gave it a go. You weren’t trying to cut out right angles were you? The trick is to go straight across and overlap all the lines, in long straight cuts. Then the insides should just peel out…?
@@Chandwell I think I lacked a little discipline when running the 2 cut lines for the tiny inside parts. There was a tiny little frame crossover in the middle of the window. This was so small and when I lifted out the section this was removed, then when I cleared the second glass panel it lifted the cross member and the windows got dodgy from there. I will have another go because I like having the white frame. Black doesn't look as good. The long cuts are good and you can definately feel once you are through the paper and starting to scratch the acetate. Just need more practice. It's a great approach.
Great modelling as always. 👍
Thank you.
The bookies looks just like the one down the road from me with the boarded up window and even has a cheap fashion shop next door. I’m looking forward to seeing the other shop fronts now to see if you capture that feeling of a high street at the start of a downturn in fortunes.
Thank you Stu. As a student I lived above “Fashion Focus”!
Brilliant ideas there, and I can only sit back and admire your tenacity in working at such a detailed yet small section. I have been pondering how I can create my own shopping area for my little village, and not using standard kit bought buildings, and this is something I will definitely try and give a go at as my Inkscape skills progress. After your videos on the arched wall, I was able to successfully create my own for my layout and for that I wish to thank you!
Regards
Steve
Thank you Steve! You should definitely give it a go!
As always great work and inspirational to so many including me. Alan
Thank you Alan!
Lots of great ideas. Thanks for sharing. Dave
Thank you!
Oops, ........... the plywood is upside down too ;-)
Well spotted 😂😂😂
Oh no! I’ll have to start the whole thing again! 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😍
Amazing perspective gained with quite simple methods, Michael! Wonderful result, as always! The plywood solution (the Chandwell way) is my personal highlight this time.
All the best
Valentin
Thank you Valentin!
tape is easy to remove if you warm it up first with a hair dryer
Good tip! Thanks.
Michael, Thank you for Chandwell. You are an artist of note to say the least. Paper Craft is huge for me of course. To see your work is to experience joy and wonder. Trains are definitely on my list but way behind space, sci-fi, more. Still, N Gauge was the scale I first played with when I was tiny. My tiny Z scale Christmas layout is the center of our yearly decorations. You have managed to build yourself Mr. Roger’s trolley on steroids. How wonderful it must be to be able to live in Chandwell while you work. It took a bit before I was sure Chandwell was fictional. I think I even Google Map searched it. Every new bit of work from you instructs me and gives me real joy. Keep up the good work brother!
Thank you very much for your kind words! I am so pleased that you have found something that you like here in Chandwell. The town is indeed fictional but it occupies a large part of my daily thoughts and to me it does sometimes feel real. And it is indeed great to gaze upon when sitting at my desk. Thank you for watching. I hope you like what’s coming next! -Michael.
@@Chandwell I am looking forward to it for sure.
Nice interior technique
Thank you!
The bubbles in the other window I chalked up to the sun warming the glass and lifting the sign. Happens alot in shop windows.
In 70s/80s some shops had a clear plastic second layer to windows. I feel this is perfectly modelled.
Ah yes. That’s right! I worked very hard on that little detail!!!! Thank you!
Outstanding work Michael, superb modelling. Now, how about adding a model of The Smithy pub or even Carter's Toy Shop ? All the best...Andy
I like the idea of a toy shop. Maybe for Station Road.
@@Chandwell It has to be Carter's Michael, it was an amazing toy/modelling & sports shop in Bfd in the 80's. Four floors (as far as I can remember) of toy heaven :) You could buy an air rifle on the ground floor & Hornby & Scalextrix on the fourth. The Smithy was behind Sunwin House Dept Store just off Thornton Rd. Good memories :)
Nice to see you yesterday! Thanks for saying hello.
@Chandwell Hi, yes, was good to chat with you. It was a great show, plenty of ideas and inspiration.......Andy.
Fab as ever. But how long before that plywood in the window gets tagged I wonder? ;)
10 minutes?
At viewing distace do the window bubbles really show up that much? A couple of nice bits of construction mate. Arthur
Thank you! And you’re right. They don’t show up.
Brilliant looks fantastic have any ideas on dry stone walling ?
Hmm. Not sure. Printed texture alone won’t be good enough. I think I’d try printing it as texture and then scoring lines freehand to add texture. Or printing to textured paper like used for thick fancy legal documents. Or maybe stacking roughly-cut strips of card with slits cut in. I think it would take a lot of experimentation.
@@Chandwell you got a brilliant layout and a really keen eye for detail going to give the sticky label widows ago today and got any vids on making doors ?
They look great and i actually like the way you boarded up the window in "lassbrooks"🤣. I really like the details you have done inside aswell to make it 3d. I'll be sure to have a go. What was the computer program?
I use the free drawing program, Inkscape.
Hello Michael. Re: The bubbles in the bookies windows. Can't you do something with them to suggest cracked glass as though someone has kicked them? (A bit too much late night booze and frivolity, perhaps, on the way home from The Weir).
That’s a good idea but not sure how I could do it to the acetate. The issue isn’t all that visible at normal viewing distance so for now I think I will leave it alone.