Riding Roughshod - adding an ugly shopfront to an elegant stone building
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- In this episode I have added a cheap-and-cheerful shop front to the elegant and beautiful Arts-and-Crafts style Wesleyan Assembly Hall that I am making for Chandwell's High Street from card and paper.
What a beautiful travesty of commercial decoration. The milky glass fits in this case, as I'm sure Rev's lets the window get choked with dust before they pay a window cleaner. And the plywood
:) Thank you!
Hi Michael. Superb modelling, as usual. The milkiness of the glazing reflects the years of dust that has accumulated on the inside. Totally appropriate. Best wishes.
Yeah I think maybe you’re right.
Just love the stain glass window, Michael. I think the milky effect enhances the building, after all I can't see REVS forking out for a window cleaner. Excellent work and presentation as always. Cheers, Bob
I agree. In the real world I never saw a stained glass window in a Church that looked perfectly clear. Muck, dirt, age....
Thank you!
So many great and beautiful building have been destroyed over the decades and those few that remain often have their frontages ravaged by modern businesses with no taste or respect for the beauty if the building they are renting.
You have managed to show this WITHOUT destroying the magic of the older building while still having the uglier (apologies to your brother in law) modern industrial commercial and retail shop with no class.
Realism levels within your work endlessly impresses and amazes me.
I still hope to begin work on my urban/industrial based layout at some time this year but, in the mean time - thank you SO MUCH for continuing to inspire, educate and entertain with your wonderfully creative REALISTC and ever more immersive work on what is still the very best, living N scale town in all of modeldom.
Thank you as always!
Love the whole thing, but the stained glass and the plywood sheeting in particular!
Thank you!
It looks fantastic, Michael! I wouldn't worry about the milky appearance of the stained glass window. To me it looks like the grime that settles on old buildings as they age. 👍
Thank you.. I think you will be right. As long as I can get an appropriately coloured and shaded interior picture behind the glass, I think I will be good.
Yes a great roughshod effect on such a beautiful building, patience is your virtue for sure.
Thank you!
I said something similar a while ago, what I love about your layout is that to me it just feels like a real place. Over the months you’ve introduced local characters and again today. I’m starting to think these people are real. Chandwell has history and purpose. It exists for a reason. Many layouts are just that, layouts. I’m trying to build a grimy East London suburb layout and you’ve inspired me to give it a purpose to be there. As for the milky window, from a distance no windows look pristine. Absolutely breathtaking.
I find that the story, daft as it is, helps me make the buildings seem more real as I always try to work out how they fit together at a fiction level as well as a physical. Go for it with your layout - it’s lots of fun!
@@Chandwell I don’t think the story is daft. It adds to it!!!
Smashing...think the shot at 5:22 where the rear window is visible through the front window is very true to real life
I was pleased with that. I think I’ll keep it that way.
The milky appearence works fine as some dirty window as I guess the state of the building might not be prisrtine.. Outstanding modelling and a jaw dropper when you consider the scale. WOW
Thank you. I think you may be right re the window.
Seeing the placement of these buildings now encroaching on Ironbridge Works really brings me back to what seemed a more open and innocent Chandwell. It’s a marvel how far it (you) have come.
It's been great to have you along for the ride!
"No pheasants here" lolol. I think printer friendly acetate is the way to go, even if there's a slightly milky look to it. That building looks amazing. You keep raising the bar!
Thank you!
Great video Michael. This just gets more awesome as it goes along. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
All caught up Roy!?
Fabulous stained glass effect. Building looks really good, Arthur
Thank you!
Michael,
On the contrary, don't rethink the stained glass glazing. But try considering interior low level lighting in what may have been the original choir loft (now car part storage). You would need to add a black box floor and walls to reduce light bleed. But with to lights dimmed and facing outwardly you should have no problems.
Even with your taking the time to cutout a template I am amazed the church fit so well in that spot. Length. Width. And Height. Exceptional.
Jim in N.Y., U.S.A.
Thank you Jim. We are thinking along the same lines. I have a very particular prototype in mind for when it comes to the interior. I really dislike messing around with lights though, so I’ll not be adding lighting. I have a few ideas which should hopefully work, and they are not far off what you’re suggesting, which is a bonus.
yes, it does look like a real place. love your desk work area. another brilliant Vidio.
:) Thank you!
Love the stained glass windows and in the 90's (which is your layout years IIRC) then they would not have been clean. After 90 years of really bad air pollution in a northern town, there is no way that you could even see through them!
As a 60's kid from a northern industrial town, the Edwardian/Victorian buildings were extremely run down and grimy. There has been massive steps taken in the last 30 years to clean up the air and then to clean up the buildings so today they look better than when they were built. So a bit of cloudy glass isn't an issue to me.
Thank you. Very wise words!!
I get quite excited when I see a new ‘Chandwell’ video. I love this build. Thanks for sharing your talent with us Michael.
Thank you so much. That’s very kind!
Nothing wrong with the glazing, it looks great. Can't wait for next week!
Looking "milky" simply shows those windows haven't been cleaned in years.
Good points, thank you.
Some people might cry, watching you put the whole advert thing at the facade. But with me, it is quite different - I do like it very much, when realism hits hard in model scale (even when realism is a pheasent ;-)
As always - wonderful work, Michael!
All the best
Valentin
Thank you Valentin!
I am really new to this hobby, and I recently discovered your channel. Absolutely brilliant. I have found that I am becoming obsessed with making the buildings just as you have said.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks and welcome to Chandwell!!
The milky glass looks spot on imho. Awesome
Thank you.
It's looking great Michael. Maybe you could auction off the opportunity for someone else to appear in Chandwell in a similar manner to Johnny McShea? For some reason, I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do with Revs' car park. I'm imagining some dusty, gravelly, oily, potholed patch of dirt. Reminds me of the mechanics where my dad used to work.
That's a good idea. I will give that some thought. Yes - you have the look for the car park exactly spot on!
Great as always
Thank you!
Another superb addition to Chandwell Michael.
I love your use of Johnny McShea the unfortunate rally driver to advertise the motor parts sales.
The use of this type of building just typifies the changing times we live in. Brilliant.
Thank you! I had fun with Johnny!
For others who don't have access to printable overhead film for doing their stained glass, most colour copier / printing places will print you a colour image on clear (not milky) overhead transparency at a very reasonable price, ideal for stained glass, lattice panes, TV displays or any other illuminated display, just remember that for displays white ends up clear so add a white diffuser behind the clear film to show as white in all conditions. Also for better effects, mirror the image first, then the print can be on the back face and the shiny surface on the outside.
Good advice!
Brilliant attention to detail as usual Michael, top work👍
Andrew🙂
Thank you! Cheers!
Hi Michael ugly is the new `beauty` then. great addition to the build every little detail brings it more to life, well done (like the blanks of wood in the upper windows). You could always blame the window cleaner if the windows do not look clear/clean enough (lol).. Regards Barry..
Thanks Barry!!
That's coming on nicely now. It'd be good to see more 'ground level' shots, they really give off a sense of a real location and also noticing more of the small details you don't get from looking top down
Yes I agree 100% but it’s starting to get difficult to get my phone into the street. The street is too narrow to keep Revs in focus and the buildings get in the way of any sweeping shots unfortunately. That’s why there are now almost always from above. I’ll keep trying though.
@@Chandwell the price of progress!!
I know, right!!?
Michael Guessing Revs made some Un Pheasant alteration to that beautiful building, but in keeping with those on the Old Town Hall by Ben’s Beds & Club Passion. Like others have commented I think the stained glass is just showing a bit of age and grime after all it likely to be a unloved underused part of the building, guessing storage at the most. I do like the light shining through from the back window. I’m really looking forward to seeing the area around the beck and viaduct arches coming together. You see so many smaller older industrial buildings when looking down from viaducts in urban area bet there are many different styles to choose from in West Yorkshire. The tale of Johnny McShae is so Chandwell. Ian
"Un Pheasant" :) :) :) Love it! :)
"And held them flat" with the Malt Whisky Companion, good book slàinte mhath. The Wesleyan Assembly hall is looing good.
Well spotted! :)
@@Chandwell When it comes to Whisky there's not much I miss!! lol
That's lovely (esp the plywood and the substitute window). Already I'm transported to 'Steve's Super Spares' in about 1990 and unbranded 20W50 for £3 a gallon...which used to last me about 500 miles. No-one who owned a Leyland car can forget the smell of burning oil :-) Talking of oil, I wonder if you have a plan for the look of 'oil on water' for the creek at the back! There'll be some right slimy stuff in there...
Hahah. Wow. Oil in the stream. That would be a challenge!!
I can appreciate the time it takes to do all the detailing Michael - but well worth it as the end result is another superb model building. Cheers Euan
Thanks Euan!
Paper building is not everyone’s style. But your work is amazing and a pleasure to see progress. For me, when I was a kid 10 or so, I used to do that a lot. Never got close to what you do, but enough to really appreciate the skill you demonstrate. I am definitely falling in love with Chandwell. Thank you.
Thank you - that is very kind! :)
Super nice details 👍👍👍.
Greetings Gert
Thank you Gert!
Mr. Scott - are you sure you aren't 10mm tall and live in Chandwell. What a great piece of work Michael. Those windows are so real.
Thank you! I’m quite short but not that short! 😂
The slight translucence reflects the dust and grime accumulated given that Revs are hardly going to bother cleaning the windows!
Good point! Thank you.
Hey this is an awesome build made all the more incredible knowing you are in N gauge. I actually know this building as I had friends in Ilkley, no longer with us sadly. I have been looking for a way to represent stained glass and I think you have just solved that for me so thank you for that. Right, off to watch more of your video's.
Thank you very much! If you're interested in stained glass, I did more experiments in this video: czcams.com/video/Q36uvKFEUaI/video.html and if Ilkley is of interest, you may like this one: czcams.com/video/U9TM86-ONGw/video.html
brilliant
Thank you!
I think the milky windows actually work here - it makes them look dusty and I can't imagine the Revs employees spending much time cleaning the upstairs windows.
I think you may be right. Thank you.
The glazing looked less milky when you held it up to the light. Maybe put a dim light inside the building to correct that a little? Looks amazing, in any case!
Yeah that is true. It looks milky without the backlight. I’ve not taken a close enough look at what real windows like this are like when neglected. My hope is to get a colour inside which enhances the grimy look. As usual, I don’t want to have lighting.
Is it possible to see a sketch map of Chandwell so we can see how the individual buildings relate to each other and the tracks?
I'll try to get one done as it's been on my 'to do list' for ages!
Great work as always.
I see you were slumming it this week, Rice Krispies rather than Weetabix box for your work. Typical Revs.
Sometimes needs must!! 😂
Would consider a video on your current rolling stock please?
I’ve not bought any rolling stock for a couple of years. The full set is shown in this video. Chandwell's First Ever Running Session: A Summer's Day in Chandwell
czcams.com/video/VnYSOl48Iak/video.html
A lot of old chapel window look milky due to having double glazing added behind. Although often its not glass but plastic
Good point. Thank you.
Don’t you then have to peel the ‘milky’ backing off? Ive done something similar before only to find a protective film I should have removed.
That would have been great, but not with this type unfortunately.
The owner of “revs” is in a dispute with his regular cleaner over whatever happened at the Christmas night out, so he is cleaner less, as the cleaner is revs mums bingo pal she won’t do it either so the windows stay unclean.
That is a very, very Chandwellian story. Love it. 👍👍👍