Very well explained ‘madness’ of the method. Love the fact you mentioned that the back side of the cut out tiles look even better. Very cool looking scratch build. Cheerio
Nice scratch build. I am returning to the craft after many years away so gathering info. So much has changed. The Cricut Maker keeps popping up and I am looking at that now also. Used to cut each tile by hand in the olden days so a quicker solution that looks just as good is amazing.
What kind of self-respecting scratch builder are you that you don't want to spend hours cutting roofing tile by hand?! :) In regards to duplicating the rows of tile in Inkscape, however, instead of hitting the Duplicate function for however many rows you need, a tip I shared with Michael at Chandwell yesterday is to use the Interpolate function. Make your first row of tile then duplicate and position the bottom row, then select both. Go to Extensions>Generate From Path>Interpolate... and in the dialog box that appears set Exponent to 0.0, Interpolation steps to however many lines you want, and Interpolation method to 1 (several of these will be the defaults already) Then click Apply and it will automatically make however many number of lines you need equally spaced between the first and last one that you made. It's a real time saver (and key saver from slamming the D key so many times!). I'm enjoying watching your layout grow and it's a real inspiration for someone like me just starting out in this hobby. Cheers!
One that is trying to preserve sanity! Thanks so much for the great feedback, its really nice to hear. I'll have a look at that function next time I'm doing something similar.
After just having tiled a roof of a model with individual tiles I will have to try this. I have and have used Inkscape and have a cutter.
Very well explained ‘madness’ of the method. Love the fact you mentioned that the back side of the cut out tiles look even better. Very cool looking scratch build. Cheerio
Nice scratch build. I am returning to the craft after many years away so gathering info. So much has changed. The Cricut Maker keeps popping up and I am looking at that now also. Used to cut each tile by hand in the olden days so a quicker solution that looks just as good is amazing.
Hadn’t thought of this. Just bought a Cricut, so will be watching more? Thanks for sharing. Dave
Thanks for watching! I’ve not had mine long, still working it out but it’s got a lot of potential
Very nice job and as Cricut user I like anything that gives shortcuts like your video. Great to watch 👍Alan’s Trains @ Stockton Station
thank you I really enjoyed your video
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
Cool tutorial!!
Cheers!
What kind of self-respecting scratch builder are you that you don't want to spend hours cutting roofing tile by hand?! :)
In regards to duplicating the rows of tile in Inkscape, however, instead of hitting the Duplicate function for however many rows you need, a tip I shared with Michael at Chandwell yesterday is to use the Interpolate function.
Make your first row of tile then duplicate and position the bottom row, then select both. Go to Extensions>Generate From Path>Interpolate... and in the dialog box that appears set Exponent to 0.0, Interpolation steps to however many lines you want, and Interpolation method to 1 (several of these will be the defaults already) Then click Apply and it will automatically make however many number of lines you need equally spaced between the first and last one that you made. It's a real time saver (and key saver from slamming the D key so many times!).
I'm enjoying watching your layout grow and it's a real inspiration for someone like me just starting out in this hobby. Cheers!
One that is trying to preserve sanity!
Thanks so much for the great feedback, its really nice to hear. I'll have a look at that function next time I'm doing something similar.
I missed the scale that you are doing this inkscape product> Thanks for sharing
This one was 3mm scale but should work in any scale
@@deansburytownmodelrailway5056 I am currently trying to work with N scale (160), so thanks for sharing.