What you've done looks great. The removable sections are a great way of detailing buildings etc off the layout that would normally be in places difficult to each. Great work. Happy Modelling
I'm so glad I found this video. I am planning a small n scale layout for my dining room table with a small town at the intersection of Highway 58 and Black Bear Road. This intersection creates four "blocks" of buildings in my town. My layout must be storable as I might need the table for other uses. I thought some kind of concrete islands with a few buildings glued to each block. Also, details like fire hydrants, telephone poles, people, etc. all glued down to the sidewalk to create a scene. And here it is, exactly as I thought it might look. Thanks, again for this video. It has stoked the fire in my imagination. I also plan to create forest islands using styrene painted green with trees glued to it amid thick grassy ground cover. When I need to store the city islands and the forest islands, all I need to do is grab one building or tree and lift it up and store it away. Your island of three buildings is exactly how I want to do it. Thanks. (Saving this video into my "favorites" video list so I can rewatch it for more inspiration.)
@@TomsTrainsandThings I am in a nursing home and about thirty five years ago I gave my buildings, matchbox cars, and people to my sister to give to my nephew. Just before the Covid lockdown, I asked her if my nephew,also Tom, gave said items to his son. I hit the ceiling when she told me:No, they are in my attic. They'll be worth alot of money someday. I should have given them to my cousin. PS, I used to also purchase items unrelated to trains but was able to integrate them into my cities. Found a n HO scale bride and groom with a priest/minister and to bridesmaids that were meant to go on cupcakes, or little fences from farm sets, or billboards that went with racing sets, or unused pieces from my famous monsters kits, like a fireplace grille that I used as a cornice, distinctive caps from tubes that made ventilation covers atop buildings (painted silver). I grew up next to a spur line of the B&O railroad in our backyard down a 27 foot emba kment. It was our Disneyland and sometimes we would jump off an overpass into the slow moving coalcars and ride to an intersection with the old Nickleplate RR. Sometimes it would takes us to the end of the line where the coal was loaded onto freighters on Lake Erie or to the then many factories of the nearby town. Now all gone to Nafta. I always wanted to do a Twilight Zone episode where the old modellers like us get to live in the little model railway cities that they created. Thank you for your post.
Great Idea, you made your scenery very modular enabling easy maintenance, additional detail or reconfiguration. I however plan on adding lighting to my scenery, I guess I can always install plugs for easy disconnect.
I know I'm behind the eight ball watching the videos but I just found your channel a few weeks ago. Just wanted to tell you what I've seen so far is very informative and I'm very thankful for the time you took to make these videos! I'm also praying your channel never goes away! :)
That is an extremely impressive bunch of Buildings!! I liked the idea of mounting groups of Buildings on interlocking pieces of styrene sheet. My Layout, for now, is semi-temporary... Being able to remove them and pack them separately and securely is a fantastic idea!! 👍👍😎 I've GOT to remember that trick. Carmine 🚂
I had the same idea of making it easy to take apart. I've moved so many times I've learned to make things not so permanent. We've been here for 6 years now but may sell within the next few years to get something even smaller when the value hits a certain point. I thought this 2 br townhouse was small enough but we barely use half the rooms here.
Cindi and I are cramming a 4-bedroom house + garage into a small 2-bedroom apartment... We haven't had the best 4 years. I thank God that I have the World's most understanding wife! We've also managed to cram 3 of my Layout modules in here, along the living room and dining room wall. 😁 So at least I have that. ...... You don't have too much room - you have more room for your Layout!!! 😛👍👍
@@FuzionHyperX and a couple times through out the video has inconsistent sound levers. This is a killer when wearing ear buds. Other than that great information!
I'm 70 also and just disassembled my layout to rebuild it in a new house. Just moved in and almost unpacked. Will be working on the new layout shortly.
🤦🏼♀️you have nice set up and I must have fast forward through the making of the sidewalks trying to get past how one section is moved or how the other sections are easily removed in case of repair
Great video Tom, I love that Gibleys kit by Bar Mills but not a huge fan of the price of it. I will eventually nab one from Ebay someday. Those DPM kits are as high as $25 for some of them now so they sure have went up over the last 20 years. Cheers Rob
If they ever have train shows in your area. You may find some DPM kits cheap. I found some with the original $5 price tag going for that price from some vendors. I picked up everyone I saw. Yes Gibley is expen$$$$$$ive, but a great kit to build. Wait for train shows again. lol
After placing several 'modular' pieces on the layout, how do you hide the cracks/lines where the bases of the two pieces butt up to one another? Thank you for your time and assistance.
Thank you sir. In most of my models I use the clear plastic that comes with the kits. I've also used canopy glue on smaller windows and clear laminate from the local craft stores. The window treatments are just colored paper glued behind the windows. The lettering on windows are decals and Woodland Scenics dry transfers. Watched a few of your videos this morning, your doing great work. Love the opening scene you use. Reminds me of early morning sky when I was a kid growing up near the steel mills.
I enjoyed this video. I was hoping it showed you building one. I am about to start buiding these for my N door layout. Can you tell me what type of grey paint you used and what type of glue you use to secure your landscaping? Thank you in advance.
Thanks Richard. I used concrete grey acrylic paint from your favorite craft store and elmers white glue diluted for the scenery. Super glue for the figures and transfer tape to hold down the buildings on the base.
Tom very helpful video as usual! I do have a question. How do you clean the layout with out messing it up? I'm not sure on what the best way is to remove dust.
Good question Ryan. I have a soft brush for the rolling stock and buildings, as far as scenery, I go over it with a vacuum very lightly. if any ground cover gets sucked up, I replace it.
Maybe an idea..... Many of these type of buildings have like fire escapes on the outside.... I noticed the outside walls are a bit empty and I am missing something.. :-) 9:15 for example and maybe do some more weathering..... It looks very plasticy
fair enough .. It does look alright in the end... I like the idea that you place them on a removable plate..... Quite brilliant actually ....That way you can either put different buildings in place or as you already mention... do some repairs and up-grading.... Your project will never end, that way ..and can always look different..
That video is nearly 2 years old. I did some updates since then and have them in a few more videos with roof details. I'm currently working on interior details with lighting. I should have a video out on that project within a few weeks.
Thanks for watching Glenn. It depends on if it's plastic or wood and how far the base extends beyond the structure. I have one Walthers kit where I kept the base with a molded sidewalk and matched the thickness of the sidewalk for the rest of the adjacent buildings. Some wood kits require the base for stability but very seldom extend beyond the walls so I make it look like a concrete foundation. On some plastic kits I've cut the sidewalks off the base and used my own styrene or acrylic for the sidewalk. Hope I didn't confuse you more.
Dan, take a look at some of my other videos in Playlists such as; czcams.com/play/PLjjhnrIKSTSiBxQppzdtLYcWpKwyrKmBJ.html czcams.com/play/PLjjhnrIKSTShiWUmqiDlk-kGyoYN_dnI8.html You'll find a lot of useful information there!
I like the idea of mounting the buildings on styrene with their own sidewalks. Easy to move them around.
That seems to be the easiest way to create city blocks. You can also pull them back off to do maintenance on them easily
What you've done looks great.
The removable sections are a great way of detailing buildings etc off the layout that would normally be in places difficult to each.
Great work.
Happy Modelling
Thank you very much!
Beautiful also good to make little Alley ways and to raise the buildings on a Gas Station.
Take a look at some of my other videos where I show that
Very good idea,I will use that for my layout,thank you
Glad it was helpful!
In joying your township and your layout right up my alley.
Thank you TEDDY.
Glad you enjoy it!
[thank, you for you're great helpful video]👍
Glad it was helpful!
I'm so glad I found this video. I am planning a small n scale layout for my dining room table with a small town at the intersection of Highway 58 and Black Bear Road. This intersection creates four "blocks" of buildings in my town. My layout must be storable as I might need the table for other uses. I thought some kind of concrete islands with a few buildings glued to each block. Also, details like fire hydrants, telephone poles, people, etc. all glued down to the sidewalk to create a scene. And here it is, exactly as I thought it might look. Thanks, again for this video. It has stoked the fire in my imagination. I also plan to create forest islands using styrene painted green with trees glued to it amid thick grassy ground cover. When I need to store the city islands and the forest islands, all I need to do is grab one building or tree and lift it up and store it away. Your island of three buildings is exactly how I want to do it. Thanks. (Saving this video into my "favorites" video list so I can rewatch it for more inspiration.)
Thank you. Glad it was helpful!
WOW!!!Such detail is just excellent!!!It's so real!
Thank you so much 😀
Great work. I love the look of the bricks. Thanks for sharing
Thank you very much
I admire your talent. I only had purchased model kits and did paint 300 Plasticville people.
Thank you. 300 people is quite a bit to paint. You have more patience than I!
@@TomsTrainsandThings I am in a nursing home and about thirty five years ago I gave my buildings, matchbox cars, and people to my sister to give to my nephew. Just before the Covid lockdown, I asked her if my nephew,also Tom, gave said items to his son. I hit the ceiling when she told me:No, they are in my attic. They'll be worth alot of money someday. I should have given them to my cousin. PS, I used to also purchase items unrelated to trains but was able to integrate them into my cities. Found a n HO scale bride and groom with a priest/minister and to bridesmaids that were meant to go on cupcakes, or little fences from farm sets, or billboards that went with racing sets, or unused pieces from my famous monsters kits, like a fireplace grille that I used as a cornice, distinctive caps from tubes that made ventilation covers atop buildings (painted silver). I grew up next to a spur line of the B&O railroad in our backyard down a 27 foot emba kment. It was our Disneyland and sometimes we would jump off an overpass into the slow moving coalcars and ride to an intersection with the old Nickleplate RR. Sometimes it would takes us to the end of the line where the coal was loaded onto freighters on Lake Erie or to the then many factories of the nearby town. Now all gone to Nafta. I always wanted to do a Twilight Zone episode where the old modellers like us get to live in the little model railway cities that they created. Thank you for your post.
Wow......what amazing details.....great work
Thanks John.
Great idea. It never ceases to amaze me what simple but effective uses can produce
Thanks Lou. All from an idea to have have a removable city block.
Tom this is an awesome idea. Thx for sharing buddy! 👍
Your welcome
Great Idea, you made your scenery very modular enabling easy maintenance, additional detail or reconfiguration. I however plan on adding lighting to my scenery, I guess I can always install plugs for easy disconnect.
Lighting back then was aleays an afterthought. LOL Plugs are the way to go!
I know I'm behind the eight ball watching the videos but I just found your channel a few weeks ago. Just wanted to tell you what I've seen so far is very informative and I'm very thankful for the time you took to make these videos! I'm also praying your channel never goes away! :)
Thank you for the kind words. I'll keep them coming as long as I can.
Excellent looking and great tips and tricks, thanks for sharing, I took notes :)
Thanks for watching!
That is an extremely impressive bunch of Buildings!! I liked the idea of mounting groups of Buildings on interlocking pieces of styrene sheet. My Layout, for now, is semi-temporary... Being able to remove them and pack them separately and securely is a fantastic idea!! 👍👍😎 I've GOT to remember that trick.
Carmine 🚂
I had the same idea of making it easy to take apart. I've moved so many times I've learned to make things not so permanent. We've been here for 6 years now but may sell within the next few years to get something even smaller when the value hits a certain point. I thought this 2 br townhouse was small enough but we barely use half the rooms here.
Cindi and I are cramming a 4-bedroom house + garage into a small 2-bedroom apartment...
We haven't had the best 4 years. I thank God that I have the World's most understanding wife! We've also managed to cram 3 of my Layout modules in here, along the living room and dining room wall. 😁
So at least I have that.
...... You don't have too much room - you have more room for your Layout!!! 😛👍👍
Well done, Looks amazing
Thank you so much 😀
Rest in eternal peace for anyone with earphones at the beginning.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@FuzionHyperX and a couple times through out the video has inconsistent sound levers. This is a killer when wearing ear buds. Other than that great information!
Many thanks for sharing. I'm about to start adding buildings to my layout, and I plan to use your method.
Your Welcome Kar Guy
Now Imagine if while you went out somewhere or was asleep and your scaled modeled city just started coming to life?
It comes to life all the time. I have a great imagination!
PS, I am now 70 and can't imagine trying to build the kits, much less paint.
I'm 70 also and just disassembled my layout to rebuild it in a new house. Just moved in and almost unpacked. Will be working on the new layout shortly.
🤦🏼♀️you have nice set up and I must have fast forward through the making of the sidewalks trying to get past how one section is moved or how the other sections are easily removed in case of repair
Thanks Mandy
Great video Tom, I love that Gibleys kit by Bar Mills but not a huge fan of the price of it. I will eventually nab one from Ebay someday. Those DPM kits are as high as $25 for some of them now so they sure have went up over the last 20 years. Cheers Rob
If they ever have train shows in your area. You may find some DPM kits cheap. I found some with the original $5 price tag going for that price from some vendors. I picked up everyone I saw.
Yes Gibley is expen$$$$$$ive, but a great kit to build. Wait for train shows again. lol
THANK YOU DETAIL VIDEO SHOW WANT CAN USE THERE
Thank you Robert
After placing several 'modular' pieces on the layout, how do you hide the cracks/lines where the bases of the two pieces butt up to one another? Thank you for your time and assistance.
Pavement and sidewalks already have cracks. Other places are filled with scenic material
Great looking buildings. Did they move to the new layout?
Yes, I have plans for them on the new layout
I am amazed at your work. What material do you use for your windows and window treatments?
Thank you sir. In most of my models I use the clear plastic that comes with the kits. I've also used canopy glue on smaller windows and clear laminate from the local craft stores. The window treatments are just colored paper glued behind the windows. The lettering on windows are decals and Woodland Scenics dry transfers. Watched a few of your videos this morning, your doing great work. Love the opening scene you use. Reminds me of early morning sky when I was a kid growing up near the steel mills.
I enjoyed this video. I was hoping it showed you building one. I am about to start buiding these for my N door layout. Can you tell me what type of grey paint you used and what type of glue you use to secure your landscaping? Thank you in advance.
Thanks Richard. I used concrete grey acrylic paint from your favorite craft store and elmers white glue diluted for the scenery. Super glue for the figures and transfer tape to hold down the buildings on the base.
I dhave been doing the same ting for years in N scale but I light mine. Do you ever light yours?
Not when I made this video, but I have lit up the buildings since then.
Do you use the styrene for the street or the curb
Styrene is for the streets, Acrylic is for the base of the buildings
Good video - liked and subscribed. 👍
Thank you
what type of glue do you use on the acrylic sheet to hold the building and people down?
I use a thin strip of transfer tape to hold the buildings in place, CA for the figures.
Tom very helpful video as usual! I do have a question. How do you clean the layout with out messing it up? I'm not sure on what the best way is to remove dust.
Good question Ryan. I have a soft brush for the rolling stock and buildings, as far as scenery, I go over it with a vacuum very lightly. if any ground cover gets sucked up, I replace it.
Maybe an idea..... Many of these type of buildings have like fire escapes on the outside.... I noticed the outside walls are a bit empty and I am missing something.. :-) 9:15 for example and maybe do some more weathering..... It looks very plasticy
That's the back side of the building. If I ever turn them around for another scene, I'll detail that side. As is, I just did the basic details.
fair enough .. It does look alright in the end... I like the idea that you place them on a removable plate..... Quite brilliant actually ....That way you can either put different buildings in place or as you already mention... do some repairs and up-grading.... Your project will never end, that way ..and can always look different..
That video is nearly 2 years old. I did some updates since then and have them in a few more videos with roof details. I'm currently working on interior details with lighting. I should have a video out on that project within a few weeks.
from where do you base your model buildings?...Oh wait.... I gather that the buildings are bought at a model shop??
All Kits... Based on buildings from throughout the country. Most of the DPM buildings in the opening can be found in many cities across the US.
thank you for the idea. I have always thought about using styrene for bases. do you use the bases that come in kits or toss them?
Thanks for watching Glenn. It depends on if it's plastic or wood and how far the base extends beyond the structure. I have one Walthers kit where I kept the base with a molded sidewalk and matched the thickness of the sidewalk for the rest of the adjacent buildings. Some wood kits require the base for stability but very seldom extend beyond the walls so I make it look like a concrete foundation. On some plastic kits I've cut the sidewalks off the base and used my own styrene or acrylic for the sidewalk. Hope I didn't confuse you more.
Toms Trains and Things, could you maybe tell us some of the methods you used to make your buildings sometime? They look REALLY good😃
Dan, take a look at some of my other videos in Playlists such as;
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czcams.com/play/PLjjhnrIKSTShiWUmqiDlk-kGyoYN_dnI8.html
You'll find a lot of useful information there!
Alleys and easements are often narrow.
I have a lot of those skinny spaces to conserve space and force the eye to perceive distance.
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I see by the title this was supposed to be about making streets and sidewalks not a showcase for your modeling prowess
I showed how they were made and why I did it that way. Never said it was step by step instructions