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- Discussion on applying signs to structures and in the diorama, materials, tips and techniques.
- Greg Cassidy presents a short live demo on blending and weathering mounted signs using dry pigments and pastels. More info and PDFs of signs HERE.
- Discussion on weathering signs, materials, tips and techniques.
- Live how-to showing the techniques and tools of weathering signs. Greg Cassidy was our guest
- Signage Considerations including different mediums.
- Application of two different signage types.
- Brush Painting Door and Window Castings
- Installing windows and doors
- Brush Painting Door and Window Castings
- Glazing Windows
A little different this week, we have 3 presenters all talking about lighting your structures.
- John Campbell, The Art of Lighting.
- Jim Cannon, Understanding Structure Lighting Wiring (Link to PDF presentation)
- Pat Rivard, How-to Light structures.
- Discussion and photo review of examples for using color to emphasize vertical space.
- Early pictures of Dave Vollmer’s N-scale diorama.
- HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District:
https://www.facebook.com/HOn3RGS - N scale Colorado Midland Ry:
https://www.facebook.com/N-Scale-Colorado-Midland-Model-Rail road-962404053798467
- HOn3 Rio Grande Southern First District:
- Warehouse door construction and coloring.
- Peeling paint effect using soft pastels and stains.
- Review of soft pastel fixatives.
- Discussion of and technique(s) to quickly make wood look like metal.
- Demo of coloring and construction of warehouse doors.
- Painting of door and window castings.
- Install of warehouse doors.
- Here is a link to a post on railroad line forum by our own Rich, showing his method of constructing doors. https://railroad-line.com/node/37296
- Rich also provided us a few pictures of another sliding door build. Click image for a larger version.
- Application and demo of trim materials.
- Painting primary coloring of styrene castings for door and windows.
- Preliminary discussion on scratch building warehouse doors.
- Discussion on different wall color shades to produce a model which looks like it has been built at different times, giving a subtle ‘added-on’ look.
- Discussion recap of coloring of interior and bracing.
- A review of prep of styrene door and window castings for painting.
- A discussion/review of rattle can painting of styrene castings.
- A discussion of corner trim materials and application in build sequence.
- A brief discussion of nail-holes and tools to create the nail-holes.
- Discussion and short demo on creating board end joints in siding.
- A review of using pictures for ice block coloring and mini-scene detail ideas.
- Discussion of wall bracing application.
- Discussion of primary wall coloring using soft pastels and diluted weathering mix.
- Demo for using fan brush technique for early stages of weathering’
- Discussion of considerations in color selection for sealing of interior walls.
- Discussion and application of masking to openings and hazards.
- Demo and discussion of brush technique to prevent paint overflow around openings and edges.
- Using Sucrets/Altoid tins as a paint palette.
- Paint Properties: Touch dry vs. cure dry.
- Discussion of brush cleaning techniques and brush cleaning aids.
- Discussion and application of wall bracing and trim.
- Discussion and application of wall and trim coloring.
- Discussion and demo of enhancing wall texturing in wood.
- Discussion and demo of cutting wall openings.
“Tips and Tricks of the Trade” that are revealed in this episode:
Working with wood clapboard siding sheets
0:17:38 – Greg Cassidy’s hint to remember to mark backside of sheet wood when working on back to note what edge is top on clapboard siding sheet
0:18:19 – Discussions about cutting wood and styrene sheets
0:25:14 – How to prevent cuts from following wood grain by starting cuts using #16 blade
0:39:21 – Richard Wolfanger discusses what to do with cutting error
0:41:11 – Richard Wolfanger tells us what glue (Fix-All) he uses for (wood and hydrocal) gluing shingles, clapboard, and walls aligned perpendicularly.
0:44:33 – To cut, then stain; or stain, then cut? Discussion
0:59:23 – William Zadnik talks about an alternative glue to Aleen’s tacky glue for those unable to acquire it.
1:01:31 – Link to military modelers site that Richard Wolfanger mentioned:
https://railroadmodeling.net/
“Rich Wolfanger: The above site is the Kitmaker website for railroad modeling” (Via Zoom Chat)
1:05:54 – Discussion regarding window height
1:09:23 – Zoom Chat entry from Darryl Jacobs of Inter-Action Hobbies
@01:56:25 “Darryl Jacobs: Greg, a good tip on those pencil leads are to sharpen opposite sides to a V on sandpaper so that you have a chisel edge. That way your point will last longer since you have a long “knife edge”.”
Context from episode: 1:09:23
1:15:04 – Wood jig for setting up walls and floors or two flat surfaces at right angles to each other.
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- Tip to make the jig so glue for styrene doesn’t run up on back side.
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1:17:03 – Begin discussion of techniques of cutting out window openings
1:21:05 –Bernd Fanghanel mentions thread saw to make window openings
1:23:40 – Darryl Jacobs of Inter-Action Hobbies shows a veneer saw he suggested for straight, smooth edge cuts
- Kris takes us on a deep dive in the world of artists pastels. Different types, brands hardnesses and how they can be used in model railroading.
- See the tools section for a 10% discount from Dakota Pastels.
- The walls are cut out and we tape them toghether to see ow it all fits.
- A discussion of various tools that can be used for prepping the wood.
- Nail holes? or not.
- A look at the progress made by some of the participating modelers.
- Work bench, work surface, and templates.
- Transferring dimensions and cutting templates
- Assembling mock-ups from pre-printed templates & cutting templates.
- Availability of concept, dimensional and paper model file downloads.
- Determining structure dimensions from a drawing or photo. (Discussion by Rich Wolfanger, Heath Trollope)
- Roof details as eye candy. (Short Discussion)
- Basic template creation and mock-up discussion and review.
- Discussion of basic construction techniques. (Introduction discussion.)
- Intro to the show.
- Discussion of the proposed project, Ice House.
- Some background research and inspiration.
- Reference pictures shown on the show:
http://www.miningartifacts.org/Colorado-Mines.html - Concept Drawing:
https://toddgambleart.blogspot.com/2016/04/proposal-renderi ng-for-ho-scale-ice-and.html? m=1