A garage? Oh you mean someone’s personal speeder shed! 😂

@johnecklund8556

Ай бұрын

Nice work looks great.

It came out really nice. Almost reminds me of a “shotgun house” but in two-story form. (Spray painting-even just a satin clear coat-is a really useful tip!)

Oh no, hyce has fully invested in becoming a modeler channel now.

@yaysimonsays151

Ай бұрын

oh yes

Hi Mark, your model is looking great! I enjoy building model structures. I haven’t done this in quite a while but your video makes me want to take it up again. It was so fun watching you and Nick paint them up and assemble them. Really nice seeing the two different painting/assembly techniques. I agree there is something so satisfying about model building. Get to create your own little mini world. Many thanks Professor for another wonderful video and, as always, cheers to you!

I love your shirt Hyce!! Gotta love the classics! Please make a video on the GTO and Subaru, us car guys are itching for that content!

I've been working on models for a few years and have the honor of being shown a few tricks from a modeling genius who has been modeling all his life. His biggest tip is "Slow Is Fast." Take your time with the model. He also recommends studying the instructions before building and doing some homework on the subject. Unfortunately, not all instructions are as well put together for kits like yours was apparently. Just keep that in mind if you build any more models. Happy Modeling!!

The diorama looks amazing! Glad to see different ways you two do things and can’t wait to see locomotives running on it

Two takes about painting with brushes(based on my few 28mm miniatures experience): -yes you should prime it - you should mix your paint before using it. You can shake the bottle vigorously for like two minutes, or just tape few of them at once on impact drill or anything spinny-spinny&brrrrrrrr and give'em some beans that way. Sometimes paints will separate and by shaking them, you are basically restoring their compositon and properties. It will give them unified color too. - you should thin your paint with water, there are a lot of videos from pro dudes how to do it. Long story short- some plastic container- one layer of paper towel at the bottom and then a piece of parchment paper on it. Soak the paper towel with water, but just to the point before it stops absorbing. Then put some paint on that parchment, and add some water with paint brush. It will give paint better flow and will not clog the details with thick globes of paint. They will stay sharp. There is some trial and error to get the right consistency, but overal it is not to hard to achieve. Yes, you will need even more coats that way, but it will yeld much-MUCH better result at the end :) Hmm.. That was three things. It is fine xD Thanks for the video!

@Hyce777

Ай бұрын

Thank *you* for the fine tips! I've got a long way to go in my journey still. I appreciate you :)

@Grigori423

Ай бұрын

@@Hyce777 Yes you have indeed, as all we -hobbyist have. You bring us so much joy by sharing knowledge and shenannigans on the channel, so we as viewers are glad to give you some help too!

As someone who finished a model of the Titanic recently (and completely melted some of the benches) I completely understand the model cement stuff. Also, tweezers are very helpful.

Grand Trunk

8:48 - when the camera thinks the chair is more interesting

Ok, you're definitely in my wheelhouse with this episode. I've painted countless plastic models in my years of wargaming (mostly Warhammer 40k but a few other things). Some tips I could give you and any other up and coming modelers: 1. Always spray prime your models first. This will not only give a good basecoat but it also helps the paint adhere to the plastic. Brush-on primers do exist and can work too, but I prefer spray cans (you don't need anything fancy; Rustoleum makes a decent black primer you can get for 4 dollars a can at Walmart). 2. When painting, always paint 2 or more thin coats rather than one thick coat. This is especially important for lighter colors like yellows and whites. You will find that a single coat of white paint will be somewhat full of brush strokes and generally doesn't cover very well; this is normal and the reason you should plan on doing 2-3 coats to get a smooth finish. Doing thin coats also helps you keep from obscuring and filling in any details with paint. 3. Use a palette. This will not only allow you to mix paints if necessary, but it's great for tip 2 above as it makes it easy to thin down your paints to a better consistency. Most paints are too thick straight out of the pot. 4. If you're new to painting, your small details are not going to be as neat. It's just the nature of the beast. Keep practicing your brush control and you'll get better and better at it. I've been doing models for years and sometimes still struggle with tiny fiddly details and freehand. 5. Don't sweat the small stuff; if a defect/painting mistake is small, nobody's going to notice it from 3 feet away. For bigger mistakes, don't be afraid to go back over an area you got the wrong color on with the right color to neaten it back up. 6. Painting stuff on the sprue is not usually necessary. For something like the houses in the video you can get away with it to a degree, but otherwise it's usually better to assemble first as it can be easier to do a more consistent paint scheme that way. I'm glad to see you continue with this series, Hyce, and I look forward to the end product!

@Hyce777

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the wonderful tips my friend! I appreciate the tips and the support as well. Definitely a learning experience. :)

Such a cool project, I'm looking forward to seeing the end result!

Yeah...there's a few models where I wish I'd painted things before despruing them too...Looking good!

If one of those needle tipped glue bottles gets blocked just hold the end of the needle over a lighter till you see a small flare of fire come out the end of it and it's ready to go

Great looking kit, appreciate the tips and techniques!

Watching while making a 1/32 Tiger Moth

I just got your ES&D boxcar last week! I have to put that together!!

Despite growing up with my model railroading dad, despite memories of making Star Wars models with him when I was young, despite all the time me and my little brother helped him pack the kits he sold to people, I had never, ever known that there was a word for frame of plastic that model pieces come in. I even understood how injection molding works, but somehow never picked up that word. Sprue! Who knew!

@Hyce777

Ай бұрын

You're not the first that learned that from this video! What fun, haha.

Nice to see progress being made! Acquired one of your ES&D Accurail kits and assembled that, went together nicely and looks fantastic.

I once heard it said (not by me) that any mistakes you make are just natural weathering.

It looks awesome! Painting models always terrifies me lol

More shenanigans with model trains! Also, no worries about the few month gap in the videos, We all have things to do!

I can't help but think I'd run into these same problems myself should I get back into this kind of modeling, thank you for the cautionary tale! :P

Build mostly scifi kits these days but yes painting on the sprues makes the process much easier. Just trim sections of the sprue if the colors are different. Spray bombing or airbrush is best and haven't done much in the way of priming except the odd case where either the base material doesn't have sufficient tooth to hold the top coat,the base material is molded in a color that'll show through unless you lay down so many coats it'll fill the detail or the top color needs a neutral base ( such as yellow or red) or I'm lighting the model and priming is part of the light blocking process. Painting the edges depends where the mating surfaces are as most of your cements are going to melt paint and possibly make a mess so it's more of a situational setting. Also Dullcote or similar matte spray to kill the gloss makes for a more realistic structure and while I didn't see any window glazing go in you might find yourself putting windows in a structure or rolling stock and see something called canopy cement that for safely putting " glass" in cars or aircraft models because regular model glue or CA will craze,mar or fog clear plastic in models. Don't bother with canopy cement and just pick up the cheap generic white Elmer's type white glue as it's the same stuff. Oh yes no model project is officially underway until at least one of at least two things happen. You spend at least 15 minutes on youhands and knees with one of those super bright flashlights ( and at my age the magnifying cheater headset) looking for that tiny little piece you've sacrificed to the shag carpet gods or you've super glued said piece to your fingers.

A few points... You could have totaly assembled the walls and paint that as a unit. Also, stealing a tip from the armor modellers, you can prime the whole thing in black primer then hit it again with either gray or white primer and shooting it from the top only. What happens is all the bits not being hit by the lighter primer ends up showing as a dark area through the topcoat and it simulates a shadow. Put on a Luke Towan or Laser Creation playlist on KZread while building and spend a chill evening of modelling!!!

@Hyce777

Ай бұрын

Oh that's a cool idea. I appreciate the tips!

@G60syncro

Ай бұрын

@@Hyce777 another cool channel to check out is Night Shift. He does armor but has started building scenes for his models and his weathering skills are off the charts! There's definitely a trick or two that can be stolen from his builds. That house you built with take on a whole new look with a few washes, a bit of streaking on the roof and so on. Hope to see you do more modelling! It's a fun hobby and seeing how you also do SolidWorks, you can totally start 3D printing your own models!!

It’s a happy little garage….😂😂😂

Just a few suggestions or tips if you do this type of stuff again. Get yourself some testors paint, green cutting mat and try using a can of light gray or white spray primer. The craft paint sometimes doesn't like to stick to plastic unless it's sanded pretty good.

Dude you gotta build a 2-floor outhouse!! Lol

Dude, hang blankets or carpets on the walls we can't see to kill that reverb.

@Hyce777

Ай бұрын

Probably worth doing... lol. ugh.

@bacare1971

Ай бұрын

@@Hyce777 at least one behind the camera will make a huge difference.

feels like forever

Also: the cat!

1:09 remember kids to use protection lol 😂

I’m lucky. My g scale stuff is so large it’s relatively easy to paint

I can’t help but notice the difference in names of stuff from the South to the Midwest and North. Your “side cutters” are “wire cutters” here in the south

@Hyce777

Ай бұрын

Interesting. I mean, the real word we use in the shop isn't one that I can say on TV... lol!

Have you ever asked yourself why its called a Building, when its already build?

10:25 Painful to hear you just cut the nozzle. Use a lighter and heat it up, the glue will burn away. For that purpose you can pull out the nozzle of most of the glue bottles 😞 I like it how much you enjoy that part of your train hobby!

@Hyce777

Ай бұрын

Ah! That's a neat trick. Thank you.

Mark Huber doesn't RTFM confirmed. This project will be _full_ of ID-ten-T errors!

@Hyce777

Ай бұрын

I am guilty of many a ID-ten-T because I don't RTFM, lol! Always trying to do things too fast....

@notmuch_23

Ай бұрын

@@Hyce777 ...do things too fast huh, is that why you don't have a girlfriend?

@Hyce777

Ай бұрын

@@notmuch_23 Zing! I'll have to ask her... :P

Hey, Hyce, would you be interested in doing a video solely on the Coors railroad? I would love to help provide info and I have contacts from my time there that may be able to help us get more content and stories and history.