Hmm I think I could do with a lend of the big weights. I don’t promise they will be as heavy when I return them. Having different height buildings from different periods is giving your layout a sense of reality. Another nice build Michael. Stephen
I just love your work Michael and your videos on Inkscape got me really started last year. As you may know I have moved to a cutting machine in preparation for the trials of older age. Love your scalpel and rule work. All the very best Alan
Hello Alan. Yes, I have seen your tutorials/examples with the cutting machine. Once the scalpel is too painful/shaky for me, then I see a cutting machine on the horizon. I am hopefully a few years away from that so far. It’s great to see you in Chandwell. Your posts on Facebook over the years have been an incredible inspiration to me. You capture the real thing so well and the atmosphere that creates is plain to see. I’m trying to do similar with Chandwell, although obviously it is fictional. Thank you for watching. 👍👍👍
Although a "tiddler" in comparison to "The Chanfield" the care and though that goes into this build is the equal of its much larger neighbour. This is rapidly becoming my favourite channel on YT, you deserve to have a much larger subscriber base, Michael. Now, I wonder what they will sell in this shop? Flat caps? Whippet food? Yorkshire pudding tins? We'll just have to wait and see. George
Dear Michael, humbly think you’ve hit the spot where you’ve built and put this ‘add-on’ construction next to your marvelous curved hotel. Working in scale, whatever the fraction or ratio, somewhat always makes us modelers prone to stick to similar ceiling heights. As a matter of fact, kits seem to that too. Hence, your approach of adding this little building as a ‘true’ representation of the prototype is a great way to breach that almost preconceived ‘setting’ of our eyes. As a kind of ‘pet peeve,’ in more modern architecture, one can observe the opposite happening. Either, because regulations for floor heights have become more ‘standardized,’ or because the eyes of the architects are just as preconceived for parallel floor heights as ours. As you’ve so rightly stated, older developments have a much more common fluctuation of floor heights, roof lines, frontages, etc. Which in turn makes these true types much more interesting to model. Plus, in true life, these differences add to the character of an area or neighborhood. Where their true potential is to keep these buildings, dwellings and utilities much more livable and workable, just as they are!! Or, as they are a reflection of our human presence. When one would live there, it isn’t even necessary to say the street number on the address, to explain where people can find the dwelling. It only needs the remark: “oh, my house is on left hand side of the curved hotel, just before the train viaduct.” And everyone who knows Chandwell, if only a little, will know where it is!
One of my sons has a Victorian flat. The difference in ceiling height is dramatic compared to a modern build. Love the odd shape and the fact it reflects the actual building beside the hotel you've just modelled. There seems to be an evaporation problem with one of your bottles! I would look into that if I were you! ;-) Cheers
Hi Michael, just had a look at this and it’s a great example of how differing styles can work. On the face of it the building would look odd, but even without looking at the real thing you’ve crafted this beautifully and made it fit in to the layout. When I’m on the laptop I’ll have a look at the membership - I was looking for the button but couldn’t find it. A quick Google revealed it doesn’t come up in iOS devices which I generally use for YT. I’d love to have such a good resource to help with my scratchbuilding ideas, but I realise it’s a long road 🤔
Thank you so much. I was a bit skeptical at first but I agree that it’s worked out well in the end. There’s no pressure to become a member, but I know that some people like the weekly “behind the scenes” videos and they allow me to answer questions without the focus on videos that appeal to a wider audience. They’re not for everyone of course.
"A tale of two century" - quite poetic speaking, Michael. The modern, small neighbour of the Victorian hotel is a good compagnion. Well done! All the best Valentin
Here in Salford, I think that building new stuff had its last gasp in the mid 70s - and what went up then was pretty nasty. Then things fell down for 30 years; some of it (Victoriana) just fell down, some of it (the pubs) were burned down, and some of it (the more recent stuff) was pulled down. And the really smart money bought-up Chandwell about now ('93), sat on it, and is now building glass tower blocks all over it at eye-watering prices. Somewhere in Chandwell is a small anonymous office where men in suits are slowly buying up land. In a few years they will leverage local discontent at the state of the place, to secure public funding to start a redevelopment that will ensure locals can't afford to live there anymore! My name's Ben Elton, goodnight :-)
Aye, the stick label method works a right treat to be fair mate, bit of a head scratcher at first as you technically are cutting through the labels too but it all comes together with the strategic removal of the inners. Well played sir as always 😉
I think the dingy "white" finish is spot on for Chandwell, I can think of several businesses that would typically occupy that, car maintainance, motorcycle breakers, 2nd hand shops, both clothes and books, washer and vacuum repairs, actually pretty much anything that doesn't deal in new stuff.
I like the dinginess of the white building! I agree with comments below re motorcycle shop? As for the whiskey, that’s obviously what’s kept you sane with the fiddly bits ! 🫠
Ever more interesting and alive.. your Chandwell city is genuinely alive and ever more realistic Soon there will come a time when the photos of either will immediately be recognised but nobody - nobody will be able to tell the difference between real and "N" Scale THAT is your genius!
It looks gloriously grotty, Michael - and the shop windows look amazing also. Have you any plans for street lighting, I wonder? I think you already have lighting inside some of the buildings and the station clock tower, if I remember rightly. Thanks again. Tom
I have lighting in some buildings but I tend not to do it any more simply because I don’t get any enjoyment out of it. Not decided on street lights yet. There will need to be some, obviously, but I am unlikely to light them. It’s always day time in Chandwell! 😂
@@Chandwell Well that's a fair argument, Michael, but Chandwell is very atmospheric. I imagine myself walking down its streets on a winter afternoon, possibly dropping into an off licence for a bottle of Blue Nun, before heading round to a friend's upstairs terrace house (poorly insulated) flat conversion. I need the street lighting for that scenario. And it would have to be inadequate street lighting, so that the walks under the bridges don't feel entirely reassuring, as well...
This would have English Heritage up in arms if this was even considered today. Good job they weren’t as strict back in the day. It is a perfect addition.
Hi Michael - That was absolutely brilliant. Now that I am getting into Scalescenes I understand a lot more of what you are doing which helps immensely. I loved the final part where we actually get to see you varnish the building along with adding a bit weathering powder, very interesting. Regards Chris
Starting to get the hang of it now Michael especially after using the correct photo paper LOL. Already tampering with the small goods store and making it twice as long as the one at Bognor. Just got back from the NEC show, wow had a blast and learnt a lot and made a few purchases. Regards Chris
Station Road will include the office of Graham & Grant, the premier estate agent in Chandwell. Once it’s in place I’d be happy to ask them to send you some details. What would you like? A little two-bed terrace? A lovely suburban semi? Or one of the big stone houses up by the old castle?
@@Chandwell Surely Chandwell is one of those places that estate agents try not to mention, instead saying something implausible like 'Skipton borders'...
Another triumphant build Michael. Thanks for sharing. Roy.
Thank you Roy!
A very nice addition Michael. Beautiful construction as always . Cheers, Bob
Thank you Bob!
This channel should have 100k of subscribers.
Fantastic modelling. 👍
Oh that would be nice.
Hmm I think I could do with a lend of the big weights. I don’t promise they will be as heavy when I return them. Having different height buildings from different periods is giving your layout a sense of reality. Another nice build Michael. Stephen
Thank you Stephen! You’re welcome to sample one of my big weights whenever you are next in the Ilkley area! 🤔👍
Another great video / building.........and when you see your hands assembling it, you realise how small it is!
Thank you! Yes it really is small!
Brilliant build again! I need to get some weights like that 😉
Thank you! Yeah the weights are superb!
I just love your work Michael and your videos on Inkscape got me really started last year. As you may know I have moved to a cutting machine in preparation for the trials of older age. Love your scalpel and rule work. All the very best Alan
Hello Alan. Yes, I have seen your tutorials/examples with the cutting machine. Once the scalpel is too painful/shaky for me, then I see a cutting machine on the horizon. I am hopefully a few years away from that so far. It’s great to see you in Chandwell. Your posts on Facebook over the years have been an incredible inspiration to me. You capture the real thing so well and the atmosphere that creates is plain to see. I’m trying to do similar with Chandwell, although obviously it is fictional. Thank you for watching. 👍👍👍
Good to see the whisky bottles being put to good use again! Hope you enjoyed a dram after all your labours!
Thank you! I may have done !!
Amazing!
Thank you
Although a "tiddler" in comparison to "The Chanfield" the care and though that goes into this build is the equal of its much larger neighbour.
This is rapidly becoming my favourite channel on YT, you deserve to have a much larger subscriber base, Michael.
Now, I wonder what they will sell in this shop?
Flat caps? Whippet food? Yorkshire pudding tins?
We'll just have to wait and see.
George
Thank you so much George. That’s very kind. I’d love a much larger audience. My channel is steadily growing and it’s great to get so many comments.
Dear Michael, humbly think you’ve hit the spot where you’ve built and put this ‘add-on’ construction next to your marvelous curved hotel. Working in scale, whatever the fraction or ratio, somewhat always makes us modelers prone to stick to similar ceiling heights. As a matter of fact, kits seem to that too.
Hence, your approach of adding this little building as a ‘true’ representation of the prototype is a great way to breach that almost preconceived ‘setting’ of our eyes.
As a kind of ‘pet peeve,’ in more modern architecture, one can observe the opposite happening.
Either, because regulations for floor heights have become more ‘standardized,’ or because the eyes of the architects are just as preconceived for parallel floor heights as ours.
As you’ve so rightly stated, older developments have a much more common fluctuation of floor heights, roof lines, frontages, etc.
Which in turn makes these true types much more interesting to model. Plus, in true life, these differences add to the character of an area or neighborhood. Where their true potential is to keep these buildings, dwellings and utilities much more livable and workable, just as they are!!
Or, as they are a reflection of our human presence. When one would live there, it isn’t even necessary to say the street number on the address, to explain where people can find the dwelling. It only needs the remark: “oh, my house is on left hand side of the curved hotel, just before the train viaduct.” And everyone who knows Chandwell, if only a little, will know where it is!
Thank you! Very wise words. I am pleased I’ve managed to convey all of that in model form.
looking really good
Thank you
One of my sons has a Victorian flat. The difference in ceiling height is dramatic compared to a modern build. Love the odd shape and the fact it reflects the actual building beside the hotel you've just modelled. There seems to be an evaporation problem with one of your bottles! I would look into that if I were you! ;-) Cheers
Those bottles never stay full. Not quite sure what happens!
@@Chandwell At whiskey distilleries they call it the Angels share
I like the oddly shaped buildings
Thank you.
Hi Michael, just had a look at this and it’s a great example of how differing styles can work. On the face of it the building would look odd, but even without looking at the real thing you’ve crafted this beautifully and made it fit in to the layout.
When I’m on the laptop I’ll have a look at the membership - I was looking for the button but couldn’t find it. A quick Google revealed it doesn’t come up in iOS devices which I generally use for YT. I’d love to have such a good resource to help with my scratchbuilding ideas, but I realise it’s a long road 🤔
Thank you so much. I was a bit skeptical at first but I agree that it’s worked out well in the end. There’s no pressure to become a member, but I know that some people like the weekly “behind the scenes” videos and they allow me to answer questions without the focus on videos that appeal to a wider audience. They’re not for everyone of course.
Dear Sir,
Sadly, your method would never work with me layout. Those bottles would be too light to be of any help.
Cheers from whisko Brazil!
😂😂😂😂🍺🍺🍺😂😂😂
Hi Michael Another fantastic build forming, looking forward to the reveal of the shop fronts, lol. Thanks
Hope you like them!
"A tale of two century" - quite poetic speaking, Michael. The modern, small neighbour of the Victorian hotel is a good compagnion.
Well done!
All the best
Valentin
Thank you Valentin!
Looks cool
Thank you
Another great video and scratch build Michael. What are we all going to do when you’re finished? What will you do?
Build Chandwell Town station of course. It’s at the other end of the town. A bit smaller. A four-track but quiet through station on a junction.
Here in Salford, I think that building new stuff had its last gasp in the mid 70s - and what went up then was pretty nasty. Then things fell down for 30 years; some of it (Victoriana) just fell down, some of it (the pubs) were burned down, and some of it (the more recent stuff) was pulled down. And the really smart money bought-up Chandwell about now ('93), sat on it, and is now building glass tower blocks all over it at eye-watering prices. Somewhere in Chandwell is a small anonymous office where men in suits are slowly buying up land. In a few years they will leverage local discontent at the state of the place, to secure public funding to start a redevelopment that will ensure locals can't afford to live there anymore! My name's Ben Elton, goodnight :-)
I’ll have to model that anonymous office. Perhaps with a little crappy sign.
Aye, the stick label method works a right treat to be fair mate, bit of a head scratcher at first as you technically are cutting through the labels too but it all comes together with the strategic removal of the inners.
Well played sir as always 😉
Exactly. It works so well in the end!
Exactly. It works so well in the end!
I think the dingy "white" finish is spot on for Chandwell, I can think of several businesses that would typically occupy that, car maintainance, motorcycle breakers, 2nd hand shops, both clothes and books, washer and vacuum repairs, actually pretty much anything that doesn't deal in new stuff.
Yes, a bike breakers! Then the little triangle at the back can be full of old tyres and the white plastic legshields from a hundred dead C90s :-)
Great idea but I chose something different. The back does open onto Wharfe Motors and there will be some tyres and things back there.
I like the dinginess of the white building! I agree with comments below re motorcycle shop? As for the whiskey, that’s obviously what’s kept you sane with the fiddly bits ! 🫠
Never drink whisky and wield a scalpel! 😂😂 🩹🤕🤕
Ever more interesting and alive..
your Chandwell city is genuinely alive and ever more realistic
Soon there will come a time when the photos of either will immediately be recognised but nobody - nobody will be able to tell the difference between real and "N" Scale
THAT is your genius!
Thank you so much! If I can achieve even half of that, I will be very happy indeed.
It looks gloriously grotty, Michael - and the shop windows look amazing also. Have you any plans for street lighting, I wonder? I think you already have lighting inside some of the buildings and the station clock tower, if I remember rightly. Thanks again. Tom
I have lighting in some buildings but I tend not to do it any more simply because I don’t get any enjoyment out of it. Not decided on street lights yet. There will need to be some, obviously, but I am unlikely to light them. It’s always day time in Chandwell! 😂
@@Chandwell Well that's a fair argument, Michael, but Chandwell is very atmospheric. I imagine myself walking down its streets on a winter afternoon, possibly dropping into an off licence for a bottle of Blue Nun, before heading round to a friend's upstairs terrace house (poorly insulated) flat conversion. I need the street lighting for that scenario. And it would have to be inadequate street lighting, so that the walks under the bridges don't feel entirely reassuring, as well...
The frontage looks a bit rough! Just perfect for Chandwell! 🤣
Ha. Indeed! 😂
This would have English Heritage up in arms if this was even considered today. Good job they weren’t as strict back in the day. It is a perfect addition.
Thanks Stu. I think it works quite well.
Hi Michael - That was absolutely brilliant. Now that I am getting into Scalescenes I understand a lot more of what you are doing which helps immensely.
I loved the final part where we actually get to see you varnish the building along with adding a bit weathering powder, very interesting.
Regards Chris
Thank you Chris. How are you getting on with Scalescenes at the moment?
Starting to get the hang of it now Michael especially after using the correct photo paper LOL.
Already tampering with the small goods store and making it twice as long as the one at Bognor.
Just got back from the NEC show, wow had a blast and learnt a lot and made a few purchases.
Regards Chris
You know, I think I may move to Chandwell. It looks interesting and attractive and it's above the Stoke-Derby-Nottingham line!
Station Road will include the office of Graham & Grant, the premier estate agent in Chandwell. Once it’s in place I’d be happy to ask them to send you some details. What would you like? A little two-bed terrace? A lovely suburban semi? Or one of the big stone houses up by the old castle?
@@Chandwell Surely Chandwell is one of those places that estate agents try not to mention, instead saying something implausible like 'Skipton borders'...
“Skipton Borders” 😂😂😂🤣🤣
Yeah for Aberlour... Almost impossible to find here in Thailand.
It’s a good one!
You miss-measured??? You are human after all - I was beginning to wonder 🤣
Lovely job as usual Michael,
Andrew🙂
Haha. Sadly all too human! Thank you Andrew!
Haha. Sadly all too human! Thank you Andrew!
Amazing!
Thank you!