Remeber kids: All you need is +30 years old black ink! - Dear Martin, it amazes me what you can do new to the most common things. Very creative, very new and also kind of quick (and dirty from the ink). I started following you for your modeling skills - no so much because you do armor. Today i congratulate myself being so smart to stick with you. Im even looking forward for the next tank!
I'm a bricklayer in canada and the way that you varied the brick color in sections is perfect. When bricks are placed on the scaffold they come on pallets so that sections of wall will get that pallet with a few leftovers raised up to the next section. One might get a few pallets from the same batch number so they'll be really close in color but if not from the same batch number the colors will be slightly off just as you've shown. We'll done 👏👌👏
That was a master class in XPS modeling. The Tamiya putty as sealer could be a game changer for many people, and that styrene "plywood" sheet is also brilliant. In fact the whole vid was stuffed with fantastic techniques. Bravo, sir.
I am so obsessed with your architecture builds. There needs to be a word for architecture miniatures - its not just dollhouses! Please do more, I love seeing your works so much
I can't begin to tell you how much I love your videos! I recently retired and now I'm getting back into 1/35 scale, military dioramas. I recently found your channel and have been binge watching like crazy! I build good tank models, and I paint good figures, but what I was even BETTER at was scratch building all of my own structures and war torn buildings. Your examples have given me some great ideas. I used to use Tamiya and Italeri brick wall sets to build sections of realistic brick walls and then make rubber molds and cast my sections in Permastone for some pretty realistic effects (I tricked my photography teacher and everyone in the class, that a model I built was a REAL destroyed building!). It was very labor intensive and getting all the shattered windows, peeling paint, crumbling cement and the plethora of details that a REAL building has, took a while. I'm dying to try this FOAM stuff that you so expertly sculpt, finish and paint! It looks much faster and easier that what I used to do (which was practically build an actual brick building in miniature!). I can't wait to try YOUR technique. Thank you so much for the videos! I think YOUR buildings are THE BEST! I'll keep binge watching and learning.
As a professional artist, let me reassure you that no one can draw a straight line. The human species has invented all sorts of tools to overcome our shortcomings, such as a straight edge (or holding shift if drawing on the computer.)
Your work blows my mind even after watching the same videos, over and over!! What an inspiration!! I am almost 100% a car builder, but, love trying to incorporate your techniques into my old cars!! Thank You!!
It is _so_ nice to see every 2nd rows of bricks laid short side out! This is the standard for brick constructions actually made from bricks, and not just faced with bricks. A proper brick wall is two bricks thick. There are several ways to ensure stability for suck a wall, the every 2nd row across is called "English bond", but there are many other types, like Garden bond (every 4th row across), Flemish bond, Monk bond etc.
Excellent. You could very easily implement these techniques into a military diorama. It is very realistic. I also like that it doesn't require a lot of room.
Just amazing! Is nice to see you enjoying the process of making and replicating all little detail in every model. I love the way you catch the history, the life of an ordinary object by studying how to replicate effects like koisture on walls, or the moss, the corroded metals... it´s like seen those natural things happening on fast forward.
I had the thought of putting the head of an infantry soldier peeking through the glass. It would be dead simple and the visual interest of a face behind the old glass could create a story of a battlefield ambush or tense hiding from a sniper. Thanks for the inspiration and putting a spotlight on another book for resource material. You’re a legend.
This is amazing. I love cracked and broken walls and stuff. This is so cool to be able to reproduce. Great new tips too! I'd def love to see more of these types of videos! Happy Holidays - be safe!
I love it! I've seen some people who specialise in doing this kind of model. I like photos of walls and old signs, too.... which might be a bit odd, now I think about it. I found a site a few years ago where someone had collected loads of images of 'ghost-signs', old advertising murals on the sides or facades of buildings, some so faded and worn as to be almost unintelligible. I spent hours there and copied lots of the images, but the reason I mention it was that some of them were the work of a French artist/maker who had done flat framed facades of various buildings with ghost-signs. Beautiful work, I just wish I could remember his name! You should have a go at doing one, I think you're style and sensibilities would be perfectly suited to the faded majesty of ghostly signage.
Night shift, you said thank you for watching. Thank you, thank you, thank you for producing such great content and fantastic and in-depth works of art. So a really big thank you to you 👍
30 years ago i was really into 1/35 Tamiya I bought several military soldier packs and after i got home I cutt them apart so i could pose them the way i likes them 30 later i still have those and some of my best in a display this brought by so many good memories Thanks!! You got a new subsciber!
A perfect display for the small space so many of us have to work with. Thank you for this amazing idea for scale and reality imaging, its such a simple and yet artful project allowing one to capture a place, an image of a place, the feeling of the moment in a very unique manner!
As a digital 3D environment designer, I love watching your videos and this was the best for providing me with some inspiration for how your approaches to detailing could transfer to the digital realm. As it happens I’m currently working on a project that features a lot of brickwork of all states of repair. Will be sure to considering your layering approach and texture work. Awesome video! And thanks for the book recommendation. Added it to my wish list. Keep it up!
I liked this kind of modeling alot. I think trying new stuff is like opening a window and getting some fresh air every now and then. Also some viewers (like me) with small workshops ( or just by bedroom table like me ) would benefit by new aspects for modeling :)
Martin, beautiful work and very unique! I never would have thought to try this, so visually interesting to hang on the wall. A figure might be cool leaning in a doorway or visible in a window. Have a great holiday season, and thanks for the constant inspiration throughout the entire year.
One of the best modelling channels. I admire your creativity and your patience and skill in creating the dioramas. The result is always 100% perfect. Thank you very much for the many suggestions.
This is absolutely breathtaking! It’s incredible how detailed & realistic u can make your miniatures look! I learned so much in 30 minutes! Thank u so much!
Inspirational stuff, Night Shift. I've found a good splosh of homemade acrylic thinner, half again of cheap liquid PVA glue and a few teaspoonfuls of cheap finishing plaster filler to consistency of thickish paint does wonders. Dry with a heat gun if you're impatient and recoat if you want. It leaves a hard 'plaster' like (lol) surface which is just begging to be painted. I mix up enough for a small plastic shot glass which I reckon is about 10 pence a shot rather than £6.00 a tube of commercial stuff. Try it with other glues too! Best of luck.
Results are spectacular as expected with your always excellent projects. Just wanted to share that AK Interactive has precut styrofoam and how-to books for this subject. They even sell facade kits for those interested in trying these projects.
Thanks for this video. I now intend to use to use a similar idea to make static non-interactive 3D background scenery for D&D. Such things as a row of shops that are just there for effect and such like. There is nothing so dull as a game where all that you can see is the edge of the table all the time instead of a more vibrant background
the on-location intro was very cool. what a neat project! as stunning as the biggest diorama is, i love these little things too. your tiny, precise strokes are so good at making believable textures. indescribable talent.
Just amazing how you keep challenging yourself and take us along for the process. Love your work. I've learned so much from watching your videos. Not only do they show your technique but they also serve as learning tools to try these techniques ourselfs. Thank you for that. I wish you and your loved ones amazing holidays.
Impressive and a massive thanks for the inspiration! i will give this method a good try but with twist.. drawing the bricks by hand and then use a cheap laser engraver to engrave the foam and then poke them around for variations 🙂
A cool collab would be a larger piece like this and a graffitti artist doing a piece along the bottom. As a framed piece it would look awesome in anybody's living room!! In a way, the canvas is just as interesting as the art on top of it!!
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, Mr. Kovac, and to all your family and friends. I hope your holidays bring you peace, prosperity, and much happiness.
That is amazing! The detail and realism you impart on this wall art are stunning. Really enjoyed the video and new techniques to try out. Happy holidays!
This came out excellent. You can take the same approach to the next level. Like if you had the doors partially open with a part of a hidden shadow box inside with a T-34 or something parked inside.
Remeber kids: All you need is +30 years old black ink! - Dear Martin, it amazes me what you can do new to the most common things. Very creative, very new and also kind of quick (and dirty from the ink). I started following you for your modeling skills - no so much because you do armor. Today i congratulate myself being so smart to stick with you. Im even looking forward for the next tank!
I'm a bricklayer in canada and the way that you varied the brick color in sections is perfect. When bricks are placed on the scaffold they come on pallets so that sections of wall will get that pallet with a few leftovers raised up to the next section. One might get a few pallets from the same batch number so they'll be really close in color but if not from the same batch number the colors will be slightly off just as you've shown. We'll done 👏👌👏
SO SICK!!!!! This should be a series of future builds!!!!
yes! Love this!
Sounds like a plan ;)
I am absolutely speechless. Your talent for creating replicas of originals goes beyond the normal level of talent. Unbelievably pretty.
That was a master class in XPS modeling. The Tamiya putty as sealer could be a game changer for many people, and that styrene "plywood" sheet is also brilliant. In fact the whole vid was stuffed with fantastic techniques. Bravo, sir.
Happy Christmas uncle night shift!!!
I love your tanks but your scratch buildings are something else. Great one as always. Please do more 😊❤
Bonjour super video que je découvre , vraiment très réaliste , avec juste de la peinture et de la patine du plus belle effet . bravo .
I am so obsessed with your architecture builds. There needs to be a word for architecture miniatures - its not just dollhouses! Please do more, I love seeing your works so much
I can't begin to tell you how much I love your videos! I recently retired and now I'm getting back into 1/35 scale, military dioramas. I recently found your channel and have been binge watching like crazy! I build good tank models, and I paint good figures, but what I was even BETTER at was scratch building all of my own structures and war torn buildings. Your examples have given me some great ideas. I used to use Tamiya and Italeri brick wall sets to build sections of realistic brick walls and then make rubber molds and cast my sections in Permastone for some pretty realistic effects (I tricked my photography teacher and everyone in the class, that a model I built was a REAL destroyed building!). It was very labor intensive and getting all the shattered windows, peeling paint, crumbling cement and the plethora of details that a REAL building has, took a while. I'm dying to try this FOAM stuff that you so expertly sculpt, finish and paint! It looks much faster and easier that what I used to do (which was practically build an actual brick building in miniature!). I can't wait to try YOUR technique. Thank you so much for the videos! I think YOUR buildings are THE BEST! I'll keep binge watching and learning.
For me it is a miracle when people can recreate what they see. I can not even draw a straight line. Great art.
As a professional artist, let me reassure you that no one can draw a straight line. The human species has invented all sorts of tools to overcome our shortcomings, such as a straight edge (or holding shift if drawing on the computer.)
I can't walk a straight line
Ha Ha! Me too. I also have the added handicap of being colourblind.
Thank you, Martin, for your generosity and kindness. You are a wonderful teacher.
Wow, great new techniques!!! Wonderful, see you in 2024!!
Love the content, details in your dioramas are just amazing.
Let’s goo! This looks awesome, always love the unexpected uploads 👌
Goo?
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Absolutely fantastic Martin - you’re an absolute inspiration to the entire modelling community.
A GREAT idea, particularly for those who are short of space for a growing collection of dioramas...
Your work blows my mind even after watching the same videos, over and over!! What an inspiration!! I am almost 100% a car builder, but, love trying to incorporate your techniques into my old cars!! Thank You!!
I’ve been watching you for a long time now and always thought your building facades could be stand alone pieces.
Amazing, well done!!👍
that cracking looks amazing. I need to try this on some display pieces.
You continue to inspire me with your amazing creativity and laid back approach to modelling, thank you.
It is _so_ nice to see every 2nd rows of bricks laid short side out! This is the standard for brick constructions actually made from bricks, and not just faced with bricks. A proper brick wall is two bricks thick. There are several ways to ensure stability for suck a wall, the every 2nd row across is called "English bond", but there are many other types, like Garden bond (every 4th row across), Flemish bond, Monk bond etc.
I have been very impressed by the work of Chuck Doan, his buildings and diorama's are amazing.
He's the master of photo-realistic modelling!
If I hadn't of seen you make this. I would have said I was looking at a picture of a real building. Great job.
It's been awhile since I watched a video, this has completely enthralled me. I need to build a diorama now! Thank you!
Это очень круто! Я в восторге от работы! Хочется, конечно, больше подобных работ видеть 👏👍
Excellent. You could very easily implement these techniques into a military diorama. It is very realistic. I also like that it doesn't require a lot of room.
Just amazing! Is nice to see you enjoying the process of making and replicating all little detail in every model. I love the way you catch the history, the life of an ordinary object by studying how to replicate effects like koisture on walls, or the moss, the corroded metals... it´s like seen those natural things happening on fast forward.
I had the thought of putting the head of an infantry soldier peeking through the glass. It would be dead simple and the visual interest of a face behind the old glass could create a story of a battlefield ambush or tense hiding from a sniper.
Thanks for the inspiration and putting a spotlight on another book for resource material. You’re a legend.
Yessss! A night shift upload on time for Christmas! Honestly best gift
This is amazing. I love cracked and broken walls and stuff. This is so cool to be able to reproduce. Great new tips too! I'd def love to see more of these types of videos! Happy Holidays - be safe!
Stunning job, Martin - I love what you do, how you explain things, and am truly amazed by the beauty of this decayed facade. Thanks!
I love it! I've seen some people who specialise in doing this kind of model. I like photos of walls and old signs, too.... which might be a bit odd, now I think about it. I found a site a few years ago where someone had collected loads of images of 'ghost-signs', old advertising murals on the sides or facades of buildings, some so faded and worn as to be almost unintelligible. I spent hours there and copied lots of the images, but the reason I mention it was that some of them were the work of a French artist/maker who had done flat framed facades of various buildings with ghost-signs. Beautiful work, I just wish I could remember his name! You should have a go at doing one, I think you're style and sensibilities would be perfectly suited to the faded majesty of ghostly signage.
Night shift, you said thank you for watching. Thank you, thank you, thank you for producing such great content and fantastic and in-depth works of art. So a really big thank you to you 👍
Very nice! It's fun to see the contrast in method/styles with this factory, Grandmondo's bookshop, and Dave's Model Workshop facades.
30 years ago i was really into 1/35 Tamiya I bought several military soldier packs and after i got home I cutt them apart so i could pose them the way i likes them
30 later i still have those and some of my best in a display this brought by so many good memories Thanks!! You got a new subsciber!
Totally amazing my friend!
A perfect display for the small space so many of us have to work with. Thank you for this amazing idea for scale and reality imaging, its such a simple and yet artful project allowing one to capture a place, an image of a place, the feeling of the moment in a very unique manner!
As a digital 3D environment designer, I love watching your videos and this was the best for providing me with some inspiration for how your approaches to detailing could transfer to the digital realm.
As it happens I’m currently working on a project that features a lot of brickwork of all states of repair. Will be sure to considering your layering approach and texture work.
Awesome video! And thanks for the book recommendation. Added it to my wish list.
Keep it up!
Very nice model, that technique can also carry down to HO scale, awesome!!!
That putty is a massive game changer!!!. OMG, switching to foam!!!!!
Another great tutorial. Beautiful work. Not sure if that type of diorama is my cup of tea... Thanks Uncle...
I liked this kind of modeling alot. I think trying new stuff is like opening a window and getting some fresh air every now and then.
Also some viewers (like me) with small workshops ( or just by bedroom table like me ) would benefit by new aspects for modeling :)
Wow… Excellent job!! Puts “dioramas” in whole new perspective!!
Martin, beautiful work and very unique! I never would have thought to try this, so visually interesting to hang on the wall. A figure might be cool leaning in a doorway or visible in a window. Have a great holiday season, and thanks for the constant inspiration throughout the entire year.
You manage to level up with every project, it’s super inspiring and mind blowing honestly. Well done!
One of the best modelling channels. I admire your creativity and your patience and skill in creating the dioramas. The result is always 100% perfect. Thank you very much for the many suggestions.
It’s always a good day to find an upload from Uncle
Amazing skills to get it nailed with so many new techniques tested! And nice to see some more non military stuff recently 👌
This looks fantastic! Would look great as part of a future diorama that you've no doubt got planned! 👊🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Fantastic video and a incredible build. Probably the best video I've seen for taking XPS skills to the next level. So many great tips, thank you!
Merry Christmas
I asked Santa for Uncle Night Shift to upload before Christmas and he did! Truly a Christmas miracle!
This is absolutely breathtaking! It’s incredible how detailed & realistic u can make your miniatures look! I learned so much in 30 minutes! Thank u so much!
DING! You've gained another level in modelling dioramas!
Inspirational stuff, Night Shift. I've found a good splosh of homemade acrylic thinner, half again of cheap liquid PVA glue and a few teaspoonfuls of cheap finishing plaster filler to consistency of thickish paint does wonders. Dry with a heat gun if you're impatient and recoat if you want. It leaves a hard 'plaster' like (lol) surface which is just begging to be painted. I mix up enough for a small plastic shot glass which I reckon is about 10 pence a shot rather than £6.00 a tube of commercial stuff. Try it with other glues too! Best of luck.
Results are spectacular as expected with your always excellent projects. Just wanted to share that AK Interactive has precut styrofoam and how-to books for this subject. They even sell facade kits for those interested in trying these projects.
That looks so incredible!
Thanks for this video. I now intend to use to use a similar idea to make static non-interactive 3D background scenery for D&D. Such things as a row of shops that are just there for effect and such like. There is nothing so dull as a game where all that you can see is the edge of the table all the time instead of a more vibrant background
the on-location intro was very cool. what a neat project! as stunning as the biggest diorama is, i love these little things too. your tiny, precise strokes are so good at making believable textures. indescribable talent.
Great video and a beautiful 2D picture at the end. you are a true artist my compliments and Thank you for sharing.
Very inspiring, just have to try something similar soon. Thank You so much.
Wow, this all looks so good! Also going to have to try that wire-brushed styrene wood texture trick some time.
Stunning results Martin........Emmanuel Nouaillier's book is superb and a great source for technique, reference and inspiration👍
The picture frame idea is just... wonderful. I want to try this myself. Thank you sir.
Beautiful! Model making to perfection. Thanks and greetings - Tino
As always...great video! Thank you.
When you're laying out your lines for a brick, dry cutting a v-notch. That way when you put your mortar in everything looks more uniformed
Just amazing how you keep challenging yourself and take us along for the process. Love your work. I've learned so much from watching your videos. Not only do they show your technique but they also serve as learning tools to try these techniques ourselfs. Thank you for that. I wish you and your loved ones amazing holidays.
What an incredible diorama in a frame!!! I love this type of model!!!! Looks amazing 😊😊😊
Amazing work. Thanks for sharing all of your clean techniques with us.
An awesome way to inspire your audience before we start the holiday season and we have time to test our own skills on a new project.
Thank you!
Congratulazioni per il risultato!
Grazie mille per le spiegazioni e le indicazioni.
Impressive and a massive thanks for the inspiration! i will give this method a good try but with twist.. drawing the bricks by hand and then use a cheap laser engraver to engrave the foam and then poke them around for variations 🙂
wish I had the time for dios...last one of water mill one of best ive ever seen...awesome martin
Just incredible attention to detail. It's like a photograph in 3D
You are an artist! Terrific eye for colors.
This is absolutely FANTASTIC work!!! I can't wait to give these techniques a try!
The rusty metal gate is incredible! The whole thing looks like a photograph!
its so impresive! ceep it up pls you totaly make me love my hobby again! just startet a year ago AGAIN with modelling and thats just cause of you!
A cool collab would be a larger piece like this and a graffitti artist doing a piece along the bottom. As a framed piece it would look awesome in anybody's living room!! In a way, the canvas is just as interesting as the art on top of it!!
Classy stuff for the connaisseurs! A genuine work of art!
Honestly, to me, best thing you've ever done.
Model making becomes art. Thanks, and happy Christmas.
Oh my God. Amazing work. Straight hands and great taste.
That top left cracked pillar is beautiful! My god, the detail is fantastic NS 👍
That is gorgeous. Really lovely work.
I like this type of model, I've saw a few sifi versions of picture frame models and they look cool.
Totally epic model. Might be favourite night shift model ever
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, Mr. Kovac, and to all your family and friends. I hope your holidays bring you peace, prosperity, and much happiness.
This is totally awesome. One of the best in scalemodelling I've ever seen. All the best for You, happy Christmas, and Happy New Year! ;)
Bravo dude. You are realizing the beauty of what you do. You sir, are a brilliant artist.
Aaaabsolutely stunning, ma frieeend 👍😉
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you.
That is amazing! The detail and realism you impart on this wall art are stunning. Really enjoyed the video and new techniques to try out. Happy holidays!
Simply put...Outstanding. 🌟
Amazing!!!
This came out excellent. You can take the same approach to the next level. Like if you had the doors partially open with a part of a hidden shadow box inside with a T-34 or something parked inside.
i've always been a fan of modelling facades and this is an honestly beautiful end result.
These videos every time baffle me ! You’re to good! Always makes me happy seeing your videos popping up on my feed as they make my day 👍