How to make pilings and how to add barnacles to them!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2019
- In this video I show you how I make HO scale pilings and add barnacles to them. This is a quick and easy project. I hope you enjoy the video!
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Thank you so much for watching!
Happy modeling everyone!!!
Your skills with a brush are fantastic.
I'm fascinated by your skills.
Thank you for sharing.
Another great video Jason! For the life of me, I don't understand why you don't have more subscribers...
For India Ink/Alcohol... Denatured Alcohol works a lot better for thinning India Ink. Isopropyl works, but I've found that some brands of India Ink tends to "clump" in Isopropyl (from the water in it). Denatured Alcohol more thoroughly thins India Ink.
The metal file idea is PERFECT!!! I built a small waterfront stone wall/pier diorama a few years back. I made my pilings the same way, but I used a small hammer to "mash" the ends of the pilings. Using a file as you did is so much easier and just as effective!
For anyone watching this video... The type of file you used can be found very inexpensively at Harbor Freight. They sell them in 12 packs, with 6 different file profiles (two of each profile). They sell them in two different grades, coarse and fine. The last time I purchased them a packet was about $5 or so. Both grades work well for material removal, with the finer grade being better for fine adjustments (makes sense right??).
Amazing barnacles! Your artistic vision is incredible! Thanks for sharing!
Just finding your channel and I am amazed at your sea side town. I have been looking for some ideas and tips for my sea side town.
thank you so much for this tutorials .I help me a lot to paint my project .I have never go to see the real location like this .when I have to paint somethings like this ,I have no idea .
So glad you enjoy my videos! I really appreciate it and thank you so much for watching! Happy modeling!!!
I love how those turned out.....so realistic
Thank you so much! I really appreciate!!!
Jason, while I have no plans for any waterfronts, I love watching your how to videos for all the tips. Great video.
Thank you so much for the support Greg, I really appreciate it!!!
Hi Jason,
This technique for pilings and moorings I have been using for 30 or 40 years. And I love it.
But I have a few options for newer modelers, that should be considered.
First off those bamboo skewers can be a God send. I buy them by to gross. CHEAP from the Dollar Store. When prepping them I take my rotary tool, with a fine grit drum sander wheel, and GENTLY remove the wax from the skewers. A friend of mine takes his wife's Pasta Pot. Fills it with water and brings it to a HARD boil. Then drops handfuls of skewers into the water for 30 seconds to a minute.
After this we both use our hobby saw to distress the surface. And remove any remaining wax.
Here's a point where you and I might not agree. Those bamboo strings I love to peel them out. Because when you do it offers additional dimension and surface area for the wash to permeate. But use moderation. You don't want a skinny pier on an HO or O gauge layout.
Your correct, when fully dry we dunk the dowells or skewers into a plastic container of colored washes. They remain in the tub for varying times. This alters the amount of absorption and density of color.
We also use different colors, in different tubs, so the stain differs between pilings.
One other thing. With longer dowells or skewers you can plug then, standing up, into a piece of trash foam core. Take your wife's hair dryer, if you haven't already, and give the rods a quick air drying.
When we cut them to the desired lengths we leave an extra inch or two to embed into the underlayment later.
My friend's wife won't let him at her Emory Board so he relies on his set of files.
The thread you are using as rope looks to me like it's embroidery yarn? I'm cheap. I just take some twine, cut it to a longer length than needed, and unravel it. After final trimming I've got enough for three ropes. And it's more jock, Dude.
Lastly, I promise, I have FAT FINGERS so putting FINE Ballast into a plastic container or lid won't work for me. So another MRxRer taught me this trick for spreading scenery materials. Take two sheets of wax paper. Cut larger enough to cover your immediate work area. Fold both, on the diagonal, corner to corner. Weigh down one sheet to your work surface, and in the other pour a slight bit of your scenery material. In this case Fine Ballast. When your item is wet watered and glue up lightly shack the material onto your piece. While over the other sheet of wax paper. When the shaking paper is empty swap the two papers and repeat.
I hope this helps any newbe's to modeling. These tips can easily be modified for any modeling object.
SEE YA' DOWN THE LINE,
Jim
WOW, Thanks for taking the time to comment and share tips! Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it! See you next time!
That is FREAKING AWESOME!! it was so worth the wait to see how you did that! That you so much
Thanks Joe!!! It's such a fun project!
Jason great video your camera is awesome when you hold your work close to view it really shows the detail of your craftsmanship.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!!!!
Just what I was looking for. Your work is superb! Thanks for sharing or should I say teaching.
Thank you so much and thanks for watching!!!
Off to the shop right now to make some pilings...Thanks JJ!
That's awesome!!!!
That is awesome how good that looks! Great idea for barnacles. 👍
I can't wait to hear about the trestle over your shoulder!
Thank you so much William, I really appreciate it!!!
Hi Jason that was a great video, loving the water front scene, now I'm trying to add a lake to my layout so I can have a small shanty village on the shore line ,thanks for sharing your techniques, from Down Under Australia 😃😃👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏
Thank you so much Marc!!! I'm so excited that you are going to put a harbour on your layout. They are so fun and add so much intrest to a layout. Please keep me posted on your progress.
Your talent and imagination is endless... great job.. thanks for sharing
Thank you so much Jim, that really means alot!!!
Those came out really nice an they seem to be easy to build. Thank you for showing how to make those I might need some in the future.
Thank you so much Dwight!!!
Awesome !!!!’
Thank you so much!!!
To mushroom the tops. Clamp the dowel in vise with some sort of vee's or half rounds on the vise jaws. Use a small hammer to lightly tap the end. Loosen the jaw. Slide the dowel out and cut to the desired length. Remember the pilings were driven in to start with.
What scale do you model in? Do you have a Facebook page with pictures of your modeling. Just curious since I've been hearing a lot from you. Have a great day!!!
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Getting back into HO after a lonnnnnnnnnnnng time. Am I the planning and negotiation stage with other major power that occupies the house. I'll be starting from scratch
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For a while I was doing Cardstock modeling.aircraft, spacecraft and ships. Both kits and own designs. Then unfortunately life as they say got in the way. Now I have the time and if I don't go nuts the money. Model railroading is one of those things that can done relatively inexpensively if you're a little creative. Or expensively if you want. I'll go for creative. Creative is one of those things card modeling can demand. This was a 1/72nd scale cargo spacecraft I was working on. smg.photobucket.com/user/markandannie/media/Gumdrop%20Design/P1010235.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2
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A lot of what I was doing was trying different techniques and design approaches. Paper is kind of unforgiving in that it is difficult to get compound curves as in domed surfaces etc. That's one area I was concentrating on. Another was a ship model contest at the old CardModels.com website. The prize was a 1/250th scale USS Arizona from Digital Navy. What I was working on was something of my own design based off of the old Arsenal Ship concept. One the really great things about card modeling is, especially the digital models, is if you screw up just print another copy 😜. Over at the Papermodelers site there is a sub-section devoted to railroad subjects. Some of the designs built by members that they designed themselves include the UP 4044 Big Boy in 1/24th or bigger. And lest somebody think these are just cut and fold models look here
www.microartwork.com/Portal/
His NASA crawler is a work of art. The LUT looks to be also. He offers a free down load of the crew access arm. It is not an easy build. Plus he has build instructions in Adobe Acrobat that are 3D images that can be rotated etc to give clear views of what goes where. Designing the crawler took ten 10 years of his spare time. He's been working on the LUT for 7 that I know of.
www.digitalnavy.com/
Hi, you have a great eye for detail. Thanks for sharing. Bye.
Thank you so much for watching Norman, I really appreciate it!!!
theres several videos on YT on removing barnacles but not much out there on how to put them on, lol. great technique Jason, thanks for sharing
LOL, Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it!!!
Just found your channel and love a lot of your techniques. My layout is all waterfront, so this technique is definitely going to come in handy. Cheers
Happy modeling Davie and Thanks for watching!!!
Enjoyed the video, but the end dry-brushing could have been eliminated if you would have used ground black pepper corns from your kitchen table. Pepper corns when ground up fine make for excellent HO scale barnacles, you get the black outer shell along with the interior yellowish white . . . instant highlighting and saved time.
Hello Jason,
again a great video.
Greetings from Vienna
Hans
Hello, good to hear from you again! Thank you so much for watching!!!
Gonna build my old Campbell wharf just so I can try this!
That's so awesome to hear. Have fun!!!
Some great work Jason, they look close to real. Bob
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!!!
Another amazing video! I love watching you work!! Have you considered using masking tape to define the outer limits of your camera view? From time to time your work slides off camera a bit. I just don't want to miss a single brush stroke of what you're doing!!
Hi Jason.
I enjoyed your video and really liked the way the pilings turned out. Just one thing. There were a few times where while you were painting them, the pilings were out of shot at the top of the screen. Just something to be aware of. Keep up the great videos.
Thank you so much Ron!!! I will try to get better. I'm always trying to improve. Thanks for watching!!!
Another great video! Looking forward to adding some barnacles to my own pilings. Quick question - do you worry about keeping the high water line consistent from one to the next or just roughly eyeball it?
It looks like crochet thread, for making doilies, you can find it on the yarn aisle : )
Thanks!!!
Hi Jason, I love your videos. Just curious if you used anything to take the shine out of the rope in the end. Thank you, Sean.
Thanks for watching Sean!!! I did nothing to the rope. Sometimes I do add a light stain to color it.
Jason that is awesome thanks for doing this but l have a question when you attach them to where they are going do you do the water first or put them in and do water around them thanks again, mike
Thank you so much Mike!!! I glue them in place then put the water affect around them.
Would these be used in front of bridge piers and would there be more than 3?
Jason, is fine ballast finer than fine talus?
I don’t know Judy, sorry!
Here we call them Duckdalben.
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Thanks Alvin!!!