Hi, like many I recently got back into modeling, and found I really enjoy watching people on Youtube. I decided to try my hand at making videos, and this is a short one about designing and building a small depot for an N scale layout I am building. The parts are 3D printed, and the files are linked in the video description if you would like to build it too.
If you do watch, I would appreciate feedback, either here or on YouTube. Things you like, don't like, would like to see more of or less of, and so on - I have found it harder than it looked to edit things to cover the topic without being ponderous. Thanks.
Here is the video:
https://youtu.be/8W0UNOqN63A
Great video, keep'em coming. I plan to get myself a 3-D printer if I ever get the time. I have been watching quite a few tutorials and yours was very good.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I watched the video a couple of times. I thought that it was professionally done - short, concise and articulate. It certainly explained the process in a comprehensive manner.
That said, there is no way that the everyday modeler could replicate your actual work on constructing the 3D model, short of mastering a 3D printer and CAD drawings, let alone transferring those skills to an understandable YouTube video.
Well done, sir.
Rich
Alton Junction
Thanks for the feedback. Not that I am an expert, but CAD isn't actually that hard, you have three basic tools - a sketch pad, a lathe, and a playdoh "fuzzy pumper". You draw a 2D picture on the sketch pad, then either turn it on the lathe or extrude it with the fuzzy pumper, then you make more sketches and add them on, or cut them off until you have what you want. The rest of the tools are mostly short cuts and fancier extrusions. Once you understand the three, all you need is patience annd you can make just about anything you want.
I enjoyed the video too. I found the opening look at the depot to be pretty brief, and had to back up and pause for a good look at it, very impressive!
What I took away was: After seeing what goes into designing 3-D items, I better stick to basswood, styrene, commercial windows, and plenty of exacto blades! Dan