9 hours in 5 minutes - Scratch building part of a hotel from card - Fast Forward

See every single step I go through when scratch building a part of my low relief Victorian hotel from card. This video compresses a nine-hour card scratch build project into only five minutes. I show the process I follow for all my builds and hopefully show how the individual card elements come together to make a beautiful finished stone building.

I am scratch building a low relief Victorian hotel for my N Scale model railway layout, Chandwell.

The card scratch building techniques I show in this video are not just for N Gauge model railways. The techniques can be used for any kind of building such as wargames or general dioramas.

I also show in this video how I use the Sticky Label technique for making the large ballroom windows.

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[Chandwell]

What did you think of this format of video? A bit of a change from my usual videos, but I thought I'd never shown the whole process end-to-end before. Was it interesting, or a bit long and boring? Please let me know! Michael

[timfairweather]

Very helpful addition to your normal format.

[Warpy]

Loved it. You make it look so easy. It’s the little details as well which make it stand out - the little stone balls as an example. And now I need to eat cheesecake!

[marktaylor]

Wow! I'm beginning to think eating all that Weetabix cereal has given you super modeling capabilities.

[HemelDownModelRailway]

I quite like the fast forward format it’s interesting to see the whole process 🙂👍🏻well put together video

[NgaugeShelfLayouts]

I like your right angled desk jig for glueing 90 degree angles....I just realised I should have got something like that a long time ago!

[davidrauger]

Just got round to watching this - was away at the weekend staying in a Toad brake van. Like the Milliput bit - can't remember seeing you do that before. It was a good overview and reminded me of other things you have shown before and things I might like to try - one day!

[simod]

Straight up wow. Such an inspirational video. Makes me want a go at scratch building.

[Vman]

Wow!. That was amazing. Thank you for sharing.

[HOTRAINUNIVERSEANDDIORAMAS]

I always love to watch your
Learned a lot from

[madmania]

I tried this technique and it worked out pretty well... "paper wrapping" textures offers very interesting results.

[ngaugefouroaksstreetstatio]

Absolutely the best building, fantastic job Michael.

[barryturner]

Loved watching this build, well done Mr Weetabix (lol), please keep them coming looking forward to the next update on your build..

[philkirk]

Really enjoyed this summary! You might need to stock up on cereals though what with supply shortages at the supermarkets! We can’t risk delays to construction!

[roystudds]

Excellent video Michael. Great for recapping methods shown previously at length, but would still like the longer video format as well. Thanks for sharing. Roy.

[manofthehour]

Love it, Michael, thank you! I enjoy going to your archived videos for the tutorials....its a masterclass in railroad modeling (and on a budget!). Thank you as always!

[JAFKARNAT]

Amazing work for nine hours, well done.

[haltonwarrenoo]

Great format, good music to, really fitted the video

[philcorrin]

This would make excellent marketing material for when you start your model scenery business. I have faith!

[james-hall-art]

That was an excellent video, thought it was well done, fast paced and really interesting :)