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Small Details Make A Huge Difference

14/5/2017

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​Often the greatest model scenes are packed full of detail that often goes unnoticed! So you may be thinking what’s the point?
​The human mind is a very tough critique when it comes to spotting things that look out of place so when a person looks at a scene and all those fine details you spent hours perfecting appear to go unnoticed you should take that as a compliment. 

​My latest video is all about adding detail to a 1960 Ford Flatbed Truck, in the big scheme of things this is only a very small detail that will sit among a much larger scene and to spend 4 hours working on a seemingly tiny detail hardly seems worth the effort however, to leave the model untouched in it’s out of the box state can ruin even the largest scene undoing all the time and effort spent making the scenery!
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​Too often do I see some amazing model scenery only to notice a vehicle that has been randomly placed on the road straight from the box it came in and it looks totally out of place not to mention it’s in the middle of the road and driverless…
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Vehicle From Busch
​Selecting a good vehicle to start with is important as well, there are definitely some companies that produce absolutely fantastic scale models of vehicles. For example Busch, Wiking and Classic Metal Works are a few that I like and another quality you’ll notice from the more premium manufacturers is they make the cars easy to dismantle for customization.
​Cars I tend to avoid are Hot Wheels and Matchbox, great for kids to play with but for scale modeling and detail they are not great (At least not without great amounts of detailing and customization!).
​In the tutorial I demonstrate some simple techniques for weathering and detailing the flatbed truck, the techniques can be applied to any vehicle. I also created a template for the crates I built which you can download and modify so you can build your very own details.
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You can click on this link to download the MS word template and to modify the size simply click on the image and drag it to increase or decrease the size. Or you can download a PDF version however you may not be able to modify its size easily.
ho_scale_pumkin_crates.pdf
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ho_scale_pumkin_crates.docx
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2/1/2021 03:23:39

Lovely blog yoou have here

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