Simple! A look at how I made this basic shed starting with just a photo

Nice video! You may want to take a look at Lance Mindheim's work. He is a master modelers who uses your photo technique with great success. His buildings look real, because they are real.

Im really glad youve done this tutorial as i learned a lot of techniques I hadnt thought about using till now

Hello Michael. Great channel and you’ve been inspiring in my model buildings for my railway. I have a question on the varnish step. I’ve not had any success with brush applying varnish as it makes the ink run on my prints. I’m using an HP Inkjet printer with HP cartridges on standard paper but whenever I apply varnish (thankfully to test pieces) is simply bleeds all of the print together. I see you’re using AK varnish the same as me but you don’t have this issue. I’m interested in what printer and paper you use for your models. Many thanks and thanks again for a great channel.

Thanks

I think these videos on the more basic buildings are great, really gives a decent illustration of the principles which I need a reminder/kick with every now and again!

With this and the other small building video I can see you’ve got away from wrap round corners with textures - I had got this into my head as a must learning with ScaleScenes but you’ve shown it’s not needed at all and the edges are much better. I’m glad you’ve shown the textures going on with PVA as again, using the kits, I’d got it into my head to use Pritt Stick. This looks much more user friendly.

I do have an Inkscape question, I find the export to PDF makes huge file sizes! My home printer isn’t very good and I’ve emailed things to a better printer, but the sizes are massive. I’ve had a toy with the settings and looked online but can’t seem to fix it. Thought I’d ask if you knew of a workaround!

Cheers Michael and wishing the best for now, take care : )

I'm.currently building a viaduct, and this video has inspired me to do something similar. Great tutorial. Thank you.

This is fantastic! I'd love even more detailed vids about this sorta build. Thanks!

Fascinating build Michael. Always enjoy watching your videos and get motivated every time. Thanks for sharing. Roy.

I'd enjoy a detailed step-by-step set of videos as I couldn't quite grasp some of the decisions made when sizing the pieces. Thanks for this as I did learn a few things anyways. I love your attention to detail!

I’ve just been admiring your modelling in the recent British Railway Modelling. What an excellent model that really captures the atmosphere of the time and location. It must bring you a lot of satisfaction. Enjoy completing the rest of the layout. Regards. Patrick

Wow! Some great tips there, thank you.

I always learn something new when watching your videos Michael, and this one was no exception! Using small clamps to keep building sides aligned within a jig hadn't occurred to me yet was such a simple idea - so thanks for that! And yes, I'd love to see more detailed longer builds! There are so few people showing this type of build video for N gaugers and techniques that work for our larger scale modellers don't always work well for us! All the best, Ian.

Just amazing work. Thanks for sharing. Dave

Fantastic! I love how you show us your planning and thought process. I would never have thought to take the other sections thickness and paint into account.

Very interesting video, and more detailed instructions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

Great video, I'd be interested in a step by step. But, no pressure if you don't want to.

Love all the details that you added but only you can see.

Brilliant as usual Michael. I am always keen to get more detail, and especially how you use GIMP. You breeze through your videos as though what you do is so easy, and we all know that what you do is far from easy. Whatever you have time to prepare. Its your call Michael. Thanks.

Michael, thanks for the video. Do you use the water colour pencils wet or dry?

Hi Michael. What printer ink do you use because i've found the AK interactive varnish always makes mine run and discolours my builds. I've tried a huge range of matt varnishes and paper types now and still no luck so i've come to the conclusion it's my ink.

Great video as always Michael.

Lovely little build and great to have an insight on how you go about the basics. I would love a slower build video, it’s fascinating watch you models come together.

That's a lovely ubiquitous building. Thanks for showing us how you made it!

Simple model, but very instructive on techniques. Scoring of the roof was brilliant.

Also great choice in caps. Get ahead, get a hat!

Michael, as always, I am impressed with the incredible results you get from very simple - and inexpensive! - materials. I especially liked the way you embossed ribs onto the roofing - it's little details like this that make your work stand out. In this case, however, I think you would have been better served by taking a few liberties with the dimensions of the hut. By placing the hut under the arch, the size of the hut is magnified. As you pointed out, it doesn't even look as though there was room for the builders to apply the exterior siding along the sides of the hut. If you had reduced the width of the hut by four feet, and decreased the peak height proportionately, the hut would have fit into the arch more reasonably.
Normally, you prepare building mockups, and perhaps you did so this time as well; in which case I would assume you made a conscious choice in favor of the very tight fit under the arch. But thinking as an engineer, if I were tasked with building this hut under the arch, I would've either extended the walls all the way to the stone arch, and braced the framing tight up against the stone, or allowed space for the construction crew to work along the sides. Anyway, that's just my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions...

Nice one Michael. I do something similar but instead of Inkscape I use a Silhouette Portrait cutter. Having designed a building I allow the cutter to do all the work. Keep up the good work because there is so much information that can be utilised in your videos.

Excellent little project. As others have commented a more detailed lesson in using inkscape and gimp would be useful. I've never used such trickery but having the ability would be a great addition to the arsenal when building models.

The back story behind the shed. Brian "Digger" Purvis having made his fortune prospecting for gold in Australia has returned to his home town of Chandwell with his pockets jingling and jumped in front of the 4th Chandwell Scouts and beaten them to "The Hut" to create his strange wood turnings. At least, that's his story, but there's one young reporter who smells a bit of a rat and does a bit of digging. Will Britney Scoggins uncover the mysterious sailings on the River Chander late at night and just exactly what is being turned in "The Hut"?

Hello Michael I have used the jigs from Scale Model Scenery if it helps I tend to use the waxed packaging from cereal between the jig and items as long as you have a very good fold then the item can be left and does not stick to either.

Simple? Maybe for you Michael but for us older folk with shaky hands, not so much lol. However, joking apart, it amazes me how you always manage to get so much character into everything. What a superb addition to Chandwell. Any videos explaining methods and techniques are always welcome. Cheers, Bob.

Hi Michael. Yes please. Would love to see a detailed step by step build tutorial. Maybe it could become side series

Great video, really helpful to me as I've just built my first simple shed after watching your other videos.

Please could you put a list of the web sites and links you use on your standard description details.

Brilliant stuff. These videos would work really well every now and again as tutorials - another string to your channel's bow. It's also really reassuring to see you making mistakes and fixing them.

Superb video. With a simple building like this it gives budding builders a possibility of achieving a finished product from which to expand their skills. I love watching your more complicated structures take shape, but a few simpler exercises showcasing a particular technique would be a good filler.

A very nice addition to Chandwell's buildings. I'm still unsure if I have the skills to attempt a building but this would be a perfect practice piece. I'm going through the Inkscape videos at the moment and trying to get my swede around that part, I'm building up a collection of cardboard and clear plastic and hopefully will get round to sorting my printer out finally. I still have no layout or plans to have one, so where I'll put anything I build remains a bit of a mystery 😂😂

Well that was awesome and very inspirational.
Thanks for sharing
Andy

Another great lesson.

very nice shed

Everything really taking shape! What printer you use to keep details at small scale? Like text..

Interesting! One thing – I did read the sign as a protruding a/c unit, not a sign, because of its thickness.

As always Michael - your attention to detail is to be applauded. Cheers Euan

Micheal,
It is always a good thing for we veterans of the craft to restart our tutorial styling for those newbies just entering the craft. It's a starting point for our next generation.
One thought. You had printed out two signs for the building. Instead of having to select one or the other why not add to the far front corner of the structure a door. Then you could attach the Scott sign to the front right corner with an arrow indicating the youngster's entrance is around the corner.
Jim in N.Y.

Thank you So very Much for this basic introduction to how you use Inkscape and Gimp and other programs (all free) to build you magnificent (and not so magnificent) buildings.
I am ever impressed with your results and YES, I would LOVE to see a detailed how to on ANYTHING that you do as every video is instructional, inspirational, exciting, entertaining and always interesting.
Here in Australia the videos arrive Saturday Mornings and I always look forward to them.
I must admit, I have copied some of your techniques and even some of your videos to rewatch them on a regular basis as they are going to be my guides for paper construction of my layout if and when I ever get free of the many contracts I need to fulfill at the moment. I had hoped to start the layout at Easter this year but the work has grown to force my hand throughout the Winter
Possibly start around October I hope...
Maybe I should retire...Hmmm like that would ever happen
Still - once abain THANK YOU for this excellent video and what a great looking wood turners shed!

Also yeah slower videos are fine, your audience is mini builders after all, we enjoy slower detailed content. And if people think it's too slow then they can just watch at 1.25 or 1.5 speed.

Amazing attention to detail as always, and every single video gives me a new technique or tool to try out (crochet hooks this time). I particularly love how you went to the trouble of giving the side and back walls full texture and treatment, even though they'll probably never be seen - no compromises in Chandwell. Bravo 👍 I'll add my voice to those who'd enjoy and appreciate step-by-step tutorials - cheers
PS I think the cloudy, milky windows actually look great, like there was once that old-school whitewash applied sometime in the past, which has since all but washed away, or just old glass that hasn't been cleaned for years

good build nice work keep up the good work and vid would be good more vid like this thanks lee

Great to see, how much attention and work you even pay to such a small(ish) project - even if the finished building has to park in the arch of the bridge.
Btw: classy cap, you wear on your strolls Michael. I have a small collection of similar caps, which I do wear all through the year (some kind of a signiture piece of mine).
All the best
Valentin

Loved this tutorial and more indepth tutorials would be welcome by me at least

Nice video, just the right amount of information! The shed is one of those unexpected details that make your layout look so real!

Full of useful and interesting ideas Michael, many thanks for sharing this build, great touch of building the roof covering, take care regards Barry.