How I made an N Gauge wide skew arch out of card for Chandwell

welcome to Chand well for the last three weeks of being working on this wide arch that's going to go over a road coming down from Chand well High Street it's the next arch in the series along the viaduct and it goes next to the workshops that I did in the video last time this is a skew arch which means that the road passes at an oblique angle under the tracks please watch this rather long video to see how I made it so now that my arches are all complete and looking good I'm gonna steal a couple of weeks early start on this part of the viaduct this is a wide it's based upon an arch very similar to this style in Dewsbury in the north of England I might put if I can't a picture of that up there for you to have a look at what I want here is not just a straight forward arch that goes straight across the tracks at 90 degrees I want it to be a skew arch which is going to go across an angle more like this so the road will go across the tracks at this kind of angle so to that end I'm gonna build this with a factor at one side and a thin bit at the other this will then have a matching side that way around so the fat build me at this side and the thin bit that side the thievery is then the arch will go across there like that the structure of it should be fairly straightforward to do but the with the brickwork works on skew arches like this is really interesting you've probably seen it comes down kind of an angle and it's straight in the middle and an angle on the edge I've got an idea how I'm gonna do that but what I'm going to do first though is get the structure of the bridge itself to fit under here and then we can glue those textures on top of that so it's off to the computer now to do some designing and then we'll print it out let's see where we get to so I've designed the main output outline rich coming out and printer around right now here we go just need to get this stuck to some card and then start putting it together hopefully it'll slide under here quite nicely okay here we are our templates printed onto one millimeter card I'll stock down and ready to be cut we've got the faces of the arch we've got the middle of the arch this will just give an extra surface to stick the brickwork - we've got three pieces which I'm just using to keep it straight there's not much space at the top of these arches because I've had to cook them quite law to fit under the track so these will hopefully just give it some rigidity and keep it straight we've got the outer edge pieces and the inner edge pieces these ones are about four millimeters longer than these ones because there will be the interior the girl only would be the skewed arch so obviously it's a little bit longer than the outer so hopefully that'll make sense once you see me start to put it out and stick it together but for now let's get going and cook these out [Music] so here we are a kit of parts to make the wide arch bridge in the viaduct we've got the three arches in their positions in the skew which we've talked about we've got the four edge pieces and we've got the three pieces which hopefully will keep these three pieces nice and straight they are very bendy because there is only a couple a couple of millimeters tall that a bit there so once that's all once that's on hopefully it'll stop bending so we'll stick them together and see how we get on all the bits together and we now have the outline bridge into the three arches so that was happy together a little bit fix them quite pleased looks quite sturdy I've tested it this type of fit need to there's a bit of wire as well so I'm gonna do just a piece of white paper in here to give thee the shape of the arch and then I will print bricks out and paste that on top reason I'm doing that is I think that these ribs will show through on the first wear so I'm going to put a layer of paper down just to act as a base right so let's do that [Music] so here we are I've stuck a layer of paper onto the arch I'm holding it down the tins because I wanted to dry absolutely flat and I think that's where most of the strength will go into the bridge so we'll see how it goes I'll come back in an hour or so and see how it looks so here's the bridge now then with its arch in place starting to look good it's got but my skew angle that I was after and we the arch interior quite good so I've got now means I've got a square sheet of scale Singh's brown brick which considering this is engaged the quality is absolutely fantastic which I need to place on the top of this now as far as I can tell the reason a skew arch looks the way it does is that the brick cost has to be parallel to the outer blood but roses so the brick cost needs to be exactly this way which gives it that kind of twisted look so what the plan is I'm gonna get this in place like that and then just stick it down parallel to the butcher sees so let's see how it goes and see if it gets the effect that I'm after so that's it that's the brick course in place you can see there's gonna be a twisted angle which is what causes the skewed arch brickwork to look as it does on the real thing look up above the bricks are in parallel with the buttresses what gives the arch its strength real life I believe so glue dry watching off the overhangs and then we'll see if it's had the effect that I wanted a little bit under here but that won't matter because this is going to have the storm on top of the same style as the viaduct itself and the bricks it just got to be for the interior of the arch so check back in an hour or two and you'll see how it looks and that I am very pleased with the cost of those bricks is fantastic exactly what I wanted okay time to the front back [Music] so the arch is starting to look fantastic in locket in its location it matches the rest of the viaduct quite nicely so now we need to get rid of these rough edges we've got the inner edge of the Arthur just got exposed card we've got a big gap here and we've got the tops of the inner parts kind of here which I'll need some care attention so to that end I've got three pieces I think I do now we've got the skill scenes coins I think the court coins which will go on the side here we've got these pieces which I've wrapped around some cereal card and what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut about a millimeter width of this all the way along it's going to very fiddly but my plan is that that will go across the top of the wall inside till they give it a bit of a ledge and then these I'm going to cut into individual pieces well on one half and then wrap it around the inside of the arch and bring it out over the front so I'm gonna do that now one at a time I think I'll start with the with the arch first what I do first is a color the edges with a pen a felt pen just take away the white edge and then we'll cut it and stick it and see how it works [Music] so that's a big improvement it looks really good it's nice and neat on the outside there's no white lines showing it does look fully stuck down just didn't on my camera so that's alright I've got some glue onto the brickwork itself so it's shining out a little bit but that always disappears once I get the varnish on so I'm not too worried about that so next thing I'm going to do the coins on the edge yeah and then it'll be a very similar technique the important thing for what all of this is pre folding so I score on the reverse just using a porky stick thing I score on the glass and fall to start with that way the edges are nice and straight and you don't have to fiddle on too much so the most fiddly part of these things getting the white edges colored in with the felt pen so they'll do that first go it to the right height and then put it round and see how that looks [Music] so we have the edge pieces in place it's time to look good now we'll just need the interior of this doing and why I intend to do is then tend to put it all on the inside and then leave it here for now then once I've got once it's on the layout I got the butcher's is in place I'll begin another little bit of it across just to finish off this goofy top bit here but I think [Music] yeah man part of the bridge is finished I think it looks great particularly both bricks when you consider this language and all the bricks are absolutely fractions and elevator it looks amazing so what we'll do now is we will will vanish the interior of the arch because look on your to vanish it once it's in place so I'll give the whole thing one cot and then I'll finish off the art itself inside with two more cards cards and then once that's done we can stick the bridge down work on the butcher sees obviously we've got something to put in here a butcher's up here I've got my two butchers is on this side one here and one here and then we put the top on so the top is essentially a ledge and a wall along the top so it'll come all the way along to here I think it's gonna look absolutely fantastic it's exactly what I was expecting exactly what I was aiming for and it looks good you can see a little bit of the ridge on the inside of this bit of the arch yeah certainly on the camera but when you're actually looking it's not about now I said well so I'm not too worried about that hmm I think it's gonna be good so we'll do the vanishing once the blues dried we'll give it a few hours there's nothing much else we can do for a few days but it's nothing good I'm pleased with it here's a quick look at the BRIC courses you can see that it's parallel or perpendicular to the arches themselves and parallel to the butcher C's and that's what gives it it's nice skew shape so the time has come to actually put the bridge in place but there's two or three issues with this if we slot it in you'll see what the first one is it's quite a tight fit but it does go in eventually now when I originally designed the viaduct I was going to have the wiring and the point motor rods hidden behind the butcher sees and the piers but I didn't want to compromise the actual look of the viaduct itself so if I look at this bit of piano wire going down through the point tie bar here once I eventually get it in it's a little bit awkward you'll see that it goes down but it actually hits the top of the arch of the bridge which isn't ideal so what we need to do is I plan to drill a small hole in the top of the arch somewhere towards the left there where that big hole is down there I'm just gonna have the one millimeter piano wire sticking up through there it will detract a little bit from the overall look but I don't think it'll matter too much I'm certainly from normal viewing angles you won't really notice it I might never get around to putting working point martyrs in so that's the plan the next issue is working out exactly what angle to have the bridge at and if I have it too too much one way or too much the other it will really in the overall look of the curve of the viaduct so I'm thinking something like this so here we go one point two millimeter piano wire have you whipped underneath the points are working so I'm okay with that so obviously it's not ideal but what we've got with the bridge in place is we've got the wire coming up like this once obviously that's covered with a rod and a pavement and the rest of the things in there it's gonna be quite dark in there from normal viewing angle which is here you can't actually see it at all so I think it's really minor advice there like that so I'm quite happy and now I think it's time to glue the bridge down and start finishing it off so I've added the purchases and the bit on the right-hand side to join it to the rest of the viaduct and I think it's starting to look good over on this side because of the way the angles would have had to make a bit of a footage if you like the way of an l-shaped butcher's there so I'm going to make that look like a large portrait that sticks out a little bit further than the other ones so I've done the same to match that up on that side so that's a four millimeter fix or two-foot buttress at that end of the bridge I think it'll look okay now I've got a little bit of this cupping left over from when I did the arches and that looks okay when it's on there all right will do I think it really starts to to finish it off but what I want to do with these big buttresses I want them to come up further above the village so it needs to have like a kind of a shelf on similar to the ones that I did over here so something so I'd say two to two this here and here so I'm gonna mixing some of these caps put doors on first and so we'll have we'll have a cap yeah and a cap here this'll let's put a little bit of the ledge going this way into the square cap don't have a ledge across there a square cap no ledge all the way on to there and then a square cap so we'll try that and then we'll see how it looks so I've put the first cappings off and the ledge it looks a little bit scruffy at this edge but once the wall was across you want to see any of that it's coming along it looks more finished off than it was before I've also used a little bit of a strip that I'll put on the inside of the top wall you can see it get the focus right so I put a bit more of that strip just along here and along here and in there just to finish off that wall and make it look as though it was all part of the same building and I think that makes it a really big difference I think it looks really good so I've put that on and I've also put the the inner ledge cap along yeah so starting now to really blend in with the with the rest of the viaduct you always need to get the wall on top now and then the equivalent book dresses and things on the other side we're very very nearly finished so looking good so for the butcher's tops I have all the bits cut out I've got to one millimeter pieces it two millimeter pieces now I'm not sure what I'm gonna put these into in blocks of three to make it six millimeter six millimeters thick or four to make it it I'll see how it looks once I blew the first three together and then I've got the covers I've cut out a couple of pieces of the dark random Ashla and a couple of pieces of the sills area because I'm on the same sheet is that and these will wrap around these and then these will wrap around these so let's stop learning together and seeing my works so these are the two portraits tops that are gonna go on top of the bridge they're almost ready they're quite thick I made a mistake in that I didn't cut the covering paper wide enough so this is going to be facing away from the front of the layout so I will have to put some kind of patch on there at some point I did before I stick them on how I do it after we also noticed that whenever I do those tops there's always a little bit of pepper shining through there's a little bit of white in that corner there I use a quite fairly simple technique - to solve that problem I just have some markers in a similar kind of color this one's a letter set pro marker cool great for doesn't have to match exactly but generally they're just just dab it on my see if I can do it while holding my camera first dab it on a little bit kind of like just like that it's just enough to take that white edge away so I do that with all of the buildings that I make justise fire sip tabs the core doesn't have to match exactly but it's just enough to take back to their shine of white eyewear so here they are in place on top of the fat fortresses so this one in this corner which was quite scruffy when I first did it is actually going to look good once the walls in place so I've got a little bit of wall to put in this gap in a while to put across here and once that's done it's finished well the front is finished anyway don't have to do the back but I think it's going to work out as planned and it's back out with the tins we are done the wall is in place he put trusses on either side they're in place you can't really see them the reason I'm using the tins is I've taken a bit of a shortcut with the wall behind and I've just stuck it directly on top of the ledge which is kind of like hanging out over the over the track a little bit so it seems to be alright it's just it wasn't staying straight so the theory is the rulers on top and with a little bit of weight down they're just holding them upright and in parallel whilst the glue dries more or less done the bit of wall under here that fits against the existing bit of wall above the blue arch has a bit of a gap in I think you might be able to see it if i zoom in there's a bit of a gap there so what I'm going to do is once that Blues set I will do similar to what I'm doing on the main wall which is just a patch over it with a little bit of patch and if you look closely shows you how good the patching is suppose I can't actually see it it's there's a passion there you can just see where I put out the individual bricks just to put it over so they basically put it on fold it around so that's that's the patch so I'll do a patch over there and then I think my wide skew arch bridge is done [Music] so that's it we've taken the tins where and the real is away I think it looks exactly like I was looking for I've added a little patch there so the gap has been taken away it looks slightly lighter than the bricks to the right and that's because I haven't put the varnish on yet I usually take about four quarts which takes four days 24 hours between each cut so all I need to do now is I've got a couple of trends set up I'm going to do now is I'm going to record the introductory part of the video hopefully everything works whatever they set on the control panel got my two controllers over here so all I need to do now is set it up record the intro and then I can edit this video and get it onto YouTube that's it the wide arch skew bridge exactly like I was looking for I think it looks brilliant it's looking forward to doing the rest of the viaduct now here on Chandler

Channel: Chandwell

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Length: 26min 40sec (1600 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 29 2020