How to Make REALISTIC Miniature Metal Trash Cans & Garbage Bags for Dioramas

yo what's up everyone welcome to small world and thank you for joining me with today's video in this episode I'm going to show you how to make miniature garbage bags and 3D printed metal garbage cans let's get started with the garbage bags I start by using real garbage bags and I lay it out as flat as I can on my workbench the right side of the bag on screen is actually the bottom seam of the bag I lined my ruler roughly one and a quarter inches away from the bottom Edge and then I cut through the bag with my exacto blade make sure you take your time and use a sharp blade also be sure to cut all the way through both layers of the bag here's the strip I just cut and you can see that the pieces folded perfectly in half since I cut along the bottom seam of the bag next I laid the folded strip back on my cutting mat and I cut the strip roughly to two and a half inches long for the next step I use a flat iron to close two of the open edges to form the strip into a bag I simply just clamp the open edges of the strip between the iron to close that edge I do this along the open Edge that runs the length of the strip as well as one of the shorter edges which will act as the bottom of the bag along the top edge of the bag that I left open I stick my tweezers in and grab the bottom of the bag then I start pulling the top of the bag down to make it go inside out doing this gives the proper looking seams and it makes the bag just look like the real thing I use a funnel to fill the bag about halfway up with sand I've used paper towels in the past to fill the bags but I've always had issues with the bags not sitting naturally when doing this sand gives the bags a good weight and allows them to be positioned however you'd like as you can see there's just a little less than half of the bag full next I can start twisting the plastic above the sand where I want the top of the bag to be then I put the Twisted plastic between the flat iron and I continue to twist to make an airtight seal which will give you something that looks like this [Music] I cut off any excess plastic on top and this is the final look of the bag I think this nicely resembles the look of a garbage bag and the Twisted piece on top looks like a tie knot I really enjoy making these bags so here are a few more that I made [Music] here's a 3D model that I made for the garbage can and if you're interested you can download the files for yourselves on my patreon link in the description below after I printed and cleaned the parts for the can I started to remove the supports using my X-Acto Blade the can itself is very thin and fragile so I used a blunt end of a paintbrush to dig out all the supports inside the can any excess support bits were cleaned off with my X-Acto blade and then scrubbed away with an old toothbrush then I lightly sand the rim of the can to remove any small support Nubs left in place using some 400 grit sandpaper here's how the can looks with the supports removed I repeat the same steps for the lid of the can as well as the two handles that go on either side I've gotten some questions in the past on why I remove the supports using a blade rather than softening them in warm water and simply just peeling the supports away from the model which is a great technique for removing the supports from larger robust models the reason for using the blade is my prints are super thin some range between .03 inches and .01 inches thick soaking the non-post cured print in hot water can cause it to warp in the force of peeling the supports away can easily tear or distort the print so that's why I go with the longer Messier method of cutting the supports away with the knife I Mark where I want the handles to go on either side of the garbage can and I glue each handle in place using Super Glue [Music] [Music] and here's the fully assembled garbage can and because I printed spare parts I decided to make a second one for painting I start by applying a piece of double-sided tape to a piece of foam core and I stick the individual pieces of the garbage can to the tape I use my airbrush to apply a semi-gloss black base coat to all the parts I'm going to be applying all Cloud Chrome over top of this layer which relies on the previous layer for the metallic Sheen I'm using the semi-gloss black because I don't want a full glossy mirror Chrome effect just a nice shiny metallic finish once the black base coat is dry I apply the Chrome layer the chrome paint dries almost instantly and I slowly build up the paint until I'm happy with the coverage after applying the Chrome I weather the cans using some Van Dyke brown acrylic paint I just randomly apply it all over the surface and then wipe it away with a paper towel this leaves a subtle staining on the surface and I think it looks very convincing foreign ing I test fit the garbage bag that I made earlier and it fits perfectly within the garbage can this little project was super quick and easy to do and I had lots of fun doing it I love how the bags were made using real garbage bags and I'm really happy with the metallic Sheen of the garbage cans here are some push carts I made over a year ago piled high with garbage bags I made them exactly the same way that I showed in this video these little bags and garbage cans are great details to add to any diorama or miniature display within this past week I've gotten lots of new viewers from my cabin video and in that video I mentioned doing longer formatted videos I still plan on doing the longer videos but I thought that in the meantime it wouldn't hurt to upload shorter ones like these again between the longer diorama videos also I want to thank all of my patreon supporters for helping me create these videos and keeping these projects affordable for me I really appreciate all of your help so thank you so much if you'd like to join my awesome supporters and join my patreon I'd absolutely love that in return you'd have access to my work in progress photos as I'm working on the new projects as well as 3D files from all of my projects including this garbage can I'll leave a link to patreon in the description below well anyways thank you so much for watching and I hope to see you in the next video

Channel: Smol World Workshop

Views: 109,770

Keywords: miniature, diorama, trash, garbage, trash can, metal trash can, miniature trash, miniature garbage, scale model, how to make a diorama, model railroad scenery, action figure display, alleyway, alley, 3D printing, resin, resin 3D printing, remove resin 3D print supports, how to paint a metal finish, airbrush, how to weather metal, weathering with acrylic paint, aging and distressing for miniatures, how to weather miniatures, how to make mini garbage bags, plastic garbage bags

Id: EC1NWqt12T0

Length: 6min 38sec (398 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 28 2023