How to add interiors to your N scale buildings

[@davidnaquin6914]

I use tiny room photos in real estate magazines, travel magazines, for interiors, christmas ribbon for drapes, ,

[@carriehunt9741]

Great instructional video! I work in 1/144th scale and I learned so much. Thank you! 🙂

[@MikesTrains]

Your welcome

[@phyl1283]

The people inside are giants compared to the people outside.

[@HVACSoldier]

One idea I learned to limit “bleed over” on windows, is to take an applicator and apply dabs if super glue to the edges of where the window is going to go. It reduces the “bleed over.”

[@N-Scale]

Mike , I love the video but the background music should go maybe. Thanks , Mike

[@HumancityJunction]

I have this building, but it is all one structure now and there are not as many details. Thanks for the video as it had a lot of great information.

[@regisbrooks8064]

Thanks for the advice on the glue for windows canopy glue thats great I need some I used Elmer glue

[@dwcobb43]

thank you Mike, I'm hooked on your videos

[@collinsullivan1517]

Nice work! Some great ideas and great results.

[@MikesTrains]

Thank you

[@dannydanbo58]

I like the music but maybe turn it down a bit. Thanks for the video. It was very informative. I'm looking for INTERIOR FRONTS like they have in the DPM Built and Ready buildings. Mine will not be lit, so I don't need it super fancy. I just want something to hint at the interior and not look as though my tiny renters have moved out. A hardware interior for Baxter Hardware, a sporting goods interior for Shotz Guns And Tackle, etc. I do like the way your buildings look glued together so I'll probably do that to mine also. Thanks. I have purchased the N scale Town & Factory set but haven't began assembling any of them yet. I thought I would get info first. My plan is to spray paint the interior sections first with black, then, when dry, flip them over and paint the exterior sections white. I'm hoping this might look like grout if I can somehow dry brush the bricks properly. At least it will paint the trim white where needed. I also thought that I would use cardboard for the roof (for strength) and then glue a piece of sandpaper on top of that to give a roughish texture and then paint it black. There are things called tea candles. Candles about 1/4" tall and the size of a quarter. You use them in small, glass candle holders. They also have tea lights that are battery operated. They might be useful to "test" your lighting. Simply place down four turned on and place your connected buildings over them. It might give you and idea of how to fill the lighting cracks. If your buildings aren't attached to the layout, it might provide that "at home glow" without the need to run wires everywhere. Again, thank you for this very informative video.

[@MikesTrains]

dannydanbo58 thanks for watching and the comment. Sadly this is a very old video and I am going to be completely breaking those buildings down and doing them over to hopefully raise the quality level to match the rest of the buildings I have built in my more recent video series beginning in about 2 weeks. I hope you will stay with me to see how it goes. Some of my other building series might also be helpful to you

[@MikesTrains]

I should have also said that I have stopped adding music to my videos a little over a year ago ;) again thanks for watching!

[@TheyMakeItLikeThat]

This looks so cool!

[@abstractbybrian]

Wow, I"m aiming for this.. really great.. Looks so good.

[@MikesTrains]

Thank you and good luck with yours.

[@40belowful]

the universal screen protectors for cell phones make excellent model glass to:)

[@MikesTrains]

I never thought of using that. Good idea

[@StevesTrains]

nice job!

[@MikesTrains]

Thank You

[@DividedPixels404]

Add a Gundam or Godzilla figure, and your city will become complete!

[@colnagocowboy]

ill try the background photos with woodland scenics just plug lights

[@MikesTrains]

Nice, hope it works out for you

[@Wild-Dad]

I see that the video is 2 years old now but instead of plastic vellum, have you ever tried paper vellum - old style drafting paper. It will give you the opaqueness of the plastic sheet but the adhesive flexibility of paper. I used to use it for providing depth in architectural models over 30 years ago.

[@MikesTrains]

Thanks

[@HVACSoldier]

Some basic signs, I just used Microsoft Word and tested out different fonts.

[@normbenjamin]

I like your videos but I'm having trouble doing interiors for Ho buildings the one in particular is the DPM kit JC Nickels. I can't seem to make an interior fit the building on one floor at a time/ What if any is the secret to making that picture fit the building? I have the Window Designer Model builder etc. but the interiors provided in the software does not seem to work. I must be missing something. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[@MikesTrains]

I actually did series on building HO scale union station with a full interior. I put a link for it below. just be aware it's an older video so there is music in the background. I hope this helps. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZmVdXmgnql8jLM

[@normbenjamin]

@@MikesTrains Mike, watched the video very clever I like that. But my problem is in scaling. I gett the picture but when I size it to fit the width it is very distorted. The building I'm working on at the moment is MT Arms a DPM kit. Perhaps you know where you can get wide angle photo's that can be expanded in width but still stay proportioned.

[@MikesTrains]

I was thinking a little more about your trouble with resizing, this video will you how I resize my images. It's for N scale but works in any scale. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ7HZXiiebeYia8

[@normbenjamin]

@@MikesTrains I got it. That makes a lot of s4ense not one picture but several assembled to make the interior. The trick is to get the interior to look similar so I guess you can make a wall and and add pictures to that to bring it together. Thanks a lot that really helps

[@perth45]

great, but way back in the day...I think I was the first to do lighting for city dioramas...……….

[@madbrad6282]

Focus, man. Focus!

[@lloydpruitt6535]

I must have missed something--where did you get the interiors that you printed?

[@MikesTrains]

Hi Lloyd, The info for the software I used to print the interiors is from this place www.modeltrainsoftware.com/modeling-software.html I talk about it at around mid point in the video. Hope this helps.

[@dprice2405]

I bought it. it was a total waste of money in my opinion! Very disappointed. :(

[@garystamps6119]

Bada Bing ,,, Satriales

[@MikesTrains]

Lol Gary Stamps the is Bada Bing coming soon

[@CrittersCanoeing]

have you tried tracing paper?

[@MikesTrains]

Critter Otto I never thought to try tracing paper not sure if it would work in my inkjet printer though

[@sonysnapper]

Photoshop is from Adobe

[@MikesTrains]

Edward Sargent you are correct I misspoke I should have said Paint Shop Pro from Corel, thanks for correcting me

[@dprice2405]

Good job on the videos I have seen. But I have to say that purchasing the program you used to create your interior windows has so far been the biggest waste of money I have so far spent within the thousands of dollars that have gone into my layout. I would have been far better off had I just continued to use my own photo's or the free ones that can be found all over the internet! Just had to modify their size to fit N scale was all, by using the free photo program that came with my computer! . The few window interiors offered (about 12 or 14 without going back to program to count) do not represent anything I wish to use as a store front nor restaurant! and nowhere can I find a way to import my own images. And I'm not even going to go into the DPM "sized" window images that are supposed to be used with specific kits. Nor the Walls, etc. from the other programs. Everything is so cartoonish on my screen that I feel it would be a waste of ink to print them! Even the automated "registration" would not complete when I tried to send that to get help and updates! In my humble opinion it is not user friendly, and very poorly done, and should not be purchased! Very disappointed! you may want to consider removing that plug from your video :(

[@MikesTrains]

D Price I’m sorry to hear you didn’t like the software. I have been using it for a couple years now and you are right the stock images for windows and interiors is not great and was disappointed with the software as well and as a rule I don't use them either. I import all my images for that from things I downloaded from the internet such as doors wall textures and any special signs I may need and am able to size them correctly within the software. If you look at part 4 of my Ho union station build at about 12-13 minutes in I show how to import images. I hope this helps.

[@ppgwhereeverett4412]

If you don't have a camera that will focus then don't waste my time.

[@MikesTrains]

Yup I went back and rewatched this video and there is a total of 10-20 seconds where focus might be an issue the rest of the almost 30 minute video is fine. So I say if you don’t watch the whole video don’t waste my time with your comment

[@keithholland4443]

Nobody twisted your arm to watch this video bud.