Making A Cobblestone Road From Styrofoam

My friends, here's another exercise in styrofoam modeling, this time a cobblestone road and a sidewalk!
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[@TheBrainSpecialist]

"Man, this week is diaorama week, I love seeing how all this comes together" Uncle Night Shift: "So I hear you like roads"

[@NightShiftScaleModels]

I mean, roads are the BEST!

[@heniapriani9805]

Diaorama same the real

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Very cool, love the moss!

[@NightShiftScaleModels]

Moss on architectural models is like mud on tanks, always juicy!

[@dariodll]

oh I'm a huge fan nigel, fun to see you here as well!

[@Pootis_grenade]

Can't wait to a crater with stowage in it maybe? Love you uncle!

[@lordzombey1337]

Watching you while modeling is Just giving so many more ideas you can do to whatever you have infront of you rn

[@cliffherring7006]

watching him while modeling is why my projects take years!

[@i_likechalupas6464]

Night shift I just wanna say I love your KZbin videos, thank you so much for sharing these videos and showing all the tips and tricks, keep up the good work buddy (:

[@mikep3180]

Watching this during a lecture cause I'm bored lol

[@monkeysth11thatdoesntuploa83]

so am I 😅

[@jacobs_models995]

Is this planning to be done by Christmas? Would be pretty nice to watch Nightshift Christmas morning with some cocoa and new kits lol

[@karomiooo]

Let this man have a private life if only for christmass

[@jacobs_models995]

@@karomiooo you can set upload times, so he doesn't have to take time on Christmas to post it

[@baconcheesezombie]

@@karomiooo chill.

[@mrsnezbit2219]

@@karomiooo Christmas is overrated

[@NightShiftScaleModels]

The full diorama video is coming up next week, so 1 week before Christmas :)

[@monkeysth11thatdoesntuploa83]

can’t wait to see the finished product uncle night shift!!

[@jaynorlia8050]

Thank you, I was getting bored of making models until I saw your video. It inspired me so much 💚

[@jasonbecker4974]

Incredible work as always. Great commentary as well. The best modeling channel online in my opinion. Thank you.

[@harlech2]

"MA-FRENS!!!" .... how I know my weekend is off to a good start. Damn, that manhole cover looked so real, I swear I heard it go CLANG-CLANG when you dropped it into place!!!

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Uncle Martin , Good to see you walking again .

[@jonL88]

The detail to each stone is impeccable! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@DJRockford83]

Instead of wiggling something in the cut lines you can use a hairdryer/heat gun on the foam to make it shrink slightly from the cuts. Should save you some time 🙂

[@dioman6142]

I'm a great admirer of your work. Not only are your skills quite amazing but your commentaries are very informative and humorous at times keeping it interesting to watch full videos. Keep up the great work.

[@kaferrat]

I really love the look of the multi-colored brick/stonework in this video & last weeks video. What a difference it makes. Looking forward to next week.

[@damiangroen9408]

These videos are great, they never feel the same. These videos really help me getting better

[@dbenci2071]

Yeah, your attention to detail , and how you apply it is very enjoyable to watch

[@ubermoose5694]

I love your work on armor, but the diorama work you're doing might be my favorite. Absolutely fantastic work! Super inspiring!

[@scalemodelmaniac3574]

Uncle Night Shift could post 365 days a year and I still wouldn't get enough. I love the content!

[@jacobakana5649]

Perfect timing! I plan to try some of this on my future M8 Greyhound diorama. Beautiful as usual, the amount of texture and variation is amazing!

[@OzScalemodeling]

As usual, plenty of skill and talent mixed with a great imagination. Thanks for sharing 🇦🇺👍

[@crtzmo]

So well done! The depth effect from the slotted drain grate especially effective, a simple detail that just adds so much. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@NotMorganFreeman.]

I've been doing this a long time and I still look for other's work for inspiration. Yours is some of the best stone work I've seen.

[@roguerader]

Man, I am sure you heard this a million times, but you are a true A-R-T-I-S-T-!

[@kevinu6004]

Can't believe how easy, fun and accessible you make these diorama pieces.... huge thanks for sharing! Will have to try my newbie hands on exploring and create 🙏🏼👍

[@tomtruesdale6901]

Your skill at turning simple foam into works of art is outstanding.

[@Gothmetalhead13]

Here we see a master turning a block of foam into an actual cobble road. I will never cease to be amazed

[@andrewmcgee1001]

Looks fantastic! Your attention to detail is incredible and the illusion is perfect. Thank you for sharing.

[@shawnmcgrath5888]

You are a continuing inspiration for the hobby, and an excellent and entertaining source of high quality information. Great stuff.

[@engelbertstrauss2354]

King of ALL 🏆🥇

[@Pewpro]

Truly love watching tour content. Great work nightshift!!

[@benward5732]

Unky Night Shift makes my weekend with a new video :)

[@beckyforbis4858]

I’ve been planning on a cobble stone road on my idea. This helps a lot, thank you.

[@jimgibson6142]

That looks amazing! Such a good use of colors to create reality!

[@upperwarlord7744]

Thank you I really needed this video, I'm working on finishing put my jagdpanther and I was looking Into trying a vignette for it, this really helps give me and idea of what to do and makes me feel confident I could do it, ever since I found your chanel I started working on tanks with full interior and started using my airbrush more, thank you Uncle Nightshift

[@manofthehour6856]

Wow!!! Fantastic concept! I love how so many modeling techniques use things that would otherwise be discarded, yet create something so individualistic and superior to something that comes as a kit! There is no subsitute for talent and ingenuiety! Thank you for sharing this information and the techniques involved!

[@highdarktemplar]

Very realistic looking cobblestone road... very realistic. Beautiful work !!!!

[@AFV85]

Wish all them patrions had model KZbin channel's! Be great to see all the hidden away talent in the model community

[@eddielane72]

Once again, outstanding! Bravo sir, thanks for sharing your talent

[@CypherC300]

Happy seeing the footage of you walking around. Glad your leg is better, Uncle NS.

[@ArthurDent09]

Great work, I like your approach of weathing and using foam very much.

[@sylvainplante9882]

You have an exceptional sense of observation! This is very convincing.

[@kurtdowney1489]

Absolutely beautiful work, and great tips! Very well done video!

[@lesthiele4921]

That was a very good quick lesson on making a street section, I have always enjoyec your videos, take care and keep safe mate.

[@KramGnilrad]

Really cool how you cobbled that together! 😄

[@charleshensley2289]

You have mastered your craft and hobby great respect and very much appreciation for you sharing your knowledge! Have a blessed new year. 🙂👍🏻

[@fabricedevos4273]

It’s promising for the whole diorama 👍🏻 see you next week 😊

[@guywgane3]

A friend of mine gifted me all these 8 to 12" tall DC figures and now I want to build a diorama using these techniques!

[@ajknaup3530]

Nicely done, Sir; thank you for sharing!

[@alanmoffat4454]

IMPRESSIVE SET UP OUT OF THE SHED WITH A LOT OF HARD WORK NICE .

[@davidazofra]

Love your works, really apreciated.

[@rudiloof7064]

Wow! That looks really nice! 👍🏻 Thanks for the tips!

[@petermcclure4634]

This guy is a genius

[@timeenuf4200]

Amazing artwork. Thank you for sharing.

[@lucasszymanski114]

Love this! Always a pleasure watching your videos.

[@liviopoyares3827]

Sensacional! Belo trabalho! Estou apreciando tudo aqui do Brasil! Parabéns!

[@valborchardt3596]

Greetings from south africa once again, your techniques are so amazing, thank you so much…..please do take care and be safe

[@rockinghorses]

Amazing as usual! Inspiring modelling!

[@nathanleete9303]

I am always amazed by your work.

[@claycreator-creationsincla6416]

Fantastic job. I love the innovation and creativity you applied to this project. It is very realistic looking and I look forward to your next video.

[@treyzmodels422]

Wow it just keeps getting better! Really looking forward to the big reveal next week👍

[@ProjectPlayDioramas]

masterful work! you make it look so easy!!

[@thomengel9720]

Amazing technique.

[@Unit_With_Legs]

This is great. You are truly an artist. 👍

[@michalm86]

Absolutely fantastic - I always considered you one of the best modellers on KZbin, but recently you went above and beyond and I think you top my private ranking right now, just a length of the brush tip ahead of Plasmo. Excellent work and attention to details.

[@michalm86]

Also, if you ever think of writing a book, please rest assured that you have my money. I'd love to buy an album-like, thick (200-300 pages) tome or 2-3 smaller tomes with buckets of written-down knowledge (from the rather beginner level to what you present here recently) and a ton of beautiful, detailed pictures, printed on a good quality paper.

[@voodoonights1671]

Brilliant as always. So many tips for me.

[@User-ot4qt]

It would be great to see a vehicle on the eastern front with white wash and snow. But in 1/35 this time. A wheeled vehicle like an armoured car would be really nice too, especially for the different weathering involved.

[@myrenmusiclessons4885]

Yes, absolutely, but from the German side this time. Panther ausf. D/A would be cool

[@enhance4442]

Looks just like the streets in my neighbourhood, so cool

[@csongorszegedi-csinady8231]

Haven't seen such an authentic looking model road in a while, I truly admire how it eventually turned out. A perfectionist paert of me suggests, that that a little bit of epoxy resin would have been needed under that drain in order to represent sewage water in the tunnels (although, it probably would have melted the styrofoam, but that's just a speculation), albeit it is just my opinion, and it doesn't change the fact that this looks amazing.

[@m.p.1140]

Outstanding Work ,man. I'm very impressed.Go on bro.

[@DeLanScaleModels]

Awesome as ever. Thanks for bringing us into the next level styrofoam dimension

[@TabletopWitchCRAFT]

Gorgeous! Well done.

[@dogforeyals]

Can't wait to see the finish dio!!!!

[@pactrarc]

Fantastic video Martin as always!!

[@thomaswilson3437]

For your consideration as future project inspiration. On active duty in Germany with the 3rd Inf Div I observed on several occasions the result of a tracked vehicle doing a pivot on both cobblestone and brick roadways. The damage is tremendous with cobbles flying and bricks crunching. The tracks leave some interesting marks as well on surfaces that are not torn apart.

[@mariusstad9375]

Very inspiring, looks great!

[@jdrake8738]

A friend of mine use to carve the dense florist foam from craft stores into shapes he wanted and then impregnate it with auto fiberglass resin... made the carving as solid as a rock.... that way it could be handled without damaging it... he had great luck with it....he created a space ship model of the Spindrift from "Land of the Giants" with that technique used for the hull... people were amazed by it...

[@batatbatat]

perfektné. Skutočne krásna práca.

[@larryscarafile7309]

Great video Learned some new techniques

[@silverdragontm9548]

Nicely done. Have a good one!

[@tobyharp2896]

Man, you are really, really, really good at this stuff. That's it. That's all I have.

[@allenbenningfield3865]

This is such a relaxing video to watch.

[@mrratskins]

This has more entertainment value than the typical two hour movie!

[@MrEisenhaupt]

Masterpiece of Detail.

[@DeadlyAssets]

Very effective, you have inspired me to give it a try soon, make a nice vignette to sit a tank or 2 on top of :-)

[@Eturian]

Superb content as always. Audio seemed a little dodgy in this video though... Sounds like auto-tune / distortion voice-changer effect at times.

[@ndewingful]

Okay I'm not the only one who was hearing that? I heard it on the last video and assumed it was my phone. It might be the compression?

[@NightShiftScaleModels]

I must've accidentally messed up the dials on my external audio card without noticing (for a few weeks, haha). I played around with them this week and the audio should be all right in the next video. Sorry for that!

[@ndewingful]

@@NightShiftScaleModels No worries, I think we just thought we were going crazy!

[@TheasChristmasVillages]

Wow, just wow! So realistic! Makes me ashamed of the way I build my diorama, but mine are just temporary. Up a couple months and then dismantled and thrown out. But I loved watching this!

[@dalewood6812]

Excellent work.

[@madbrad6282]

Very entertaining and informative. Thanks!

[@zabercrombie24]

I'm constantly doing the same, I work at the T Mobile campus here in Kansas City and I'm always taking pictures of brick formations, drip stains, rust stains on the sides of the garages, using the pine needles and other foliage for dioramas for my ground cover .

[@venenareligioest410]

You are an artist 👩‍🎨 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@lukedelport8231]

I have to say your work is awesome

[@larrymanns364]

Looks fantastic!

[@ryanbruner8928]

It looks super rad!

[@stephenbridges2791]

Very nice cobblestones. I really enjoyed today's episode. I had a hip replaced Wednesday so I'm sort of laid up. Your channel is going to be my model fix for awhile. Enjoyed the hell out of it, today.

[@NightShiftScaleModels]

Ouch, I'm sorry for that! But you'll feel much better after about 6 weeks!

[@smallarmsfire7497]

One of those "Oh shit it IS Friday" notifications.

[@herostrate]

Lovely stuff as always! Might have to grab the khaki you use for moss, it seems like such a nice tone.

[@Tank_Modeling_Hobby]

Love it ! Thanks Martin for another great video

[@dominiccruz1201]

Another great video. Thank you for sharing.