It's always a treat to see a new Chandwell video and find out how you're progressing. The street is really shaping up nicely.

Accidently damaging the rear yard turned out making the scene even better. That's a lesson for all modelers- turn lemons into lemonade. Thank you Michael for a great channel.

Michael, it seems as though no matter how high my expectations get, your work continues to exceed my expectations. Incredible! You are an inspiration to modelers around the world.

The buildings certainly remind me of the look of LOTSW episodesI watched as a kid 35yrs ago. Thanks =)

Great video Michael. Amazing progress on the street. Thanks for sharing. Roy.

Dear Michael, such a mistake with the brick pavers is very easily made. Love the way you patched it up! Awesome how you did the steps toward the basement of the Tandoori Palace. Can imagine what the effect was of the cobblestone and the folded over edges! However, the fact this ‘happy accident’ occurred definitely took the alley’s texture into an entirely different dimension. Considering the footprint of the ‘backyard’ in cobblestone, I would humbly recommend some old growth tree in that particular location. Love the look of this block of Station Road. Very interesting series. Looking forward to seeing your next episodes! Cheerio

Brilliant Michael - as I've said before I've run out of superlatives to describe the work you do. Truly amazing 😊 Cheers Euan

The grimeyness makes it look so much more realistic. Well done

Simply amazing! The whole thing, by the way, is absolutly remarkable. That damaged road turned out great!😉 Congratulations for your work.

As usual, another incredible peek into a West Yorkshire of my courting days! Thank you for your insights.

Good to see you today Sunday 3rd March at Keighley model railway show, I was operating the end to end 0 gauge layout newcroft and recognised you lol. Andy

Brilliant work Mike chandwells streets are coming together really nicely the details r amazing 👍

Well done Michael great video

Very interesting and entertaining once again, I could easily watch more of your skilful work

Amazing details as always!

Literally the only criticism I can offer if that the video needed a long slow pan across this masterwork of a facade. My gawd, man. It's so grubby and glorious.

Hi Michael, I have been watching your videos for the last few months and very much enjoy your problem solving, can-do approach. You've created a truly immersive and layered world with great depth. One detail thing that I would pick you up on (very gently) is that clay chimney pots are always bedded in with cement flaunching, also known as benching, around their base. This is to hold the pots in place, but also to encourage water to run off the chimney stack as quickly as possible, to avoid water ingress. The flaunching, typically in a hard sand cement mix, is normally steeply sloped away from the pot towards the chimney stack edge, or lip, whether that is made up of brick or an actual stone coping. It is something that is often missed by modellers simply because it's not visible from street level. Keep up the good work.

Love the realism.

Nicely done and great details,,thanks for sharing,,😊😊

Superb stonework on the shop frontages. It's somehow very moving being as it is representative of a town that has seen better times. 👍

Always a pleasure 👍💜😊

What a street, the whole style and design is incredible - you have outdone yourseld again, Michael! All the best Valentin

Magnificent

Chandwell : the very definition of modelling masochism! I've never thought of railway modelling as a fetish before but your determination never to do things the easy way when a harder way will do is either proof of a higher art form or a seriously deviant kink! Mind you, the results are - as always - beyond stunning.

In the early days of planning my first "big" N guage diorama/railroad and really enjoying this series! I want to go victorian/steam so appreciating the architecture, vibes and all the small details. N guage is hard to get good detail and at the right scales. 1mm differnece can be enough to wreck proportions. But imo looks the best of all scales when pulled off correctly. You've nailed it! Super impressed!

Fitting the pavement around the in-place buildings is clearly the best way and how it's done in real life. The yard accident just makes it look all the more real. As we say in Australia, You are a legend!

Loving this and I don't even know what the track layout is!

Wxcellent work , the street looks amazing . I enjoyed watching this very much .

Yes, excellent recovery on that bit of road. Actually adds another level of realism with the “broken pavement” appearance.

Who would have thought that a intricate but small piece of pavement is made to look easy but this is down to your skills Michael. Well done many thanks for sharing regards Barry.👍

Congrats on 13k subs. Chandwell is a dodgy mix of architectural styles. You truly capture the feel of a place that has been better days, but refuses to die. Bill from California

Fantastic painstaking work....

Those buildings are stunning!

Amazing work! I’ve learned a lot. Thank you!

Michael your work and detail always impress. It is hard for me to see these card stock building in such detail in N scale

cool update on layout thanks lee

Congrats on 13K!!! Looking good Michael A Happy Accident with the hacking!!! Craig

Hi Michael, for me the real wow moment of this video was at 0:54 as you turned the building around. The interior of The Jasmine was stunning and really bought it all to life. Such an achievement out of sticky label, a printed background and PVA. As I’ve commented before I can’t get over how clean and polished this all looks, my first steps into N gauge building clings onto the hope that the varnish will cover up my smudges! The way you’ve got the pavement to work is fantastic and I’d agree UHU is an awful product to work with but it’s adhesion properties are brilliant - but given the choice I’d rather muddle through with PVA as UHU is so stringy, credit to you for making this work so well. Just a quick question: I know that in the road video (as well as others) the concept of blending and masking has come up in Inkscape, have you ever been tempted to create your own textures? I know this is a rhetorical question in some respects as your blue hut is built from a photo and there’s other examples, but I’ve been looking at pavements, sides of buildings and things like asphalt wondering whether to experiment with it all. Hope you see what I mean, cheers Michael, Alex

That roadway with the paint would have made Bob Ross proud, a happy little accident.

Great work! Do you ever forget that the buildings are usually background for trains? Or have the streets taken over?

What I saw “wrong” with the brick corner is that the edge that butts on the street should be the same level as the street giving access to the street for people in wheelchairs to cross the street.

The whole thing looks like it's been there forever. Btw, your pavement pattern making technique is also handy should you ever have the need to lay lino in a small room!!! ;-)

Michael, are you buying your UHU glue in a dispenser or just using tube UHU and transferring it into your dispenser? I'd like to give this stuff a try but the only non-stick variety I can find is in a regular tube so perhaps a link to what you are using please.

Michael. Wow The bottom row of buildings on Station Rd, Chandwell is complete. The basic rear of this part is coming together well. Now you can pan from this row down to High St, behind it to Goat Beck. Great looking. It really captures the Shipley Otley Rd prototype well. As you look down, from Shipley, Ilkley and Stowerby Bridge but all blended in that Chandwell. Ian

Great modelling as always. ... some notes below. I'm looking at your presentation style sat in front of the camera. It looks a bit odd and I was trying to think why I might feel that. I think you're forcing your eyes to look forwards too much. We speak with our hands, eyes and voice and your hands and voice are doing great, but the eyes are nailed to the camera so can't do their job of pointing towards the ideas your hands are conjuring. Anyway, this is not real critique, this is good for me to keep tabs on in my own videos too.

Whatever goes in that yard will need to be worthless, because if it had any value, in '93 someone would have nicked it! May I suggest a skip?

For fitting the pavement around the building at 2 mins in, may I recommend a Shape Duplicator or Contour Gauge. Just push it against the buildings and it'll accurately record the shape so you can draw it straight onto the edge of the card you will use for the pavement, saves a huge amount of faffing about with little bits of paper. Also very handy for getting a straight stone wall on a rolling country field :) I'm really enjoying your videos as always, keep up the good work! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile_gauge

Excellent result. Glad to see I'm not the only one who saunters casually into occasional howlingly bad mistakes on projects!