N Scale Cardboard Boxes | New Adventures in Finescale Modeling

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Chicago Crossing Model Railroad

4 ай бұрын

How I make 1:160 scale cardboard boxes out of index cards. Fun details for your layout if you want to have a go at it!

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@chrisbarr1359 4 ай бұрын

Very nice detail to add to almost any scene. Although my layout is still in the planning stage, I'm going to build some boxes and add them to the other detail parts I'm collecting. Thanks Eric.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Awesome! Let me know how it goes Chris - it's sort of a fun challenge :)

@kahunatiki6498 4 ай бұрын

Damn impressive Eric! Next will be FedEx envelopes.😂😂 Something tells me in that part of town that box won’t be there for long if the homeowner is not there… Thanks as always for sharing your techniques, Scott

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

For sure. Drawstring bags full of garbage is next up BTW...

@petermenningen338 3 ай бұрын

Being a Chicago ex-pat you are doing a great job. Now 72 in Maui but grew up 78th and the lake, moved to Glen Ellyn and then to Harvard about 20 years in each.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Peter - always happy to know the location is getting across! No doubt the weather in Maui is certainly preferable to Chicago winter (and summer for that matter). I left Chicago for the west a couple of decades ago for my career (and the weather). However all of my family grew up on the Southside, mostly Bridgeport/Back of the Yards. The roots run deep, maybe we leave Chicago but it never quite leaves us...

@thomasstonge3758 4 ай бұрын

Details,details,really really small details! Very nice

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Thomas! They make the scene, no doubt about it.

@PlanetMojo 4 ай бұрын

Doesn't matter how small it is, it will still cost $20.00 to ship it across town 😉Great job, I love the attention to detail 😊

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

That's for sure, thank you!

@melkitson 4 ай бұрын

I always thought you were crazy and you have just proved it to us. You certainly go to great lengths to create the wonderful detail on your layout. My compliments.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Yeah this is one of those things that can be done but maybe shouldn't (at least by anyone else)🤣🤣😂🤪

@jeffherdz 4 ай бұрын

Ok. This leaves me wondering as to what you will do next to blow our minds. The Amazon logo was to cool.

@thomasstonge3758 4 ай бұрын

I’m waiting for the ant farm 😂

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Not sure whether it's mind blowing (or just asinine), but I made N scale garbage bags full of N scale garbage. Likely topic of the next video.

@oldenbronie2210 4 ай бұрын

Really good description of your process and a great idea! Thanks for sharing an interesting subject. It’s the little details that make a big difference in how life like a layout looks.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

These are all sorts of interesting experiments in minature-making, the process is a lot of fun and always nice when it turns out :).

@JasonJensenTrains 4 ай бұрын

Another great video! I’m definitely going to be trying this.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Go for it Jason - if you come up with any improvements on the method let me know!!

@TheyMakeItLikeThat 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic work, my friend. Also, your music makes me want to suddenly watch oceans 11 😜

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Good ear! it does have a keen resemblance to that soundtrack!

@TheClosetBranch 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic modeling! I made cardboard boxes a few years back but they were somewhat over sized. I'll use your method next time. 👍👍

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

I must say I was primarily inspired on this series of projects by your video on garbage. As they say, garbage in, garbage out!

@petermaas4455 4 ай бұрын

Brilliant work

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Peter!

@keithdenner9441 4 ай бұрын

Great work!

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Keith!

@brooklyngraham1151 4 ай бұрын

Very cool. I’ve done a bit of carton making, but I’ve also resorted to 3d printing them.(closed of course) love the Amazon smile on the side of it. Better watch out for porch pirates, lol. Btw, sent you a few images of my layout to your email.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Yeah there are definitely some more straightforward way to make closed boxes 😅. The package was already stolen...

@danielfantino1714 4 ай бұрын

Let me tease you, you forgot the brown tape used to close it 😊 I shouldn´t do that. I´m sure you´ll put a darker line of paint to simulate tape. So simple idea that we almost never see on layout. Thanks for the carboard show😊😊

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

The gears are already turning...I'll find a way!

@andrewpalm2103 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video. I've modelled HO cardboard cases with solid pieces of styrene strips, scribing the tops to give the appearance of a closure. This works well for pallet loads, but I like what you've done better for modelling discarded boxes. I'll have to try this out. Cheers from Wisconsin!

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Hey Andrew let me know how it goes! I'm sort of tempted to head downstairs and see how making HO boxes goes, but probably won't get to it because I've got to make more N scale garbage bags first! 😅

@andrewpalm2103 4 ай бұрын

@@ChicagoCrossingRR Today I built three HO cardboard boxes using 3x5 note card stock. The finished boxes are a cube 19" scale inches on a side. The pattern has 4 sides and half-width top and bottom flaps on either side of them, plus a tab on the edge of one side for gluing the four sides into the main box shape. I folded using a small steel rule and glued with tacky glue. I painted with VMA 71.031, Middlestone, which is a good match with darker cardboard. The top of the boxes are open to represent discards. It worked out very well and I wanted thank you for the inspiration. Cheers!

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

@@andrewpalm2103 that's fantastic! Glad that worked out (I can imagine HO is great for this) and thank you for sharing!!

@dionewhite694 3 ай бұрын

So great! Only a little fiddly? Lol. Very impressive 😀

@ChicagoCrossingRR 3 ай бұрын

Relative to the escapade I had making scale barbed wire this was a cakewalk !😆

@MrSkytop35 4 ай бұрын

Bravo !

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Ha, thanks, award winning trash I suppose!

@dankamikubo7002 3 ай бұрын

I don’t know if they have cardboard recycling in the Chicago area, but in LA there are people who scrape a living off picking up flattened boxes piled six feet high in their beater pickup truck!

@ChicagoCrossingRR 3 ай бұрын

Ha, I lived in LA for five years. I remember that!

@alanritchie9781 4 ай бұрын

Nice.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Alan,

@yamo1226 4 ай бұрын

Looks great.. as all your stuff does! But, a bit fiddly...😂😂😂 it's a great addition to the realism of the scene for sure, but I think i might try some little cubes of balsa...less fiddly for my old eyes😅

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

This technique has more fiddle than a barn dance 😂. It's a lot of fun to find the edges of what is doable. The balsa idea is great, thanks for mentioning that - I have a bunch of small balsa pieces, might try that out for boxes that aren't open!

@pacificcoastminiatures 4 ай бұрын

What! You didn't model the corrugations in the cardboard? 😆 The good thing about N scale is it is so small that some details simply won't show up so we don't need to model them. Great technique - I'm going to make some of these at some point when I work on my warehouses.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Ha!! The funny thing is now I'm probably going to try 😁

@pacificcoastminiatures 4 ай бұрын

@@ChicagoCrossingRR 😆

@mloik1 4 ай бұрын

What is the name of the background tune? This one and the background in the last vid are great.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

It's a tune called 'Acid Jazz' that is part of KZfaq's royalty free music collection. Some portions sound like Propellerheads colliding with Jimmy Smith. Some of the material in there is really quite good. Occasionally I'll slip in a composition of my own in there but the quality of the YT stuff has gotten quite good recently.

@whitefiddle 4 ай бұрын

Actually the easiest way to make those folds is with photo-etch folding pliers.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

That's an interesting idea, I've never seen a pair but now will take a look.

@whitefiddle 4 ай бұрын

@@ChicagoCrossingRR I have, and like, Tamiya. They come in two sizes. I won't leave a URL if that messes up the comments function. Give 'em a look-see.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

@@whitefiddle awesome will do, thanks!!

@danielfantino1714 4 ай бұрын

Don´t fotget. Boxes can be any size. Your brand new fridge was in a box ? You do HO, anything small like N used in background to create distance.

@ChicagoCrossingRR 4 ай бұрын

Certainly, I figure for most of my purposes anything bigger than this will probably have been shipped in a crate (next challenge maybe!)

@danielfantino1714 4 ай бұрын

A crate ? C´mon a 6 years old boy can do it. Too easy... I´m pretty sure, somewhere on your layout, a guy on its knee in front of girl of its life, with arms toward her and in hand a small ring box asking to marry her. The box of course open with a lovely gold ring with diamonds..... THAT´S A CHALLENGE !! To keep your sanity, use of your camera´s computer and big screen are highly recommended and use of photos of the box is allowed. I just hope that you have as much fun reading my foolishness as i have to write them. Imagine in Z scale...😊