so I noticed this piece of aluminum foil sitting around after my last cheap
modeling video when I built those scrap cars and it got me remembering another
couple of quick easy cheap projects you can do with aluminum foil from modeling
the first one is culverts which are commonly least in my part of the world a
galvanized steel pipe corrugated that you'd install underneath a road or a
track to divert water away so I'm just going to quickly throw one together here
according to my web searching they pretend to come in 20 foot lengths but
you can order whatever you want and they tend to be in sizes from like 12 inches
which is what 300 millimeters 30 centimeters up to about 96 inches which
is two and a half meters roughly and it takes no time at all to make them using
just some aluminum foil and a bolt then you just pick a bolt the measures about
the right size in your scale and do essentially just that if you want the
corrugations to be a little bit sharper defined you can press it into a brush
and just so that the bristles kind of press up into there there you go and
just straight it off now you can use any size of pipe to air any size you want
that fits your fit your scale this one where my steel ruler go
this one looks like it's going to be pretty much 24 inches 2 feet in each oh
four hairs Oh scale on this ruler you don't have those key on this ruler
that's my other scale roar it's more reflective that's why you don't usually
use it on on video oh scale this would be both 16 inches or so do I have an on
here yeah this would be a big one this be bigger than any prototyping
in scale but you could use a smaller bolt that's gonna quickly spread this
off here it's not super tight so it's not perfectly straight it on there there
is a little seam sprung open but that's okay get a little bit of ordered glue
nothing fancy just plain old white glue could use super glue to I just
discovered before the video that mine was all dried and cut it up I couldn't
use it for this but this will work this isn't in a high-stress situation right
this is just a scenery peaks in the background and just kind of loosely
clamp it together and it'll hold so there's that quick easy how long did
that take us no time at all something else that I've also done with the
aluminum foil how big is that piece they had a little off cut that's what 7 feet
by 4 that's close enough let's pretend it's 4 by 8 so I'm just
gonna bring that in just as a something to push against and put that on there
and this time actually I will use that finer bolt
and if pressed it in straight evoi corrugated a metal siding as you've
owned shacks everywhere such as the chicken coop take a look at that does
that look pretty similar you'd use a coarser bolt to make pieces that sides
if you scratch building a structure or building like just a junkyard fence you
could attach those to posts or put it in the back of a contractor's truck there's
some culvert pieces that I made earlier you could use them in a scene you use a
bunch of full lengths which are apparently generally 20 feet put a bunch
of those on a flatcar new going to construction site a whole bunch of them
or especially if you mess some up you use them as part of a scrap load this is
one that I did a long time ago so these two I just poke some holes and crushed
them weathered them horribly and there's some of the pieces of sheet metal to
that again or just crumpled and thrown into my scrap wood here you don't even
know what all this stuff is in the Oh broken coupler some pieces of sprue that
I rusted no barrel who knows what else is down in the bottom of there but it's
a scrap load it's scrappy so I hope that's I don't
know it's not no no this is my original idea this is all ideas that I stole from
other people who stole from magazines who stole from other people in the past
feel free to take it and if you do something really cool with it I'd love
to see a picture down in the comments or if you've seen other people do other
things with with this idea again link them down in the comments I'd love to
see them let's let's share show your work I hope you hope you enjoyed that
it's just quick cheap little tip if you do have
anything to say about it please down in the comments and I will talk to you
later