hey everybody it's norm from tested here along with kate from tested and we are back with a
another model making project uh it's been a while kate but we we had to get one in uh i know you
have a lot of stuff going on i'm glad just a little bit uh but recently kate showed off a
wonderful video showing off some of your favorite uh crafting tools including a wide range of
cutting implements as well as i love just like the different tweezers you have and even adhesives
specifically for working with paper oh yeah you've got to have the right tools for the right job and
paper crafting is so fun that i've found myself amassing a lot of tools just for that umass the
tools ims the kits and i've had some of these paper model kits uh saved for the perfect day
this i feel like is the perfect day uh these are lovely japanese model kits from a company
called san k s-a-n-k-e-i and they come in all different scales they're in nice durable cardstock
and this series is 1 20th scale so small tiny and where it's making these kind of you know
japanese buildings storefronts essentially um we'll need glue we'll need to cut out the
sheets of paper from the paper sprues i guess the sheets everything that makes
use of the tools that you recommended yes this is going to be very exciting i'm very
excited to put these together so we're going to break these packages open kind of show you
what they're like and get to building and we'll talk about some of these tools as we go along
the way these model kits come together are not like interlocking pieces there's not a ton of
joinery even though things are perfectly fit but it's layered right so to emulate the side of a
building and maybe you know molding or relief work it just stacked pieces multiple sheets of
cardstock and when you have the cardstock and i believe this is laser cut because you can see
it looks like the burn mark yeah of different texture and different colors but they all have
a nice matte feel yeah i think it works really well at the scale it's very satisfying now i did
have a question about whether or not since this is japanese it would move in the same direction
since you know american writing and japanese writing tends to move in different directions but
when you look at it you see there's a completed model at the bottom and an incomplete model at
the top so it's you know fair to assume that we're going to start at the top and move to the
bottom and the sheets are very clearly labeled you know kind of like you would do a traditional lego
set or something yeah abcd mine only has four different colors four different sheets each one
has numbered pieces so don't cut them out ahead of time and i laid out my work area here this is
like the perfect kind of project to do even at your standard work desk because you don't need
a big cutting mat you don't need a ton of surface area uh we have you know one craft knife each with
some backups if we need to um a pair of tweezers to pick up the small pieces and then i'd love
we'll get to these but i love the little like applicators yeah i brought in i brought in some
of my model glue applicators and sometimes when you're working with something this small you just
need to have a variety of tools for how to apply it just right all right i'm using this ph neutral
pva glue that kate recommended good for paper yes and it is archival quality because it's ph
neutral it means that it won't yellow it will it's basically museum quality a little bit of glue goes
a long way with this so just a little bit yeah and also um i find that it it dries pretty much
as quickly as say white glue does so i tend to do a little bit first use what you can and then if
it dries up you're not wasting too much of it and what are these applicators traditionally used for
honestly these ones that i bought are for model making but as you have experienced before a lot
of people sell these for makeup application as well um but i bought a sort of assorted pack
for model making and that allows you to have a bunch of different sized tips
i have a bunch of sub assemblies done so i'm about to connect my three walls here and
it's already super satisfying because you can see a wall like this is made up of four stack
sheets of this cardstock and even with four sheets it feels substantial you can even see as
light is bouncing off it it's like you're actually getting real shadows inside the window frame
at small scale i can't believe how nice this looks and the card stock feels sturdy
and some of these panels do have a little tabs you can see there's wide tabs on the top and the sides
and even if the pieces feel like the tabs are being obscured and blocked i think that's okay
i think it's more important to make sure like the window panes are lined up because these tabs
will slot into another wall that the corner will actually be nicely hidden so you don't see a lot
of exposed edges that are meeting on the side of these buildings all right now i'm actually doing
some assembly not flat packing or not flat assembly but some actual dimensional stuff and
the glue very nicely smears along just the thin edge of this cardstock i love this applicator kate
it's almost like like the mortar or the caulking that you would use and then it perfectly fits in
and it doesn't require a ton of force
the fitment here is really nice and because the glue sets pretty quickly
wow oh it's so cute
all right so i got the main structure of this building complete and already it's gorgeous i love
this roof you have this kind of corrugated aluminum siding with you know a warmer front so
it really reads like you know post-war building of a warehouse turned into a storefront again
love the layering of the windows but not done yet there's going to be molding there's going to be a
deck railing which is going to be maybe the most fun of this because i'm going to start turning
2d objects here into three-dimensional railing including having beams that can be perpendicular
so sub-assemblies continue and this is going to be where the tweezers really come in handy
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and there we have it that was so much fun kate it really was there's something very
meditative about it so small and yet it's all sort of planned out for you
everything is so perfectly fit together and meditative it was so calming i think we both got
into this zen state which is why you could tell it's a lot of time lapse and montage in this video
as you saw uh but my favorite part of these kits is the material the cardstock the the right amount
of thickness that when it's layered when you have two or three pieces together it feels substantial
it really does it almost starts to feel like balsa or like a bit of a thinner wood where the strength
builds up um it's surprising you'd be afraid that you were gonna crush it or something if it
was just thin paper but this feels pretty hearty and both your building and my building have these
nice little back railings yeah that became their own little sub-assemblies uh those are maybe the
trickiest part i think to put together um and uh we both have some awnings yes yes lettering the
color decals or the details with the paper cutouts i gotta say of all the tools you brought in i love
using uh the applicators yeah uh and the mvp for me is this glue the glue held it all together
you're and you made a good point i think that there's um a bit of a substance to the glue so
that when you're working with something so fine and so delicate like these tiny tiny pieces you
can rely on the glue to act as a mortar or cement and really put some structure in there
awesome yeah uh we're gonna now move to one of my favorite parts of model kit build which is then to
photograph and shoot some um close-ups of this so we're gonna leave you with some close-ups of
these two buildings if you're curious about these model kits of links to where you can
find some in the description below as well as of course the tools that kate is recommended here
um but i can spend all day building these i can't wait to do more