# A couple of short videos of models I built **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** arts-crafts\ **Created:** [September 10, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409 "2021-09-10T00:27:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/1 "2021-09-10T00:27:57Z")
My wife showed me how to make short videos of photos. So I did these two of models I built: The first is my scratchbuilt “Legion of super-Heroes Clubhouse”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RC4MQQHLdR8/hqdefault.jpg "Super Hero Clubhouse") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC4MQQHLdR8) The second is a Fantastic Plastic resin kit of the Soviet LK Lunar Lander. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AvNNwEB9u5k/maxresdefault.jpg "Russian LK Lunar Lander") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvNNwEB9u5k) I’ll let the videos speak for themselves, but will answer any questions. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/2 "2021-09-10T05:14:04Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > My wife showed me how to make short videos of photos. Boooo! I was expecting stop-motion animation! ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/3 "2021-09-10T06:54:35Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > I’ll let the videos speak for themselves And speak loudly they do. Excellent work on the models and great sound selection - added a real sense of compelling urgency in both cases. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/4 "2021-09-10T09:00:45Z")
Very nice! You and Rocketeer blow me away with your Mad Skilz! Thanks! Hey, where is Rocketeer??? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/5 "2021-09-10T12:01:04Z")
“Stiffened with future”? ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/6 "2021-09-10T14:18:49Z")
Future brand floor wax. A staple among modelers — in the U.S., anyway. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/7 "2021-09-10T15:09:40Z")
First of all, Rocketeer is _much_ better at this than me. As for the music, I got lucky. They give you some choices, but I haven’t figured out how to hear them in advance of picking them. Both were selected based solely on their names. “Rescue Team” for the Legion piece, and “Russian Dance” for the lander. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/8 "2021-09-10T15:39:51Z")
I didn’t realize they still made that. I do like the model. I just wish I had that sort of creativity. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/9 "2021-09-20T16:36:57Z")
Late to the thread but I just wanted to say good job! Especially the modifications on the super heroes. Until you try it, you really don’t know how hard that is using smaller scales. While I do 28mm non-human gaming pieces occasionally, I usually stick with 1/35 when doing people. Anything smaller and I feel I just can’t get the details right. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/10 "2021-09-20T22:59:47Z")
While it is a “Russian dance”, and so the label is accurate, isn’t that second one from The Nutcracker? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/11 "2021-09-20T23:26:15Z")
“Russian Dance” was how it was labeled, but you have ID’d the piece. And some of the detail on the figures was accomplished by painting blank decal paper and cutting out appropriately sized pieces, a technique that I call “paintcals”. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/12 "2021-09-21T17:49:01Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > painting blank decal paper and cutting out appropriately sized pieces, a technique that I call “paintcals”. I’ve read about that but never tried it. Are you talking waterslide decals? Do you apply and shape them wet and they keep the shape when they dry? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-short-videos-of-models-i-built/950409/13 "2021-09-21T18:50:35Z")
Yeah, but within limits. They’ll conform a bit but not too much. And to forestall another likely question, I save pretty much everything left over from any decal sheet,so that’s where some things came from. The leftover copyright info from a Star Trek kit gave me the “P” for “Phantom Girl” (taken from Paramount) and the three black lines on Ultra Boy’s belt were obtained from cutting the vertical line off of an “E” for Enterprise and went on as one decal.