Thomas Tank 'Mad Bomber' BTS Pt 1 (4:3)

[MultiMasterjake]

wheres ep 2

[TheNw1218]

0:41 that's the dude from black book

[Cromford88]

HO/OO Track.

Shed is shoe box.

[leokimvideo]

@Cromford88

Thanks, I did get around a little late to answer this question.

[TheNo1andres]

im making an animation .i have a few questions please.what sort of track did you use and how did you make your shed

[leokimvideo]

@TheNo1andres

The main shed was made with boxes similar to shoe boxes, some people buy these boxes to decorate and I bought them from a $2 shop for a little more than $2!

The track is HO scale, as I have said many times the trains were a nightmare to manage on HO track as they did not fit that scale or have proper train wheels.

[TheNo1andres]

@leokimvideo thanks i think your HO wheels on engines look excellent .did you have to cover the shoeboxes in anything special i have sprayed painted them black but they look nothing like yours.

[unsmokinjoe]

Is the turntable custom-made?

[leokimvideo]

yes, it was operated by hand from below

[NickInfante92]

so is there a job i can do like adverstize or maybe help find more ertl models for the thomas tank mad bomber?

[theremoteanater]

i have alot of ertl train track and locomotives

[theremoteanater]

i can't wait till i get paid

[736berkshire]

Next year, it'll be the 10th anniversery of Rolling Stock.

[Mightymac10]

true

[kensington25]

Excellent video. The set looks awesome :)

[nzardoin]

cool.

[Randomstuffs261]

blowing up a hornby train would be expensive plus the ertl models inspire you and show you how well things can turn out Even if you use basic products.

[ay76]

Cool, cheers.

[unsmokinjoe]

This is absolutely brilliant! You are a legend! This extremely well made and the layout is fantastic! This is one of the best Thomas vids I have ever seen! Keep Up The Good Work! :D

Mountain Engine Studios

[spoco2]

You've done a superb job! Great work and wonderful ingenuity to get all those professional looks on the cheap.

Did you find that everything ended up being covered in a film of baby oil after a while?

[leokimvideo]

Thanks for your comment.

The video cost $400, mainly in buying ERTL toy trains.

My smoke system did cover everything in baby oil, and if you look carefully you see the black oxide I used to darken down the cat litter I used as gravel starts to cover all the trains, especially Gleaming Red Ted, in the final scenes he's a dirty little train.

You can see dirt building up on the big man the Fat Controller. Its something I am being very careful with onthe next episodes in production now.

[trainchugger53]

Was this a one-man job

[leokimvideo]

I had a mate, Laurie come over from time to time to help with moving the model trains, you see him in the early part of the video, he also had lighting tips for me.

Moving the reains was a complete nightmare, so lots of work is now done so episode two does not have the same issues as episode one.

Anyone who saw what I was up to when I was making this video thought I was completly mad..!

[trainchugger53]

nice now. How goes summer in the Aussie?

[leokimvideo]

Where I am its been both hot and cold, not a super hot summer, yet January is often the really hot month..

Yep its summer here, I would like at least one white Christmas..

[joeferrito]

yeah, I'm pretty sure those are HO scale buildings....they seem about right

[leokimvideo]

Yes, most of the model buildings are HO in scale.

[linkhill17]

nice work wish i do one

[lange838]

Why do Australians come across as sooo dumb?

[13232217968]

my contact nfo is on my yt profile! msg me!

22/f/single/cam! ne1 want to see? li

[leokimvideo]

hey, I have a great video called Mad Bomber, want to see, 42/m/m/cam...on the train!

[leokimvideo]

I would hope all those who comment keep it clean, plenty of very young kids watch these videos, and I am getting tired cleaning the comments off, that includes spammers.

Please go somewhere else to do your dirty work.

The Mad Bomber.

[ByronleeS]

Why didn't you use Tomix wheels?

[leokimvideo]

Back when this video was made the year 2000, I knew nothing of internet train sites, forums, and youtube did not exist, I am in no way a model train fan, I just make videos as a hobby.

[Sonicthehedgehog765]

how'd you make explosions?

[bmcj199]

part 2? i didn't watch it yet

[leokimvideo]

There is some more details in other episodes, but I can't go into fine detail as these days it could be seen as teaching good fun to kids who may try something and hurt themselves.

Its also some secret mens business..

The Mad Bomber.

[AlexEngine147]

Super Na 5 Gwiazdek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­

[nashboy234]

whens episode 2

[Pittoop]

I used incense for smoke too on one of my Model Railroad videos last year. After I found out what incense was, I thought I'd buy some because I heard hippies burned it and I love the 1960s culture, so I burned it sometimes and the day I filmed a video of my layout, I put a stick near the side of my train and it just incredibly flowed through!

[mechfx]

great advice in this video about film making

[figurewrestler11]

i use stopmotion pro cause it looks interesting anyway good vid.

[figurewrestler11]

i use stopmotion pro cause it looks interesting anyway good vid.

[Hyakinthos4fun]

THANK YOU FOR THAT SHOW MOVIE!:D

[coasterfreak14]

You put some much planning and work into it. It kind of got me thinking of doing my own movie (I have a ton of ETRL trains). Good work! I hope to see more.

[DIABLOVT12]

I like it. It's very inspiring. Well done. =)

[nswgrupdates07]

What kind of movie maker you used for all the captions Leo

[leokimvideo]

The captions were generated in Adobe Premiere, Rolling Stock was edited with version 4.2, which these days is now replaced with Premiere Pro, although I see many people using Sony Vegas for editing.

[ChocolateSword]

This is an interesting video.

[leokimvideo]

yes thats me in the making of videos..

[Stevehannify]

Oh O.K.

[Stevehannify]

Did you motorize the trains?

[leokimvideo]

no, there is thin piano wire moving the trains, it is covered in the other making of videos

[Zip4me]

Could you show us the deleted pond?

[leokimvideo]

The pond is seen at 2:50 in 'making of 2' where there is a overall view of the potato farm set, it is round and the only blue item on the set, it is never seen in the rolling stock video, it is just a blue painted piece of perspex, with the unpainted side facing up.

[Zip4me]

Have you considered doing the same thing with TUGS?

[leokimvideo]

What I would do is have it included in episode 2, I have never seen TUGS toys in the sbhops in Australia, so it would have to be custom made from other toys, and finding tug boat toys the same size as ERTL thomas could be tricky.

[Zip4me]

Why don't you just make your own TUGS model? Like the Tractor in Rolling Stock, if it has a minor role I don't think you need real water. Just use clay or cover a blue sheet of paper with Saran Wrap. I don't know if you have them in Australia though.

[leokimvideo]

I believe the tractor in rolling stock is a Thomas toy model, saran wrap is called glad wrap here, and I did have a small pond in the potato farm set but it is never seen, it was a blue painted surface covered in perspex...I would like to have real water, it just looks like water..well thanks for your ideas, there is much to ponder if another episode is made.

[tugsrule4]

whats british scale fore HO

[leokimvideo]

HO scale (H0 scale in continental Europe) is the most popular scale of model railway in most of the world (outside the United Kingdom, where the slightly larger OO scale is most common)...From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[youarthurhu]

So who makes the HO scale trains? Some shop?

[leokimvideo]

The models are ERTL toys, not really HO scale, I believe the Thomas trains are available in Hornby HO but it would be better to consult a real train / thomas buff to answer your question.

[Sprigo11]

hornby only do OO and N scale models

[leokimvideo]

So if OO is Hornby sacle and OO scale is in England only what scale is the Hornby trains outside the UK, sorry if I am not up to speed on the fine deatil of train scales, it is not a hobby of mine and the research I have done must be wrong. I will leave the fine deatils about train scale to the people who know.

[leokimvideo]

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, has a growing list of 21 companies who makes HO scale trains, HO does not exist in the UK, there it is 00..HO scale trains first appeared in the United Kingdom in the 1930s, originally as an alternative to OO scale, but was not able to make commercial headway against the established OO scale.

[Lawso1]

But why did you do it?

[leokimvideo]

I ask myself the same question, at least now the real Thomas fans can enjoy it, so the answer to why, is why not!..

[Lawso1]

Is it avalible? Where?

[leokimvideo]

Only available on youtube, free to see!

[x00001]

this is really good you should win award if their is one

[CaptainPunjab]

This is absolutely fascinating. I agree with the previous comment that it feels alot like watching a behind-the-scenes look at the real series. Wonderful. :D

[Dieter122]

Excellent!-- lots of great tips-- always fun to see "the making of" especially such original works-- many thanks!

[leokimvideo]

The next 'making of' should be finished soon, there is still plenty to cover.

[magicbird05]

And also tell how the turntable moves.

[leokimvideo]

Turntable was hand powered, I like simple solutions to complex problems.

[magicbird05]

Very interesting

[SignoreBoy]

Very informative video for the first part. Glad to know that there's a few more on the way. Really make me feel like I was watching an actual Behind The Scenes film of the Real Thomas Series :)

[TroublesomeTruck]

Fantastic work guys! Amazing!

One serious question though; wouldn't the atomized baby oil used for the smoke effect leave a coating on everything?

[leokimvideo]

The baby oil smoke did leave a residue on everything, and with the black cement oxide in the fake ballast it became a real messy show. You can see the models getting dirty in different sections of the video.

[thomasandtoby]

The Ertl Also Fit On the N-Scale Track

[leokimvideo]

I wish i knew that N-Scale fitted the ERTL models, it was a major headache getting the models to run on HO guage rail, One thing I did notice was no ERTL model was ever the same wheel guage.

[thomasandtoby]

well you did a great job anyways!how did you make the explosions

[leokimvideo]

I will deal with the explosions quetions in the next 'making of' video, the main trick is have some cleverly edited slow motion footage to make it look real.

[magicbird05]

That's not the real studio,or engines.They don't look like the original models.

[nleeder]

Yes Leo - tells just a little about the thoroughness and inventiveness you apply to every video/film you have ever made. This is the ONLY way to make classics such as all those marvellous videos you have now posted into youtube for all to enjoy! G'donya!!

[Verticalaxishaft]

Great behind the scenes vid, mate! It was all very interesting and it's amazing how much effort you've put into the episode. I'm definitely looking forward to the next vid; in particular, i'm looking forward to seeing how you did the pyrotechnics

[Thomascho58]

Bloody Brillant seeing all of the cast and tools!Its great its like in a real director studio!

[soyatim]

you made this in 2000 whoah you worked hard let e know if you need a narrttor I do a good micheal anglis

[leokimvideo]

This is a thank you video to all those who have been great supporters of Rolling Stock, especially the Thomas Tank fans. The e-mails keep coming and I will do my best to reply to all.

[therailwayinspector]

YEY!! First to do all but view!

[thomasanddiesel]

cool