Hey, I posted a while ago in the proto. info forum about having a house in my yard for crews to stay in over night I am going to use it. But how do I detail the inside of the home, I am going to have lighting in it so how do I make it look good? I have a peice of stryne as a floor to devide the 1st and second story’s. Mike
Well, these aren’t houses, but they’ll give you an idea of one technique:
This is what the restarant looks like from the outside:
The foreground building is “Annie’s Antiques” from Model Power. That’s an easy one. It came with all the furniture, and even a sheet of paper with the floor and wall patterns on it.
I made my own interior for the restaurant. The tables are merely sheets of styrene propped up on a styrene base, covered with a piece of paper printed with a plaid design. The benches, likewise, are made of styrene. The walls and floors, again, are images from the Web that I’ve grabbed, resized and printed prior to cutting to shape and gluing on the walls.
This supermarket interior is made entirely from downloaded images, plus a couple of Preiser figures. The shelves are printed on cardstock, cut and folded to shape.
It doesn’t look like much viewed from above with the roof off, but when you turn on the interior light and have to look through the windows, the illusion is much more complete:
When you put the building together, remember to paint the inside of all the walls flat black. That reduces the “glow-through” effect of thin plastic walls. Even better, use a piece of cardstock with a wall pattern on it to both block the light and give your interior a better background.
http://www.jaksind.com/Page/ss_main.html
This place sells real nice interior details if you want to do them like Mr. B did.
Some folks download pictures of interiors off the web, resize them and print them out and glue them inside. That’s the cheap route, but it still works pretty good.