More free containers and now truck trailers!

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Going to the link listed below will bring you to a German website with more to offer than I could ever believe. Those Germans sure have an active imagination when it comes to stuff like this. A lot of these already have subtle weathering.

The top lines in blue will take you to 20 and 40 foot containers in all languages
The links with Series # after them will take to containers with unbelievable detail. And guess what? It’s all free!

On the number board where you’ll see numbers going from 1 to 30, 23 through 27 are American truck trailers.

Have fun! I downloaded a ton of 'em!

http://home.wanadoo.nl/schatborn/

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Thanks Jeffrey, great link, I will be using some…, for something, now I need to fit in a terminal to the layout…

Karl.

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wow that site has a littel bit of everything i might have to look closer at it

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Some suggested using a thicker paper for these printables. What kind of paper are people using and where do you get it?

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they make a heavy type of printer paper. staples sales it but it kinda expensive i forget what is called… try cardstock

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Card stock works great. You can get it at Wal-mart.

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This is NOT a GERMAN website, but a D U T C H website.
Greetz, Robert, webmaster.

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My mistake. Thanks for the correction.

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I paint cerial box cardboard with flat white paint. Then I print on it for such cardboard items. Great site. Fred

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J-W [:)] You have hit the mother lode[:D][:D] I will be laying in a supply of card stock and building my own fleet real soon. These are great and the detail is fantastic. Thanks for sharing this new found site with us. BTW. Hello from Covington, La.

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I dont know, when I printed them out they were a bit smaller than HO. Does that happen for everyone else is it just my computer?

-Tom

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Set your printer’s paper size to A4. That is standard European paper size. It will print to scale.

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Copy the picture into a program like Photoshop or Paint Shop and resize it.
Greetz, Robert, webmaster.

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Anyone know how to print these in N Scale. on an HP printer?

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Should be the same as on my HP printer. I click the printer icon, select properties, select best quality, select photo paper so I’ll get the best possible printouts, set paper size to A4, click apply, click OK, then click OK again. Works for me. If printer chops part of image off, set orientation to landscape.

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See my answer 16 may 2006, 15:08:20. Greetz, Robert, webmaster

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Yesterday I uploaded containerblocks, that is 4 x 40’ containers in one block and 8 x 20’ containers in one block.
And it is slill all free.
Greetz Robert.

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Hi, Rather new to this sort of thing, but where do you find an answer dated 16 May?

Thanks

Tiny_UK

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5 or 6 posts upward, posted by Norbtach.

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The paper sold for printers is 20 pound paper and is .0035" thick. After the first one I tried to use the glue very sparingly with this paper to keep the sides from bowing and distorting on the 20 foot containers. But it didn’t do much good as the containers were a lost cause. They looked like a cassette tape you left sitting on the dash of your car all summer long.
Rather than trying to use some type of internal braces I decided to try out some heavier paper. So I went to Office Depot and got some Cover paper used for cover sheets. It is 80 pound paper and is .0095" thick.
While the cover paper is harder to cut out and fold it doesn’t bow or distort like the thinner printer paper but retains it’s shape once glued up. As you can see from the pic below the Evergreen container made from 20lb paper is distorted where the Hapag-LLoyd container made from 80lb paper is nice and square with flat sides.