Amazing to think you just download them, print them, stick them to card, and stick them together.
http://modelrailwaylayoutsplans.com/the-5th-most-popular-post-this-year/
…more here:
http://modelrailwaylayoutsplans.com/engine_shed.html
PS: Posted this on another forum a few years ago, and forgot all about it till just recently when another gentlman found it and made new comment. (hope the photo shows up?)
Brian
I have used many print out buidings for props when photographing models. It is amazing how great they look in photopgraphy.
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Unfortunately, they are not so realistis when viewed with the eye.
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-Kevin
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Not so sure about that, Kevin. In the catagory of traction, and overhead wire street cars and trains, at Trainfest in Milwaukee, there is one layout, I forget what the name is, is completely card stock models. You can get real up close to this layout, and you would never guess they were cardboard or paper. By doing some details in layers, they pop out at your, like a nicely crafted plastic or wood model.
I was amazed when he described his process for making some of the structures.
Mike.
Evans Design’s “Model Builder” software is an amazingly powerful tool.
You can download your own textures… including photos of actual buildings. Just add windows, doors, trim, etc from Grandt Line or others, and you will have an amazing building.
I have seen an O Scale narrow gauge modular layout with many paper buildings that look better and more realistic than buildings made from other materials
I was really interested until I saw how over weathered the models are…
Sheldon
Buildings with “printed” features are nothing new.
Many kits in the 50’s and early 60’s were printed brick/siding and other details on cardstock that you assembled.
The only difference here is you supply the cardstock…
I still have a few from the 50’s on my layout…
Sheldon
Downloaded print buildings can be modified in a photo editing program like Photo Shop, Paint Shop Pro, or GIMP (free) and others. Colors can be changed, and often signs added or removed, elements like doors and windows added/removed or changed, weathering in some cases added/removed, and more.
Now it just became simpler to scratch build the structure - at least for me…
Sheldon
I just had to look for the traction line I seen at Trainfest.
It’s called the Gypsy Trolly Line, by John Kosma. His layout is featured in the May 2013 MRR. The era is Milwaukee 1939 to 1941.
He talks about his method of doing card stock structures in the article, and how he started out with a product called Clever Models.
He now takes photos around the Milwaukee, WI area, and makes his own.
Mike.
I also have some free to download cut out buildings on my site
http://xdford.freeasphost.net/stag21.html and follow the links to the next at the bottom of each page.
I used some of Tomkats building fronts and made them into 3D buildings in the latter ones so they may be of use to some of you at least!
Hope you all had a Merry Xmas
Regards from Australia
Trevor
Correct. Your eyes function steroscopically, while a photo is a flat image.
When your eye sees a photo it fillis in the missing detail, When you see the photo in person all you see is a photograph.
ROAR