I’m scratchbuilding a freight house and I’m thinking about printing images of windows and doors on a color inkjet printer rather than trying to buy detail parts. Has anyone done this, and if so are there software packages that can be used? This is my first attempt at scratchbuilding - usually I buy plastic kits. The freight house will be foam core. The era is late 70’s, and the windows I need are single-pane and fairly large. I figure I could print on some shiny paper (photo paper maybe), and if I need to I can frame the windows with strip styrene or balsa. Like I said, I’ve never done this before.
I have used their textures for walls, roofing, doors and windows on small scratchbuilds. My windows are printed onto glossy paper.
In a program such as Paintshop Pro you can resize, stretch and re-colour before printing. You can even dispose of parts you don’t like by cloning the surrounds over them or by using the airbrush or paintbrush tools in PSPro.
WOW! There’s some great stuff there - not exactly the style I’m looking for but I definitely saved a bookmark. I also found some useful photos on google images, but most are not viewed straight on. Thanks for the information!
I use that CGTextures a bunch. Here’s a great free program for editing. http://www.inkscape.org/
Google images is a great source for pictures too. You might want to try printing on some matte card stock.