Im looking to do interior walls and floors for my HO scale buildings …Is there a website where i can download or order this stuff?
thanks
Plastruct is the place…
https://plastruct.com/product-category/interior-architectural-parts/
Have fun!
Dan
Hi,
One of my “Go-To” sources for modeling interiors, brick, stone, tile, roofing and much more is here: http://www.textures.com/
This is the flooring category,
http://www.textures.com/category/floors/97684
Then using a vector based editing program (CorelDRAW for me) you can scale it, duplicate the images, flip them if needed and print them on your printer.
For instance, this “tile” floor is printed on photo paper, cut to width and placed using double-stick tape.
These white-tile walls and cooler doors were printed from graphics from the site:
And here is an example of roll-roofing also printed on my inkjet:
Simply register and you have access to lots of downloadable graphics. Now there is a limit to how much you can download in a day but that’s a minor inconvenience.
Good Luck, Ed
sounds intersting but how do you scale it on the software? ive downloaded it but totolly clueless on how this works
Like Ed, I’ve used the texture website. Like you, I alos had some issues with scaling things. Print and measure worked OK for me. Photoshop (or another similar program) is what I rely on to solve many such issues.
Consider also the wide selection of samples that flooring, carpeting, and wallpaper mfg’s offer. Some may be in file formats that don’t allow an easy screen grab, but anything you can print, you can scan, and then do some hacking and editing to get what you need. You can even find individal rugs, like Oriental and throw rugs, that will print.
If you need to quickly dress up some windows, front and center, there’s a new product out from City Classics that makes this easy, Picture Windows: http://www.cityclassics.biz/picture_windows.html
As you can see, where it would be visible, flooring is included[:D]
Well, if you must know, we have a store room full of asphalt tiles. Lion just glued the buildings of him to a tile. Project finished.
Nike has that catchphrase that they probably paid a million dollars for…
Just DO it!
It is kind of difficult to help since I really don’t know your level of experience and I don’t know what program you might be working with.
As I mentioned above, I use CorelDRAW which has been very useful to me. Adobe Illustrator is good and I guess there are free vector drawing programs out there others may have some knoweledge of:
Inkscape, maybe? https://inkscape.org/en/
Personally I have not had much success with “freebie” programs so I ante-up and buy what I need.
Photo editing software is OK to get you by but for scaling, layering, skewing, and all that a drawing program is more suited to the needs. Actually, it helps to have both so you can crop, or modify the images you want to import into the drawing program beforehand.
Here is a few screen captures of a brick wall that I just cobbled together as a demo:
Here are nine “objects” that I imported. These were downloaded from the Textures site. Each one can be duplicated, scaled, layered, stretched, rotated… you name it.
Here, I have duplicated the brick wall graphic, used the align function to match the mortar lines, then I “group” the objects that I want to stay “locked” together so i
I download from that textures site, too. The clips are set up so they will look good stacked end-to-end or top-to-bottom for making larger areas.
I use Microsoft Word. It allows me to insert images and scale them the way I want, then print the page.
By combining printed walls and floors with a few figures and details, it’s pretty easy to make up a convincing interior.
This one is nothing more than printed textures and a few pieces of foamboard:
The interior of this City Classics market
is just cut and folded paper
Be aware of where the windows are. I look for kits with big windows so that interior details will be visible. It’s not worth the effort if visitors can’t see into the building.
Nice work, Ed and MisterBeasley[tup]
As I don’t have Photoshop, I simply copy the image I want to scale down on a word editor. I then can reshape it easily and play with the print % to get the size I need. Pretty easy.
i like your method… Just go to word and you can adjust the scale from there. I just tried it and it works! BTW looks very nice