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Free paper commercial building
Posted by Dave Farquhar on Saturday, January 21, 2006 3:38 PM
I ran across this today when I was looking for western buildings to answer another question on the forum.

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=5983&

It's a free downloadable commercial building. Signage for a dry cleaner and a deli are included. Nothing stops you from printing more than two of them and adding your own signage, of course. It's about 1:60 scale, which makes it fine for an S gauge or O27 layout. When printed it may be on the small side for O.

The rest of the product line looks interesting. You could make a pretty attractive city scene with it, I would think, and without spending tons and tons of money.
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Posted by dwiemer on Saturday, January 21, 2006 5:34 PM
Dave, thanks for the information. It is good that we can all help each other. This forum has some of the best people.
Dennis

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Posted by Dave Farquhar on Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:29 PM
You're welcome. You're right, this is a good forum.

I just printed one of the buildings off. I think it looks equally good with either an S or O scale figure in front of it. If the scale of the door bothers you, it's easy to cut out the door and the transom, then put a taller door in. Conveniently the opening for the door and transom scales out to about 7 feet in O scale.

And if you got ambitious, you could do some nice kitbashing with it. Good, cheap fun. I printed a couple of paper buildings on heavy cardstock a year or two ago, and they're surprisingly durable.
Dave Farquhar http://dfarq.homeip.net

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