Something interesting for a dead part of your layout?

[Anonymous]

I havn't seen this posted, so i'll take a shot. I live on the east coast here and there are hundreds of those historic signs. You know the kind, they tell you a certain thing, or person happened or lived there. I have a old mining complex by my house that would make a wonderful scene to include. Some tumbled down old ruins. I have a digital camer and it would be easy to take a level picture of the sign, then reduce on photoshop and print it. Then a quick trip to the hobby store for some stock. Paint the stock, post the sign, viola, you have your ruins. I will take a picture of the area tommorrow so you can see what i am talk ing about. Might make a interesting space filler.
Bill

[Big_Boy_4005]

Bill, this is the way of the future that you have just discovered. I have seen a couple of articles in the magazines about using a camera to do certain projects, but the applications are really limitless. I have used this technique to take photos of railroad cars with graffiti, isolate the image, and create decals then apply them to models. The possibilities are endless.

[spankybird]

Elliot, I like the way you showed how to make local houses on your video. Taking pictures of local houses, sizing them to 1/48 scale and gluing them to acteal, cuting out the windows and adding light behind it.

Did I forget anything[?]

I thought that was great. [;)]
tom

[Big_Boy_4005]

Tom, that was done the old fashioned way on regular photo paper. With digital technology, anyone with a camera , a computer, and a printer can do this kind of thing at home. It is totally cool!!!

Here is a sheet of graffiti decals that I recently made.