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scale backdrop images
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 4, 2008 8:57 AM

 

Hi everyone,

this is my first posting...a long story short...putting g scale in office, 30'x8' oval, elevated over patient rooms. I have looked at backdrop warehouse for scenery but their website takes too much time to play with. Does anyone have any sources for scenery, building fronts etc.?

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Posted by vsmith on Monday, February 4, 2008 11:37 AM

Backdrop Warehouse is the only place I've found that makes images suitable for large scale indoors. Walthers sells generic backdrops that are not too bad if smallish at 24" x 36" but have to be spliced together.

If you can take pictures of what you want as a backdrop on a high quaility digital camera, you can take them to a reprographic shop and have them printed out at very large sizes, I have a DVD that shows a guy doing just this using images that printed out at 36" x 48", but I'm sure it wasnt cheap.

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Posted by altterrain on Monday, February 4, 2008 1:38 PM

VES has a few building fronts - http://www.gtrainbuildings.com/facade_buildings.html

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Posted by vsmith on Monday, February 4, 2008 1:43 PM

Dont forget "House of Balsa" they have absolutely teriffic building front kits for indoor layouts.

http://www.houseofbalsa.com/

 

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Posted by GearDrivenSteam on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 12:32 AM
Vic, those kits are absolutely perfect for what I need. Thanks for posting that.
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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 12:39 AM
I have the 4 flat front kits, they were really fun and easy to build.

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Posted by dwbeckett on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 7:55 AM

SO you have four built-up kits              we don't see any picture's?????? Just switched over to my big-box store 20x30 prints are $9.99 each.

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