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Print Out Buildings/Structures
Posted by railandsail on Saturday, December 23, 2017 7:39 AM

Print Out Buildings

 

Amazing to think you just download them, print them, stick them to card, and stick them together.
http://modelrailwaylayoutsplans.com/the-5th-most-popular-post-this-year/

 

...more here:
http://modelrailwaylayoutsplans.com/engine_shed.html


PS: Posted this on another forum a few years ago, and forgot all about it till just recently when another gentlman found it and made new comment. (hope the photo shows up?)

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, December 23, 2017 7:52 AM

I have used many print out buidings for props when photographing models. It is amazing how great they look in photopgraphy.

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Unfortunately, they are not so realistis when viewed with the eye.

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-Kevin

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Posted by mbinsewi on Saturday, December 23, 2017 8:24 AM

SeeYou190
Unfortunately, they are not so realistis when viewed with the eye.

Not so sure about that, Kevin.  In the catagory of traction, and overhead wire street cars and trains, at Trainfest in Milwaukee, there is one layout, I forget what the name is, is completely card stock models.  You can get real up close to this layout, and you would never guess they were cardboard or paper.  By doing some details in layers, they pop out at your, like a nicely crafted plastic or wood model.

I was amazed when he described his process for making some of the structures.

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Posted by Bayfield Transfer Railway on Saturday, December 23, 2017 1:16 PM

Evans Design's "Model Builder" software is an amazingly powerful tool.

You can download your own textures... including photos of actual buildings.  Just add windows, doors, trim, etc from Grandt Line or others, and you will have an amazing building.

 

Disclaimer:  This post may contain humor, sarcasm, and/or flatulence.

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Posted by DSchmitt on Saturday, December 23, 2017 2:03 PM

mbinsewi

 

SeeYou190
Unfortunately, they are not so realistis when viewed with the eye.

 

Not so sure about that, Kevin.  In the catagory of traction, and overhead wire street cars and trains, at Trainfest in Milwaukee, there is one layout, I forget what the name is, is completely card stock models.  You can get real up close to this layout, and you would never guess they were cardboard or paper.  By doing some details in layers, they pop out at your, like a nicely crafted plastic or wood model.

I was amazed when he described his process for making some of the structures.

Mike.

 

 

I have seen an O Scale narrow gauge modular layout with many paper buildings that look better and more realistic than buildings made from other materials 

 

 

I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.

I don't have a leg to stand on.

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Posted by ATLANTIC CENTRAL on Sunday, December 24, 2017 10:47 AM

railandsail

Print Out Buildings

 

Amazing to think you just download them, print them, stick them to card, and stick them together.
http://modelrailwaylayoutsplans.com/the-5th-most-popular-post-this-year/

 

...more here:
http://modelrailwaylayoutsplans.com/engine_shed.html


PS: Posted this on another forum a few years ago, and forgot all about it till just recently when another gentlman found it and made new comment. (hope the photo shows up?)

Brian

 

 

I was really interested until I saw how over weathered the models are.......

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Posted by ATLANTIC CENTRAL on Sunday, December 24, 2017 10:58 AM

Buildings with "printed" features are nothing new.

Many kits in the 50's and early 60's were printed brick/siding and other details on cardstock that you assembled.

The only difference here is you supply the cardstock........

I still have a few from the 50's on my layout........

Sheldon

 

    

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Posted by DSchmitt on Sunday, December 24, 2017 11:02 AM

Downloaded print buildings can be modified in a photo editing program like Photo Shop, Paint Shop Pro, or GIMP (free) and others. Colors can be changed, and often signs added or removed, elements like doors and windows added/removed or changed, weathering in some cases added/removed, and more.

I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.

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Posted by ATLANTIC CENTRAL on Sunday, December 24, 2017 11:15 AM

DSchmitt

Downloaded print buildings can be modified in a photo editing program like Photo Shop, Paint Shop Pro, or GIMP (free) and others. Colors can be changed, and often signs added or removed, elements like doors and windows added/removed or changed, weathering in some cases added/removed, and more.

 

Now it just became simpler to scratch build the structure - at least for me.....

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Posted by mbinsewi on Sunday, December 24, 2017 2:01 PM

I just had to look for the traction line I seen at Trainfest.

It's called the Gypsy Trolly Line, by John Kosma.  His layout is featured in the May 2013 MRR. The era is Milwaukee 1939 to 1941.

He talks about his method of doing card stock structures in the article, and how he started out with a product called Clever Models.

http://www.clevermodels.net/

  He now takes photos around the Milwaukee, WI area, and makes his own.

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Posted by xdford on Tuesday, December 26, 2017 3:07 AM

I also have some free to download cut out buildings on my site

http://xdford.freeasphost.net/stag21.html and follow the links to the next at the bottom of each page. 

I used some of Tomkats building fronts and made them into 3D buildings in the latter ones so they may be of use to some of you at least!

Hope you all had a Merry Xmas 

Regards from Australia

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, December 26, 2017 10:21 AM

SeeYou190
Unfortunately, they are not so realistis when viewed with the eye.

 

Correct. Your eyes function steroscopically, while a photo is a flat image.

When your eye sees a photo it fillis in the missing detail, When you see the photo in person all you see is a photograph.

 

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