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<P mce_keep="true">Just noodling around. Thought I'd show the "old yellowed newspaper" window treatment that I read here or somewhere similar.</P> <P mce_keep="true">On this DPM I didn't insert a photographic interior as I did with all the others, before I glued it down to the sidewalk/base styrene. However, the light-coloured sidewalk styrene showed up through the windows too clearly compared to the dark base I had the building on before, so I needed a way to block windows. (I don't plan any interior lighting in this section.)</P> <P mce_keep="true">I remembered the tip about having a building or two look abandoned by downloading actual images of yellowed newspapers from the web and photoshopping them into a group of the right size. </P> <P mce_keep="true">Here, of course, I had to glue them to the exterior of the windows because I didn't want to snap the building free of the base, but one cannot really see this from two feet away anyway.</P> <P mce_keep="true">It actually looks better than the photo shows because the flash washed out a bit of the yellowed tint of the newspapers.</P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true"> </P> <P mce_keep="true"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/029.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/029.jpg"><IMG src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/027-1.jpg" mce_src="http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u172/dcrane_2007/027-1.jpg"></P>
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