I did just as suggested above.....that is googled store interiors, hotel lobby interiors, etc. etc. It takes some searching alright.
Remember however, if you come up with snapshots with perspective such as those shown above by Tomcat13, they will not look right glued in flat panels along the walls as MisterBeasley does with his superdetailed interiors (which he lights up). With such perspective shots it is best to size them with Photoshop or something and then print a 1 1/2 - 2 inch strip (as tall as the store windows that is) and then slightly longer than the diagonal of your building interior and paste them in as a curved backdrop behind the front windows.
Sometimes there is a little distortion of the scene if the interior strip has to be stretched in Photoshop to make a long enough curved piece for a particular building, but the curve reduces that distortion when it is inserted.
I like the interiors to show just a bit this way from the front, as I do not have the interiors lighted. It looks more realistic if one cannot see completely into the depths of a building that is not lighted.
I also am not adverse to using a black and white shot if I like the scene, as the interior of a store is often obscure enough to make colours indistinct, and actually overly bright colours on these snapshots need to be muted to be realistic-looking behind a building window that would be heavily reflective in the real world.
These interiors are very quick to construct and can trick the eye very well.
The stair case showing in the building at the far right is just printed on a curved "interior card" as well.
The old newspaper window treatment on the building in the center is something I posted about earlier.
Nice interiors and approach MisterBeasley
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You should take a look at http://www.railtownwindows.com/
They sell adhesive backed images in HO scale (6 per page) and provide hints on how to add depth. I do think you get much better detail with images downloaded from the net. Any basic graphics editing program (or MS word as a last resort) would allow you to get the right physical size.
Adding figures to the interior really helps.
I look for photos or postcards to copy & print out.
Here a few you can use.
#722 loathar http://www.cgtextures.com/Look under buildings/shops. Bunch of other stuff on there that's great too. Google images is another good tool for this. I tried to go to the cgtextures website, but it says it's unavailable. Does anyone else have this problem?
loathar http://www.cgtextures.com/Look under buildings/shops. Bunch of other stuff on there that's great too. Google images is another good tool for this.
http://www.cgtextures.com/Look under buildings/shops. Bunch of other stuff on there that's great too. Google images is another good tool for this.
I tried to go to the cgtextures website, but it says it's unavailable. Does anyone else have this problem?
Seems to be working fine. Try doing a Google or Yahoo search it and see if you can get in that way.
Your examples are very creative. Thanks for posting them. Would you be willing to do a step by step for those of us who are creatively challanged?
Bob
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For this grocery store, I Googled for "grocery store shelves." When I found some I liked, I copied the images to my hard drive. Then I used MS Word to size and print them. I bought a package of cardstock from Staples to print these on. It's thicker than regular paper, and therefore more able to stand up by itself. I did the same for the floor:
I positioned the light so it couldn't be seen through the windows, and added some figures. This is HO scale, and the windows here are relatively big. Still, once the building is assembled, all you get is a very restricted view inside. So, you can get away with a lot.
This was an earlier try doing the same thing. Here, I didn't have the luxury of a high ceiling, so I hid the bulb behind some shelves:
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Are there templates or scenes I can print off and glue the sheet inside my buildings to give the appearance of actual interiors? Same principle as an exterior backdrop, only it's an "in drop" ???
It seems like an obvious solution to otherwise empty model buildings, so I may give it a try from scratch if there is nothing already out there.
Thanks!