To model wall-to-wall carpeting, simply use construction paper in the appropriate shade. It has just enough surface texture to work well. If you scuff it lightly with a wire brush, it looks even better.
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Back in the day there was this ad campaign for Bigelow Carpets "A title on the door rates a Bigelow on the floor." I used a cutout from one of the magazine ads to carpet the floor of a Walther's parlor car.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
Thanks, MB. I was wondering if they were City Classics or not.
I met the owner a couple of years ago at a WGH show here in Cleveland. Very nice gentlemen. I have a couple of his company homes that these would look nice in.
Tom
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tstage VERY nicely done, MB! And who manufactured the Venetian blinds - if I may ask? I have a couple of buildings I'd like to try that in. Thanks. Tom
VERY nicely done, MB! And who manufactured the Venetian blinds - if I may ask? I have a couple of buildings I'd like to try that in. Thanks.
The Venetian blinds are from City Classics. They also make a set of pull-down shades. I think they're very effective. For small windows like these, they hide the inside pretty much completely, so interiors become less necessary even when the structure is illuminated.
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Tomkat,
Thanks for posting.
Richard
DSchmitt Scale Scenes offers interior elements (which includes capets) for download. They are OO scale (a little larger than HO). They can be used as is or resized. http://www.scalescenes.com/products/TX00a-Interior-Elements
While I like the ScaleScenes products, they do charge for almost everything. While you could download the interior elements file, I would suggest buying one of their houses. You get the interior elements and the exterior elements.
DSchmittThere are also free texture sites. I haven't seen carpet on any of them but some other textures (especially wallpapers) might work.
CGI Textures (http://www.cgtextures.com/) has free downloadable image files of carpet, patterned fabric and Persian carpets that you can scale to fit you building interiors. While some like to to use MS Paint and MS Word for graphics work, I would suggest the free version of PhotoFiltre 7 (http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/download-en.htm); download and install relevant plug-ins (e.g. a fish-eye correction function which helps remove lens distortion, white balance correction).
Alan
Co-owner of the proposed CT River Valley RR (HO scale) http://home.comcast.net/~docinct/CTRiverValleyRR/
This hotel room has both the floor and walls printed from downloaded images. For the floor, I first took a "wood floor" image, and overlayed the Persian carpet using Microsoft Paint. Then I sized the image in MS Word and printed it. I did the same for the walls, starting with a blank wall and adding the door and the picture on the wall, which, if you look closely enough, is the "Dogs Playing Poker" poster.
Or, you could shop at the second store from the left...
This is the interior I built for Walthers Merchants Row kit. You can see the Oriental Rug shop, Numerous carpets are are on display. Hmmm....who ever said every oriental rug is unique?
You cam print your own from photos and drawings available on the Net. For instance:
Scale Scenes offers interior elements (which includes capets) for download. They are OO scale (a little larger than HO). They can be used as is or resized.
http://www.scalescenes.com/products/TX00a-Interior-Elements
There are also free texture sites. I haven't seen carpet on any of them but some other textures (especially wallpapers) might work.
Stores that sell carpet often have photos. Example from Home Depot:
http://www.homedepot.com/Flooring-Carpet-Carpet-Tile-Carpet/h_d1/N-5yc1vZbzsm/h_d2/Navigation?catalogId=10053&Nu=P_PARENT_ID&langId=-1&storeId=10051&searchNav=true
and
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/catalog/servlet/Search?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&keyword=rugs&Ns=None&Ntpr=1&Ntpc=1&selectedCatgry=SEARCH+ALL
Save pictures to your computer and use a photo manipulation program to resize as necessary. I use Paint Shop Pro but there are numerous capable programs (many of them free)
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