Im looking to do interior walls and floors for my HO scale buildings ..Is there a website where i can download or order this stuff?
thanks
Plastruct is the place....https://plastruct.com/product-category/interior-architectural-parts/
Have fun!
Dan
Hi,
One of my "Go-To" sources for modeling interiors, brick, stone, tile, roofing and much more is here: http://www.textures.com/
This is the flooring category,
http://www.textures.com/category/floors/97684
Then using a vector based editing program (CorelDRAW for me) you can scale it, duplicate the images, flip them if needed and print them on your printer.
For instance, this "tile" floor is printed on photo paper, cut to width and placed using double-stick tape.
These white-tile walls and cooler doors were printed from graphics from the site:
And here is an example of roll-roofing also printed on my inkjet:
Simply register and you have access to lots of downloadable graphics. Now there is a limit to how much you can download in a day but that's a minor inconvenience.
Good Luck, Ed
sounds intersting but how do you scale it on the software? ive downloaded it but totolly clueless on how this works
Like Ed, I've used the texture website. Like you, I alos had some issues with scaling things. Print and measure worked OK for me. Photoshop (or another similar program) is what I rely on to solve many such issues.
Consider also the wide selection of samples that flooring, carpeting, and wallpaper mfg's offer. Some may be in file formats that don't allow an easy screen grab, but anything you can print, you can scan, and then do some hacking and editing to get what you need. You can even find individal rugs, like Oriental and throw rugs, that will print.
If you need to quickly dress up some windows, front and center, there's a new product out from City Classics that makes this easy, Picture Windows: http://www.cityclassics.biz/picture_windows.html
As you can see, where it would be visible, flooring is included
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Well, if you must know, we have a store room full of asphalt tiles. Lion just glued the buildings of him to a tile. Project finished.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
jmk3438 sounds intersting but how do you scale it on the software? ive downloaded it but totolly clueless on how this works
Nike has that catchphrase that they probably paid a million dollars for...
Just DO it!
It is kind of difficult to help since I really don't know your level of experience and I don't know what program you might be working with.
As I mentioned above, I use CorelDRAW which has been very useful to me. Adobe Illustrator is good and I guess there are free vector drawing programs out there others may have some knoweledge of:
Inkscape, maybe? https://inkscape.org/en/
Personally I have not had much success with "freebie" programs so I ante-up and buy what I need.
Photo editing software is OK to get you by but for scaling, layering, skewing, and all that a drawing program is more suited to the needs. Actually, it helps to have both so you can crop, or modify the images you want to import into the drawing program beforehand.
Here is a few screen captures of a brick wall that I just cobbled together as a demo:
Here are nine "objects" that I imported. These were downloaded from the Textures site. Each one can be duplicated, scaled, layered, stretched, rotated... you name it.
Here, I have duplicated the brick wall graphic, used the align function to match the mortar lines, then I "group" the objects that I want to stay "locked" together so if I stretch or scale them again they all act as one.
The imported objects are my pallate and I just grab them and drag them to where I want to place them on the "wall". As far as scaling, I turn on the inch grid and keeping in mind that each inch on the grid represents roughly 7-1/4 feet on the paper. (In HO)
An 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of paper is about 61-1/2 feet by 79-3/4 feet in HO.
I imported a few more objects, stretched and joined like the conduits at the top of the 2nd wall or the "double" doors, just duplicated and mirrored, then added the striped header to give it some interest. You can see the danger signs that I reduced and stuck on the doors. On the lower left is a rusty galvanized image that I have "selected" (the eight boxes representing "handles" that allows me to stretch or size the object. Another click and the squares turn to arrows that allow me to rotate or skew the object. If I select multiple objects using the Shift key I can then group the objects so that they will act as one.
So, I really can't give you any more than that—other than to tell you to...
Have fun, Ed
I download from that textures site, too. The clips are set up so they will look good stacked end-to-end or top-to-bottom for making larger areas.
I use Microsoft Word. It allows me to insert images and scale them the way I want, then print the page.
By combining printed walls and floors with a few figures and details, it's pretty easy to make up a convincing interior.
This one is nothing more than printed textures and a few pieces of foamboard:
The interior of this City Classics market
is just cut and folded paper
Be aware of where the windows are. I look for kits with big windows so that interior details will be visible. It's not worth the effort if visitors can't see into the building.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Nice work, Ed and MisterBeasley
As I don't have Photoshop, I simply copy the image I want to scale down on a word editor. I then can reshape it easily and play with the print % to get the size I need. Pretty easy.
Guy
Modeling CNR in the 50's
i like your method.. Just go to word and you can adjust the scale from there. I just tried it and it works! BTW looks very nice