going to attempt my First Stab at scratchbuildin. I got my cutting mat at Michael's (50% off). The ruler was my Dad'supon which I glued an HO scale ruler on to it. The building patterns I printed from a website that provides them for download and printing. I am going to glue them to cereal boxes and cut them out. Follow the link to my website(SmugMug account) to view the picture. This is where I will be posting all my pictures
Andrew
I am planning for my next layout to have buildings made from paper/card almost exclusively. Have downloaded numerous buildings from Papermau (free) http://papermau.blogspot.com/ , Clever Models http://www.clevermodels.net/, Scale Scenes http://scalescenes.com/ , and Scale Model Plans https://www.scalemodelplans.com/smp/pgs/catalog.html.
In addition to building as designed they are great fodder for kit bashing and to provide textures for my own designs. I do my bashing and designs in the computer (using Corel Paint Shop Pro) and print the results for building.
I have seen some very realistic paper building both in photos on the net and at train shows most in O scale, but also as small as N scale. Mine aren't that good yet, but I have hope that my skills will improve.
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.
This is something I can relate to I'm not even close to doing my coal mine sawmill or none of it. But it's going to be custom and there's going to come a time I have to build them so I'm downloading textiles of siding roofing brick everything from Google. It's tough putting them in the right program to get them to the right size to make them the scale I want to do. I have a stack of usable stuff and a wastepaper basket full of crap that was printed the wrong size but I'm getting better at it I think you can get away with custom cardstock models in N scale more than any other scale. I wonder if Larry would agree with me on that one. He said N scale was the right scale when I first joined the forums. I'm running out of ink here but I'm coming up with some pretty good stuff.
Thank you DSchmidt! I will check these out. I like the free stuff. I prefer using PDF files if I can get them. I can print them directly from my iPad or my iPhone with my wireless printer.
I've always been impressed with cardboard models. I've mentioned in here before, at the Milwaukee Trainfest, 2 years ago, there was a club layout, it was about 16' or 18' long, in an oval, where the operators were in the inside, behind the view block, the layout was about 16" wide, and it modeled the interurban railroad in Milwaukee, in the late 30's, early 40's, it was highly detailed, and every structure on it was cardboard/paper models. It was totally fantastic.
I wish I could remember the clubs name, and took pictures.
Mike.
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