I have seen these Roomettes, but is seems they are more tailored to Woodland Scenic, City Classics and DPM structures. Wondering if these can be made to fit Walthers Cornerstone structures? Wonderful way to detail the inside of a building.
I think they're fine if you're just doing a couple of rooms, but if you started doing a lot of structures with many floors you'll discover they're kind of pricey.
I discovered early on, after doing a lot of interior detailing on an HO scale house that typical HO scale windows don't allow you to see inside very well. So, I first look for large windows, like storefront size, or maybe double loading dock doors.
My next step is to print out some floors on my computer. Over the years, I've built a small collection of computer files of flooring, which I can scale and print appropriately. I do the same with walls. I build up interior floors and walls with poster board, and glue on the printer floors and walls with Aileen's Tacky Glue, because it doesn't soak through the printer paper and damage the image.
I sometimes build up counters or shelves from styrene, or even print out shelves and just told them up to become 3D. In a few rare cases, I'll use tables and chairs if they can be clearly seen through a window. A styrene counter and a few carpet tacks lets anyone know they're looking at a bar.
I use incandescent grain-of-wheat bulbs because they look better than LEDs for my Transition Era layout. I punch a small hole in the ceiling and mount the bulb from above. I use 16 volt bulbs and run them at 12 volts. They basically last forever that way.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I can't answer your question for a certainty about every Roomettes kit, but I do know that they are precisely fitted to specific models. I'm guessing that they could be altered to fit other buildings if they were somewhat similar in size and shape. I'd check their site often, though, since they seem to be adding more sets to fit Walthers models all the time.
Jim
I have an assortment of images of rooms, floors, curtains, etc that I can scale down and print. I print test images on regular copier paper, then, when the images are the correct size, I print them on glossy photo paper, then seal the image with matte clear. The photo paper allows printing with sharper images with no "fuzzy" edges. I add an extra 1/4" to each end to use as folded tabs. Straight white glue, brushed on, works great to hold the images in place.
Marlon
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