Does anyone model buildings with paper?

[laz 57]

dsmith

Here is a scratch built building that I have just finished.  I used foam core with brick paper (printed from my inkjet) glued to it.  The raised brick corners of the building are made from separate foam core pieces, then covered with brick paper and attached to the building.  The corrugated door is made from a starbucks hot coffee holder and painted silver.  The windows are thin white paper with black inkmarker bars and glued to the inside.  The window sills, headers and roofline accents are made from strips of wood.  The base is made of plywood and painted concrete color.  I still want to add a sign and floodlight over the door.  The building has an usual non symetric shape so that it will just fit in the small space between my inner and outer 027 loops.  It actually sits on top of (and hides) one of the remote switches.  I designed it somewhat larger than O scale so that it would fit in with the operating crossing guard and postwar crossing gate that are nearby.  You can click on the images for a larger view.

DAVID,

  Simply OUTSTANDING.  I just found this thread and really enjoy your work keep it up.

laz57

[Penny Trains]

Excellent work! 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Great looking building David. Nice work!

[elvisp]

I am thinking of building a Polar Express layout this year for Christmas. For the North Pole, I was thinking of making the buildings out of cardboard or foam core since they are all similar and box shape. I am new to scratch building and I thought this would be easier than wood. Since they wil be in the background, each building will not have to be as detailed as some of the cool buildings posted on this forum. Any suggestion for the plans of brick paper?  

[DSchmitt]

Hrere is a site where you can make brick paper to print out:

http://paperbrick.co.uk/index.php?action=home

There are also free texture libraries on line such as:

http://mayang.com/textures/index.htm

http://textures.forrest.cz/

or you can buy textures or buildings for download

http://clevermodels.squarespace.com/

http://scalescenes.com/

[paultheloon]

Here are websites that may have what you want; doverpublications.com; thortrains.net; papertoys.com; fiddlersgreen.net; littleglitterhouses.com.

[Penny Trains]

Here's another fun site with free textures:

http://www.bigindoortrains.com/

[handyandy]

I've been using cardstock structures to populate my layout as stand-ins for "real" buildings. I used the drawing tools in MS Word for those and printed them out on cardatock with a regular inkjet printer. Then I say the Tribute to Tinplate stuff from Big Indoor Trains site and decided to try a little more detail.

http://www.bigindoortrains.com/primer/buildings/lackie/tinplate.htm

I decided to not really copy existing tinplate structures, but use some of the 3-D effects to make a some what realistic structure. Not having any hi-tech drawing tools I got the rough outlines in Word as I had been doing and then pasting them into MS Paint to add the details. I created a selection of doors and windows that I simply copy and past onto a structure drawing to save time. The cardstock parts are cut out and clued to a foamcore substructure.

Here's some samples ...

[Penny Trains]

Here's a few of my recent structures:

Mercure hotel flat from Scalescenes.com parts.

Thai McDonald's flat from Big Indoor Trains building photo.  Ronald came from a photo I took in 2006 of a statue in front of the restaurant in Chon Buri.

Medical building flat made from Big Indoor Trains building front photo.

I also decided that I wanted a "display track" for my bedroom layout.  So Santa brought me an arch-under bridge and I built this viaduct using the scalescenes.com kit, Plasticville streetlamps blackened with a sharpie and a lot of foamcore and illustration board to support heavy trains.

I just finished that1:48 scale Ju52/3m last week for the Plasticville airport by the way.

Becky

[webenda]

Becky,

Your Ronald MacDonald is so interesting. It looks like Ronald is trying to suggest MacDonald's food is divine. In the United States Ronald MacDonald is more likely to show an open palm on his right hand to indicate, "Hi, see I have no weapons."

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I find your viaduct most impressive. I have been wondering how to create viaduct for a British diorama. I see scalescenes.com has viaducts and even "workshops under arches." Thank you for the idea and you and DSchmitt for the link.

[laz 57]

AWESOME, BECKY tanks for posting,Love the big RONALD!!!

laz57

[Penny Trains]

Thanks guys!    There's lots more new stuff waiting in the wings.  I'll start a thread soon!

I'm impressed with the Scalescenes.com product.  For print yourself models they're excellent!  The best part is they're so easy to modify and manipulate.  The graphics stay crisp through enlargement, and since I needed a curved viaduct, it was absolutely critical that everything matched.  Of course, I could have just downloaded the brick papers, but I think it looks better than anything I could have done 100% from scratch.  I also made a truncated version of their 2-stall brick loco-shed.  If I had the room I'd buy their new intermodal crane too!

Ronald is gesturing a wai (wye) which is an ancient greeting of respect in Thailand.  There was also a KFC nearby that had a statue of Col. Sanders, but the Thais called him "KFC Guy"! 

Becky

[paultheloon]

Here's a website called  modeltrainsftware.com.

[marxalot]

Model Railroader's May edition has a nice article by Paul Dolkos starting on page 31 about using paper, photos, and styrene to "form credible foreground structures". It is interesting and the results Mr. Dolkos produced are quite good.

[Curmudgeon]

At least ScaleCraft had buildings printed on paper and cardboard, station, couple of others, in "0". I have several boxes of H0 cardboard/paper buildings, can't remember the name right now, unbuilt, look like they're all there. I can dig the box out if you want. Mid-50's, or so I am told. Dave

[paultheloon]

Here's another one; clevermodels.net