Here's an interesting site for printing a hugre variety of textures-from wood to stone to brick and everything else in between. Though I have not done so yet, I would imagine the images could be scaled, photoshopped or otherwise manipulated to suit individual needs.
http://www.cgtextures.com/
Hello LNEFAN
Awesome site!! I had compiled an archive of tileable textures from another site (grsite.com) but I think I like this one better! Can't wait to design and print some cardstock buildings, especially using some of the peeling painted wood textures. I draw (cadd) windows and doors and position them right over the textures
Many of my buildings (N scale) consist of solid wood blocks ripped on my table saw to shape -- think of a building "extrusion" -- and then cut to lenght. Very useful when doing a row of identical mill worker houses. I then glue the printed card stock to the sawn faces of the house block. Detailing the interiors is, of course, out of the question (But, c'mon, its N scale!), but lighting actually is possible: One or two windows can be drilled out, carefully chiseled square, and a little piece of glazed window sash fit into the opening -- I've achieved pretty good results with black aluminim window screen, slightly hammered to flatten out the over/under texture, and then painted with epoxy. The epoxy hardens to a slightly bubbly, wavy, glossy, transluscent film, a fairly convincing (to my eye anyway) representation of old wavy window glass. A grain 'o' wheat bulb or a dim l.e.d. in the drilled out hole shines through the window with a pleasant old lantern effect.
Again, thanks for the info about this site!!
Very interesting Eric. You may enjoy this site as well:
http://www.illinoishistory.gov/ps/construct_mainstreet.htm
LNEFAN wrote: I would imagine the images could be scaled, photoshopped or otherwise manipulated to suit individual needs.
I would imagine the images could be scaled, photoshopped or otherwise manipulated to suit individual needs.
Even Microsoft Word can be used to resize and print them. That's a great site -- I just wish I had known about it a couple of years ago as I was scratch building my HO scale layout's buildings and scenery.