Not having much money and not really liking scenery, building and painting most kits ( I do a bad job trying to paint them), I was thinking about making mockups out of cardboard, and than thought that there must be some black white paper mock up's online. You know just square are rectangular ones to simulate the scale you are modeling. Well, not only are there mockup's but they are in color and look pretty good. Granted a bunch are from other countries, like the ones I really like are from some German town (can't tell from a distance they are not regular, non country specific buildings), and for some strange reason I have found this to be very relaxing cutting them out and glueing them together. Mainly because no painting, and only requires something like a hobby glue stick. Getting better with each one after I bought some heavier card stock paper. Who would have thought Of course I do enjoy working on 3D puzzles from time to time and this is kind of like that. Anyone else tried these are any other mock up tricks of the trade? That you enjoy? I know these are rough but getting better with each one BTW, apparently I am way behind the times and there is an entire thread on this subject. Sorry about that. I never visit this forum area. I should have used the search feature
In the distant past I did some in N gauge. I'm just trying to get restarted in HO gauge but will wait until next winter season in Wisconsin to get into it too much. As far as foreign designs that is normal around here. French and English is big here, Welsh where is was before and Polish and French before that. When I decided to get into HO I wanted to do a "Petticoat Junction" portion but can't find the locomotive. I found the Drucer's Store was of Danish design. Could you post some links to the site you used? Richard
Scratch-mocked house: Small town high school built mostly with photocopies manipulated in photocopier to N scale, from scale drawings in Railroad Model Craftsman. Brick paper used to add color. And here is a power plant you can print off from Trainboard and build. My design in Photoshop. http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/548/PowerMock1.JPG http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/548/brickpapr.JPG http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/548/dynamos.JPG http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/548/PowrIsomet.JPG
Here is a topic with some good ideas: http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/paper-and-card-structures.53929/
In addition to the thread that Boxcab linked above, if you perform a Google search for free cardstock buildings, you will find a bunch more that you can download, print, and assemble. The number of free cardstock buildings available on the web numbers in the hundreds, so there are plenty to try. - Jeff
I did one, er, better than you. I've got a couple paper mockups on my railway. One was overly complex and I somewhat regret making it - the roofs keep coming off the dormer windows! The other one is the essence of simplicity...wanted to make passenger trains stop in the right place
Is this HO or N, and was it free? If it is free and there is an N-Scale version I would like the link please. Here are a few other sites. Some are free and some not. All of them in mainly German I think and other languages. Apparently Germany is really good at making paper carstock things. Plus it appears a lot are based on their cool real life structures. I just download the ones that I can figure out by looking at the pictures, since I can only read and speak English. I think they range easy to difficult: http://papermau.blogspot.com.br/search/label/architecture And really difficult and amazing ones. I think I have heard of this site. Do they make structures for model railroads? http://modellbau.wediul.de/index.html Alright, give us some FREE links please everyone!
Many of the cardstock plans are provided as PDFs. These are easy to print in any scale using the "Custom Scale" option in the Print dialog of Adobe's free Acrobat Reader. For plans provided as images, scaling is a little more difficult. You may need an image editor to do it, but there are free image editors available. - Jeff
A few more: http://web.archive.org/web/20110810171846/http://www.illinoishistory.gov/ps/construct_mainstreet.htm Containers: http://www.igshansa.de/igsdownloadeng.html ILLINOIS HISTORIC BUILDING MODELS https://www.illinois.gov/ihpa/Preserve/Pages/construct_mainstreet.aspx I don't think these are free: http://clevermodels.squarespace.com/models-gallery/ So how do I get N-Scale for say the Illinois buildings when printing?
The correct site for the Illinois Historic Buildings is: https://www.illinois.gov/ihpa/Preserve/Pages/construct_mainstreet.aspx The Illinois Historic Buildings are offered as PDFs. The site says they are HO scale. Here is what you need to do to print them in N scale. Download the PDF file and save it to your computer. Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader (get the reader at: https://get.adobe.com/reader/). In Acrobat Reader, select File > Print ... In the Print dialog box select Custom Scale. In the Custom Scale box, enter 54.375 (N scale is 54.375% of HO). Click Print. I recommend you first do a test print at your printer's lowest quality. When you are sure the model is printing correctly, then do a high quality print. - Jeff
Thanks for the info and correction on the Illinois site. Working on this one right now. Sign on top is going to be hard and the soda machine Guess I need to figure it out, because the next three building I want to put together have the exact same type of sign brackets http://papermau.blogspot.com.br/2015/06/easy-to-build-ugly-mau-auto-service.html http://papermau.blogspot.com.br/2015/06/easy-to-build-grocery-shop-paper-model.html http://papermau.blogspot.com.br/2015/06/the-nerd-warehouse-paper-model-by.html http://papermau.blogspot.com.br/2015/07/the-barber-shop-paper-model-by-papermau.html But that's another thing I like compared to a boxed model. I can print another and try again, or have duplicates. I am really, really, enjoying these card board models. A hobby within a hobby, I guess! Fixed the Illinois link, thanks!
Well, to be honest, it's a photo of mine. 3 photos. There were too many trees in front of the station and I have to stitch them. The perspective is all wonky and I didn't bother lining up one of the seams. You can find better
As far as spending money on building, I am a penny pincher the majority of my buildings are made of cardstock . When I was much young my weekly alloance provided to purchace one metal building I really wanted Unfortunately, before I got married I gave most of my toys away to much young family members, ( all that is excpet my one Lionel train set) so when I took up the hobby later in life, all i had was the trainset - I was fortunate to fine one of the building I had that I gave away on E-Bay BUT the price was prohibiting so I managed to get hold of some photos and then I reconstruted the building in cardstock as you can see I took the liberty of changing the look a bit I do have plans in PDF format should any one be interesed , this scaled for my Lionel setup and as you can see the foot print is large
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Most of my stuff is card stock, there are some 3 D puzzle houses from Rebitt and a few plastic building I picked up cheap at railway exchanges even a few of my trucks are cardstock , but the majority are diecast as I started collecting rucks much before I returned to my trains
