card stock building needed-and some help

Very neat idea! I may steal it and put it to use on our modular club. I can picture repainting 3 cars too.

If I figure out a plan I'll post it, but I have never tried anything like that before.

J White

It was my favorite saturday morning cartoon School House Rocks commercial!

Go here...

http://www.bigindoortrains.com...inplate_textures.htm

You will find free downloadable graphics (in several different scales and colors) for roofs, siding, doors and windows...probably just what you are looking for...

Hope this helps...

I use photo mat board for interior walls if I am detailing the inside of a building. Can you print the images you need on regular computer paper, then glue stick them to mat board? Might have to try several zoom sizes to get it close to "scale." Looks like a really fun project.

P.S. As 3D printers become cheaper and more available, the sky's the limit!

What a cool idea! 

You can use the basic small rectangular building (I think Little Glitter Houses has one that will work) and change the roof so the sign and porch are part of it. It's cartoon proportions anyhow, so if you add an inch to the roof peak, print the lettering and fold that part, it'll stand up well (or you can fold it around a scrap of card stock.) Allow an extra inch or inch and a half for the porch roof and that's good. 

Clear labels will work for And, But and Or, rather than decals. When you want them to go away, Un-Du will take them off.

You've all just reminded me that I have a building to put together, like, now...

Well, here's what I came up with for a mockup. It takes three sheets of paper, though I may have been able to squeeze it into two. I used two Q-Tips with the cotton ripped off for the posts because that was the first thing I found that would work. Someone smarter than me could probably figure out how to make the non-plumb walls all in one piece to eliminate three of the four tabs I used. It makes a building roughly 2 1/2" x 4", which is fairly close to what the cartoon would be assuming the door is 6' and change.

Here's the walls:

and here's the roof and sign:

The back roof tabs that fold under the roof to make the underside of the overhang finished are a bit off in the corners. They are supposed to touch, making a mitered corner underneath. They didn't touch in my mockup. It's not important enough to me to go back and redraw.

I kinda took an educated guess at the roof pitch and how far out of plumb the walls were. Naturally, what the two sides that aren't shown look like are anyone's guess.

Here's a picture of it next to a 6464 style boxcar to give an idea of the "scale"

Here's a Photobucket album with a bunch of pictures of the assembly process:

http://s224.photobucket.com/us...njunction%20junction

Anyone that wants a high resolution copy of these pages, just fire me an email. If anyone takes these and refines them by adding the siding to them, finishing the doors and windows, or making a better sign, I would like to see them.

J White

rogerpete,

Thanks for the compliment. The mock up is just made out of printer paper, so it's not as crisp as if you would use heavier stock. The sign would definitely look nicer. I think the stuff I have used on buildings I have printed off the internet has been 65 lb. Some of that stuff has held up for three years or better now. Of course, putting the building on a base to square it up and hold the posts in place would help too. The top of the building is actually pretty square because all the tabs for the roof are glued together and help keep everything straight.

That was the first time I had ever designed a building. I am surprised it came together so quick. I had toyed with the idea of making a house similar to a Plasticville Cape Cod and printing up a bunch of them and passing them out to kids at our modular club's shows. Perhaps that will happen now.

If you happened to make an extra set of the words, I could possibly take them off your hands for the right price (hint, hint)

J White

Oops, I didn't notice that I was supposed to abbreviate Junction on the sign.

Man, that is a great idea. I know I'm late to the party, but I could modify the bitmap files for my cardstock gas station to get a reasonable facsimile.

I am happy to help out anyone with lettering! I have received so much assistance from everyone on here, and stole my fair share of ideas...so lets consider this a contribution to the idea bank!

I think this will add a little fun to the layout & get some finger pointing & tune humming. Trains are toys, and toys are fun. 

When I get the lettering cut, I will post for anyone who wants it. I already have vinyl windows & doors cut as stickers, so maybe I can do a little resizing too.

What's been posted so far is terrific, I would just like to add to the knowledge base a little, Avery makes full size 8 1/2x11 sheets of their peel and stick labels #5265.  NO glue stick needed.  Makes for easy and quick and dirty signage, etc,.  Good thread, I love'd da' cartoon myself!   Russ