AVANTI Very nice stone work you did on the pink foam. The shack is not too shabby either.
Amfleet25124 posted:Ted (Quarter Gauger 48) - I will have to look into that.
This is a great thread. Keep those photos coming along. Lost of great work on display and ideas to put in everyone's head.
Okay Kevin, enough talk. save your money, hold off on York'... Spend $40.00 bucks on the "Model Builder Software" and start building and constructing.... some original structures'.......... You'll love it'...
OR'... try a "Clever" Brothers model'... they're good, you'll like them.... ☺
Wow!! Incredible work everyone! And some great lighting as well.
Your paper buildings have surely come a long way from my mother's "putz houses" we had on our S gauge Christmas layout when I was a kid :-)
(For examples: http://www.cardboardputzhouses.com/)
I use "paper structures" too but they consist of interchangeable photos of buildings, tipples, and etc. that I insert in plastic stands from Staples. It's a carpet layout, so I can easily make location and structure changes this way.
Tomlinson Run Railroad
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Charlie posted:
Charlie,
The kit came that way, according to the friend who built it and later gave it to me. I added a modified front porch, smoke stack, and weathered it.
I can't remember the kit maker, but I think it is one of the better ones available. It exceeds the 18" rule and the surfaces really look like they have depth...
Composite kits, Card stock, paper shingles, wood, plastic, etc. Coal tipple
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I ordered my first nine paper structures from Clever yesterday and will try to prove that I'm as good with scissors as I was in first grade. They have a lot more going for them than I anticipated, extra doors and windows, details galore, and some things that I don't yet understand.
It looks like a fun challenge.
I bought a whole bale of Clever Models stuff back about six months ago...then got sidetracked on kit bashing Plasticville. Might be time to take a break from plastic and try paper.
The Good Reverend is waiting for his Sunday Services to resume.
This is a pressed board kit I bought a number of years ago. My "to do" list includes adding some additional detailing (including a bell) and enhancing the surroundings.
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I have several experiments using paper on my layout. It was enjoyable to design unique buildings. I papered wood for larger bldgs, and reinforced foam board for flats and small buildings. I tip my hat to all the great work posted on this thread.
@Forty Rod posted:I bought a whole bale of Clever Models stuff back about six months ago...then got sidetracked on kit bashing Plasticville. Might be time to take a break from plastic and try paper.
Tom, We have several Clever Brothers completed kits on our railroads. Just follow the directions, don't improvise and you'll do a good job. Felt tip pens can cover a bunch of sins. John in Lansing, ILL
@brianel_k-lineguy posted:...snip...One of our forum members, Gandydancer, had taken some plug door 027 box cars, redid the sides and made reefers out of them using printed sides. T ...snip...
These O scale Heatbath car sides are a single printed side:
As you can see, they could be applied to whatever kit the builder was using:
As I understand it, the sides were given out to anyone who sent in the required postage and an S-A.S.E. Someone who worked at Heatbath was a modeler and had these made up, probably just before WW2; interesting as Heatbath never owned/leased any cars with their name proudly emblazoned on the sides. So far my friend and I have found three different road numbers, I wonder how many were offered and if the requester had any choice in the matter. I eventually want to have the artwork enlarged a few percent and applied to a center-flow hopper and maybe a tanker.
BTW: The Heatbath Corporation was still in business until 2015 when they were acquired by DuBois Chemicals.
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@rattler21 posted:Tom, We have several Clever Brothers completed kits on our railroads. Just follow the directions, don't improvise and you'll do a good job. Felt tip pens can cover a bunch of sins. John in Lansing, ILL
I still have a few PV kit bashes to finish, but one of them is in great need for two Quonset buildings...longer than the Clever model and with doors and windows ala cam Rahn Bay ca 1968, and a large corrugated warehouse.
I'll get there eventually.
Thanks.
Tom
The two houses and background are Built-Rite from the 30's - 40's scanned scaled larger and then printed. The lumber shed is Skyline from the 50's scanned scaled slightly smaller and then printed.
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These garages are wood ,4x4 untreated pine , cut to the shape I wanted then covered in paper . The doors and windows are my own design and printed at the local office store . The roofing is from corrugated paper from a hobby shop and the embossed brick is from Woodlandsceens . The vegetation is drawn on using colored markers . These were made to go by my 184 Bungalows and villas on my standard gauge floor layout .
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A couple more card stock models.
I built the garage a few years ago and I just finished the trailer
both are from clever models
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Nice! Is that a model of a building on Richmond terrace?
👍🏻 Very nice job on those builds Steve'...
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Here’s my first attempt at a card stock building. It’s the free sample download at the Evan Designs website. I used matchsticks and coffee stir sticks to add some details. Downloaded several antique signs from the internet. That will add more detail. Easy to build and opened up a whole new world of possibilities for my layout.
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Nice work!!!
When I was a teenager (ancient times) a buddy and I stumbled onto an old new in the box skyline kit for 4 buildings. We pooled our funds and bought it for Lionel layouts. He took the water tower and freight station, and I took the passenger station and control tower. These have survived over 50 years and have been fixed up a little but are basically original. I think the big think I did was add more internal bracing to straighten out a little warping.
I think they still look pretty good from 3 feet away.
I have also scratchbuilt a couple of industrial buildings using "strathmore" or poster board and Grandt Line or Tichy windows and doors.
Oops do not have photo of other industrial stuff.
The following is the back, trackside, of a line of commercial buildings in one of my towns. the fronts are not visible from any angle and are blank. These are 1/4 inch foam core, brick paper and again grandt line plastic windows and doors.
Finally there was an outfit called "Pioneer Valley" that sold paper kits and I bought a few.
The Pioneer Valley stuff is pretty crude compared to what you can do with the new printable paper kits today.
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prrjim, all very nice examples. Actually, to me the Pioneer Valley buildings in your photos look like tin plate-style printing -- so there's a lot of charm in that. Your vehicles each do a great job of setting off the buildings.
TRRR
Those are some fine looking paper building. They seem to be a great solution to get building much faster than building a kit out of plastic or wood. In the 40s and 50s the use of paper brick and roofing was very common. I have two buildings my Dad built from 1/8 in Masonite and covered with brick and roofing paper.
I used the same methods to build my round house and other buildings over 35 years ago. A total card stock building would have been much quicker but the Masonite and brick paper went very quick. Masonite buildings are stronger and mine have been in 5 different house and moves over 35 years.
The Station at top left was made in late 1940s by my Dad. The building in rear and Round House made in 1980s by me. Roofs are rough side up Masonite.
Charlie
Just finished this building flat- all paper cardstock printed on an ink-jet printer.
Print, cut, glue, repeat.
Building a fence now
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Here is something I wanted to contribute. It is not mine, it was scratchbuilt by my friend's younger brother. A HO double track truss bridge (now decommissioned and out of service) made totally from PAPER. (Thin cardstock). This still amazes me. Each separate girder was made individually with all the cross braces ( there are thousands of them) within was cut out individually with an Xacto knife and Elmers glue. The rivet heads were embossed with a pen from the opposite side. And made all the gussets too.Then painted it. It would hold up 2 heavy Bowser die cast engines passing through with no problem. He worked on it evening after evening for months.