A Christmas Story Paper House

It sounds like fun!   Let's see a shot when you're done, please.

Well it's mostly finished. I'm running out of time so it might end up under the tree like it sits. I will get it lighted, but the steps, porch railings and some trim I was going to add may have to wait till after Christmas. Again I used foam board for the house walls and porch. For the roof I used, shhhhhhhh don't tell, USPS priority mailers. I like the large flat ones. The card board is couragated but very thin. so it's rigid but easy to cut and makes excelent sub roofing. The windows are printed on transparency film. I backed them up with tracing paper to get the color to pop when lit from behind. I should have used plain white paper. The tracing paper gives it a texture and really don't like it. But short of a rebuild I'm stuck with it. I wraped some 1/4" square wood stock with brick material to add some detail. I used some balsa to frame the windows and add facia to the roof.

The bottom is snow that the house sits on. I'm gonna take a piece of foam, (pink) and make a base and set the house down where the brick posts are at ground level. I will probably add snow to the roof. On some simple card stock christmas buildings I printed and assembled last year, I found baking soda sprinkled over spray adhesive looked very real.

Hope you enjoyed this. Merry Christmas to all.

That is really cool. I like it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

That is really neat!

--Greg

Wow, great job.

I watched the movie last night and you've got the house down perfectly.

It's pretty close. I studied pics of the house in the movie, and the restored house, (now an attraction). The colunms are too large and should be tapered. I didn't have the time,  but I think a wooden paint brush handle would have been perfect, was going to go to the dollar store or michaels and see if I could find some cheap ones. It scales out just a tic under 1/48 (thats going by door height).  I was lucky and found the free paper model and went from there. Thanks to all for the complements.

are there any other paper house plans out there??

Great job!!

And you didn't even shoot your eyes out! 

George

I've got the Bates house, it says 1/66 scale. Printing with adobe you can scale it up or down, paper size permiting. Here's the link http://www.haunteddimensions.r...im.com/index660.html

Also on same site the Amitville house.

http://www.haunteddimensions.r...im.com/index324.html

There are a couple more mansions there that may be usable depending on scale and if paper size will allow a scale up in printing size. I haven't yet printed out either but both  may find a home somewhere on the layout. I might need to do the Bates house as a low relief, but have not yet looked at that. There is quite a lot of free paper models out there, but some are of no intrest to me so I didn't pay too much attention to them or some had very poor detail. If I run into some more that I think may be usable I will post the link. I was kinda looking for a two story colonial today but found nothing in the time I had.

try this...

http://littleglitterhouses.com..._how_to.htm#tinplate

howard...

www.littleglitterhouses.com

Neat! I liked the idea enough to download the files. Question: How does one print it out at 110% size? Special program?

Chris

LVHR

No special program. Just the Adobe Reader. When you print, the print box will open, and under the page sizing selections is special scale, you can go up or down. You are limited by page size. I printed it at 110% but may have gone slightly larger without loosing any of the image. At that scale it's real close to 1/48.  You may get a box open that says something like image clipping , all of image may not print. Just ignore that, or click continue. The program doesn't see the image we want it sees it all, meaning all the white too. So you can scale up until the image won't actually fit on the page and edges are missing.

You are quite the artist !

Well done !

Thank you! A successful day is when I learn something.

Chris

LVHR

You did a great job with it. I just finished up my first cardstock building and they are not for everyone!! I download it and my try what you did and enlarge it. Thanks

Dio, great job! 

Don't forget the 'major award' and the neighbors dogs.

The "major award" is in the window and lit up. I forgot about the Bumpas's dogs. I'll have to work that in next year.

I found this site:   http://paper-replika.com  they have a few paper models to be had..

 it appears upon further investigation most of the download links are either questionable or simply ad generators.. let me know if you find otherwise

are there any downloadable plans sites?

I never seem to be good at searching!

Serves them right, the smelly buggers!

Jerry

Yours looks alot better than the one on the website you downloaded from.

Cutting the windows out and adding clear sheet would make it a nice scale model. The alterations to the porch are great!

Dlo, thank you so much for sharing this link with us. And I agree with Coach Joe above, your product looks nicer than the web site model.

Keep up the good work and please share your progress with us.

Charlie

Well it was just a paper model. And it looks like they just printed it on cardstock and glued or taped together. But the paper porch pillars and the railings, being solid really looked cheesy. But I wanted that particular house, and it does hold true to the original.

Thanks all for the compliments. I did booger it up here and there, but was generally happy with the results. I'd like to do all the trim in balsa, and maybe slice some fine stuff for the window dividers. If you haven't seen it, it's in the post christmas photo fun lit up. The details show fairly well in the photo. I just wish I had not used tracing paper behind the film. Regular white printer paper would probably let enough light thru, and not given me the wavy pattern behind the details.

It's a house we would all like to live in. If it's next to a railroad. Nice job. Don

A few times during the film when it's quiet you can here train noise....shunting and steam whistles......

stimulated by this conversation I st out  find more cutout buildings. what I found was a bunch of "free downloads that either came with caveats orpossible scams.

 in the process I found a wealth of "cut and aassemble" books that have soem grat HO scale buildings,

 these can easily be scanned and enlarged / printed at your nearest staples or your own office.

 for a beginning, try these:\ https://www.etsy.com/listing/1...an-early-new-england

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1...=shop_home_active_52

R2LC