I have some bldgs. I did and would like to put something
in the windows do the have decals of lamps or curtains??
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Check out Evan Designs website and also do a search for building interiors here. You will find a tremendous amount of information with lots of great ideas. Evan is an easy place to start but the real fun comes as you try what some of the guys on here suggest.
Curtains, shades, blinds, full interiors, etc. It's all there.
Why decals????
Just find images on the net, scale them and print them.
Cheap and easy!!!
Two "tricks" I do with mine:
1) I print up building interior walls on colored paper and take them about two inches behind the windows. With a little work you can make it look real enough.
2) I paint curtains (white, yellow, etc., paint) on the inside of the windows once they are installed. Check out my Imperial Hotel thread here, did that for all windows.
3) If you want the look of pull down blinds, you can put manilla color masked tape aross the inside of the windows. It looks just like a blind pulled partly or all the way down, depending on where you position it.
Originally Posted by AMCDave:
Why decals????
Just find images on the net, scale them and print them.
Cheap and easy!!!
What Dave says.
Wallpaper, Flooring, tablecloths, clock, calendar, blackboard are all images off the web.
Before detailing the interiors I just put images in the windows.
Pete
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Pete,
Nice interior!
Dave
For years in my models, I have used paint samples(free) from Home Depot/Lowes/Busy Beaver,etc. You get many shades of the same color vein and there are unlimited color choices. Cut to the size of your window and tape or glue to the inside. As far as lamps and interior furniture, Scenic Express has bedroom dining room and bathroom pieces as well kitchen. For open window curtains, gather up the foil from insode cigarette packages...shape the foil and glue at the top, allow them to hang and blow out the window. This technique also works well for clothes hanging on an outside line.
I made a very small flag stop station (a grandt line kit) and put a small stove and a chair inside. Knowing you wouldn't be able to see very much through the permanently open door (and I doubt I'll put lights in there), I nonetheless put board line 'wallpaper' in there into the corner you'd be able to see from the open door. I included a 1943 wall calendar as well as a 'Vargas girl' calendar print from Esquire for the same year. All extracted from the internet, printed on 'sticker' paper and pasted to the interior walls.
Outside (of course, the interior is in the one to the left):
Inside:
Lee, what type of paint do you use for curtains on acetate?
ill try the computer im not a wiz on it but we will see thanks for the feed back
Roy, If you are using a computer that runs Windows you can download a free program called "Irfanview". With it you can not only edit the images for size but also create arrays of images. The tablecloth in the diner scene above was made with one red square and one white square.
Another nice feature is when you go to print the image you can size it in inches or millimeters for your printer. An image that fills your computer screen can be reduced to a square inch or whatever size you need to fill a space. Thats how the clock, blackboard, and calendar in the same pic were made.
Pete
