Cardboard Buildings

Very good Dave.

Skyline made a bunch of cardboard/wood kits. Kusan had signs, signal towers, water towers etc, Bilt-Rite had a good selection of structures. McLoughlin Bros did the Pretty Villiage books of cardboard structures (http://pastispresent.org/2011/...-new-pretty-village/ ). These can be found reproduced by Dover Publications from the 1980's. Other Dover books contain cardboard trains and buildings

Steve

Fantastic work, Dave. Those look great!

Those came out awesome!  Nice job Dave.

Dave,

Those are great! Keep it up.

Dave, is there any chance that you'll go commercial with any of these?  Some of us with the motor skills of a snail might like to add some to our layouts.

Dave,

Wow. Very nice. How did you get the picture to print on the card stock?

take a look at this link...all the graphics are free for your non-commercial use...

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

howard...

Howard.......so many cool projects, so little time.

Steve

Thanks, Howard. Plenty of neat projects

That is some very fine work, Dave.  Could you be persuaded to post a how-to, detailing how you accomplished it?  I presume the original images were scanned from tinplate structures, then modified and printed.  Did you print directly on the cardboard, or is it paper fastened to the cardboard surface with adhesive?  What kind of cardboard is it?

Very innovative.

Thanks for all the info and links.  I second Balshis' question for a tutorial...something simple enough for even someone like me to follow to follow.

And thanks again to Dave for posting the pictures.

The link gave excellent instructions.

I enjoy threads like this a lot:  some great ideas and resources here -- perfect for holiday layouts.  Dave, thanks for sharing this!  I'll bet you could make some $$ selling .pdf files of your work (hint).  

Can't find the ol' smiley for...

GOOD THREAD!

I'll seconded that

Hi Fellas.

Sorry for the delay in responding.  Thanks for all the positive comments. 

Haven't given too much thought to going "commercial" with these.  My real job keeps me pretty busy with the "real" world.

Printing was done by FedEx.  I just told them what I wanted.  I was sure to specify laser printing however, the finish is different than a inkjet.  It's a lot more durable with the handling it takes to assemble the structures too.

Howard, I've been a fan of you sites for quite a while...I'll have to repeat what has already been said here: so many projects...so little time.

So details..I do not own any of the original structures.  All of the artwork was downloaded off the internet from various sources.  I use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to both clean up the artwork, and to manufacture new parts.  Finding artwork of the appropriate size is 99% of the battle.  The other 1% involves a wallpaper knife and patience.

I use a water based paper glue from Staples to mount the cardstock on foamcore.

Once the glue is applied, I have a piece of safety glass which I use to apply even pressure.  I'm not even sure if mounting the card stock is necessary if you don't intend to handle the structures very often.

The "Big Indoor Trains" website has some great tinplate structures to get your feet wet with.  I would recommend trying some of the projects on that site.  You'll be surprised how much you'll learn, and how much fun it is.

Maybe sometime in the future (in my spare time between midnight and dawn), I'll see if I could produce these kind of things for sale.  HAHA 

Dave

Here is the site where you can get some building plans and ideas.

http://littleglitterhouses.com...how_to.htm#lewispark

I've been experimenting with paper "tinplate" (paper plate?) buildings too. I draw them up in MS Paint (not quite as nice as the Photoshopped ones though). Printed with home ink jet printer and cut out and glued to foamcore board. Need to spray with clear gloss when the glue dries.

Hi Andy.

What a nice station.  I love the arched windows and doors and the wooden platform.   The windows have a real 3D feel to them.  Was this station based on you own design?

Would love to see more photos...

Dave.

Dave, thanks. Yes it's my own design. here's a couple more pics.

Andy, the last pics didn't show up.  Just got little blue boxes with question marks.

Great work! The Ives power house looks fantastic.

On the subject of modelling in cardboard, you may well find this interesting. Its a cardboard girder bridge, the instructions of which come from a 1928 Meccano Magazine.

Dave Upton