Photos of card stock buildings I have built. I am using 1/8 " black foamboard on most of these. I built the buildings with stairs first. Never could make stairs very well Built the store last, I did my best work on it.
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A good beginning Bob...
Alan
Hello Bob • Very well done on this Railroad structure & the stairs.
Gary • Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway
I have a couple I plan on building once I work my courage up.
Nice, they looked very weathered and real.
I make and print my own by editing and printing images of heavy paper, then reinforcing them with wood blocks and foamboard inside to keep them straight. These are ones I made: I had no choice but to go with custom printed here because I was not going to have a barn on my layout unless it had a Mail Pouch ad painted on itsside. could not find a kit, etc., so I had to make one. Mine don't look quite as weathered and rich as yours - probably the printer I was using - but I am very happy with them.
I would encourage everything to "get their courage up" for trying. The cost of failure is so low, the chance to learn so certain, and the results are really surprisingly good when you get the hang of it.
Thanks. Nice, I like to see the different methods of making buildings and scenery.
I've done several card stock buildings for my layout. Here is a church I did...
I drew it on the computer using MS Paint.
Nice church. You draw well.
Any thoughts or recommendations as to backer material and glue for best results?
Jim McC
I actually prefer foamboard. It stays flat and is very easy to cut and work with. I use rubber cement to attach cardstock and printing pieces to the foamboard.
Thanks Lee and George. The layout should have a different look with a few cardstock buildings. I had better get building.
Jim
Can someone inform me on what they use to print? Regular color ink laser or ? Does the ink fade away....?
What printer are you all using to make the images? It's time for us to get a new printer and I'd like for it to be able to handle heavy card stock so that I can make some of these buildings and structures.
Davin
While I have not built a card stock building, much of this town is constructed from printed building flats or standups as on a broadway stage. The other structures are built from painted artists illustration board and basswood.
Only one town on the layout uses this approach but it works here:
Hi I am building several card stock buildings but several are set up for "OO" scale. what is the percentage to print them in "O" scale? I have tried but even with legal size paper the images run off the edge. Any ideas. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated
OO is 4 mm per foot
O scale 1/4 in per foot is 6.35 mm per foot.
BobDuckworth posted:Photos of card stock buildings I have built. I am using 1/8 " black foamboard on most of these. I built the buildings with stairs first. Never could make stairs very well Built the store last, I did my best work on it.
Nice work !
Amazing work.
-Tom
orkybrown posted:Hi I am building several card stock buildings but several are set up for "OO" scale. what is the percentage to print them in "O" scale? I have tried but even with legal size paper the images run off the edge. Any ideas. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated
I converted the wrong way.... will correct in another post in a bit.
should be 62.99% of the original, but go to 62.5% or 62% to stay in the margins if you can't do decimals. 63% would be a tad oversized.
Euro O might be 1:43 or 1:45. Others used in O may be semi scale and S, from 1:52-1:64(S)
Online percentage calculators are a dime a dozen. You can run 4 and 6.35 and 62.99% answer to see if you have the right formula chosen. (or to check my math 
)
A cheaper way to check instead of using tons of ink is to draw drafting style dimension lines for width & height on a plain white sheet of paper exactly the same size as the original image, and print that until you have a good reduction. Then when happy with the size, copy and print from the original.
The simension (←spellwreck insists on and ousing overthis here, over veranda over.) lol, forget it.
A.I. Artificial Idiocrazy 😏 (spelled as it ought to be)
The dimensioning sheets can be used many times to avoid waste, though too many lines is wasting ink too. (graphic artists don't waste a sheet or ink. Supply costs add up fast)
If I did 6.35", I'd mark it 4" so the printed result matches closer. (inch/mm/cm don't matter, just the numbers do)
<------------------------ 4"-------------------------->
158.75% 00 englarged to 0 (4 to 6.35).... I reduced O to 00 last post... oops.
I also cheated and used BINGS percentage calculator.
(at least my math was right )
These are a few buildings I have been working on. I use the program model builder to lay them out and print them on card stock with my canon inkjet printer and glued to foam board that I buy at the dollar store. After the first few buildings I started sizing the window openings to fit windows from tichy train group and a few 3d printed detail parts. I am now starting to add lighting.
This building has the widows and parts added
Amazing work. Nice. My old RR club had a member who was a model builder in WW II (what did you do during the war ?), he laid out by hand using photographs of original buildings and they were used on the layout as prototypes for the plastic ones.
Here are some of the card stock buildings on my railroad.
I would not like living in the apartment building when the trains shake the walls.
The Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building on the right are 3-D card stock puzzles which will be background structures on a second level mimic of New York City. The Empire State Building on the left and the Flat Iron Building are Dept 56 ceramic pieces.
The red and yellow houses on the left are card stock. The remainder of the buildings in this picture are ceramic, wood and plastic.
I built this building as an experiment. It is about 95% cardstock except where braced with strip wood. The two front windows are modified window castings, the two porch posts are strip wood and the front porch roof is corrugated roofing material, Paper, cardboard and card stock everywhere else...
Mark Diff posted:I built this building as an experiment. It is about 95% cardstock except where braced with strip wood. The two front windows are modified window castings, the two porch posts are strip wood and the front porch roof is corrugated roofing material, Paper, cardboard and card stock everywhere else...
Mark,
I didn't see any pictures with your post, so you might want to try again.
Tom
Ooops, user error! Pics have been added. Thanks for the heads up.
Two Pioneer Valley three story hotel kits used for a six story hotel. Copies of windows were used to cover the front door which would have been on the fourth floor. Scale size
Three Pioneer Valley kits make a nine story double wide hotel. Back wall is foam board. Scale size kit next to Menard's scale size hotel.
Two Pioneer Valley kits. 
Building on the viewers left is from a Pioneer Valley kit. Same building was available in red brick. Both kits had two options for type of retail building and a second floor bay window which could be added, your option.
John in Lansing, ILL
Bobby Ogage, I've got that card stock Empire State Building also. Plan on the same use as you.
Mark Diff, is the clapboard siding strip wood over the card board?
coach joe posted:Bobby Ogage, I've got that card stock Empire State Building also. Plan on the same use as you.
Mark Diff, is the clapboard siding strip wood over the card board?
Joe, the clap boards are strips of cardstock. Look closely at the first picture. Those strips are cut from the sheets of cardstock there on the right. For finer card stock, I use cereal boxes, Wheaties, Cheerios, etc.
When it comes to cardstock buildings my first choice is Clever Models. Check them out. Amazing detail and easy to construct. The price is right, too.
Logan
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