cardstock buildings

As a follow up to my experiment card stock building. I built this tower almost exclusively card stock. Here is the prototype:

And here is the model. Only two window castings were used, can you identify them? Strip wood for bracing and I believe two pieces for the staircase vertical posts and hand railing posts, the rest is card stock, card board and construction paper...

Shoot, even the fuel tank in the above photo is cardstock mostly...

That's scary good work with card. What about the stairs/railings and the floors?

AGHRMatt posted:

That's scary good work with card. What about the stairs/railings and the floors?

Matt, I assume your talking about the next to last pic. Yeah, that floor is card stock. What I did is this. I took some scale 2x6 pieces of strip wood and glued them onto some mat board. I painted and weathered the "floor". I then photographed  it. Printed out the picture onto paper and glued the paper to the card stock floor, cut it to size and installed it into the structure, so its is really no different from a clever model, similar principle. The vertical posts on the railing around the descending staircase are strip wood but the horizontal members are card stock. The end post finials are craft beads.

Mark,

  Very nice work there.

Tom 

Pioneer Valley City Plumbing and Gate Machine Co.  Building to the right is an MTH mill.

Pioneer Valley Larson's Grocery Store with optional second floor bay window installed.

Pioneer Valley Goldsmith Furniture Co.  Same as grocery store above, different sign and window inserts and red brick rather than yellow.

John in Lansing, ILL

Mark Diff posted:

As a follow up to my experiment card stock building. I built this tower almost exclusively card stock.

Shoot, even the fuel tank in the above photo is cardstock mostly...

I've done some card stock (I've gone back to craftsman kits), so I know cardstock can be difficult sometimes, but your work shown here is really outstanding.  Impressive!

D.

I never heard of the expression cardstock or cardstock modeling before this topic was posted.

There are cardstock models shown on this thread that I consider to be outstanding works of art. 

I now realize, without knowing what it was called or what I was doing, that I have created things made of cardboard for my layout. (I confess that when doing so in the past, at times I thought I was an idiot, but thanks to this thread, I won't think like that about it in the future.)

The orange ticket booths below are my homemade structures made of cardboard on my layout:

I would appreciate your honest feedback, good or bad, about my cardboard ticket booths.

Here's my honest opinion: I think it was a very good idea, maybe a pretty good first start, but not a very good final product. I made them maybe 5 years ago, and probably found small pictures of ticket booths on the Internet, printed them, and glued them on the cardboard.

I believe the scene would be improved if I found very good models of ticket booths the correct size at a train show or on the Internet and bought them (my preference if they exist, which I doubt), or I took a stab at making better cardboard ticket booths later on. Arnold

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

I never heard of the expression cardstock or cardstock modeling before this topic was posted.

There are cardstock models shown on this thread that I consider to be outstanding works of art. 

I now realize, without knowing what it was called or what I was doing, that I have created things made of cardboard for my layout. (I confess that when doing so in the past, at times I thought I was an idiot, but thanks to this thread, I won't think like that about it in the future.)

The orange ticket booths below are my homemade structures made of cardboard on my layout:

I would appreciate your honest feedback, good or bad, about my cardboard ticket booths.

Here's my honest opinion: I think it was a very good idea, maybe a pretty good first start, but not a very good final product. I made them maybe 5 years ago, and probably found small pictures of ticket booths on the Internet, printed them, and glued them on the cardboard.

I believe the scene would be improved if I found very good models of ticket booths the correct size at a train show or on the Internet and bought them (my preference if they exist, which I doubt), or I took a stab at making better cardboard ticket booths later on. Arnold

Very interesting booths. I especially like the ticket windows. The roofs could use a little work. One nice thing about cardstock is it is relatively inexpensive so changes and improvements can be done somewhat more economically than say styrene.

Thanks everyone for the encouraging comments. I view card stock as a resource or raw material, just like plastic sheet or strip. The beauty of it is you can cut it, glue it, laminate it, shape it, form it and paint it like plastic.

Look at Clever models and you see what I mean. However, with those models and others that are similar, its harder to change the paint and change the basic look than using plain card stock. That is why I prefer to use their texture sheets. Here are some pictures of things I made with those...

1st this steel tank was made with Clever texture paper...

The cinder block wall on the structure below is also by Clever...

The red brick front wall is Paper Creek models brick paper.

old_toymaker posted:

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

 

In my home town there was a few fills.That looked like your warehouse.Very good looking buildings you have here.Let us see them when you have added lights to them.

Card stock over foam board.  Tan brick building was scratch built about twenty years ago.  Corregated paper for roll up doors and PRB windows cut into thirds for the large windows.  Red brick building with curved track side wall was made by cutting the floors and roof to shape, then scoring one side of a piece of foam board so it could be formed to the desired curve. Corners are clear plastic right angle pieces used to protect drywall corners which are covered with card stock.  Same with upright pillars, individually covered and then glued in place. Brick card stock was bought from an OGR staff member about twenty-five years ago. Sheets were about 15-18" by 24-30". I only bought about five sheets of each, should have bought at least twice that amount.   John in Lansing, ILL

The only card-stock structure on the layout (added front porch):

Mark, very nice scratch builds using card stock.

Arnold the ticket booths are a very nice first model.  As Mark said the roofs could use some work.  I'm sure if you give the roofs another try you may be more than satisfied with your ticket booths.

Are the Pioneer Valley card stock models still available?

You can build some great structures from cardstock and basswood. Just follow the 1/4" to the ft rule and use brick and stone papers. Nice job here.

Dennis LaGrua posted:

You can build some great structures from cardstock and basswood. Just follow the 1/4" to the ft rule and use brick and stone papers. Nice job here.

...or even balsa.

Unless modeling modern structures, I prefer hand-scribed brick and stone. I don't have the patience to do true 1:48 brick, but even at twice the scale it still looks fine, and hand-done work tends to look less "manufactured" to my eye. 

For millwork and other details, I like to use Bristol board, which is basically a light artist's cardstock. You can get it at Michael's in the art section.

Between balsa/basswood, cardstock and pink foam, one can build most anything. Structures built that way tend to look "softer" and older than those fabricated from styrene and other more precise materials, but I think this goes well with postwar Lionel, which is what I run.