New Cardstock building complete

Looks great.

 

Card stock models are something I plan to try in the future.

To me, I can't even tell that its a card stock building.  I always wondered (after getting back into this within the past year) how those buildings would look all put together.  I must say, what you've done has me pretty convinced.  Looks great!

Outstanding

It has a lot more character and interest than most manufactured examples.

 

Charlie....just beautiful my friend...WOW!!  I agree, it has a lot of character and you did a wonderful job. 

 

Alan

Charlie,

That building is absolutely beautiful! I love the Clever Models products.

When you starting the next one, they are habit forming?

Malcolm

Charlie - You did a great job on it!  You sure can't tell by the picture that it is made of card stock.

 

Art

Great job Charlie! It doesn't look card stock.

Fantastic looking.

That turned out great. Another neat building. Always a problem for me, too many, and not enough room...................

Wow....Charlie, that looks really good.

That looks really good.

You did an excellent job on constructing it.

 

Last winter and this winter I have been working on making buildings for my future layout.

All my buildings are made out of 1/8 inch paneling with printed paper glued to the outside.

Beautiful Job Charlie. Very impressive structure. 

I'd never know that building was card stock if you hadn't mentioned it. It looks great!

I've never built one, as I was intimidated by it, but after doing this plaster wall roundhouse, it can't be any more involved than that.

hi Charlie

 

     Very Nice! Would love to see it up close.

 

Ray Marion

That does look very challenging, but it is a very impressive result.  You should be proud of your work.

Charlie

 

Looks good. The folded areas are the only thing that gives a card-stock building away as card-stock; It's hard to tell on this one because of the brick color variations.

It really looks great.  How long did it take you from start to finish?

That is terrific. Quite different in it is not a run of the mill looking structure. I like it.

Very nice work!! I like cardstock kits too!!!!!

 

 

That is really nice looking Charlie.

 

Thanks for sharing.

Fooled me. Outstanding job!

Very nice! I'm going to give Clever Models another look.

AMC Dave,

Where did you find these buildings? Very nice.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. The work of Clever Models is really nice and makes things pretty easy.

 

Most of the problems came from either when I tried to modify from the original plans or simply me not having or using the proper technique, mostly in regards to gluing.

 

This build took me about 20 hours I'm guessing. I did the roof, front windows and sign twice.

 

If you look at the Clever Models site, this kit started out as the "Small Machine Factory or Tool shop".

 

I really like the brick buildings to I'm thinking of trying my hand at the "Hoosier Mama" building that I will modify into the building from the "O. Winston Link" image, "Mainline on Main Street". I guess that is why I have started looking into Cardstock, the ease of which you can make changes.

 

Ray, Alan, and the other DuPage guys, I will bring this to the show this weekend and you can see and touch for yourself, done correctly, it really looks 3 dimensional, even up close.

 

Things on my mind for the next buildings are adding "clear" windows and lighting up the structure with interior as well as exterior lights.

 

Also, I will start to look into a "cement" base, also which Clever Models has a few choices of.

 

In any case, thanks again for the kind words. As Dave posted above, they can make nice buildings.

 

Charlie

 

 

 

 

 

Charlie, to mimic others, I wouldn't have known it was cardstock without you telling me. It is a great looking building! What is their site? I would like to see what I might like to try.

Hello Paul:

 

Sorry about that, I just assumed that everyone here knew about the site. That is a very bad assumption.

 

 http://www.clevermodels.net/

 

This is a brother team that does this part time. They have displayed at the O Scale shows, the Big E show, Trainfest in Milwaukee and a few other in the Midwest and East. The samples they show in person are simply stunning and like most others who have seen them, look so 3 dimensional that you have to touch them to feel that they are pretty flat.

 

Give the site a look as I'm sure there is something that will find your interest.

 

Charlie

I have looked at these in the Chicago O scale show.  The art work is really good...and

you have to look close to verify that it is printed.  With the addition of some three

dimensional trim..window/door frames, buttresses, signs, etc., these can stand a very close scrutiny.

Charlie,

 

Very nice job!

 

Dave

 

Buildings have turned out nice though they seem more 1/43ish. Built the Ice House then saw an HO one built up on a layout. Borrowed it for fit, worked out much better size wise. We'd probably go with the HO ones for anymore.

I have always liked cardstock and illustration board models as they are economical, realistic looking and have a nice flat finish. I've used Ameritown and cardstock flats on my layout in the background and scratch built structures up close. The effect is very pleasing. These models are typical of the variety that can now be found out there and you did a nice job of assembling them

What type of cardstock do you print the buildings on?

The card stock kits I have are printed on stock that is like a file folder. I am considering printing on 20 pound bond and pasting it to foam board.

How about matte photo paper? Would that work? What thickness foam would you use?

George (G3)

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what I am doing now mind you I'm new at it built 4th building today (started yesterday) haven't detailed them at all yet. just building and putting in place to see if it's what I want on the layout first but anyways. I have been printing on regular paper then I cut out the image, then spray contact adhesive on foam core board it measures out to be 3/8, then put image on and rub smooth to the board. then cut it out. then cut the edge out on 2 boards so the other two boards fit at the corners. then hot glue it together. once I have the simple box I lay it over the foam board and trace out a roof for it. I would like to get more detailed with them. cut out windows and recess tehm and the doors and add lights but at this time I want to make sure it's what I want first.so far i'm likeing the results and having fun with it . not bad for $7.00 so far in foam board.

 

I did want to ask how did you do the beer sign on the side of the building. I tried yesterday and failed LOL

 

Lots of great information posted above, I might start a new building sooner than I expected with all the positive feedback.

 

Anyway, as far as paper stock I ended up using Red River Paper

 

http://www.redrivercatalog.com/

 

Various weights of 88 and 60 Polar Matt as well as 47 lb. Premium Matt.

 

I did a fairly extensive testing matrix of papers and printer settings and ended up with the Red Rivers as the best options for my needs.

 

To be fair, the owners of Cleaver Models did not recommend "photo papers" for some reason, might have to do with how the papers fold. In any case, I found the quality of the printed image more then offset the corner fold seems.

 

I also tested, and rejected, the following papers:

 

Strathmore Bristol 100 and Bristol 2-Ply.

 

Cougar 65 and 80, smooth white.

 

Borden & Riley 108 lb. smooth white.

 

In all cases of side-by-side viewing, the Red River papers held better detail, and gave the best color response, probably due to the brightness.

 

With that said, there might be a need for the other papers to provide a "look" that the Red River Papers could not provide, but that will have to be proven at a later time.

 

The other thing I did was to test a line of markers for the edge detail. I ended up using the Faber Castell Piti Artist pens mostly used the gray tones as these pens take to paper very well with minimal edge bleeding.

 

Like I said in the original post, this was my first building so there was a lot of learning and I suspect I have a lot more to learn. Over on the Clever Models site, there are a few guys who have freely given me a lot of information that proved to be extremely helpful.

 

Charlie

Very Clever Modeling.

Charlie - I just read over on the 2 rail forum that Clever won't be coming to the O Scale Meet.  That is a shames as I was hoping to check out their newest stuff there.  I am very impressed with what you have done with their products.

 

Art