PAPER HOUSSSES

If the paper Houses are HO gauge just print them double size.

Set the print driver to print 200 % or so.

HO means Half O.

Doors will be almost 2 inches high in O gauge if printed to the correct scale.

Actually, the "half O" (which is correct) refers to the gauge, not the scale. N.American O gauge (the track) is actually too wide for the scale (1:48) and scales out to 5 feet, not the correct 4' 8.5".

If HO were half O scale, it would be 1:96, not 1:87, as it is.

But, printing the houses twice as big would probably do just fine, pretty much.

TOTRAINYARD AN D500 thank you very much for the advice, I'll try it and hopes it works, Let's see using HO an print using 200per cent. but will that all fit onto legel size paper?  Again thank you both.   Sonny

Odds are no.

sonny posted:

TOTRAINYARD AN D500 thank you very much for the advice, I'll try it and hopes it works, Let's see using HO an print using 200per cent. but will that all fit onto legel size paper?  Again thank you both.   Sonny

Sonny, good to hear from you!  No, it will not fit on legal. You will need ledger (tabloid paper 17" x 11") sized paper and multiple pages for a building. Also, a printer that can handle 11" wide paper.

MOONMAN, something tells me I should forget the thing all together, any other way I could go?  But remember 91 near 92 Oct 3rd, and fixed income this sounded good to be, But as they say too good to be true.  Again fellows thanks again and all I wish a very healthy years to come.  Sonny

This one fits on 2 or 3 sheets of 8.5" x 11" paper (or cardstock)...

I was little concerned, not having read a post of yours in a while.   I should know better.  I hope your trains are running and you can have some time with them.

Model Train Software has easy to use builder stuff that you can size to fit sections onto legal.

You could also take the file to Staples or a print shop and they'll do it for you.

http://www.modeltrainsoftware....deling-software.html

For those that care to be exact O scale is 1.8 times bigger than HO. Setting the printer to 180% would give exact O scale and save a little paper, maybe.

Yes MOONMAN, it's good knowing you are still on the forum, Now HANDYANDY, did you uss modelbuilding.org for your building? anso that you COUNTRY JOE, I'll try that.  I have to keep going back and forth to make sure I have all the names right. To all you great guy's again thank you, at this rate I'm bound the print something out.  If nothing else maybe my name.  SONNY

Scale conversion from HO to O would be 87/48 = 181%. But if you want to match up with "traditional" size postwar O gauge, try about 150%.   

Print it out using whatever printer you have. Cut out all the various pieces even the ones that show up on multiple pieces of paper.   Paste ALL the PIECES onto foam board cut for the correct size of the building walls or you could also use cardboard.  The seam will NOT be seen.  Don't over think it, think wall papering a whole wall using narrow rolls of paper.  Russ

ChiloquinRuss posted:

Print it out using whatever printer you have. Cut out all the various pieces even the ones that show up on multiple pieces of paper.   Paste ALL the PIECES onto foam board cut for the correct size of the building walls or you could also use cardboard.  The seam will NOT be seen.  Don't over think it, think wall papering a whole wall using narrow rolls of paper.  Russ

Ahhh - the voice of sensibility.

These skyscrapers are from Scalescenes OO kits and other sources bashed together.

I like to use parts of models rather than as-is kits whenever I can.  This rounded building has Scalescenes brick paper, sidewalks & concrete trim , windows from a structure you can download from Big Indoor Trains and a KFC sign I printed on vellum.  I'm not a scale purist.  I just print things as close as I can get to "what looks right" and go with it.  They're not terribly easy to see, but there are MTH people inside the tower on the left and K-Line, Model Power and other larger figures outside.  Obviously the 2 structures aren't the same scale, but they work well enough together in a world where O and S gauge trains run side by side.  As a rule I prefer to use the larger figures as my guide to what a 6 foot man would be and I design around them.  In point of fact, the taller buildings were printed using the "what is the largest part that I need to print whole?" method.

This is the "summer" version of the 4 by 6 layout in my bedroom.  It's a tribute to friends I have in Thailand.  However I don't have any Thai locomotives so this is still the domain of the Nickel Plate, NYC and the like.    I modeled the station loosely on the royal waiting room at Hua Hin.

Becky