Papercraft - Build your own mainstreet

Great link!  Thanks.

Nice, Thanks for sharing. The Lincoln Tomb would look awesome the city park I have on my layout. 

I saw this a couple of years ago and never did anything about it.  Now's the time.

Thanks for the link.

Forty Rod posted:

I saw this a couple of years ago and never did anything about it.  Now's the time.

Thanks for the link.

You're welcome! I'm going to meet up with my friend and have him go over some of the how to and such. Which one are you going to work on?

Would you happen to know what scale the buildings are?  I couldn't find the scale on the print that I looked at.  Thanks for the great link!

Chief Bob (Retired)

Looking at the photos on the main page toward the bottom, guessing that the people in the pictures are not midgets  they look like they would fit in a 1:48 layout with a little creativity. 

PUFFRBELLY posted:

Would you happen to know what scale the buildings are?  I couldn't find the scale on the print that I looked at.  Thanks for the great link!

Chief Bob (Retired)

From the website:

"Welcome to a fun website for kids of all ages who want to build HO scale models of actual Illinois historic buildings."

Rusty

Seems to me that for anybody with the ability to scale images, they can be any scale you like. On most computers, you can do that while printing.

Make the doors 1 1/2 inches tall, the rest will follow!    Russ

Yes and you have to remember  not  to down load so many buildings that it  will  be almost impossible to make them all , no matter what you intentions were in the first  place ..... I made that mistake  I have files and files  of real nice cardstock buildings  but I doubt I  will get 50% of them made  even if I go at it  all day every day

........ I guess my eyes were bigger than my belly  .   I think that is the  saying  that is used .........

I believe I'll get Beecher Hall and the Old Main building to go with a college I'm building to represent my home town.  I don't have room for the whole 2 x 3 1/2 mile campus, but I can show my respect for what was a large part of my life.

The Old Main building gas to be enlarged to  a total of 180% - 190% to make it work for my Marx O27 / S sized buildings.

Time to go to Office Depot and get some printing done on heavier stock.  Probably bond it to 1/8" foam board, but I'm looking for suggestions on that..

I'll remove the second story to keep it from overwhelming the rest of my structures.

Looks like they are all about the same scale.  1 1/2 inches is only 6 feet in O scale.  I'll make my first one larger and see where it goes from there.

Thanks - Excellent tip for flat structures. I am going to get the size and then email the jpeg files to my photo lab to be printed on continuous tone satin paper and then spray with Testers Dullcote.

Light coat of chalk & mount print.

Gary: Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway

Okay, after some fiddling around I came up with an increase to 150% for the right size for MY layout.

Strange that Trainroomgary posted a pic of the Tinsley Dry Goods building.  I've decided that's one to start with. I'll be using the front and left side only and fitting it to a flush mount against a backdrop.

Got to do some shopping and finish up a few other projects first (a bucket list of Plasticville kit bashes), but should get to it soon.

Can't wait to see what you come up with Tom. what size are you working with?

My trains are 1950s era Marx O27.  Structures are everything from Marx, to Plasticville with a lot of other stuff thrown in.  I have tin cookie and candy boxes, some ceramic Christmas buildings, K-line, and others... and now some paper and a few scratch or scratch-kit bash combos.  I even have a Menard's quonset hut and a very large "college old main" building made for most of two Pegasus hobbies large gothic structures kits.  (PV kits come without roofs so I'll have to do some trial-and-error engineering to get them right.)