Printed Stone graphics to help you detail your layout

That looks really good, I like it a lot.  Great job!  I'm going to make sure I remember this thread when I start my own. Thanks for sharing!

J Daddy,

Your stone retaining walls are excellent, they have a realistic appearance, especially with the mold growth.

Ralph

Thanks guys, I will post the link tomorrow with the stone prints

VERY CONVINCING , THANKYOU FOR SHARING, LOOKS WONDERFUL!

I have used this technique in several places on my layout...here are a few pictures..If you right click on a picture and then click on "open link in new window" you can get a full screen shot that can be enlarged even further.

 

Alan

 

The picture below shows the large stone piers that support the lift bridge, these are printed paper applied to masonite boxes that I built to size.

 

In this picture, the stone wall in the background supporting the upper level is printed and then the concrete members are thin shirt cardboard.

 

 

Great job John.!!  Hope to hear more at our next train meet.

 

I have become a fan of printed paper textures for walls and buildings. I use CorelDraw to import photos and stich them together, scale and print. I can even convert them to work as a fill and create all different effects. Yours look great....nice work!

the nice thing is if it wrinkles during the application it looks more realistic

Here is a site that may be useful for those looking for brick...

 

Alan

Here is another website that has hundreds of building fronts and textures, etc.  I used this site for background/distant building fronts, walls, etc.

 

Alan

 

Very nice looking.

I am doing the same thing with a model I'm working on now. I used regular brick for that portion, but needed some large stone block for the lower level walls. I used CG Textures and found some block and imported it into photoshop 5, scaled it and cut and pasted tiles to fill a sheet. It's not exactly like the prototype but it looks good. I just couldn't find cut white stone in the approiate size. Printed material, especially combined with some detail, to give more depth, really can look nice.

Here is another website but you have to pay to download the texture pages.

 

http://clevermodels.squarespace.com/textures/

 

This one is for large scale.

 

http://www.bigindoortrains.com...ne/brick_n_stone.htm

J Daddy, good thread. I've been looking for resources like the ones mentioned here. Thanks guys.

 

Jay

J Daddy - That looks much better!  Thanks for starting an interesting thread.

 

Alan - Great use of printed papers!

 

I have used a fair amount of brick paper on my layout too and it is a great tool.  I have used in on my station walls under my Union Station and on building walls in my town of Spencer.

 

Art

Big improvement, thanks for the tip.

here is the link: http://www.cgtextures.com/

EVAN DESIGNS......has a great product.

That looks pretty good.  I'm sure that if you get close enough, you can tell its printed, but can you get close enough? I don't think so.  

 

Great idea!

Good point Lee. You could add some plaster to texture the surface, but did not want to create too many wrinkles during the application.

My next step will be to add a few painted weathered details to break up the pattern repetition.

Haven't you got a passenger car to finish 1st?..........{I couldn't help it}

aha.. .but you know I wouldn't have posted that thread if it was not already a happy ending...

 

Yup....he's good!!!!!!!!!!!!