Building Fronts from Photos

SteveF · August 31, 2009, 10:17am

Wandering through Paul Race’s Family Garden Trains site, I stumbled across this page. Basically, it is printing photos of buildings on waterproof inkjet paper, then mounting it to a backing of some sort. It probably won’t satisfy the need for 3D buildings, but for something like Ray’s project, it will certainly serve until the building gets built. Additionally, it can fill in space for buildings that you just haven’t had time to build, yet. Another paper that isn’t mentioned is a 8.5" X 14" waterproof inkjet paper that I found in a backpacking store right next to the TOPO software. The stuff I found was marketed by NatGeo, but I’ll bet you can find the same stuff by Avery. Here is one building to wet your interest. I don’t think Paul will mind.

Evidence of photoshop magic is all over this.

JRad · September 1, 2009, 1:39am

Cool. That sure would look better than wood paneling on my indoor division

Man that is a funky page. I was trying to figure out why the only link was to a photo when I scrolled by accident and noticed the article belowe a whole bunch of white space.

Jon_Foster · September 1, 2009, 1:56am

The paper Steve is talking about is actually mapping paper. A lot of people into Orienteering make their own Topo maps with details down to 1:10,000 for the races and print them on this paper. It’s a bit pricey but it works pretty good. I’ve used it once to make a map for a night race in the winter.

Jon.