Cardstock modeling
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 8:49 pm
Recently I've taken an interest in card stock modeling.
I've seen many pictures on the interweb, that shows some nice looking structures made of card stock or some kind of hybrid.
So I decided to give it a go.
I've purchased/downloaded a couple of structures from the 'Clever Models' website, (they have a couple of freebies too) as well as a small building from the 'model train software' website. see: http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com .
The last example is actually software that along with some examples, basically supplies you with a design package and lots of texture templates, to design and create you're own buildings. The Clever models site has a series of pre-designed structures ready for down load, as well as several textures (brick walls, windows etc) to make your own. See http://www.clevermodels.net/ .
I'm curious if any of you use similar sites for structures, card stock textures, and perhaps have found a couple that are of good use for US modeling. I'd be particularly keen to find examples of structures that would be prototypical for California.
I've also bought a couple of grades of paper to print these on, to experiment with what works best. So far I've got some sheets of 120gr/m2 , 160gr/m2 and 300 gr/m2 from an arts and craft supplier, to try things out with, any other suggestions on what works well?
Here's my 'freebie' structure from the model-train-software site under construction.
Koos
Card stock modelling by K2K Koos, on Flickr
I've seen many pictures on the interweb, that shows some nice looking structures made of card stock or some kind of hybrid.
So I decided to give it a go.
I've purchased/downloaded a couple of structures from the 'Clever Models' website, (they have a couple of freebies too) as well as a small building from the 'model train software' website. see: http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com .
The last example is actually software that along with some examples, basically supplies you with a design package and lots of texture templates, to design and create you're own buildings. The Clever models site has a series of pre-designed structures ready for down load, as well as several textures (brick walls, windows etc) to make your own. See http://www.clevermodels.net/ .
I'm curious if any of you use similar sites for structures, card stock textures, and perhaps have found a couple that are of good use for US modeling. I'd be particularly keen to find examples of structures that would be prototypical for California.
I've also bought a couple of grades of paper to print these on, to experiment with what works best. So far I've got some sheets of 120gr/m2 , 160gr/m2 and 300 gr/m2 from an arts and craft supplier, to try things out with, any other suggestions on what works well?
Here's my 'freebie' structure from the model-train-software site under construction.
Koos
Card stock modelling by K2K Koos, on Flickr