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Reapper
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Posted 6 Years, 4 Months ago Link #1
Having just laid the track on a new layout I'm in need of some quickie buildings in "OO" as a temporary measure. There was a site in "N" that I could download printable buildings from. Is there one for "OO" or if not does anybody know of the "N" gauge one. I've lost the URL.

I'm really interested in Terrace houses, factories, pubs etc. My railway buildings will be more permanent from the start.

Ken Howard
In Oz.
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Posted 6 Years, 4 Months ago Link #2
Thanks to all who replied.
For the moment I will look at the links that Graeme Eldred supplied and see if I can find something suitable there. I was just going to use cereal boxes and a felt pen but thought I should probably strive to do a bit better. Especially as some of my temporaries tend to last awhile.

Ken Howard
In Oz.
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Posted 6 Years, 4 Months ago Link #3
You can make your own - I have had success by photographing some brickwork, scanning this in and blurring it. This gives me a black and white image that has the appropriate tonal range.
Next add a 'brickwork' grid in white (how you do this depends on the software you are using, I used PC Paitbrush in the mid 1980's and
Paint Shop Pro more recently).
Overlay the white grid on the mottled background and crop so it will repeat as required.
Print this with a BW laser.
Wash over with burnt sienna watercolour paint.
Leave to dry.
Sandwich between brown paper and iron to get it flat. (The brown paper is required as the iron will re-melt the plastic toner which will make a mess of the iron and whatever the paper is resting on).

More recently I have added windows and doors to such a sheet for 'quickie' buildings, this is then glued to a simple box of mounting board.

Lot of messing about but about as cheap as it gets and you gat to design the buildiung to suit the space.
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Posted 6 Years, 4 Months ago Link #4
I have a ready mix concrete plant and a set of low relief high bay warehouses drawn in autocad. You can have a copy of those if you want.
These are not "finished" quality but are what I have used to make mockup's for my own layout whilst in the final stages of the design.
Technically they are **** but since they are in autocad model space at
1:1 you can print them off at any scale.
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Posted 6 Years, 4 Months ago Link #5
There are links here, to about a million downloadable buildings and things. Well, quite a lot, anyway
http://www.thepapermodelguy.com/pmlinks.html

Some are US outline, and some are 7mm rather than 4mm, but can be resized fairly easily using your own software.
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Posted 6 Years, 4 Months ago Link #6
Trouble was after I dropped "N" and went back to "OO" I deleted all the files I had downloaded and have since lost the URL to the site. One should never throw anything away.

Ken Howard
In Oz.
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