Printable buildings or storefronts?


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Augy

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I am building an N scale layout for a Christmas gift to my young boys (and me!). I have most of the layout complete but only about 3 buildings. Due to time and money contraints, I'd like to fill in the voids temporarily with cardstock buildings. Ideally, a city block long image rather than individual buildings to fill out the "town". I've searched but can't find anything that looks like it would work. Any ideas? Thanks!
 
Do you have a Books a Million or a Barnes & Noble book store close to you? If so, check the hobby & crafts section & sometimes they have the punch out cardboard buildings.
Also, check your Dollar Tree's for the plaster cast buildings.

Larry
 
Thanks for the tips. I'll stop by the local B&N and a couple of the "dollar" stores to see what I can find.
 
RCH, Thanks for that website note. I down loaded the free pdf (small goods store) and built it last weekend during a snowstorm. It came out very nice.
 
I did the same. It is very nice model considering it's made of paper and my skills in that area aren't going to win any awards.

BTW, following some links I found another free demo at http://www.papercreek.com/
 
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There are a couple of others I know about. These can be copy/pasted into a word document and be sized that way, or you could save them as a .jpg file and open them in Microsoft paint to size or enhance them that way.

A Museum
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatMuseum/Museumwanden.jpg
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatMuseum/Museumdaken.jpg

An English Chuch
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatKerken/Engelskerkje.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatKerken/kerkje-2.html

These are some the kids can color, or you can use some printable patterns on them that I'll post a bit further down this list.
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatHuizen/HUIS07a.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatHuizen/huis26.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatHuizen/huis29e.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatHuizen/erkers.html

How about a castle?
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatKasteel/BouwplaatKasteel.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatKasteel/BouwplaatPoortgebouw.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatKasteel/BouwplaatRondeTorens.html

How about some genaric patterns that you can use for building sides, streets, sidewalks, whatever.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/schatborn/muren/muren.html
http://home.wanadoo.nl/schatborn/muren2/muren2.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/straat/straten.htm
http://www.2guyzandsumtrains.com/Content/pa=showpage/pid=31.html
 
Great links, guys, thanks for taking the time to add them. Phillip, those brick textures are exactly what I've been looking for as a guide to weathering my brick streets.
 
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These are fantastic...just what I needed. I am finding that it takes almost as long to assemble these as it does plastic kits!
 
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