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Discussion > TN-005 n-scale Old Brick

Hi,

I know this was discussed in other posts, but I didn't find a usable answer. I purchased the n-scale TN-005 Old Brick texture because I want to change a building siding from clapboard to brick for an n-scale structure.

At scale, the printout has significant banding both vertically and horizontally (horizontal banding is more pronounced than vertical when I print it using my HP C6200 printer.

Should I order O or HO and shrink it? Are there particular settings for the printer that I should use?

I have Adobe Acrobat Reader and another product named PDF Vista. Only Vista will allow me to print downscale. I haven't been able to find a setting in Acrobat that will allow me to do that.

Lastly, the printer wants me to put paper in the photo tray instead of the standard paper feed when I print photo quality. Ideas on how to change that?

Thanks much

November 26, 2014 |

Wayne Essel

Wayne, not sure I have a solution that will satisfy. A repeating pattern is so pronounced because it's amplified by the small scale. Unless you are modeling a very large wall with no windows, it shouldn't be a big problem.
The old brick should give non repeating wall area of 25' x 16' scale. If the wall is broken up by windows and doors a much larger area should be acceptable.
Going from a larger texture to smaller will have the same issues.
Sorry I don't have a better solution

November 29, 2014 |

Dave

When I see a problem with a repeating pattern, I use a photo editing program to copy sections of the texture and paste them over other parts of the texture in somewhat random pattern. it is necessary to zoom the texture quite large when pasting to keep the horizontal mortar lines straight and keep the brick pattern intact Can be tedious, however some slight misalignment may be ok in N scale because it is not as obvious in N scale as it is in the larger scales.

November 30, 2014 |

Donald Schmitt