Monday, January 10, 2011 at 10:23AM Steve Guthrie freelanced this shed with materials he got off the “Wood Industrial Buildings” DVD. As a kid, he and his grandmother sold vegetables and bait from it.
I love it when builders go off the trail and start exploring.
He calles this “Retta’s shed
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 9:53AM While I feel that for most applications, our images show plenty of dimension, I do think there’s a place for some extra effort.
I have been playing with embossing by hand. I use a burnisher with a small ball end and put the paper of a surface that has a little give like a softer paper. For stone, I start on the front and press in on the grout lines. Not too hard just enough to get a little deformation and I don’t do the whole sheet just a few areas a couple of inches in diameter.
Then flip the paper over and with a bigger burnisher I push out some stones using the marks I made on the front as a guide. Don’t over do it and don’t try to be even. Uneven is good. I think this would work especially well on corners and areas of special interest.
I did see on another forun someone had printed stone on watercolor paper. It has a lot of give and texture. I thought it was a bit too much but it’s good to know it’s possible.
That’s the tip for today.
Thom
Monday, January 3, 2011 at 2:39PM here are a couple of pix of the silver city mine shed (which is by the way in Virginia city)
This was a great subject because i could get pix of all the sides. as you can see we were very accurate in reproducing it.
Monday, January 3, 2011 at 11:34AM A short time ago, I talked about plasticizing paper. It’s turned out to be very useful, especially for very small parts. I hope you give it a try.
Later this month Dave and I will be in Amhearst / Springfield, MA. Last year this show was very good for us. This year we get to be more involved and are giving 2 seminars on Saturday and 1 on Sunday. Kind of a tips and tricks live. I want to share more ideas about building in paper and It’s my intention to offer some useful insight every week. Some of the new railcar kits we want to offer will have more curved surfaces so we will be developing new techniques to deal with that. I have been curious about “paper casting”. It’s nothing new but applied to our hobby, it might be interesting. If folks are interested, I might also share tips for using Photoshop. As I was preparing my presentation, it occurred to me that an interesting product might be a backdrop making tool. More on that later.
One thing I have noticed is that even some of the best builders could benefit from using more layers. Here’s what I have been doing lately. My printer will not feed 100lb paper (I think the rollers are worn) so I have been gluing an extra sheet of card to the back of the printed sheet before doing any cutting. this is great for trim details. For walls you need to be sure to add thickness parts after you do any folds since the thicker paper will not fold well. My brother has had very good results using thinner paper with more layers. The thinner paper allows sharper folds. He’s been building some amazingly small critters lately using this method.
We’d like to hear your tips and tricks. What have you discovered wile building in paper.
I’m going to talk about folds and tabs in another post.
