A little over a mopnth ago, I
posted on a new half-depth, single-wide T-TRAK module that would mainly feature contemporary-era low relief photo backdrop buildings. I didn't have anything quite finished for that post, but in January,
I posted on one experiment. I finally got the first experimental building mated with another that would fill out the width of the module and got them squared up and attached to the base.
As I described in the January post, the building on the right is from a screen shot off a YouTube video showing the Morrow Hotal just north of Union Station in Washington, DC. The building on the left is a texture I found on the web representing a multilevel parking garage. Both turned out to be close enough to N scale off my printer without the need for any other tweaking.
I follow George Sellios's work on the Franklin & South Manchester Facebook group, and I've been surprised at how often he includes printed buildings and components, some probably off his computer and others commercial products, on his layout. For instance, I think most of the buildings except the water tank in this photo are printed out and braced on cardboard or foamcore, with just a few of his characteristic details added:
The cost of my buildings was negligible, the backing was made from cereal box cardboard stiffened with used fireplace matches, plus the cost of a couple sheets of printer paper and ink.
I'll add ballast and other trackside details to the baseboard.
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