Paper Buildings

The Dover Book series has about 10 HO scale books for cut and paste. They can be ZAPPED to Z on a copier, and with the color- the buildings are already painted. These are fine for beginners, for buildings in the background, and to use for patterns for scribed evergreen styreen , heavy cardstock--whatever. These are NOT the BRASS beauties but are an inexpensive way for a newbie to begin his scenic exdplorations and the notsonewbie to create other buildings by crashing and bashing. check out dover book site for more info=-
leagalease jargon- I'm not affiliated with Dover in any way.
I can't find the DOWNTOWN BOOK- but will keep looking.
now I'll try to post some pictures..
There are a lot of paper building sites and hopefully other members will post thier favorites so we can have a good library for the archives and reference.
Fred

This is a good one to get basic shape and size of bldgs

Basic farm

Fred, many thanks. I couldn't find them because i was looking at Dover Books from Dover Bookshop not from Dover Publications.

TerryH

There are some Dover books I would not recommend - The beach front for one.
This is an example of a PAPER Dover Book Church made up from book-- It's HO on right and the left one I scaled down, lamenated evergreen clapboard siding over solid wood- cut to shape on bandsaw, and copied windows glued on.
Please remember these were done years ago-

The above churches came from this book

Here are a couple with European buildings:

www.moduni.de/index.php/cPath/10000000

(They sell kits made by others)

www.miniatureville.com/?gclid=CNKIlpe85ZACFRMdewodckYVOw

This is a picture I took a few years ago of several buildings from the above books Zapped to Z and used against the backboard to give the appearance of added depth, and a town in a valley that greatly enhanced the character of my layout and gave the impression that the train had a populated area to service. Now that's a run on sentance!
Fred

We are dusting off cobbwebs here! But this project still holds true today.
During early Z there were only a few American buildings-5-.
So we had to do some interesting conglobulation. This set of buildings are paper mounted on wood with evergreen styreen for roofing and interveening walls. For the new z hobbiest or for that never to be seen building in the background, this works. But the interesting thing is I got the graphics- picture, from a FREE real estate brouchure, from a grocery store. Add some bushes and trees and it would surfice until you build all those beautiful brass kits kept safely in a big cardboard box. This project took less than an hour, as is my style (Built like a Battleship)- I cut one piece of wood to shape on the band saw. added the roof and intermediate walls, glued on the paper frontpiece, painted and was done--- well I have some more touch up to do.
One never knows where something in Z might appear- does one!
Fred

I enjoy seeing every structure I can set my eyes upon, They all give me new ideas, Thanks Fred for all the paper structures and advice.

Let me offer this link from the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency for some additional buildings.

www.illinoishistory.gov/ps/construct_mainstreet.htm



Robert
On the Left Coast

Here is Gleimo's from Germany offering for the month.


www.gleimo.de/download/downloadmaerz.php

Robert

Robert- Thanks for posting-- These paper buildings are a good source for the beginner (exanding inexpensively) and a resource for the more adventurous, using these as plans etc.
Fred

Here are some more internet sites that have paper buildings.

www.moduni.de/index.php/cPath/80000000_80400000_80404000

scalescenes.com/

www.train24.de/index.php?page=produkte&kategorie=326

www.betexa.cz/eng/btx-ramy.html

www.peard.nl/

www.paperbuildings.happyllama.com/

Well, this should be enough for today. Some of these sites also have free downloads.

Enjoy,

Robert

Thank you Robert.