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Author Topic: Google street view -> Z scale model  (Read 150 times)
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tom mann
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« on: January 21, 2010, 06:09:10 PM »

So I had this idea to use Google Street View imagery as the basis of a model.  I just grabbed some screen shots, cleaned them up in Photoshop, and printed them out at 1200dpi.  I could have done better by zooming in with streetview and stitching a bunch of images together.

Attempt #1:



This actually looks pretty good at normal viewing distance.  Keep in mind the building is about 1.25 inches tall, so you are seeing it many times larger than it is.


Reference here
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Just like Dan L, I'll paste a depressing lyric here.
The ringing of a bell torments deep in the vestibule of my ear.
The faces are all melted, how can this be?
The figures are just crude, because the scale is Z!
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