Crazy awesome background/drop buildings

[chuck geiger]

http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/190349.aspx?PageIndex=1

[pwnj]

Yeah, Tomkat's stuff is great.  You should see his sign collection!

[conrailthomas519]

 whoa!    Are there any pic's of say the backside of those buildings with fewer signs?

[pwnj]

He does like the signs a bit.  But if you're handy with a decent image editor (Gimp, Photoshop, etc.), there's enough blank material near the signs that you can remove them.

[conrailthomas519]

Pwnj, I have alot to learn about this image editor thingy your talking about.

[ljudice]

Gimp is a great application, you won't be disappointed....

[pwnj]

Here's an example of what I was talking about.  One of his designs (John's Feeds) looks like this:



There's plenty of corrugated wall that can be used to cover up the signs and have it look the same.



This takes some practice, but it's not really that hard.

[conrail98]

I believe a tutorial is in order, pwnj,

Phil

[pwnj]

Sounds like a plan to me, Phil.   I'll do up one and post it here as soon as I get a little bit.

[highway70]

Here's an example of what I was talking about.  One of his designs (John's Feeds) looks like this:

This takes some practice, but it's not really that hard.

Looks great.  I use Paint Shop Pro to modify and rescale paper buildings.

[conrailthomas519]

Thanks for the advice I will check this out over this weekend.

[Alwyn Cutmore]

Hi Guys,

I had a play on Gimp last night and this is the results so far:

Started with:



then with a little playing came up with:



The roller doors and the stack came from another file.

It really was a fun project.