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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2011, 05:50:22 PM »
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Yeah, Tomkat's stuff is great.  You should see his sign collection!

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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2011, 05:54:25 PM »
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 whoa!  :o  Are there any pic's of say the backside of those buildings with fewer signs?
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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 06:19:09 PM »
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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.

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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2011, 07:01:41 PM »
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Pwnj, I have alot to learn about this image editor thingy your talking about.
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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2011, 08:22:24 PM »
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Gimp is a great application, you won't be disappointed....


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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2011, 08:55:38 PM »
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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. :)

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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2011, 09:48:35 PM »
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I believe a tutorial is in order, pwnj,

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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2011, 08:22:59 AM »
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Sounds like a plan to me, Phil. :)  I'll do up one and post it here as soon as I get a little bit.

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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2011, 11:55:05 PM »
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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.

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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2011, 05:40:24 PM »
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Thanks for the advice I will check this out over this weekend. ;)
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Re: Crazy awesome background/drop buildings
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2011, 03:29:45 PM »
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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.
Al Cutmore
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Australia