Printable buildings or storefronts?

[Augy]

I am building an N scale layout for a Christmas gift to my young boys (and me!). I have most of the layout complete but only about 3 buildings. Due to time and money contraints, I'd like to fill in the voids temporarily with cardstock buildings. Ideally, a city block long image rather than individual buildings to fill out the "town". I've searched but can't find anything that looks like it would work. Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[Larry]

Do you have a Books a Million or a Barnes & Noble book store close to you? If so, check the hobby & crafts section & sometimes they have the punch out cardboard buildings.
Also, check your Dollar Tree's for the plaster cast buildings.

Larry

 

[Augy]

Thanks for the tips. I'll stop by the local B&N and a couple of the "dollar" stores to see what I can find.

 

[RCH]

Try http://www.scalescenes.com/ for PDFs of structures that you can download and print to your scale of choice.

 

[JimmyG]

RCH, Thanks for that website note. I down loaded the free pdf (small goods store) and built it last weekend during a snowstorm. It came out very nice.

 

[Augy]

I did the same. It is very nice model considering it's made of paper and my skills in that area aren't going to win any awards.

BTW, following some links I found another free demo at http://www.papercreek.com/

 

[pcarrell]

There are a couple of others I know about. These can be copy/pasted into a word document and be sized that way, or you could save them as a .jpg file and open them in Microsoft paint to size or enhance them that way.

A Museum
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatMuseum/Museumwanden.jpg
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatMuseum/Museumdaken.jpg

An English Chuch
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatKerken/Engelskerkje.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatKerken/kerkje-2.html

These are some the kids can color, or you can use some printable patterns on them that I'll post a bit further down this list.
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatHuizen/HUIS07a.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatHuizen/huis26.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatHuizen/huis29e.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatHuizen/erkers.html

How about a castle?
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatKasteel/BouwplaatKasteel.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatKasteel/BouwplaatPoortgebouw.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/BouwplaatKasteel/BouwplaatRondeTorens.html

How about some genaric patterns that you can use for building sides, streets, sidewalks, whatever.
http://home.wanadoo.nl/schatborn/muren/muren.html
http://home.wanadoo.nl/schatborn/muren2/muren2.html
http://norbtach.no.funpic.de/straat/straten.htm
http://www.2guyzandsumtrains.com/Content/pa=showpage/pid=31.html

 

[Shortliner2001]

http://www.baltimorerowhomes.com/index.html Not what it is supposed to be for, but might be worth a screen-grab,
particularly this one http://www.baltimorerowhomes.com/rowhomes06/pages/avenue.html
More
http://clevermodels.com/
These are O scale http://www.elfinmodels.com/

 

[UP2CSX]

Great links, guys, thanks for taking the time to add them. Phillip, those brick textures are exactly what I've been looking for as a guide to weathering my brick streets.

 

[Augy]

These are fantastic...just what I needed. I am finding that it takes almost as long to assemble these as it does plastic kits!