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Hello,

I am working on a model and I was wondering how yu can create a small magizine or book to disply in you model, such as you would if you would have show off if you were doing a model of a bothroom, with all the fixings.

Have seen pics on the site, but no idea how to do them.. Any help wuld be great.

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i cant remember who its, but someone on here has a scale model of their childhood LHS, has books, magazines and tiny kits and everything.

If you try and find that, there is a link to his website where he explains how he did everything

Richard

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well iv had a good look and cant find it. maybe the guy who did it will see this.

I would say the easiest way is to make the book itself out of balsa or foam card. file away a bit in the middle and sides (ecept spine) to replicate the pages inset from the cover. then print out the cover of the book and stick to it.

Richard

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Id have a search for anything relating to dolls houses.

really depends how "real" you want to go!

i think if you wanted to make a magazine with "real" pages (like the book below) i would get some "layout paper" i have no idea what thats called in the states. but its throw away sketching paper and its really light and cheap. like 30 gram.

http://lphrc.org/rmk/Mini/covers.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruthbleakley/...57601172694399/

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It's actually pretty easy, just get a good photo of the cover (front / back as needed), then adjust the size in a photo editing program, you can use Word if you don't have a photo program. Print and attach to a piece of styrene sheet of the appropriate size / thickness.

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yeah, i hadnt even thought about that.

get yourself photoshop. free trials easily available and though i would never advise it, plenty of free 'not trials' aswell. :thumbsup:

a bit over kill for resizing an image but really useful in general.

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Lorraine build an typcial 1950's style outdoor "Aussie" dunny (toilet) complete with newspaper hanging on the back of the door for ablution duties, plus a folded newspaper on the bench for reading.

She scoured the internet and found a 1956 era newspaper, which she scaled down, printed on our laser printer, cut out and assembled.

Pretty impressive additions to a wonderful but slightly offbeat model It even has the obligatory redback spider in one corner!

:D

MikeJ

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  • 3 weeks later...

thanks for the help, I have taken your suggestions and have a set of covers, from Time to Captain America and two detictvie books... they look nice and will post pics once I have taken them.. now to glue them to the model...

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