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[slittlehales]

Hi all, as landscaping progresses at great speed (Thanks Manimmal!) I have come to a point where I need some (more) outside assistance. I am trying to find some printable concrete background, it will go in a tunnel section and will make my life far easier!. Any assistance woul dbe gratefully received.

Cheers,


Steve

[pitlane3]

Hi Steve,
hope you feel better again.
Have a look on the link below, got all sort of things.
Printed a few doors and checkerplates myself.

http://www.cgtextures.com/

[Ember]

Just do a search for tile-able textures. There's heaps of stuff out there. The higher the resolution, the better the outcome. But there's a lot of stuff out there.

[BMR]

The internet is full of images , search using the image tag of Yahoo or Google etc and when you find the look / image you like you can adjust the thing in one of the many image editing programs around . Most editing programs are free to down load or even some simple adjusting can be done in the microsoft paint program . Set to print off as you like eg full size A4 sheet or long narrow strips - tall narrow strips if you set it to frame in landscape or portriat then print it off you have plenty enough to build a huge wall . The A4 sheets can be laminated or even just glue the print offs onto a piece of 3mm MDF board and clear coat it .
The model shops sell all sorts sheets of various designs that are aimed at the model rail road guys that are not too expensive or alternately make something that looks more realistic on a sheet of MDF yourself .
A lot depends on the look you want and the scale your after but one way to make up a sheet / brick wall is using something like a sand paper sheet . The finer grade reddish brick coloured sand paper can be cut into strips / bricks then glued to another cardboard sheet or straight to a piece of 3mm mdf board , If you were to paint the mdf board first in a colour to represent the brick mortar / cement you will have the background colour set down already and then glue the sand paper on it would be a little time consuming but that depends on how large an area you want to do . When its all finished it would have a more 3D effect than the card board sheet that the model shops supply .
A tunnel section could be done with something like 800 grit wet n dry sheet glued to a board in sections to represent joins in a tunnel section or with a few tears overlapping it could look like the walls have a few cracks in them . You can sponge paint the wet n dry paper lighter / darker etc and even scribble on some graffiti with a wax pencil ? Check out some sites like those the train modellers post their pics onto those guys are great artists when it comes to diorama and many of those sites / forums have how to do it threads

[Ember]

Biggest question to me would be do you know how to use a graphics program, eg) Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Corel Paint. If so, grab a seamless tile texture from one of texture sites. They're usually for texturing 3D graphics, or other graphics projects. Open the texture image, select it all and define it as a pattern (if Photoshop or Elements Edit menu, define pattern. Similar process for Paintshop). You'll then be able to use this pattern as a paint bucket fill. Create a new blank file A4 size and at least 150 dpi (dots per inch. This is the minimum printer resolution). Select the paint bucket and your texture pattern. Fill the area. Save the file, and print as many copies as you want.

If you want, I can make up some files for you tomorrow night. What sort of concrete textures are you after?

Embs

[kalbfellp]

cg textures is about the best site around. You can simply import them into word if you don't have a graphics program and size them in that. I printed mine on coated stock and the used a flat clear coat over them.

[gzminiz]

kalbfellp, on Jun 28 2009, 11:59 PM, said:

cg textures is about the best site around. You can simply import them into word if you don't have a graphics program and size them in that. I printed mine on coated stock and the used a flat clear coat over them.

got a picture of how that turned out??? I am curious as to how that looks in real life

[kalbfellp]

These pit brick walls are printed.