Converting 25mm Paper Figures To 6mm Paper Figures

Squirmydad has a tutorial on converting 25mm paper figures to 6mm paper figures suitable for mounting on pennies. He superimposes the original figures on a colored circle that can be folded and glued to pennies. Using Photoshop, he shows you how to adjust the DPI, scale, and add the background and base. It’s very good, and I’m going to try the same thing in Corel PhotoPaint.

Post and Rail Fence Model – Grey

I’d previously posted a file of traditional post and rail fences — suitable for the American Revolution and American Civil War — in brown. For a more weathered look, I created another file where the rails are a greyish color.

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Build Your Own Main Street

The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency has a great collection of paper models of historic Illinois buildings.  You can put together a very nice early 20th century mid-western town from these models.

Paper Models For Dropships, Shuttlecraft, Science Fiction Tank, Warehouses

Genet Models offers some free paper models for Dropships, Shuttlecraft, a Science Fiction Tank that looks like it is from the movie Aliens, and some science fiction style warehouses.