05-18-2009, 12:08 AM
Steve, I gotta agree with Wayne. Put those shingles in Photoshop and fiddle with the arrangement to create a less repetitive pattern and you're set. Where did you 'find' the image?
Don't know if you have heard of him yet, but Frank Ellison, a pioneer O SCALE modeler fooled many with his stone culverts, actually just drawn and painted on flat cardstock with effective use of shading and brightness in the days long before there were computers. Folks who might compliment the bridge were often asked to touch it in order to see their surprise at discovering it was completely smooth.
Galen
Don't know if you have heard of him yet, but Frank Ellison, a pioneer O SCALE modeler fooled many with his stone culverts, actually just drawn and painted on flat cardstock with effective use of shading and brightness in the days long before there were computers. Folks who might compliment the bridge were often asked to touch it in order to see their surprise at discovering it was completely smooth.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!