Don't understand. I presume you bought a 4-foot by 8-foot sheet of styrene. The DPP-EX50 prints 4-inch by 6-inch photos. That would be a lot of tiling to print a wall. BTW, I get 4 x 8-foot styrene for about $15 a sheet. I know you can print on it, but I think that's high-end printers using high-end inks.
It cost more around here than some people pay for it. The printer is a dye-sub printer. I'm hoping that it will prinht on the bare styrene, but if not, I will try spray-painting a few of them flat white to give a better surface. I model in N scale, so 4x6, while not huge, should be sufficient.
Retaining walls Under construction, my laser printed retaining walls look pretty nice, maybe it is all that bare wood that makes anything look nice. Will be using some ground foam to apply bushes growing in the cracks. Mounted on 2.5 inch Masonite. Contact cement then a coat of satin clear which darkens nicely. printed from the Brickyard http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com 15 bucks Joe
Hi Joe, I checked out the modeltrainstoftware site and it looks good. What kind of printer did you use? I've got a cheapie HP 4200 series officejet. Thanks, Phil
Phil, I have an HP2606 color laser jet. I'd be surprised if your office jet didn't do as good or better job than mine. Just be sure to seal the work after it is mounted with some satin/matte finish clear kote. Good luck, Joe
I went down to the river and picked up some plants to make trees out of. Now all I need is some flocking and cheap hairspray and instant trees
I spray paint my tree branches first with a grey and then add the flocking. Some people take the small flowers off the weeds, I prefer to leave those on and let ground foam cover them. Just some tips, take em or leave em.
That looks really convincing. what did you use as a print file? was it a picture of a real retaining wall?
Here are some tunnel portals I made with the same software. Inexpensive, but not nearly as nice as the commercial ones though.
Th smaller brick pattern is much more convincing. I think the larger pattern allows the eye to see that it's flat and not shadow. IMHO
