need a little help

[hoopty388]

I am building a supply truck in the apocalypse community build area. I need a bunch of boxes (cases) of items that would be handy in the event that we became a "every man for himself" community. EX.: canned meat, toilet paper, beer, hard liquor, Twinkies (gotta find a case of twinkies)lol), canned goods, etc.

not only do I need help finding these things but I have never made scale boxes before, so if anyone knows of a tutorial for this please let me know. I don't even know where to sttart so I need help sizing, software to use, etc.

thanks for any help.

[stewart]

I made some boxes for some K&N filters using microsoft word. I did a google search for K&N box or something like that (be creative) and took the images and pasted them onto my box design. Pretty simple, just takes a little figuring out.

STewart

[Kaleb]

Try here

http://stores.ebay.com/Diorama-Scale-Headquarters

I have founds odds and ends on ebay, at one point I found a wendys bag and drink in 24th scale

[VW Dave]

I'm very 'old school' when it comes to photoreduction; I use my trusty point-and-click(or 'PHD') 35mm camera to make my own scale details:

I picked up this technique from an issue of the 'other' model car mag many years ago. A distance of 12-15 feet gives a good assortment of 1/24-1/25 stuff, and having the film developed isn't expensive at all. I do it maybe once or twice a year.

I did the model box and plaid material for the cooler that went in this model:

The Charger model box, Cracker Jack boxes and Hemmings' magazine are my stuff:

[Foxer]

I just want to add a little to Dave's excellent suggestion. I've used this method ... even used MY garage door! ... but you have to experiment a little using a small digital camera to get the correct distance if you're going to use the images with no adjustment.

Most digital cameras have wide angle lenses that will make the printouts smaller than a "normal" lens on a 35mmm camera. You'll have to move closer, but it may also introduce some distortion. Just try a few distances and save what distance you used and print the photos on plain paper to see how they come out. You'll be closer to Dave's 12 feet distance rather than 15 feet. Do this once and you're set for the life of the camera to do other boxes and license plates (print these on photo paper, cut out and glue).

Hopefully this helps those trying this to zero in on where to stand using this technique.

Edited March 6, 2011 by Foxer

[tabsscale1]

You can try this site for different things to print like cereal boxes and pizza boxes They have a lot of different things.

http://www.printmini.com/printables/ph.shtml

[hoopty388]

thanks guys, that's a huge help.

[hoopty388]

In my searching found this guy:

http://www.scalemodelingbychris.com/

most here may already know of him but I thought I would post it to keep it together. don't know anything about him, but has some great stuff. I like the boxes, some of the tools and the yard tools set looks like great additions to this build. lol

found this too:

http://www.larrygscale.com/servlet/the-Construction-Items/Categories

here is some more handy info, especially for nubes like me.

http://miniatures.about.com/od/miniatureprojects/tp/printhub.htm

Edited March 6, 2011 by hoopty388