Clever Models buildings

[bwreno]

Hi,   
Has anyone tried the Clever Models buildings??  Are they background only?  How do they compare to Paper Creek?  Or, is construction type different?

Thanx,   bob

[r.cprmier]

There was quite a write-up on them in this issue of MRC.  I haven't used thier product yet; Paper Creek makes the best cedar shingles i have as yet to see.  I recall Scott Mason telling me about them at Springfield this past winter, and five minutes later, walked right up to a display of them.  THey look every bit as good on ao roof as they do in your imagination.  Out fom my hand came money...

I make my own backdrops usually.  I just finished one of a large factory building-about 350 feet long (HO feet).  I used Railroad Graphics software to download the printed brick, concrete, weathered brick-concrete, as well as Don Tichy's windows.   This was my first large one, and it is inspiring me on technique, as well as expertise.  I want to get really good at this.  As a couple of the old salts (not me, of course...) have said, the concept of paper, Strathmore, Bristol board, et al are all ghosts from the dim past-until now.  With the technical advances in material texture,colour reproduction, etc, I believe the medium just may be poised for a comeback at least in the highly detailed backdrop area.
If you have access to any of the issues from thirty or so years ago, there is a bounty of material dealing with cardstock, and paper.  This time, with Don Tichy and Cliff Grandt's (past) castings in styrene, it is something else!

Rich

[clevermod01]

guess I'm responding a couple of years late but we are definitely not just for backgrounds. I was just at the O scale national this past weekend. I think or "First street" display proved that point. more then once you would see a modeler with his nose 6 inches away. Sure didn't hear any comments about backgrounds buildings. for the record i think Paper creek made a great kit wile they were around.

Thom