Scalescenes - trial and adaptation
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Since my first stay in UK I have been fascinated by scalescenes products. I bought several (houses, stations) and started to include them into my layout. As I am German and focused on German railroads I tried to find realistic solutions.
Within this forum I found a lot and made some progress.
I really appreciate your constructions, your ideas and discussion of problems and solutions. Thank you!
Hope this helps me to stay in as a member!
Have a nice day and fun with your model railway,
Bernd
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You will have to show of some of your model buildings, whether they be kits or kit-bashed buildings, we would love to see them.
Cheers, Gary.
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Cheers
Andy
Andy
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You are not supposed to do any "editing" of the PDF files, so how are you supposed to say change colours, for example if bulding the main station building, the interior for a Southern Railway station should be green and cream, also the exterior in local stone for me is a considerably different colour to that supplied, same would apply for the stone texture sheets.
Colours are easy to change in photo editing applications, as are actions like cut and paste, cloning and other things. You may want to add or remove a doorway or windows, shorten or lengthen a building to suit your location.
Cutting everything by hand can get to be a PITA if you are building a lot, if you have a plotter cutter, that can be solved IF you can copy the outlines,or the complete images of the parts to the plotter cutter software.
So where does one draw the line???????????
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Cheers MIKE
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Terry
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We are talking about items for our own use, not for selling on. What is the position if a kit bashed item is included in an exhibition layout, or we post pics of it on the forum, that could be debatable, are we then technically breaching copyright by publishing it?
What about a club or area group where maybe 2 or 3 members will be building the same row of houses, can one member print them off and pass the printed results to the others to assemble,or must they all have a copy of the building on their PC?
If you took things to extremes then Dapol, Farish or Union Mills could jump on us for adding detail to their locos, no lamp irons, wire handrails, no vac pipes, no filing down coupling rods to something nearer scale thickness, no renumbering nor adding a Westinghouse pump for a push pull conversion.
Remember the fuss in the Sataes a few years back when Railway companies wanted hefty payments from Bachman, and other manufacturers for using their liveries on RTR models.
Yes one can shop elsewhere, always assuming there is anything remotely like what we want, not everybody wants to scratch build, but many will want something a bit different than Metcalfeville or Scalescenes Town.
Cheers MIKE
I'm like my avatar - a local ruin!
I'm like my avatar - a local ruin!
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As regards the above quote Scalescenes state that the software can not be shared or words to that effect.In the case of a club i'm sure that would not be allowed,on the other hand if your friends came round to your house and assembled them for you that would probably be ok.
What about a club or area group where maybe 2 or 3 members will be building the same row of houses, can one member print them off and pass the printed results to the others to assemble,or must they all have a copy of the building on their PC?
Regards
Alan
Born beside the mighty GWR.
Alan
Born beside the mighty GWR.
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Ron
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
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Ron
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
NCE DCC ; 00 scale UK outline.
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If you are part of a club and are purchasing a Scalescenes product, you are purchasing a license on behalf of the club. In this situation you can print the kit or sheets as many times as you like for use on club related project. Clubs = exhibition layouts/articles :)
John
John Wiffen
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Scalescenes.com
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Scalescenes.com
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If you took things to extremes then Dapol, Farish or Union Mills could jump on us for adding detail to their locos, no lamp irons, wire handrails, no vac pipes, no filing down coupling rods to something nearer scale thickness, no renumbering nor adding a Westinghouse pump for a push pull conversion.
Wouldn't this just mean that you would void warranty…?? I'm sure most manufacturers would be happy for you to super detail their locomotives. Just don't do it when it is still under warranty.
Cheers, Gary.
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http://www.protomodeller.com
Super detailing isn't an issue for manufacturers.
Max
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If you have the ability, of course I'm happy for modellers to edit the kits (digitally or other wise) for a non-commercial personal project.
Many thanks for that John.
Cheers MIKE
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As I see it this would be ideal for cutting the card, then print the colour parts to paper or label stock and cut them by hand, it is possible to print and cut from MTC but getting registration spot on every time can be a PITA. Plus many printers can not handle thicker card.
Main task is going to be separating print from cut so there are print pages and individual cut pages that can be imported to MTC (which doesn't seem to like importing multiple pages). I'm not sure what imports are possible on other makes of plotter cutter, perhaps somebody with other machines can check their software inport options.
That'll give me summat to do tomorrow, cos there won't be much food prep time for chrimbo dinner for one, just about all of it will come out of the freezer straight into the oven or pan.
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Cheers MIKE
I'm like my avatar - a local ruin!
I'm like my avatar - a local ruin!
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