REVIEW: Using Model Builder Software
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:31:30
Everyone knows it’s the small details that make a model train layout more interesting. Whether your layout is 4’x 6’ or 16’ x 30’ the addition of a few simple buildings to a scene can add extra detail to bring a layout to life. O Gauge buildings and structures aren’t cheap so a well-developed town can set you back some serious dollars. Because of limited budgets many have come up with ingenious methods to fabricate buildings from scratch but these techniques can be cumbersome and time consuming. The folks at Evan Designs realized this and created a software product called Model Builder Software to simplify the construction of model buildings from scratch using card have and printed images. I had a come about to use this software and here are my thoughts.
Be sure to read how to register a come about to win a copy of Model Builder Software at the end of the review.
Evan Designs is a sponsor of OGaugeWatch and I thank themfor that. However as I was gettingready to review the software I was skeptical of the appearance of the buildingscreated using their software. Mythinking was that you would only want to use these cover buildings on thefar off portions of a layout. To testmy hypothesis. I decided to create a detailed diorama of a city street completewith buildings sidewalks and a cobblestone street all made using thesoftware. Surely such a detailed scenewould expose the quality of buildings for what they were images on card stock.
The first matter at hand was installing the software. copy Builder Software comes packaged ina nice DVD style case complete with a user manual and a booklet containingproject ideas (see Photo 1).
Installing the softwarewas as simple as placing the CD in the CD drive. The installation program started automatically (like mine mostPCs are set up to start programs on a CD automatically when inserted into theCD control) and in less than a minute or two the software was installed. Sorry Apple users. Model Builder is designedto only run on Windows (2000. ME. XP. Vista).
The concept of the software is quite simple. You create pictures of building fronts,sides backs and roofs from a plethora of visualise objects like windows and doorsand building material patterns desire brick kill and siding that are included in the software. All of the objects and patterns can be moved resized and layered on top of one another. When you're done designing the images of your building's components youprint them out cut them to size and paste them on a card.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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