Curtains for HO Scale Buildings

The wife picks though catalogs for interesting patterns. They look pretty good as curtains in her HO and N scale buildings.

Paul

Not an expert, but I went the web search and inkjet route for curtains and venetian blinds. I made my own pull down blind image. I even found a cat lying on a windowsill and put that into one basement window.

For commercial stores with big front windows, you can even find a picture of an appropriate interior and mount it back a little from the windows. Looks pretty good, even when you're doing it for the first time.

The good thing is the ability to scale things to the right size. The bad thing is the amount of ink it eats :-).

I bought some laser cut lace curtains at a show. I think they were produced by George Sellios of Finescale Miniatures - the Franklin & South Manchester guy.

Scraps of real lace (raid the lady of the house's sewing box), bits of ribbon, tissue paper, all kinds of things.

Don

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Graphics Depot software will allow you to print on clear acetate, and many window treatments are included. You can also import your own.

For curtains with some texture, try spray painting some aluminum foil on both sides with the curtain color. Once you cut out the curtains and touch up the edges, you can bend and fold them any way you like. This is especially useful if you want curtains that are blowing out of an open window.

-fm Webmaster, Rails on Wheels, Washtenaw County, Michigan's HO Modular Club, at

I remember reading this... uh... somewhere. Maybe it was on one of the Great Model Railroad volumes with Sellios:

Take those noisy very thin plastic bags (the kind you get from Radio Shack), stretch it out between your fingers and tie off either end, then douse it with Super Glue. I've never tried it, but it sounds interesting.

I've accordion-folded bits of colored paper, used shots of curtains from catalogs, and used painted Kleenex -- all look good.

-Gerry Leone

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Take a look in the Sears catalog. Or any of the flyers that litter your mailbox every weekend.

Don't only look in the curtains section, also bedding, and lingerie (think lace curtains).

Keep a copuple of window castings with you and slide them around on the pages to help visualize what they would look like (and to deflect any criticism about looking in the lingerie section!)

Kent