Build Notes for Printable Railway Buildings

These notes cover the actual tasks in turning a Siding Works download into a finished low relief building, in the order you're likely to need them: work out where it will sit, pick a scale, print it correctly, put the first one together, then join buildings into a street.

1. Where will it sit?

Fit Low Relief Buildings Behind Your Tracks: reading a low relief footprint in plan, and how much depth different scales actually take up.

2. Which scale?

OO and British N: Choose the Correct Building Scale: what each scale means for a printed facade, and how it differs from continental or American N.

3. Printing

Print Card Building Kits at the Right Size: paper size, printer scaling, and checking a page is genuinely full size before you cut anything.

4. Your first build

Assemble Your First Low Relief Card Building: cutting, scoring, folding and closing a module using the free Yard Office kit as the example.

5. Combining kits

Join Building Fronts into a Coherent Street: lining up separate kits, including the Complete Street bundle, into one scene.

Ready to generate a kit? Start in Scene Builder, or see the full range on the kits page.