Inspired by Lance Mindheim, I sat to build some containers from styrene and photos of actual containers. The first thing to do was of course to get some photos, and this time I did not have to look far since a couple of days ago a pair of 20 ft containers were put down at a construction site near my home. Today I went there to take some photos. Here is one of them.
Once back home I fired up an image processing program on my computer (GIMP 2, a freeware program). Using its "perspective" tool I made the container images square. I then, after some struggling with the software, managed to print them in the correct H0 size.
I then built a container sized box from 1mm sheet styrene. Here is the box, and some of the printed and photos, cut to size.
Then all that was left was to glue the photos to the box, like this.
I could do some adjustments at the corners, where the photos partly overlap, but apart from that I think it came out nicely.
Edit: I could also have used better paper and printed at a higher resolution. Now I used ordinary letter paper and standard "everyday" printing settings.
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