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December 3, 2011

Now offering customizable High Resolution Backdrop Banners!

You specify the dimensions of the original picture and you crop the picture as needed to create your own customized background decor.

Our backdrops can be up to 4.5 X 125 ft long in a single seamless piece, and we offer free UPS delivery for Canada and USA!

Our unique customization tool is very useful if you want to fill exact dimensions of a wall and/or adjust the image size to fit your other scale model elements.
Therefore, our backdrop banners can be used with all model scales.

To ensure a high quality durable product, our backdrops are professionally printed on heavy 13 oz vinyl material with UV resistant inks, to prevent any color fading. They have a matte finish and can be used indoor or outdoor.

As for all our other printable products, you can either order a ready-to-use printed banner or download it as a high resolution JPG file and find a large format printshop able to print your project.
We offer 23 different models into different themes, from model railroads to sci-fi projects, but new pictures will be added on a regular basis so come back often.

There is so much more to say!

For complete information, just choose any backdrop model here and try our customization tool!

November 10, 2011

New Orientation option added for all texture sheets!

We added a new customizable feature to let you specify the orientation of your textures.

This way you will be able to get your texture running horizontally (portrait) or vertically (landscape). By selecting the "Landscape" option, the texture will follow the longest side and this can be useful to avoid joining of several pieces to cover your roofs, walls, etc.

Go to any texture sheet page and try it!

October 28, 2011

Fully customizable billboards signs!

We are very happy to offer 248 high resolution vintage billboard signs, created from real vintage advertising.

Try it! Go to the product page and start your selection

Made from real vintage advertising

Our billboard signs come from real vintage ads. Most of them are dated and were published in United States between 1922 and 1966. This way it is easy to find a model that will suit your model scale date.

Always two different versions available

Each billboard sign comes in two different version: like new or weathered. This way you can choose the weathered version if your scenery is dated after 1970.

Easy to use

All signs include a larger background area and tiny cut marks to help you to cut your billboard using standard billboard frames dimensions.

Compatible with major billboards manufacturers

Our designs are compatible with billboards sold by Athearn, Midwest Products, Walthers, Life-Like, Rusty Stumps, GC Laser, Blair Line, etc.

Another exclusive product

Like almost all our products, this unique functionality and our billboard designs are only available from us. We will add more models so come back and visit often :)

Go to the product page and start your selection

September 18, 2011

Welcome to our brand new website!

We hope you will enjoy our new retro design!

In addition to this new design, we also revised the navigation, content placement and added new features and pages.

Here is a short summary of these revisions:

Menu and navigation

• Menu: now using an horizontal menu to allow more viewable area
• Categories: all products are classified into 3 differents categories
• Top Menu: all useful information and tools are located in the top right corner of all pages (icons)

Pages additions

• F.A.Q.: we added a FAQ page, this page will be updated on a regular basis
• Accounts: a special page with information about accounts and guest purchases
• Returns: a page containing information about return policy and return procedures

Other changes

• Facebook links: do not hesitate to share with your friends if you like our website :)
• Downloadable products: from now, there is no need to load another page to reach the downloadable version of any printable product

August 7, 2011

Major updates and improvements on our website!

If you have any suggestions or experiencing problems, please let us know.
Here is a brief description of these recent updates:

Emails messages received when ordering

• PDF invoice: our payment confirmation email will now includes a detailed invoice for your records, attached to the message.
• No more 404: download links are sent only when PDF files are ready on the server to avoid 404 errors (allow up to 5-6 minutes to receive your email).
• No more repeating emails: elimination of annoying repeated email messages caused by a communication error between PayPal and our payment return script.
• All-in-One message: good new! From now, a unique message will be sent for PDF downloads (no more order summary and payment confirmation messages, you will have this information in your invoice and from PayPal).

Registration, accounts and guest purchases

• Coupons for customers: if you have an account, you can view all active promotions available for you in the page "Your coupons codes".
• Preferred model scale: account holders can now specify their preferred working scale (useful if we send gifts or samples).
• Alternate email: this information is not required anymore when creating an account (useful but optional).

Shopping cart and order detail page

• Links: the link of each product redirects to this product using the exact choosen options (scale, color, quantity, paper, etc).
• Thumbnails: now displaying the thumbnail corresponding to your color choice, if any.

Guest purchases

• New implementation: just one easy step! Enter only your name and email address for PDF downloads, and shipping address for all other products.
• Email address: now guest customers can use the same email address more than one-time, for different purchases.
• Permanent account: now guest customers can turn their temporary account into a permanent account by modifying the default password.

PDF previews

• Faster is better: we doubled the RAM memory of our VPS server to 4 GB, for faster image processing.
• Previewing: the nice and new visualisation system for the PDF previews is also more compatible.
• Ability to stop: now you can abort the creation of your PDF preview at anytime when launched with a single click.
• Back button: the back button does not restart the creation of a PDF file, if it was your last operation.

Product detail pages

• Facebook links: addition of Facebook "like" and "share" buttons, let us know what you like :).
• Exclusive products: the data sheet now indicate if a product is exclusive to our store (not available anywhere else).
• Hand=made products: the data sheet now indicate if a product is hand-made.

July 28, 2011

We added 78 new textures to our library!

You can see new additions here

June 29, 2011

New coupons codes valid until July 31!

June 5, 2011

Our store will be closed from June 6 to June 29

This will not affect purchases of downloadable products (PDF files) but if you buy any regular products or printed sheets, we will not be able to process your order before June 29. Thank you for your comprehension, we will come back very soon :) P.S. If you send us messages, we will respond as soon as possible but an additional delay may occur.

May 6, 2011

Preordering process will be restored July 1st.

As the last years we are not offering any on-demand products for a 2 months period. (Our preordering system will be restored in July, before this date no more stocks will be added to our existing inventory)

April 12, 2011

Price drop on all our downloadable PDF files!

Thank you for your orders, they help us to offer you better prices :)

January 10, 2011

Now offering HO-scale Printable Tunnel Portals!

N-scale versions will be added soon, but you can always contact us if you need any specific dimensions.
If you buy as a PDF file you will be able to print smaller portals using a percentage reduction (print setup).

December 21, 2010

We added 22 new textures to our library!

December 21, 2010

Coupons codes available from now to to January 10!

Best Wishes for Christmas and Happy Holidays :)

August 8, 2010

We added 25 new textures to our library :)

July 21, 2010

Coupons codes extended to August 30!

June 20, 2010

We will offer special promotions and savings on all our PDF downloads for the next 30 days!

Coupons codes (to be used in your shopping cart) will be published on this page from June 22 to July 21.

June 19, 2010

We added a lot of new quantities in our inventory and the pre-order system was restored :)

February 18, 2010

All our road signs are now available for 1:43 to 1:100 scales

(you can use a reduction percentage from your printer for a smaller scale).

February 16, 2010

26 new textures were added to our library!

February 2, 2010

Lot of new products added to our store!

• 25 new fully customizable vintage painted signs on a wall
  Choose your background texture from all our texture sheets,
  specify the exact size and the fading amount of your painted ad.
  Available for 1:12 to 1:220 scales.
• Addition of 4 first assorted set of Doors and Windows for your buildings
  More to come soon.... Available for 1:24 to 1:220 scales.
• Addition of the first paper (or card) building
  Available for 1:72 to 1:220 scales.

February 2, 2010

Major revisions of the products menu:

• All categories was reordered
• Addition of the number of products for each category and subcategory

December 13, 2009

Graffitis ready to be printed on water slide decals added (available in 3 different dimensions)

December 10, 2009

Addition of sets of stained glass windows printed on transparencies (available in 3 different dimensions)

December 3, 2009

Now offering Avery adhesive paper for all our printed products

December 2, 2009

27 new textures were added in our library

November 29, 2009

Scale conversion tool now fully functional

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