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This artist takes photos she has found on the internet and puts them on paper to create structures.
http://ofralapid.com/index.php/broken-houses-2010-11-1

Some interesting modeling subjects there. Even one for NickO!

--Mj

I like those a lot!

There's some neat pictures in the bunch.  I think all they would be good for is Backdrop's 

I couldn't find the Artists info, do you have a name?
I've been doing something similar, I've been taking pictures of barns, and old wooden structures, then I manipulate them in a photo program, to make them look even older and have larger contrasts in color and then I print them on my Alps printer, on textured artist paper, but  just two dimensional, I'd show you but their to large for this site.
thanks
MPH

The artist is a woman from Israel named Ofra Lapid.

An interesting thing about the vast majority of structure modelers using paper: They pretty much do as the Israeli artist. While the buildings themselves may be 3-D the texture is strictly tromp l'oeil. No individual boards or bricks and sometimes even the window framing is 2-D. That baffles me, especially since modelers of paper vehicles, trains, planes, and ships fabricate even the smallest detail in three dimensions. -- Russ

Seen from a distance this type of modeling is superb looking but up close one realizes that the concept of true replication in miniature fails. It isn't however the intent of the artist, I believe, to be a true representation of an actual item in 1/1. I don't quite understand art but I think she accomplished her goals here.

Wow Unc
Going all "French" on us
MPH