I need to make piles of books. Lost a link to a pdf

[Weesparky]

Ok, totally not a problem, if I had adequate google fu.

Once upon a time (before I upgraded to my new PC) I had discovered a webpage terrain site that included a wonderful tutorial for creating lots and lots of books using a simple folded paper technique. The site also included a .pdf file (it may have been a .bmp or .jpg) that when printed out provided strips of paper upon which the cover and contents of a book were printed. By simply cutting the printed strip and folding it together a fairly realistic looking book was created.

I have spent the last couple of hours looking all over the interwebs trying to find the site. Does anybody here have any idea where I may have seen this technique?

I hope it wasn't on the GW forums.

[Papa Spanky]

I found this:
http://dollarstorecrafts.com/2011/01/make-realistic-dollhouse-books/
and this:
http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-create-old-books.html
hope it helps. (3 min of google-fu, btw ) I know its not exact, but...

[bandit86]

http://johnnyborgcastings.blogspot.com/
Nice book castings he might just sell you the books too

[dampfpanzerwagon]

This link has been posted many times before but as it is so good - who cares if it appears again;

http://abarothsworld.com/Tricks/treasures%20&%20trinkets.htm

Tony

[SotF]

The cheap and fast way is to get some construction paper, white off, and popsicle sticks.

Take the sticks, and wrap them in colored construction paper on both wide sides and one of the small sides (leave the last thin edge uncovered), glue it in place with a little bit of an overlap. Let it dry completely.

Then take some heavy scissors and cut it to the length of the books you want (If you want thicker or smaller books, use different sized sticks). Then on the exposed wood, hit it with the white off/liquid paper...carefully. Let it dry and use a fine pen for whatever covers you want.

You can use something similar for openable books, just stack two sticks (Don't glue them together) and glue a piece of folded white paper inside, and glue the construction paper to the outer wide sides while leaving the thin side where you would glue for the unopenable one unglued, but covered. Cut to length and hit the exposed wood with the white off/liquid paper.

You can make a rather massive pile of books with those two options quickly. Sure, the openable aren't quite the normal looking ones, but it's fast, easy, and you can open/close them and it's not to hard to use more paper to add other stuff to make it look right.