What Are Low Relief Model Buildings and Which Designs Can You Buy?

If you are setting up a model railway, you may be wondering how you set up buildings so that they are in the background of your railway yet do not cost very much. Enter the What are low relief model building.

Not only are paper model railroad background buildings  the type of building most model railway enthusiast uses for their railroads, they are also inexpensive to buy, yet look amazing when placed on a model railway.

What are low relief model buildings? -- These are three-sided buildings that, when placed in the background on a model railway, appear to be a a four-sided building.

The advantage of buying these buildings is they are cheaper and, if you buy printable ones and assemble them, they are faster to build as well.

Scalable buildings -- Depending on the size of your railroad, low relief model buildings can also be bought in sizes that are perfect for that railway.

If you buy printable buildings, these are even easier to scale down as each printable building comes with instructions on how to print it full size or smaller. Just follow the instructions to make sure the low relief buildings you buy are printed in the right size for your specific railroad.

What type of low relief model buildings can you buy? -- You can buy any building you can imagine.

Some people like to put warehouses or other industrial buildings in the background of their model railways. Others like to have a wild west town or a mining town in the distance.

If you want your model railway to have shops or houses in the distance, these can also be bought as low relief model buildings.

All you have to do is decide if you want to buy already assembled buildings, or buy printable buildings and create them yourself.