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Share pictures or talk about unique, kitbashed, scratchbuilt or just super awesome or cool buildings you have seen or have on your layout or someone else's layout.
Here's one of a burnt down garage. (R. Nixon Used Cars Sign was on there when I bought it, thought id keep it, No political opinion)
I have a few. I love to scratchbuild, especially when you need a certain kind of structure to fit into a given space and none of the kits on the market fill the billHere are a few.
This one is built from Evergreen styrene products. I usually like wood, but figured I would try something different.
The next is a little cafe. Most of it was build from pieces of scrap wood in my wood collection. All of the windows were scratch built. Of course there were a few metal castings used for items such ad the pot belly stove, phone, radio and cash register. The stools are small nail heads.
The next is a freight station. I need a little larger freight station than I could find on the market at the time, so I build one entirely from wood. It does have a lit interior.
This building is very simple, made from cardboard (cereal boxes), but captures some of the small cafe/rooms to let establishments seen in small towns in Northern Minnesota:
Wow, id think there all these were kits because there so nice especial the first & last one but no company could ever mach the detailed interior of your cafe. I don't currently have a layout but I am working toward one but for my small desk & display I cant agree anymore about scratchbuilding for small places, another building I am currently working on is my small barn fire station, No company makes a kit anything like it or that small, it fits anywhere I want it too.
I've always been interested in an abandoned fertilizer plant in Bena, CA, just north of the Tehachapi grade. Here are two shots:
I discovered that the Campbell Frary Fertilizer plant is pretty close to a condensed version of this. I assembled it with some additions and changes to make it look a little more like the Bena plant, and will add some more pipes and tanks later.
One of my buddies, Ken or Terry I think, did a nice job bashing together a Walthers (Cornerstone series) New River Coal Mine with the Flood Loading tower. He posted photos of it on some thread somewhere I had started about something else.
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One of my buddies, Ken or Terry I think, did a nice job bashing together a Walthers (Cornerstone series) New River Coal Mine with the Flood Loading tower...
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