HO scale is still King.........

jim pastorius posted:

There seems to be a lot of brick structures out there so maybe something different. A small foot print would help with a crowded layout. Possibly more RR type structures.

Good idea about the brick structures. I think more variety in the exteriors of the buildings would also be a welcome item. 

HO might be king in the outer world but not in my house.  Too small, can't see it, got rid of everything. If I really got pressed I would scratch build. Will let you know after tomorrow's TCA show.

AMCDave posted:

Salty Smith....are you in Princeton??? I'm not far per WV standards!!

Yes Sir I am and today I start building a small 21 x 11 layout for the Princeton Railroad museum. I have been gathering material, making dirt and flocking etc but today is day 1 onsite.  Are  you in Hilltop Wv, if so that's not to far from me and I pass by there going to Oakhill every third thursday going to a Blacksmithing meeting.

If you think I can help any let me knw. Good luck!!

AMCDave posted:

If you think I can help any let me knw. Good luck!!

Are you coming down to Bluefield Nov 11 - 12th for the train show. If so you should stop by the museum for a tour. I also have here some drawing that may be of interest

Just my $0.02 (or less), but I think the fragmentation of the hobby makes new product ideas pretty tough to push. No surprise there, however a while back I made some mumblings about the smaller Union Stations. (Such as the Art Deco building at South bend, IN for example) I think there would be some demand for structure kits, but maybe only at a limited run of pieces for each model. The limited runs of modern era Standard Gauge tinplate builders comes to mind. I don't know the details, but that philosophy might lend itself towards self-taught computer design and laser or water-jet component cutting to keep tooling cost under some semblance of control, and enable a new-wave cottage industry in our hobby.

In my O Gauge hobby life one of the biggest annoying things that has happened is all these ready built structures rather than kits.

Why? Because in the past I would look at a kit plaster, plastic, wood, didn't worry me, on the internet and if I thought it had potential would buy two or three of the kits to Kitbash into a larger building like the Kens car sales kit I built a Ford dealership out of four of those kits now all that has gone from me, so I have to resort to scratch building which in terms of money costs more, a lot more, than kits add up a box of Evergreen styrene shapes you might get a shock and that's only the start! Roo.

The Salty Smith posted:

AMCDave posted:

If you think I can help any let me knw. Good luck!!

Are you coming down to Bluefield Nov 11 - 12th for the train show. If so you should stop by the museum for a tour. I also have here some drawing that may be of interest

Planning on attending the show on Sat. Where is the Museum located??  thanks

Fwiw, I would like to see expanded commercial structures and facilities in a modular design or setting. Imho the small town mixed use buildings and houses are pretty well represented in O gauge and scale. it's the medium sized and large scale industries that are lacking. The walthers series of kits to mKe those huge industries is what I am referring to. Destinations of our rolling stock is what comes to mind.

AMCDave posted:

Planning on attending the show on Sat. Where is the Museum located??  thanks

99 Mercer St, Princeton Wv

http://www.princetonrailroadmuseum.com/

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Fwiw, I would like to see expanded commercial structures and facilities in a modular design or setting. Imho the small town mixed use buildings and houses are pretty well represented in O gauge and scale. it's the medium sized and large scale industries that are lacking. The walthers series of kits to mKe those huge industries is what I am referring to. Destinations of our rolling stock is what comes to mind.

Yes, having the Walthers large scale kits like they produce in HO and N would be very cool in O scale. Having the paper company in O would be great but the downside would be its gigantic footprint if  you did not have the space.

wrawroacx posted:

Out of curiosity, who is this W?

Thanks. 

These are what I would put along back walls nd what not. No need to fill a space with empty building when all you need is the facade of the building and the part the train goes into to represent the industry. Cutting off the back 3/4 of the paper company would be just fine and put it up against the wall. That should be a pretty easy scratch build too. Its O scale you can do most of it with 1/4 inch plywood on a table saw and some brick overlays. Sanding sealer will seal the grain and keep it form showing through the paint. Is it model railroading or model remove it from the box-ing.