If someone does know of someone who can do that, we have pictures and blueprints.
The first year we were together, my girlfriend began asking me questions like "What scale are your trains?", and I would reply "O", and then she'd say "No, but what is that, like 1/25th, 1/100th?", and I answered it's "1:48, or 1/4" = 1'."
For Christmas that year, she gave me an O Scale model of our house that she made herself.
The original is on top, her model is below:
It was her first model she had ever built, of anything. She is an artist and graphic designer by profession. My response was "I have been doing this for 50 years, and I'm not even qualified to carry your gym bag."
Among other interesting touches, all materials on the house are true to reality, e.g., hand-carved wooden gutters, aluminum downspouts, steel stair rails, etc. There is also 1:48 trash in the trash cans, license plates that are true to our license plates, etc., etc.
There's a pretty good slideshow here of the entire building process:
http://share.shutterfly.com/sh...p;sid=0CcN2TFqxasXYg
For her next project, she will be building the centerpiece bridge for the layout. When I mentioned this thread to her, she said, "Have them send me photos of their homes by email."
Yes, I have died and gone to heaven.
Steven J. Serenska
P.S. My favorite part is her work on the front doors. We have an amazing cast iron grille that's original to the 1879 house. She took a picture of it, scaled it down, and printed it on opaque paper behind some basswood for the doors:
