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I needed a barn for a small space.  I love the Menards and Woodland Scenics ones, but both are just too big or too expensive (or both).  I bought this a couple weeks ago.  Took only about 2 hours to build.  I have mixed feelings... I like it but it doesn't really match anything else on my layout and while it says it is 1:48 scale, it feels too small to me.  The instructions (online) were kind of awful, but figuring out how to build it without most of them really wasn't that hard.

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Here is the link to buy it (and many other structures).  The price is certainly right!  1:48 Scale O Gauge Sugar Creek Vintage Farm Photo Real Scale Building Kit Sets | eBay

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Here is one I made by having an HO cut out book for it reprinted at Office Depot in O scale on light card stock. This Victorian "cottage' is rather big! I also worked over some of it parts on the computer to add the port cochere.  It rested on a hill top in a corner of my layout. 

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Something simpler was this B&O shelter, copied from a 1906 drawing. Colored with pencils, cut folded and assembled, it was made to see if a more substantial model of it in styrene or wood could fit into the allotted space. 1920's B&O structure colors were applied. They lasted into the 1940's on many B&O line side buildings.SHELTR

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Not yet, but I have printed out model buildings from Evan, Clever, Big Indoor Trains, Model Railroad Layouts and Scenery, and Historic Preservation Division of Illinois Natural Resources.  Some were free, some cost a piddling amount.

I'll get to them as soon as I finish the huge windfall of Plasticville and other similar structures that I came across just before the Covid hit.  I ended up with 34 complete buildings and enough parts to cobble up a few dozen more, plus some stuff I could use on paper structures or things I might to try to build from scratch

Kit bashing can take a lot more thought and effort than  had expected, and my progress is not what I'd like it to be.

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Here is one I made by having an HO cut out book for it reprinted at Office Depot in O scale on light card stock. This Victorian "cottage' is rather big! I also worked over some of it parts on the computer to add the port cochere.  It rested on a hill top in a corner of my layout.

TH Mansion

Something simpler was this B&O shelter, copied from a 1906 drawing. Colored with pencils, cut folded and assembled, it was made to see if a more substantial model of it in styrene or wood could fit into the allotted space. 1920's B&O structure colors were applied. They lasted into the 1940's on many B&O line side buildings.SHELTR

S. Islander

That "cottage", if it were 1/1 scale, would be as big as some towns I've lived in.  Absolutely beautiful.

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