Let us see your Scratch Built, Homemade or Kitbashed Layout Buildings or Accessories you have Built

A rendition of the luncheonettes that were in large NYC subway stations in the 1960's. The first pic is an actual one in the Times Square station.

Dyl- great Canadian modeling ( adding a 13’ section to my layout representing southern Ontario

Joe- fantastic luncheonette! Very Edward Hopper-esqe. Perfect lighting, where are the figures from?

JohnA

These are some outstanding projects, guys.  Here is "Hillbilly Hoedown", more of a fun thing than historical accuracy.  It was made by my then 10-year old son and his friend and me.  It is constructed of fireplace matches, with a sandpaper roof.  The objects hanging from the leftmost porch support are license plates.  A sound module inside played "That Good Old Mountain Dew" by Grandpa Jones.

@West Side Joe posted:

A rendition of the luncheonettes that were in large NYC subway stations in the 1960's. The first pic is an actual one in the Times Square station.

Joe, that custard sign on the soft ice cream machine tells the real time line'..  My father always said," Let's go get a custard"..Never called it ice cream'...  Now we need a nice White Castle, a Bickfords, or a Horn and Hardics.....😁🍦

EXCELLENT MODELING'''.✔👍👌⭐

@John A posted:

Joe - where are the figures from?

JohnA

The seated figures are MTH / Railking. The waitstaff and kitchen workers are Arttista, except for the African - American woman, who is Woodland Scenics, and the busboy in the striped apron, who is a Vintage Characters "soda jerk" from The Details Galore store on Ebay.

I got these plans from an old Model Railroad mag. It's a model of White Tower Hamburgers.

Nice project! I've copied the pages and will think about building it. Don't know where I'll put it, but I still may build it.

7 stall roundhouse.

My Scratchbuilt Signals.

Mainline signals controlled by outside rail and relay.

Exit Signal from my yard lead. Manual control using an Atlas Twin on my control panel.

E

Exit signal on the spur to my 97 Coal Elevator.  Wired to the O-22 Switch

Steve

I bashed a MTH bank into my Metro Terminal. Rotated 90 degrees, cut doors into the side, used an Ameri-Towne bank building front for the doors, created an interior and frosted the large windows on the back.

Not quite a building but it is scratch built. My version of a Great Lakes ore boat,  8 feet long, 10 inches wide, 20 in. tall to the top of the mast. 99% scratch built except for the windows and doors and stairs.  Stairs from a Plasticville coaling station,  windows & doors from Lionel bobber cabooses.

I started with a plank of OSB for the keel and 1X's of poplar for the bow and stern.  Cabins are foamcore and cardstock. All over layed with 020 styrene from flu shot signs I got from when I worked as a pharmacist.

I put a Suethe  smoke unit in the funnel.

Below are some kit bashed and scratched built structures

A single story Korber kit with a scratched built wood addition

The bottom portion is a single story Carolina Craftsman kit. The top is scratched built from wood

Scratched built Ice House made with wood

Bottom is an MTH freight building with a scratch built addition made from plastic

Scratch built electric arc furnace and annex buildings.  Hardboard base with MDF framework.  I skinned it with foam core also .

Added corrugated cardboard overlays for the exterior.  It still needs an interior.

From an old 1930's magazine...

...with carillon soundtrack/speaker in the tower, and a CD player port for organ music, congregational singing with an additional speaker in the sanctuary.  Fully lighted.

I thought the magazine's cover portrayed the model in artistically licensed proportions!  Well, duh, I was wrong!  Now I can't find a suitable spot on the layout for this church cathedral!  TOO big!

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This one is a modification/enhancement of an Ameri-towne building...

Front and rear platforms/details are fixed.  Side platforms/canopy are removeable to either side, or none, depending on layout location, tracks, roads, etc..

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And this one is a modification of an old Lionel beacon tower...

to which has since been added a flashing red LED light at the roof's peak, and an Arttista figure of a guy (ranger?) standing at the railing looking through binoculars.

These were a lot of fun in the making.  I have more, too.

KD

I decided to built an upper platform to store the subway trains while not in use, instead of them hanging on the wall. Have to finish painting it.

Not a scratch build or even a kitbash but a repurposing of an HO Dayton Machinery into a Budweiser Clydesdale barn to go with a Dept 56 Budweiser Brew House.I need to paint the lower section, maybe two window panes down to the bottom, a light gray/beige to match the Brew House.

Not as nice as a lot of the buildings on this post but here are some cardboard buildings done a long time ago.

This very early-on Clever Model paper garage reminds me of such structures on the west side of Cleveland Ohio where I resided for my first 26 years. I added the roof over the man door a while back and recently the LED light from Evans Design.  I have always liked this one!

HSD68, those are pretty sharp for cardboard.  Were they kits or did you scratch build them?  The picture looks a little dated, do you still have them?

Bogart, very nice job on the Clever garage.  The little locks on the door even look 3D.

If you've been on this Forum for a while, you've probably seen my scratch and parts built Great Central Terminal head house, so you'll be bored. If not, enjoy !

Cheers,

- Mike