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

@John Sethian posted:

Ray

What are the origins of your last building?   You did a nice job on that one.

John

 I think he has done a nice job on all of them'....😁👍

Fantastic job on the roundhouse Charlie!

U DA MAN!

Just went through the rest of this thread - WOW.

I gotta compliment all of the master builders who posted here and thank them all for sharing the pics of their projects.

This was my second scratch build. Inspired by the Miller Engineering Neon Sign. Don

This is my curent project underway, the Maeuseturm or Mouse Tower located in the middle of the Rhein River at Bingen, Germany. The building is based on an HO card kit from the German firm Schreiberbogen. The building is mostly styrene. Still a ways to go for completion. Miketg

Choo Choo Charlie...

I usually plot a plan of a building on graph paper then transfer the dimensions to the Polystyrene and cut the pieces with a sharp utility knife. The Polystyrene is glued with Acrylic Solvent that welds it together. I use Evergreen StripStyrene for the trim, I used to make my own windows and doors but lately I have been buying them on line. When the building is finished I spray a primer on so I can paint it with Acrylic Paints. This building I used Rust-oleum  multicolor textured spray paint , Desert Bisque and it gave the building a nice stucco look. The tile roof was bought  on line. The foundation and steps are made from Precision Board. This building is a replica of a late 1800's NRA riffle association riffle range club house.

Impressive builds, gentlemen. 

prr, all very nice, I really like the Wilson Frozen Foods especially the roof details, even the snow is very realistic 

You guys do some phenomenal work!    

George

This was made with parts from 2 plasticville hospitals and an airport. The dock on the back was mostly scratch built.

Steve, only word that comes to mind is "Plastastic" , great design 

@corsair29 posted:

This was made with parts from 2 plasticville hospitals and an airport. The dock on the back was mostly scratch built.

Love this Steve, looks like a fun project.

I gotta see what is in my large Plasticville part stash and see what I can create. The last time I did this I created a two story urban street building - ground floor stores and apartments above. I posted pics of this several months ago

Amazing work folks! WOW!

This was the first structure I built for my layout. Its a freight platform based on the P-ville model. All balsa wood and the roof is paper print mounted to thin cardboard. The lights are LED's from Model Power that I added a hood too.

Guys, my hats off to each of you as you are all great modelers with so much talent.  I'm certain there are others equally as talented on the forum who are either to shy to share or need a bit of motivation to go and take a few pictures of their work. 

Unfortunately, I don't have anything to share in O gauge that are scratch built by me.   I like to buy derelict scratch buildings and and O scale handmade railcars that need work and repair them for use.  But I've got much of it packed away.  

What I'd like to learn is how some of you approach making doors and windows with the appropriate frames and molding around them.  This seems to me to be the trickiest parts to tackle.

Great modeling, everyone!

Jeff C

@Allegheny posted:

Guys, my hats off to each of you as you are all great modelers with so much talent.  I'm certain there are others equally as talented on the forum who are either to shy to share or need a bit of motivation to go and take a few pictures of their work. 

Unfortunately, I don't have anything to share in O gauge that are scratch built by me.   I like to buy derelict scratch buildings and and O scale handmade railcars that need work and repair them for use.  But I've got much of it packed away.  

What I'd like to learn is how some of you approach making doors and windows with the appropriate frames and molding around them.  This seems to me to be the trickiest parts to tackle.

Hi Allegheny

Almost all of my windows are constructed from Evergreen StripStyrene and a little ingenuity. Evergreen has all kinds of different pieces and they match lumber in real life so you can copy almost any window or door if you have the patience. They don't always have to be perfect, a good copy works  and some good modeling tools help a lot. The 2 blue photos are store bought, you can modify them to suit your needs. I don't have any step by step photos of how I built my windows but here are some finished ones.

Some fantastic looking creations here. Very nice!

I haven't done a LOT of structure kit bashing, but when I was doing so, I used to enjoy taking an inexpensive (at the time) kit, and turning into something in keeping with my modeled locale and time frame.

Along that vein, "back then" I took this .99 cent kit:

And turned it into a typical Ozark dwelling that one could find in the 1960s in the Ozarks:

So, the above .99 cent project was not nearly as involved as some of the other projects in this thread, but it was a fun excursion to me at the time. I'm not currently in the "structure" phase of my layout (back drop boards, sealing/painting of same and lighting is next)... so the above Ozark dwelling is patiently waiting to be re-used on my current Ozark theme layout.

Andre

@Jerrman posted:

Here’s a few of the scratch builds I’ve done. The drive-in entry is from a still existing prototype structure outside of Portland Or., the tenement building is (I think) from a design by Walthers in HO scale, the burlesque building is from an HO design by Foscale Limited, the garage is just my own design. 

I won'r repost the photos but those are all terrific!!

@Bob posted:

"Is this entire structure set out some distance from the backdrop, or is this something you added in Photoshop?"

Will, all of the city structures sit away from the backdrop.  In fact, an elevated track runs behind them.

 

Love the way you used the space Bob. I very clever layout plan and treatment of the city. I often find just putting flats against the wall to be unconvincing. I assume things are somewhat removable so you can get to the hidden track if necessary?