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

This was a sound car crate cover for an H²O mini bluetooth speaker I made of popsicle sticks so"anything" could have a whistle.

Im really not too into sounds and was recalling all the small shack pastie shops I used to see in the UP of Michigan and other northern places as a kid.

I upgraded to tounge depressor craft sticks for making signs 

Then I started a small coach or màybe drover car... but this formed instead

The realization I really didn't have room for large items promted a small sales stand like I used to see from North to South at roadsides and homes alike.

In February I couldn't get "Dusk till Dawn" imagery out of head. And loosly recreated the building, but not before researching the the story premise more and finding out it is based on Myan religion and their "bible stories".

  Turns out it is related to a level of their underworld where (one of many named) "Hunapu", a hero of sorts, looses his head to bat demons.  What was freaky is I couldn't shake the image until covid hit hard... and it seems bats are the origin of that... Psychic or psychotic or coincidence, it's spooky imo.😱

It fits in an 0-27 curve, and is just foam from packages.   

Racing the sunset to seal it off before the vampire virus can spread.

                                                                                   Wagon train ↑↑↑↑↑ 😁

@Will posted:

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

Thanks, Will. Much appreciated. 

A few garages to go along with my villas and bungalows . Cut from 4x4 untreated pine then covered with paper .

Some homemade accessories for my station and freight shed .

My standard gauge News Stand  with battery operated LED lights .

This is my home made passenger station I built from Erector set parts and pieces of glass from old porch windows .  The benches are 1/2 inch angle iron that was salvaged from the trash . 

@Lionelski posted:

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

Nice Job

 This is my version of a popular O scale kit.  One of my favorites, completely scratch built'. And at a fraction of the cost of the kit'...

All of these are scratch built'. Balsa, plastic brick, paper, cork board and spackle for stuco.. effects.

 So far on my layout I have  kitbashed a few Lionel Rico stations and scratch built a 180 ton coaling tower built to CPR design.

    I certainly enjoy scratch building but other projects have taken priority thus far.
 Great thread! 
Al

I have a mountain that has two track in and three out.  When I had a full background on one end of the layout I added a fourth track out of the mountain to a hidden track.  The other end came out of a hole in the background that needed disguising. 

The hole in the background is hidden by an industrial building.  This building was made from 1/8 inch Masonite with brick paper covering the sides. The main outside loop track goes through this building too.   Arch top windows were added and made from plastic sheeting and panes from 1/16 inch auto pin stripping.  Vent stacks were added to the roof.  A fake roll up door was added to the open ends of the building from wood dowels.  A section of flat building was made as the building and installed against the background to give the appearance of a larger building.

Three sections of the hidden track, located at each end and in the middle of hidden track, have isolated outside rails to trigger a track occupation signal to indicate if a train is present on the track since the track cannot be seen.  The signal power is controlled by the round house light switch.  The signal is mounted on the left end of the industrial building, in full view of the engineer.  12 volt mini Radio Shack bulbs of red, yellow and green are used for the signal.  Each bulb represents a section of hidden track that is occupied, and all three “on” mean the track has a long train hidden.  The lights also indicate the progress of a train moving on the hidden track.

Picture of Industrial building behind the round house.

Charlie

@JohnnieWalker The glass depot is a spectical of home engine-u-ity. "Tight"  

After the little glass dome noddle shack, I'm itching to build with more glass for structure vs window/door/ice/water/etc.. Inspiring 😁

The AF talking city station w/ station stop and record player still alive inside but with more blue collars than previous eras and the tiny switch tower are favs.

HVAC is a Tyco whistle billboard. the rest is pipes, pinstripe, floral wire, inner tube, matchsticks, and a retro style box of Cracker Jack. Home made tell tales w/cotter pin fingers.

The worst bridge ever, sw. tower leg is on the left, Pure spur of the moment rookie expementation with foam. I thought about concrete footing, but went another direction on a whim. It has a emery cloth roadbed draped over a few kabob sized dowls and jammed into foam. Still not bad enough to bother to pull off mine. This cross view is seldom seen.

Ball is a lightweight wood knob, base brass, tack vent- drilled, staple/pin bead handles and pinstripe lid seam trim. Glued now but was actually pretty stable. The house for this yard is an over scale cardboard craft store item, just brown paper look... not here... next time. 

The roof, box lid, are wood. I of course added the Flag, flag light sconce(laser pointer lens cap, inverted) It's wired from roof to pole, then back down at a Guywire angle into a hole in the ground to go under the rails vs over them. It's also in the far corner obscured by a pulp paper 0-31 tunnel and El. line. Dusting is a huge job. Hard to get there and leave it all standing and clearanced ok.

#$&! kids playing at the tracks... They knocked my shrubbery over again.

Ni 😁

A small one, made with coffee stir sticks and sides from an old Lionel exploding boxcar.

And a larger one, bass wood and Ameri-Towne fronts.

@Adriatic posted:

@JohnnieWalker The glass depot is a spectical of home engine-u-ity. "Tight"  

After the little glass dome noddle shack, I'm itching to build with more glass for structure vs window/door/ice/water/etc.. Inspiring 😁

This is a great place to get ideas from .  Here is yet another glass ( kitchen island light ) standard gauge station I built  a few years ago .  I sold it to a good buddy of mine after I realized it was way too BIG for anything I could use .  My standard gauge layouts are all floor layouts that are set up once or twice a year for now . 

Very transparent you're a pane at home, and lamps, bought as such, glazes a gilders frame with opaque rouge....  Crystallin clear; gonna be structure.

...Sill or coned...

See?   

I'm of green tints.  

🙃

Here’s a few more scratch/kit bashed structures I’ve done. Mom’s diner (motto: “get it yourself”), is kitbashed from a plastruct diner kit, cut in half to shorten and add various details, the Green Dragon Chinese restaurant is from a Foscale HO design and Per-Don Tobacco and the Front Street Mission are scratch built, roughly from building designs on George Sellios’ F&SM HO scale layout.  

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jerrman, very nice work, always loved George's structures and layout

@sidehack posted:

jerrman, very nice work, always loved George's structures and layout

Thanks, Ray. Have always used George’s modeling as my guide as I love the rundown other side of the tracks aesthetic. I’ve watched videos of the F&SM, studied the blogs which feature F&SM pix and have seen the layout in person. I never tire of it. 

@Jerrman posted:

Thanks, Ray. Have always used George’s modeling as my guide as I love the rundown other side of the tracks aesthetic. I’ve watched videos of the F&SM, studied the blogs which feature F&SM pix and have seen the layout in person. I never tire of it. 

 That is excellent work Jerman'.. I love all of it and one can see an influence of  George's master pieces.  I would love to see more of your very nice modeling'....😀👍