My Gothic Cathedral is Finished (pics)

His arches were the later style that didn't require the buttresses. He did put some cabling inside though...

artyoung, a company called gamecraft miniatures do a 28mm scale european church in 3mm mdf, can buy stained glass window inserts and roof shingles to detail it.  I have a heap of their 'gaming' buildings and some other companies on my temporary toy train layout.  They also do a 7-11 convenience store/service station, a multilevel parking complex, and have several other buildings that can be easily kitbashed. 28mm wargame buildings offer some great ideas, plenty of companies offer street details like po boxes, fire hydrants, phone booths etc.  Lee, this is a great use of the plastic kits, I have some gaming mates who will try and emulate your efforts for certain.  Thanks for the inspiration

Sinn: Thanks for the tip, I'll check them out.

I appreciate the tip on gamecraft - was unaware of this.  This is their church - pretty nice church - about 14 x 11 or so - good size for O.  A lot of other good stuff, too.

Agreed!!! So I don't get the 28mm scale.....what does that equal out to???? They have a lot of stuff that could serve as a basis for a more detailed build and at a decent price too!

EDIT....found a gamer site with scales.....28mm is about 1/64th scale or S

          O scale would be about 38mm scale. So 28mm comes out to about Plasticville scale in my book!

Yes, the 28mm scale is 1:64.  This works out well with the Pegasus Gothic city kits at least, when used on O gauge.  At 1/64 they are truly "cathedral" in size - 12 foot high windows and doors, etc.  Using those panels as 1:48 cuts them down to "church" size - windows and doors come out to a scale 8 to 9 feet high, etc., which is perfect for a church, institutional building (courthouse), etc.

When I found the Pegasus kits I just went by door size. They were plenty big for a medium size O scale building so I bought them all. Smaller S scale building may not work as well as these BIG buildings....but still something could work.....great for background structures.

Gaming figures and buildings often suffer from something called 'scale creep', 28mm figures are often 28mm to the eyes, 32mm to the top of the head.  I use 1:50 and 1:55 vehicles and all looks good together.  I measured the height of the doors on my buildings as 42mm, my office door is 2100mm, so 1:50 rather than 1:64.  I have 1:48 airfix infantry figures that match the buildings very well.  I came to O scale trains via 28mm modern/zombie gaming, was looking to do a railway scene for a gaming board, thousands of dollars later I am now hooked on O scale trains, but still happily combine the 2 and have heaps of great detail bits and pieces from gaming companies.  Like I said, don't be put off thinking 28mm is 1:64, it really is closer to 1:50-1:55, and for kit bashing it can be a cheaper option

That's one concept I have thought about for a long time.  As much as I like the trains, integrating a complete railway system, in any scale, with such other "miniatures" hobbies as war gaming and RPGs would help solidify the railway's reason for existence and make it just one part of a much larger world.  The ability to merge genres (adventure, simulator, strategy, etc.), and to expand and even create new settings and storylines is an aspect that, at least in my opinion, physical gaming wins out over video/PC games.

Aaron