Plasticville: customs, paint, bashes, etc.

LV tower, boarded up and abandoned!

K-Liner, very unique approach-great idea.

K- liner that’s a cool idea. I saw a little raccoon on some web site would fit right in.  I may have to borrow your idea.

Ok I bought this lot of Plasticville parts on eBay for $14. I had a roof I built for a sawmill that was way too big and just needed some walls to make a factory or something.  I cut and glued 14 wall sections from this lot together sprayed it with some texture paint and I like it so far.  Still working on it but here are the wall sections that I am starting to weather now.

@Jim Policastro posted:

Coaling station converted to coal mine:

Jim

Gorgeous structures, scenery and Photos, Jim. The colors are stunning. Arnold

Here's the basic Lionel Barrel Shed Kit

...and here's what I did with it

Left Side

Right Side

...and Inside

I scratchbuilt the outside tool box and its lock, the railing, the stairs, the base with the ground cover and junk, and detailed the inside.  The lights work, the calendar is for October, I made sure there was a lot of junk/garbage/etc. underneath the shed, and put "new" wooden planks on the stairs and the deck. The reason for the extra effort for detail is because this shed was planned to be right at the very front of a future layout.  The layout never happened but the shed remains....

Painted red parts green and scratch built sign.

That’s a nice structure Postmaster. Like the ad use to say, “ Pass with care and buy Sinclair”.

I just finished this Plasticville junk box project:

John,  That looks great. I love to see old junk parts brought back to life as an interesting piece like that. Nice work!

Set up  a gas station.

Thanks Jerry - and those parts were really junk, covered with glue and sloppy paint.

I'm always up for a project when it is too cold to play outside

Jim,

Amazing what a couple small changes to a Plasticville building can make.

Super job

Fantastic Choo Choo Charlie - you took customizing Plasticville to an animation lever - love it

This guy just needed some paint and TLC

Before:

After:

While not Plasticville, this was made from the operator's shack from a derelict MPC Drawbridge. Waste not, want not.

This is a great thread!  Thank you for sharing all.

Ertl farm set. (With paint).  Probably a better fit, S scale.

Chicken coop, middle of picture is K-Line.

Machine shed, (green metal building, right in picture), required an addition of 1/2" foundation, before the 1/43 scale farm machinery, would fit.

Just finished this guy today. The donor was covered in glue. The front and back were so warped that I had to break them apart and glue the pieces together straight (heat would not straighten them). Popsicle sticks used for bracing.

A brick pattern printed on the computer for the back wall, and some paint - on to the layout it went

Fantastic job and a great scene Mike CT.

Thanks for sharing.

John how did you get the glue off?

Another plastic building source was Walthers.  There was an interesting double tab, assembly design that allowed for the sturctures to be dismantled, boxed for storage, based on model railroad was a seasonal experience.   Feed and Grain store.

Automobile show room.

Double tab assembly, friction fit, could be done without glue.

This epic subject is so much fun!

Pat Shediak, tell me, is that tower in the back to the right of the pink church a Lighthouse? Is it a kit bash from ?

Right coach Joe I will ask too, but Joe, isn’t that your garage?

Mitch, just what kind of machine is that between monkees  mobile and Batmobile?

Has that intergalactic quality to it! A back to the future Delorean perhaps? Lol.

@coach joe posted:

John how did you get the glue off?

I didn't Coach Joe,

With some effort the glue used snapped free where the sides were glued together. On the surfaces I sanded the glue smooth, primed and painted over it.

@Leroof posted:

Right coach Joe I will ask too, but Joe, isn’t that your garage?

Mitch, just what kind of machine is that between monkees  mobile and Batmobile?

@Leroof posted:

Has that intergalactic quality to it! A back to the future Delorean perhaps? Lol.

Technically, it's a GoBot named Psycho:

It started as the "Psychoroid" from the anime series "Space Adventure Cobra":

https://www.worthpoint.com/wor...ace-cobra-1778766547

Mitch

(also an anime fan since my "Speed Racer" and "Kimba" days in the 1960s)

Go speed racer go speed racer, go speed racer GO!

lol.

Yes Pierre it's my garage but that thing went by so fast I didn't see nor hear it until Mitch's picture stopped time.

Our Christmas layout...

https://chicagovalleyrailroad....layout-tour.html?m=1

...is almost all salvaged plasticville buildings.  This was to be the year of repaints but by the time I finished various repair and lighting projects it was time to pack it away.

This thread is quite inspiring and I'll be looking at it again next year. Eventually I hope to repaint nearly all of them.

The one repaint I did a couple years ago was the rehabilitation and repaint of the Lionel "Freight Station" as described here:

https://chicagovalleyrailroad....ght-station.html?m=1

Looks much nicer now.

Thanks for the tour Eilif

@Lionelski posted:

Thanks for the tour Eilif

You're Very Welcome.

Forgive me if I've asked this before, but is that any connection to Warrenville, IL?   Just curious as I grew up there.

@Eilif posted:

You're Very Welcome.

Forgive me if I've asked this before, but is that any connection to Warrenville, IL?   Just curious as I grew up there.

Must be a great place, Eilif, but, no.

Just a takeoff from my last name

@Leroof posted:

This epic subject is so much fun!

Pat Shediak, tell me, is that tower in the back to the right of the pink church a Lighthouse? Is it a kit bash from ?

Don't laugh too hard.  That black lighthouse next to the 7-11 store was a tabletop lamp I found in a second hand store years ago.  It had a 110V cord that went up the center with a "nightlight" bulb in it.  I took that out and just stuck the lighthouse on the layout, chipped paint, a little ruse here and there on the metal, looking like a derelict structure.  I never got around on the last layout to hanging some moss and other stuff on it to make it look more abandoned.

I had a Lionel lighthouse at the diagonally  opposite corner of the layout that was fully operational with sound and lights.  The layout was set in a beach town named Lighthouse Point.  Yes, that's real rock I bought at a gravel yard for a dollar.  I thought the larger rip rap matched some I saw in southwestern Massachusetts.

Plasticville Church was a good pickup. It looks great with some work. Only things left are the ivy and the sound board. Stained glass makes all the difference.

OGR buildings allow for a lot of paint brush practice. 

Mark, how did you do the stained glass?

MikeCT, those ogr buildings look great. Did you paint the brick or is that the original plastic color with mortar applied?