Bts stock pens

Looks good!  Matt

I have never seen that kit done.  Please post lots of pictures, I am interested in it. 

Lee, a little more progress.   This is not a quick kit.  However, I do like it very much and will order two more: stock yards and load out sites along the line.   It's well done, rea searched and detailed .     Direct at $60 it's worth the price.

i have he bts flag building to make next.    I cannot under emphasize the need to weather these parts prior to assembly and the use of hunterline stains to do it.

I use a DreMel to cut out the sections as some need to be glued while in the sprues.    The ramp is going together well too.

If looking for more than one, there is another O scale kit, that I have built, but that I

could not quickly find the box (and brand) for, although from it, I figured I could

easily scratchbuild another, with a different footprint, since it was a box of sticks. I think after you have done the one, if doing more of those kits, you would see how to alter the footprint, maybe to fit the location, and have "different" ones.  I think I kitbashed and added the shade shed, feed and water troughs,  (need to find the box) and would place the next one differently, etc.  (that kit's plans would work up any shape, just by putting wax paper over them in old model airplane style, to assemble sections of fence and the gates.)

I agree with Colorado.  Stock pens make a great beginner scratch build or kit bash project. It is very forgiving (you don't want your corral looking too good!)

This is one of the very first scratchbuilt structures I ever tried; made entirely from balsa:

Colorado, are you thinking of the banta models works?    Seems identical to bts

Colorado hr, you may have purchased this kit

crystalriverproducts.com/Products/Trackside/stockyard.htm

i worked on the gates tonight.  Not hey are tricky to do...

Nope...it took some digging, but I knew I kept the box and plans, in case I wanted

to scratchbuild another pen off the plans.  This was a Boxcar Ken (older O scale kit supplier...I love to find these old, obscure kits, as you know not every layout is going to feature one) kit, a small pen, that I think I enlarged by adding fence sections, and that I did enhance with a  covered shade shed and other details.  The box this came in is about the size of an HO car kit box, so it isn't large, but is so easy to expand.  I need a pen for a slaughter house (unbuilt, to-do list) as a destination for stock cars, and that would be built to fit space available.  There are other stock pen kits available:

one that was on eBay several times was of a roll around loading gate, and I think there

was one for the museum preserved pens at Cimarron, Colo., where the Rio Grande

entered the west end of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.  Be sure and drive back

up the canyon to see the unusual display of a narrow gauge D&RGW loco and caboose

sitting out over the river on an incomplete trestle with no access to it from either end.

I purchased the crystal river stock pens.  They should arrive soon.   Here is tonight's effort, the start of the pens.

I just about finished my gates.   I have most all posts set and will need to begin removal from the carrier to consider final assembly and placement