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

Mike, that terminal is exquisite!

Coach Joe

I do still have these buildings and a few more.  Sorry for the pics, I am not a  photographer.

My last real layout was when I was 17 in 84 and after we moved, I started to make buildings for a future layout.

They are a lot cruder in person.  Those fine details are nails as door handles and electric tape as door hinges and latches.  There is even a whole toothpick in the railing of one of the towers!.

They are based on B&O buildings from the standard plans and a few from buildings I saw a couple of times before they were tore down.

Here is a cardboard station that was the result of a pump car trip in 1991.  It is still there and in good hands.

Artie, thanks for you kind comment, and thanks for the "Likes," guys. there is so much great work in this thread that I have been hesitant to resurrect this old project. I could spend an hour just clicking the "Like" button every time it's warranted here.

Great thread!

- Mike

Great thread showing off a ton of talent!

This one was made from Korber parts:

This was kitbashed from an MTH Public Works building:

Some poster board, wood, brick paper, and windows:

@Mike Casatelli posted:

If you've been on this Forum for a while, you've probably seen my scratch and parts built Great Central Terminal head house, so you'll be bored. If not, enjoy !

Cheers,

- Mike

Yeah; looking at this more than once is boring.  Right!   I couldn't agree with Artie more.

This is the 3 line bridge gate I built for my layout entry

This is a fantastic thread. Such great structures here on display.

Here are photos of 'Gobblers Knob' station, based on Cross Junction Station from

John Allen's Gorre & Dephetid railroad.

Here is the station on the layout.

scratch build petrochemicals industries  Plastruct Kit

kit bashed barbed wire fencing using Brennan fence kits and twisted EZ line

Altoona Model works power/boiler house

Walther HO switch yard

Kitbashed Muffins trains flats

roads made using Technique on  Lance  Mindheim Website

@PRRMike posted:

Here are photos of 'Gobblers Knob' station, based on Cross Junction Station from

John Allen's Gorre & Dephetid railroad.

Here is the station on the layout.

It is always wonderful to the great model railroaders live on through others work

Here’s a couple OGR buildings.

Below is nothing to compare to the quality of previous submittals but I had a fun time making it. It occupies a spot at Trolley Park that always seemed to have a trolley or locomotive just sitting around. I would remove them and they would creep back in the middle of the night. I used foam core for the sides covered with ye olde walls with printed windows and doors. A lot of time was spent on the roof as I really did not want it to warp. Used a lot of super glue and some enamel paint to keep the dreaded water based products away. 8-) Anyhow, it is what it is. I have a kit-bashed engine house into an abandoned factory I might trot out later. Do TRAIN ON!

Kitbashed from Lionel Electrical Substations:   Inspired by Norm Charbonneau !

@chris a Very nice looking and well-detailed building!

Tom

Took 2 MTH double track Pennsy signal bridges and converted to a 4 track B&O signal bridge.

Scott

Here's one that's currently under construction:   Made from 3 older Lionel Factory Building Kits, plus Korber and IHC engine house parts.  Foot print is about 30 inches long x 7.5 inches wide x 13 inches tall at the gable end.

these were off, my On30 layout

The feed mill and gas station are scratchbuilt.  I built the feed mill after looking at several close to me that had been added on to during the years. None of them seemed to care if the addition matched the original structure.

@Mike Casatelli posted:

Wow. Just... WOW

Half bashed, half scratchbuilt.

NASA flight facilities

The last several posts are great.  Very imaginative and super job.

Enjoyed seeing them

Keep sharing

Charlie

Scratch built water tower using big PVC cap, funnel, aluminum channel and wire and brass. I have a ladder and cage I haven't added yet. Not a great tower, but passable I think.

Ron,

   That came out well. Maybe add a spout too? If you put the legs on fake concrete pads, it might help too.

Tom

Wow, some great builds. While not as elaborate as the above models, I built a vertical oil tank for my oil derrick. I stacked four or five 35mm by 3” motion picture cores (I was a film archivist for 44 years), and glued them. Then I took .005 styrene, which I scored with a pounce wheel to mimic rivets, and wrapped it around the stack. I finished off with a roof of the same build, then added piping from a Walther’s oil kit. Painted, and used decals from a Lionel tank car.

Working on getting gas prices down

Mail Pouch

Artie,

The oil tank looks great! Very clever.

Hope you can get a chance to visit our club layout..still up through February.

Earl

@wbg pete posted:

Love that coaling tower! Great work!

Her are some attempts to make my layout look more interesting.  A small prehistoric layout for the grandsons Dinosaur Diesel set, park benches, farm silos, storage silos. and a Scenic Overlook 2 level deck.

Dan

Here is a Lionel engine house that I kitbashed into a small factory.   I was attempting to make it look like an old railroad building that has been repurposed.

I painted the closed end of the building to look like weathered wood.

I shortened the original building to fit into my available space.  I used the section with the walk-in door to close in the original open end. The whole buiulding is placed on a simulated concrete foundation.

A scratch built loading dock was placed at the side door.  The loading dock roof was made of left over roof from the section that was removed. The mortar joints were done using typical methods.  The weathering is ash and soot from my wood burner.

Ironically, there is no rail service to this building.

Tom

For more on my kitbashed Plasticville, check out this morning's blog post on www.warrenvillerailroad.com

Very creative Tom. Thanks for sharing this unique factory conversion.

Keep your projects coming gang!  I always get ideas and inspiration from you guys.

Two from Lionel kits and a MTH Granary:

@wbg pete posted:

Pete - first rate job on granary

Two from Lionel kits and a MTH Granary:

@Dan Kenny posted:

Dan:

I like this a lot
Joe

Her are some attempts to make my layout look more interesting.  A small prehistoric layout for the grandsons Dinosaur Diesel set, park benches, farm silos, storage silos. and a Scenic Overlook 2 level deck.

Dan

Joe ,

Thanks, my wife laughed at me when I came upstairs complaining of a sore back. I'm a retired carpenter and I told her I was building the double deck and stairs. (not because of physical work but from bending over the layout for 8 hours)

I built this 20 years ago. It was my first attempt at a model structure. I made window trim for it, and attempted a weather job. I had a shaker can of model paint I tried to coal dust dirty it with. I put the lights in it about a year ago.

Kit bashing structures and rolling stock is what l do when l should be working on the layout.  Since this photo only shows maybe a fifth of the structures and none of the rolling stock...it explains the lack of progress on layout