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I thought I was unique when I did a series of kitbashed Plasticville RR stations, wrote

the article, and it was published in the TTOS Bullletin a few years ago.  And then I

got on this forum and saw all kinds in ingenious kitbashes, in quantity, which

punctured that balloon.  Do a search of Plasticville as has been published on this

forum...there is a lot of it and some very clever.

From long ago....some  building fronts.

 

 

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I used a hospital as a building front....far left.

I used the scholl and suburban station to create large building fronts....center and right.

 

This picture is from the old layout, taken about 2002.  That layout came down in Fall 2003.

 

Peter

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Plasticville buildings are great for kit bashing and modifying.  I have several around the layout.  Here are some examples.

 

For downtown "Ash Fork" I doubled the depth of two stores and then added interiors, exterior signs, etc.  On the bank building, I wanted the drive in window on the opposite side, so revised the left and right walls.

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Here is the finished scene.  The Greyhound depot is one of the enlarged stores.

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On this building I combined two aircraft hangers and added a foundation for the back portion of this industrial building

 

 

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Here is the ranch house, again with a foundation, back porch and roof trim added

 

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Originally Posted by PeterA:Very nice

Plasticville buildings are great for kit bashing and modifying.  I have several around the layout.  Here are some examples.

 

For downtown "Ash Fork" I doubled the depth of two stores and then added interiors, exterior signs, etc.  On the bank building, I wanted the drive in window on the opposite side, so revised the left and right walls.

IMG_5258

 

Here is the finished scene.  The Greyhound depot is one of the enlarged stores.

IMG_5621

 

On this building I combined two aircraft hangers and added a foundation for the back portion of this industrial building

 

 

IMG_5269

 

Here is the ranch house, again with a foundation, back porch and roof trim added

 

IMG_5645

 

I used two plasticville airplane hangers and redesigned them into a union station train shed with passenger walkway. On top of the hanger "walkway" is the head house made from an HO scale power plant. The truss supporting the train shed roof is an arched truss that I picked up at York. The stairway under the train shed roof is part of an atlas walkover kit.

 

I still need to finish the back wall, when I figure out what to put there.

 

2011-11-27 010 Passenger station

 

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Estol's friends always told him he made the best sandwiches so when he retired and got bored with his model trains he decided to go back to work and bought himself a franchise!  He is putting it in the old train depot downtown and has some friends helping him fix it up!  They are coming along with it!

 

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Originally Posted by TMack:
Just search the forum for Frankenbuilding.

Thanks for the plug TMack..I'll save him the effort.

From our train club's modular layout here's the original "Frankenbuilding:

 

 

 

Frankenbldg left side all view bright light edt1cp1_3129

 

and here's another project I made for a friend..."Son of Frankenbuilding":

 

ghb Frankenbldg front closeup backlit fillflash dskw1edt1cp1_0941

 

I have no idea how many or which Plasticville building fronts, sides, backs and parts I used but it would make for a real "test" for an expert to identify some of them.

Mark

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Originally Posted by dkdkrd:
Originally Posted by Scratchbuilder1-48:

Forgot which building I used , I think the hospital.

aaa ebay 030

Oh, WOW!!  I REALLY REALLY like this.  Looks like it belongs right on Miami's beachfront with all the rest of their Deco buildings. 

Totally Awesome!!!!

 


I agree, this building is just phenominal - wow, I love it!

 

-Dustin

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