I've got a large collection of Plasticville buildings, but also have lots of extras. Collectables, or open to modification? If so lets see some that have been modified. I see a lot of potential in many.
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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.
This is an old Plasticville station that had some dings and a missing pieces. Painted, fashioned a replacement side and walkway, and added mini-lights.
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From long ago....some building fronts.
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.
Here is the finished scene. The Greyhound depot is one of the enlarged stores.
On this building I combined two aircraft hangers and added a foundation for the back portion of this industrial building
Here is the ranch house, again with a foundation, back porch and roof trim added
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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.
Here is the finished scene. The Greyhound depot is one of the enlarged stores.
On this building I combined two aircraft hangers and added a foundation for the back portion of this industrial building
Here is the ranch house, again with a foundation, back porch and roof trim added
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.
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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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Thanks for the plug TMack..I'll save him the effort.
From our train club's modular layout here's the original "Frankenbuilding:
and here's another project I made for a friend..."Son of Frankenbuilding":
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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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
Forgot which building I used , I think the hospital.
Yes, those are the panels from the Plasticville Hospital. Your building is terrific!