Post your scratch built or kit buildings we would love to see them

very nice

I guess, first, it depends on what "scratch" means:  I have only a few buildings where I started out with only wood or plastic sheet. 

 

Most scratch built content: The Luxor theater is probably the most scratch-built building I have.  All wood (scrap wood, too), then covered with a fine layer of spackling then sanding to simulate stucco, etc.  ticket booth, etc., made of scrap plastic and odd pieces found in the junk drawer, etc. 

 

Next most scratch built would be these three most tacky of all the trailers in my tacky trailer park.  Block of wood, covered with appliques made of then Evergreen plastic sheet - windows and doors cut out first with transparent plastic inserted behind to make windows, etc.   

 

 

Pie in the Sky is named after the restaurant in the British TV detective show of the same name.  I used I-don't-know-whose kit panels for the front but it is heavily bashed.  Tables, chairs, and the windows and doors of the entrance and interior are scratch built.

 

 

 

AMERITOWN panels are so useful in scratch-bashing that I use them all the time.  Note Kahbossan Indian (Cowboys and Indian) restarurant is not your typicalpanel's three-windows wide, nor just an extra window wide.  Multi cuts in both directions resulted in a building with five windows across the top and only 4.5 on the first floor, etc. This building is triangular, by the way: it has no depth on the right side, but is 6 inches deep on the left.  Another scratch trailer to the right. 

 

These buildings are made mostly of Ameritown.  The turret is PVC pipe.  The taller one has a revolving front door that is made out of scrap spray can tops, etc. 

BTS kit,  Cabin Creek Coal Tipple, back, front, is a Korber Quincy Mining Co..

BTS, Elliott and Sons Supply.

Korber 304 engine house.  One additional stall.

BTS Orbisonia Station, and a Walther's SurSweet Feed and Grain.   The Grain Elevator is Lionel.

One of my favorites.  A MWB, carpenter's shack, also pictured is a Korber #927 switch tower, and a Walther's, now Atlas, Lumber yard.  All were kits.

Lumber Shed. Built about 4 years ago just as I was beginning to experience hand tremors. As a result many clamps were essential. I used mostly brown Carpenters glue and cut wire brads as dowels. Cut 1/8" Masonite panels to square up the foot print and vertical wall.

Really nice stuff guys!

 

A custom painted and weathered Lionel freight platform:

 

Only have the one picture of this readily available - construction article was published in Railroad Model Craftsman a few years ago....

 

I have previously shown many of my scratchbuilding and kitbashing structures on here,

and now have three kit built saloons under construction, that won't get much kit bashing....I admire all of the projects above as that is the binge I am currently on...

with a break for a caboose kit, and to upgrade locos to Elescoes and Vanderbilt

tenders.  Would like to see posted a thread of kitbashed and scratchbuilt steam era cabooses,  as that is another of my binges.

There was one. Search for "Show me your caboose(s)".

Many were kit bashed or scratchbuilt.

All,

 

Here is the city of "Hampden" where every building in this scene is altered in one way or another.. DPM, Chooch, Ameritown, Lionel, MTH, K-Line, Atlas, Bar Mills, Branchline, Bachman-Plasticvilleand some others I can't remember..

 

 

Gas Station.

made out of wood.

Scratch built Weirton Steel Open Hearth (right) and Blooming Mill (left):

 

 

 

Buildings are constructed of Evergreen vertical siding and Plastruct corrugated roofing styrene sheets over foamcore walls and wooden framing.  Incomplete highway overpass (Crawford's Crossing) sits between the buildings.

 

George

BXCXDan:  I am not interested in urban scenes, but I really like the clever contrast you

have created, with half the view of the back of buildings, as commonly seen from trains, and the street scene, as a continuation forming the other half.

Nice Gas Station Andre. I recognized your gas pumps right away.

Needed a Sinclair Station as I remember the one in the town I grew up in. This Plasticville filled the bill. It sits toward back of layout, so size fits in with distance. Working on detailed interior.

Here is a Tom Yorke Ouisi's bar that i just finished. Named it after my great great grandfather who was a bar owner in ohio early 1900's. Laser cut a new door to show the scratch built bar and lights. It built up great, tom makes the best kits ever. His detail and fitment are the best out there!!

Kit bashed Plasticville trailers

Kit bashed Lionel Rico station kit...

Scratch built water tower plus some scratch built On30 rolling stock...

Kit Bashed OGR small depot kit, with left over trim from the Rico kit...

Does drawing with a mouse on the computer to make a card stock building count as scratch built?

Thanks Spence.. Dan

Daniel M. Bigda
Vertex Rail Technologies

Lee, love your buildings great job thanks for posting  

Some great work, gentlemen.

 

For now, I'm content being a "bridge troll"

 

 

 

Here's one I'm laying out for my next build. It's the Pacific Electric bridge in Torrance, CA. Both two center arches originally had tracks which connected  to the tracks on top via a switchback that led to a steel mill. The tracks and mill are long gone. I got lucky in that The City of Torrance released a solicitation for bids to retrofit the bridge that included the original drawings. Of course I downloaded a copy.

A board by board scratchbuild exercise that's on a small module that will eventually be "planted" into the layout:

 

I really like the Farmall M sign.  One of the few custom signs I ever did.  

One beautiful custom piece. 

Thank you,  Mike

 

My attempt.

First is a Train Shed I copyed from someone here on the OGR,

The building is 14 guage carbon steel cut out on a CNC plasma, there are .080 thick acrlic sheet inserts on every bay and the finished unit has a red clay tile roof. This reminds me I need to update photos. Unit is 5' long and 20" wide.

Here is a scratch built factory front. its 48" wide. This will reside somewhere i=on the TMB club layout

Here is a building that was by our train station in the 50s. 

I found old old pic and built it.

This started out as a Skyline cardstock kit from the 1950s.   I covered the cardstock with wood strips and added the bands, turnbuckles, NBW, truss rods, scratchbuilt the ladder, spout mount, water gauge, and hatch, and shingled the roof.

Bob

 

This started out as a Lionel Coaling Tower kit........got the idea about 15 years ago from the late Art Curran of Kalmbach.

 

 

 

 

Peter

Number two are my two steel bridges. The first is a two track 40" long.

 

The second is a single track 44" long.

Both are carbon steel, primed and painted. The deck is 10 Ga. and everything else is 14 or 16 ga.

Here are a few of the items I have scratch built over the past few years. The funeral home was built for a client and features many original cast resin parts. Oscar's was a kit I manufactured along with the Birney diner. The last photo is of the Head's Mill Store here in Georgia. It was also a kit.

You guys are inspiring me to start a new project. This is my most recent one:

 

Here is the prototype:

 

 

Hey, this is a great topic, 30th Street!!  Yours and everyone's are most impressive.  

 

I will join the fun by posting my best work.  Some of you have seen these before.  This is the Boyce Homestead where I grew up and where my parents still live.  The middle part of the house was originally built in 1888, and many additions have come since, but were all there before my dad can remember (he has lived there 82 of his 84 years (2 years in the Army)).  I worked from my own photos and built with styrene and thin plastic brick siding.  The shingles are tablet paper spray painted flat black and cut with a hobby knife.  Most of the vegetation is Woodland Scenics.

 

More pictures!

A little station board by board....

 

Next up ia a wooden tressles. This is an open tressle with just a deck.

Here is the before the scenery.

 

Here is after.

Every thing is scratch built from Micheal's, wood stock and glue. Most of the scenics, people and animals are from Scenic Express. The water fall and running water are stuff I picked up on the bay.

Andy,

Those are all nice buildings!  Sure, I say a building built on the computer counts as scratchbuilt.  And a beauty it is!

I scratch build almost every thing on my layout. I use poly styrene and precision board for most of my structures...

Great stuff, Scratchbuilder. Love the Deco Holiday Inn.