Show us your Scratch Built or Kit-bashed Layout Buildings you have Made or Modified

My roundhouse from scratch.

I found a front section of this apartment building in the junk section at a local train store some years ago. I have assembled a few Korber kits and recognized the old section as something that Korber possibly supplied. I purchased another group of sections to make up sides and a new front. I fit the pieces together as best they would fit. The old section needed work on the windows. When I got it together, there was a very noticeable difference in the color between the new and the old sections. I used some white glue and some Woodland Scenics green ground cover and covered the distinct difference with IVY. I added some fire alarm details and the some fire escaped and roof details. This now resides in my Meriden section of my layout, the first picture here. The building is at the left . Korber could actually offer a kit like this.

I make all my models from scratch mostly from Precision Board or Poly-Styrene.

I got the blue prints of the Holyoke MA City Hall to help me create the front part of the City Hall. It is on permanent display in the model RR I built, with help, at the Senior Center. The City Hall is 37" tall and is one of the main attractions on the layout. The Roller Coaster, built in 1929, at Holyoke's Amusement Park went from one end of the Park to the other and was huge, I was only able to recreate a part of the Roller Coaster with Poly-Styrene strips.

Here's a Lionel engine house that I unfolded into a background factory. I tried to recycle as many parts as possible such as roof sections for the awning over the loading dock or internal bracing using some of the base sections. I raised the whole structure with a basswood foundation so the boxcar door opening lined up with the scratch built loading dock.

I may have posted previously a couple of photos of our 3 stall roundhouse. About 5 years ago my son got the idea of getting me a roundhouse for Christmas. His plan was to buy a couple of 2 stall engine house kits and kitbash a roundhouse. So, he started the process on Xmas day and left it to me to finish it. I am still doing some of the scenic work on this engine facility.

This thread is great for giving new ideas for anyone’s layout. The pictures I’m showing are to pay homage to a couple of family members. Note the people inside the store fronts.

From about 3 years ago. I had some old Coors Light billboards and needed a service house for my BNSF diesels!

The door front for walk in is from an old Menards service house that got busted, the white roll up tubes are from a wood dowl. When I get home I will try to find an aerial view of it.

My version of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is built of foam core poster board and craft foam employing Lionel theory of selective compression.  I need to spray paint the inside gray and add an American flag and NASA's "Meat Ball" logo.

I redid a MTH bank building into a library. The original was too big for the space so I shortened it.

@Dale Guthman posted:

I redid a MTH bank building into a library. The original was too big for the space so I shortened it.

Nice Job! You cant even tell you shortened it!

This is a digital photo building flat from my old layout.  The building is Old St. Patrick's Church in Chicago.  The prototype is raised off of the street; I cropped the bottom of the photo to fit my space, making the door level with the street.  I took several images and combined them to make a model.

This is among the most unique kit-basher projects I ever accomplished. 2-story high extended engine shed using 6-IHC building kits. I sold this years ago...I hope the chap was able to re-assemble and use it...it had detailed interiors...and am looking for the photos.

Though I did post earlier on this topic, please indulge me on these pictures. Wanting a smaller station for space considerations, I converted the MTH Police Station into my Union Station. Used 4 Plasticville Union Station canopies and a Bar Mills sign to finish it off.

I scratched the coal tower and elevator building and the sand tower, bunker and pump house. The loco shop was bashed by taking 2 used single stall shops apart. I removed one panel from each side of one building and adding them to the panels of the second. I used 1/8th inch plywood covered with playstruct brick to make double door openings. I added made doors and lamps.

Very nice work BRich and pennsynut.

This isn't scratch built or bashed but it is modified.  I turned a MTH Municipal Building into a small power generating facility.  I added a floor to the whole building, gray concrete in the generator room, marble in the control room I made by adding a wall.  I replaced the "frosted" windows with clear so one could see through them.  Made exhaust louvers out of razor blade containers and even added insulated exhaust pipes from the engines through the roof.

@coach joe,

Joe,

It would be helpful for me to see 4 photos - each one showing the entire building - viewed at a 45-degree angle from each corner so that two sides are seen in each view. The closeups are good but I would like to see the entire building in each view. I'm trying to understand how you created the brick exterior on the 2nd level if the original building had just one level.

MELGAR

Thanks Coach. I liked your repurposing idea. Cheers

When I started my layout some 35 years ago, most of my available funds went for my growing family. Funds for railroad equipment were scarce. It needed some buildings and I decided to scratch build a few. I used two card board boxes to create this building and then covered it with strips of manilla folders for clap boards. I made windows and doors from balsa and bass wood. I recently upgraded the windows and doors and added lights and some other details. A local friend who was a machinist made me 50 barrels which I then hand painted. If you drive through the old industrial areas of our cities and towns, there are still a few old wooden buildings still turning out a product such as this one.

Mel, I'l try to get some pictures like you are asking for.  I didn't make any changes to the building walls.  All work with the exception of replacing three windows with fan exhaust louvers was on the interior.  I do need to extend the engine exhaust pipe through the roof.  I've the metal tubing already bent to 90 degrees I just have to drill holes through the roof for placement.

Hello fellow builders'.. Been so busy after relocating to a new state, and trying to get a layout room/work shop built.  Fighting Covid, RSV, and other medical stuff. Haven't been building much.  Frankly I forgot about this thread..  I have built intermittingly, a couple of  structures.  Just finished this yesterday, for friends of mine.  It is a Model builder software paper structure, enhanced with some wood and detail parts.  And I built a station from parts 3 - D printed from a fellow on a different forum.  It is difficult as I can only get to some of my modeling equipment and supplies... as things are still packed away in storage.. My layout room is just about finished another 2-3 weeks I should be able to start building my new layout.... Small but mighty'.. (LOL)...

First: Ponderville Station:  Second: Joytom Coffee & Cake:

@Bill Park - Bill, nicely done.

Tom

It is snowing right now on the Eastern Seaboard.  How about a Coffee'..

Work shop house for the salvage yard.

Cut the back third off a two stall MTH engine house in the past.    Used  the mismatched pieces ( two stall width to one stall width   ). finally instead of tossing them in the landfill.

Installed the LED light and added some weathering and small pieces.

God speed all