STICK BUILT CHURCH 1/4 SCALE

That is very nice! 

Nice work.  Love the look of it, nice country feel.

Pretty cool.  I think you should have a couple of picnic tables IN the cemetery.  I didn't see a cross on your church.  Is this a haven for pagan worship or something?  God's not going to like that...

pelago, that's great. Honoring your wife, family and history... and with a church! Amen.

 

THIS is what the hobby used to be about. It's ironic how many people cite failing eyesight as a reason to be in O. And yet there's so much more kitbashing and scratch building in HO scale, which is why the detail parts and decals are STILL readily available. Still on top of the vastly greater variety in HO.

 

Anyone can buy a building (nothing against those that do), but it's a special thing to determine yourself to the task of scratch building one yourself, and to do it for a reasonable material cost. We see so many threads with complaining about "why don't they make this," so it's quite refreshing to see a post like this one.

 

pelago, I could say, more power to you. It'd probably be more accurate in this case to say God speed, may the Spirit be with you.

camera was not high enough and here is a photo before walls and shingles couple of figures for scale

I would have suggested basswood, vs. balsa...used balsa in only one building so far,

that was adobe (a chapel!) to carve, and that worked much better than I hoped.

Growing up in a rural area, and exploring others, I have seen a lot of small churches...

once did a trip along the Ohio river photographing rural churches...and there are

those in places like Cades Cove in the Smokies.  They do not all have crosses on

them.  Many of these are low budget, obviously, so they can have interesting

architectural effects.  If that models the one you remember, since the steeple is

different, good job.  (one of those little architectural nuances)

I think balsa gets a bad rap.It is one of my favorite materials. 

this one is all balso

carved then treated to make  "tougher" then painted

NC Tobacco barn

 

the bridge is balsa and basswood, supports are in fact basswood only because it was convenient

 the country store is all balsa, after i make something i spray it with flat clear lacquer i usually paint it before but the spray makes the wood tougher and paints better

country store was my first ever project, i made it after i got the guys playing checkers and thought they needed a country store.  on my new layout there will be a still out behind the store and next door to the still will be the church.  stories i hear about my wifes extended family 12 aunts and uncles and lots of what they all called 'cousins'  and there were a lot of 'cousins'  well the still, the store and the church all sort of fit together  one of the tombstones has to have B E Lowrie, (wifes great uncle)

 

 

my sister lives right on the Ohio in Metropolis and I know what you are referring to, and the drives along the river are a education all in themselves,  my counry store is modeled after a store near KY lake (my first time ever in a store like that)  that was my first exp with 'shine'  the stuff that will take chrome off a bumper introduced to my by my cousin!!  wheh doggies!!

thanks for the compliment and these things are fun to make fun to create, and why not!  ready made bldgs work especially the brick ones but rural i love to make stick built ones,  am doint final touches to the Church  working onthe roof color i have the base cedar color down now now have to add years to the roof, some gray , some green, some blue/black and have to 'weather the bldg'  darn and it looks so nice new but they are only new once, and poor country churches all they had was whitewash

but like i said the church was the center of many many small communities from birth to death  let me get some more color on it and i will post a photo of it, also have to get lights inside