Nice job Don, well done.

Andy

Hard to choose...l have several bashed country store/gas station buildings. Now for bigger buildings, l also have several each of grain elevators, mining stamp mills, and water mills, and, yes, railroad stations.  I just like rustic structures.   

I'll play:

Plasticville small town station.  Attractive, easy to build or modify, typical structure and the first station I ever got in about 1950.

There are two. 

Slideshow   Click on the underlined phrase. 

Watchman's shanty at Depot Street crossing.  

"Small" depends on your perspective- I like the way my "Lionel Power Station" kit turned out as "Tri-State Machining".  Mine is to the left of pic- the other is a different OGR Forum post of the kit built and weathered. 

Lionel 6-12931

This kit has tons of charm- skylights, an office entrance and could be almost any small manufacturer.

ANY Woodland Scenic Ready-Built building.

ANYTHING SKILLFULLY SCRATCH BUILT

@scale rail posted:

Mine is this corner local bar. Don't remember who made these kits but I really like the way it turned out. What's yours, kit or Pre-made. click to enlarge. Don

Beautiful scene.  Especially love the peak at the "Cedar Rapids" passing by in the background!

I like the Lionel building that Mike Wyatt posted. I bought them by the dozen and would kitbash them into all kinds of different things.

Here's a little kit from Berkshire Valley that I just love.

I'm kind of fond of this little tool shanty that I built 100% from coffee-stirrer sticks:

"REED's Café", "Frank's Barber Shop" and the TEXACO gas station.....

PRRMike, I have had one of those Plasticville shanty's on every layout I have built. I light mine a detail them much like you.  Don

@PRRMike posted:

Watchman's shanty at Depot Street crossing.  

 

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"Cloud Catcher Depot"i

scrap off the pile, matches, glue, $1 grass, etc. . Normally doesn't see that much light in that corner either.

These are just a few of the craftsman kits I built.  I have done many more.  I think Hinkle's store was my favorite in this collection.   Dennis.

Here are a couple more.  I really had fun with the gas station (not finished in these pics), but the A&W Stand was the hardest building I have ever attempted.  I do prefer to work with wood.    Dennis.

Hartman, I bought the same A&W kit and it looked so easy. Yours came out better than mine. Mine never made the cut to go on the layout. Don

Thanks Scale rail for starting this thread. Among my favorite modeling railroad projects are assembling bldg kits, bashing them sometimes; using ready made structures with a little weathering; and scratch bldg. It's just a lot of fun for me.

Five of my scratch medium bldgs are 4w x 6L x 2,5 inches in different color schemes and various window and door placements. I made 5 crossing watch  shacks based on PRR drawings. The barber shop has charm. As previously noted, the Lionel Electrical building and the City hall bldgs are nice just stock and painted, and super for kitbashing. And the atlas station and switch tower and the MTH corner bldgs are classic and classy IMO. Too many pics  to upload so here a few.  

Lionel  Hindenburger Cafe

I like it so much I have two.

After paying full retail + shipping for the first one.

I got the second cafe for almost nothing in a large lot of Lionel Train goodies.

If you wait, you almost always find the items you want for less.

The problem is most of us can't wait.

Great pics everyone and super modeling. Mike CT, as usual, lots of patient and skillful detail.

Schomberg Feed and Seed Building - I was given a box of broken hydrocal pieces because the store owner I worked for thought the kit was useless. I built the kit and brought it back to him. He ended up selling it for a pretty penny.

Here are some more I worked on this past spring.  I enjoy making these small structures and they can be put almost anywhere on the layout.   Dennis.

Now that I look at it, I don't like the green brick so I am going to replace those with red brick or stone.  The picture inside started out to be a calendar but was too big so it became just a poster.

I bought the hoist & chain & built the A-frame lift set-up to go with the garage.

It is actually more difficult (for me) to make a sagging roof then a straight one.

I cannot for the life of me get my brick work to turn out as nicely as the first two photos as well as others.  Even using Robert's I still cannot get that level of new brick consistency.. #frustratedmason.

Dave, tell us how your doing it. Step by step. We can help. Don

Here’s my telephone shanty:

Thanks Dave (Scale Rail).  I spray the base coat of the brick, seal it with Krylon matt clear, stir the Roberts and then apply with a brush.  I let it dry the same day then wipe off with a moist wet teeshirt rag in a diagonal manner but seem to wipe away some of the mortar in the joints and end up with an uneven look.

Dave:

If you want to stick with Robert's then do what you normally do. Use joint compound with your fingers to fix up the spots where the mortar is missing. The white color is a little different but it disappears with the India ink wash.

I used to do this until I decided it was a lot easier and less expensive just to use the joint compound by it self. Below is the latest front I am working on.

Joe

I use Robert's but for a wipe I use a damp dishwasher sponge. The sponge wipes flat so you only take off the top of your "mortar". Don