If you have never scratch built something before, or if you are an expert modeller, here is the place to let your efforts be seen.
Post a picture here over the next week of a structure that you would like to model for your layout. Then show us what you are made of and lets see the results. How about setting the end of July as the dead line for completion.
Anyone game?
that would be interesting i was thinking about tryin , didnt say succeeding, to model this
thoughtit might be something interesting to try
allright, here is a car that I just finished, but have not gotten a chance to take finished pictures of, hopfully i can take some this weekend.
here is the link to the car:
http://www.all-model-railroading.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,3607.0/all.html
OK, I’m building the second of my subway stations. First, the shot from sometime in March:
A while later I added the real platform bases from cast hydrocal. This is the Moose Bay Transit Authority, by the way.
Last night I cut the last of the wall castings to size. These are white hydrocal in this shot. Over the weekend I’ll get the wall colors on them, hopefully, and start with the other detailing of the station.
I’m planning a scratch-bash really soon. I want to build a Muir Models Mine, but the mine is a corregated metal building set. I want to replace all the metal with board and batton. So essentially, I’m using the plans to build my own version. Not really kitbashing because I’m not using the parts that came with the kit except the wood pilons.
Does that count?
Go for it Chip. This is just for fun, a bit of learning and to encourage folks to pu***he envelope of their skills. I will post my picture early next week as I have to head out now for a lamb roast!! It’s great having a wife with Croatian roots.
i started this 2 months ago for my dock it’s 4 kits together
jeff
That looks huge!.
I’m almost done with my first scratch build, a simple Ranch sytle house. Just have to add some windows and a door. I should have time this weekend to finish it.
Hmmmmm,so many projects,what to do…what to do???[%-)]
I’ve been working on a N&W “Lubratorium” on and off for the last three years and I don’t think I’ll be done by July. Why rush it? When it doesn’t go right, I go onto another project until I can figure out how to work out a problem. Presently the problems are making the roof structure, voltage regulator (solved but needs to be built) and I’m not happy with the brick / mortar color of side and front walls not matching. Then there’s the details like a stainless steel cabinet and oil lines and hoses to make.
Anyway, I’ll post what ever I have by that time.
Below is the prototype.
Just finished my winter-spring scratch building project, model of the Sheller Feed Company that was located in the San Fernando Valley, CA. I try to complete one of these larger models once a year. I just pick away at it all winter and paint it during early spring.
Excelent job Bruce. Nice weathering too. You win!
Simon,
I might be up to the challenge. Even though my structure won’t be all that complicated to put together, it would still be a nice, first-time scratch-build project; one that I would LOVE to add to my layout. (And a working one would be even sweeter. [^][tup] )
Pictured below is a working ball signal in Whitefield, NH. Not the exact one I want to model but a small-sized representation of one:
I’d actually like to model mine based on the one that used to be in Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Tom
If you build it, I will come.
James
Welcome back.
Home, James.
I might be up for a scratch-building thread, but I’ve never tried to build a season before! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
Darrell, the resident smart-A$$, and quiet…for now
I’m in…Maybe by the end of July I can get something done…What to model…what to model?
Great start Guys!
One of the most motivating things in life is a deadline! Anyone else feel like joining in and posting pictures of their progress as you create something to be proud of by the end of July?
Don’t worry about size of skill level (have I heard that before[:I]) this should be a place where we can all improve our skills and learn something.
If you’re going to build a model of a prototype that was built before 1890, make sure the boards go up and down, not across. Lap boards or lap siding were not widely available before 1890.