I decided to build a hay drying shed for next to the stock yard on the layout. I saw a picture of one on the Walther’s website for N scale and decided I could scratch build one similar to it from wood stock I have laying around. Below is a picture of what I tried to recreate in HO scale.
Then I dug up some old leftover materials and started measuring and cutting.
I cut up some old fine grit sand paper to use for roofing material over the wood roof.
Then I started assembling the pieces.
I did not get any pictures of the pieces of wood being stained, but you can see how they turned out.
Below it is assembled with the original reference picture.
And finally you can see it is installed on the layout. It is a little hard to get a really good picture of it because of it’s loc
Looks good! I have a similar one designed after a shed on the farm I used to work at. Didn’t have windows in mine and used corrigated roofing, as my prototype had it. Have used sandpaper as rolled roofing on another project, does look quite realistic.
Good job; nice to see people actually building things. Back in my HO days I had good luck depicting roll roofing with masking tape, cut to width on a piece of glass. I mostly used Grimy Black paint, but no reason why you couldn’t use red or green. Oh, and it doesn’t mar the scissors.
What a neat little structure and project. I especially liked that it was mostly built from leftover stuff that was already on hand. One thought: for those who like to build the laser-cut wood structure kits, save the leftover bits and pieces. There are any number of uses that they can be put to.
Great job Ken. I would also like to know more about the hay bales. Also what and how did you stain your wood. I have a bunch of that wood siding left over and you have inspired me.[tup][tup]
That was my reaction to the finished product too. Great job, Ken. the project probably cost you little to nothing as well! Those are fun projects, aren’t they!
I’m a firm believer in scratch building, so I cringe when I see the vast preponderance of pre-built, utterly unmodified kits and such. Thanks to my choice of prototype, I have little choice but scratchbuilding. If I buy a kit, I usually have a kitbash in mind.
Your title got my attention. The little people in Tomikawa are inventorying the junkpile behind the TTT engine house, trying to scrounge up parts for a home-build Golwe. If they succeed, it’ll be the only Golwe in Japan.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with deviations)
Thanks everyone. My wife and I make the hay bales. She also made the tree and painted the backdrop. I made the bump stop from old pieces of rail and some stock brass rod and a small piece of styrene.
I’m a big fan of stuff built from the scrap box. One I’ve made severeal times and it is built from the parts of the loafing shed that comes with the HO Walthers Stockyard. I turn it inside out and use some left over gates to make coal bins like a small dealer might have. I make foam blocks of coal to fill the bins.
The trackside of the bins
Turned around to show the customers side with a bin’s worth of coal tp the side
More leftoverish is my Camp 10 shelter. I built the shelter itself some montsh ago, but was only useful for the passengers. It needed a platform. So I returned to my scrap box, added a few pieces of strip wood and pretty soon I was ready to start handling freight and express.
I really enjoy these sorts of builds, too, as it’s a way of creating your own kit for next to nothing.
This is one of the best uses of this FORUM! Great work and how you buit it is very easily understood. I love the look of real wood for buildings like this. Now the big question, are those hay bales two; or, three knotter bales?
