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Hello fellow scratch builders, I have a couple projects working on which I’m gonna share. Feel free to join in.

With that said here goes.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/343309110/400855839bbpfht
This is a shot of the deck for a train ferry that I’ve started on the weekend. At this point I was checking the bridge clearance as well as the deck height just to make sure that all wheels are on the line at all time.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/343309110/394273266fLtajZ
A crane barge. It’s a copy from a model I had seen on a website.

http://image63.webshots.com/63/2/98/3/393129803LWGuCT_ph.jpg
A sawmill. Still under construction.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/343309110/393128026JdlMjD
Crane barge and small fishing boat.

These are all N scale.

OK, these are mine so far lets see what you’ve got hiding.

Here’s the link if you want to see some more angles of these shots.
http://community.webshots.com/album/343309110iNPjgG

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every link is broken:(

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I’ve been having all sorts of problem posting pictures from my webshots album. Someboby help me.

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ohhhhh. for some reason web shots won’t let you post pictures here. you have leave the links.[:(]i had the same problem

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I went to your website and wow are those the best scratch built structures I ahve ever seen.
Keep up the good work

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Thanks UNIONPACIFIC4018.

I’ll be working to fini***he ferry on the weekend.

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Some nice Builds there !!! Scratch building is a very fullfilling part of our hobby IMO.
Here are a couple simple retaining wall s have done. I plan on doing some more Scratch built structures on this pike, but will be some winter projects.

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Nit Pickers Union Hall

Latimore’s barn in Fort Worth with layout in loft

Both N scale.

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All I got to say is WOW!

Very nice work guys!

  • Ryan
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Midniteflyer, is that N scale. Looks Good, hope spring comes soon so I can see the others. lol.

leighant, love the roof detail. How long did that take?

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leighant,
Please tell us what you used for the trains on the loft layout. That’s some
mighty fine work!! [tup] Dave

And in N scale… you, my friend, have a lot of patience.

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You Sir, are a scratchbuilding monster! Awesome work all! [8D]

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Guys,

I’m sure many of you have seen this before, but since I am buiding benchwork and laying track, I am recycling it for my addition to this thread. Built from plans of the water tank at Los Pinos, Colorado. The roof took forever and caused a few gray hairs…

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From a very long time ago, my scratchbuilt enginehouse in HO scale. I just happened to have the image in my computer:

Bob Boudreau

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Every one has most likely seen this allready but it is my Wobbling Donkey. It was built out of a brake van a hot wheels car rolls royce the power truck from a Life Like F7 the truck from a caboose and various other scrap parts.

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[bow][bow][bow]

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The roof for Nit-Picker’s Union Hall is individual cedar shingles cut from paper thin cedar wrappers from what were $1 cigars years ago. Entire model took about 35 hours.
640 pieces I guess, not counting shingles.

For the barn with the layout

I saw kindergarten kids playing trains with blocks made from ends of 2x4s and realized, a length of 2x4 has approxmiately the bulk of a Lionel boxcar. So I just used scale 8" lengths of scale 2x4 to represent pieces of Lionel equipment and painted them to match the colors of the stuff I remembered having when I was kid in the 1950s.

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early on I needed a double slip switch but no money to buy one, I took on the task to scratchbuild one, using instructions from one of the MR mags, an article I found.

That was years ago and was installed on an old layout. That layout is gone, but the doubleslip is intact.

I may take a pic of it sometime just for this thread.

of course it worked.

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Now this is my first attempt at anything scratchbuilt, so be kind!!

Working two aspect signals. pole is a cotton bud, 3mm LEDs and their mounting collars. Just squeezed three wires up the pole.

I need a ladder for the rear, HO scale any suggestions where I get some.

Ken.

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Boy, I am embarrassed to show my scratch built trestle. This is the first item I’ve built for the Club I joined after 25 year layoff from the hobby. Be kind!!

I’m working on finishing it up, but lost a bag of parts, so I have to do the inside diagonals and the second water barrel platform with it’s barrel. It/s amazing how pieces parts like that just…disappear!!