What do you like to build?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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For me it’s scratch or craftsman. Plastic just don’t cut it anymore. I have an old Suydom kit on my workbench and it’s three weeks along and boy is it fun.

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I’m in the kitbashing phase right now, as shown by the PackMule.

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I really like laser kits from JL Innovative and AMB.

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I’ve become more and more of a kitbasher lately… I still work with plastic, but go to great lengths to make it look like wood or brick by various methods.

trainluver1

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I voted Craftsman, but l enjoy them all. I have a stack of Craftsman kits to the ceiling and a few plastic to boot, but I have been working almost a month on a plastic engine house. Most of the time spent is making the brick look like brick and the wood look like wood like trainluver said.

There should have been an all of the above as a selection.

6

Kit bash…we all remember my wobbling donkey and i am working on a few other projects

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I like to customize plastic cars with new stirrup steps, underbody detail, grab irons, etc. Maybe that falls under “kitbash,” but I picked “Plastic.”

'Course, since I’m building such a large layout I have to be content to put together plastic rolling stock kits pretty much as the instructions say, but in the future I plan to add extra detail.

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I voted craftsman, but I also like scratch/parts building and have done quite a few plastic models.
Enjoy
Paul

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I voted plastic just starting in the hobby Ray

10

All of the above. Maybe kitbashing as the #1 choice, as I seldom complete a kit in the approved fashion, but sometimes it’s novel to put a kit together the way the manufacturer intended…

11

All of the above, depending on what I’m trying to achieve.

Plastic is the best modelling medium for 90% of what we do in the hobby. Plastic kits are great, and the high-end stuff (Intermountain, Red Caboose, P2K, etc) is amazingly detailed.

For me, craftsman kits are anything resin. I really don’t like the medium since you have to glue it with ACC, but resin freigh car kits allow me to quickly and accurately model the transition era without having to scratchbuild everything.

I scratchbuild when I must, and do a pretty good job at it, especially with structures. I’ve scratchbuilt a few pieces of rolling stock, but only when I must. I won’t take the plunge and start scratchbuilding steam engines.

I “kitbash” virtually everything that goes onto my model railroad. Whether I scrape the grabs off Accurail bnoxcars and replace them with wire grabs, or saw a Bowser 2-8-2 down into a 2-8-0, I’m kitbashing. I’ll even take those high-end plastic rolling stock kits and 'ba***hem by changing certain details to bring them closer to the prototype.

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kitbash…even though im not very good at it

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I mostly start with plastic kits but always add many details and put on a lot of weathering.

Martin
Québec City

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I like building simple Athearn kits, but I like the craftsman kits too. I’m currently building a Bowser 4-6-6-4 Challenger with superdetail kit, Monogram Big Boy and the Bowser tender powering kit for the Big Boy. I modified the Monogram Big Boy interior to fit the Challenger, and it looks pretty good in there!

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I voted scratchbuild but I intend to try the others. So far I have only built one building for my layout, a scratch built grain elevator. It is not done yet and it is far, far from museam quality but I have to admit I really enjoy that I could take $5.00 of wood and I can make something that people don’t have to ask what it is.

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That’strue I wonder if I really fall under all but one. The suydom kit I have on my workbench is being superdetailed. (I’m cheap I’m building them all myself)