The official scratchbuilt structure thread

Show me scratchbuilt structures! Your favorites, your works in progress, heck even someone else's that you admire!

My latest structure. Modelled after this home in Bloomsburg, Pa. Still needs roofs and porch railings.

 

The elevator is just a kitbash, but the storage shed is scratcbuilt -





-Mark

 

My N scale turntable and roundhouse

 

Klecker Garage -













-Mark

 

Easy choices for me, kind of like roundhouses.



And of course, the one in progress.

 

All of the buildings shown above, save for the little elevated tower at the far left, were scratchbuilt back when I was a senior in high school (1973).

Some more ancient history:

 

Hope Hardware -





-Mark

 

Slezak's Shed -





-Mark

 

Hopefull Treasures -





-Mark

 

Here is my favorite. The only thing that is out of a kit on the sawmill is the 3 trusses and the green chain. The green chain was cut down in width. These peices are both out of the Walthers Mountain Lumber Co. The roofing is individually cut pieces of corrugate roofing. The lumber piles at the end of the green chain are individual pieces of scale lumber stacked board by board.

The chip bunker was constructed from 2 photos found on an auction site on the internet with only 2 known dimensions. Those dimensions are that a chip trailer is 8ft wide and approxiamtely 13'6" high. The rest of this structure is entirely proportional. The conveyor is simply nothing more than a piece of brass channel.

 

Apart from the bins, this is all scratchbuilt -









-Mark

 

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-Mark

 

Station that is built from plans of the MStL station in Zearing Iowa on the Story City branch. The train order signal could be positioned as needed. I say could, because I have since accidently vacuumed it up and have not built a replacement.



I believe the real station might still exist.

Tom L.
Wellington CO

 

I gave up waiting for someone to offer a Greyhound station so I scratchbuilt my own about three years ago.



Here it is on the layout along with several kit-builts and kitbashes.

 

-Mark

 

-Mark

 

My contribution-
Cheyenne Station


Jason Smith
Tomball Locomotive Works

 

A cut down ice house gave the basic structure but the elevator hoist to get the barrels of spirits to the top is totally scratched.



And the Virginia City Brewery built totally out of styrene from a set of plans in one of my narrow gauge books. Large structure that still exists as a tourist attraction. Still awaiting my applying roofing shingles. The grain silo is made from stone sheet formed around a substructure and has actual copper sheeting applied to the roof. One of six structures in a brewery and distillery complex.



The NP Hotel modeled from a photo in styrene.

And the NP Hotel from the rear.