How to Scratchbuild a Simple Shed - Plank by Plank

MC Fujiwara Oct 4, 2012

  1. MC Fujiwara

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    I posted this on the construction thread for my Free-moN Effett Staging Yard, but thought it might be found easier in it's own thread, as well as provide a better place for people to share their own methods for plank-by-plank scratchbuilding.

    Anyway, I finally finished some videos showing how I scratchbuild simple wooden structures like this:

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    Here's Part I:

    [video=youtube_share;05gbRVOABgg]http://youtu.be/05gbRVOABgg[/video]

    And here's Part II:

    [video=youtube_share;8wt5WI9Iqsk]http://youtu.be/8wt5WI9Iqsk[/video]

    Hopefully the videos will help take some of the mystery out of scratchbuilding plank by plank and inspire people to build their own structures instead of building the same kits as every other layout.
    I built this shed very quickly (about two hours total, including drying times) to get it on the Silicon Valley Free-moN Effett Yard module before the GTE show a couple weeks ago, so it's not the most complicated structure nor the most detailed (the yard is called "Effett" for a reason!)
    But if I can do this in a couple of hours in N scale, imagine what you can do over a day or two!

    Looking forward to seeing other methods & techniques for plank-by-plank construction!
     

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