Greetings Folks, New to all this and wondering: Will an HO Scale building look ok on my n scale layout?? Many Thanks for your opinions
Depends on the building. I have seen some bigger industries that where made with HO buildings and looked ok. I think the biggest thing is to fill in the door with an N scale one...and that sets the table for the rest of the building. JMO BTW...welcome to TrainBoard
Expanding on what mtntrainman said: Sometimes grandiose buildings like courthouses, museums, college halls, etc. have much higher ceilings and taller doors and windows than more modest structures of a similar type. A small HO church might be an N scale cathedral or "megachurch". And some HO buildings have been manufactured a little under scale.
Probably depends on the structure, and how it is adapted. The reverse of those two scales works as forced perspective. You might be to do the same if careful, using HO.
From what I recall, just to give an example, the Walthers HO scale blast furnace is actually the correct size for N scale.
Most likely using a HO factory type structure in N scale you can probably get away with it. Typical early factory buildings had as large a window as could be fitted in for the benefits of lighting. As somebody earlier pointed out just make sure the door is a large N scale door and a lot of other things fall into place. Also substituting N scale ladders and steps help set the tone. Machinery such as dust collectors, cyclone blowers, and cooling towers came in various size. Loading docks will need to be lowered and doors for those docks also lowered, with the material taken out of the bottom transferred to fill in the top. But in short it is doable.
Can't remember who made it but there used to be a factory building that was out that came with both HO and N scale doors. It could be a really big N scale building or a medium sized HO.
Wow, i never thought of this before. An HO brick building could be a cinder block building in N scale. Would the truck loading doors on the HO building be in proportion if you used them as the rail doors? Joe
Loading dock doors could vary in both width and height depending on what the business was producing and what type of cars they were loading. Either you pulled the railcar into the building and loaded there, or the doors had to be sized to move your largest item out of it and load either in a boxcar or a flatcar, and sometimes a gondola. In my building parts box I have at least six different styles and sizes of freight and loading dock doors that are all in N scale. Some loading dock doors had smaller people sized doors built into them to allow folks to come and go without opening that big old drafty door and letting all the heat come out. Insert a solid core N scale door into a HO scale door and you just made it into a large N scale door.
It was Concor and previously Heljan. They had the slaughterhouse and the brewery (both were the same kit as I recall). http://www.ebay.com/itm/Heljan-Con-Cor-HO-N-Scale-Slaughterhouse-Model-Kit-Unbuilt-/231466421552
