Farm Scenery

[Hammer71]

I have found many pictures of farms. However, I was wondering if anyone could help me in scratch building a barn, silo, and some out buildings. I would also like to know if anyone knows how to make a plowed field. I should metion that this is for HO scale.

Thanks for your time.

[Anonymous]

Some farm buildings:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/160-45152
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/185-2036
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/272-276
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/272-130373

A barn:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/308-121

Silo's:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/345-2000
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/348-225

Stockyard:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/345-2028

Therre's more farm building than you can imagine (on www.walthers.com do an advanced search using farm as the keyword), try kitbashing an exisiting one to look slightly different, would be better than trying to scratchbuild them all.

For your plowed fields, try one of these:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/189-7182
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/483-701

Jay

[n2mopac]

The plowed field is easy enough. I use ground foam, eg. Woodland Scenics earth or soil colored fine turf. put it on thich, soak it with alcohol, then with diluted white glue. While it is still wet lightly drag a toothpick through it to make furroughs evenly spaced about 18" scale apart. When it all dries it looks great.
Ron

[cacole]

Don't fall for the plowed field made in Germany by Busch, cited as one of the references above, and sold by Walthers. I bought one of these and found out that it is nothing more than a piece from a cardboard box with one side stripped off, and painted dark brown. You should easily be able to make your own plowed field that will look just as good or better than the commercial one. A couple of ways I have tried with varying degrees of success is to mix some real, sifted dirt with diluted white glue and a small amount of plaster, spread it on the area where you want your field, let it begin to set up, and then pu***he back of a hacksaw blade into the dirt to make your furrows. The dirt needs to be about 1/16th inch thick, which is not as thick as what you get with the one from Germany made from a cardboard box.

[jrbarney]

Hammer,
Don't know what era you are modeling, but if it's the current one, go to:
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans
Also, here's a link to a keyword search in the Index of Magazines.
http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?opt=S&cmdtext=farm+buildings&MAG=ANY
You may have to contact NMRA's Kalmbach Memorial Library for photocopies of some of the articles cited.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[CBQ_Guy]

As far as making a plowed field, I have an old model railroad book from the 1960's that says to use coffee grounds. Then run the coarse part of a comb through it to make the furrows. I never tried this so can't say how good it works...or not. I also don't recall if the coffee grounds were fresh or used. I would think you might need to add a bit of diluted bleach to the grounds so (hopefully) you don't get any mold!

Similarly, I believe I saw in a video something similar to the above except the furrows were "plowed" into some thinly spread plaster. After it hardened, it was painted a ground color and sprinkled with some Woodland Scenics "Earth" ground foam.

Good luck!

[Hammer71]

Thanks for the information guys this really helps. [:D]

[Anonymous]

If you want plans for scratch building, see:

http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/

and

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html

Andrew