I wasn't downplaying cardstock. I have a friend who makes O scale buildings using printed brickwork on foam board. Then he inserts windows and doors, cornice, etc. They turn out very well. I'll look for the Plastruct stone sheeting too. Thanks.
Tim Fahey
Musconetcong Branch of the Lehigh Valley RR
Plastruct offers random stone in sheet form about 8x10 sizes I guess and with some Grant line windows one could get a pretty fair representation. Don't down play cardstock for building material. Specially if you copy the kit onto more cardstock so you can double window and door frames etc.Plastruct also has some pretty good roofing material that might be close for what you have there. BILL
The home I'm building the layout in is located in a 55 and over community. Now that you mention the eyesite thing I guess that is one more plus for moving there. I showed my wife the cardstock kit and she thought it would be a good approximation. Now I just have to figure out how to order from that website. Thanks again for the tips.
tcf511 Thanks Dave. I had not considered European and have never really explored it before. There is a cardstock shed kit by Superquick on the website that could be made to be reasonably close. I've never worked with a cardstock kit but I'm open to new things in the hobby. Is OO close in scale to HO? There were a number of interesting building kits on that website.
Thanks Dave. I had not considered European and have never really explored it before. There is a cardstock shed kit by Superquick on the website that could be made to be reasonably close. I've never worked with a cardstock kit but I'm open to new things in the hobby. Is OO close in scale to HO? There were a number of interesting building kits on that website.
OO scale is 1:76 proportion, while HO is 1:87 (I'm rounding here). The British use OO scale trains with HO gauge track. I have purchased some structure parts and details that are OO scale and for the most part, perhaps because English structures tend to be maybe a bit smaller than American counterparts, I think they look OK. The one time things get a bit dicey is when you try to kitbash two different sizes of molded brick in close proximity. But even different makes of American HO structures have different size bricks. Often paint and weathering takes care of any such issues. Having said that it helps when your model railroading friends are your own age -- all our eyesight is going to heck at about the same time!
Dave Nelson
Ha! I found it. It's pretty much right where Live Search Maps takes you whan you search for Hughesville, NJ. Just off of Rt627 and Cyphers Rd. Look it up and do a birds eye view, it's a very cool little facility. I didn't see any evidence of the rail line though...but I was able to see the pillars next to the building that show in your photo. Funny I've lived in northern NJ for forty years and I like finding little bits of history like this in my home state. It will be a shame if/when they raise this place and put up a stirp mall or worse an apartment building.
Please keep us posted on your progress
Signed John. who sees a road trip in his future.
I am right now working on a kit that one half of it looks very much like this. Stone, rather modular, similar roof line and a similar cupola. Georgia Freight House from Railway Design Associates. I am pretty sure it is discontinued. I am not even sure if RDA is even still in business. I heard the founder died and not sure if it is still ongoing. I got it as an Ebay project.
Rick
This is Hughesville, NJ. It was just a small paper mill town, I'm not sure if it is Warren or Hunterdon County. It is just a little outside Phillipsburg, NJ. It was serviced by the Lehigh Valley. The building that I show is just one in a complex. They also had several units of company housing on the site so it should be pretty neat to model.
I can't help you with your question, but I'd like to know, any idea where in Hughesville this is located? I'd like to try find it on Google Earth or Maps.Live...which I preferrre.
J.P.
An intriguing structure. Perhaps a considerable kitbash from the fairly inexpensive IHC "Novelty Iron Works" plastic kit
although it also has a vaguely European look to it that reminds me of structures in the Kibre and Vollmer portions of the Walthers catelog, where I rarely venture. And don't ignore the extensive Willis line of British OO/HO structures either. http://www.railway-models.co.uk/1342_1.html
This is a part of an old steam era paper mill in Hughesville, NJ. I'm trying to represent the mill on my planned layout because my wife's father was the superintendent and her uncle was an engineer for Lehigh Valley who made deliveries there. The other buildings in the complex are brick and I'll be able to work something out DPM or Walthers modular parts. I'm stuck on the stone of this building. Does anyone make HO modular pieces in stone? Does this building remind you of any kit that I might be able to adapt? Any help would be appreciated. I think an operating coal trestle and this stone building would be neat on a layout. Thanks.