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I'm working on a very large N scale layout. Unless you can accept seeing the same kit repeated many times over, kit-bashing and scratch building are mandatory. I love making small additions to buildings. This expands their size and also creates a "history" for the building. I also have a preference for large industrial complexes. N allows you to create some very large structures. I find that most available kits result in highly compressed versions of the prototype. I often use two or even six or more kits to create a single structure. HO kits often scale out to correct prototype size for N scale (except for doors, railings, etc.). Bernie Kempinski's use of the Walthers HO steel mill is a good example. I've discovered the Walthers HO western flood loader is almost dead on to scale for N while the N scale kit is woefully under-sized and I plan on modifying the HO kit for my layout. To create a cement manufacturing plant, I'm using several HO kits or parts of kits combining them with scratch built structures. Once you begin looking at structures as being composed of a number of shapes and then look for those shapes as parts in existing kits, the possibilities for kit-bashing are nearly endless.
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