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I have a modern city on my layout...and i put up a few (and the architects among us should love this one) Minimalist 30-50 story steel and glass towers. I know that sounds like a feat...but they were actually some of the simplist models i ever built. Totaly scratch built out of plastruct styrene. As for kitbashing...well i do that with just about every model i buy...i dont EVER want it to look like the picture on the box...they look to PreFab that way...i dunno maybe its just me. Although one of the more interesting things i decided to put in, in the urban area of my layout is a 8 Lane Freeway...the small section of it that will be modeled (it crosses a 6 ft secton of the layout) will come out of a tunnel over a small fill and then over some city streets and then the mainline and a few sidings on a long overpass. The peirs are up for the overpass and the tunnel portholes are built...but i havnt decided what i want to use as the actual roadway and weather i want to simulate steel beams or pre-stressed concrete beams for the overpass. <br /> <br />Wow...so anyhow back to the point...yes kitbashing is as described as above...but to tell the truith scratchbashing and scratchbuilding will give your layout a much more "Origional" feel to it...i mean you can kitbash a walthers "Greatland Sugar Refining" into just about anything (i used mine as a large "Heat House" and power generator building in my steel mill) but you can still tell what kit it came from.
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