Scratch Building HO Buildings.

[Anonymous]

After building the little building on the NMRA website i have developed an interest in construction. I would like to take it to the next level and try something a little more harder.
Does anyone know where i can find building designs on the internet?. i model the HO scale so plans in HO would be nice.
Any help would be nice.
thanks.
James.

[Anonymous]

After building the little building on the NMRA website i have developed an interest in construction. I would like to take it to the next level and try something a little more harder.
Does anyone know where i can find building designs on the internet?. i model the HO scale so plans in HO would be nice.
Any help would be nice.
thanks.
James.

[Anonymous]

You might try Yahoo Groups - Scratch Building at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Scratch-building/messages

Dave

[Anonymous]

You might try Yahoo Groups - Scratch Building at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Scratch-building/messages

Dave

[Anonymous]

I have found that the Internet does not offer much in the line of artcles or drawings for modelers, per se. However, you can find all kinds of interesting structures on-line by searching such topics as "warehouses" or "tilt up buildings." You will be directed to the building contactors' and suppliers' websites, which feature a lot of pictures and often give general information on dimensions. There are also a couple of "grain elevator" sites and the BNSF on-line grain elevator directory that shows pictures of hundreds of elevators and associated structures.

If I don't have the actual dimensions, I "scale" the structures I want to model by using known points of reference such as doors and windows or pictures that show an adjacent truck or freight car. Sometimes you can also do things like counting concrete blocks or courses of bricks to obtain a general idea of the height of a building.

Over the years Model Railroader and most of the other railroad hobby magazines have carried articles along with dimensional drawings. I have clipped dozens of them and placed them in a file of possible future projects. I do the same thing when I find a picture on the Internet of an interesting looking building.

Hope this helps.

John

[Anonymous]

I have found that the Internet does not offer much in the line of artcles or drawings for modelers, per se. However, you can find all kinds of interesting structures on-line by searching such topics as "warehouses" or "tilt up buildings." You will be directed to the building contactors' and suppliers' websites, which feature a lot of pictures and often give general information on dimensions. There are also a couple of "grain elevator" sites and the BNSF on-line grain elevator directory that shows pictures of hundreds of elevators and associated structures.

If I don't have the actual dimensions, I "scale" the structures I want to model by using known points of reference such as doors and windows or pictures that show an adjacent truck or freight car. Sometimes you can also do things like counting concrete blocks or courses of bricks to obtain a general idea of the height of a building.

Over the years Model Railroader and most of the other railroad hobby magazines have carried articles along with dimensional drawings. I have clipped dozens of them and placed them in a file of possible future projects. I do the same thing when I find a picture on the Internet of an interesting looking building.

Hope this helps.

John

[Anonymous]

Try MRC and MR magazines. Most have a building in them in N or HO and its easy to convert scales with a scanner. Also, half the fun and skill in scratching is converting pictures to model and figuring out what to use and how to build it. Unless your a rivet counter you can assume most people doors are 6'8" tall which gives you a scale. So now any building you have a picture of can be modeled.

[Anonymous]

Try MRC and MR magazines. Most have a building in them in N or HO and its easy to convert scales with a scanner. Also, half the fun and skill in scratching is converting pictures to model and figuring out what to use and how to build it. Unless your a rivet counter you can assume most people doors are 6'8" tall which gives you a scale. So now any building you have a picture of can be modeled.

[jrbarney]

Slightly off course, but, try <http://storedoverpublications.com>, pick a subject such as buildings and use the search engine for the books done by Edmund V. Gillon, A.G. Smith and others. These are for HO models of historical buildings, so you could build the cardstock models at relatively low cost ($ 5) and see if they would fit on your layout They include: Cut and Assemble a Victorian Station (Point of Rocks); C & A a Victorian Cottage; C & A an Early American Seaport; C & A Historic Buildings at Greenfield Village; C & A Early American Buildings at Old Bethpage, etc. They are already HO scale so you can reproduce them and use them as templates for cutting materials. Good luck. Bob

[jrbarney]

Slightly off course, but, try <http://storedoverpublications.com>, pick a subject such as buildings and use the search engine for the books done by Edmund V. Gillon, A.G. Smith and others. These are for HO models of historical buildings, so you could build the cardstock models at relatively low cost ($ 5) and see if they would fit on your layout They include: Cut and Assemble a Victorian Station (Point of Rocks); C & A a Victorian Cottage; C & A an Early American Seaport; C & A Historic Buildings at Greenfield Village; C & A Early American Buildings at Old Bethpage, etc. They are already HO scale so you can reproduce them and use them as templates for cutting materials. Good luck. Bob

[ereimer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jrbarney

Slightly off course, but, try <http://storedoverpublications.com>, pick a subject such as buildings and use the search engine for the books done by Edmund V. Gillon, A.G. Smith and others.

i couldnt get your link to work , this is almost the same

http://store.doverpublications.com/

[ereimer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jrbarney

Slightly off course, but, try <http://storedoverpublications.com>, pick a subject such as buildings and use the search engine for the books done by Edmund V. Gillon, A.G. Smith and others.

i couldnt get your link to work , this is almost the same

http://store.doverpublications.com/

[on30francisco]

Try looking through back issues of Model Railroader, NGSL, and RMC magazines. There are a lot of plans for building structures in the older issues. Most larger public libraries have collections of these magazines which you can access for free. Since I like to scratchbuild structures also, I sometimes go to the public library and look through the back issues of these magazines. When I find an article I'm interested in I make a photocopy of it. The scale of the drawing isn't important because you can always adjust it for your particular scale using a scale ruler.

[on30francisco]

Try looking through back issues of Model Railroader, NGSL, and RMC magazines. There are a lot of plans for building structures in the older issues. Most larger public libraries have collections of these magazines which you can access for free. Since I like to scratchbuild structures also, I sometimes go to the public library and look through the back issues of these magazines. When I find an article I'm interested in I make a photocopy of it. The scale of the drawing isn't important because you can always adjust it for your particular scale using a scale ruler.

[Anonymous]

I builded Penn Station using paper. Everyone loved it. My dog loved it and layed on top of it. A buddy of mine is going to help me build it out of wood. I got the plans for it out of a book about Mc Kim, Mead and White, the people who design it.

[Anonymous]

I builded Penn Station using paper. Everyone loved it. My dog loved it and layed on top of it. A buddy of mine is going to help me build it out of wood. I got the plans for it out of a book about Mc Kim, Mead and White, the people who design it.

[Anonymous]

If anyone has PDF files for building cardstock buildings please email me at [e-mail]. thanks!!

[Anonymous]

If anyone has PDF files for building cardstock buildings please email me at [e-mail]. thanks!!

[dehusman]

You can also draw your own plans, especially if you have a digital camera. Take a 6" x 36" piece of masonite, cardboard or plastic and paint it alternating bands of black and white, alternating every 6" lengthwise and then 3" vertically. So the first 6" is black on top, white on the bottom, then white on top, black on the bottom.
Set that against a building and then try and get at right angles to the building. Take a picture of it. You can then scale off the black and white yardstick and get the rough dimensions of the building. Once you get one or two sides at 90 degree angles you can use angled shots to estimate the other sides.

Dave H.

[dehusman]

You can also draw your own plans, especially if you have a digital camera. Take a 6" x 36" piece of masonite, cardboard or plastic and paint it alternating bands of black and white, alternating every 6" lengthwise and then 3" vertically. So the first 6" is black on top, white on the bottom, then white on top, black on the bottom.
Set that against a building and then try and get at right angles to the building. Take a picture of it. You can then scale off the black and white yardstick and get the rough dimensions of the building. Once you get one or two sides at 90 degree angles you can use angled shots to estimate the other sides.

Dave H.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by naterich89

If anyone has PDF files for building cardstock buildings please email me at [e-mail]. thanks!!

Look around this site: http://www.cardfaq.org/faq/ There are some free buildings available.

Gary

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by naterich89

If anyone has PDF files for building cardstock buildings please email me at [e-mail]. thanks!!

Look around this site: http://www.cardfaq.org/faq/ There are some free buildings available.

Gary

[Noah Hofrichter]

Can I ask where you found the "little building on the NMRA website?" Sounds like something I could build.

Noah

[Noah Hofrichter]

Can I ask where you found the "little building on the NMRA website?" Sounds like something I could build.

Noah