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windows - scratchbuilding pre-made parts?
Posted by Brutus on Saturday, December 8, 2007 8:46 PM

Folks, I can't seem to find any place that carries a lot of scratchbuilding parts in O gauge like plastic or metal prehung windows etc.  I have a project in mind that would require some largish windows, multipane, and wondered where I could find something like that in the scale we all love?

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Posted by Roger Bielen on Saturday, December 8, 2007 8:58 PM
Try Grandt Line, don't remember their web address but do a Google.  They have all scales.
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Posted by CSXect on Saturday, December 8, 2007 9:08 PM
Brutus I have no Idea who makes O scale detail parts but if you like scratch building why not start with the whole porject as scratch I use a program called modelbuilder which has tons of windowes and doors to choose from and you can rescale them to whatever scale you want and even stretch the image as well and you can even import your own images as well will try to post a photo of a building I came up with and printed still need to attach it to a core or card board support the images from this program are incredably realistic.
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Posted by Jumijo on Sunday, December 9, 2007 6:22 AM
 Brutus wrote:

Folks, I can't seem to find any place that carries a lot of scratchbuilding parts in O gauge like plastic or metal prehung windows etc.  I have a project in mind that would require some largish windows, multipane, and wondered where I could find something like that in the scale we all love?

A Google search for "o scale windows" netted the following results, including:

www.oakridgehobbies.com/o_scale/o_home.html

valleymodeltrains.com

www.grandtline.com/

www.walthers.com

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Posted by Brutus on Sunday, December 9, 2007 11:29 AM
Thanks guys!

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Posted by CSXect on Sunday, December 9, 2007 8:12 PM
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Posted by CSXect on Sunday, December 9, 2007 8:15 PM
Brutus the above pic is of a prison I was desinging usees 5 basic elements from the program.
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Posted by raymans on Sunday, December 9, 2007 9:43 PM
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Posted by Brutus on Friday, December 14, 2007 8:08 PM
Thanks guys!  Just found the additional posts!

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Posted by jefelectric on Friday, December 14, 2007 9:50 PM

Jim, Here is one more you might like to check out.  This is a directory of O scale suppliers.

http://users.foxvalley.net/~osn/Find2-RailOScale.htm

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Posted by Brutus on Friday, December 14, 2007 10:17 PM
Thanks man, I added that to favorites!

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