farm

[DROUIN2]

I would like to find a HO farm,i having a problem finding one
i may have to build one .Would anyone have a idea.
I sure appreciate ALBERT from california

[Anonymous]

Lifelike makes a structure kit called Homestead. It's a small house (more like a shack) and small water tower/windmill. It includes plenty of nice detail parts, and looks like something from the Dust Bowl Era or something. Several manufacturers make kits of barns. Combine those kits and put a wire fence around it and you'll have a pretty nice little farm

[simon1966]

American Model Builders make several rural structures including barns, farm houses and feed mills, grain elevators etc. http://www.laserkit.com/laserkit.htm If you are interested in making some excellent wooden kits, then AMB kits are well worth considering. I have made several of them now and am very impressed.

[selector]

This is a bit of an aside (please forgive me), but does anyone else feel that WS HO scale figures are a tad small?

-Crandell

[orsonroy]

Farms are like snowflakes; no two are exactly alike. That said, there are a few elements that they all share:

1) farmhouse: usually two story, usually built before 1900. Good examples of "typical" American farmhouses:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/152-140
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/181-652
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/490-433

2) Barns. Always at least one, sometimes as many as half a dozen. some of the better barns available:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/152-119 (virtually no real barn ever had dormer windows, though!)
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/152-711
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/260-309
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/308-121
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/345-2001
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/348-812
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/464-27420
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/490-601
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/520-40009
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/700-87

3) sheds. You'd be amazed at how many different and seemingly randon sheds are scattered around most farms. While I prefer to scratchbuild such simple, little buildings, there are loads of them on the market. Just a few examples:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/160-45152
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/181-651
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/260-313

After these essential elements (don't forget good fencing!), you can have a field day with all the other elements of many farms: garages, roadside vegetable stands, doghouses, trees, windmills, stock tanks, silage cribs, silos, etc. Probably the best way to model "a farm: is to take a drive in the country on a nice, sunny day, and start taking photos of a few. Youll quickly get a really good modelling database, and loads of ideas for farm modelling. And remember to NOT make the farm too tidy!