Anyone up for a Summer scratch building thread?

[simon1966]

If you have never scratch built something before, or if you are an expert modeller, here is the place to let your efforts be seen.

Post a picture here over the next week of a structure that you would like to model for your layout. Then show us what you are made of and lets see the results. How about setting the end of July as the dead line for completion.

Anyone game?

[conrail92]

that would be interesting i was thinking about tryin , didnt say succeeding, to model this
thoughtit might be something interesting to try

[Anonymous]

allright, here is a car that I just finished, but have not gotten a chance to take finished pictures of, hopfully i can take some this weekend.

here is the link to the car:
http://www.all-model-railroading.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,3607.0/all.html

[MisterBeasley]

OK, I'm building the second of my subway stations. First, the shot from sometime in March:



A while later I added the real platform bases from cast hydrocal. This is the Moose Bay Transit Authority, by the way.



Last night I cut the last of the wall castings to size. These are white hydrocal in this shot. Over the weekend I'll get the wall colors on them, hopefully, and start with the other detailing of the station.

[SpaceMouse]

I'm planning a scratch-bash really soon. I want to build a Muir Models Mine, but the mine is a corregated metal building set. I want to replace all the metal with board and batton. So essentially, I'm using the plans to build my own version. Not really kitbashing because I'm not using the parts that came with the kit except the wood pilons.

Does that count?

[simon1966]

Go for it Chip. This is just for fun, a bit of learning and to encourage folks to pu***he envelope of their skills. I will post my picture early next week as I have to head out now for a lamb roast!! It's great having a wife with Croatian roots.

[jpmorrison]

i started this 2 months ago for my dock it's 4 kits together

jeff

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jpmorrison

i started this 2 months ago for my dock it's 4 kits together

jeff

That looks huge!.

I'm almost done with my first scratch build, a simple Ranch sytle house. Just have to add some windows and a door. I should have time this weekend to finish it.

[Anonymous]

Hmmmmm,,,,so many projects,,,,,what to do....what to do???[%-)]

[Anonymous]

I've been working on a N&W "Lubratorium" on and off for the last three years and I don't think I'll be done by July. Why rush it? When it doesn't go right, I go onto another project until I can figure out how to work out a problem. Presently the problems are making the roof structure, voltage regulator (solved but needs to be built) and I'm not happy with the brick / mortar color of side and front walls not matching. Then there's the details like a stainless steel cabinet and oil lines and hoses to make.
Anyway, I'll post what ever I have by that time.
Below is the prototype.

[steamage]

Just finished my winter-spring scratch building project, model of the Sheller Feed Company that was located in the San Fernando Valley, CA. I try to complete one of these larger models once a year. I just pick away at it all winter and paint it during early spring.

[Anonymous]

Excelent job Bruce. Nice weathering too. You win!

[tstage]

Simon,

I might be up to the challenge. Even though my structure won't be all that complicated to put together, it would still be a nice, first-time scratch-build project; one that I would LOVE to add to my layout. (And a working one would be even sweeter. [^][tup] )

Pictured below is a working ball signal in Whitefield, NH. Not the exact one I want to model but a small-sized representation of one:



I'd actually like to model mine based on the one that used to be in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

Tom

[Master of Big Sky Blue]

If you build it, I will come.

James

[MisterBeasley]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Master of Big Sky Blue

If you build it, I will come.

James

Welcome back.

[tstage]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Master of Big Sky Blue

If you build it, I will come.

James

Home, James.

[dgwinup]

I might be up for a scratch-building thread, but I've never tried to build a season before! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Darrell, the resident smart-A$$, and quiet...for now

[JohnT14808]

I'm in....Maybe by the end of July I can get something done....What to model...what to model?

[simon1966]

Great start Guys!

One of the most motivating things in life is a deadline! Anyone else feel like joining in and posting pictures of their progress as you create something to be proud of by the end of July?

Don't worry about size of skill level (have I heard that before[:I]) this should be a place where we can all improve our skills and learn something.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

QUOTE: I'm planning a scratch-bash really soon. I want to build a Muir Models Mine, but the mine is a corregated metal building set. I want to replace all the metal with board and batton. So essentially, I'm using the plans to build my own version. Not really kitbashing because I'm not using the parts that came with the kit except the wood pilons.

If you're going to build a model of a prototype that was built before 1890, make sure the boards go up and down, not across. Lap boards or lap siding were not widely available before 1890.

[JohnT14808]

Jeff - In our club layout, we have a long section of backdrop between the lower and upper levels that needs to be done. Currently, it is a blue background and that's it. I'm thinking painting a backdrop would qualify? Since I've never done one, and it has to be done by hand ( dimensions are too wierd...) .but it's not REALLY a structure......?

[simon1966]

John why not! This is not really a formal contest, rather a place to get the "juices flowing" and to try something out.

[simon1966]

Here is what I am going to have a shot at. It is the Coliseum Ballroom in Benld, Il It is 82 years old and currently vacant, though there is a rumor that it may become a music hall again.



Here is a description taken from a web site describing the place.

In its heyday, the Coliseum had the biggest dance floor (10,000 square feet) between Chicago and St. Louis and featured the orchestras of Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Kay Kyser, Count Basie and most of the other big-name big bands - the megastars of popular music from the 1920s into the 1940s.

Situated along old Route 66 (now Illinois Route 4), the Coliseum is said to have attracted crowds that sometimes topped 2,000, from all over central Illinois and metropolitan St. Louis.

The popularity of the big bands faded, but the Coliseum continued to draw crowds for nationally known acts such as the Everly Brothers, Fats Domino, Johnny Rivers and Ray Charles. In its later years, the ballroom mostly featured local rock bands before closing about a decade ago.


I plan to model it as it looked in the early 50's. Already in a decline by then it would have looked a little shabby. I can not fit the whole thing, but will plan to use the facade as a back ground building against the backdrop. The big man will not be in my model!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

If that structure isn't already on the roster of historic places, it needs to be!

[simon1966]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jeffrey-wimberly

If that structure isn't already on the roster of historic places, it needs to be!

I think that it is...

Here is a bit more of the Coliseum's colorful history.


"The Coliseum Ballroom in Benld must have been as much a shoe-in for the highway hall as Brett Favre will be for the football version. It now is, sadly, an antique mall, but when it was built in 1924 it boasted a dance hall with three bars, never mind that was in the midst of Prohibition. It was built by Ben and Dominic Tarro, but was largely run through the years by Dom's wife, Marie, and daughter, Joyce, who took over after Dom was indicted by a federal grand jury in 1930 and who only avoided trial by winding up in the river near Springfield with concrete blocks strapped to his body.

You might think that would put a damper on business but through the years such stars as Tommy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo, Benny Goodman, Wayne King and others played The Coliseum. Joyce was said to serve as her own bouncer and would take ballroom money home on Saturday night to keep it safe until the bank could open on Monday. "That may explain," the induction story continued, "why she was murdered at her home early one Sunday in 1976."

I think I might have to have some gangsters and molls hanging around outside!!

[bwftex]

Simon1966,
I've been thinking about building a sand house. That should be easy enough to complete by the end of July. I have drawings for several I just need to decide which. Something like this is what I have in mind but in HO.

While I'm at it I'll try to complete these pickle cars too. They have been sitting around waiting for me to get back to them for a long while. Bruce

[Anonymous]

Mr beasley, I believe you mean Moosechusetts bay Transportation Authority

[railroadyoshi]

I know I'll never get it done, no way by the end of July, but:

http://www.idylwildefarm.com/

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=366+Central+Street,+Acton,+MA

[simon1966]

Yoshi, modelling the stacked produce shelves should be run!!

Bruce, nice idea. If the thread helps you get the pickle cars completed as well, then thats a bonus!

It would be really nice to post progress pictures of your projects, so we end up with a mini clinic going on for those that have not tried building their own models. I am such a neophite myself that I hesitate to use the term "masterclass" but I am hopeful that some real experts will chip in.

[BruceJob]

Hi, all...

Maybe this is the kick in the pants I need to finish my model of a floatbridge, based on the prototype at Greenville yard in Jersey City, NJ.

I was bitten by the rail-marine bug and I've been working on this model for about 3 years now...lots of research and data collection! Click on this link for a photo essay showing the prototype:

http://www.daylightimages.com/trackside/nych1.html

I've got the major structural components completed in styrene...I just need to do the final assembly, painting, and weathering.

PS to "jpmorrison": Nice pier shed. You must be modeling a full-length pier in scale. It must be pretty impressive in person!