Show us your scratchbuilt building

[MrWolf]

Brilliant. Such a convincing scene. I've spent many an hour slogging up stairs like that laden down with 9 inch angle grinders, welding cables and those useless 110v halogen lamps! 

[saxokid]

Just finished these two “tinsley depot” yard lighting towers from brass wire and soldering,takes me 3/4 hours to make these from scratch🙃😀

[PJBambrick]

Bourne End looking North....Autumn 1955

[MrWolf]

Very much a railway in the landscape, any more pictures?

[PJBambrick]

Thanks....looking NW towards Well End, & W overThames.

[saxokid]

Another yard lighting tower..

[magmouse]

45 minutes ago, KimDurose said:

The Cockwell Inn on my 1970s BR (S) layout Atherstone Court.

 

Great to see these - it's a style and period of architecture you don't see modelled all that often. You've caught the atmosphere of these buildings very nicely.

 

Nick.

[saxokid]

Scratch built lighting towers in the freight yard,makes great night scene..

[saxokid]

Freight yard night scene…

[MrWolf]

On 21/04/2023 at 12:44, KimDurose said:

The Cockwell Inn on my 1970s BR (S) layout Atherstone Court.

 

Reminds me of the pubs in Leicester we avoided in my teens, the names of which often appeared in the local paper after someone was convicted of ABH or something similar.

Like a page out of Viz comic. Are you looking at my bird? Did you spill my pint? Etc, etc. 

A really great and atmospheric piece of modelling of something I don't think I've ever seen in miniature before.

[monkeysarefun]

NOt sure if 3D printing counts as scratchbuilding, but I started with a bunch of unused  0's and 1's on my laptop, and a bottle of grey goo - so you can't get materials more raw than that.

 

This is an N scale model of a small church in Rossmore NSW. Modelled in Sketchup, intended for HO but I gave it a shot at printing at N scale  to see what would happen   , most of it seems to have worked ok.

 

Printed in ABS-like resin on a Saturn 2  8K.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[EDDY100]

Nice one Monkey, did you print it flat on the plate??

[monkeysarefun]

16 hours ago, EDDY100 said:

Nice one Monkey, did you print it flat on the plate??

Yes it is.

[grahame]

A residential tower block, based on a real one from New Cross Gate, SE14, made by traditional modelling of hacking and gluing cardboard and plasticard in N/2mm scale.

 

 

 

[rhnrhn]

Rescued from a now defunct layout:-

 

A fire station inspired by and based on elements of the Old Fire Station in Hockley, Birmingham.

• Structure built from card.
• Brickwork generated using the Beckenham and West Wickham Model Railway Club's Brick Generating Program (see Beckenham and West Wickham MRC (bwwmrc.co.uk)) - Brick colour taken from photograph of the original in Hockley.
• Stonework and Roof Slates from Scalescenes
• Crest created by mounting a photograph of the original on card and cutting round the edge with a scalpel.
• Fire Engine not scratchbuilt 🙂 but the Birmingham Fire Brigade Leyland TLM from Oxford.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 15, 2023 by rhnrhn
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[rhnrhn]

Rescued from the same defunct layout:

 

Booking Office based on the Benson Road entrance of Soho and Winson Green Station on the former GWR main line from Snow Hill to Wolverhampton.

 

• Card structure with Scalescenes Brickwork and Slates

 

 

 

 

 

[rhnrhn]

And finally 

 

Station Building based on Acocks Green and South Yardley on the former GWR main line from Paddington into Birmingham

• Card structure with Scalescenes Brickwork and Slates

 

 

[aardvark]

After nearly a year, the station building for my beginner's OO layout of 1950's Banff Scotland is (mostly) finished.

 

Construction is detailed in my layout thread, starting here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gedward]

 

Very nice work there Mr A, these things take time.

 

[MrWolf]

Seconded, very neat and precise work there. The stone quoins look flawless, especially given how much of it there is and the painting of the rest of the stonework has been more than worth the time and effort.

[aardvark]

20 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

Seconded, very neat and precise work there. The stone quoins look flawless, especially given how much of it there is and the painting of the rest of the stonework has been more than worth the time and effort.

 

(blush)

 

It's Scalescenes paper.

 

[MrWolf]

52 minutes ago, aardvark said:

 

(blush)

 

It's Scalescenes paper.

 

 

Well you've made a good job of applying it and on my phone it looks 3d, normal viewing distance and all that! 🤣 

 

It's still a very impressive piece of work and I'll be taking a look at the thread.

[70000 Britannia]

Hello

 

We see some excellent creations on this topic, invariably presenting finished work.  My project will be to create a Swiss Cement Works; re-using as many leftover scrap components as I can to start with.

 

Just as a teaser, this pile of bits dumped on my desk, plus a 1 metre pipe from a builders merchants, and a speculative plan, represent something embryonic.  Construction progress will follow.

 

 

 

Of course, plans can change!

 

Update: 28.10.2023

 

An initial crude perspective of a basic Cement Works concept,just to indicate what is manageable in the space available.  Note the use of the sophisticated modelling techniques :-). :

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 28, 2023 by 70000 Britannia
progress update

[MattR]

Scratchbuilt Summerseat station.

[70000 Britannia]

OK, update on proposed Cement Works, for new layout AuSwiss, to be  shown at Preston MRE in March.

 

First target was to start on the Cyclone Preheater Tower, referred to above. Plastruct & Javis items were used to create the framework components.

 

 

 

Next are decking and one of the many main tower pipes so far - the background screnshot shows the complexity of the real tower.  The final structure will naturally be less complex, but lots more to do.

 

 

So, here is the first stage skeleton of the project.

 

 

 

Update 1st Nov 2023: taking shape - more to do:

 

 

4.11.2023 further development stage - but not yet complete.  The next post will give a preliminary size perspective.

 

 

Dave

Edited November 4, 2023 by 70000 Britannia
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