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 Posted - May 11 2010 : 2:14:10 PM
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Anybody here have an cheaply built structure they'd like to show off? If so, post 'em! Once my buildings are done, I'll show 'em off!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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 Posted - November 16 2010 : 11:17:18 AM
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(Beware the ghost of undead thread! )
Here's some of mine.
Yard Office / Storage:
Built from balsa, with Scale Scenes printed windows and cardstock details, to plans in Model Railroader. Ventilators are finishing nails with the heads filed conical. Cost: a couple of dollars for all materials.
Coal Depot:
Built from balsa and assorted wire and cardstock, cost probably a dollar or less, following a very old article by Eugene Le Doux, reprinted in EASY-TO-BUILD MODEL RR STRUCTURES.
Station:
Built of balsa with Scale Scenes brick paper, to a freelance design based on some Erie Railroad structures. Roofing is construction paper. Windows are drawn on clear package-bubble plastic with a Sharpie pen. :) Cost about a buck or two.
Two small houses:
Both are built from several layers of posterboard, with window frames on one layer. Clapboards are cut from index cards and overlapped like real ones, right up the walls. The yellow house was the third structure I ever built, back when I was ten or so. I saved it, although I unfortunately discarded a lot that followed, and were somewhat better. :(
Designs are freelanced.
Cost - less than a dollar for each. In fact, the yellow house is made from a Cheerios box, as I recall, making it almost free. :D
One more house:
This one is also card, also freelance, and also less than a dollar. :) The picture is bad, unfortunately. Shingles are made from strips of grocery sack, folded and notched with scissors, then glued on.
The Scale Scenes brick paper and windows are really nice. You buy the files for a few bucks (pounds), and then just print off as many as you want at the copy store (where they have nice color laser machines). Use OHD transparencies for the windows.
Anyway, I need more practice, but it's all good fun, and it's cheap.
Edited by - Autobus Prime on November 16 2010 11:19:20 AM
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Posted - November 16 2010 : 1:49:57 PM
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actually Autobus Prime your yard office looks like Army barracks
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Posted - November 16 2010 : 2:20:04 PM
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quote:actually Autobus Prime your yard office looks like Army barracks
Originally posted by microbusss - November 16 2010 : 1:49:57 PM
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mb: It does, doesn't it? Now that you mention it...
It was listed as a yard office in the MR plans, but who knows? Maybe the RR borrowed something from the Army. :)
I forgot to mention the gray shed between the coal depot and the plastic Life-Like general store, which is a free trial structure from Scale Scenes. No cost except printing. :) It has some other parts, as purchased, but I left them off, because it looked too fussy. :)
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Posted - November 16 2010 : 3:53:49 PM
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ben who cares those are better than i could ever can do and i for one congratulate Autobus Prime with 3 rounds of hip hip horay ken
please note i have rephrased above statement by replacing most with i
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Posted - November 16 2010 : 4:32:07 PM
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quote:ben who cares those are better than most can do and i for one congratulate Autobus Prime with 3 rounds of hip hip horay ken
Originally posted by catfordken - November 16 2010 : 3:53:49 PM
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He's right, though, it does have some of that Uncle Sam look to it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31747630@N03/3120681410/
The original building did, too, thinking back to it, so I don't feel bad at all. :D
Build half a dozen of these, a bit wider, and put them together, and you could have a cheap 1940s army base. :) I might even do that.
I don't think they're better than most could do - I mean, look at the yellow one. It's pretty rough, but the one after that was better. Anybody who can draw a straight line with a ruler could do at least as well, probably better!
(That's how the siding was scribed into the balsa, BTW...with a sharp pencil and a ruler. :) )
ck: I see the change, but I'm sure you could do it! I hate to see anybody discourage themselves. :(
Edited by - Autobus Prime on November 16 2010 4:45:51 PM
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Posted - November 16 2010 : 4:52:51 PM
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| SEE? I AM right or build a POW camp lmao
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Posted - November 16 2010 : 4:56:09 PM
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quote:SEE? I AM right or build a POW camp lmao
Originally posted by microbusss - November 16 2010 : 4:52:51 PM
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Throw in some wire fencing and grab a searchlight tower. :)
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Posted - November 16 2010 : 6:53:16 PM
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quote:SEE? I AM right or build a POW camp lmao
Originally posted by microbusss - November 16 2010 : 4:52:51 PM
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I heard the National Guard was recruiting for prison guard MOS's.
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