N-Scale Houses Upgraded
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I've learned from my other modelling hobby that there's no such thing as a bad model... only Bitz for kitbashing and scratchbuilding!
Nice work, I got 10 of the locomotive facilities from Model Expo when they were $4, but I haven't done anything with them yet.
Mike.
Mike.
rc,
I don't consider myself to be an expert kitbasher, so I don't think that you will find the work that I have done to change these kits to be too hard. The main thing to do is start somewhere. That was the reason for my thread in the Scratching and Bashing forum.
http://www.the-gauge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7595
I got a bunch of these kits from Model Expo for only a few bucks each, so I figured there would be no great loss if things didn't work out. I don't want to have ten Georgian Mansions and 10 car repair shops made exactly the same on my layout, so I had to come up with something.
At this time my work is mostly just rearranging parts and cementing them together. In the project pictures above I placed a piece of styrene for the flat roof, which changed the appearance quite a bit without a lot of work.
Give it a shot! Just don't start with your most expensive kit.
This is where I have placed the kits made right from the box. Disguising the rest of them on the layout will be my biggest challenge.
I don't consider myself to be an expert kitbasher, so I don't think that you will find the work that I have done to change these kits to be too hard. The main thing to do is start somewhere. That was the reason for my thread in the Scratching and Bashing forum.
http://www.the-gauge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7595
I got a bunch of these kits from Model Expo for only a few bucks each, so I figured there would be no great loss if things didn't work out. I don't want to have ten Georgian Mansions and 10 car repair shops made exactly the same on my layout, so I had to come up with something.
At this time my work is mostly just rearranging parts and cementing them together. In the project pictures above I placed a piece of styrene for the flat roof, which changed the appearance quite a bit without a lot of work.
Give it a shot! Just don't start with your most expensive kit.
This is where I have placed the kits made right from the box. Disguising the rest of them on the layout will be my biggest challenge.
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I think the flat roof looks better. It looks more like an industrial building or warehouse.
Mike.
Mike.
UPguy,
The building that you pictured that your kids want to use as a Milk-Bone factory actually looks very much like some row-housing in a town not far from where I am located, just north of Toronto. It has the very same layout, with a flat roof (though with chimneys sticking up at various places along the roof between "units") and the same type of window arrangement with shutters. It was originally housing that was built in the late 1920's/early 1930's for factory workers at a nearby manufacturing plant.
The building that you pictured that your kids want to use as a Milk-Bone factory actually looks very much like some row-housing in a town not far from where I am located, just north of Toronto. It has the very same layout, with a flat roof (though with chimneys sticking up at various places along the roof between "units") and the same type of window arrangement with shutters. It was originally housing that was built in the late 1920's/early 1930's for factory workers at a nearby manufacturing plant.
Hi upguy!
I love what you've done with the Georgian Mansion kits!:thumb:
I think going with the flat roof was a great idea, giving that structure a real urban/industrial type look...very much different from the original!
Now that you've got that nice, big, flat roof, you can go crazy detailing the heck out of it! You can add another story or two to part of the building, or perhaps a wood, or corrugated structure up there...chimneys, pipes, vents, AC units, tanks...nothing enhances the look of an industrial building like roof details!
I love what you've done with the Georgian Mansion kits!:thumb:
I think going with the flat roof was a great idea, giving that structure a real urban/industrial type look...very much different from the original!
Now that you've got that nice, big, flat roof, you can go crazy detailing the heck out of it! You can add another story or two to part of the building, or perhaps a wood, or corrugated structure up there...chimneys, pipes, vents, AC units, tanks...nothing enhances the look of an industrial building like roof details!
