Mea Buildings part 2

dsfrankevo

dsfrankevo

Mongoose
Had had lots of positive comments on my buildings (thank you all very kindly) - and some questions about their origins so I figured I'd go into a little more detail for the less Model RR savvy

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The Bachmann Plasticville Apartment Building

This is one of my favorite O gauge Plasticville buildings - common, versatile, inexpensive ($10-15) - can have several stories (can sometimes find single story add a story kits)


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Here is a one story version painted up as well

Here's how it started out life on some model RR somewhere

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The Bachmann Plasticville Police Station as an Iraqi Police Headquarters - the grating is from a toy soldier set from Toys R Us

Notice the "shot out" lamp by the door - actually it just broke and I lost the piece in my travels

The base is a 3mm sheet of Sintra (sign making) plastic - it broke too but looks kind of cool

And as originally imagined by Bachmann...

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Very, very nice. The single palm trees in planters are also great. I'm dieing because my 6-year-old son had about 10 of those plastic palm trees that come in dinosaur sets about 2 years ago and now they're gone :cry: . They would have been perfect and I can't seem to locate them at Toys R Us again.
 
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This is "Ramone's House of Body Art" a playset from the movie Cars - I got it a Toys R Us for $20

I hit it wit a coat of Minwax Polyshades - Royal Walnut Stain (Dip) to weather it up - unlike the other plastic buildings I didn't prime it first - but I did paint the skylight

The M1 is a toy - again from a toy soldier set - again from Toys R US - it is just about the same size as my Kitech 1/48 M1 - it had a run in with my mini-butane torch - I don't expect the soft plastic to hold paint well.

The crushed VW is a die cast toy that met Mr. Hammer - I like both Mr. Hammer and Mr. Mini-butane Torch - maybe a bit too much :wink:

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The Sign lights up - how cool is that :P

In the background is the Plasticville bank - to the left is the K-line Police station - see below

The park - playground equipment came from the plasticville school - the fountain is a Pretzel tub lid - with 2 bottle caps and a Reaper fig & epoxy water

The trees are mostly cake decorating trees - planted in soda bottle caps - I thought they look like those concrete planters you see in cities



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A street level shot - pretty cool - except for Bobby's noggin in the frame - oh well kids - what you gonna do!


A crappy thumbnail of the original box art - this puppy is now out of production and kind of pricey on E-Bay

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The K-line Police Station - built from the box - drybrushed after dipped- & the box - toy truck from some game convention flea market


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The Mosque started as the K-line Restaurant

The windows and doors of this series (Restaurant, Pharmacy, Bakery, Pet Store) are bigger than the other K-line O Gauge buildings - it is a little too big - but nobody really notices

I simply left off the second story - inverted the crowning - to be more of a parapit

The Dome is a craft shop half hemisphere - the top bit is from the steeple of the K-line school

The minaret tower is a plastic tube the balcony is scratch built - the window detail is a Necromunda bulkhead cut down and bent round the tube - the top is 1/2 a plastic easter egg

All in all I like the result ok - it features pretty prominently in the demo games so far - and has drawn a fair share of comments

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Sgt. Brassones said:
Nice. Did you get the kits off eBay or a retailler?
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E-bay - its just too easy ( My wife hates my E-Bay acct) - but there are some good online retailers

Most hobby shops don't carry much of an O Gauge building selection - sadly :cry:
 
boomgoose said:
Very, very nice. The single palm trees in planters are also great. I'm dieing because my 6-year-old son had about 10 of those plastic palm trees that come in dinosaur sets about 2 years ago and now they're gone :cry: . They would have been perfect and I can't seem to locate them at Toys R Us again.
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E-bay under cake decorations - or online stores catering to cake decorating supplies
 
awsome stuff man

realy like the commitment and isze of your city.

and im glad it looks good wive waze one stuff as well, as this stuff deserves to be used.

so any more projects in the future ?
 
Looking good.

Its hard to tell exactly what plasticville would be the right scale. Very annoying really as some of it, with converting, looks great.
 
Niiiicce! How are those plasticville buildings? I've seen some others besides yours and was thinking about buying some next time I have some money.
 
dsfrankevo said:
boomgoose said:
Very, very nice. The single palm trees in planters are also great. I'm dieing because my 6-year-old son had about 10 of those plastic palm trees that come in dinosaur sets about 2 years ago and now they're gone :cry: . They would have been perfect and I can't seem to locate them at Toys R Us again.
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E-bay under cake decorations - or online stores catering to cake decorating supplies
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Great tip, frank, but my beautiful wife came through for me today and said she had put our boy's stuff away in the garage. I quick five minute search landed me 12 double-trunked plastic palm trees, about 5" tall each :D .
 
that looks great! Ohhhhh how I wish Mongoose was releasing prepainted terrain sometime sooner than later...if at all! I want it NOW! :wink:
 
dsfrankevo, very nice job. Looks very functional and should do nicely. How do the doors scale or measure in height? O scale should be from 1/43 to 1/48 scale, so doors might be a bit large (although they don't appear to be). I'd like to see some official figures right up next to some of the doors sometime. The infantry bases should boost the figures a bit anyway, so maybe no big deal at all. I do like your look that you've got. :)
 
jdrew said:
Looks good
How do you dip such a large model and do you dry brush afterwards?
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Big soft bristle artist paint brush - not a house painting brush - it usually doesn't leave brush strokes - some I drybrush afterwards - most I didn't



The cars are mostly from the 1/43 scale toy diecast ranges like road kings, model champ and Miasto - the look fine -

I do avoid the bigger 1/32 scale cars - the cheap cars are loose in their scale anyway -

I tend to look for smaller samples - i.e. since the boxes are the same size the, the Hummer SUV will be smaller in scale than the mini cooper from the same range - mostly

I have yet to have somebody break out a ruler on the table - reinforcing my basic credo - "if it looks good on the table - that's good enough for me"
 
Rob_alderman said:
Looking good.

Its hard to tell exactly what plasticville would be the right scale. Very annoying really as some of it, with converting, looks great.
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My stuff is all O Gauge - "Scale" wise it is a little big - on the table it looks FINE

My basis philosophy is "If it looks good on the table - it looks good on the table!"

HO scale is really too small

OO scale is really close to HO (effectively the same size as HO) so too small-

S gauge - IF you can find it will be just a touch smaller than O gauge - and the closest "Scale" fit - good luck finding anything & if you do it will be very costly - truth is most S gauge RRs use O gauge buildings


There are 2 major brands of O gauge buildings:

Bachmann who owns the name Plasticville. (Plasticville is now a common name for pretty much all model RR buildings - like Klenexx or Q-Tip - Plasticville brand buildings only come in O gauge and HO gauge)

Bachmann/Plasticville O gauge buildings are more consistently scaled and have a more cohesive theme and are generally more readily available - lots of it being originally tooled in the 50's - the hay day of Loinel trains

K-line is the other brand commonly available - not as common as Bachmann - their offerings are a bit less cohesive and some have windows and doors that are larger - (like the Resturaunt I converted to the Mosque) and some that are smaller - (like the Police station) - but they do have some things that have been tooled up more recently and represent more modern architecture - like a convenience store and fast food resturaunt

Veteran Model railroaders will know of other offerings - like MTH (RailKings) & Loinel - but these are fewer and rarer and usually MUCH more expensive

Poking around e-bay and some of the online model RR shops will show what is generally available.

Here endeth the lesson on model railroad buildings and their uses as gaming terrain - maybe I'll start a seminar series - books on tape and all that :!:

I hope it was useful - happy gaming
 
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