I've been looking through Martin Ojastes recent builds of three Campbell kits. Beautiful and informative
work on Towers Flowers, Grandma's House and Red Mountain Mine. This gave me a thought. I cut my
teeth on these kits more than forty years ago and loved building each one of them. Most are now either
lost or on another layout.
Starting this thread hoping that you will share photos of your finished kits. there must be hundreds
out there. These must be photos of finished kits, not those currently being built. To start things off, here
is my Saez Sash & Door lumber yard. Hard to believe these two kits initially sold for $26.50 each.
Hi John,
What a neat idea for a thread. I wish I had some pictures to share. I know I've completed the Sheriff's Office (I have no idea where it's at and I recall not doing that good a job with it), Bret's Brewery (I loved that one but gave it to a club I used to belong to) and the Stockyards. I think I had a couple of others that I started but never finished and ultimately gave up on after packing them up to move and/or getting into FSM and other higher end kits. :-[
John,
Great idea, I've built a few Campbell kits when I was just getting started. Grandma's House is the only one I ever kept. The station and Carsten's Flop House were sold. Hard to believe this kit has survived my many changes over the past 42 years.
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I just built my first one before Christmas. Campbell's grist mill.
Cheers, Mark.
Great idea for a thread. I remember building the Silver Spur mine, the stamping mill, and a couple of the depots. They are stored away under the layout - I had them on my previous layout. I'm sure they will need some work when they come out of the boxes, if I decided to use them on the S&S RR. I also have 20 or 30 of the un-started kits stored away that I bought from an estate sale. They were in like new condition and the price was right. I have a mountain town planned for some of the parts but I would need to buy or scratch build new window castings. It will be a few years before that project gets started.
OK, I'll suck up and join in here. I love Campbell kits - here is the country barn and farm house.
The first addition to my layout and many more to build!
I built Picken's Place.
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campbell's doesn't offer much in the scale i model (N), but i did purchase plans for their wharf, reduce the size to 54% and scratchbuild the wharf in n scale. i'd put up a picture but i'm new here and don't see the option for uploading a picture.
[edit] i might have figured out how to post a photo... stand by:
Looks great kebmo , welcome fellow N-scaler.
Hey guys, you've posted some great shots. Nice to see that many of you maintained
your structures in beautiful condition after so many years.
As a reminder, this is for finished models only. Please don't take this as being
rude. I just want to stay on topic.
John
What a great thread. I built these a long time ago, the shed in the back was my first wood kit build.
Jeff
The only Campbell kit I've ever built is their Bunkhouse B. You can read about it here:
http://kitforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7507&start=90#p134895
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Jaime
Campbell 50' wood timber bridge as part of scratch built trestle. Have yet to see photos of
their timber truss bridge, one of their best models IMO.
Quote from: jbelwood on February 01, 2015, 12:41:10 PM
Hey guys, you've posted some great shots. Nice to see that many of you maintained
your structures in beautiful condition after so many years.
As a reminder, this is for finished models only. Please don't take this as being
rude. I just want to stay on topic.
John
Sorry to get you off topic.....I yanked the post.
I built my first Campbell kit - the water tank - back when I was teenager. I ended up building about half dozen or so Campbell kits.
I remember building Saez Sash and Door Kit #1 - I couldn't afford the second kit at the time! Guess I wasn't rich enough to have the $27!
I lost my initial Saez kit along the way, but still have the water tank! My current project is a "redo" of Saez - this time I have both buildings.
Marty
John,
Thanks for starting this thread. I built the Branchline water tank and tool shed way back when I was in college. IIRC, I gave the water tank to a friend, but I still have the tool shed. I cut up computer punch cards into individual clapboards and applied them over the cardboard walls. I then used some stripwood to frame a shed addition, and used the corrugated siding material to cover the shed.
I built this in the late '60s, it was a Christmas present from my parents. This has moved from PA to MA to PA to NH to BC to Northern VA, it's had a washerload of water dumped on it, and suffered numerous smaller indignities. The roof needs to be redone from the water damage, and I should repaint it into my railroad's standard colors. But it'll have a place of honor on any layout as one of two railroad things I have from when I was a kid. (The other is a PFM Brass V&T Reno, that I bought used from a back shelf of a hobby store in Framingham MA, cost me $30 and I had to save a long time for it. That loco has been remotered and custom painted.)
dave
These older pieces of modeling history deserve a place of honor!! They are what brought us to where we
are today!
OK............ Here's my try at this.
Not the best photo but this is a firehouse that I built in 1964. I did some refurbishing of the building a few years ago as it is right in the foreground in Boise. Even then I made the door hinges to operate.
The fire truck is a Weston pickup model with Tru-scale ladders, a steam boiler turned from a chunk of brass and the hose reel is a worm gear from a Mantua steam locomotive. I never thought of tying string around something. The fireman's hat is a little part from the guts of a player piano.
A Weston sheriff is presiding over a later added checker game
see ya
Bob
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see ya
Bob
Hi Guys:
I got started with craftsman kits back in the late 70's. Worked for Allied Hobbies for several years and had almost all of the Campbell kits. At this point I have about 8 kits or so. Built several many years ago. My favorite was the dock, fishing pier and the structures that went with it. I put it into a diorama and donated it to our local RR club The Gatsme RR. I don't what happened to it. I guess somebody has it. I still have unbuilt kits for this model.
Karl
Here is my version of the deck timber bridge. I have built two, one in the late 70's sits on a shelf and the second in the early 2000's sits on my small layout -david
I've got the engine house on my shelf.....have not opened it. Bought it cheap a while back....
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I've got the engine house on my shelf.....have not opened it. Bought it cheap a while back....
I screwed one of those up, by using the wrong stuff to glue the plastic stone sheet onto the cardboard(?) subwalls. When you build this, use transfer tape to attach the stone sheet to the subwalls.
dave
Thanks for the tip Dave, gotta love the transfer tape! Speaking of Campbell's- does anybody but me really like the old roll of shingles? I think they look good on a roof. I first used them on the older FSM kits.... picked up a roll at the show.
Bob C
I started building Campbells kits back in 1976, my first one was Campbells supply. I kept the kits through the years and had them on many layouts. On my latest layout I reused them, but made changes to most of them to fit what I need.
Campbell's supply
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shed under construction
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the feed store behind the tree started out as a Bretts Brewery
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I guess you can say that Campbell's kits got me into scratch building, You start with a box of sticks and some cardboard and you end up with a building.
I have built a number of Campbell Kits but I don't have pictures handy.
These are some of the Campbell kits that are on my layout and were built years ago by SBG member "The Judge" (Bill).
HI:
I've built many campbell kits back in the 70's & 80's before forums and taking pictures of everything you built. I have one at home that I built for my layout that I modified with new windows & doors etc. I will post photos of it here.
Karl
I like the results from Campbell shingles (but not on every building), but I've had problems with them releasing over time. Next time I use them, I'll use transfer tape to hold them in place.
dave
The Campbell Idaho Springs Mine was a great introduction into the world of craftsman kits. I basically learned how to model doing this thing. My problem is I don't have a place on my layout for it....but I love those kits anyway ;)
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Hi Guys:
Last Campbell Kit I built probably back in the 90's
Campbell #455 Cordage co.
Mad a lot of changes here. Lots of FSM metal castings. All new windows, wall and roof details and new signs from my Wales Jct Scale Signs Co. Changes to the platforms also. Lots of detail here also.
Here's a few photos.
Everyone's models look great.
Karl
This goes to show that overhanging 2nd stories is not just a -new- fad in craftsman structure kits!!!
dave
Was a member of the Lake County Model Railroad Club in Wauconda, Illinois in the late 1990's,... the enclosed Campbell northern water tank was donated to the club by me prior to my move to Texas as a gift ... never took any photos of it, but it's still on the club layout now for almost 20 years, 8) ...you can see it several times in this video at about the 9 and 20 and 40 minutes times.... :) Tommy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIutQXFYaK0
These are two Camppbell kits I have ever built.
Vilius
Hi vilius:
Hi nice job on both. bet the cap shingles didn't come with Grandma's House. they do make quite a difference.
Karl