As I sat down and marked up the clapboard wood siding to create an O scale structure, I thought I can make another version of this and change its appearance enough to be different.
I built them simultaneously.
mike lynch,.........MADMIKE3434............HAIRBALL
second version
mike lynch
Hey mike:
Both version look just great/beautiful.
Karl
Thanks Karl............
I think I must have been looking at FSM #150 advert and thought this should blow up to O scale easily but just use main building design. Its always about real estate used, because in O before you know it your out of available space.
mike lynch..........MADMIKE3434............HAIRBALL
Hi Mike,
Wonderful model work. Where you working off a set of plans from one of the magazines or did you just develop the plan yourself?
Bruce, pretty sure I looked at FSM full page color advertisement for his HO KIT #150 as an idea. The picture gave me the idea. Same as The grand Depot, looked at the full on front picture and scaled it to o scale having no idea what the rear or sides ends looked like.
Then proceeded to scale it up to O scale using standard height and width for the walls. Front walls are probably 9 foot high to suit the era. And to the peak 14-16 feet high.
Using a scale ruler mark 9 foot, the go to O scale 1.48 side and 9 foot high, whoops you doubled the size of the structure , that's how I do it
mike lynch.............HAIRBALL
Neat variation on the same structure Mike..... 8)