Walthers Cornerstone.  Mostly

Walthers Cornerstone.  Mostly and other plastic model building kits

Mine

I'm modeling a specific prototype and 99% of the structures will be scratchbuilt.

Fortunately it's also a regional that runs through mostly wilderness, so apart from some railroad structures (stations, freight sheds, engine service, various tool sheds, section bunkhouses), two major industries (a sawmill and a sprawling ore processing plant), and a logging camp there aren't a huge number of other structures and no big down towns or cityscapes to do.

Some of my custom structures on my MRH blog thread:

https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/structures-for-the-algoma-central-railway-12208928

There will be a few interesting bridges though.

Not many mfgs...

I have a modified Woodland Scenics 'RTR' structure, two Grandt Line flag stop kits, a Quonset hut kit made in resin by a airplane kit maker (don't recall the name now) and everything else is scratch built...

When you model an O scale backwoods NG line, there's not a lot of stuff you can just build from kits.

Two "American Model

Two "American Model Builders".

One little warehouse:

and one of its stations:

Also one resin kit of a speeder shed that I have no idea who made it:

Whose Buildings are on Your Layout?

Actually, "Whose Buildings are on Your Layout?" is the theme of The BackShop Clinic this week on TrainMasters TV.  The segment is about Bob Lunde, who has created structures for Magnuson Models, DPM, Woodland Scenics, Walthers, Bachmann and Lunde Studios.

Buildings on my

Layout are a mix of HO Cornerstone and scratchbuilt. I model 2015 and many of the businesses I model in real life are built within the last 30 years or have been updated and expanded.

TomO

Buildings

The Lundes have saved my HO bricklayers and carpenters a lot of construction time, and have filled a gaping market void over the past 40 years.  Nice to have inexpensive structures that can be dressed up to fill the scene.

Also nice to have a professional video with good sound and a steady camera.

His buildings are fantastic.

His buildings are fantastic. Most will fit the era from the early 1900s onward into about the new century. For those of us in the 20s to 70s his structures are fantastic. A similar and worth while type of structures are made by city classics and are not as compressed vertically. The Lunde brand of buildings are fantastic and I consider them the top of the stack.

Which ones?

So which ones did he design?

DPM and Walther's

I seem to mostly have DPM, Walther's, and some scratch-built buildings on my layout. 

Bliss in San Angelo

Well...

A pair of Micro Trains laser cut buildings and 3 scratch built structures and three scratch built tanks.

kits on the layout

Most my kits are bulit & in the boxes until I build the layout. I've got  mostly have: Walthers series (cornerstone), a few Atlas discontinued kits, & a mixed bag of kits purchased at train shows & from the internet.

Buildings

Quite a mix. Starting my layout over 30 years ago, almost anything can be found. A number of scratch builds, soem Campbell wood kits, and of course a number of Walthers, DPM, and a few laser cut kits.

Have a look down Main Street.

Magnuson 'the Powerhouse', kit M519

I was looking thru a few older boxes of rr items I've collected over the years, and ran across this kit, still in its original box, and appearing to be in great shape.
 

Does anyone know where i might find some pics of this model constructed?
 

I don't think I'm going to have room for it on my layout. And I'm not exactly a finescale modeler.
But I would like to see a few photos of this model done up properly.

From a Google Search

Walthers Cornerstone, Design

Walthers Cornerstone, Design Preservation Models, and a couple Woodland Scenics - All kitbashed (kitbutchered??), kitmingled, etc. Haven't built a structure to plans in years...

Google Image

@Bud,

I did see that one, but its hard to believe there are no others?...or they are very hard to find??

Whose Buildings are on Your Layout?

Actually zero mounted  . I do have one small finished section house and a partially finished wine warehouse sitting on the bare benchwork. They get moved around out of the way as track work nears them :> ) .....DaveB