railroadmike

                     This is what I ended up with.

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doc-in-ct

Thinking of something similar

I'm thinking of something similar as I have three drainpipes to deal with.  I might box in one or two to represent a building or just make it part of the background.

Alan T.
Co-Owner of the CT River Valley RR - a contemporary HO scale layout of Western & Northern CT, and Western Mass.  In the design stage; Waterbury CT.

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fernpoint

Possible Alternative

Depends on your configuration, but I was able to, reroute:

Corner1.jpg 

Then hide behind the corner coving:

Corner2.jpg 

Rob
Cornhill & Atherton

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bear creek

Another way...

The late Earl Smallshaw used an ultra simple method to hide a support pipe on his layout.G_3043-c.jpg 

Cheers,

Charlie

Superintendent of nearly everything  ayco_hdr.jpg 

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Athlon

Ha!

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Alexedwin

Love it!

Love it!

Alex

One day I might be modeling the Puffing Billy Railway, Victoria, Australia.

My location - Queensland, Australia.

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LKandO

Must be a Romulan column

Alan

All the details:  http://www.LKOrailroad.com        Just the highlights:  MRH blog

When I was a kid... no wait, I still do that. HO, 28x32, double deck, 1969, RailPro
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tsmith

Genius

The masters like Mr. Smallshaw, made it look easy.  

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Fiddler66

I like his...

....sense of humor and a way to make that pipe fade away. Jim
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Sugar Beet Guy

First National Bank Building

I wrapped a mini-skyscraper around the support post on my old C&S layout. It was based on an actual one in Ft. Collins and came out pretty close.  The core is four 1x4s with the rear held to the front three with magnets. The windows are plexiglass with chart tape for frames. The lower bank office was scratch built.

Close-up (the dark grey streak in the backdrop was where 3D "smoke" from a smokestack was supposed to go)

nalBank1.jpg 

Distance shot showing the post

nalbank2.jpg 

The raw post (taken during layout disassembly)

nalbank3.jpg 

George Booth
Director of Everything, The New Great Western Railway
http://users.frii.com/gbooth/Trains/index.htm

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railroadmike

Drain pipe

All good ways to hide a pipe. The picture doesn't really show that the pipe goes through the layout at a  45 degree angle. The foundation is a foot thicker than the walls and this is where it transitions from the wall to foundation to exit the house. I should have taken better pics before.

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railroadmike

This was the next area to do.

Before. .

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railroadmike

After

 

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