Model your own house?

[Av8rTX]

Has anyone ever built a model of your own home, perhaps placed it on your layout? Pics?

[RidgeRunner]

I have considered modeling a piece of land I own to assist in planning out placement of a house. smile.gif Just need to get the land re-surveyed so I can figure out where the heck the edges are. :-\

[FiveFlat]

Jon,
There should always be a plot description in your loan/title documents that show dimensions, etc.

I am beginning my modeling experience, and I want to try to model my 'view' of what my horse/cattle operation will be like in a few years.

[Wolfgang Dudler]

I thought about it but I didn't this.
The method is the same like any prototype building. I did this with my station Naumburg. For the engine shed I made from hard paper a first model.

Station at Nauburg (http://www.westportterminal.de/naumburg_e.html)

Wolfgang

[x600]

How about a model of building a house that I built??? http://www.railimages.com/albums/gregokrasinski/abr.jpg

[RidgeRunner]

Originally posted by FiveFlat:
Jon,
There should always be a plot description in your loan/title documents that show dimensions, etc.

I am beginning my modeling experience, and I want to try to model my 'view' of what my horse/cattle operation will be like in a few years. I have the maps showing dimensions of it, but the problem is associating those dimensions with locations in the real world - all the markers seem to be gone. The 4 markers along the back of the lot were in a creek and have probably washed away, the two front markers were next to a road that was widened, so they're underground now.

[Fotheringill]

I think Nolan did his mother in law's or grandmother's house and posted pictures some months ago.

[Kenneth L. Anthony]

I helped clean out my mother-in-law's house in Hutchinson, Kansas, a block from the tracks and one of those half-mile-long grain elevators. Suitable spot for modeling (in fact, I think Model Railroader magazine published a trackplan for a Hutchinson, Kansas layout. On a break from work, I took photos around the house for possible modeling.

http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/aco.jpg
The late Dale Farney had a Hutchinson, KSD scene on his Santa Fe N scale layout, and that inspired me to build the model TWICE, once for his layout and once to keep for myself. It is a pretty small house that shouldn't be hard to place in any town scene representing anything from 1940 on.
If I had made up this structure instead of copying a prototype, I probably would not have thought of use iron grillwork supports for the porch roof. I modified Gold Medal etched-brass fire escape parts for the grillwork.

I also scratchbuilt an N scale model of my grandfathers barn-- where the family lived before they had a house! I gave the model as a Christmas present to my aunt.

And I secretly took pictures of my 2nd cousin's house... a house that had belonged to her grandmother-- lots of family tradition. I drew plans and had a Christmas surprise for her.... a 1/12 scale dollhouse of her house.
Since this was Christmas surprise for someone else's house, and the scale was so large, I figured I had better have some limitation on space usage, so I modeled the full width across the front of the house, but limited the depth of the model to the front 12 feet back into the structure. It included the front porch, interior of a pine-paneled den and interior of about 6 feet (inches on the model) of the living room. I took pictures but they are not scanned or posted on railimages, so I cannot show it.

Once for a church fund-raising auction, I auctioned off building a custom model from the bidder's photos. Someone brought me front and back pictures of ancestral home and I drew plans and built an HO scale model.

I have occasionally thought that the neighborhood where I grew up in the East End of Houston might be appropriate to include somewhere on a layout.
http://www.railimages.com/albums/kennethanthony/aat.jpg
Actually, I once designed a crude 4x8 layout and my brother built it but it is long gone. Visited the scene two weeks ago. Some of the tracks are gone, but some are being upgraded with CONCRETE TIES.

[Pete Nolan]

Actually, I've done every house I've lived in, including the current one, which won't fit on the layout, as it is too large and too Southwestern.

So, the house I grew up in, in Wayland, MA.

http://www.railimages.com/g2/d/4309-2/agg.jpg

My first house, which needs to be "sunk" a half-story into the ground:

http://www.railimages.com/g2/d/4781-2/aos.jpg

The house Jeanne and I lived in in Southboro, MA
http://www.railimages.com/g2/d/4312-2/agh.jpg

I built architectural models for homebuilders for a while, so this is pretty easy for me.

[ April 06, 2006, 03:13 PM: Message edited by: Pete Nolan ]

[Av8rTX]

Thos are terrific examples.
My house was built in 1940 and sits across from the old Katy Car shops in Denison Texas. It could be incorporated in a layout naturaly and period appropirate if I "retro" it without the 80's add on and new siding.

[mcjaco]

I built a model of the home I grew up in for my architecture class back in high school. It's still in my parent's basement.

[Powersteamguy1790]

I did that when I had my HO layout many years ago.

It was a replica of a two story Garrison Colonial in New England.

Since the JJJ&E is somewhere out west, that structure wouldn't be appropriate.

Stay cool and run steam..... graemlins/cool.gif :cool: :cool: