I have a kit that was sold as N/HO (I think it was Pola).......it came with doors and such for each scale. It ends up as a large N scale building or a medium HO. The details and such were't too bad really, but I used it as a background building so it isn't quite as critical.
HO scale grain bins work great when you're trying to model very large prototype bins in N scale. -Mark
I don't. However, I have seen a couple of examples where an HO building, or parts from one, was adapted via bashing.
Usually no, but in some rare cases they may work. I am keeping a roof from an O tinplate Plasticville ice cream stand from the 1950s for an industrial roof in N- when I build the right building. It is a matter of SEEING what something can be, rather than what it is sold as. I used a toy log cabin from a frontier play set, approximately HO scale, made from soft flexible plastic, to build an N scale logging theme restaurant. On the other hand, I used a 1/700 scale Japanese Navy base harbor tower crane to model a gravel loader in N scale. The hulls from HO scale small private boats to model (someday) 35 and 50 foot commercial shrimping vessels. And so on.
I am remembering an article in MRer a decade or so ago in which a kit-basher adapted some HO stuff for N. Seems like the floor height is biggest sight issue with some structures. Windowless like the grain silos not so much. Maybe somebody with the new digital index? Of course, smaller scale as background for larger has been around a long time. First saw that with Gorre & Daphetid years ago. Carl
There were two marketed by Heljan that I recall: a brewery and a stockyard. I've got the stockyard kit here awaiting time to finish painting and assembling it for a friend. As a large background building, I think it'll work just fine.
