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Location
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Name
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Source
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Comments
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| CVE |
CVE PURRfect Cat Food Company / VE Sparkling Bottle Water |
LifeLike N Paint Factory kit |
heavily kitbashed kit with interior details and lights, Seuth-powered smoking chimney |
| CVE |
Yardmaster office |
Märklin USA-style caboose shell |
porch steps and lighting added to caboose shell |
| CVE |
Lovers' campfire |
Circuitron flickering campfire module |
placed near white metal motor boat on river for quick gataway! |
| CVE_Upper |
track scale and office |
scratch |
trackside scale office from unkown source, painted styrene strips laid between and outside tracks for scale |
| CVE_Upper |
Summit Lodge |
Vollmer Swiss hunting lodge kit |
Interior lighting, woodpiles,weathering, vehicles |
| CVE_Upper |
General store |
Märklin resin store |
Painted and detailed with goods and figures on loading platform, vehicles |
| CVE_Upper |
Chapel |
Märklin resin church |
Shortened by 1/3, stained-glass windows (acetate) |
| CVE_Upper |
MOW crew quarters |
Märklin resin American-style bungalow |
painted, porch added, brass radio antenna added |
| CVE_Upper |
Worker dormatory / residence |
Märklin resin two-story cottage |
porch added, figurines |
| CVE_Upper |
International Transworld Services (I.T.S.) Mine |
Märklin resin mine head, fuel oil storage |
loading space heightened to allow loco and rolling stock to pass |
| CVE_Upper |
I.T.S. mine service buildings |
scratch |
fuel / water storage & small office |
| CVE_Upper |
steel arch bridge |
Märklin arch bridge |
extra girders cut and fitted in upper structure, weathered with antiquing wax |
| CVE_Upper |
wood trestle |
scratch |
Northwest scale lumber pilings and very fine strips used in board-by-board construction |
| CVE_VEPA |
Pacific Grain Terminal |
Microfigs resin 1/285 6-silo terminal kit |
Painted and wire details, door added |
| CVE_VEPA |
Old River Lighthouse & residence |
Discovered resin lighthouse |
Major kitbash, installed simulated lighthouse circuit, BIC pen shaft used for light housing |
| CVE_VEPA |
Tug boat & barge |
"Smit Frankrijk" Revell Kit 5219-0389 |
Before building the tug kit, I removed a section of the hull to lower the boat in the water. The barge is a Sylvan Models resin N-scale kit that I narrowed to fit the space. |
| VEE |
Roundhouse |
Märklin kit |
Narrowed by 1/3 and moved closer to turntable, solenoid-powered operating doors, interior lighting, diode-gapped stall leads |
| VEE |
Mocassin factory |
Märklin resin warehouse kit |
painted weathered, delivery truck and figures, rooftop sign |
| VEE |
Textile factory |
Kibri set |
individual floors added, lighting inside each floor and tower, etched-brass fire escape added, loading dock modified to fit space, delivery vehicles, pallet stacks |
| VEE |
Power plant |
Kibri set |
Seuth smoke generator installed in plaster-cast base of chimney, interior lighting |
| VEE |
Transfer Company |
Bachmann N warehouse |
Severely kitbashed, extra doors, second loading platform, full interior details including office, figures, lighting, speaker for industrial sound effects |
| VEE |
VECRR car shop |
Kibri kit |
figures added around welding torch, fuel oil storage from oil distribution kit, brass radio tower from scrap Brawa light tower |
| VEE |
Coaling tower |
scratch |
scribed styrene sheet, ribbed aluminum for roof, styrene L-girders for supports and braces |
| VEE |
Steel girder bridge |
Atlas N steel girder bridge |
Narrowed for Z width, approach girders filed down to Z width |
| VEE |
Water tower |
scratch |
styrene sheet, brick sheet, tank from N kit |
| VEE |
Turntable |
Märklin turntable |
rewired to operate from control box (see article), voltage dropped to 6 volts |
| VEE |
Signal shed |
N resin accessory |
painted silver, speeder deck added, placed on treated wood foundation |
| VEE |
Samanth's Gazeebo |
scratch |
styrene shapes, square rod to form hexagonal gazeebo in park |
| VEE |
billboard |
LifeLike N plastic billboard |
lighted, Z-sized billboard announcing "Gone With The Wind" at local theatre. |
| VEE |
Diesel fueling station |
scratch |
styrene brick sheet and piping from N kit |
| VEE |
VEE depot |
2 Märklin resin station buildings |
Kitbash, popsicle stick base, weathering with acrylics, Preiser figures |
| VEE |
VECRR offices |
scratch |
half plastic 35mm film canister, ribbed aluminum sheeting for roof, Märklin loco buffers for roof vents, door from N kit, heating oil tank from N kit, radio tower from N Brawa brass light tower |
| VEE |
VEE Central Station |
Märklin Baden Badhof kit |
Americanized, lighted platform using 3x 1.5v in series Microminiature fliament bulbs |
| VEE |
Fuel storage |
bash |
small N vertical storage tank, ladder stock |
| VEW |
Apartment block with detached garage |
Märklin plastic kit |
painted, figures and car, streetlamp |
| VEW |
Church |
Kibri plastic kit |
Stained glass windows, porch and cross on steeple, removable roof hides small speaker for farm animal noises |
| VEW |
Freight house |
portion of station/freighthouse kit |
shortened and separated from original kit, lighted- detailed interior with figures |
| VEW |
VEW station and hotel |
Station portion of kit with freighthouse |
Covered car park, lights on platform, passengers, signs, vehicles |
| VEW |
MOW stores, water tower, mobile coaling conveyor |
Kibri plastic kit, N scrap water tank, Gold Medal Models N conveyor |
Building shortened, scratchbash water tower. |
| VEW |
Fuel supply distributor |
Kibri kit |
Shortened main building, storage tanks separated into two sections, tank car service platform modified to fit space |
| VEW |
Rochy's Gravel |
scratch |
styrene, aluminum roofing, architectural shapes, red LED lighting |
| VEW |
barn |
scratch |
styrene siding, aluminum roofing, detail parts from scrap N kits, fencing from Z fencing kits, white metal tractor |
| VEW |
curved steel bridges (2) |
Märklin curved bridges |
sides removed and relocated above track, centre supports added, weathered |
