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To Kitbash Or Not to Kitbash? Contents INTRODUCTION: CHAPTER SIX: To kitbash or not to kitbash? ............. 4 Residential and retail .................. 62 Disguising a kit’s heritage may be as simple as applying a coat of white paint CHAPTER ONE: Do not read the label on the box! ......... 6 There may be a soybean plant hiding in a cement CHAPTER SEVEN: plant box Bridges and trestles ................... 68 Tips on modeling steel viaducts, through-truss bridges, and timber trestles CHAPTER TWO: Depots in disguise .................... 20 House kits can often be modified into depots CHAPTER EIGHT: Combination tower and depot ........... 74 CHAPTER THREE: A Santa Fe prototype provided the inspiration for an easy kitbashing project Towers and freight houses. .32 A new roof and other minor alterations may do the trick CHAPTER NINE: CHAPTER FOUR: From cement to soybean plant .......... 78 Coal country structures ................ 40 A cement plant provided most of the components Kitbashing truck dumps, tipples, company stores and for a different industry houses, even a church CHAPTER FIVE: CHAPTER TEN: Lineside industries .................... 52 Kitbashing cornucopia ................. 86 Ideas for grain elevators, factories, paper mills, Examples of structures from several of the hobby’s and “flats” leading practitioners INTRODUCTION To kitbash or not to kitbash? That is indeed the question, as well as the subject of this book. Like When I needed a two-story depot typical of those found along the Western Maryland’s any other aspect of scale model railroading, there needs to be a well- coal branch to Elkins, W.Va., I found what understood method to our madness, a raison d’être, before we commit our I needed lurking inside a Faller farmhouse aspirations to hardware. My objective is therefore to offer guidance on how kit (now sold by Walthers as the Lancaster Farmhouse, No. 933-3333). The lesson to recognize good—and bad—kitbashing prospects, and to provide tips on here is to form a clear image of the desired choosing commercial kits or even built-up structure models that can be structure in your mind, then look not at the modified or combined to satisfy specific needs and desires. labels but at the photos of commercial kits. The prototype structure is at Kerens, W.Va. 4 Jim Boyd Defining our options Taking the easy way out? Developing a strategy The first thing you’ll discover as you Some of you may view kitbashing as As readers of my previous books or page through this book is that it’s an something less rigorous than scratch- Trains of Thought commentaries in idea book, not primarily a set of step- building. I’ll do my best to demonstrate Model Railroader are well aware, I see by-step how-to instructions. Had I to those who may hold this view that scale model railroading as a way to chosen to follow the latter path, it kitbashing is indeed a legitimate alter- replicate in miniature not only the would have reduced the scope of this native. It may simply be a placeholder, sights and sounds of full-size (“proto- book to perhaps a half-dozen specific a stand-in for an accurate model of type”) railroading but also the ways the structure projects. The odds of finding a specific prototype that you hope to railroads went about their business. It’s one that appealed to you would have build later on. Or a kitbashed structure akin to war gaming, or even chess with been slim indeed. may turn out to be a rather decent motorized “men.” So too should we To be sure, there are several kit- model of a specific prototype, one that have a strategy as we contemplate what bashing projects explained in sufficient may not need to be replaced any time structures we need to represent carload detail for you to follow along, and soon, if at all. origins and destinations while adding quite a few more for which a photo or Of course, a kitbashed structure, interest and plausibility to our railroads. two and a menu of base kits should be like many commercial “craftsman” Two hints before we get started: I sufficient to point you in the proper kits, may be solely a product of our highly recommend acquiring the Wal- direction. But in some cases models imagination and not based on a specific thers catalog for your scale. No other I kitbashed years ago are now avail- prototype at all. The resulting building reference illustrates so many structure able in kit form, or the kit(s) I used may satisfy the entrepreneurial spirit kits, making it a primary research tool are no longer commercially available, that resides in most of us, an idealized for the kitbasher. And don’t overlook although an eBay search will usually expression of how we see the world or their catalogs for other scales; Bill bear fruit. wish it to be. Neale used an O scale bridge kit on his Before we get into such nitty-gritty The drive to kitbash structures HO railroad (see Chapter 7), and Rix aspects of modeling, however, we’ll may even come from the desire to N scale grain bins are similar in size to take time to review what makes kit- creatively cash in on the sizable larder the diminutive bins seen after World bashing a viable approach to structure of structure kits now residing on our War II when used on HO layouts. modeling, when it’s worthwhile to storage shelves by using them to fill And note that an apparently discon- consider kitbashing as well as when holes in our scenery with something tinued kit may later appear in another it may not be, and—as we discuss in more aesthetic than folded 3 x 5 cards company’s product line. Review the some detail in Chapter 1—why you that announce, ever so hopefully, listings of all popular brands before shouldn’t pay too much attention to “Future site of Danville Lumber Co.” assuming a particular model is no lon- the label on the box. or whatever. ger available. 5 1 CHAPTER ONE Do not read the label on the box! It’s easy to be misled, even unintentionally. Labels, for example, create If you were planning to build a model of a soybean processing plant, would you expectations. If you find a box marked “Cheerios” in the local super- have looked inside the box of a kit labeled market, you can reasonably expect to find that familiar cereal inside the “cement plant”? But as I explain in Chapter familiar yellow box. But such expectations can lead to assumptions that 8, most of the needed parts for that structure were indeed found inside the Walthers Valley get in the way of the kitbasher. If during a visit to a local hobby shop or Cement kit. while perusing a catalog or website we see a kit labeled as a cement plant, it may never occur to us that there is actually a soybean processing plant hiding inside that box (see 1 and Chapter 9). 6 “Kit-bashing”? Before we delve too deeply into the pros and cons of kitbashing structures, let’s take a look back at the origins and implications of the term “kitbashing.” I credit the term, or at least popular- izing the term, to Dave Frary and Bob Hayden back in the 1970s during my tenure as editor of Railroad Model Craftsman. Like the evolution of the word “to-day” into “today,” “kit-bash- ing” soon segued into “kitbashing.” I recall some alternative terms such as “kit-mingling,” but none caught on. The irreverent nature of the idea of bashing two or more kits together to create something else, much like nuclear fusion, adds just a hint of the whimsy that is inherent in the slightly preposterous notion that we really can re-create the aural and visual dynamics of full-size railroading with our rela- tively puny scale models. 2 The late Art Curren gets credit for expanding our horizons when it Frenda Mine was just one of scores of creatively kitbashed structures from the fertile mind comes to creative structure kitbash- of the late Art Curren. It’s easy to see the basics: the Freight Station kit then sold by AHM ing. He also gets credit for applying (No. 5831) and later by Tyco (No. 7785), among others, atop Bachmann’s HO Coaling Station the same degree of creativity to the (160-45211). Art Curren “punny” names he applied to his work; “Frenda Mine” (2; see also December Why kitbash a structure? the AM, 3, and the C&O’s historical- 1976, January 1977, and February 1978 Before we can make a knowledge- landmark depot at Thurmond in the Railroad Model Craftsman) comes read- able choice about buying or building Mountain State became South Fork on ily to mind. Other classics: Jenerick a structure that has a specific role to the AM, 4. These were both signature Metal ( June 1996 Model Railroader), play on our railroads, we need to give structures on the Midland Road, and I and Hardley Abel Mfgr. Co. and Perry considerable thought as to the impor- therefore scratchbuilt both of them to Shibbel Fruit & Produce (both from tance of that role. Some buildings are ensure that I captured the prototypes’ the now out-of-print book Kitbashing what we call “signature structures,” distinctive features. HO Model Railroad Structures). buildings that will help to set the A potential downside is that I also stage for the railroad as a whole—the painted them in C&O’s two-tone gray, Prototype-based projects stars of the show. so a knowledgeable C&O fan might Scale model railroading has sufficiently On my former HO model railroad, have become confused as he saw famil- broad shoulders to accommodate the freelanced Allegheny Midland, for iar structures with odd names in unfa- almost any modeling interest and pref- example, I modified the term “freelanc- miliar locations.
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