In the late 1800's a German man opened a brewery in New Lisbon Wisconsin. In the early 1900's he built himself, at that time, a mansion. He was a bit of a train buff because he built his hone right next to the Milwaukee Road mainline. I will be attempting to reproduce his home in HO scale sometime in the 1950's O ver the years the house fell into disrepair, here is a picture of it from about two years ago.

and a recent picture after it was refurbished.




I hope you all follow along as I build this thing.



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I am using Rusty Stumps 1/32 thick laser cut plywood for the main walls.



All the door and window openings laid out.





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There you go reading my mind again.It's simply amazing how everytime I want to know how or what your doing you post the information without my asking. :mrgreen:

Catt, It must be all the years we have known each other. I was thinking about it the other day, it was about 15 years ago on the RR Depot forums with Robin and Shamus and a few others.

And in case you were wondering this is how it looks with all the openings cut out.





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Andy !!
A "Self Challenge" for an opening post here on Big Blue ?
Bold move
looking forward to seeing this one grow.
Hope you find this place becoming your primary "haunt".
Once again,

Inside bracing is on using 3/16 sq. basswood.





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Thanks for the welcome Sumpter,

I painted the inside of the building black,



and then assembled the four walls.





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HAH, I get to ask the question this time :mrgreen: And the question is ,who made the brick sheets your using?

Catt, If you read the second post you will see I said it is from Rusty Stumps. I have used his self stick laser cut sheets before, they are on a type of matt board. I would build the structure out of 1/16 basswood then apply the brick. I thought I would try the plywood this time to save a step. So far it's working great.



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Andy
Your construction jumped a little fast. How did you cut the curved tops to the windows?

David, Being very careful with an exacto knife.



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Is there any particular reason I can't view the photos in Andys first 4 posts to this thread???
Cheers, the Bear.

Ja Bear, they all show up for me, I don't really know.



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JaBear Wrote:Is there any particular reason I can't view the photos in Andys first 4 posts to this thread???
Cheers, the Bear.

I also can't see them.

Bruce

I can see them just fine.