Schneider Indiana Needs Houses

[chuck geiger]

Looking for a few houses that would look like this picture with garages, etc, you have lying around. I've been lucky to have a few huge donations to the project. Does anyone want to help house the community? I can also trade some cool stuff. They can be old Bachman or whatnot.

[John]

Looking for a few houses that would look like this picture with garages, etc, you have lying around. I've been lucky to have a few huge donations to the project. Does anyone want to help house the community? I can also trade some cool stuff. They can be old Bachman or whatnot.

Chuck - Those are all easy scratch builds out of styrene ..

[chuck geiger]

You know, I'm thinking that. I just ordered some of JTT brick, corrugated siding, concrete blocks, and a substantial stock of Evergreen sheets.
I am really new to that process.

[John]

You know, I'm thinking that. I just ordered some of JTT brick, corrugated siding, concrete blocks, and a substantial stock of Evergreen sheets.
I am really new to that process.

All houses can be broken down to geometric shapes .. for example --




You have a square, and a triangle for this building ..

In an earlier google picture - you can see the foundation is made out of cement blocks -- so about 16" each .. you can use that to find dimensions ..  I used google earth .. the main part of the building front measured 16' and the side building (counting blocks) was about 9' .. so now you have two dimensions ..

Since this is using siding, each piece of siding is about 10-12" tall (google basic dimensions for vinyl siding)  ..  it also as two "courses" -- so make those 4-6 inches ..  count all the siding pieces to get the height ..

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.angi.com%2Fs3fs-public%2Fclapboard-vinyl-siding-dimensions.png%3Fimpolicy%3Dinforgraphic&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=705488cc9ae0e4a9aa638b5ddcdd68a55380c70fc9c756728e0cb646373e2450

 easy estimation is 10' per story ..  use the same process for window size ..

Using the siding, I counted about 13 "planks -- that will get you a height of the window ..
https://www.thespruce.com/thmb/DKLLIvOU83CxASKCfMPYcO7YH1o=/750x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/What-are-standard-window-sizes-5195074-V1-1156aee102ac4a7d8aeac631454c41dc.png

https://www.thespruce.com/what-are-standard-window-sizes-5195074

Doors I usually jnust estimate at 34x80 or 36x80  -- doesn;'t make much difference in Nscale


Then draw it out on paper, - you can make a cardstock mockup to see how it looks and a place holder ..

Good luck - happy modeling ..

[chuck geiger]

This is awesome 👌 I have the large box of Tichy doors and windows. Thanks 😊

[chuck geiger]

We're gonna get moved lol

[wm3798]

Don't forget our own in-house cache of simple scratchbuild plans...

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=31109.0

Lee

[Tad_T]

Don't forget our own in-house cache of simple scratchbuild plans...

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=31109.0

Lee

Cool! 😎

[chuck geiger]

Guys thanks this is awesome and even a trained monkey (me untrained monkey) can do this.

[chuck geiger]

The list for builds here is great. I need one for small single-car and two-car garages if anyone has any plans.

[wm3798]

How fancy do you want it?








I can take any of the dozens of garages I've designed and output an STL file for you guys with printers to monkey around with.

Lee

[chuck geiger]

dumb Indiana two-car basic not attached to the meth house.

[Bob]

You'll have fun with this Chuck - I was a little intimidated to try my hand at scratch building but now I enjoy it.  Lance Mindheim recently published a scenery book with lots of hints about building structures, and there are plenty of resources online as well.  I go to Harpers Ferry and take photos, then come back home and scratch build the structures I have photographed. As some of the guys have noted, you make a cardstock mockup.  You don't have to be precise.  Styrene in different flavors and Tichy windows and doors will carry you far.  Looking forward to seeing the houses!

[chuck geiger]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1226074827/n-scale-single-car-garage-1160-scale?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GDN_US_DSK_Reactivation_CRM_Habitual_Product&utm_ag=Habitual-Buyers&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAiAt8bIBhBpEiwAzH1w6YMk-ILm7uaLp2XPnP4lz1RiGfmwx-EIyVNb_TH7tQ7LIkwqd1yPURoC80EQAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_22830115180_182775362773_765543568452_aud-2433738678369_c_&utm_custom2=22830115180&gad_source=5&gad_campaignid=22830115180&gclid=CjwKCAiAt8bIBhBpEiwAzH1w6YMk-ILm7uaLp2XPnP4lz1RiGfmwx-EIyVNb_TH7tQ7LIkwqd1yPURoC80EQAvD_BwE

[BobRunty]

Most of those old small town Midwest houses were built before garages became a thing, Chuck.
Around here, attached garages didn’t start showing up until late 20’s-early thirties built houses and then they were usually single car. But with the depression, there is usually a gap in home building. Homes in the small town I grew up in were in large part built before 1930 or so, then the town really didn’t experience a home building boom again till after the war.
Double car attached garages didn’t really take off till the early to mid 60’s. My parents house, and several of their neighbors, were built in the very early 60’s with single car attached garages.
The Walthers Cornerstone farm house and bungalow are very typical of small town pre-depression built homes around here, with a separate free standing garage, usually facing a gravel alley behind the house.

Bob