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Great work, Phil! Maybe you could get a job working for George Sellios if you ever retire.

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire N Scale Model Railroad:

Thanks for the compliment Bill. The root of the word "working" is a "four" letter word now since I retired

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Phil - Here's kinda a variation on the theme. I scratchbuilt a reasonable copy of Jefferies Point Stave and Heading Co. based on pictures of FSM's version of same I got off eBay and elsewhere. See:

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Thank you for posting the link to your photo. That is rather nice work.

Rich Sullivan Albuquerque

Thanks for responding to my question about building a Fine Scale Miniature model. You rendition is an alternate solution to paying an inflated price of a kit on e-bay. I check e-bay now and then to see what's available out the in the market place and that very kit was for sale.Then I went to that Coast to Coast web site to see a bigger picture and seen that kit for several hundred dollars.At those prices, scratch building is the option I also take. Thanks for sharing your work as you did a very neat job.

Thanks, Phil. Incidentally, my scratchbuilt version of Jefferies Point cost me about $35 (not including the detailing items I pulled out on my scrapbox), as compared to $350 or better for the same FSM kit on eBay.

CNJ999

That's a great model - a nice balance (and perhaps a bit more balanced than GS's approach) between weathered and cared for, a really nicely done scene. Photographed outdoors (the background trees, and great lighting)?

Ah, but you don't get those really nice and unique castings that are in the FSM kits. Something similar to a lot of them may be available in plastic, white metal or brass castings, but a lot of them are one-of-a-kind for the specific FSM kit..

Indeed, the FSM casting are great but I've not seen any one that was so critical to a building that something else similar could not be substituted. Below is my scratch copy of the FSM Jewel Kit #1 barge-mounted pile driver, another model where FSM had a lot of casting for which I had to make substitutions. I think it came out pretty well.

Very impressive, CNJ! Good looking model, and good photography as well.

Cheers,

Mark.

Hi Rick, Your Barge Mounted Pile Driver is a great job that could be used as an inspiration for my own future Warf scene. I still pose the question to others. Do you build the kits or just trade them on e-bay? I have been tempted to get one of those John Allen Engine house/station kits even if it's several times more that the original price. I did scratch build the engine house from a picture from FSM's ad in RMC many years ago. It looks fairly close and am satisfied with the results, however, the station part is on an other layout I gave to my grandchildren. You can see the engine house on my John Allen page.

I have a number of the FSM kits and I *do* intend to build them eventually. No layout yet to put them on. Also have the Stone Roundhouse kit from SRM which I intend to build too. All kits are meant to be built. All brass is meant to be run. Other ideas to the contrary are nuts IMHO.