Steps & Stairs in Various Scales

After many & varied attempts using styrene, & failing I found a pack of steps & stairs, was made by Atlas, & they worked out exceptionally well. There are packs available for bot HO & N, not sure about others

DC3D Cardmodeller spake thus:

I'm only experienced in HO. For prefab stairs in plastic, I've used Plastruct. For instance:

They also have this in O, N, G, and 1:16 scale. Plus spiral staircase.

If I really wanted scale accuracy and was totally obsessive, I'd scratchbuild out of brass (or maybe styrene).

I have some stairs from Evergreen. The package comes with stringers that have pre cut slots to accept the precut treads. They are fine for simulating steel or welded type stairs with an open riser where the tread is fastened to the side of the stringer. I have a pinking shear scissor that makes perfect HO stringers with one cut. This scissor is good for making stringers that simulate older style stair types where the tread lays on top the stringer. It will cut card stock or plastic sheet very well and makes for a tread that is just the smallest bit over scale. If a riser is used the tread is almost exact scale. I set the chopper for the tread length and if used the riser length needed and run plastic, wood or cardstock strips through it and have a pile in no time. Use pins to hold the stringers and then glue on a few treads here and there or risers if building a stair with them. When dry remove the pins and glue on the rest of the risers and then treads. It easy, cheap and you may find a suitable pinking shear around the house. One thing to consider if installing risers is that it's best to install them first as they should be flush with the stringers. After gluing on all the risers lightly sand each stringer so everything is smooth. Then install the treads that should just slightly over hang the stringer. Pinking shears are probably available in different sizes so I would think that one might find some that might work for S and O scale too. Man it took a bunch of verbiage to say this. I could have make some stairs quicker. Bruce

"DC3D Cardmodeller" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Great idea. Thanks

Ken