Scratch building

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I ran into a similar problem scratch building a station for a friend. It is a GN station with unique 9 over 6 windows. I couldn’t find anything commercially made that I could modify. So I ended up building up the windows in CAD and printing them on a 3-d printer for the HO parts. The mullions are oversized as my printer can only get down to about 1.5 HO inches. Where there were multiple windows in the bay window, I created them as one piece with a single hole in the wall to accept it. If you don’t have access to a printer (I’m told that some libraries have them now) there are companies that will print your parts.

 

Don Trettel

>From Roanoke but transplanted to Washington state

 

 

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I want to scratch build a switch tower like Hager or Tug etc. I can’t find windows of the right dimensions or design. I have also tried to cut holes for the windows and broke the narrow area between them. How have others overcome these barriers?

Mike Shockley  

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