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NOW AVAILABLE! 12 Model Buildings for O SCALE (YES…O SCALE), HO, OO, Z and N Scale Model Railroads
There have been several requests for some downloadable buildings to be made available in O scale, so 12 designs (already available in other scales) have been adapted for O scale enthusiasts. Trust me; it wasn’t an easy or inexpensive job, as a lot of work was required to retain the HIGH QUALITY photo realistic effects, so the buildings could be safely enlarged to O scale without losing clarity. The designs were also specially adapted to print in both A4 size [letter size] and in A3 size [tabloid size].
Although it would be good to make the whole range available in O scale, the cost and time factor is prohibitive at this stage. So, this is a test market to see how much demand there is for O scale buildings of this kind. Depending on the response, more buildings will hopefully become available in future months.
The designs are now available in O scale at http://www.oscalebuildings.com or for HO, N, Z, and OO scale at http://www.modelbuildings.org/low-relief-buildings-G.html
The buildings can be easily constructed using corflute to make them very strong.
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Regarding the tips about darkening the ballast around tunnel entrances and at crossings, here in the northwest area, BNSF & UP both use a lot of basalt for ballast since the whole eastern half of Washington state and eastern Oregon and almost all of Idaho has huge layers of the stuff. Thousands of years ago this entire area was basically one huge pool of molten lava from time to time and so we have an almost inexhaustible supply. This rock is very dark in color and needs very little touch up to show stains from oil, etc. One other thing I noticed was on the BNSF at least, when the tracks enter a tunnel, the crossties go back to wooden rather than concrete for the length of the tunnel and then back to concrete. Also, some turnouts have wood ties and the rest of the track is concrete ties. I assume this is to make maintenance easier since tunnels are a confined space and switches are always a high maintenance item in the real world.