Step back in time to 1950’s or 1960’s America when life was a lot simpler and slower paced – some would call it idyllic. Bring to mind nostalgic memories of rock ‘n’ roll playing on the jukebox in the Diner, or stopping to fill up the auto at charming old-world roadside gas station. You might have just been an “ankle biter” at the time, but that shouldn’t stop you from recollecting and recreating a nostalgic roadside or small town scene from yesteryear.

Here’s How To Create Your Own Uniquely Realistic Scene For Your
Model Railroad… That You Can Be Proud Of Displaying… Even If
You Have Never Downloaded, Printed, And Constructed Your Own Model Buildings!

These 3 “period-style” scale retro model buildings are reminiscent in appearance of many real world structures common throughout the USA in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The plans to make these scale models are
inexpensive, easy to download, fun to build, and wonderfully realistic when constructed. Here’s how:

1. Decide how big you want your retro buildings to be: HO scale, OO gauge, or the smaller N scale.
2. Select the models you want to build: traditional US Diner, retro Steakhouse, or older style Gas Station.
3. Download and print the plans.
4. Stick the plans to card (an old discarded cereal pack will be perfect).
5. Use an Xacto blade (craft knife) to lightly score along the folds.
6. Use your craft knife to neatly cut out the printed plan.
7. Fold the card plan to shape and glue the flaps together. Follow the part numbers that are shown on the plan drawing. Clear glue works well, and Super Glue is perfect for small parts.
8. Clamp the parts together using clothes pins (pegs) until dry.
9. Adding additional pieces of cardboard inside the assembled model will add strength and support.
10. Touch up the edges of your HO scale, N scale, or OO scale model with a lead pencil, or use an artist brush.
11. Applying 2 or 3 very light coats of clear flat varnish will help protect your assembled scale model.

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No town or city scene on a model railroad layout would be complete without structures that visitors to the railway can relate to. That’s why constructing a scale model fire department building, police station, and ambulance paramedic station is such a good choice for many railroads based around an urban theme. Some action and interest can be included in the scene by adding a burnt out fire damage house surrounded by emergency vehicles, miniature plastic people to depict emergency service crews with fire hoses, and onlookers watching the action unfold. Add some flashing lights and the occasional burst of sirens from police cars, fire trucks, or ambulances… and you have a wonderfully captivation model railroad scene in the making.

How Every Model Railroad Enthusiast Can Have The Confidence That
The Models You’re Building Are High-Quality And Super-Realistic…
Even If You Have Never Downloaded, Printed, And Built Your Own Model Buildings!

The downloaded printable plans for making these scale models are not expensive especially when compared to plastic models; they are easy to download; enjoyable to build; and are exceptionally realistic when put together. Here’s how build these scale model buildings:

1. Decide the size of buildings you want to build: HO scale, OO gauge, or N scale.
2. Decide which models you require: fire station, police department, ambulance station, and/or the fire damaged burnt out house.
3. Download and printout the plans.
4. Using either a spray adhesive or clear glue, stick the printed paper plans to cardstock (recycle a discarded cereal box which will be ideal). Avoid air bubbles getting stuck between the paper and cardboard. Allow to dry.
5. Lightly score along the folds with a craft knife. Don’t cut too deep.
6. Then cut out the printed plan with the sharp craft knife. Two to three light cuts are better (and safer) than applying one firm deep cut.
7. Follow the diagrams supplied with each model and glue each part of the plan together. Reasonably quick drying clear glue (about $2 a tube or less) works well. Super Glue is particularly good for joining small (sometimes fiddly) parts together.
8. Utilize clothes pegs (pins) to clamp each part together until the assembled miniature building is completely dry.
9. To finish off, touch up the edges of your N scale, HO scale, or OO model building with a pencil, or you could use an artist brush.
10. Balsa wood is a perfect material for adding exposed wooden roof joists and posts to the fire damaged burnt out house model. Strips of balsa wood can be easily be painted charcoal black and glued in position.
11. The next two steps are optional. Glue additional scraps of cardboard to the inside of the assembled miniature model. This will make it even more sturdy. The burnt out house model building already has realistic indications of fire damage, but additional techniques can be used to inject even more realism. The windows show blackened soot and charcoal woodwork. One possibility is to completely remove some of the burnt out windows to allow some limited visibility into the interior of the darkened (painted black) fire damaged house. Printing out an extra copy of the downloaded plan is an option worth considering. The doors and windows can be cut out from the first copy and a second copy of the door or window can be positioned behind the first cardboard copy. This technique can provide a more 3D perspective to the scale model house. The same method can be used when constructing the model fire department building, the police station model, and scale model ambulance station.

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The fire damaged structure is particularly interesting with sooty black burnt woodwork around the window panes (some broken). There is also plans for a city fire station that can help complete the back scene. Yes the downloaded plans are for background structures so require less space than ordinary scale models. This series of scale model city buildings is truly unique and not available anywhere else on the web. So if you decide to download and build these 5 scale model city buildings, your model railroad will be very unique and different nearly every other scale railroad in existence. The plans can be downloaded and made up as ho scale city buildings, OO, or n scale city buildings.

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