""Best Little HO House" (In Plastic) For 15mm Farmers?" Topic

You know I mean HO scale, right?

Anyway, Grey Aliens are planning to pay some farmers a "quickie" visit . . .

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A) First of all, does anyone recognize who manufactures this little HO house by the tracks?

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This other one looked nice, but had no porch to lounge about:

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B) OR . . . do you have a recommendation of your own, for a plastic kit for a small farm house suitable for 15mm residents?

Thanks,

Dan
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Wow. That one almost looks like the one in "Signs". Very cool!!!

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Dan

Dan, HO is going to be a bit big for 15 mm (even 18 mm). There are some very nice resin models in 15 mm – check out Stone Mountain Miniatures, Musket Miniatures, and Hovels for starters. Go to their ACW ranges. And give the new Blue Moon horror buildings a look over. Have you seen their Victorian – spectacular. And how's the arm healing, by the way?

HO is just fine for 15mm, esp when the figures are based.

Agreed – the airfix mile fort (for example) is fine for 15mm Romans (on bases).

One other suggestion, the really cheap and small kits by companies like Bachman are often a bit undersized in that the overall footprint is smaller than you might expect. They are kind of beginner type kits, but they will look even better alongside 15mm than some of the more true-scale HO stuff with a larger footprint.

Here's one that I had as a kid.

And only 14 bucks! link

In general, I tend to agree with Psyckosama in as much as scale can be extremeley relative depending on how big the entrances are, and how your figures are based.

Here's an HO building that I use for 28mm!
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The Walther's catalog is your friend. walthers.com Best part is the ability to search not only by scale or category, but also by what's currently in stock and on sale.

Doug

Man,

That title cracked me up. I love me a good chuckle with dorky gaming references :)

Thanks Caribe!

Walthers is the biggest industry-wide catalog. But they do charge premium prices. On the other hand, if you have a local model railroad shop, you can order through them and not pay shipping.

Online shopping for American kits is generally better through places like: link

And never order European kits through Walthers! Go to Reynaulds or EuroRail for much better prices.

CC, I'd say that is a Life-Like General Store with a few minor modifications.

Look here for a pic: link

Also, if you search for "HO General Store" on eBay, one of the auctions towards the top has a pretty good picture of the thing out of the box and assembled. Looks like the one in your picture leaves off the upper portion of the roof with the additional windows, but other than that it is ia dead ringer.

Thornhammer,

That general store looks sweet!!! I think I can make the minor modifications. Thanks so much.

I like this picture here, as it shows 15mm figures inside a plastic HO structure:

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It's exactly what I would love to be able to do with my 15mm figures. That's also part of why I would really like to find a one story or 1 1/2 story farm house and not something big.

PS. Quadratus, you da man!!! I'm glad someone finally mentioned the title, particularly since it took me quite a while to come up with it. :)

Tim,

That's quite a rural mansion! Wow.

Dan

I've bid on several models on ebay these last couple of weeks, but haven't been lucky at all.

Well, if I can't get my hands on a small farm house (plastic, HO), I guess I could always dig up a little diner kit I have and try to make something like this instead:

Then, instead of a farm and fields out in the country, I could game a scenario where Greys or other aliens escape Area 51 and show up at a desert establishment, or something like that.

Dan

No ideas how to answer your question, but I have to say the thread title cracked me up.

Now I can't get Dom DeLuise singing out of my head…

For something like this . . .

The suggestions on these other threads might be useful:

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Either way, I might use a design like this one to work out the terrain:

Dan

You might wanna head over to a HO railroad site and poke around. Lots of plans laying around to scratchbuild your own.
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Wow. Those look nice!

Thanks,

Dan

Coming soon to a farm not-so-near you . . .

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Update:

I keep looking for deals for a one-story little farm house, like the one in the first pic, but keep coming empty. I tried a few ebay auctions but the bidding went through the roof.

Now I can't believe I'm contemplating building my own, out of styrene sheets, but using these free paper HO models as templates only:

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Even though it's supposed to be a small store, I think it can work quite well as a small farm house.

What do you guys think? Is this the road to madness?

Dan
PS. By the way, is Illinois the only US state that has a historical society with free HO templates, like the above, of their historic buildings?

Guys,

Is this one cute or what? Do you think it's simple enough for a first-timer like me?

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Dan

By the way, Illinois has moved their cabins here:

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Dan

how about these,
Not Plastic but very rewarding to do.

Matchstick ones….

instructables.com/id/750-matchsticks-house

Z

A couple of these pre-painted MDF ones might work too:

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Dan