Make Your Own Corrugated Roofing

The recipe:

ArtEmboss Aluminium Medium weight embossing sheets.
Evergreen Scale models metal siding sheets in the 6 x 12" size, .040 spacing and .040 thick.

More detail from David D. Free Rails.

Farm Stand Part 3

Update on my Farm Stand project. I found out the over sized skids I used make the whole building too high for the wee folk. I sanded down the skids to bring the whole thing down.

Added signage (notice the poster for the Yee Haw County Fair with Earl the Singing Chicken and the poster for a Tent Revival) and some veggies. I'll still be adding a lot more veggies.

Moveable Road Side Stand - O Scale - Part 2

Moving along...

I'm using 2x4's and coffee stirrers. The beams on the bottom are rather over sized but that's old barn beams Farmer Joe had laying around.

I'm covering the roof with corrugated metal.

Now to find/make some signs. Still have to make a door for the back.

Movable Road Side Stand - O Scale

Last summer my 10 year old son wanted to sell some extra veggies at the end of our driveway. I looked around on the web for some plans for a farm stand and I found these plans from 1949 for a Movable Roadside Stand from the USDA. You can probably ask your local agricultural department for these plans.

I never made a full size version but I did think it would make a neat model for my On30 layout. The plans are actually in 1/2 scale or O scale. But unfortunately my print out was smaller than actual size. So I had to print out a scale ruler and take it from there.

For a little building this model actually has a lot of parts to it but fortunately there are no windows to deal with.

Resources:

Movable RoadSide Stand Plans
http://msucares.com/pubs/plans/5699.pdf

Building and Construction Plans from MSU
http://msucares.com/pubs/plans

Farm Building Plans from Colorado State Extention:
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/blueprints/farmbuildings.html