Kitbashing HO Model Railroad Structures

I've found plenty of great kitbashing articles in my old collection of Model Railroader magazines and some of the best ones were written by Art Curran, a name synonymous with the art of adapting plastic kits to create new structures.

I recently bought an old copy of Arts book 'Kitbashing HO Model Railroad Structures, an excellent collection of some of Arts kitbashing articles from Model Railroader.  The book runs to 88 pages and includes over 23 structure projects, all of them based on the old plastic kits from Revell, Con Cor, AHM, IHC, Heljan and Pola.

The book was last updated in the mid-nineties, and most of the kits are now long out of production, but thanks to ebay it is still possible to find all of them at reasonable cost.

The book also contains both the classic 'Hardly Able' manufacturing company and 'Superior Sandwich' kitbashes that I'm intending to replicate with my own upcoming project using various vintage kits.

The instructions are written in the usual 'Model Railroader' style, with clear diagrams and measurements for making the various cuts and joins in the kit parts, as well as a nicely detailed list of additional parts used to make each building.

So if you are interested in doing a spot of kitbashing, or kit-mingling as Art calls it, then grab yourself a copy of this great old book, or pick up some old Model Railroader magazines at your next swapmeet.