Plastic Houses

The houses presented on these sites are made of plastic, the classical material for scratchbuilding. Kit parts like facade elements haven't been used for these models, all wall parts were, in fact, hand-made.


1. A Small One-Familiy House

This house was built with Polysterol sheets (with a material strength of about 1 mm); for the roof, I took Auhagen roof sheets. The wall parts were cut out of sheets in the same way as with the cardboard houses. Besides, the masses of the wall parts were drawn upon the plates before. However, drawing on plastic with a pencil will bluFor the drawing with pencil should be considered that this blurs on plastic easily. However, biros or thin felt-tip pens are completely unsuitable for the drawing on this material. So, nonetheless, using a pencil remains the best solution. If one works cleanly, one also receives well fitting parts. Who wants to do it as exactly as possible, can stick check paper on the plastic plates. In order to stick a glue stick is to be applied.

Polysterol sheets of this thickness can surely be cut uncomplictely, but they must be reinforced from the backside with bracings if necessary, on account of their low thickness and therefore so badly low stability.

The windows were being stuck together of paper stripes, see the description below.

1.)
First four paper stripes are cut out in fitting length. The length of these stripes depends of the length and height of the windowcase. 
2.)
Now the paper stripes are stuck from the backside on the edges of the windowcase, so that about the half of the stripe - about 2 mm - protrudes into the windowcase. On the corners of the window case, the paper stripes will overlap.
3.)

The illustration shows the result: the protruding,, approximately 2 mms wide pieces of the paper stripes form a window frame now.

4.)
If one wants a lattice window, paper stripes of approx. 2 mms of width are to be stuck over the windowcase. Also pay attention to the right length, so that the stripes can be glued on the edges.
5.)
Finally the window is being glassed with a piece of transparent plastic foil, or transparent plastic.

The doors were made of cardboard and were painted with a water-insoluble brown felt pen afterwards. The wall parts were stuck together with plastic glue and were carefully  plastered  with whitener afterwards. The whitener may be applied only in thin layers. The roof still got a painting with Plaka-colors. Finally, the walls got a white paint.

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