Architect Models

We also built most of our models from scratch.

A nice project I did once was - I used wooden dowels in constucting a log cabin.

Another place to get supplies and ideas is somewhere that carries a lot of doll house building & furnishing supplies. We would get sheets of shingle patterns, brick, stone, etc... and glue them to foam board.

If you have access to a table saw or band saw you can also cut your own dimensional lumber and all kinds of things from stock size lumber.

There are structural shapes, (I-beams, angle irons, round, half-round, or square stock, strips, etc.) a few simple stairs, ladders and the like which are made by Evergreen Scale Models and Plastruct. Scale lumber can be found at a reasonably good hobby shop or model train store. Everything else I used when I built architectural models, we built from scratch.