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I have done a handful of buildings in N. I am working on one right now as a matter of fact, off of a drawing from a 1970s vintage Model Railroader.
What dimensions do you need? If you need prototypical dimensions, and you aren't modeling a specific building, I just use easy measurements... Like 1 1/2 x 3 or what have you. Selective compression and artistic liscence are a scratchbuilders friend.
If by measurements you mean scale conversions go here:
http://www.urbaneagle.com/data/RRconvcharts.html
Scroll down a little and you will find the N scale excel and text files. This site is indispensable for scratchbuilding, and it has lots of other neato stuff. Yes, I said neato.
N scale breaks down like this: .00625" = 1 scale inch. a sheet of .010 styrene is just shy of 2 scale inches thick. 1/16" = 10 scale inches. Some people say 1/16"= 1 scale foot, but those people are WRONG. (it is close enough really) The difference is hundredths of an inch.
3/4"= 10 scale feet.
33 feet = 1 scale mile.
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Take your time, and it really isn't that tough to scratchbuild structures. N scale poses it's challenges, but if you can learn to scratchbuild in N scale, you can scratchbuild in any scale.
Rich
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15th, 2007 02:37 am |
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Tileguy
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scratchbuilding in N scale was enough to drive me into O scale 
N scale does have some advantages...........being so small alot is assumed to be there where in O scale we must actually Put it there!!
If a guy can carve a set of caribou antlers out of a Pecan shell, I'm sure you can manage a lil building though 
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15th, 2007 02:58 am |
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If its your intention to scratchbuild in wood I would recommend that you purchase a " Chopper ". Trust me it makes life alot easier
As for the farm house in the real world they come in all shapes and sizes. Suggest you have a go at a cabin ( Shack ) say 15 x 10 with 9 feet high walls and the roof with a 1: 5 pitch a few windows and a door.
N scale can try you out.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15th, 2007 04:01 am |
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rich
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N scale is not that hard just takes the right frame of mind , remember N stands for normal scale.
For converting take your building dimensions in feet time 12 to get inches then divide by 160 then you end up with the N scale dimensions in inches. I stock strip wood in N scale sizes also.
rich
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