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Build custom structures with Plastruct precision-engineered components for N scale including ABS handrails, styrene ladders and stairs, random coursed stone sheets, polished stone sheets, and complete refinery kits. These architectural modeling materials enable scratch-building and detailing for industrial facilities, commercial buildings, and infrastructure that complement N Scale Downtown Deco Scenery and N Scale JTP Plastics, available from Plastruct.
Plastruct provides essential architectural modeling components for N scale modelers creating custom structures, detailing commercial kits, and building industrial facilities from scratch. This collection of six precision-engineered products includes structural elements, surface textures, and complete building kits manufactured from high-quality styrene and ABS plastics scaled accurately to 1:160 proportions. Each component features crisp detail molding, consistent dimensions, and material properties optimized for modeling applications including cutting, gluing, painting, and weathering.
The ABS handrail two-pack provides essential safety railings for industrial platforms, stairways, loading docks, and rooftop access areas. Manufactured from durable ABS plastic, these handrails feature realistic proportions with top rail, mid rail, and support posts molded as integrated assemblies. The material's flexibility prevents breakage during installation while maintaining proper scale appearance. ABS accepts plastic cement, CA glue, and acrylic paints, enabling secure attachment to structures and customization to match specific prototype railings.
Handrails add essential safety equipment details to refineries, chemical plants, grain elevators, water towers, coal tipples, and any industrial structure where workers access elevated areas. The components install along platform edges, beside stairways, and around rooftop equipment. Modelers can cut handrails to custom lengths, bend sections to follow curved platforms, and combine multiple pieces to create extended railing runs. The realistic appearance enhances structure authenticity and meets the detailing standards expected on serious industrial modeling projects.
The styrene ladder two-pack provides vertical access components for buildings, tanks, towers, and industrial structures. These precision-molded ladders feature individual rungs, side rails, and proper rung spacing scaled to 1:160 proportions. The styrene material cuts cleanly with hobby knives, accepts standard modeling adhesives, and paints easily with acrylics or enamels. Ladders can be trimmed to exact heights, enabling custom fitting to specific structure requirements.
Ladder applications include grain elevator access, water tower climbing ladders, building fire escapes, tank farm vertical access, signal bridge maintenance ladders, and rooftop equipment access. The components add operational realism showing how workers reach elevated areas for maintenance and operations. Multiple ladder sections can be stacked vertically with intermediate platforms to create tall access systems matching prototype industrial facilities. The fine detail and accurate proportions ensure ladders integrate naturally with structure designs.
The styrene 2-foot 6-inch stair two-pack provides angled stairway components for connecting different elevation levels. These molded stair sections feature individual treads, stringers, and realistic stair geometry at proper rise and run proportions. The 2-foot 6-inch length represents common industrial stair module dimensions, enabling modelers to create stairways of various heights by stacking multiple sections with intermediate landings.
Stair applications include loading dock access, platform connections, building entrances, elevated walkway access, and multi-level industrial facility circulation. The components combine with handrail sections to create complete stairway assemblies with safety railings. Modelers can position stairs at various angles, create switchback stair configurations with landings, and build exterior fire escape systems. The precision molding ensures consistent tread spacing and proper stair geometry that looks realistic from normal viewing distances.
The random coursed stone sheet two-pack replicates irregular stone masonry with varied stone sizes and random coursing patterns. The embossed plastic sheets feature deeply molded stone textures with individual stones, mortar joints, and natural variation in stone dimensions. This pattern represents fieldstone construction, rubble masonry, and rustic stone walls common on older buildings, bridge abutments, retaining walls, and foundation work.
The sheets cut easily with scissors or hobby knives, enabling precise fitting around windows, doors, and architectural details. The material accepts acrylic and enamel paints, allowing modelers to create varied stone colors including gray limestone, tan sandstone, brown fieldstone, or painted stone facades. Dry brushing and washing techniques highlight individual stones and mortar joints. Applications include building facades, bridge piers, retaining walls, tunnel portals, foundation walls, and landscape features. The sheets integrate naturally with structures from N Scale Downtown Deco Scenery and N Scale Bachmann Scenery collections.
The random polished stone sheet two-pack represents cut and finished stone with smooth surfaces and regular joint patterns. The embossed texture features rectangular stone blocks with tight mortar joints and polished stone appearance. This pattern replicates ashlar masonry, cut limestone, granite facing, and formal stone construction found on banks, government buildings, monuments, and high-quality commercial structures.
The refined stone texture suits upscale building facades, institutional architecture, memorial structures, and formal landscape features. The sheets accept painting and weathering to represent various stone types including white marble, gray granite, tan limestone, or red sandstone. The polished appearance contrasts with rough fieldstone textures, enabling modelers to combine different stone types on single structures for visual interest. Applications include bank facades, courthouse exteriors, monument bases, formal garden walls, and prestigious commercial buildings.
The Plastruct refinery kit provides a complete industrial structure representing petroleum refining, chemical processing, or petrochemical manufacturing facilities. This comprehensive kit includes multiple building components, process towers, storage tanks, piping systems, structural frameworks, and industrial details molded in styrene plastic. The kit enables construction of a realistic refinery complex suitable for industrial districts, waterfront facilities, or railroad-served chemical plants.
Refinery structures add heavy industrial character to layouts featuring N Scale Locomotives hauling tank cars, covered hoppers with plastic pellets, and chemical service equipment. The kit components assemble with plastic cement to create a multi-level industrial facility with process towers, reactor vessels, distillation columns, and support structures. Modelers can customize the kit by rearranging components, adding scratch-built piping details, and weathering to represent active or abandoned facilities. The refinery provides operational context for chemical tank car switching, industrial spur operations, and heavy industrial freight service.
Plastruct components utilize high-quality styrene and ABS plastics selected for modeling applications. Styrene offers excellent detail reproduction, easy cutting and shaping, and compatibility with plastic cement and CA glue. ABS provides enhanced flexibility and impact resistance for components like handrails that experience handling stress. Both materials accept acrylic, enamel, and lacquer paints without special preparation. The plastics can be cut with hobby knives, sawed with razor saws, drilled with pin vises, and filed to final dimensions.
Plastruct components enable complete scratch-building of custom structures not available as commercial kits. Modelers can design buildings to fit specific layout locations, replicate prototype structures, or create freelance designs using Plastruct elements as structural frameworks and architectural details. The components also enhance commercial kits through kitbashing, adding handrails to plain structures, replacing generic ladders with detailed versions, and applying stone textures to featureless walls.
The modular nature of Plastruct products enables mixing components from multiple kits to create unique structures. Handrails, ladders, and stairs combine to create complete access systems for industrial facilities. Stone sheets provide realistic wall surfaces for scratch-built buildings. The refinery kit can be expanded with additional Plastruct structural shapes, tubing, and detail parts to create larger industrial complexes.
All Plastruct N scale components maintain accurate 1:160 scale proportions with handrail heights, ladder rung spacing, stair dimensions, and stone sizes matching prototype equipment and materials. The precise scaling ensures components integrate naturally with commercial structure kits and rolling stock. Detail molding captures realistic textures and structural elements visible at normal viewing distances. The combination of accurate proportions and fine detail creates professional-quality results suitable for serious prototype modeling and contest-level work.
Plastruct components integrate seamlessly with scenery from N Scale Downtown Deco Scenery, N Scale Bachmann Scenery, N Scale Atlas Scenery, and N Scale KATO Scenery collections. The components add architectural details to commercial kits, provide structural elements for scratch-built projects, and enable customization of generic structures. Stone sheets work effectively with texture sheets from N Scale JTP Plastics to create diverse building facades combining brick, stone, and other materials.
Plastruct components accept standard modeling paints and finishing techniques. Handrails and ladders typically receive industrial colors including safety yellow, OSHA orange, or galvanized metal finishes. Stone sheets benefit from multi-color painting with base coats, dry brushing to highlight individual stones, and washes to emphasize mortar joints. Weathering techniques including rust effects, paint fading, and dirt accumulation enhance realism. The plastic surfaces accept airbrushing, hand painting, and weathering powders without special preparation.
Explore the complete Plastruct product line including structural shapes, tubing, sheet materials, and architectural components at Plastruct official website for comprehensive N scale scratch-building resources and technical specifications.