We will look at assembling white metal kits, etched brass kits and 3D printed kits in other posts, however an important and often considered mythical skill is scratch building. This basically means using raw materials to produce your own model, however that does not mean necessarily building your own chassis, or fabricating everything yourself. As you will see in this article you can make use of parts in your 'bits' box, or specific detailing parts to finish your model. All of these parts in the model below, excluding the bucket and chimney, are scratch built or available from suppliers online.