1950's style buildings

[Sinewgrab]

Are there any tutorials or helpful sites on how to do these kinds of buildings? I need them for my Fallout terrain, but I am having no luck finding them, nor can I find any premade.

[Operator5]

What kind of buildings? In the 1950s, most of the city buildings look how they did in the 30s and 40s.

In the suburbs, you would get many "ranch-style" houses.

[swiftnick]

I think most of the plasticville stuff looks pretty 50s

[Cory]

Plasticville is always a good bet for the 50's. The 50's are defined in pop culture by the dominance of the caer which gave rise to the popularity of suburbs and drive-ins, so focus on those.

The 50's is also polpular with model railroaders, check out Kalmbach's Modelling the 50's for ideas.

[Sinewgrab]

What kind of buildings? In the 1950s, most of the city buildings look how they did in the 30s and 40s.

In the suburbs, you would get many "ranch-style" houses.

Things I can make look nuked for Fallout - I can scratchbuild some, but I am not that good at it yet. Too much time doing aeronefs, not enough time making buildings.

I hadn't thought about Plasticville - it matches up okay to 28mm, doesn't it?

[Operator5]

I hadn't thought about Plasticville - it matches up okay to 28mm, doesn't it?

It matches very well. I use a lot of Plasticville stuff with my 28s. And I'll be buying more since finding damaged ones on ebay can be fruitful.

[Sinewgrab]

It matches very well. I use a lot of Plasticville stuff with my 28s. And I'll be buying more since finding damaged ones on ebay can be fruitful.

O scale, correct?

[Operator5]

Yes. And make sure they say O scale. Plasticville did make some HO scale.

[Burgundavia]

There is also Plasticville S scale stuff, which I think fits better than O scale, although for some buildings it matters less. Also, given the relative hiatus on civilian building during WW2, much of the early 50s is simply left over from the 20s/30s. By the later 50s the massive suburban developments to house returning war vets in the US/Canada were appearing.