1920's buildings...

[Uncle Mike]

...anyone know of a good manufacturer of 1920's period buildings? Not looking for any particular style...just some generic 1920ish buildings...

Also, I just picked up a grain sylo...were they around in the 1920's? I'm talkin' the metal sided, cylindrical one with the hole in the top for combines (...or whatever...) to dump there load down.

Thanx for any help. I'm sure I've said it before, my grasp on history is limited as I was usually building bongs or nuckledusters in the back of History class...even at an early age I was a hobbiest! :twisted:   :mrgreen:

[JollyBob]

Old Glory do some. I think they look quite nice.

http://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/products.asp?cat=586

Is that expensive on your side of the pond? I can never tell.

[Uncle Mike]

Thanx Bob. The prices are what I've come to expect...as long as the castings look good I won't complain. From those pix they look very nice. Does anyone have any of these buildings painted up? And how are they for scale? I use mostly Copplestone, Pulp Figures and old C.O.C. stuff...

[Cory]

Corrugated steel farm silos gained popularity after WWII. They were around earlier, but few farmers could or would buy them.

[JollyBob]

Thanx Bob

De nada.

Does anyone have any of these buildings painted up? And how are they for scale? I use mostly Copplestone, Pulp Figures and old C.O.C. stuff...

Someone had a few pics of these kicking around on here, I'm sure. They are supposed to be proper 25mm scale, but I seem to remember the pics were full of Copplestones and they looked fine.

EDIT: there's some in this thread:

http://forum.backofbeyond.de/viewtopic.php?t=3962

[supervike]

Is that expensive on your side of the pond? I can never tell.

I think its a bit relative.

It seems reasonable to me, when you compare it to other hobbies...

[gauntman]

Hey you might want to check
O Scale Train Scenery
There are lots of manufacturers of 1920's 30's buildings in O Scale which is 28mm from this period.  

I have tons of buildings from the Plasticville line.  

http://grimm.backofbeyond.de/gallery_plasticville.html

This is from Grimm's Gallery of Plasticville Buildings.

You might wanna check them out.  They are somewhat less expensive too.

[Bookman1960]

If you are looking for well designed and easy to build (actually I keep mine un-assembled and build when I play) buildings then I suggest the fine collection from OGR Publishing.  They are located just down the road from me here in Ohio (USA).

Admittedly they are on the pricey end but they're well-constructed and sturdy.



Example:  Ed's Hardware

The company's web site is here:

http://www.ogaugerr.com/railroad/index.php?cPath=22_31

[Uncle Mike]

WOW! Some nice stuff there. I may just order a few pieces...thanx all for the help.

[Gallowglass]

Those OGR buildings are very cool 

[smirnoff]

Very useful info

[Klener Zorn]

...anyone know of a good manufacturer of 1920's period buildings? Not looking for any particular style...just some generic 1920ish buildings...

Also, I just picked up a grain sylo...were they around in the 1920's? I'm talkin' the metal sided, cylindrical one with the hole in the top for combines (...or whatever...) to dump there load down.

Thanx for any help. I'm sure I've said it before, my grasp on history is limited as I was usually building bongs or nuckledusters in the back of History class...even at an early age I was a hobbiest! :twisted:   :mrgreen:

youre in canada so you should be able to get some Model train stuff ( i think its scale 0) from the US pretty easy

sadly its not as easy when you live in germany

[fastolfrus]

I seem to recall seeing a company called Lionel making O gauge too.

[Etranger]

If you're happy with card models and don't mind experimenting a bit http://www.illinois.gov/ihpa/Preserve/Pages/construct_mainstreet.aspx These are pdf's but by exporting to Word or similar & scaling apporpriately, you should be able to produce 1/56 (etc) versions.

I must stress that I haven't actually done this myself yet!

[diehard]

Wow, I'm really glad to see this thread resurrected, I think I'm going to have to go back to the beginning of the CoC forum and re-read them all (have already done this with the SA forum.) As I will be getting the entire line of SA figures from the KS (Co13 backer) it's time to start adapting what scenery I have and start to aquire what I need, and what I need is buildings. I have the wilderness pretty well represented with all my Citadel pieces but it's time to start considering civilization. Know I have some old Plasticville stuff from my childhood Christmas platform train set up laying around somewhere, but that OGR stuff looks very appropriate. Decisions decisions.