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Reply to "Any kits out there? Anyone scratchbuild models of Sears mail-order "kit" homes"

Well, unfortunately I am not aware of any current O scale kits of these catalog homes.

 

HOWEVER!!!!....

 

Branchline (Laser-Art Structures) makes a whole listing of 'catalog' homes as HO kits...

 

Laser-Art Catalog Homes Link

 

As I and others have often suggested in situations such as this, a corresponding HO kit offers a lot of guidance/plans/patterns from which a 2X multiplier works wonders!  Once you have obtained all you want from the kit, sell it to your HO modeling buddy.

  Or, better yet, talk him/her into buying the kit and for a few dozen homemade chocolate chip cookies....or magnum of vino or 24-pack of suds...ask to borrow the kit before he/she constructs, make your measurements, 2X copies of plans, etc., and then return the kit intact.

 

Of course, Branchline is not the only producer of HO catalog home kits/structures, as others have noted.  But the same idea could apply.

 

Well, y knot? 

 

I mean, the HO side of this hobby has to be useful to us for something, I should think!!

 

KD

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