That a one of the large lanterns that Walmart had at Christmas. 
I am still doing some work on it. I really think there is a lack of options for houses for Standard Gauge and tinplate in general. Around Christmas you can usually find some raw metal houses sometimes with artificial snow stuck on them. I never can figure out what color to paint the raw metal. After bringing my trains back from the club I noticed a few scratches on some of my engines, so I went to Home Depot and had them match paint.
That's when I came up with the idea of painting the houses in traditional tinplate set colors. The large Blue Comet was the first one. I ordered 8 of these yesterday from Kohls and will have a set of Tintown Townhomes on the layout. BTW the original paint job on these suck. They look like a 5 year old painted them.
I plan on painting each of these in a famous tinplate colors.....Like a National Limited, Prosperity Special, MTH Tinplate Traditions, Lionel Celebration Series, Ives Cardinal, Ives Bankers Special, Ives Tiger (Halloween) and of course the Blue Comet.
I have even kicked around the idea of ordering more buildings and selling them in famous tinplate colors. It seems like a good idea, but then again maybe it's not. These buildings are 7.85"H x 4.90"W x 5.10"D. A good size to use with Standard or O-Gauge tinplate.
Scott Smith
