Today and for the past 10 days I have been working of four different Rich White Models structure kits, in various stages of construction. If you are not familiar with RWM building kits, they are hydrocal (plaster) castings every bit as detailed as Tom Yorke or Downtown Deco products. The difference is that doors, windows and roofing are not included in the kits, only the walls and in some cases the adjoining sidewalks. This lowers the cost considerably. The finished buildings are illustrated on eBay under "O scale buildings" with fixed prices and details as to which Grandt Line plastic windows and doors are needed to complete each structure. Design and materials for the roofing is up to your imagination.
In the past week I have converted the Hangtown Jail building into a one-stall fire station for my favorite 1/43 scale pumper engine, a 1939 Bedford produced by delPrado. I've turned the Tavern kit into a bank, and am currently turning the Wells Fargo office into three small shops that will help establish the era for my layout. You know that it is not 2016 nor even 2000 when the stores include a typewriter sales and repair shop, a seamstress and a television merchant advertising only 1950-era manufacturers' sets.
Gil Hulin, recreating an early-1950's seaport harbor community in On30
