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Was looking over many of these listed on the evilBay, lots of different designs. Many produced by Marx. They look pretty cool. The dimensions range from about 22-28" wide by 8-1/2-12" deep. Some are up to as tall as 21" at top of chimney height. 

Anyone putting these on your Std. gauge layout?? Looking for buildings a bit more detailed on the exterior walls and roof than the typical bungalow and villa offerings. 

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  I think most Marx tin buildings are about standard or G scale. Some are even larger. But on a tin or "traditional" post war layout, I think most look cool enough to "pass".

  The figures are usually a smaller scale, but they varied too. And many plastic structures had smaller doors than Plastiville (if I remember right).

  I like the perimeter fence for the tin Alamo set & think it could be worked in easier than the rest of the set. Maybe even bashed to make a building as its lower than the short building's roofs If I remember right.

  I recently passed over some Marx old west buildings in plastic. I passed mainly due to lack of space, but if the size would have been spot on I would have bought them & saved them. (The plastic was in "day glow" MPC-ish colors, so I'll likely paint them.)

  I pulled up a dead spur on the shelf layout recently, and so I think I'm going back to get them. Plastic but only a few bucks each. Should have just bought them. Instead, I picked up the plastic lunar surface from the Marx Moon-base set to use with my Marvin The Martian themed "rocket train". (size=half of a 29" dia circle, about 7" tall)

 I have, and use some of the toys from "Grandpas toy box"( a box of less than perfect toys, not suitable for him add to the train collection) I have oxen, ducks,  dogs, cow, sheep, horses, African warrior, native American warriors and squaws, cowboys, and some "world culture figures"  (people in very traditional ethnic garbs.

1:32(?) hard plastic army toys, and various other(smaller) plastic, and metal vehicles alike.

  I've had a white plastic figure in a sandblasting hood working on a loco for many years now (40?). I thought he came from a figure set of an automobile racing pit-stop crew. But, it turns out he is a figure from that moon-base set, and its a chemical fire/space suit for putting out launch pad fires!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adriatic posted:

  I think most Marx tin buildings are about standard or G scale. Some are even larger. But on a tin or "traditional" post war layout, I think most look cool enough to "pass".

  The figures are usually a smaller scale, but they varied too. And many plastic structures had smaller doors than Plastiville (if I remember right).

  I like the perimeter fence for the tin Alamo set & think it could be worked in easier than the rest of the set. Maybe even bashed to make a building as its lower than the short building's roofs If I remember right.

  I recently passed over some Marx old west buildings in plastic. I passed mainly due to lack of space, but if the size would have been spot on I would have bought them & saved them. (The plastic was in "day glow" MPC-ish colors, so I'll likely paint them.)

  I pulled up a dead spur on the shelf layout recently, and so I think I'm going back to get them. Plastic but only a few bucks each. Should have just bought them. Instead, I picked up the plastic lunar surface from the Marx Moon-base set to use with my Marvin The Martian themed "rocket train". (size=half of a 29" dia circle, about 7" tall)

 I have, and use some of the toys from "Grandpas toy box"( a box of less than perfect toys, not suitable for him add to the train collection) I have oxen, ducks,  dogs, cow, sheep, horses, African warrior, native American warriors and squaws, cowboys, and some "world culture figures"  (people in very traditional ethnic garbs.

1:32(?) hard plastic army toys, and various other(smaller) plastic, and metal vehicles alike.

  I've had a white plastic figure in a sandblasting hood working on a loco for many years now (40?). I thought he came from a figure set of an automobile racing pit-stop crew. But, it turns out he is a figure from that moon-base set, and its a chemical fire/space suit for putting out launch pad fires!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got Pics?

 

jim pastorius posted:

I use Marx tin plate buildings on my O gauge layout-the Glendale station, the western  town street, a smaller station, a garage, the Army barracks plus two tin houses. The houses are a bit large but I like them !!  I have a couple of AF tinplate stations too.  I like the old timey look so I don't worry about "scale".

Got pics?

Carey TeaRose posted:

"Got pics?"

Not really, but OGRF does....my old computer fried, and there are more pics here than I have in the new one. There are some old ones on Ph. Bucket  I should look through though.(unlocked, nothing super special, but look  around if you're bored)

The lunar surface is the only thing new (to me) and its waiting for a few other projects to be finished. I'm still thinking about how I can incorporate the globe again too. The lunar-scape is a very thin plastic shell that collapses under its own weight. Its in need of reinforcement before I use it. Any movement could yield a new crack so its waiting in its original tattered box. Marx Moonbase under sold on the Evil-auctions usually brings one up

My first embedding, lets see if this is the right way on the new format...

Nope, edit...edit...again? If not I'll need to read up

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jim pastorius posted:

The yellow building with the red roof looks the same as the frontier buildings. I always look for Marx buildings in antique shops but not much around. That is ironic since  Marx stated in Girard, Pa. and then had a plant in Glendale, W Va.  What really hurt is that I called on the Glendale plant in its last days of metal  products.

Jim, the Lumar building uses the same sheet metal as a number of types of frontier buildings as well as some cottages. The roof and base may change to allow for a porch over hang.

Steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:
Carey TeaRose posted:

Papa, what is the big red building?

Carey, that is the Ives Factory. It was made for the Ives Train Society a few years ago by Jerry Loman of Sunset Trains & Toys. I missed the offering by the Ives Train Society, but managed to get this one direct from Jerry a few years ago.

Steve

I need one! How might I contact Jerry Loman? There is an Ives Train Society?

Carey, the Ives Train Siciety is a great resource and puts out a couple of nice newsletters per year. Well worth the admission in my opinion. http://ivestrains.org/   Sunset Trains and Toys web site has been down for a few years. Jerry was going to get it back up, but then e-mailed me and said he was not. I do not know if he is still active or not. There is a Facebook page that looks to have had no activity in years. Maybe some of the east coast guys know if he has still been going to York.

Steve

Adriatic posted:

Very close.

   I don't own one, but sure wouldn't mind it; even a repro. Its a tin 4-5" Marx streamlined wind-up car called the Tricky Taxi, two tone, reds , orange, green, yellow, cream, black & white too, (but I've never seen the yellow one )

Enablers....Us?.......Yep!. ?...Your welcome???

thanks for the pics! these are terrific... in various colors up for sale on the evilBay, prices all over the map.

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