If anyone has kit bashed a bowling alley structure together please share your photo(s) with me. This is a structure even a small town would have but there has never been one available. I know Miller makes the signs and that is all that I have ever seen. I would like to model one so I thought some may like to share.
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We offer a kit for the Fireside Lanes a Chicago Bowling Alley on Fullerton Av. Here is a link:
Thank you, Do you sell letters so the name can be customized? Are these pieces molded with the window frames already in the walls?
Sounds like a job for Menards. :-)
I contacted WS but they said no dice. I have no idea how to contact Menard's as far as their train items go but they were my first thought. I bought Menard's Hobby Shop and it is one of the nicest buildings I have inside and out. I am not very handy with any sort of artistic tools so dropping 100.00 on a kit I may and probably would mess up is too risky. I will just have to hold out for a manufacturer to make one.
Braddict2 the kit windows are laser cut so that all you have to do is paint them and place them in the openings. There is a backer so they fit in the proper plane with the face of the building. As to the signs we can make any type of sign you need. Check out our website this is just a small example of the signs we can make for you. Just tell us what you want and we can make them for you ether complete signs or individual letters.
Well, as shown above, l thought l had seen a kit for one. Many are closed; seems public is less interested, but they take all shapes and forms...one l drive by is a low, wide flat-top building and l would not hesitate to shanghai anything from an old barn up into that role.
Actually they look flat but the bowlings alleys out here in CA are square brick buildings and have a slightly curved roof. It was up until the 1990's that the began to paint the bricks in different colors to look more appealing rather than like industrial buildings.
Scale City Designs posted:Braddict2 the kit windows are laser cut so that all you have to do is paint them and place them in the openings. There is a backer so they fit in the proper plane with the face of the building. As to the signs we can make any type of sign you need. Check out our website this is just a small example of the signs we can make for you. Just tell us what you want and we can make them for you ether complete signs or individual letters.
Thank you that is what I was hoping for. I tried the Ameritowne buildings but due to the frames being molded in the walls I was not skillful enough to paint them. This is great information; are all your buildings made this way?
I want to get this bowling alley one day soon!!!
We are modelers as well as manufacturers. We design our building kits for ease of building, pre- installed windows are a pain to paint without overlap on the walls. If you want something to practice on although not a bowling alley try this:
http://www.scalecitydesigns.co...-NYC-UP-SP_p_32.html
We will be introducing more building kits that are on the line of high quality that are available mostly in HO. These will be laser etched kits with simple tab and slot construction with the instructions etched on the parts.
I read in the paper that they have some evidence that bowling started 1,500 years before Christ.
Fwiw, I am amazed at how many people model downtowns, residential area, and minimal industry even though railroads depend on industry to keep it viable.
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