Do You Use Plasticville On Your Layout?

I’m a huge fan of Plasticville... But then again I’m a postwar guy that is fine with the level of realism they provide, especially when you consider their pricing.  

Yes! I use it for my postwar layout.

SCALE RAIL, nice balance of structures.

FLYPLANES,PLAyTRAINS, really nice lighting in your  Plasticville village. Thumbs up.

i don't have my set up yet, pictures when up.

i will if i ever get back into o gauge but that seems unlikely because with the shutdown and a 12 grand tuition at East Carolina University i can't even pay for school so 2019 may be another trainless sucky year where i feel more frustrated heck with the shutdown i and countless others will lose health insurrence if it keeps going on like this

Several years ago , I got a real good deal on 4 brand new, pre-assembled Plasticville structures: the church, school, blue house and the covered bridge. They are all in the layout. The bridge is my favorite of the bunch, and I used it in the only area of the layout with realistic scenery.

I just purchased my first piece of Pasticville.  I got the wood water tower first.  I will make some color changes before gluing.  Love the trailer park Scale Rail.  Is that a 1950 Studebaker?

My "thing" is recreating the 1950's layout I had as a kid (in the photo), but much larger than 4 x 8, so I have about 70 PVille buildings. I love the stuff, unmodified.

Yes, to me it doesn't matter who made/manufactured it, if I like it, I like it.

I like their signal bridges. I have a few of them. I put homemade working signals on them. A little weathering and voila...

Wow Postmastermc, It's Plasticvill Heaven. Thanks for showing. Don

Yes Rock Mountain, it's a Studebaker or as I called my 50's Studebaker pickup a Steady Braker. I have a couple on my layout. Here's a picture of another one. In the garage where it lived most of the time. Don

I have several Plasticville structures that I like a lot. They include the school house, the Firehouse, the Convenient Corner (milk, food ice cream)  and 3 houses that are in storage. Earlier today I put the church on my layout, and here it is:

The cross on top is not the original, which broke off and got lost. The new cross is made of plastic flashing that holds the pieces of a model before its glued together.

The drawback of a long and narrow layout like mine is there's so little room for structures. If I had more room, I would have all my Plasticville on my layout.

Nice thread, Don. Arnold

I was given by the wonderful older couple across the street on the mainland a Lionel space set of trains in almost perfect shape. There son wasn't into trains I guess because everything was in the box like new. With the set was a very hard to find Plasticville house under construction. Not the regular one but in a Lionel box. Lionel sold these building for a number of year and just printed up Lionel boxes for them. Don

I forgot about the Plasticville barn on my layout:

Its impossible for me not to smile when I see any Plasticville.

Arnold, yes your right. I think the first Plasticville building I bought with my own money was the barn. Don

Well, not "Plasticville" as a brand, but certainly "Plasticville" in approach.

Back when I lived (1986-1990) in the heart of the Ozarks (and modeled an Ozark theme, imagine that), I started with this HO AHM snap-together .99 cent building (well, .99 cents at the time!):

I wanted something more typical of us Ozark Hillbillies that lived among the Ozarks, and a very modest home (instead of a nice two story home) would be more in keeping with my 1960s time frame for my HO layout.

So, after some cuts here, and some distressing there, throwing on some paint/weathering to make it look like aged wood, adding a rusted tin roof, and what have you's, I had this...

...sagging porch and all.

It was to be placed on field rock footing piers once placed on the layout.

From that model I wandered off into Sn3, traditional 3-rail, scale S, HO Colorado... and now I'm again back to modeling the good ol' Ozarks. Fortunately, I kept this model all those years. So, it looks like it will once again be set among an HO layout depicting the railroading, and life among, the Ozarks!

So, not "Plasticville" in brand, but does this count?

Andre

I have a lot of it on hand.....I use it as kitbash fodder.  I am building a 'scale' layout so I will not use it right out of the box......but great for parts. I have two sets of the mobile homes that will get painted and detailed.

laming posted:

Well, not "Plasticville" as a brand, but certainly "Plasticville" in approach.

Back when I lived (1986-1990) in the heart of the Ozarks (and modeled an Ozark theme, imagine that), I started with this HO AHM snap-together .99 cent building (well, .99 cents at the time!):

I wanted something more typical of us Ozark Hillbillies that lived among the Ozarks, and a very modest home (instead of a nice two story home) would be more in keeping with my 1960s time frame for my HO layout.

So, after some cuts here, and some distressing there, throwing on some paint/weathering to make it look like aged wood, adding a rusted tin roof, and what have you's, I had this...

...sagging porch and all.

It was to be placed on field rock footing piers once placed on the layout.

From that model I wandered off into Sn3, traditional 3-rail, scale S, HO Colorado... and now I'm again back to modeling the good ol' Ozarks. Fortunately, I kept this model all those years. So, it looks like it will once again be set among an HO layout depicting the railroading, and life among, the Ozarks!

So, not "Plasticville" in brand, but does this count?

Andre

Andre, IMO your homemade model of an Ozark hillbilly home with its rusted tin roof is superb.