Has anyone purchased - and built-up - any of the Pine Canyon or River Leaf kits? One is resin, other mdf. Both look to offer the small town city buildings that are seemingly unavailable in S - unless you had access to the old DSL Shops kits. Considering buying the whole run of Pine Canyon store fronts and a few of the River Leaf kits.
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From DSL I have the Cicero 2-flat fronts, Sokevsky building fronts, Savings and Loan front and Dime Store fronts. Got more from Twin Whistle than DSL but all this was in 2016, not sure if any of it is still available. River Leaf had not released any S gauge back then although two were announced. As I recall Pine Canyon was more rural appearing than I was looking for. Back then the controlling factor was what was immediately available, some nice items were sold out.
@AmFlyer posted:From DSL I have the Cicero 2-flat fronts, Sokevsky building fronts, Savings and Loan front and Dime Store fronts. Got more from Twin Whistle than DSL but all this was in 2016, not sure if any of it is still available. River Leaf had not released any S gauge back then although two were announced. As I recall Pine Canyon was more rural appearing than I was looking for. Back then the controlling factor was what was immediately available, some nice items were sold out.
Yea, I've yet to see a DSL shops item available. Those must have all got built by the longer term s gaugers.
Pine Canyon currently has a number of typical Midwestern storefront type structures available - not unlike the former DSL shops kits : https://www.pinecanyonscalemodels.com/style1.htm I was curious about these. I might just have to be the guinea pig.
River leaf has several similar kids - although many are listed as "on backorder". Those are more expensive than pine canyon.
I remember the Pine Canyon kits. They seemed nice but they did not fit in well with the scene design. We needed factories, yard buildings and engine servicing buildings. For the city scene we were doing something reminiscent of Pittsburgh in the early 1950's. That required a lot of 5 to 7 story buildings to get the appearance we wanted. For the two and three story buildings I picked mostly Twin Whistle. For train stations we picked large HO structures from Walthers and upscaled the base and doors.
I am assuming you looked at Doug's inventory on the Port Lines site. He seems to have a large selection in stock. Good Luck, I hope you can find what you need.
@AmFlyer posted:I remember the Pine Canyon kits. They seemed nice but they did not fit in well with the scene design. We needed factories, yard buildings and engine servicing buildings. For the city scene we were doing something reminiscent of Pittsburgh in the early 1950's. That required a lot of 5 to 7 story buildings to get the appearance we wanted. For the two and three story buildings I picked mostly Twin Whistle. For train stations we picked large HO structures from Walthers and upscaled the base and doors.
I am assuming you looked at Doug's inventory on the Port Lines site. He seems to have a large selection in stock. Good Luck, I hope you can find what you need.
Yea, I didn't see any DSL on Port lines. I'm looking for small town city block type buildings - ala DSL. I'm looking at doing a very narrow benchwork with most my scenes tight ight up on the tracks. One of those scenes would be of the train passing across a main drag - like Commercial St. in Emporia where the downtown buildings are literally right on the main line. There's a good example of a similar scene on Gary Schrader's O-scale layout where the train passes in-between two story town buildings. That was a pretty common scene in small-town Kansas.
Larkspur LaserArt has some structures that can pass for small town Midwest. These are former Monster Models kits.
Rusty
Yea, I've seen those. There's one I'll want for sure.
Anyone encountered these 28mm kits from Atomic Laser Cut Designs? Look to be "close" to S Scale.
https://www.atomiclasercutdesigns.com/
@Jacobpaul81 posted:Anyone encountered these 28mm kits from Atomic Laser Cut Designs? Look to be "close" to S Scale.
https://www.atomiclasercutdesigns.com/
great for s and with a little work o scale
I came across these - made in England of course...
This public house kit looks nice - could be a stucco building...
https://www.timelineminiatures...gs-28mm-public-house
What ya think?
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