I bought Bailey Savings and Loan building by Cornerstone HO scale
Is it me or do Cornerstone buildings seem a little large for HO scale
Larger than HO? Honestly, no. City buildings often dwarf trains and even the largest urban HO structures are typically somewhat compressed in size. In my experience, most of the older urban banks in the northeast U.S. are rather larger than Bailey’s (which, incidentally, can make a very nice urban station for a moderate-sized city if you rearrange the wall and pillar sections). I’ve actually found it necessary to stack various Cornerstone buildings to give a truly city feeling to my layout. Only the briefly offered (and wildly over priced!) Bachmann Spectrum City Scene buildings were honestly “urban-sized” in my book.
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While CNJ answered the question in regards to scale of the building, do you perhaps mean in regards to the doors/windows/details being much larger than HO - there is cleary variance in door/window sizes in the real world, but obviously except in special cases, there is a limit - I don’t think Bailey Savings and Loan (grrr - dumb name take-off on ‘Its a Wonderful Life’ [V] ) is meant to be a special case.
The RIVET COUNTER in me checks all my kits against the AIA Standards Book. I have about 30 cornerstone kits to build and have found that the Openings are OVERSIZE because the trim is oversized. Looking at the Backwoods shop now and the window ledge scales as a 4X4 the siding is 24" on center which is close.
The resaon is that IF everything was exact to scale it would be to thin and break.
the side door is 48" x 96" kinda big.
The fact is that these are good plastic models. Not a Fine Scale Minature but they are nice. You should have seen the old Plasticville from the 1950’s.
Today we do have nice models to work with.
This is a long answer to yes it maybe a little big.[:D]
They are nice! The impressive Spectrum series buildings were manufactured by Heljan for Bachmann some years back. Plenty of them show up on Ebay. With some patience one can snag a kit or two for reasonable prices. [;)]