So, I got this blacksmith shop building last week, was told it was K-Line. I didn’t really care who made it, I just thought it looked neat. Inside, it has detail molded in. So that doesn’t sound like Plasticville or Marx or K-Line to me. I did a Google image search and it is 1990s vintage Ertl. I guess Ertl has a bunch of stuff they call 1:64 scale, so that would be good for O27 layouts like mine. This building looks just about right, as far as size goes. I don’t have the set, just the one building.
Just wondering, has anyone else out there used these things on their layouts?
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I happen to own some of those (or what’s left of them)! They aren’t on my layout, and the graphics on them are different (a little more modern), but I have them alright!
It looks like in the photo above, that the graphics on the box are different from the buildings out in front of the box 
Ertl has a pretty extensive line of buildings, farm animals, farm implements and trucks. They work well with American Flyer S gauge. I suppose if you squint and call it forced perspective they would work with other gauges too. I used quite a few of them on my S gauge layout back in the '90s. I still have them packed away in thier original boxes.
Northwoods Flyer
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Mine are even more different–there’s a tractor repair place instead of a blacksmith shop, a post office rather than a sheriff’s office, and the like.
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I see their barns on a fair number of layouts.
This is an Ertl barn–not yet finished but getting there!
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Nice @palallin and I still really like your backdrop
