Has anyone ever built this HO scale modern styled railroad station kit?
Any photos?
I got it a while ago, put it on the back shelf and am now starting to work on it.
Cedarwoodron
They are great kits, but unless your layout is depicting the city of Glzkxcianl, Poland , or Schweinfurt Germany it may look out of place. There are plenty of North American stations available, some new, some old.
Could be that my idea is a mid-1950s international-style suburban American station, along the architectural lines of many mid-50s suburban department stores that were anchor tenants in the newer planned pre-enclosed mall shopping centers that were built when I was a kid in the upper midwest- in the real world!
Where I grew up, there was a significant modernistic push in building styles in the 1950s; the idea of rehabbing an old brick and mortar structure wouldn’t come into vogue until the late 1970s.
Anyone else?
Cedarwoodron
The building looks like a typical representative of the post-war architecture in Germany. What was regarded as “modern” in those days, is simply an eyesore nowadays.
I would not want to put it on my layout.
As Heljan is a Danish company, except for their “American” stuff, their buildings are mostly based on Danish prototypes.
Yes, I’m in the midst of building this station kit. It’s a model of the station in Boblingen, Germany (which is actually the hometown of Kibri - go figure). It’s a decent kit for its age but it is 30 or so years old, so it doesn’t have everything we expect today. The walls go together pretty well, though there are quite a few corners to glue at 90 degrees. It comes with window glass for the ground floor but not for the upper floors, so you’ll need to add that, and I built a simple interior out of styrene for the upper floors. The platform is also pretty low, so you may want to build it up with styrene.
You can find photos of the prototype at Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bahnhof_Böblingen
The station caught my eye because of its similarities to several depots I’ve seen in the U.S. This former Santa Fe station, for example, has some of the same features, but without the upper floors: http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/hutchinson.htm
No, I didn’t take any photos - I didn’t think anyone would be interested. Sorry about that.
Thanks for reading MR,
Terry