I need to find a source of G scale building supplies, i.e. steel factory windows, simulated brick, cement block, corrugated siding, etc. Walthers website is Greek to me but I plan to order their large scale catalog, but if anyone out there has a reliable source, please let me know. Thanks!
Everything anybody knows about G scale is to be found over on the Garden Railways Forums. They will be able to help you better there.
Here is a link for your conveniece:
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/default.aspx?groupid=7
Unless you have typed in your scale in advance, or added it to your search request on the Walthers site and:
If you still want to know about the Watlher’s site, simply type in what you want to find, then read the postings it lists, and it will tell you what scale/guage it is in:
for example I typed in “Corrugated siding” in the “quick search” box at the top left of this walther’s page:
and got the following page:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?quick=corrugated+siding
you will see the first listing is in the second section under Northeastern Scale Lumber is item number 521-55055 {sixth spot down} and in the scale slot it says “G”, In the “Stock” slot it says Y -yes it is in stock.
The third section is Plastruct INC {plastic} and there the fourth item down is Item number 570-91521 for “G” scale and “Y” yes in stock.
Keep scrolling through and you will find eventually it may start listing things that are not “corrugated siding” but you will have found your items right away first pages. If the item/s is NOT in stock, but some h
Click on “advanced search” (upper left corner), choose scale G, choose category scratch building supplies, click search. Doesn’t seem all that hard to me …
Smile,
Stein