Does anyone have one of the above noted kits that you no longer need? I want to build a Walthers modular building I purchased several years ago but have discovered the building kit does not contain enough pilasters. Please send me a PM with your asking price.
I know exactly the problem you are having. Walthers didn’t include enough pilasters and corner columns in a package to allow you to build the design you wanted with the Modulars. I built two background high rise structures and ended up having to buy more column kits as well as others to finish the job. Now I have a ton of bits left over. Unfortunately for you I used N scale parts to give a bit of forced perspective on my HO layout so I do have the parts you need, just not the right scale.
I just went throught the same thing on a building I’m working on. I cut my extra pilasters from the many unused door wall sections I had leftover. Perfect match.
Doug could you say a bit more about what you did, how, and with what? Not sure what you meant by door walls but any ready solution to the need is welcome.
I find myself in the same boat as the original poster – loaded up on various wall types but have no supply of the pilasters/columns. I could see that Walthers was offering them super cheap in the monthly sales flyer but failed to put 2 and 2 together and realize that was a signal that the entire modular line was being phased out.
By the way the current sales flyer has some of their flatcar loads in the Scenemaster line at super cheap prices. I suspect this is a similar signal that the Scenemaster line is being rethought and some of the more marginal or toylike offering, including some rather poor pickup truck models, are going to be discontinued because they are not comparable in quality to the newly acquired Boley models that are now in Scenemaster.
Yes ,cutting up extra door and window panels is an excellent Idea, you won’t have the spacer detail molded in the back ,but thats no biggy , I HAVE used the the Walther’s brick sheets and cut them in to narrow strips (brick detail not exact match)also just used plain .040 styrene cut into strips and used as pilasters ,painted concrete OR brick color and they look good , these are for panel with NO original pilasters as not perfect match…
BUT if you have just run short, and are mating to the molded supplied pilasters, cutting strips out of extra door/window panels would be the best option for a perfect match…JW
I have used the Walthers brick sheets for a number of projects and they work good, except for one thing. They are made of a hard and somewhat brittle styrene plastic; I have had had problems with the sheet breaking when I am cutting it. Definitely not a product you can score and snap like Evergreen sheets.