Can anyone identify the red brick building in the center of the photo on the cover of the September 2011 issue?
Thanks.
Rich
Got an answer from Walthers. There is no such building in modeled form.
Here is what Walthers wrote back to me.
The cover of the September 2011 Flyer is a computer generated image to resemble downtown Milwaukee.
Rich
Brilliant! They are selling model railroad stuff, and they feature something that is not available.[(-D]
Yeah, I have to agree with you. I was pretty surprised to get that response. I wrote back and encouraged them to manufacture a model of that downtown Milwaukee building because nothing like it exists in the Walthers Cornerstone line.
What I really like about the building on the cover of the Walthers flyer is the closeness of the windows to one another. The typical Cornerstone building has windows set much further apart, not at all typical of pre-war buildings in urban downtown areas.
Rich
I think they did that before on the back cover, maybe August - they had an image featuring several large yet typical urban bulidings in the background (including a multi-story brick apartment complex), and at first glance I was definitely a “Yay, finally!” until I looked and read a little closer, and realized those builidings were just background photo (well, generated) images. I’m pretty sure this was the flyer when Walthers was first introducing their “New! Urban” stuff, which turned out to be the subway entrances, street elevator, and the building under contstruction, and not massive 1930s and 1960s style urban architecture…
And now to actually answer the question…
The red building is the old Manufacturers Home Building (built 1909), an old factory converted into City Hall Square Apartments.
The brown building behind it is the old First Wisconsin National Bank building (built 1914).
The white building on the left side is the Century Building (built 1925).
On the right, the building with the green domes is the Brumder Building, aka Germania Building (built 1914).
Hey, thanks for that.
Rich
Rich you can scratch build that?
I also had a question on some hoppers I just seen on the Nov.2011 flyer, emailed Walthers and they gave me the part numbers.
Michael,
I think the problem with scratch building is trying to find something with windows that are that close together, more of a kitbash. I am too lazy to build it from scratch.
Rich