MRVP has a new idea: everyone is going to kitbash the Walthers State Line Farm Supply An interesting idea.
Once upon a time, I had a building that I never finished that had a similar roofline front, 3 skylights on a flat roof and was much smaller. Somewhere I have the roof. Does anyone remember that kit? I occassionally see completed kits at Timonium, but they all looked like they were built by a 10 yo with a caulking gun of testors glue and a 2" paint brush.
Tyco No. 7758 Truck Terminal
I had one when I was a kid. My dad put it together and did a better job that the disasters I’ve seen in the dollar bin at shows.
Maybe the #7764 Tyco Machine Shop / Standard Electric?
Alan
I just Googled both, and I vote for the #7764, Machine Shop / Standard Electric.
I’d say the #7758 is really close, but the 7758 has the overhead doors on the side, and the 7764 has the main entrance in front, like the Walthers building.
The 7758:
The 7764:
Both images from Ebay.
Mike.
I think my dad built a similar kit when he was younger, and my grandpa still has it! I also built one with my grandpa a few years ago, but I don’t think it was a Tyco kit.
Nonetheless the two were very similar, so I bet many different manufacturers have made kits like 7758. I wonder if the OP’s kit is not the Tyco one but another manufacturers verSimon of a similar structure.
It was the machine shop. I wonder were the rest of the parts went? Maybe I’ll buy one off ebay.
Thanks guys.
If I was going to use another building as a stand in, I would use the ubiquitous Weekly Herald building. Its bigger than the machine shop, and the front has a similar look. (you can find them cheaper than here)
Hopefully, Dr Wayne will come along and post a pic of probably the best kitbash of that building I have ever seen. And I believe his is a farm supply enterprise.
That little machine shop kit has been around for decades and decades. It was initially an AHM kit years ago both alone and as part of the Gruesome Casket Company, which in turn was an E L Moore article probably from RMC. LifeLike might have sold it too. Just where Tyco comes in the chronology I no longer recall. Maybe even Con-Cor had it for a while
If you trim away the somewhat strangely detailed molded base, and disregard the roof and some of the added details, which are dead giveaways for the kit’s origins, it is excellent kitbash fodder. Two or three kits made into one long factory makes for a very plausible size for a rail-served industry, and with an all new roof people do not recognize where it came from which of course is the entire point to kitbashing.
Dave Nelson
Yes. The heritage goes way back. It is one of many buildings tooled by one of the European manufacturers, probably POLA. It had more detail parts during that time, with the building sitting on a loading dock rather than that funky base. I think AHM was the first to import it to America, then TYCO, and Model Power.
In fact, it is still being sold as a Walthers Trainline Machine Shop kit.