S Scale Structures & Scenery
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Pine
Canyon Scale Models - 
Back Alley
Kit #1 - $94.00.
Steam Era Industrial Back Alley kit is a modular system that can be arranged
in many ways, for a wall totaling 29 inches long. Additional expansion
panels will be available soon. Made from high quality polyurethane resin
with separate plastic window castings. Made to fit between the backdrop and
back track, or wherever you desire. All structures will fit in a 3 inch
space. Add 1-1/2 inch depth if you use the optional loading dock kit available
soon. The optional loading dock will raise the entire alley up to deck
height for a scale boxcar with top of the rail being level with the street.
The tallest structure is 8 inches high.
Footprints for Back Alley Number 1:
The first 3 panels can make 3 walls 4-1/4 inches long each, or one wall 14-1/2
inches long as shown in the photos.
The second wall is 5-1/2 inches and the third wall is 9-1/2 inches long.
Side walls are included for each main wall so you can have small alleys or streets
between the buildings. This kit will build a back alley over 29 inches
long when tied together as shown in this photo.
S Scale gas station (May, 2003) - Compatible with S-scale model railroads, Johnny Lightning, Hotwheels and many other die-cast cars. This 1950's Spanish Style Gas Station Kit #320S is the first in their new Highway 66 series of 1:64 scale structure kits. They used the General Scale 1:64 S-scale for their dimensions. Everything is scaled to true S-scale. According to their website they say they "realize Johnny Lightning cars are just a bit small." (They got that right!) "Most Mint Editions and Road Champs cars are correct S-scale." (Right again!) $79.
Pine Canyon's S scale cafe:
Mountaineer Precision Products
- new S scale structures including houses, barns, sheds, out
buildings and railroad structures. Two new S scale stations will be marketed
under the name of Allegheny Models. The footprint on the smaller one is 20'-0"
x 50'-0" and the larger one is 20'-0" x 72'-9".
Andy Lester
Mountaineer Precision Products
6166 Ridgewood Court
Florence, KY 41042-9715
859-283-5186
Pre Size Model
Specialties - makes tunnel portals, bridge piers, walls and
culverts in S scale, made of odorless urethane.
Tom Yorke is venturing into S scale kits. Here's a pic of his
first offering.
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Black
Bear Construction Co., Inc. produces jigs and supply kits for
all kinds of wood bridges in all major scales including S. They also
sell fractional inch basswood, hardwood dowels, bridge & trestle
ties, scale basswood and architectural modeling wood.
Best
of Show Model
Builders New
WEBSITE - Services Include:
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Westport Model
Works--Cardstock Backdrops in S gauge.
I have ten of these.
Light gray styrene &endash; ready to paint. Features built-in alignment tabs for ease of assembly and gluing. Similar to Pike Stuff HO buildings. Building Size 16' x 28' x 9-1/2' (model footprint is 3" x 5-1/4"). Kit Pricing: $20.00 for a single kit, $18.00 each when you buy two or more. Plus Shipping. Must be an NASG member to purchase.
Kit contains:
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This is the NASG Armco Steel Building that sells for $20 apiece for members/$18 for two or more. The photos above show how Bob LaRiviere assembled and finished the kit. He added many of the details including the workbench and acetylene canister which he created. The corrugated door, in the raised position in these photos, was also Bob's creation. Photos were taken on Bill Fuhrman's hirail layout. |
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B. T. S.-- Bill's
Train Shop --Makers of BTS Structure's Craftsman Kits
& Old Pullman S Scale Trackwork; S scale products supplier including Hartoy
trucks.
I've built some of the BTS structures and I can tell you that they are well
made with excellent directions.
Houses (7/03)- The 2nd Street Series will feature at least five different houses common all across the U.S.A. First up is 110 2nd St.
#110 Second Street
- New series of private homes perfect for any small
town for at least the last 100 years... http://www.btsrr.com/bts7700.htm
McCabe Fire Hose Storage and Water Tank -
Next piece of the McCabe
Lumber series includes six hose storage sheds and a watertank, useful in
many industrial settings.... http://www.btsrr.com/bts8260.htm
Cable Reels - Another One-Niter kit.... http://www.btsrr.com/btson01.htm
Engine House - BTS has both single-stall and two-stall engine houses in stock.
Other BTS Offerings:
#08105-L Cabin Creek Coal Tipple, S Scale $379.95
#08105-SE Cabin Creek Coal Tipple, S, Silver Edition (Sound) $579.95
For photos and more information, http://www.master-creations.com/coalmast.htm
And if your layout is too small for the tipple, take a look at the first of the New River Yard series, the MOW Shed. Based upon an AT&SF prototype, this small shed is typical of the general storage buildings that every railroad needs. We are cutting this kit now, and shipping should start in about a week.
#07501 MOW Shed, S Scale $34.95
Bar Mills Scale Models -
Laser Cut Modular Kit...build
any structure. I have several of their Billboards
in HO. They look great atop S scale buildings. Also releasing a new structure
in S scale - the "Swanson's Lunch Stand" for $37.95. Kit includes
structure with complete interior framing and appliances, fencing, metal details,
signs and a billboard. Sold direct only!
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Track Side
Patterns & Graphics. - produces
patterns for buildings, including in S. Will also produce a pattern
from photos, andcustom build from his own patterns.
ScaleBuildings.com
- new one sixty fourth scale trackside
structures.
DSL
Shops--S Scale building products. S scale
product offerings have changed. The Dime Store will become a
front-only kit. Halsted Hobbies, the Pershing Bakery, the Drug Store,
the Berwyn Bungalow, and Al's Auto Body are all
discontinued.
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Steam Depot 2038 Center Street, Ashland, PA
17921; phone: (570) 875-4205; fax: (570) 875-2016-- Large supplier of
thousands of S gauge products, often at discount prices. Catalog is
$3.00 and well worth it!
Scenery
Unlimited ;
7236 W. Madison Street
Forest Park, IL 60130
phone (708) 366-7763
Thousands of S products in stock. Owner Don Heimburger also publishes the "S Gaugian" magazine, available from the same address.
Model Tech,
Inc., 7289 Westfield Rd., Medina, OH
44256, 800-264-9845 or 330-887-5588. Laser cut architectural models
and architectural detail parts including the #301 S Scale
Interlocking Tower for $79.95 now available in kit form. This kit is
based on the Erie/EL Sterling Tower near Rittman, OH. I hear that it
is a beauty! Here is
a picture of the prototype. This company
also produces an assortment of shingles and roll roofing materials,
the Newton Falls freight/passenger station, a covered bridge, the
B&O standard freight and passenger station, a freight wagon, a
section tool house and grade crossings - all in S scale!
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Banta
Modelworks--NEW WEBSITE!-- The latest
offerings include the WSL Co. Powder House Water Tank; a Rio Grande
Southern (RGS) structure from Old Ophir called "The House at the
Trestle", (a small dwelling with an angled front door); the RGS "Mrs.
Skillians store" and the RGS "General Merchandise" store (both laser
cut).
To continue their West Side Lumber series will be the Crumbine Oil
facility, some logging camp cars, and a warehouse from camp
Reynolds.
The structures are primarily cast in urethane, however in some cases
such as the water tanks wood is used for the legs and white metal
parts are included for the hardware.
Another new release is their "Dino Bones." "Dino Bones" is an
archeological site or dig showing exposed dinosaur bones. It is cast
in urethane and is intended to be integrated into scenery on the
model railroad. The casting is about 3" x 4".
Other S scale kits include
Soon to be available will be the Office Warehouse from Ridgway cast in hydrocal and also the Ridgway sandhouse which will be laser cut.
New for S scale is a Diesel engine house, 2 or 3
stall.
Banta
Modelworks also custom builds and
paints rolling stock, locomotives, structures, etc. All work is 100%
guaranteed with a turnaround time within 10 weeks.
Banta Modelworks also now owns the Tomalco
line of Locomotive parts and the line of pipe fittings. These are
lost wax brass castings. They purchased only the locomotive
parts.
To send e-mail to Banta Modelworks Click Here
S Scale Narrow
Gauge At Train And Trooper -
Structures available include the Bigelow Station
from Portland Locomotive Works . . . $44.95 plus shipping (as of
4/27/01). Other S gauge structure kits are available from Finest
Kind Models, Building And Structure, CM Shops, Rocky Mountain Model
Works and V & T Shops.
American Model
Builders - just click on the S Scale
page. About a dozen laser cut structures in S scale now available and
reasonably priced.
Adler Models - S
Scale working and dummy switchstands.
Code 3 Collectibles...Firehouses
and fire engines in S Scale.
Microtech Scale
Models is offering an S scale Saloon for
$42.95, a "Speeder" hand car shed for $15.95, a boiler house for
$34.95 (all laser cut structures), heavy shake shingles for $8.95,
snap brick for foundations, walls and chimneys for $6.95 and a set of
S and Sn3 track templates.
River Raisin Models --Makers of the 175' Pratt Pin Single Track Bridge....31" long and strong enough for any train. The model is accurately executed in every detail with literally thousands of rivets and detail castings. Check for any more availability!
Model
Bridge And Structure Specialists
Stainless
Unlimited - custom built bridges in any
gauge, any size.
Blackstone Valley
Ry - Bridge And Structure Specialists. See
the coal trestle at: http://www.blackstonevalleyry.com/coal.htm
Mid-Michigan Scale
Signs -- large assortment of signs in many
scales including "S".
BHI
- S Scale Buildings and Structures
Black's Fire
Collectibles -- Many different models and
sizes of firehouses available in 1/64 scale, very reasonably priced!
The buildings are in kit form and built from foamcore.
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Model Building
Services --Model Building Services
assembles O & S gauge kits for train layouts.
Twin Whistle Sign And Kit
Company
makes the Twin Whistle
structures and billboards carried by PortLines
Hobbies.
Port Lines Hobby Supplies -
Doug Peck--Specialists in:
I've assembled the Twin Whistle Packard's Diner, the gas station/grocery store, the White Tower and the and Deco Style Gas Station. I highly recommend them as a fine additions to any S layout.
Here's a photo of the Twin Whistle Packard's Diner
that I built.
Three-stall brick roundhouse kit available
in either 16" or 21.5" depths. Cast resin walls; wood beams, columns
and rafters; double-sided scribed wood doors; keystone arched
doorways; embossed brickwork; Grandt line windows.
Expandable with soon-to-follow add-on stalls and a rear machine-shop
or office structure.
Novice - level kit!
16" = $115; 21.5" = $129........+$4 shipping.
For photos and info on Port Lines products CLICK HERE.
To send e-mail to Port Lines Hobbies Click Here.
Berkshire Junction
Model Railroad Supplies --EZ Line,
an elastic polymer stretchy product that can be used for
telephone and electrical wires on your layout.
Also carry electronic devices that add more detail and realism to the layout, including "flickering firelight" for hobo or boy scout fires...
Royal Train Equipment offers railroad crossing
signs, building kits, SHelper Service products, and other accessories
in S Scale. Royal also offers "junk" & ballast loads for gondolas
and sitting people and bench sets.
LASERKIT's by American Model
Builders -- Laser kit S
structures:
Heljan Brewery. This is
an excellent and popular HO structure that can easily be used in S
scale. There are 2 versions of this kit- "HO" and a smaller scale
"HO/N" version. The larger kit, suitable for S, is Heljan # 807
(Walthers 322-807). The kits come with 2 sets of doors. In the 807
kit, the larger doors are approximately S scale. This kit is offered
only as a brewery. The smaller version was also offered in a slightly
different meatpacking variation. Walthers
almost always offers this kit.
Crystal River Products is planning to
produce some S scale structures based on their line of HO kits of
Colorado (Western) style buildings. It will be a couple of months
before the first S scale building is released.
Lehigh Valley Models--Now under new ownership:
K&P Brick & Building Co. / Phil Kehr
308 Indian Rock Dam Rd.
York, Pa. 17403
717 747 0493
Email: kpbrick@aol.com
Veteran S scaler Frank Titman no longer produces this fine line of craftsmanlike S structure and rolling stock kits.
This station was built by Paul Yorke from a Lehigh Valley Models craftsman kit. Kit #LVM18 sells for $35.00 plus $3.00 P & H.
The Building &
Structure Company --They produce a line of
laser cut wood structure kits, cast Hydrocal structure kits and white
metal detail parts. Their most recent release is a cast hydrocal
stone and brick newspaper office, "Columbia Gazette". Soon to be
released will be a laser cut freight station. In addition they offer
an Elevated Crossing Shanty, kit #4024L; The Coeur D' Alene Mine, kit
#4029L, and the Dallas Hotel, kit #4019L.
The Building
& Structure Company also
manufactures track products under the TOMALCO
label. (Click here to go
to the TOMALCO listing.)
To send e-mail to The Building & Structure Company Click Here
Superquick Model Kits--makers of OO gauge
European card models, close in size to S gauge building kits, tab
& slot style of construction. All of the printing (art work) is
usually first class on the card models.
The Superquick line averages about $5.00 each and are mainly smaller out buildings, station platforms and the like. They also have a few larger structures and 6 packs of building papers (brick, stone, tile, etc.)
Metcalfe Models and Toys--more inexpensive OO
scale printed cardboard kits like those made by Superquick Models
(see above.)
Metcalfe has a killer, large, 3 & 4 storey warehouse and mill, and a boiler house/single storey factory complex. The two can be used together to make a large factory complex. Also offered are row houses, low relief "High St." (Main St.) shops in groups of three and other things. Each Metcalfe card kit is about $9.50 each, including postage to anywhere in the UK..
High Iron
Exchange--Offers custom assembled or custom
CAD designed rolling stock or structure models. Work in ALL
scales.
To contact High Iron Exchange send e-mail to Ron Haverstock OR Write to:
The Cryer Gray Foundry - 1917 vintage 53'6"
brass through plate girder bridge, fully assembled
Central Valley-- Central Valley sells single
and double track plate girder bridges in HO. Many of the parts are
easily adaptable to S gauge, however. The bridges come in a kit form
and are approximately 10 inches long. They are made of injection
molded styrene and come super detailed with thousands of rivets. They
are ideal for the S gauge kitbasher!
Ridgehill Scale Models--They have the following
kits in S scale:
Design Preservation
Models -- DPM makes urban building kits in HO
that can easily be kitbashed to S gauge.
Send $1.50 for reference manual to:
These are two DPM buildings on my S scale model railroad. Both buildings have been kitbashed to "S."
Lee Collins/Scenic Meadows Supplies; has Sheet Lead Weights in 1/64", 1/32" & 1/16" thick x 3" x 6" sheets. This stuff is great for hiding weight in open cars & loco's. It cuts with scissors and forms by hand easily.
Also Available--REAL Glass panes for structures, cabooses & passenger cars etc. For sizes and more info CLICK HERE.
Grandt-Line Products, Inc.--offers doors,
windows and assorted building parts in S scale. Write to:
Often times Grandt Line doors and windows are
included in S Scale building kits. This is the case with some of the
Twin Whistle Co. structures that Doug Peck is offering through
Port
Lines Hobbies.
Some "S" modelers use Grandt Line doors when kitbashing a model from
HO or building a structure from scratch.
Grandt Line does have a good selection of doors and windows in
different sizes and styles. They are made of plastic and are easy to
work with based on my own experience.
Fine
Hydorcal Castings in S Scale by C.C. Crow - S
scale structure kits...in progress but worth a good look! Includes
scratchbuilding supplies, S
scale brick stock patterns and a
roundhouse yet to be completed. In response to his S scale Denver and
Rio Grande roundhouse he writes: "I've been told and told to do
something in S-scale. Anything. So here it is. And dead silence." So
take a look at his offerings if you want folks to make more S scale
products!
Custom Brass Painting - Bill Lane
Stevens Creek Models
- S scale window and door glazing. For Grandt Line S scale windows:
* 4027 - WGS-4027 - Very Soon - Enough for 2 packs of windows (4/28/04)
* 4041 - WGS-4041 - Very Soon (4/28/04)
S Scale lumber made by Kappler
Mill & Lumber. Co. (now under new ownership) Kappler
makes a fine selection of S Scale lumber including railroad ties in standard
S and narrow gauge S sizes. Good S scale lumber for scratchbuilding!
Or you can order direct at:
ScaleCrete - The modeler's paving
material for concrete and asphalt. Works great! Price as of 2/07/2004
is $20.00 (includes shipping in USA) for 1 quart. I've been used this material
quite successfully to make cobblestone streets. It has a long working time.
Just wet it while you're working with it to extend the time you to work with
it before it dries.
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The photo above shows how I've used
Scale Crete to create cobblestone streets with trolley tracks imbedded
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ScaleTree.com
- just what it says.
Microtech
Scale Models is offering "Snap Brick" in S Scale
for foundations, retaining walls and chimneys. $6.95.
Micro-Glaze - this liquid product
purports to ceate realistic window glass panes in scale thickness with impressive
effects for indoor lighting of structures. Available from Micro-Mark
as product #80894. Call Micro-Mark at 1-800-225-1066.
Plaster cloth used for scenic modeling is manufactured as
"ParisCraft". This is an open weave fabric impregnated
with Plaster of Paris, which molds easily when moistened. ParisCraft can be
purchased from art supply stores, school catalogs or online from a number
of companies that sell the product including:
How
to make Scenic Express Supertrees
Interesting Site on how to make Scenic Express Super Trees.
Scenic Express Model
Landscaping Supplies - Scenic
materials for the model railroader. Go to their website and click
on the graphic for a free catalog.
Pre Size Model
Specialties -- S scale tunnel
portals, bridge abutments, walls and bridge piers.
Bragdon Enterprises - Cutting
Edge Model Scenery
Wooden Works - "Fir-Ever Forest Products" - 30
pine trees - $9.95 a box; S scale 5'-14' (1-2.75")
Lee Collins/Scenic Meadows Supplies; makers of
dust-free, non-magnetic coal. There are three sizes of coal
available, in S scale: Small=l"to l.5", Medium=1.9" to 2.2" and
Large=1.9" to 4.3". Coal is available for all scales. If anyone would
like free samples of the product to check out send a note with your
mailing address to:
The Aspen
Modeling Company S Scale Figures
Unpainted S scale figures including those pictured below (brakeman, oilman, switchman and man shoveling) and several horses, sheep and a couple of cowboys.
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Best of Show Model Builders
New WEBSITE - Services Include: Figure
Painting
Arttista
-- very nicely detailed S scale figures. I
have about 15 of them. CAll 800-316-2493 for ordering and; takes Visa
and MC.
Some of the new S gauge figures by Artistta. Pricey at approx. $5.00 apiece painted but very well made. Also available from Scenery Unlimited.
Fun And Games
Scale Figures For Model Railroads-- has a fully
illustrated website.
Fun and Games People measured against an S Scale ruler. Courtesy: Stan Stokrocki.
Railmaster Exports S
Gauge Figures. Railmaster has one of the best buys available on S scale figures...and
they are pretty much true to scale. Not quite as highly detailed perhaps as
the Arttista figures, Railmaster's remain, in my opinion, the best buy for the
money. Most of the figures on my home layout are from Railmaster Exports.
New Zealand
Finescale They make 10 figures in 1:64 scale pewter
at $4.50 each or $40.00 for all 10. (as of 5-16-04)
Rail King
figures by Mikes Train House
American
Models offers S figures painted or
unpainted. Large offering.
One set of figures offered by American Models
NASG Bernie Thomas Award, 2003 NASG Perles Publications Award, 1997
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