@Mallard4468 posted:Why buy one? From layout viewing distance, I'll bet it's hard to tell that yours is printed.
I scaled this up a bit from an original, probably about twenty percent larger. An original no. 91 would be the same size as a no. 90, but it looks dramatically undersized because the doors/windows/etc. are sized to fit the tin body, not the other way around. I scaled the no. 91 up so that the windows and doors look sorta correct by comparison.
I'd been looking for a nice original Marx West Side Warehouse for the layout, but those seem really scarce, especially one that doesn't look like Dad backed the family wagon over it Christmas morning. Ed Berg posted some nice scans of the WSW graphics on his site, so I think I'll just use those to make a paper version. There are some plastic bits (doors, chimney, skylight, etc.) that I'll have to fabricate, but shouldn't be too tough.
Until I can find nice originals of these things, the paper versions will serve as place-holders on the layout.
PD
