Cardboard Buildings

At a glance, I'm thinking ZOO Tower.

 

Very nice Colin.

Colin, I have a number of those old magazines, and the plans for paper buildings are some of the many charming things about them. 

Kits are great or you can build them off free plans found on the Internet.

I'm building a church right now off plans from http://www.littleglitterhouses.com/
Once you get the hang of it the go together pretty quick.
Hot glue is your friend.

CH

not too far off topic, in 1935-36 Erector tried out a hi-rise structure kit...

 

 

featuring cardboard panels that attached over the Erector girder structure, mostly due to the weight of the contents, boxed sets are extremely rare.  during the two years of production, however, a sample of panels were also included in the higher number sets.

 

cheers...gary

That's cool Gary. Never seen that one before.

 

Steve

 

Those old cutout structures are cool. I've seen some others online, but none built up. They're part of my inspiration.

 

That Erector set is pretty cool too. Are the panels scaled for use with O-gauge trains?

judging by the door size, the upper two (group picture) architecture styles appear to be HO sized (1.2" door height) while the bottom group/ style is nearly twice the size (2" door height).

 

i'm sure if these had caught on. more styles or storefront depictions would probably have been produced.  wonder how different things would be today if Photoshop had existed in the 30's.