It's tinplate building season! The tinplate Christmas decorations beginning to show up in stores. This gives some of us a chance to add buildings at a fraction of the price of the old and many times undersized Lionel buildings
Looks like the tin barn that Walmart has has a new design.
Menards had these out today:
For the last three years I have been searching the stores and repainting Christmas buildings for my tinplate layout. Here's a crummy brushed painted building from Kohls.
Those crummy buildings became a nice village area on my layout;
Two of these metal lanterns from Lowes became
What have you seen in the stores this tin building season?
Scott Smith
