New AmeriTowne Building

Boy I can see the kit bashing possibilities already. Looks like a winner. Don

Looks really good.  I just finished my first kit bash of turning 2 three story buildings into a five and a one.  This is going on my list!  Great detail, especially on the windows.

Love it! I'll be ordering a shipment for sure.

WoW!    I like it a lot!

 

Can you please post shipping costs in your webpages so I can be aware of this prior to checkout?    Do you offer lower shipping on multiple items?

Thank you--

WOW!!!!!!  I will be getting at least 2 of these!!!!

We've got a special deal going on now...$5 flat rate shipping on any order.

 

I'll add that to the original post.

Rich,

 

Can I run the hotel?

 

Scrapiron the Manager

We bought this neat kit and a Bill's Place at the April York meet to create the perfect 'cover' for a basement beam

 support post.  If I hadn't already wrapped the round metal post with 2x6's, the hotel kit, alone would've been sufficient.  However, we need an inside free dimension of 7"+ to clear the wood-encased support on the 'city' peninsula. 

 

The cuts are all laid out.  This is the weekend we begin.  It's going to be FUN!!

 

I laid out a paper mock-up, taped it to the post.  Added to the table height, the top of the hotel will be at about my eye level.  We're thinking of adding a Miller sign to the top of that to give an extra reach.  The 2x6's to the beam will be painted flat black, per the traditional theater stage prop practice of drawing the eye away.

 

Posting photos has never been very successful for me.  Nonetheless, I'll try to do so when the project's done.

 

BTW, everyone have a safe, enjoyable, memorable Memorial Day weekend.

 

Rich, it's an unpainted plastic kit but what colors are the molded plastic pieces? Like pictured, i.e. red for bricks, black for fire escapes and first story strim molding, brown or black for window frames, grey for conrete trim on first, second and third stories? Also, what are window graphics for first floor? Any chance for a closer view of first floor windows? Alslo, details on flat roof, such as color, any molded items such as vents, skylights, etc?

Rich,

 

A very nice structure, I've built a few Ameri-Towne buildings and they are very strong and well made. I will definitely purchase one.

 

Thanks, Alex

Very impressive. 

Wow - very nice.  I really need to get back into working on structures (family, work, kids' activities -- all take up a lot of time) -- this may be the item that gets me going again.

Very impressive structure.  Wish I could use it but since my layout is rural/country it just wouldn't fit.

I wish that was around when I built this 5 story hotel from Ameri-towne kits. It would have made it easier. But it was worth it. My downtown has about 20 buildings and all except 1 is Ameri-towne. They have plenty of variety to expand your town.

I just bought mine and hopefully will assemble, paint and weather it this fall.  I've always argued that train layouts, at least my train layouts, are all limited in square footage by basement or train room constraints, but that most of us have virtually unlimited height available.  So you can get all that extra building size by simply going taller, rather than taking a larger footprint. 

 

This building exactly fits those parameters.  "Go UP young man" to paraphrase old Horace Greeley!

 

Paul Fischer

I have built several Ameritown buildings and I do like them. I've noticed that several are made of sections from other buildings. In that vein I'd like to see an iron front building made by stacking the first floor of some of these fronts. For instance the ground floor of this casting used for the hotel if stacked and the center of the door cut out with a hobby knife would make a nice ironfront.
If you ever would make new castings in this series I would love to see an industrial front that had concrete posts and sills with brick below large metal framed windows. I'm sure these would sell well if made in the same modular style as your other offerings.

My only minor quibble with the hotel is that I would like it more if thelentels over the windows all matched. The second and thrid floor look great I wish the floors above looked the same as those two.

If you check out the details on actual buildings from the early 20th century, you'll see that architects actually did this: the window lintels over the lower floors on the store front were fancier than those on the upper floors, etc.  Also not that all the lintels on the windows on the buildings side are the simpler type.  

 

Regardless, Ameritown kits and building fronts - and sides and backs - are just made for bashing and modification.  I just love 'em.  It's a very smart system that OGR designed for these panels and how they fit together and can be cut - a floor at a time, etc, to bash so easily.  

 

I've made a number of kits and doubt even one was built completely as the kit instructed: the building shown in the photo below is a single structure (despite the building fronts being painted two colors) and was made from one and one half kits and some odds and in.  

 

The new kit is essentially eight building fronts/sides/backs correctly-selected from existing kits so that it makes the six story building shown, with the fire escape (cool thought) added to go with it.  It seems correctly priced given everything and I imagine it will set well.  

 

As to this new kit,  it were me, I'd buy two kits and make a double wide, as a six story building this looks too narrow for me: I'd even have a few extra panels left over for other projects (backdrop buildings, etc) as a bonus.   In actual fact, I am making a six story Ameritown building - to go just to the right, uphill, of the building shown below, but am using parts from the older three story kits in order to get different lintels on the windows, etc., and a different store front look to it