NEW MENARDS BUILDING--"MOE'S GARAGE"

It looks like it is hard to schedule announcements when you don't know when a magazine will be released to the public for sure.  Menards has a lot going on.

And they support both magazines.

Art

I got an email about a Menard's hobby shop building the other day and a flat car with BNSF maintenance truck, they really are coming out with a lot of stuff. Good for our selection variety. Maybe we will even see some new engines being produced someday?

That form of the 'Latin' language is becoming a lost treasure. Good to see someone still speaks it.

Menards charging $19 for traditional type boxcars with diecast trucks and metal frames still amazes me. Have not seen those prices since the early days of Industrial Rail many moons ago.

The way things seem to be going with teens and under, they might not be able to figure it out ...especially if it was written/displayed in cursive.

Yes, they are even less than similar HO & N offerings. If they are actually able to sustain these prices and make a profit and the products are of good quality the other manufacturers may be in for a stiff round of competition wars. OTOH, if they are not good quality, the quality of everything could suffer in the end if they all start cutting corners to reduce costs to compete. Not sure if this is all good or all bad or we as consumers will benefit or suffer? I guess it will be interesting to see how it all works out though?

Personally I would like to see lower prices (who wouldn't?), but I also like the quality we have in a lot of the items offered these days in recent catalogs. I know we can't have both. At any rate it would be a tough business to be in.

Or those big fat pencils?

This one I like!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It should make a good Quonset Hut for a diorama using some of my 1/48 WWII aircraft.

This building looks good and doesn't have Menards signage, so it will go well on my postwar era layout. 

Tom B

My childhood would not have been nearly as much fun without it.

I got get one or two of those buildings.  I always loved Quonset huts.

A coat of silver paint should do the conversion to a nice Quonset Hut.

Our Moe's Garage introduction email has been sent out! Here's a link to the introduction post!

Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy

Just placed my order!

I like the concept.

I would like it more if the door was wider and actually rolled open.

The power plug was hidden by an old 1960's era electricity meter.

Andrew

Well, with a lot of work, it could. The ends are incorrect for military use and I don't think any of them had stone foundations, but you could cover that with wood boards. For the price, it's worth a try if you don't already have the Masterpiece models 1/48 scale quonset hut model in resin with is a dead-on scale model of what they called, "Nissen Huts" in England...

I would get it. It seems to have a pretty good price. The only thing that I don't like is the style. I'd rather have a boxier building.

Are the doors and windows flush with the walls, or are they recessed? It looks like they aren't recessed judging by the picture...

Here is the website. 

Exactly! But leave off the cheap looking ugly signs.

I ordered two, and plan to make the building in the attached photos from them.  I passed it every day for nearly all the last decade-- its on a side-street shortcut I take to and from work, right next to a main rail line through town, too.  

That "double" looks interesting. I ordered one of these kits yesterday that I'm going to turn in this hut that's down the street next to an old MoPac spur.

Yes, the stone foundation probably would be unlikely. For my use, though, the only thing I'd do is repaint the exterior. Thanks for the lead on Masterpiece Models. Very interesting selection of items (looks like the go-to location for destroyed Stalingrad buildings and Jap pillboxes, for example!) It appears the only Quonset Hut they have now is a 1/35 version, though.

They do make a 1/48 scale one but it's not on the website, oddly. I have two of them in the bags, waiting to be built.

They have them on eBay, which is where I got mine: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quonse...;hash=item20dea1022b

I just noticed on the pictures of the back end of the building that the electrical connection is visible.  The plug is very noticeable and could only be used where you couldn't see the back of the building.  I suppose some of the more creative and skilled modelers will be able to find a solution, but that is a big negative for me.  I see that the new hobby shop has the same thing.

Art  

I'll be rewiring most likely and then piling up some junk to disguise where all that was. Just like my neighborhood prototype!

Me too.  I saw that in the pictures and decided I could work around it  The description does not say, but the other resin Menards building I have (Feed and Seed) has a battery box under the base and I just soldered wires to that and fed from underneath.  If this has one, too, I will do the same, if not, i will pile barrels or trash or something to hide the jack's hole. 

Moe's Garage is resin molded and has an open bottom. The wiring is very easily accessible.

-Mark the Menards Train Guy