phone booth

Woodland Scenics has a phone booth in their Street Accessories figures package.

Art

Thanks picked one up on the bay.

That Woodland Scenics set is one of the very best for completing scenes and vignettes on a layout.  I love it.  I knew I had one or two of the phone booths and went upstairs to take pictures just know - I was surprised to find I had five!

I recall that in most cases you need to use a small file to shave the legs of the booth so it stands absolutely upright: my scenery, at least, tends to be a bit uneven/deliberately not level and these bootsh seem super-sensitive to that, leaning to the side if there is the least uneveness and standing out like a sore thumb.  But its an easy thing to go, just a bit intricate and surprisingly "fussy' as to looking bad if you don't get the legs just right.

And dont' forget the rest of the set with the phone booths and fire hydrants and track cans - I actually bought most of mine to get the wonderful parking meters, or which I have about thirty or forty on my layout.

I'm not sure where I got this phone booth from, WS is not the only choice.  Plasticville also produced a phone booth.

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Lee,

I love that blue '59 or '60 chevy...please tell me where you got it.  I want one.

-rog

I got mine via Amazon - actually from Mint Models.  It is a Spark brand 1:43 1959 Chevy, and just awesome!

http://www.amazon.com/Chevrole...%3A43+Chevrolet+1959

I have a pre-Walthers Life Like 'City' set that has a phone booth among other things. I have not looked up weather it is still made.

I've been searching for the better part of five-years for a few phone booths. I cannot find any era specific to the late 30's. Everything I find are those like Lee is using. Any ideas, anyone?

Pappy:  The Plasticville may be what you can use. They came in blue & white plastic, but could be painted black. With an old "Bell" logo (remember the blue bell on a white circle?) printed out and hung from a bit of wire bent in a gooseneck above the door, I think you'd have a fair match for the 30's style.

There also is an interior phone booth made by Model Tech Studios.  I have a couple but have never painted them up. Usually these interior phone booths had a dark wood finish.

I bought a few phone booth kits from FOS Scale Models. ( http://foslimited.com//index.p...4&products_id=83  The components are laser cut. I completed one and have a few more in the works. 

Years ago, I saw a 1:43 or 1:50 Corgi or Hornby British phone booth for sale at some LHS I was visiting on a business trip.  Don't remember where or when.  Wish I had snapped it up.

There are also, I think,  1:43 or so models of Tardis, the phone booth from the TV show Dr. Who, but it is not "phone booth" enough for me - too big.  

Other than the Woodland Scenics and Plasticville ones, that is all I know of . . 

Lee

The Tardis is a Police booth, not for public use, has other things in it.

Thus the large size. But I agree, Not good for our needs.

Perhaps only one to a layout and should be with Dr Who.

Technically, Russell, the blue British Police boxes were for public use: notice they say "Public Call Box" on them.  The difference was that it contained a dedicated phone line that would only connect to the police station - it could not be used for general phone calls.

Corgi has made die-cast models of both the Red British tele both and the Blue Police call box (as the Tardis). I have them both on my layout.

The red phone booth is 3" tall, and door opens which is a nice touch.  But it's a little big for O Gauge: that's a Britains 2-1/4" (54mm) figure in the doorway. This is pretty much 1:32.

The Corgi die-cast Tardis is a little smaller - the booth is 2-1/2" tall, and the 4th Doctor figure which is cast in one piece with the booth and hand-painted, is about 1-3/4" tall.  That's a little big still for 1:48, I think Lee is right it might be about 1:43 or so. But it's not really a phone booth per se, and definitely not 1960's AT&T.

The Corgi booths are each available from time to time on internet auction localities.