Rarest Building Kit You Have?

 A customer at my once local shop in Seekonk MA. .  Started a line of resin kits. Nice detail, reasonably priced and easily went together. Unfortunately the kits names escape me. He had a run of about 6 kits. Seemed at the time a new one came out every month. He was a one man band and the work involved may have outweighed the money being made. After about a year his kits pretty much disappeared.  Pretty sure Norm C. has this same kit and perhaps a few others on his layout. I believe they show up on eBay every now and then.

I have hunted down several rare building kits for grain elevators, water mills, gas stations, stamp mills, etc.  And, horror of horrors, l not only built them, but bashed them.  Just one of these is the Thomas Yorke grain elevator, posted here.  (another of these kits showed up on the bay recently). I, as here, usually raise the height of the elevator.

Dave, didn't he make one in the shape of a Dog? I looked for one on E-bay for a long time but never found it. Don

 Don, at one time I use to be into the kits more than the trains themselves. I’m thinking of a kit with a pig towering over a small take out size structure. I remember the grill was a nice kit to put together. 

Dave, l have a builtup kit of that tobacco shop, too.  What were the other five kits?  I saw another of these kits on the bay not  too long ago, also.

Dave, yes it was a pig. Saw in once on the bay but missed getting it. Don

 Not sure how many were produced. The name finally came to me. Stone Mill Models. The ones I remember. Cigar shop, Chama oil storage, New England type 3 story fieldstone building, mercantile building, a large flat brick wall with windows and a small structure that I’m not sure what it was. A local modeler bashed it into and outstanding small gas station.

Since l hunt down water mill kits, and found the cigar store, l assumed the series offered a "stone mill", because of the name.  It did not?

This one is now very hard to find!

JDADDY,
Who made that? We used to have a used car dealership in downtown that had a building like that. I would like to have one.

Big Jim,

That is the Downtown Deco "Rocky Flats" station. It took me 6 years to find it.

I called mine Polar Bear Restaurant. Roo.

Bachman Bros. "Build-A-House" ... pre-Plasticville? ...

Fun for All ... !
cheers...gary

The Star Grill is wonderful. I love the detailing on the door. 

I built this coal tower from a kit by Gloor about twenty years ago. It may not have been rare at that time but I haven't seen another Gloor coal tower kit in a long time. It was the second kit that I assembled after returning to the hobby.

MELGAR

Not mine but mine is close to this. Still working on the interior. No idea how many were made. Stoney Creek Village Groceries.

Pete

Roo posted:

I called mine Polar Bear Restaurant. Roo.

Interesting, in my hometown my grandfather owned the "Polar Bear Beer Garden."  Spent many of hours there in my youth.

Ron

Stoney Creek Designs Village Groceries kit. It is rare but here is mine.

MELGAR

I don't have one but am looking for Downtown Deco's Palace Hotel and Card Room.  John

Norton posted:

Not mine but mine is close to this. Still working on the interior. No idea how many were made. Stoney Creek Village Groceries.

Pete

I think about 200 were made, give or take.  

Don't know how rare this is, but I haven't seen many built up:

Ken

Mine is this pig styled BBQ.  Still haven't figured out how I want to paint it.  Picked this up 5 / 6 years ago - maybe a little more.  No sure if eBay or an estate sale.  Remember seeing it pictured in the early 90's.  Have never seen once since - ebay or on someone's layout.

Ken, I have the Starlite Diner and as you know it's spectacular when the neon and lights are on. They are very rare. Chris at Miller Engineering told me he only made 100 of them. Don

Find a picture of a Poland China (spotted) hog on the net, and paint it to match one, for the pig barbecue. Stony Creek Village Groceries is one l have hunted but not found, although l did find that other rare kit of the Wyoming Aladdin general store north of Devil's Tower, not built yet.  I bashed at least two other store kits to provide that drive through corner overhang of the Stony Creek kit, as l remember some from my youth.

Oh, almost forgot one of my favorites I built for the ghost town. This old hotel, hasn't been available for years. Don

The Chooch Ultrascale II buildings and fronts are pretty rare  I bought a ton of these awhile back  They are now installed on The NJ HiRailers layout

You are right, Chooch made some good stuff in O scale. I got a few but wish I bought more. My next project is the Riverside Apartments. Don't remember who made the kit but it will be a nice addition. Don

I believe that was DSL shops

I think your right. The box is so faded I couldn't read it. Don

This is easily my favorite thread in a while.  I have a bunch of 50 kit run DD kits but the oddest one I have is this one.  I found it on eBay I think, I don’t believe this outfit exists anymore. 

I haven’t built it yet but it’s a combo of hydrocal and resin parts with a bunch of commercial detail bits.  

This is a model of the Altamont NY station, the kit was from a small company I don't recall the name.  Resin kit.  It was in a batch of various items I got when I purchase Korber Models.

Rich, it's so much fun finding small run or one of a kind kits. I think my first real kit was Downtown Deco's Greyhound station. When we moved a couple of houses back I dropped it and of course it shattered in a million pieces. Took me a long time of searching to find another one. This was my first fully scratch built project. Don

I certainly agree about finding obscure and different structure kits.  Keeps me interested while hoping for new rolling stock.  Don, was that hotel in your ghost town a "bordello" kit by Thomas Yorke...l think made it?...it has showed up on the bay a couple of times and l was outbid.

Yes it was a Yorke kit. I think he made the very best kits ever made. Take a look at what he made. Don

Thids was a hard to find kit... Korber #2010

And I had mine customized....

Yorke Bordello, took me forever to build this...

One that I would like to find is the B&O Newton Falls station/tower combination building.  This was a kit made by Model Tech of Medina, OH (defunct). My Uncle Bud worked in the B&O tower for 38 years until 1977.