I'm posting this here rather than on the Scenery forum because I think there is enough general interest - the recent thread on good church models, etc. The Pegasus model system has come up in several threads and I bought several and give my thoughts about them here. Overall, I am pleased with them as good material for projects where I bash their kits into 1:48 scale.
Pegasus makes a set of "Gothic city" kits and building panel kits that can be used to make Gothic cathedrals, Houses of Parliament and other large institutional buildings, or large mansions, in 1:64 or 1:72 scale, as well as models of ruins of bombed out European or ancient buildings (they even make models of buildings that have collapsed). Their target market is mostly war-gamers. Scale looks to be right at 1/64 - but remember these are kits meant to model cathedrals, etc.. A 1/64 cathedral makes a really big 1:48th church (see below). I bought two of each of the kits shown below, sufficient to make the two structures I talk and show below.
The Pegasus system provides modular panels of several types (windowed, solid, doorway), as well as columns, doors, roof sections, flying buttresses, etc., to fit with them. All are molded of soft plastic that cuts and files well and takes every plastic glue I have tried very nicely. All the panels, etc., have two fully molded, detailed sides, with subtly different gothic decoration types on each side. Also, each kit has several sprues of Gargoyles and such with which you can decorate your building to get that final, creepy level of gothic-ness so your Dungeons and Dragons characters feel right at home.
For the most part the pieces fit together logically and well. However, fit and model accuracy is not as good as, say, Ameritown kits. My kits required a good deal of trimming and fitting, and some gap-filling glue in places, but nothing more than some limited production cast resin models I've received, and quite easy to do.
My first Pegasus project was this mansion building front on my layout, where the richest man in the world lives. I nixed the gargolves and used sheet styrene to cover the slots for this to fit in, etc., and clean up and downplay the "gothic-ness" a bit. Painted a very light stone gray, it looks quite nice. This photo below shows part of it but is zoomed in on the front of the building to show how well the size of the panels goes with 1:48 figures.
I'm now working a church that will be about 15 by 25 inches footprint. It will be on the hilltop of my layout's town and its steeples the highest points on my layout. Here is all I have so far. I plan to do a scratch built round "Rose" window over the front door of the church but otherwise finish it with Pegasus panels all around. I will not use the flying buttresses, or the gargoyles, etc. Painted an almost white stone color, it will look noble and peakful, I think, not horrific or spooky.
I'd recommend these kits to anyone who is comfortable bashing kits and doesn't mind doing a little trimming and fitting. You can build a really nice, big, churchs or large old-world institutional buildings (city hall, etc.) with them.
...WHY?... Poirot's one of my most favorite British TV shows (right up there with Doc Martin)! He'd be perfect standing on a deserted, low-lit station platform, late at night.
