Show me your church

Ranger Rick posted:

I believe that this model is a Plasticville Model, but I am not sure. I got this and many other trains and items for helping my sister's neighbor dismantle his layout. The only thing I can find about this model is some one on e-bay selling one that says it is Plasticville. (search O-S-Gauge-Lot-Of-2-Built-Plasticville-Buildings-Church-Diner-In-Need-Of-TLC). I will have to spruce this church up as I did the other one. You can always make something look better. For this one, I added pews and a mural inside as the doors would be open. It did not look right being empty.

Rick, I believe that yours is either a Marx Church, or the K-Line clone. They've been produced since 1952 or thereabouts. Here is a photo of the original church with its box.

Thanks John. 

Thanks for all the input. Wanting instant gratification I went with Richard Krieg at The Railroad Crossing. These sorry pictures don't do it justice but here it is. Nice product at a very affordable price.

joe

I have a Railking church that was on my last layout and will be somewhere on the next one. The scene was never finished.

Does this count?

Here is one of mine.

Here a couple of mine.  First is a Pegasus kit in my downtown scene and the other is a Plasticville church with the but with the buttress's cut off to give it a more rural feeling.

Nice variety.

Those two are great!!! Nice spin on the Pegasus kit!

St. Luke's Church by Dept. 56  .  .  .  it's a tad small for O gauge, but looks fine at the back of the layout.

Great thread, Thank you to all who posted. 

Small rural church, My wife and I were married in this church.   I thought the BTS rural church was a close match to this with some modifications.

I think it is American Model Builders out of St. Louis that makes a very small and plain O scale church kit, that I don't like, especially the steeple, but it could be kitbashed.  I recently saw a number of small country churches that were well styled, in the Canadian Maritime provinces, such as the one at Peggy's Cove near Halifax in Nova Scotia (near the often visited light house there). I have an adobe style chapel for my western themed layout, but that won't work for most layouts that model eastern roads.

I can't take credit for this....one of our modular group members, Walt S, is an HO person who runs trains with us. His scenery work is true artistry. Here is his superdetailing of an old Plasticville church with accompanying church yard. Beautiful work!

Great work, Walt!

Peter

OddIsHeRU posted:

St. Luke's Church by Dept. 56  .  .  .  it's a tad small for O gauge, but looks fine at the back of the layout.

Hey Richard!!!!

I like the offset organ chest.....

ALAN

St. Francis under construction