Tinplate Houses

No new cookie container buildings?

I've been to Walmart and Big Lots, none for sale there.

The only thing even close I saw this year was a house/lantern type structure at Walmart that would need painted.   Didn't see any cookie tin houses. 

From Lowes

I bought 2 of them and will put them together and make a large church. Target had several new tin buildings and I purchased a large barn from Walmart.

Scott Smith

jhz563 posted:

The only thing even close I saw this year was a house/lantern type structure at Walmart that would need painted.   Didn't see any cookie tin houses. 

There is a store called Sur la Table, a kitchen supply store.  They have some cookie tins.  Not sure if they have them near you.  Mine is in Beachwood, a Cleveland suburb.

Google Sur la Table (one word) and search for cookie tins.

Regards,

Lou N

Here is something I bought from Hobby Lobby Saturday. It will work with O-Gauge tinplate.

They also had a coffee shop. After I put this together I 'll decide if I need to pick that one up as well.

Scott Smith

This year the Michael's in my area had significantly less holiday decorations than last year.  No tin style buildings this year; likely because half of last years order did not sell by Christmas and was marked down 70% to 90% by Jan 1, 2019 to clear the shelves for Spring products.  I also noticed that At Home had a few Christmas wood/tin structures but the variety was limited to a few churches and a barn and it too was much less than in 2018.

a work in progress

Just picked up a couple of tin 'holiday decor' buildings from walmart that will look good as steel mill, or combined to make a cool engine shed. I do not have ability to post photo; however you can see them if you google '575561721 holiday time distressed metal horse barn table-top christmas decoration, 12.2" '. I had better luck finding them online this way than doing a search on the walmart website. You can look up your local store availability; they are reduced to $8.49 ea now; my local store still has 4 of them on the shelf. Also picked up a bunch of the 10 bulb to a string led's that run off a aaa battery pack; soft white, multicolor, and the same with globe led bulbs; just 49cents a pack.

Here is a Michael's Tin building that I picked up last  year in January.  I use it as my "Drummers (traveling salesmen} Hotel" in a corner of the layout near the suburban station.  I had to paint in a door but the fact that the windows don't start till about the 2nd floor was OK as I thought that would be likely to help abate the noise of the passing trains.  I agree with "Keystone", when I shopped Michael's after Christmas this year there were no equivalent structures or anything even close.

Good Hunting  Don

Managed to eventually repaint one of the Michael's buildings from last year.  Learned alot about what I didn't know in the process.

My favorites are litho cookie tins.