I have been seeing a number of "Rich White" buildings floating in the bay, or rather hydrocal walls for buildings, semi-kits with apparently no other parts. They are apparently listed one by one....one sells, another just like it gets listed. Has anybody bought one, and built (finished) it, and I wondered who Rich White is...?
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There are a ton of these walls on the bay. The walls look nice, require purchaser to buy grandt line windows and doors to complete. Has anyone got any experience with them? I'm thinking of purchasing a few.
I have purchased six to eight "Rich White Models" kits over the past five or six years. Originally there was a website and all offerings were sold as complete kits with windows, doors, roofs and instructions. Then Rich apparently decided that creating intricate walls was what he enjoyed more than maintaining an inventory of numerous parts and running a time-consuming "manufacturing" business. I consider the walls of equal quality to Tom Yorke or Downtown Deco products, and the current price for a box of walls is perhaps half of what used to be asked for complete kits.
Don't feel that Rich White's walls have to be assembled as the eBay photos suggest. Buy more than one package and kit-mingle the walls into an entirely different appearing structure. Or mix walls from Rich White and Downtown Deco together. You don't have to fill the openings with Grandt Line products, either. Try some Tichy windows instead, or get a Bar Mills Models "1-Kit" and sandwich some lazer-cut wood windows and doors into the plaster walls.
Although Rich White lives in California's Central Valley, perhaps 600 miles south of me, I've never met him despite having attended more than half of the previous 25 O Scale West conventions, and preparing this week to send in my registration for this year's 26th OSW.
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