Woodland Scenics Intro's Two new O gauge buildings!

Very nice!

I wonder if Menards will be offering similar WS buildings.  Their announcements usually follow Woodland Scenics' rather closely.

Ed Rappe 

They look nice.  The penny pony and gumball machine are nice touches to J. Franks IGA.

I like the brick detail and facade color of the IGA.  It's a nice color contrast to so many other buildings.  And I love buildings like grocery stores that you can crank up the lights in.  They really look neat on a dark layout.  I'll have to go look for pictures of similar IGA's to get an idea how they would best be positioned on a layout.

The tavern is less exciting as I think most of us already have a watering hole or two and it's basically the same format as many of their other buildings.  But it's likely easier for them to make this than something with a more complicated format like the bike shop, gas station, or door factory was.  I am interested to see how the stained glass is going to look though with the lights.  That could look really neat.  And what the interior is like.

Right now, they don't excite me as much as the offerings from the previous years, but will wait for final judgement until I see better pictures of all sides.  I know I'll end up getting them regardless.  lol.

It will be interesting to see if Menards releases versions of either of these because they had the General Store a few years ago and the bar last year.  These are pretty similar in concept.  Maybe the IGA could be a Mernards hobby store or pharmacy.

Great looking structures.

This is great news!  I don't know for sure where I will put them, but I will find a place.  The grocery store is very special surprise.

Art

Very cool! It's always great to see something new in the building department.

Nice stuff....glad they are continuing O scale buildings.......STILL holding out for a O scale version of the bank they make in HO.

I like this one...

But still holding out for more industries like Meg-A-Watts transformers.

Swell, more city buildings...

Pass.

Great new buildings. Love the Pony Ride at the IGA. Haven't seen one of those in person in a long time.

I'll buy them for sure!  The others were so great.   Not sure where the IGA will go, but I will find a place.

Very nice!

Peter

Them are very nice buildings. I got a old IGA from my dad from 1990 from an IGA in Youngstown/Strutters.Thanks for sharing.  

Very nice.

Woodland Scenics "Built-&-Ready" line has set the bar for out-of-the-box structures in O gauge.  I have just about all of them and hope to get the new ones even if I have to reconfigure things on the layout to fit them in.

OK, gotta get the IGA but will relabel it, looks much like a local owned store in the Mythical version of my home town.

These are nice buildings.

Agreed, but I'm hoping someone will eventually make small, rural buildings in this scale someday. Not every models a city or the modern era in O...

Do you know the footprint of either of these two new buildings??

The Megga-watt and the bank and the municipal building is what we want in O-scale not these 2 other buildings why is all the nice buildings made in N or HO scale first??? 

P51, I second your thought on the smaller rural houses or buildings

I enjoyed viewing all your excellent photography & structures.

   Very impressive.

I'll take them all! Just have to find a spot on the layout.

Thank you here is a few more photo's if you would like to see. https://ogrforum.com/t...my-korber-collection

Unfortunately for us, H.O. and N still represent a larger market segment than we do. That said, I do like the Megga-watt Transformers building.

P51 and 30thstreet sound like my echos and crack me up....however, having spent time in a town with a country store, and several small towns, one of which had a

market my mother shopped at somewhat resembline the IGA (the other building looks

like an Ameritown or Korber already available), that might be the first of these I

track down.  (good thing WS didn't model a 1940 A&P, I'd have be forced to get one

of those)

I called Woodland Senics yesterday to find out what the foot print of the IGA was. They didn't know but promised to get back to me with the info.

It is the details that make these WS built-up so spectacular.  On the IGA store, I just love hobby horse and it is the first thing that caught my eye, but when you study the thing you see the retracted awnings over the windows, the candy machine near the door, the advertisements on the side of the building, and those lovely front doors, along with awesome brickwork.  

Small grocery stores have mostly been ignored by building manufactures so this is great.  These stores are at home in small towns and inner cities.  The type you would see "down by the railroad tracks".  Gives us an opportunity for a small parking lot, people carrying groceries to their cars and etc.  A Coke truck making deliveries.  The list goes on.  A great missing piece of Americana.  Nice job Woodland Scenics!

Art

Another reason I like the IGA store is that it is single-story.  That means it offers the viewer a better chance to see items behind it...or to either side.

For example, the op's tavern photo shows the side wall windowless on the first story, but having a couple windows and sign on the second story.  Placing the IGA store next to the tavern on that side means that more of the nice features of the tavern...besides its front view...are visible; sort of like getting more value for the money.

The large side wall of the Corner Emporium, and Harrison's Hardware, Lubener's General store, and J.W. Cobbler's all having side walls that benefit from having an adjacent single-story building....helps me in arranging the buildings to their mutual best advantage.

But, that's just MHO.

KD

Really like the angled side walls shown on the 2 story, Walthers incorporated that feature as well.