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Plasticville (Again !!)

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Plasticville (Again !!)
Posted by traindaddy1 on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 1:41 PM

Well, here he goes again!    Has anyone "stepped out-of-the-box" and used the non-traditional colors of the Plasticville stuff?    (Examples: Red & White outhouse instead of the brown  OR  Red or White telephone poles instead of the brown or black)  As always, many thanks.

PS........Original, not re-painted colors.

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Posted by Seayakbill on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:27 PM

Probably not in the last 50 years or so, maybe back in the fifties when Plasticville buildings were all over my layout. Always liked that grossing gate shack.

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Posted by sir james I on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:34 PM

Sure, I like to buy the ones with old glue in them on the cheap. Nothing to lose so I repaint then in new colors.

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Posted by SantaFe158 on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 5:40 PM

I have a neon pink trailer in my trailer park (from a modern trailer park set) on my postwar style layout.  It's ugly, but i can't bring myself to paint it over Laugh

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Posted by Penny Trains on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:42 PM

I love variations!  Big Smile Yes  Unfortunately my budget doesn't allow me to get the best or most rare ones!  But I do have a barn with the unusual chromed parts and some marbled telephone poles.  But I'd use red or white tele poles in a heartbeat if I could aquire them.  Big Smile  At least half of my collection is modern production for convenience but I like the salmon colors of the older motel kit over the tan and gray modern kit and the blue turnpike over the current green.  One of these days I'll get those but for now my 4 by 6 layout really can't accomodate any more additions.  Well, maybe some hot pink trailers!  Laugh

I also paint and modify.  I have a school turned into a Howard Johnson's restaurant and I used a bank plus a K-Line hardware store and parts of a 1/144 scale space shuttle to build a power plant.  (Shuttle SRB's as smokestacks. Big Smile)

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Posted by traindaddy1 on Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:40 PM

Thanks for the replies.  

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Posted by jwse30 on Saturday, October 29, 2011 3:40 AM

I have some Plasticville on my layout that is in more rare color combinations, but I don't own any of the "loud" colored items they made back then.

 

Off the top of my head I've got I've got a peach cape cod, a turquoise cape cod, and a beige hardware store. These are all pretty tame looking kits, but are a bit harder to find in these colors.

 

J White

 

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