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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, May 20, 2021 11:25 PM

I have all three Walthers Cornerstone structures on my layout. The skylights on the Walthers Cornerstone First Street Warehouse are clear plastic out of the box but larger than the clear plastic skylights on the Engineering Office and the Railway Express Agency (REA). The design of the skylight is the same on all three structures.

The Walthers Cornerstone Commissary/Freight Transfer, a background building kit, does not include skylights, although I have seen used kitbashed Commissary structures on eBay with the smaller skylights.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, May 20, 2021 10:35 PM

ndbprr

They are the ones.  Thank you

 

 
I'm not so sure about those...as best I can recall, they did come with this kit...(actually two identical kits for this structure)...
 
 
...but for some reason I replaced them with scratchbuilt roofs.  The left-overs from the two kits were used to make a partial structure elsewhere...

 
...and these two do look the same...perhaps I painted them, but I don't recall.  I found another one, in the foreground on this structure...
 
 
...while the two at the far end of the structure are similar in size, but the pitch of the "glass" is less.  Since I used two kits, there should have been four steeply pitched skylights - I have one (on the structure above) and perhaps another two on the second structure.
I'm wondering where the fourth one might be, as I usually use all of the left-over parts somewhere, rather than throwing away such items.
 
...this one may be the only Walthers kit that I've built that's true to the kit's instructions and the square skylights are smaller and lower than those which were included with the Front Street Warehouse...
 
 
Here are some other ones...Walther's REA warehouse (also offered as a commissary and perhaps under other aliases, too)...
 
 
...with the square skylights the same low-pitch style as used on the kit in the previous photo.
 
These skylight(s) - there's a matching one on the other side of the roof - are part of the roof segment castings of this old Revell kit...
 
 
...while this one, a partial Magnuson kit that was in rough shape when I bought the box of parts, has scratchbuilt skylights, mainly because so much of the original kit was missing.  The unseen walls aren't detailed at all, since the left side and rear wall are pretty-much out of sight...
 
 
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Posted by ndbprr on Thursday, May 20, 2021 5:35 PM

They are the ones.  Thank you

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, May 20, 2021 11:33 AM

ndbprr
All four had the clear plastic sprue which included a four sided skylight part.  Anybody have an idea what the original kit was that used this part?

Are these two square bits on top of the Front Street Warehouse the same skylights, only painted gray?

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Posted by zstripe on Thursday, May 20, 2021 10:51 AM

richhotrain

 

 
ndbprr

Four of the Walthers buildings had sprues of parts from other buildings leaving unused parts which is fine.  All four had the clear plastic sprue which included a four sided skylight part.  Anybody have an idea what the original kit was that used this part? None of the window sprues had a skylight window.   

 

 

Walthers Cornerstone Engineering Office and also Walthers Cornerstone Railway Express Agency (REA).

 

Rich

 

I used them on Bear's shop kit-bash...main roof.

Correction: The ones I used for Bear's roof are Not the same as the ones mentioned in Rich's post. The one's I used are long narrow one piece rectangle in shape. The ones in Rich's post buildings are short square piece's (4) in the plans.

Now I don't remember where mine came from. Had to be a cornerstone kit. I bought many cornerstone kits, for just a lot of the parts a number of times.

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, May 20, 2021 10:15 AM

ndbprr

Four of the Walthers buildings had sprues of parts from other buildings leaving unused parts which is fine.  All four had the clear plastic sprue which included a four sided skylight part.  Anybody have an idea what the original kit was that used this part? None of the window sprues had a skylight window.   

Walthers Cornerstone Engineering Office and also Walthers Cornerstone Railway Express Agency (REA).

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Posted by Southgate 2 on Thursday, May 20, 2021 9:27 AM

NorthBrit

When I have enough 'parts' I make lean to sheds,  small roadside cafe,  extensions to other buildings etc..   Thereby having 'one of' types of structures.

 

David

 

I do that in real life! 'Cept for the cafe. I may add a model of my 1/1 shop to my layout. It's made of about about 75% repurposed material . Dan

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Posted by NorthBrit on Thursday, May 20, 2021 9:12 AM

Sorry I cannot aswer your query,  but I love the 'extra bits' in kits.

When I have enough 'parts' I make lean to sheds,  small roadside cafe,  extensions to other buildings etc..   Thereby having 'one of' types of structures.

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, May 20, 2021 7:59 AM

Edit: I put down the wrong kit in my answer... looking for the correct kit.

OK... I know the part you are talking about. I have a few in my scrap box too. I looked at images of the Walthers Cornerstone kits that I have built, and none of them seem to use that part.

Sorry... I cannot help with this one.

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Posted by ndbprr on Thursday, May 20, 2021 7:45 AM

During the pandemic I have been assembling several buildings for the railroad.  Four of the Walthers buildings had sprues of parts from other buildings leaving unused parts which is fine.  All four had the clear plastic sprue which included a four sided skylight part.  Anybody have an idea what the original kit was that used this part? None of the window sprues had a skylight window.  As an aside I did develop an easy way to make mortar lines.  I used a damp 1/2" flat paint brush dipped into drywall compound which was painted on the walls at a 45 degree angle to fill vertical and horizontal joints at the same time. A consistency about like tomato soup is perfect.  When dry it is very easy to clean off the excess with a paper towel.

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