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Town Hall
Posted by c.rogers8705 on Friday, January 13, 2012 1:18 PM

So I am looking for a town hall building for my layout. I have only been able to find 1 that wasnt a european style. The one I did find im not sold on but ill get if if my choices are limited. It is the red and white from Bachman Trains. If anyone has found another I would appreciated if you could tell me where to look. 

 

Thanks. 

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Posted by tgindy on Friday, January 13, 2012 2:13 PM

Take a gander at Design Preservation Models (DPM) for that vintage building.  For example, DPM's First Bank Building can easily provide that downtown polished look -- "converted" to a town hall -- Also seen on eBay.

Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956

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Posted by steinjr on Friday, January 13, 2012 2:13 PM

 What scale?  What do you mean by "town hall building" ? Town halls come in many sizes and shapes. What kinda place, what era?

 Here is e.g. a H0 scale DPM two story small brick "County Court House" that easily could be relabeled  "Town Hall": http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/243-12500

 Here is a 3 story H0 scale office building that Walthers call a "Rail Shops Engineering Office": http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-2967

 Walthers "Bailey Savings and Loan" : http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3031

 Branchline's "Herman's Fire House": http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/181-200

 A Branchline school house: http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Branchline-HO-644-Laser-Art-Structure-Kits-School-p/181-644.htm

 Go browse - don't just look at the name on the box - look at the building :-)

 Smile,
 Stein

 

 

 

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Posted by cowman on Friday, January 13, 2012 6:03 PM

As mentioned, a town hall can take many looks.  One town I used to live in uses the old school house,  Where I now live the town hall falls in line with several current and former churches and could have been one of them.  Pick a building you  like the looks of and put a Town Hall sign out front.

Have fun,

Richard

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Posted by EM-1 on Friday, January 13, 2012 7:49 PM

A town hall can definitely take about any form one can think of.  My home town used to have city Hall in an old, large farmhouse that had been expaanded several times.  It was replaced in the 70s with a much more modern multi story building,giving probably 6 times the original floor space.  One nearby town has theirs in what looks like a Southern Plantation main house.  Another town has two downtown municipal building, city hall and police/fire in buildings that look much like some of the European buildings by Faller or Kibri.  Seems to me there was a small town visited on TV where the town hall was in the town's only business, a sort of General Store/restaraunt.

Just pick out a building you feel combortable with and put up a sign saying Town Hall, City Hall, or some such thing.

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Posted by GARYIG on Saturday, January 14, 2012 7:13 PM
Could not find anything that looked like what i need for my fictitious town in RI so i built my own http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f336/GIIG21/100_0903.jpg http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f336/GIIG21/100_0907.jpg
Gary Iglesias, Hialeah, FL http://photobucket.com/GARYS_TOWN
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Posted by tomikawaTT on Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:32 PM

Town halls come in all kinds of unlikely packages, from baroque (with gargoyles at the corners of the ornate cornices) to pole barn (with tin siding and roof - erected hastily to substitute for a more traditional building damaged by fire.)  More than a few modern communities have city offices which could masquerate as real estate offices or medical facilities.

So, depending on the geographical location and history (and the era) City Hall can be anything from imposing to hilarious.  More than one agricultural community, faced with declining population, sold off the old city hall and now does business in a downtown storefront.  Think outside of the box.

Of course, you can always take the box, install Grandt Line doors and windows, wallpaper it with brick paper and put a cornice around the top.  Add roof vents, stack pipes, a staircase shelter and (if modern) a HVAC air handler - viola!  City Hall.

Or you can do what I've done and let it be a virtual site on the aisleway side of the fascia.  City Hall doesn't have rail service.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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Posted by c.rogers8705 on Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:10 PM

Thanks for all the advice. I think I have found the one I wanted. It kinda reminds me of the Back to the Future clock tower building. 

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:12 PM

Front left is Cornerstone from Walthers

 

Dave

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Posted by steinjr on Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:03 PM

c.rogers8705

Thanks for all the advice. I think I have found the one I wanted. It kinda reminds me of the Back to the Future clock tower building. 

 Good for you. Now, how about spending a few seconds more of your own time on giving a little more details?

What modeling scale, what era and what type of location was it? Which one did you pick - what is it called, who makes it?

 Could be that the building you found will be helpful for others, too. Knowing that you ask vague questions, and that you don't interact much with people who respond to you is not necessarily much help for others :-)

 Smile,
 Stein

 

 

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Posted by Ron High on Sunday, January 15, 2012 8:18 AM

How about the old Heljan / ConCor Tombstone Courthouse kit?

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Posted by leighant on Monday, January 16, 2012 1:24 PM

Perhaps this might give you an idea...  Saint Charles Missouri former city hall, now houses historical society archive, where I found 100+ year old Sanborn's maps of the St. Charles Car Company/ American Car & Foundry car shops.

 

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