I got to talk with Jim Sacco, owner of City Classics at the recent WGH show. He's a super nice guy! He explained the design and mold process of his products to me. He had a BEAUTIFUL little show layout showcasing his products. I got lots of great tips and ideas from it. Just thought I'd share some pics with all of you.I really like the way he used his building fronts to make large, modular style buildings. He made up some to fit really odd spaces on the layout. PS-Jim's a forum member.
Those are some great looking buildings
Thanks for sharing
Yep Jim is a great guy !
I'm still waiting for the Mods to approve my pictures from the Houston Show
Seems like every time i try to post more than one picture I have to wait for approval
TerryinTexas
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To bad City Classics couldn't make the San Antonio WGH show. Walthers doesn't promote their own structures, just their trains. The only structures on display was Woodland Scenics with their ready-built scenes and their scenery of course They had a banner saying they own DPM but no displays I realize that most of these companies are small outfits but even if they were represented by flyers would have been nice. Perhaps in this case everyone was at Houston......
Eric
Love to see the building "built" on a slope. Very cool looking
Loco Love to see the building "built" on a slope. Very cool looking
Yeah, that's a nice little touch. I'm thinking about building my city up on a hill and incorporating that into it. He showed me how to remove a little strip from his building fronts and make a wide store front with them. You can't see it in the photos, but he used fake pearls for the globes on his street lights. They looked great! I didn't realize he sold concrete retaining walls either.
Thanks for posting those pics--that was a nice setup he had.
As perhaps an interesting aside, the portion of the City Classics show layout trackplan within the simple outter loop follows the design of Chuck Yungkurth's famed switchback railroad the Gum Stump & Snowshoe, the trackplan that long, long ago MR editor Linn Westcott said that he considered to be the best overall trackplan ever designed. Cetainly, it is one that has been duplicated innumerable times over the past almost 50 years by model railroaders around the world...particularly those building modest shelf layouts.
CNJ831
What a great looker! Thanks for sharing.
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CNJ831,
Like good wine some things gets better with age..
IMHO That is a good type of switching layout for display because of the super detailing one can do on such a small layout...
Larry
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Too bad they don't do anything but gas stations in N scale... At least we have room for big cities on even a small layout!
They're another one of those outfits that say "But we don't sell much N scale" and we say "But you don't make anything we want in N scale" "But we don't sell much N scale". "But you don't.... oh nevermind"
The Walther's automobile industry series is another good example of that bass-ackwards approach to marketing...
Lee
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That is really nice. The brick along the sidewalk just gave me lots of ideas....chuck
Capt. GrimekTaller than most
This is the same layout they brought to the Big E show in W. Springfield MA; it looks good. I like to see what the finished buildings can look like. Bar Mills had a good display as well. Too bad some others can't show off their products in a similar manner.
I bought their tile front building some time ago; 5 stories is too tall for what I am modeling, so I just cut one floor out of the thing. It works for me.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Lee-He said he took a few hits from you N scalers over the gas station! I don't need a gas station, but for the price, I might buy one just to get the pumps and details that come with it.
Although not having the typical eastern city , I do have several of his kits on my Southwestern layout. Nice kits.
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/