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REVIEW |
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WALTHERS PETERSON TOOL SPECIALTIES
HO SCALE FACTORY KIT |
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PRICE: $49.98 |
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A couple of years ago, Walthers released an Ho scale kit called Peterson Tool Specailties. Its based on factories that were built in the early '50's. With large windows, a combintaion of an interior rail and truck loading docks, this kit can be used from era's from the 1950's to present day.
Its modualr design makes it easy to fit the small space on your layout, or in combination with another, can make a monster of a modern factory. Ease of construction will even make a novice modeler look like a pro.
If you go to pick one up at your local hobby shop, make sure you eat your Wheaties first. The kit weighed in at almost ten pounds. Theres a lot of plastic here. |
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The insturuction were pretty clear, though the diagrams seemed faded.The part numbers corresponded with numbers on the sprue. Any of the popular styrene plastic glues can be used to assemble this kit. All the parts came molded either gray or blue, with clear for the windows.
I spray painted the window frames, loading dock doors and access doors Polly Scale Reefer white. The foundation and anything else that looked concrete got a covering of Polly Scale Aged Concrete. The brick work was painted Box Car Red, with the trailer bumpers gettin Grimy Black |
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The instructions showed the truck loading doors on the office side. I put mine on the same side as the rail door.Just seemed logical. |
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Big windows means either a veiw block or a partial interior. I scratch built a rail lodaing dock, using the ground level truck doors(part # 49) as a wall. |
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The kit is designed to so you can hold two 50 foot boxcars inside, but unless you want a coupler in your secretary's face, or a worker having to go around a flat car to get to his machine, this didn't seem right. So I scratch built a rail loading dock with a bumper, end wall and even included lights in the ceiling. Careful measuring, I made the rail loading area to fit a modern 60 foot box car. |
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