Another First street kit from my brothers overworked craft table.

This is the Coal vendor, Not an exciting name but it’s accurate. the kit also includes coal bins and a loader.

It doesent show here but there is a ful interior.

Comments

[Steven]

I hate to complain on such a great build and a wonderful kit, or maybe I should say "can I make a suggestion". Could you make the kits with or without signage on the buildings? I will have these buildings as I enjoy clevermodels and they are taking their places on my layout but I would like to have the option of including my own signage on the buildings. Or is there a method that you could suggest to allow me to alter those kits in a way that would look good?

Thanks in Advance,

[Dave]

Steve, in the case of this kit all I can recommend is covering the signs with other signs. the reason I chose to make this building is the signs on the prototype. there's not much else that is distinctive about this building.
sorry to disappoint.

Thom

[marc witten]

Now thats an awesome little building,and i like the signage,it stands out quite justly on the building,a very neat touch,and extremely well built,all the best Marc.

[Steven]

Thanks for your response Thom, no disappointment here. I was just looking for an easy way to "kit bash" this building into other ones. I am currently working on a business district for my layout, really I'm just doodling until First Street arrives and I look for easy ways to duplicate buildings. Central Camera and now Coal Vendor and Rudy's look like great downtown business buildings, I can hardly wait till First Street arrives! oops I said that before.......... sorry.

[Ben]

The building is beautiful! And an excellent build, as usual, from Dave. Steven's comment resonated with me a bit, and I, too, would find it very handy to have the walls made available with no signage in place. It should be easy as pie for you, since you have the textures available. It would allow greater freedom with kit bashing and would also allow us to 'make the models our own'. It is awesome to have the painted on sign look that your excellent graphics provides, but a plane brick or clapboard wall could let this building be used in so many other places!

I guess if any of us were good with a photoshop type tool we could do the mod ourselves, but it would be so easy for you! Maybe you would give this idea a second thought?

Your models get better and better!

-Ben

[Ben]

I especially like how the windows are in-set in the brick wall. You can see the dimension of the bricks around the windows. Excellent.

[Dave]

My brother doesn't take any short cuts that's for sure. His build of White castle revealed some real important needed changes. I'm hoping to finish them today so we can start making disks. I'm behind on the Hobby shop build because I have a custom job in the works. (not paper)
I'll consider the requests but right now I have a lot on my plate.

[Skip Luke]

Great model -- very impressive. As to signage I would imagine Photoshop or another package like MS Paint would make it easy to change the signs.

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