Places that sell newyork scenery

[dukenukem]

I have been looking for some new york buildings like the empire state building but haven't found any place that has a scale model of it other then a lego version of the empire building.Any one else had luck finding scale models of city buildings?

 

[Gary B]

Well, the problem is the size of these things. The Empire State would be almost 14 feet tall in HO. Even at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, the massive HO model of Chicago to Seattle has the Chicago skyscrapers scaled down to 60% to fit. See MSI website.
Bachmann built a series of large buildings (tallest 15 stories) a number of years ago but dropped them. Several of us on this forum were lucky to get some on closeout really cheap. Now good luck finding them. There are a couple of limited run type manufactures doing similar structures but we are talking $100s per building.
The only way to do a very large skyscraper is to make a very small scale model and position so it looks a few miles away.
I did find a model of the Empire State building in paper that a book store was closing out. Not sure the scale but it was about 3 feet tall. I used it for background parts, but it certainly could be built into a nice model with some care.

 

[John P]

This company does some nice kits of large buildings, but you'd best have money in your pocket:

http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/ho.aspx

 

[RW&C]

http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/HO_S...2&show=40&page=1&brand=Custom Model Railroads

These guys carry the same stuff at what appears to be less of an arm and a leg cost. With the extenders you can get for these you could theoretically have layout-to-ceiling buildings. It'll still set you back a ways though.

My two cents: Get some square aluminum drain pipe material, some brick paper, and a huge bag of plastic windows, and make your crazy tall buildings that way.