The Dinosaur Bar-B-Que sign (above) is based on a small chain of restaurants in New York that is popular with everyone from bikers to
The following weekend, the guys and I had a very lengthy discussion on how to do this. Another friend, Hugh Grimsley, a vinyl wallpaper hanger and painter by profession, suggested placing ¹₈″-thick acrylic plastic above the tracks as a base for the city. We determined that we could support it with strips of acrylic plastic, which would allow plenty of clearance for trains. Where there was no track 1″ foam stacked three layers high could be used for the remainder of the city’s base. We put everything together, then Hugh covered the entire base with white vinyl. It worked well enough that to this day I am unable to determine where the acrylic sheet and the foam join. The base of the city was now in place, and it was time to lay out the streets and buildings. Supply Line had just come out with their Union Trust Bank, which I kitbashed by replacing the right brick wall with a front stone wall. The bank was thus transformed into the Brunswick & Tuscan Railroad’s Brunswick station with a covered stair- way leading to the passenger platform below street level. At the time Supply Line was also introducing several store front structures that were appropriate for a growing city, so I added them to the projects for the new city. Additionally, City Classics had just released two five-story, modular front buildings. Four Baum Boulevard Art Deco building kits were used to con- struct F.W. Woolworth’s, and Arlene’s Leading Jewelry (named after my wife) was constructed from three East Ohio Street buildings.
Once you start looking, you can find a lot of structure kits for large city modeling. Among them are the Magnu- son Models Victorian style-buildings, of course, which included a hotel, movie theater, department store, firehouse, town houses, etc. Many of these were
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business people. The Nordis Garage (above right) was kitbashed by Mike Fuller from the B. More Catalog Showroom kit by DPM.
out of production when I started Brunswick, and it took over a year to locate them all. One advantage I had was that I had a listing of all these kits
with their dimensions, a great help in city planning. Ultimately, every DPM city structure was used in Brunswick, and once painted they were easy to
Holy Family Church (above) is located at the edge of a quiet residential neighborhood. The yellow brick house to the left of the church is the parish rectory. Smelly’s Rubbish Removal workers (below) have gotten an early start emptying the trash cans.
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