A layout without buildings is just track on plywood. The structures are what tell a visitor where they are — a steel warehouse behind the team track, a row of Main Street storefronts, a stone culvert carrying a creek under the grade. This is the HO side of that work: commercial and industrial buildings, railroad structures, stations and platforms, bridges and piers, and loose wall and window parts.
Walthers Cornerstone is the backbone here, with Woodland Scenics DPM, Rix Products, Pikestuff, Smalltown USA, Micro Engineering and Atlas filling in around it. Representative kits include the Walthers Cornerstone 4080 Steel Warehouse, the DPM 10200 Robert's Dry Goods storefront, the Rix Products 652 Large Cut Stone Culvert with Wings and the Micro Engineering 75-501 50' Open-Deck Plate Girder Bridge. Smalltown USA covers the small-town block with DU kits such as the 16006 Hardware Store and 16016 Florist Shop.
Styrene kits like Pikestuff and DPM take paint and weathering well, and the modular Pikestuff parts — the 3102 roof ridge ventilators, the 1001 dome window insert — let you kitbash a structure to fit an awkward space rather than designing the space around the kit. If you would rather not build, Woodland Scenics Built-&-Ready structures such as the BR5073 Moonlite Motor Court arrive assembled and painted.
See also HO scale, bridges & piers and building parts & walls. Ships from Oakville, Ontario. Free shipping on orders over $250.
