HO Office and Apartment Buildings

[John P Boogerd]

Does anyone have any idea where I can get Japanese buildings like the N-scale Kato and Tomix office buildings in HO scale?

[bill937ca]

Try Sankei.  I can't get these to come up as a list so I give you lots of links from HS. Nothing as tall as Tomix or Kato.  But I thiought  there was nothing on the market. The only apartment I see is two storeys.

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/search_e.asp?Typ1_c=104&scope=1&scope2=0&itkey=HO+Scale+Sankei

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10226790

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10201692

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10140874

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10138635

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10136522

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10129217

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10129216

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10126413

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10123347

Edited July 8, 2013 by bill937ca

[bikkuri bahn]

Anything modern or tall will likely be the realm of scratchbuilding or kitbashing from American/European kits.  People just don't have room for layouts with such buildings, much less hobby shops with shelf space for them.

[marknewton]

John, I'm not aware of any tall modern building kits in HO scale. As bikkuri bahn says, you're looking at scratchbuilding or kitbashing.

 

A model structure that would be suitable for kitbashing is this:

 

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/PIKO-Plattenbau-WBS70-Basis-Set-/370843515027?pt=DE_Modellbau_Modelleisenbahnen&hash=item5657fef893&_uhb=1

 

However, you might consider this as an alternative:

 

http://scalescenes.com/products/T007-Office-Block

 

I have started building one of these structures to go on my son's tramway layout, and I see that another forum member has built one in N scale:

 

http://www.jnsforum.com/community/topic/5438-papercraft-models/page-4?do=findComment&comment=82832

 

Food for thought!  :)

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

Edited July 8, 2013 by marknewton

[John P Boogerd]

Thanks for the help, guys - I have some ideas now.