At Barrage 2015 I picked up three Graham Farish 10mm (N scale) railroad building kits. This weekend I finally took the time to assemble them. While my assembly wasn’t perfect, I think the final outcome is passable. With more practice, I think I could do a better job.
This is what the kits look like in the box. There were apparently many different kits at one time. I got these in a flea market, and I have not looked to see if they are still available.
When you pull them out of the box you get a bunch of these building blocks that have to be cut from the sprues and trimmed. You get some instructions, and you get several sheets of facades to be applied to the building blocks. I suspect these kits were quite old, but the gummy backs on the facades was still quite strong. They are not die cut, so you trim the backs from the sheets, peel off the wax-paper backing, and stick them to the building blocks.
They assembled quite easily. You almost don’t need the instructions. There are some extra facades, so you can do a bit of customization. The facades are meant to be photo realistic, and look pretty good once assembled.
There were even a couple of extra bits so that I could make these small sheds / garages.
On the whole, while a little large, I think the effect is good. I really like the middle kit in the top picture that had the three stores. The buildings will look okay in 10mm games and also some 10mm near future / science fiction games.
