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 Posted - November 15 2012 : 12:11:01 AM
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Ok I searched far and wide and couldn't find out who made this building. What's worse is I didn't take any "before" pictures before I ripped it apart to rebuild. Thankfully it was in the background of one of my layout shots. Is brown & yellow with little opening doors on both sides. Has some type of tank mounted to the back side (can't be seen in this photo since its not attached. Trying to find pictures of it so I can figure out what I can maybe build it into. Thanks for the help!
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Posted - November 15 2012 : 07:04:23 AM
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Chris,
I'm in the same boat........ I too have that building and am going to use it as a freight house extension to a station.......
I couldn't find who made it, or what it is to be......
~John
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Posted - November 15 2012 : 2:28:47 PM
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| I too have that building, but painted the yellow green. I received mine in a parts lot. I do not know who made it. I can say that it is constructed similarly to a few of the Hella buildings I have.
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Posted - November 15 2012 : 2:55:15 PM
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quote:I too have that building, but painted the yellow green. I received mine in a parts lot. I do not know who made it. I can say that it is constructed similarly to a few of the Hella buildings I have.
Originally posted by tkruger - November 15 2012 : 2:28:47 PM
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I'm assuming you ment Heljan? I was looking at them yesterday, but what you said jolted my brain. After some google work I found this...
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/hlj/hlj137.htm
Swedish Farm eh? Whats funny is it explains why I have this in my family's collection...
/tyco/forum/uploaded/ChrisC/DSCF2875.jpg
And turned it into this haha.
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Posted - November 15 2012 : 3:15:47 PM
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quote: quote:I too have that building, but painted the yellow green. I received mine in a parts lot. I do not know who made it. I can say that it is constructed similarly to a few of the Hella buildings I have.
Originally posted by tkruger - November 15 2012 : 2:28:47 PM
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I'm assuming you ment Heljan? I was looking at them yesterday, but what you said jolted my brain. After some google work I found this...
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/hlj/hlj137.htm
Swedish Farm eh? Whats funny is it explains why I have this in my family's collection...
/tyco/forum/uploaded/ChrisC/DSCF2875.jpg
And turned it into this haha.
/tyco/forum/uploaded/ChrisC/DSCF2902.jpg
Originally posted by ChrisCÂ -Â November 15 2012Â :Â 2:55:15 PM
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I received that same house in the lot also! We might be on to something.
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Posted - November 16 2012 : 01:50:09 AM
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quote:
I received that same house in the lot also! We might be on to something.
Originally posted by tkruger - November 15 2012 : 3:15:47 PM
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Yea I think Heljan might be our company. Here is the odd thing, I'm pretty sure I've see that exact house show up under other manufactures names before. Just colored different, different details, etc. So I'm wondering if this barn (guess we can refer it as that?) ended up any where else?
If anyone has pics of theirs I'd like to see it. I'm trying to see what different colors might look like so I have a better idea on what to do with mine. I'm slowly getting a battle plan together in my head haha. My main issue is I want to use this as a manufactures warehouse with a rail side loading dock. This means moving the whole structure up off the ground a bit. So I need to get a wood base or something along those lines.
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Posted - November 16 2012 : 10:47:19 AM
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Heljan, Interesting......I'm not sure if its a barn or what but makes a nice added "station storage" for me as it does fit in pretty good for matching the "Rico Station" with some detail changes!
Interesting, guys!
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Posted - November 22 2012 : 11:25:21 PM
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| I bought one NIB marketed by Life-Like as a barn. But it is one of the Heljan kits and you can probably find other releases of it under different names.
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Posted - November 24 2012 : 02:44:51 AM
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I thought it was originally a life-like kit my parents picked up from a Sears outlet store many moons ago. Low and behold I just did a Google search and the same kit came up on Ebay once under life-like also. Like you said lvrr325 I'm sure some where in history is showed up as something else. I searched life-like kits before, but I didn't assume it was a barn I kept searching warehouse for freight station thinking that's what it was.
So a update on this building. I took some MASSIVE liberties with it. Several parts got heavily reworked. Its barely going to resemble the same building in the picture when its done. Going to take at least a week or so before its finally done, but stay tuned this is going to be a good one 
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Posted - November 27 2012 : 01:33:32 AM
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| The one I had got built but got the end cut out to become an enginehouse.
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