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 Posted - May 25 2010 : 11:10:10 PM
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Does anyone have this LifeLike building? This looks like something you would see during a trip to Scioto County, Ohio. I have yet to see this kit on anyones layout.
Walt
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 Posted - May 26 2010 : 05:11:12 AM
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Hi Walt,
I have had this building for what seems like forever. You can tell by the cut out signs I did years and years ago. Now that I am able to do my own decals, This building will become a diner. I added the window shades and phone booth a while back. This building could be home to just about any type of business. Thank goodness mine did not come painted like yours LOL!
Mike
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Posted - May 26 2010 : 10:40:09 AM
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This is one of my favorite little buildings! If you look closely you can see it in the background of many of my LOTW and COTW posts. It was part of my first train set, and I remember hastily gluing it together on Christmas morning. I've actually been thinking about picking up a new one so I can do a better job building and painting it.
Never heard it called a "Hillbilly Plumbing Building" before. You must be a city boy! 
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Posted - May 26 2010 : 12:36:09 PM
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hmm I'd like one someday come to think of it I think L-L used to model these on real buildings around Baltimore where they USED to be Walthers owns them now 
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Posted - May 30 2010 : 12:35:43 PM
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I got mine along with the the Mt. Vernon MFG kit and a Tyco E-7 on Christmas morning 1986. It has long since been lost but I always liked it. I believe it started in the late 1950's or early 1960's as a Ulrich kit. Im not sure but the same company that introduced the LifeLike hotel before it was the Lifelike hotel. It originaly was offerd with a railing round the front. I always thought it was a stand out kit. Walt, I have been threw Scioto County, Ohio many times and I know what you mean.
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 1:47:13 PM
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Originally posted by burlington77Â -Â May 26 2010Â :Â 10:40:09 AM
[/quote] Never heard it called a "Hillbilly Plumbing Building" before. You must be a city boy!
Must be something about the bath tub & toilet displayed outside... The building is kind of neat looking after seeing the kit built.
Walt
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Edited by - walt on May 31 2010 1:49:44 PM
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 5:16:02 PM
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Nice to see people getting all "Martha Stewart" on structures.
In the Schleicher book "The HO Model Railroading Handbook" he goes into bashing structures in a big way and he starts with Tyco stuff.
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 Posted - February 25 2012 : 12:59:20 PM
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| I have one of these on my layout, found for $1 at the local train store, minus every part that could be easily removed. No roof, no front door, and a badly warped front deck, also it was smeared with glue. It must have been an older issue of this kit because there was no place for either of the two big loading doors to fit. I repainted it, made a new cardboard roof, cut the front deck on either side of the stairs and added railings, replaced the front door with a Pikestuff one and added roof details. Some woodland senics flowering foliage and a sharpie marker later, I had a nice bank suitable for a centerpiece (centerpiece on my layout does not imply the same quality of construction as it does on other layouts!) of Main st. on my layout. All in all it set my back about $2. and gave me quite a bit of pleasure, also my first junk bin rescue project, the same method has now added quite a few more structures to my layout.
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Posted - April 03 2012 : 4:55:19 PM
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I got an interesting topic for this building.....ANYONE have ONE extra toilet that was to sit out on the loading dock?
I know, weird, but I want to mold the thing to make castings of it to install in my passenger car rest rooms and even inside of building with open windows that have the fogged glass in them! 
Kinda funny but, you know! nothing like a guy sitting on the toilet in a passenger car reading a news paper!
~John
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Do NOT try to Idiot-Proof anything!!!! God, will simply create a better......IDIOT!
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