"Toy kit for building balsa clapboard buildings?" Topic
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| Yonderboy | 05 Mar 2008 11:04 a.m. PST |
When I was about 10 (mid 1980's US) someone gave me a strange toy set for building clapboard buildings a la the Wild West. It consisted of some cardstock building punch outs that you could stand up; a battery powered saw (circular, fully encased for safety, smaller than a coke can) for trimming the boards, and a small quantity of thin wood (balsa or fir) boards to feed into the saw. In the end, you glued the boards to the cardstock buildings and it looked like a clapboard house. Douse anyone remember this? |
| Doctor Bedlam | 05 Mar 2008 11:38 a.m. PST |
Yes. It was scaled for "army men" sized cowboys (54mm, 1/35 scale, or thereabouts). Dated around 1981, I think. |
| Highland Guerilla | 05 Mar 2008 4:17 p.m. PST |
'Oy!Thats how I build my old west stuff.I use bearpaw bannana bread boxes with a scored balsa veneer and varied roofing styles.Fast,easy and looks bloody good.
Mind you,four kids makes for a surplus o' boxes.The ease with which you can split one box into a number of shotgun stores and buildings of varying height while retaining structural integrity is a boon to fast,accurate,visually pleasing terrain. Balsa,Dare(coy.) bearpaw boxes,white glue and an x-acto. |
| CeruLucifus | 05 Mar 2008 4:55 p.m. PST |
I don't remember it but that toy saw sounds like it could be handy. |
| Doctor Bedlam | 06 Mar 2008 6:30 a.m. PST |
Only on balsa wood. And only then, when the lengths are of the proper size and shape to fit the "sawmill" toy. You could do the same with an X-Acto knife more easily and cheaply. |
| Dewbakuk | 07 Mar 2008 9:43 a.m. PST |
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