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Showcase Miniatures - 1101 - Commercial Structure - Commercial Structures - Val-U Fuels & Oils

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Stock Number1101
Original Retail Price$59.95
BrandShowcase Miniatures
ManufacturerShowcase Miniatures
Body StyleShowcase Miniatures Structure Small
Image Provider's WebsiteLink
PrototypeCommercial Structure
Road or Company NameCommercial Structures (Details)
Road or Reporting NumberVal-U Fuels & Oils
Ready-to-RunNo
Kit ComplexityModerate Skills
Kit Material(s)Laser-Cut Wood
Release Date1995-01-01
Item CategoryStructures
Model TypeBuildings
Model SubtypeCommercial
Model VarietyOil Dealer



Specific Item Information: Here's Jason Jensen's first structure design brought to N Scale by popular demand. The Val-U brand includes fuel, oil and other petroleum products. The warehouse has seen better days but is still in operation.
Model Information: Precision laser cut parts including peel-and-stick backed windows for easy assembly. Pewter metal casting details.
Road Name History:
Commercial structures are any buildings or other man-made structures whose principal purpose is trade. These can be high-rise officer towers, gas stations or fruit stands. Any structure where end-user customers come to buy things from sellers of that product or service are consider commercial structures.

This group will therefore include quite large as well as quite small buildings. Models of these buildings might be kits or pre-assembled. They might be painted or undecorated. They might come with a host of accessories and figures or they might be fairly Spartan.
Brand/Importer Information:
Founded by Joe Warren, in Cherry Valley, California, in 1995, Showcase Miniatures manufactures high quality cast pewter metal, etched brass, and/or laser cut wood model railroad structures, vehicles, and accessories in HO, N, and Z Scale. Moved to Tuskegee, Alabama in 2012, Walter Vail is Showcase Miniatures current owner and product designer. In developing new products, Walter employs different methods such as hand sculpting and the use of 3D computer software. Crafted by a master modeler, who has had his scratch-built science fiction models featured in Kalmbach Publishing's FineScale Modeler magazine, and previously designed products for businesses such as C-in-C Soft Metal Castings, FASA, GHQ, and Ral-Partha Enterprises, the high quality detail exhibited in every Showcase Miniatures product is certainly not a coincidence.
Item created by: nscalestation on 2018-10-07 19:43:59. Last edited by CNW400 on 2020-06-13 18:03:30

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