RSLaserKits - 3074 - General Store - Commercial Structures - The General Store

Specific Item Information: This kit is based a store in Belville, NC. Stores such as these used to be in every town and hamlet and may are still in use in small town across the county . So this structure will fit in most any era being modeled.

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: Based in Salem Oregon, RSLaserKits publishes books and manufactures model building and scenic supplies as well as laser-cut wooden vehicles, rolling stock and structures in N, Z, HO, S, O, TT and 1/32 scale.

They publish books under the name Timber Times which focus on the prototypes from the 19th century. They also provide photocopies of back issues of the "Timber Times" magazine.

The rolling stock product line includes kits for boxcars, flatcars, stock cars and gondolas. They produce kits for horse trailers and fencing as well as structures typically found in a pre-1900 setting. Their product line also includes building kits for structural details such as scaffolding, picnic tables and vehicle loads.