Product Review - banta modelworks' Chillery's Café front # 6150 O scale - A lasercut kit

Photo 1 Copyright 2020  Nicholas Kalis

In progress model by N Kalis

Photo 2 Copyright 2020 Nicholas Kalis

Painting the scratchbuilt second-floor without whatever I had on hand. Notice this is

scribed wood, also on hand.

Product Review

Chillery's Café front # 6150 O scale $54.00 Yikes! not cheap

By banta modelworks

www.bantamodelworks.com

421 Hopkins Road

Dummerston Vermont 05301

802 258-3869

billwks@sover.net

This is a laser cut wood it. "Each kit is made up from what we call the interior box, something all of our kits are designed with". The O scale footprint for Chillery's is 3 5/8" wide by 2 5/8" deep and 7 1/2" tall. banta's website reads that they use industrial lasers for cutting and etching wood

I found banta's windows very difficult to install. I also cut off the sidewalk as I prefer to use my own sidewalks. Wooden canopy and some windows have yet to be installed

Intended for the Waipahu merchant area on my Oahu Sugar Company layout. O scale was chosen for forced perspective (actually more properly called "reduced scale" - forced perspective is something else but the modeling community continues to use the term

incorrectly).