Louis - Actually I don't think that you pissed anybody off yet with the latest discussions. At least not since
Bruce (NG) took offense a few months ago. Some good-natured chiding has gone your way from all that I could tell.
Garry said it all in post #966. But it is time to get back to basics.
I mentioned a few days ago that I was upgrading a Magnuson Models resin structure that I assembled many years ago. Here's a front and rear view of that structure. Had a few other photos that weren't any good. I'll get some more. So far I added roof details. dock details and signs. The smokestack came with the kit. These kits have some nicely detailed features in the molds, everything else has to be added.
Just to repeat, this kit is called V. F. Transfer Service. I did not add the dock roofs when I built it, I may at some point but I will make them out of styrene instead of the cardstock that was provided in the kit. This kit came out in 1981 or so. They had a whole series of "V.F." kits, which stood for Valley Falls, their version of "Plasticville". As I posted the other day, they were acquired by Walther's sometime, prior to 1990, who reissued many of their kits in styrene plastic instead of resin. Among them were "Bill's Glass House", "Don's Shoe Store", the "Gemini Building" and "Leviathan Manufacturing". They also had some of the original "Merchant's Row" kits. Walther's re-released some of them again recently with names like "Cristie's Pet Supply", "Jim's Red Owl" and "Flowers by Terry". There are certainly others that I may have forgotten or don't know about to begin with.
The original owners, Bob and Lynn Lunde, went on to create DPM and have since done something else with some of the Magnuson molds that they kept.
So much for today's model railroading history lesson. I'll get more pictures of this as well as some of their other models when I remember.
Willie