Miniature HO-Scale Radiator Route 66 Courthouse Springs Red’s Building Assembled White 1:87 by Gold Rush Bay
Gold Rush Bay Ready Built miniature HO-Scale Radiator Route 66 Courthouse Springs Red’s Building Measures 5.5 inches tall by 4 inches wide by 4 inches deep.
The Route 66 Courthouse meticulously designed to look like a slightly worn, early-to-mid 20th-century civic building with automotive-inspired details.
Here is a detailed breakdown of its architectural exterior:
1. Overall Style and Materiality
• Style: The design is a blend of simple Western/Route 66 architecture and classic American municipal design, giving it a look that is grand enough to be a town's center but modest enough for a small desert community.
• Scale: It is built to human scale but is prominently positioned as the anchor building at the end of the town's main street, Route 66.
2. Dual-Use Structure
The building is visually divided to represent its two functions:
• Ground Floor (Fire Department): This section is the Fire Department.
• It is generally made of a heavier, resembling red brick or stone, giving it a robust base.
• It features large, arched or rectangular garage door openings for the fire truck, emphasizing its utilitarian function.
• While the second floor resembles an official courthouse with large windows to allow the truth to be exposed to clear daylight.
3. Route 66 Automotive Details (Car-itecture)
The most unique and charming aspects of the design are the architectural elements that are subtly sculpted to resemble car parts:
• Windows: The courthouse windows are highly stylized, often in the shape of classic radiator caps or grilles, featuring segmented panes that mimic the vertical fins of a radiator.
• Trim and Decoration: Architectural trim, railings, and decorative supports are often sculpted to look like leaf springs, piston rods, or other engine components.
You will receive the entire structure in white color for easy painting. Your Courthouse will be packaged securely but due to the extremely detailed nature, some finial, window or railing details my become misaligned or broken in shipping. Not a toy as small parts can be hazardous to young children. Condition is New. Good luck and happy modeling!
About the Company: Gold Rush Bay is dedicated to making the most realistic assembled Architectural Miniatures. Our goal is to have the largest catalog of architecture and Interior designs pre-assembled. Architecture has notoriously been hard to model in miniature by hand due to its intricate geometries. By offering assembled and color products instead of kits, the modeler can get more details in their models with less effort. Thus our highly detailed miniatures are favored by train enthusiasts and dollhouse collectors alike who want to bring their miniature worlds to life. We will continue to invent ways to produce the most intricate designs for collectors. Each Gold Rush Bay product is proudly made in the United States.