I didn’t plan on writing a review of this kits so I didn’t not wake content and progress photos.
Anyway, this is the first Smallville USA Kit from Rix Product in Evansville, Indiana that I’ve built. This wasn’t a bad little kits but it did have it’s problems – overall it assembles like any DPM kit, 4 walls and a roof. Flashing was minimal and drift edge were to be as expected. The walls are a little thinner I like, so you don’t have as much contact area to support the walls and you make want to add some styrene rod in the corners for better results. It did come with a balcony which I thought was a little small and the balcony floor a little to thick … to meaty, the building itself seemed a little under-size for HO, but in scale modeling there are two sizes … “scale size” and “actual size” which generally means don’t be a rivet counter. The detail was OK, the brick could have had a little more definition and the window mullion were WAY to thick to the point that they looked more like prison bars. I may cut these out on future builds and use Ticky Train windows. The kit comes with printed and laminated paper signage and window dressing which I opted not to use as it was a little to ‘toy-like/cheesy’ in appearance, so instead I used clear plastic and dressed it a little myself with the thickness of the windows mullions you can’t see the window ‘glass’ anyway. So I’m giving it a 6.5 out of 10. I’ve built far worse kits and I’ve built far better, but for it’s price point ($16.95) it is more than acceptable and yields good results.
