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Tiny Houses
Topic Started: Nov 15 2017, 09:45 AM (997 Views)
pjedsel
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I have a few ceramic buildings - none - not even the cheap ones look as bad as those tiny houses - what were they thinking? :rolleyes:
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I bought all three. They are plaster/ceramic. I'd compare them to the Christmas villages you see. The painting on those is never perfect either. But I wholeheartedly agree these could have been executed much much better. I don't care about the concept of tiny houses and I'm disappointed in the quality, so why did I still buy them? One, I like the trucks. Particularly the Dodge, that one is excellent. And two, they will make decent props for dioramas. But now that I have the three, I won't be adding recolors. From here on out, the truck towing the house will have to be worth getting in its own right.
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Ripa
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I wish they had just released the trucks pulling them separately.. the houses look quite bad and I don't need them so I will pass on the whole release
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GothicCarsUrban
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I think I'm going to try stripping the paint off a tiny house, cutting the windows & doors out, replacing those with model railroad building kit stuff, painting more realistically, and adding exterior utility hookups. These may well have potential for a kitbasher or customizer to make them better.
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microbuss
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ok I knows this is the JL page but I saw some Maisto ones at WM & they are better looking than these!
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toyotageek
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microbuss
Nov 17 2017, 07:58 PM
ok I knows this is the JL page but I saw some Maisto ones at WM & they are better looking than these!
Pictures?
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lovesolderplymouths
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Quality aside, I think those "tiny" houses are far too large to be pulled by those JL pickup trucks. They seem a bit out of scale to me. The Dodge trucks are found in an upcoming JL release as rusty and primered versions, so we will certainly see the Ford and Chevy released as singles soon too (I expect).
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jedimario
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Found these at TRU today and passed on them. I agree with the above comment that they looked out of scale. They could have done better with this one.
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Jordan R
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Don't forget too that the trucks themselves are under-scale. Perhaps a better judge of scale would be to park one of the houses next to GL's Ram casting.
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Jordan R
Nov 18 2017, 03:13 PM
Don't forget too that the trucks themselves are under-scale. Perhaps a better judge of scale would be to park one of the houses next to GL's Ram casting.
Indeed they may be better scaled to a GL Ram or F150, but since they are sold as a set and not individually (houses), JL should have scaled the house to match the tow vehicles. I also think the boats of the "Gone Fishin'" series fit better scale-wise to some tow vehicles than others. The Caprice Estate, for example is small to begin with and appears undersized for the boat. I voted no to my collection.
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Douglas
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Well I picked one up today for a Christmas gift for a friend, she thinks the real life tiny houses are neat, and I must admit that being in carpentry all my life the interior layout and designs of them intrigue me.

Anyway, I got the last version shown in the original post with the Ford PU, however it wouldn't have been my first choice of trucks available here, only because I think the wheels are way too small looking on the Ford, but unfortunately it had the only house with a decent enough paint job to look like somewhat of a realistic structure rather than like it was painted in 4 seconds flat, though it still is not so great, the paint on the rest of them on the pegs were a real mess.

Now that I see Microbuss's post about Maisto offering them as well, I may have to check at WMs and see if any will make a better gift.
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karl53186
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Found these at Hobby lobby. Ah I will be nice, there bad, really bad. The houses are way to big, and detailed like a bad ceramic plate your kid does in art class. Except I do not have to worry about hurting some ones feelings by saying the y are really bad. Nice job JL, F for effort.
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