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January
2010
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  "It's A Triple-Play"

 "It's The Most Wonderful time Of The Year"... or so the song goes.  It's easy to envision shoppers merrily pushing shopping carts through through "Staples" while anxiously awaiting their chances to ship the kids off to school... but for model railroaders it's the chilly (and downright cold !) winter months that bring to fruit many new kits for us to explore and experiment with !  Those of you in HO scale may actually like the new "stuff" enough to feel the same way... if so, feel free to sing along !
We know you know, but we'll say it anyway.  Bar Mills kits are ALWAYS about telling a story.  From the first billboard kits to the new releases listed below our kits have to "sing"... when I tell you that we have projects we've never released... not because they aren't technically ready for production... but because we don't feel they convey a "story",  I'm not kidding.
This time around we have a "trio" of (hopefully) "great" stories... plus a look at a couple of our upcoming billboards.  Read on.
Art Fahie, Jim Mooney,
& the crew at Bar Mills.
Email us at: barmillsmodels@yahoo.com, or call 207-929-3400.  We accept Visa/MC & PayPal
Introducing...


A "Tire/Lube/Battery" Store & Repair Shop !
Okay, this IS the next "1 of 500" kit... #4 in the series.

  The concept here was simple... a "period-sensitive" auto car facility that would have graced any number of places before the big "chain" stores took over.  This guy ("Pop" Gracin) would have provided only the essential & most basic of services & products.  You want air freshener & stuff to shine you car with... "FORGETTABOUTIT" !
Typical of many shops from the late 20's to the mid-fifties (and even some that are still in smaller towns) this kit is "loaded" with detail.  In an effort to keep Bar Mills kits different than the rest this is what you'll find in this offering:
1. Printed interior detail walls for the "shop" part of the kit.  The doors can be posed "open" because they feature detils on both sides of them... a great way to feature the wooden floors and new white metal detail interior casting that come with every kit.
2.  Check out the roof on the garage, not only does it feature some great new looking skylights... the interior framing has the look of a "lattice" steel truss to it.  With a little effort this part of the kit could be displayed sans roof !
3.  The kit features several new white metal castings... and some "not-so-white-metal" castings !  Before casting them into "tire piles" we had to cast & create several stacks of "tires" using about "160" individual tires to create the stacks of the things included with every kit !  Really... what's a "tire" store without tires ?
4.  The usual Bar Mills E-Z roof rafter-tail  system helps things to assembly quickly (considering)... Jim Mooney (our engineer) over-did himself on this one.
These two photos were taken "earlier-on", before the completion of the diorama.  Featuring the new "tip-out" windows by Northeastern, some new interior castings, and one of the several stacks of  as-of-yet unpainted resin tires we made sure that even a smaller building like this had plenty of detail.

 You might want to note the "interior" faces of the freight doors.... these feature detail as well so they can be posed in an "open" position. 

 
Compacted diorama size 7" x 11" (pardon the floating pick-up !)
"Pop" Gracins... "1 of 500" kit #4 (HO SCALE)
Available On Directly from the "Source"... "Bar Mills Direct"
$99.95 + $5 shipping within the US





The Barn On Rt.20...
                A "Most-Unusual Kit"... (HO Scale)
This time we've taken yet another unique approach to our structures.  This barn is a direct reproduction of a prototype... yes, it was located on Rt. 20...
(we just won't tell you on which Rt 20 !). 

Here again... if you want the "same stuff" we don't have it.  While we can't always re-invnet the wheel we try to add a little "twist" of something different in each kit.  This time around ?... full interior laser-cut framing...  board-on-board construction... BUT NOT JUST ANY board-on-board... we had these specially milled with one side of the boards unsanded so we'd be able to get a "rough-cut" look when assembling the building.  Never been done before ?... we don't think so either !
The windows & doors are laser-cut this time around... and the laser-cut shingle strips (and there are a lot of them) will keep you busy for hours !  Here again, this kit will be available on directly from Bar Mills.  We know this is a "special" one and won't fit everybodys layouts... but we though it was cool.
The model pictured was built by Martin Collard of Borodino Scale Lines in upstate NY.
Aside from being a great modeler Martins' store is the most unique craftsman-oriented store we've ever been to.
If it's unique, hard-to-get, or just super cool or just the kind of "detail" you just can't find anywhere else you'll probably find it at his shop.
Here is the weblink... Martin runs the best "go-to" shop when it comes to detailed structure building that we know of...
borodinoscaleline.com

This board-on-board construction technique will let you leave-off as many boards as you want (or don't want) to.  Make this building really decrepit... or keep it more in the period you're modeling.  Don't want to add a window or door ?... just cover-up its' opening.  Pretty straight-ahead.... and very creative !
Don't let this visual simplicity of this kit fool you... it takes as much laser-time to make one of these kits as it would take to produce 2-3 average kits in the same price range !
Structure Dimension : 9w x 3.5" Deep
"The Barn On Rt. 20" (HO Scale)
Available On Directly from the "Source"... "Bar Mills Direct"
$89.95 + $5 shipping within the US

"Old Man Hart's" Is Now Available As A "Stand-Alone" Kit....

Built for us by master craftsman Mark Doyon, this special issue of the smaller decrepit structure that originally was part of the "Hart's Transfer" limited-edition kit is now available on its own !  Use three types of roof covering, throw in some cool laser-cut windows & freight doors, add a few castings and some craftsman skills and you can have something that probably looks like noting else on your layout !  This is a kit for the creative person... the older & uglier it looks
 the better we like it !  Our little diorama measures 7.5" x 8.5"... come to think of it this would make a great office/shed for a junkyard !
"Old Man Hart's" (HO SCALE)
Available On Directly from the "Source"... "Bar Mills Direct"
$69.95 + $5 shipping within the US



N/HO size #0133  $10.95

HO/O Size #0233   $12.95



Two of our new series of billboards aere now available.  These WILL be available through your local store but have not shipped as of this time.  With finer details & more unique "architectural styles" than ever we guarantee this new issue will not look like the billboards we made popular all those years ago.
 If they can't be better... why do them at all ??
You can't tell by looking, but this billboard is actually double-sided... when we said we were looking to do something "new"... we meant it !

N/HO Scale # 0131  $9.95

HO/O Scale #0231   $11.95