Cornerstone Walthers 533237 "Papierwerk Superiors Paper Com Model Kit

I suppose you could build this as one large facility for your layout, but I re-purposed the kit into five separate elements. But first, this is not a beginners kit. The two buildings required lots of patience, painters tape, and rubber bands to assemble. Now, on to the kit:First, the power plant building. I built it as-is, added a Tomix N scale substation and cooling towers, and presto, I now have a modern coal-fired power plant to deliver loads of coal to. Cool!Second, the kit comes with two pulp towers (not shown on the box cover). These towers are huge. In fact, they are a realistic size and shape for modern municipal water towers. So all I had to do is create two decals with the names of the towns, and place "water towers" on my layout as a way to identify locations. Sweet.The kit also comes with a set of storage tanks plus pipes and a little shack. Those will go with the other storage tanks at my fuel oil distribution dealer. That adds yet another location to be serviced by the railroad. BTW, there are also many small extra parts in the kit to add to your spare parts box.Finally there is the factory building. After I assembled and painted the buildings, but before installing the windows, I used a technique in a recent Model Railroader to make realistic mortar: rub on drywall paste, let it dry, and rub off. To my amazement, this revealed some incredibly detailed brick work on the walls. Beautiful. Overall, this makes for a very large building by itself. I am tempted to cut it into separate one- and two-story factory buildings, adding false rear walls, and using them for separate locations. This would bring the total to six kits.My one complaint is that Walthers did not etch colored mullions and transoms onto the windows of the factory building. The windows are large solid clear plastic pieces. They could have done better.All in all, this kit can easily add multiple interesting items to any good sized N scale layout. Highly recommended.

This was my second Walthers model purchase but I was very pleased. This is by no means a beginner model but the instructions were helpful and all of the pieces fit well. Good quality and the finished product turned out pretty nice. The only complaint I could make is the picture used is of the HO model and I purchased the N scale. There are some small details in the picture that are not on used on the N scale model.