The 1875 Firehouse
I modified this Campbell kit, which I found on eBay in 2006, by building more of it out of plastic than the company intended. When I saw that the directions call for assembling the plain front from several pieces of clapboard, I thought it made more sense to build it from a single sheet of plastic clapboard, and since I was doing that I decided to use an attractive Grandt engine house door, which looked better than the original wooden one. Since I also had a few Grandt corbels in my scrap box, I decided to build all the moldings out of plastic, too. Rather than creating the belltower roof from four pieces of shingled cardboard, I used a plastic one-piece roof that I've had hanging around for years (I did drill a hole and add the Campbell final).
Furthermore, because the gingerbread decoration for the belltower Campbell provides is white plastic, I decided to go ahead and build the whole thing from plastic. Everything else follows the original plans, except that I moved the small doorway from the front to the left side, both because it makes the front look better and because it adds interest to the otherwise blank side wall.
In November 2016 this little building left Galilee harbor via eBay. [GPL].
