Downtown Deco - DD2002 - Structure, Building - Commercial Structures - Part III

Specific Item Information: This typical skid row/downtown hotel includes the “Palace Hotel & Card Room,” “Red’s Bar” and the “Downtown Apartments”. Part Three of a Three part series. 2 5/8th” x 2 3/4″.

Road Name History: Commercial structures are any buildings or other man-made structures whose principal purpose is trade. These can be high-rise officer towers, gas stations or fruit stands. Any structure where end-user customers come to buy things from sellers of that product or service are consider commercial structures.

This group will therefore include quite large as well as quite small buildings. Models of these buildings might be kits or pre-assembled. They might be painted or undecorated. They might come with a host of accessories and figures or they might be fairly Spartan.

Brand/Importer Information: Downtown Deco produces a line of finely detailed structure kits. The kits include beautifully detailed Hydrocal castings, plastic Grandt Line doors and windows, full color signs and complete, easy to understand painting & aging instructions. Some kits also include laser cut stencils for painting the large signs on the sides of the structures. These kits are unique in the fact that the master patterns are all hand carved, brick by brick and stone by stone. This gives the buildings a much more realistic look than mass produced plastic or resin kits because it allows me to add much more detail and character to the castings. A former professional Hollywood Scenic Artist, Randy Pepprock founded the company in 1993 after relocating from Los Angeles California.