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A view of a whimsical small town built from
Kiva's GardenTowns patterns
Download the full brochure, which contains
details of the whole product line together with our
terms and conditions:
Garden
Towns Brochure
Our
Garden Towns brochure and products were built on
a Macintosh computer using Deneba's
Canvas
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Introduction
Kiva Design's GardenTowns products are a family
of documents containing patterns and instructions
for constructing a wide variety of
1/24th scale model buildings
and accessories. This scale matches the popular
Large Scale Garden Railways.
Although the buildings are compatible with
Garden Railways, they may also be used in flower
gardens or as a backdrop toy for a child. Build a
town complete with roads,shrubs, lights, ponds or
whatever you like.
There's a range of buildings offered. Each
GardenTowns product describes either just one
building - such as the church, the railway station
or the barn - or a family of buildings, such as
flat-roofed houses, small town buildings or houses
with 60-degree roofs.
All our designs are available as downloadable
documents which you can print from your computer as
many times as you want . The documents are in Adobe
Acrobat "pdf" format, and so they can be printed by
just about any computer on just about any
printer.
Tools and Skills
Required
The buildings are fairly simple structures,
requiring just basic woodworking skills and tools,
although some buildings will require you to miter
some components (for example, the roofs of the 60
degree Roof Houses)
The buildings may be constructed from anything
convenient, but the instructions assume you'll want
to use quarter-inch ply for the structures and
1/8th inch thick wood for
doors and windows.
Finishing and
Detailing
Our plans leave the final details to you. You
can simply paint the models, or you can take
advantage of the many items on the market, such as
scaled wood shingles, sidings, stones, bricks, etc.
which can be used if you wish. See our few
experimental ideas you may want to try from the
Hints and Tips section. Better still, cook up your
own ideas and share them if you wish. Whatever you
do, your buildings will be unique.
You might consider subscribing to the magazine
"Garden
Railways" - it provides many useful pieces of
information on the hobby.
Doors and
Windows
You have a choice for doors and windows. You can
build them yourself, using your own ideas. Or you
can buy commercial products. Or you can use our
plans and suggestions; if you choose to do this,
you'll find you can re-use the patterns
indefinitely. You'll see we offer a special deal -
you can get the Kiva doors and windows at a reduced
price when you buy them together with another
product.
Freebies
We offer some free plans - look at the Garden
Towns Brochure for details.
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