If you have been considering building a wild west town on your model railway, you may have been told to look for wild west scale models to place on it.

 

What are old wild west railroad scale models, where can you find them and which ones are the best ones to choose?

 

What are wild west scale models? -- These are model buildings that are scaled to the perfect size for the type of model railway you are building. That usually means either OO -- or print the same size as the model -- or HO -- reduce the size of the model to fit your smaller model railway.

 

Wild west models are of buildings that would typically have appeared in an 18th or 19th century wild west town.

 

Which buildings are available? -- The wild west scale models currently available are of buildings you would generally think of when you think about wild west towns.

 

These will usually be things like saloons, barbers, a sheriff's office, a jail, a railway yard, a railway waiting room, a hotel and various cabins or houses. They come in all kinds of different styles and designs.

 

Which types of wild west scale models should you buy? -- Decide how many buildings you want to place on your model railway, and then choose ones that will enable you to have a wild west town that looks authentic.

 

The easiest way to find these buildings is to visit one of the online shops selling printable buildings, browse through the ones they sell and then choose one or two of their building sets.

 

These sets come with three to 10 buildings and, once you buy them and save them to your computer, you can then print them and assemble them as per the included instructions.