Hell all,
Way back in 1959 I excitedly purchased my first plastic kit for my model trains.
It was an Airfix kit of an English wooden office building used in a coal yard, which came in a plastic bag and a graphical cardboard header/hanger.
It needed glue and paint to finish, because the moulded parts were done in a single grey colour.
They were exciting times.

I have built a few more kits since but the basics of glueable extruded parts, some coloured, seem to be have been otherwise unchanged.
The Kibri 38387 Haus am Schillerplatz kit came my way recently, and I was completely gob-smacked by the advances made by the kit manufacturers.
Kibri is now a brand-name of the Viessmann group, and I applaud them for the manner in which they present these kits.
No longer do you have to glue clear plastic onto windowframes ...
no longer have to glue window frames into walls ...
and no longer do you have to dribble that smelly gue down the inside of wall corners.
The kit took me 3 hours to complete, and if it had to be done the old 1950s way it would have taken 10-12 hours.
Here it is partway through construction about 45 minutes and you can see how the 1st floor rear window set just snaps onto the back of the wall with two central plastic wall pins.
You can see the same pins at the sides of the doorway on the ground floor.



The snap-together wall sections, plug-in window sections and plug-in decorative parts are a result of (I guess) the precision of which extrusion technology is now capable.
In addition it appears that Kibri can now extrude two different materials in a single process, or perhaps a 2 step process like 2 colour printing.
So window frames are extruded in one colour, and at the same time (or as a second step) the window glass is done in the same process so that each adheres to the other.
Amazing!!!




This building is a corner site not in the normal 90 degrees, but at 120 degress which is useful in my proposed townscape.
The kit includes a few parts not required, which will find uses elsewhere.
It also contains Viessmann instructions for using modern LED lighting.

I would give this kit 5 stars out of 5.
Very good value.




Kimball