Sizing the WS "Home Sweet Home" Victorian house #BR4939

[OldEastRR]

Anybody buy one of these? I was looking at getting one, checked the dimensions on the WS website and this thing is HUGE!!! Only two stories high but overall it's bigger in every dimension than the DPM "Bruse's Bakery" -- which is 3 stories!! I get ceilings were higher in the old days but this seems way too oversized. For $73 you'd think they'd SCALE it right. I thought they accidently put in the HO dimensions but nope!
This is worse than the Tomy Tec 1/150 stuff.

[Dave V]

Links would help.

[FrankCampagna]

https://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/show/Item/BR4939/page/1

[Mark W]

I googled the Bakery to show it is 3" tall to the top of the roof wall, just barely above the 3rd story.   (https://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/show/Item/50100/page/1)

The house with chimney and weather vane is 2 3/4" tall. (https://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/show/Item/BR4939/page/1)

Seems to me like it's scaled just fine.

[tom mann]

It actually looks small to me- a mansard roof above a one story?

[rickb773]

Even on sale, I hated to pay the price for one of these beauties (unsuccessfully waited for a kit version) but it does match the roof style of many of the homes along the railroad tracks in one of the cities (Woodbury, NJ) I model.

[Cajonpassfan]

Part of the issue maybe that we're used to notoriously undersized buildings, and when one isn't, it looks too big. What is the first floor ceiling height on this model? I'm interested in it too, less the cutesy details,  as these style homes were
no strangers to California. Pic below.
Otto K.

[tehachapifan]

I think inside ceiling heights on the first floor in many houses from that era were upwards towards 10-12 feet.

[glakedylan]

dead on for Victorian homes in Philly, Montgomery, Berks, Chester, Delaware Counties...in PA
size is prototypical, by my math, and yes, 12' ceilings and an attic or crawl space above are accurate
fwiw

sincerely
Gary

[arbomambo]

I think inside ceiling heights on the first floor in many houses from that era were upwards towards 10-12 feet.

some ceilings were upwards of 14-15'...the WS house is well proportioned.
~Bruce

[Chris333]

This is my parents old house:


One of the wood ceiling panels needed replaced and when they took it out they found the real ceiling was about 24" further up. Someone remodeled and lowered it down.

[towl1996]

WS used to offer unfinished kits of the built up models. This would be perfect for that, I guess they stopped doing that.

[OldEastRR]

So this thing is the right size, huh? Going to make the Walthers Cape Cod houses next door look pretty dinky. Yes, I was waiting for a kit but seems like WS figured out they don't make money that way. However, the thing is on sale at MBK and has a 10% off discount on top of that, so if $50 is your max price for house you're set.
I wonder how easy it would be to cut the WS thing in half and put it against a backdrop. I wish it was a kit since I like to modify kits to my needs, but I should be able to disassemble this one. Probably has screws holding the upper floor/roof on.

[Chris333]

If you look at the WS site and their size sketch. The size listed is the whole thing. The basic box of the house is around 1.9x2.3".

And if you wait a few month WS might release it as a kit.

[arbomambo]

WS used to offer unfinished kits of the built up models. This would be perfect for that, I guess they stopped doing that.

WS has only offered some of their built ups as kits...the others  have never been offered as kits.
Bruce