Posts Tagged ‘651’

Aurora HO Model 651-79 Plastic Tree Assembly Instructions

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Instructions for assembling all plastic trees:

  1. Tree top has peg on underside.
  2. Branch next to top has hole straight through.
  3. All other branches have pegs on top and hole on other side.

Aurora HO Slot Car Racing Track Layout Scenery 651 Plastic Tree Assembly Instructions

Aurora HO Slot Car Racing Track Layout Scenery 651 Plastic Tree Assembly Instructions

HO Gauge Railroad & Road Racing Structures Box End Panel Graphics

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Part of the allure to collecting vintage Aurora buildings is the colorful graphics that each box displays. If you are investing in a complete set of these HO 1/87 scaled structures for your railroad & slot car layout you get an added value bonus of looking at a box with colorful artwork & graphics. Listed here again is group I of the vintage HO plastic model accessory scenery kits which were produced along with their original stock numbers and price.

  • 651-.79 Model Tree Kit
  • 652-.98 Colonial House
  • 653-.98 Ranch House
  • 654-1.29 School House
  • 655-1.29 Church
  • 656-1.29 Railroad Station

Colorful box artwork is typical for the period and Aurora made no exception as you can see from this image of the side panels.

Aurora HO Slot Car Racing Plastic Model Building Kit Box End Panel Graphics

Aurora HO Slot Car Racing Plastic Model Building Kit Box End Panel Graphics

HO Slot Car & Railroad Layout 651-79 Model Tree Kit

Monday, April 12th, 2010

The Aurora model tree kit displays nicely on any HO scale slot car racing track layout because it was scaled to fit HO gauge railroad layouts. This all plastic assembly kit is hard to locate. Eight (8) easy to assemble trees.

Aurora HO Gauge Layout Plastic Model Tree Kit

Aurora HO Gauge Layout Plastic Model Tree Kit

Aurora Model Motoring HO Scale Slot Car Racing Track Layout Structures

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

During the 1960’s Aurora Plastics produced a line of HO scaled structures, in kit form, which could be used for slot car track layout scenery. Since these injection molded plastic scenery models are now quite collectible, an unblemished complete set of the eight different unbuilt model kits can be expensive to purchase, as well as, time consuming to acquire. Aurora was one of several companies to manufacture such a wide variety of scenic kits specifically made for 1:87 scale slot cars. Here is a list of all of the vintage kits which were produced along with their original stock numbers and price.

  • Kit No. 651-.79 HO Trees
  • Kit No. 652-.98 HO Colonial House
  • Kit No. 653-1.29 HO Ranch House
  • Kit No. 654-1.29 HO School House
  • Kit No. 655-1.29 HO Church
  • Kit No. 656-1.29 HO Railroad Station
  • Kit No. 657-.98 HO Joe’s Diner
  • Kit No. 658-1.49 HO Gas Station

If you can find them at a price you can afford, I will guarantee that these kits will make fantastic additions to your slotcar layout once they are built.