Faller’s recent release laser-cut kit is a town building which further builds on this company’s foray into high quality building kits: Quakenbruck Town Hall. Texture and color seem more realistic in card-stock versus plastic owing to the popularity of this building kit type with today’s Z modelers.

Featuring fine architectural details including clear-story above door followed by further embellishments accentuating central tower structure, building is further sheathed with terracotta tile roof and patinated copper. The strong structural look of this building results from the masonary construction and simple 4 corner design wrapped by blocks.

Included with the building is a very nice accessory statue made of cast resin which sits atop a card-stock pedestal. The statue depicts a rather familiar hero of liberty with sword in one hand and flag in the other.

Putting the kit together is a rather quick and easy affair with few visible seams in the finished building. One odd exception should be made with the kit: the finished roof is attached to the finished base versus building the structure up and attaching roof sheathing at the end. This method of assembly does not allow gluing within the building, it must be applied along the outside seams: not a big deal except the two pieces required a bit of wriggling to attach.

The lovely statue arrives attached to its casting sprue with a dark red natural color. It was easy enough to cut the statue away from the sprue and gold metallic paint worked well to paint it. The pedestal could be a candidate for painting as well.

Overall a very good new building kit by Faller which features their signature window masking plus excellent packaging and instructions.