I remember the Renwal "House Afire" of course, as well as their various plastic ship and airplane kits, the "Visible Man" and "Visible Woman" science kits (they also had a Visible airplane engine if memoery serves), and some other stuff.
But what I cannot recall is if Renwal made anything else aimed at the model train market. Did they?
As for tornadoes, years back in Galesburg at the model train show someone had a wonderful shadowobx diorama of a small downtown scene, with buildings, utility poles, cars and trucks etc. There was a timer -- the lights would dim, the sound of thunder was heard, flashes of lightning, and then out of the top of the shadowbox descended a whirling tornado which traveled down the city street and then pulled up again, at which time the various vehicles parked or traveling down the street were revealed to be emergency vehicles with flashing red lights.
It was quite a piece of model making, and I regret I cannot recall the modeler's name.
Dave Nelson
