Hausser's Künstler Baukasten, O. & M. Hausser [DE]

Hausser's Künstler Baukasten is a beautiful construction toy, for creating small houses and other buildings. It consists of wooden and painted metal parts. The system is invented by Otto Hausser and sold by the O&M Hausser company in Ludwich, Germany, between 1917-1928.

The O&M Hausser company is also known from there famous 'Elastoline' (TM) figures.

This page is a combination from multiple sources, ao.:

[Ref. 1] Very helpfull article from Jacques Pitrat, on meccanoindex.co.uk.
[Ref. 2] Detail information provided by users from altemodellbahnen.de.
[Ref. 3] Great photo's & scans provided by BW & HR.

Patented

Patents for both roof system & wooden construction:

Patent's coming from Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, with help from [Ref. 2], users: 'Manolis' & 'WartburgTrans'.

Boxes

Parts are sold in wooden boxes and occasionally cardboard boxes. The painted wall panels are carefully covered in slots inside the boxes.

Types of boxes sold:

• The main sets ("Grundkasten"): 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.
• Supplement sets: 2/4, 4/6, 6/8, 810 & 10/12. (Set 4 = Set 2 + 2/4, etc)
• Assecoires sets: Q, R & S.

Manual's

Both German & Dutch version, [Ref. 3]. If you own a different version, please let us know.

Builds

Watch this great youtube movie by Luft‘s Schlösser - Hausser‘s Künstler-Baukasten and below a beautifully Hausser's city:

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Pictures from early Hausser catalogs showing the construction kits and accessories:

Parts & numbering

Although the parts are still under investigation, most parts & numbers are known by now.
All wall panels having a number (which is sometimes hard to read). All roofs are identified like [Ref. 1].

Scanned parts from: [Ref. 3] & pictures from: [Ref. 1], [Ref. 2] and [antiktoystore.de].

Help request:

• Some part numbers...
• Scans for some parts: #33, #102, #103, #104, #53, #54.
• Content of each main box...

Some system characteristics

Part types:	Original:	Virtual:
All trusses	wood type? Square: 5 [mm] Various lengths.	Single color pieces
Wall & roof panels	Metal plates	Textured pieces Still not complete, please help!
Bay size	50 [mm]	6 Studs ~48 [mm]

Building with LeoCAD

Building with LeoCAD and converting to SketchFab: Examples for set 4:

Hausser's Künstler Baukasten city, most example buildings up to set 12:

Request for scans parts Set-12:

We are still looking for more detailed information about some of the parts.

Would you like to help us? Please send mail (advancedvb -@- hotmail -.- com or via Facebook).
If you want, your name (or just initials) will added to scans/pictures you provided.

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Flat roof & round tower structure? (GK-12)

4a) Could someone send a picture of this structure?

4b) Could someone send 300DPI scans of the flat panels on top: balcony (3 sides) & open-window panels?

Extension (GK-12)

5a) Could some explain/show picture how this structure works?

5b) Could someone send 300DPI scans from the flat panels (front, sides, bottom & roof)?

Assecoires, exterior parts

Which makes these sets complete, are those next add-ons. I don't know how to add trees, but maybe it might be nice to add the walls.

6) Could someone send (many) pictures (and some main dimensions) about these 'stone walls'? That would be awesome.

Still need to figure out, how to add tree's etc in LeoCAD/SketchFab...

There is still some work to be done, but would be awesome to complete this great German construction toy!