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Building a hotel bigger then you have room for

Modeling
#1

I am looking at building a hotel that was in our town years ago burned down in 1926. It was 140X50 feet, 96 rooms five stories high. Its the 140 feet I don’t have any place to put it and no place to enlarge the layout. How do you build it to make it look like the original ?

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This is the back looking down in to the village.
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This is one end.

For anybody that wants to go down the rabbit hole here is a link to the local paper of the time just search Ontio (means beautiful mountains). Article on the fire is July 2, 1926 front page.

Unadilla Times

PS: I plan on putting it on the back side of the layout. The way my layout is you cant really look at it from the back side, mostly just the front and one end.

#2

just shorten it.

this would be 30 to 40 ft. shorter, without loosing the overall appearance:

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and if you are afraid, that so it would seem too high, just leave out one storey.

#3

Mark,
They way I read your post it is not as simple as just making a structure looking bigger.

You stated that you do not have space for it so I’m thinking why build that particular structure anyway?

Unless you really really want it and if you can’t have it your going to cry your eyes out?

P.S. Why not just make a flat and not focus heavily on scale then? You could do a CAD mock up CAD being Cardboard Assisted Drawing then cut it out and play with it on the layout. CAD with duct tape is way cheaper than wood.

Hope that makes sense.
:rooster:

#4

I am thinking about making it smaller not sure how that will look.
CAD is a good idea I think i will try that, I already draw every thing the size I am going to build it to make sure I like the proportions.
I would not be greatly disappointed if I cant make it, I think it would be a fun build. I never thought I would like building models as much as I do.

#5

Ok, now we are getting somewhere and I understand. So with that said why not pick a couple of smaller structures you wanna model then and space them over all that real estate you wanna cover with one structure.

#6

If it is too big for your G gauge RR make in HO scale! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: