In-ko-pah Railroad: Hotel Torgo

[Ray Dunakin]

I've made some more progress in designing the next building for the town of Dos Manos. It will be a three-story hotel in "Mission Revival" style architecture (arches, stucco and Spanish tile). This will be the largest building I've done so far, and I wanted to make sure I get it right. So to work out the design, I built a mockup out of foam core art board.

This turned out to be kind of fun and a lot easier for me than trying to draw it (I work better in 3D than in 2D). Best of all, it gives me a way to see how it fits into the layout. Here are some shots of the mockup in place on the layout:

The actual model will be made of pvc foam board. This is a material I've never used for modeling before, so I'm curious to see how it works out. I have some 6mm sheets ordered, which should arrive on Friday. I'm still looking into my options for creating individual Spanish tiles in 1/24th scale.

 

[trammayo]

Well the mock-up is an excellent piece of work in its own right - so the "real" building project will be a very intertesting journey indeed. You certainly get a feel that the hotel will be the centre of life in that town - a splendid building!.. Looking forward to the continuation of this thread.

 

[beavercreek]

Tis sumptuous, Ray, pure sumptuous

 

[mike]

itsin keeping with the area, it looks great, even as just the mock up!

 

[peterbunce]

Looking good Ray, I think that you will find Sintra (in the UK PVC solid foam) board very good to work with.

Interesting that both of us decided on a hotel for their next building!

 

[Bram]

The work in progress looks excellent and I'm looking forward too seeing the various stages coming together. Well done you