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Hotel

J jdcrawlerOGR Forum Member

Moving right along with my O-scale building projects, this one is going to be a hotel with a parking lot on one side and a drug store on the other side.

I'm using this old shelf for the main base.

 




I turned it over and glued a piece of 1/8 inch plywood to it to give me a smooth surface.
A hole is cut into the base for the stairs to the basement and two dowels are glued in place to locate the hotel base.
This main base is 11 inch by 36 inch.




The base for the hotel and drug store is cut out and located on the main base.




Building the stairwell down into the basement.




There is a piece of wood that angles out from the bottom of the stairwell so I can put a photo of a bar interior behind the wall with the door and window.
This is the photo that is going in the space.




Here is the finished stairwell.






And how it looks when mounted in the main base.




In the past, I have had a few ask about how I cut the openings for the doors and windows.
This part of any building is the most time consuming but it isn't particularly difficult.

 The windows and doors are measured and drawn out on the face of the wall panel.
I mark the inside corners of each window or door so I don't get confused about just what areas need to be cut out.




Then two 1/4 inch holes are drilled in opposite corners of each window and door.




Some time ago I made up a saw table that has a saber saw mounted underneath a piece of aluminum with the blade sticking up thru it.




The wall panel is set on the saw table with the saw blade sticking up thru one of the starter holes.




I saw down along the side and rotate the panel and saw across the top.
Then I relocate the panel so the blade is in the opposite hole and repeat the process.
With the piece cut out of the center, I go along and trim the corners where the starter holes were.




This is how the wall panel looks when it is finished.

 

 

The windows and doors are all cut out for the four sides of the hotel and the sides are all glued together.
The back wall of the hotel also has one wall of the drug store on it.










The building is mounted on a base that can be removed from the main base.



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J jdcrawlerOGR Forum Member

The roof sections are made up for both of the buildings but I still have to make up an industrial size air conditioning unit to go on the hotel roof.




A piece of plywood is cut out for the base for the porch and the siding is being glued onto it.




Once the siding is all glued in place, a piece of the paneling is glued to the top.
This will have grooves cut into it to represent porch boards.




I took a piece of wood and cut one edge at a slight angle.
Then I set it on that angled edge and sliced down thru it lengthwise to form the roof section for over the porch.




This piece is fastened to the side of the building with two screws from the inside.




I bought some porch railing spindles for a doll house.
One end is turned down so it is 1/8 inch diameter.




This turned down end fits into a piece of plastic tube.




The plastic tube is cut to the correct length.
These will be the porch post to support the roof and a piece of 1/8 inch dowel is glued in the other end for locating each post.





Here is how they look when assembled on the porch.




And how the porch looks when mounted to the building.




I like to make porches so they can be removed from the buildings.
This makes it easier to put the paper siding on the building and also makes it easier to paint the porch all the way around.

J jdcrawlerOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by ACL Fred:

Ray

How did you score the porch deck to make the board effect? Dull exacto or ?  Will there be a light in the bar or is the interior bright enough to see without a light? 

I set the porch on the band saw to cut the grooves in it for the boards.

There is a hole in the floor of the hotel in the corner over the bar so the light in the hotel will shine down into the bar.

J jdcrawlerOGR Forum Member

The cooling fan housing for the air conditioner is turned from a piece of wood.




Here is the finished fan unit.
The fan and grille are brass parts for a diesel engine.




The grille section on the side of the air conditioner box needs to be recessed so a framework can go over it.
Part of the side is cut back the thickness of the grille.
A piece of thin plastic is trimmed out to fit around the grille and this is glued to the side.
This leaves a cut out area that the grille can fit into.




Here is the finished air conditioner mounted on the roof of the hotel.





J jdcrawlerOGR Forum Member

The side of the hotel that faces the parking lot will have an entrance with a covered area to pull a car under for unloading and loading.
There needs to be a concrete pad with a sidewalk going up to the front of the building.
I cut a piece of plywood to fit this area.



This is coated with a layer of drywall joint compound to fill in the wood grain.




Once it is dry, I sanded it down smooth and scored lines in it for the brakes in the concrete.




The concrete pad is painted and mounted in place.




Laying out a block of wood for the steps.




Here's how the steps will fit to the building.




The steps are painted and the handrail is glued on.
There is a post up on the front corner of the sidewalk to keep cars from running up on the curb.



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