This isn't the recently released Ameritown six-story building but bears out the comments I made on that thread: Ameritown buildings and building panels are just the best, most flexible system possible for kits or to "do you own thing" as here. the panels are modularly sized so they mix and match well. They are made of a fairly hard plastic that holds detail and takes paint and glues well, and very thick - about a quarter inch - which means they have great strength and lots of edge-surface area to take lots of glue. Particularly when you have a band saw, projects like this are easy to do, but I would take this one on anyway, with just hand tools alone. Simple to cut by hand, too, just takes longer.
This will be the largest building on my layout: the Tipton-Turbine Philanthropic Foundation. It's made from two Ameritown Savings and Loan kits and six extra panels bought separately. You can see it is early days yet: I have to fill seam gaps, etc., paint it, install windows etc. But its getting there and I wanted to show it when it was still easy to trace how the panels were cut and put together. The building is not exactly two-panels wide: if it were there would be two "end columns" of the building front façade in the middle of the building front: I trimmed one column off one panel so that when assembled it works out well: colymn, window, column, window, etc., all across the front. Also, the bottom three stories are an inch deeper than the normal Ameritown buildings- I sacrificed one panel to get an extra inch to extend each side, so that I get the setback of the top three floors - makes the building more interesting to look at. I also like the revolving front door I am adding: made from a small plastic paint jar.
