In the latest OGR, there is a photo of a plasticville motel with what looks like an add on office. Is this a plasticville item, kit bash, or something else. Looks good.
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I have not seen the Plasticville motel but the extra piece is either an add-on or a kit bash. I have several pieces of Plasticville and have not seen other add-on buildings, just add a floor for the motel.
Lee Fritz
If you are thinking about adding floor or multiple floors to the Plasticville motel, it's cheaper to buy additional complete kits and add the second floor of each kit to the kit your building upon. Then, you will have one or more single floor units you can kit-bash or use as is. The add-on floor kits are hard to find and always expensive.
The motel is in the picture. It is blue and white. IIRC, add on pieces could be added to the apartment building, not the motel.
POTRZBE,
There are two versions of the motel, one HO and one O gauge.
The O gauge version has just the three door motel room unit.
The HO version was sold as the Plasticville Motel and Pool. It included the motel unit, the office with motel sign, a lattice roof connector between the two sections, and a pool.
The photo in the magazine is the HO version. You can see that the young lady in front would have to duck to make it through the HO doorway.
It still looks good in that neat O gauge scene. 
Jim
Thank you, Mr Policastro, for clearing that up.
Originally Posted by Bob Severin:
If you are thinking about adding floor or multiple floors to the Plasticville motel, it's cheaper to buy additional complete kits and add the second floor of each kit to the kit your building upon. Then, you will have one or more single floor units you can kit-bash or use as is. The add-on floor kits are hard to find and always expensive.
One word of advice about the add-on floor kits, be sure you get the correct color for your building, as they come in two colors. Sometimes at a train show you can get a bargain on Plasticville items.
Lee Fritz
There is a blue and white Plasticville O scale Cape Cod house. Could this be adapted as your motel office?
Originally Posted by POTRZBE:
IIRC, add on pieces could be added to the apartment building, not the motel.
Assuming this thread refers to the post-war original O Scale Plasticville buildings, I agree with POTRZBE that there were no add-on floors sold for the motel like there were for the apartment house which is confirmed by the absence of any mention of them in the Plasticville Illustrated Price Guide.
Bill
Originally Posted by Bill Robb:
There is a blue and white Plasticville O scale Cape Cod house. Could this be adapted as your motel office?
Bill:
As Jim pointed out above, the blue motel in the photo discussed here is the HO motel model. The O gauge model was peach & white. They made a peach and white cape cod house with a brown roof that may look good next to the O gauge motel as an office.
Bill
You can have a matching "office" by cutting apart a second motel and use one of the units. I used a unit for a used car lot office.
