With a two story station on the joint line, my town needed a hotel and
restaurant across from it to serve the public. I used an Ameri-Town "Vinnie's"
(would have used a 3 story version if I'd seen one earlier) and a Downtown
Deco hotel kit to fill the need. Simple construction, just remove one wall
from "Vinnie's", weather, and serve. Most difficult task was making a cornice
for Vinnie's that matched the hotel.
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coloradohirail, very nice job! You really did do a nice job on matching the cornices. How did you do that? I also like your window treatments. Both buildings really look like their inhabited. Bo 
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great job on those buildings and a really good choice of colors. it's not that easy to make an OGR building come up to the realism standards of downtown deco kits. but, you pulled it off. curious why you removed one wall of vinnie's. was that so you could get the two buildings closer together?
jerrman
Bo and Jerrman: Thanks for your comments. Downtown Deco cornice looked like it
was assembled from strips, so I tried to duplicate it with vinyl strips, on a basswood
background for the OGR building. The window treatments for the OGR building were in the kit...color choice, of "dirty brick", helped....all had an acrylic weathering wash.
I removed the wall as I wanted buildings as close as possible, as the second floor
of the dining room is a continuation of the hotel, and that wall wasn't needed, so I decided to hold it for another project. Window treatments for the Downtown Deco
building were simple colored craft paper.
I am putting this back up to show the entrance to the hotel as I found in the kit.
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