I just finished (well, not really) a Downtown Deco kit of the "Palace Hotel",
creating new signs for it, such as "Rooms, Hour, Day or Week". There was a
really nice hotel shown on here a couple of days ago..paged back and didn't find it..and there were several hotels offered on the net, including another example of that kit posted here, but I won this one. This is a smaller hotel and screams urban grunge, but reminds me of some of the buildings (ruins) you see in the Rhyolite ghost town on the edge of Death Valley, so I used acrylics to give it a good desert dust treatment. It is complete as free standing but is a really small hotel, so I am going to enlarge it with an addition of a dining room below and a better class of rooms over that, maybe with a separate staircase, as your wife would take one look, and yelp, "Drive on!", and I wouldn't consider staying in this flophouse, either. I hope to post pictures of the completed version. and of another previous finished structure when this one is finished. This hydrocal kit went together really fast, in spite of the weathering, vs. my usual stick built creations. This and a saloon, "The Brick Shot House", I think I posted on here, will comprise the "city block" passengers will see in my "major city" as they exit the train,
to give credence to the "wrong side of the tracks" statement.
