Looks terrific on the layout. You have a great city experience going on there.
Fantastic looking.
Lee super looking hotel. I'm booking my reservations soon as I complete this post.
Fabulous work!
Lee, I cannot think of any flattering adjectives left for your work on your layout and this building.
Lee, this article photo on Boston's snow record has a familiar angle.
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Nice building.
Lousy snow!
GOOD JOB LEE!
Wonderful work on your hotel. The lighting and curtains are a real eye catcher.
Thanks for all the great comments. This building has been on the layout only a week but is now a favorite with visitors (and me). We've had a lot of people visist lately curious to see how our elevator project is going and we always want to go up and see the trains, too. We have three sets of visitors yesterday. Everyone loves the Imperial Hotel and the lights through the windows. I sort of regret it is so far from the edge of the layout.
Here it is at "night"
This view looks cool, too, from the other side of the layout.
My Premier Hotel (bashed Woodland Scenics Emporium) is closer to the edge of the layout. It has a nicely detailed and lit first floor but I think I will go back and add some lights coming from the upper floor windows, too.
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i thought i noticed a large beautiful cathedral/church structure on your layout
am i correct, and if so, where would you suggest going to find those types of kits
jerry carr
Lee, great job on the Imperial Hotel. A real original. BTW, do those LED strips come in soft white as opposed to bright white? Thank you.
Jerrman
Originally Posted by jpc:
lee
i thought i noticed a large beautiful cathedral/church structure on your layout
am i correct, and if so, where would you suggest going to find those types of kits
jerry carr
It was made from parts taken from four Pegasus gothic wargaming structure kits.
I'm Not Lee.......but
These are made by Pegasus Models. They are for role playing games but can be used as the basis for any Gothic building. The kits are modular. Mine has been sitting longer at this stage than Lee's has been finished.......I NEED to finish mine.....
No roofing material or anything else is provided. It takes 3 different kits to make this.
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thank you for the information
i looked up the pegasus site and found the kits
they are very nice and i may take a shot at some point, maybe a christmas present
j
Originally Posted by AMCDave:
I'm Not Lee.......but
These are made by Pegasus Models. They are for role playing games but can be used as the basis for any Gothic building. The kits are modular. Mine has been sitting longer at this stage than Lee's has been finished.......I NEED to finish mine.....
No roofing material or anything else is provided. It takes 3 different kits to make this.
True, you need several kits, and have to scratch build the roofs, etc., but these panels make for really interesting and different buildings. Yours has a very different "look" to it than my cathedral, really interesting lines and it ought to be impressive when done. Really a nice look to its shape and details.
I wish I had room for another BIG building on my layout. I would love to build another Gothic structure from these kits, maybe a big courthouse or mansion, etc.
Thanks Lee........
If you notice the footprint of the church is a cross.......many early cathedrals had the cross footprint.
These are cool kits. After I got this far I bought another set of the 3 regular kits (not the ruin sets) with plans on a government type building. A residence might be cool too......Wayne manor maybe????
What actual scale are those models in? It looks 1:48... Pretty neat.
Originally Posted by Trainman2001:
What actual scale are those models in? It looks 1:48... Pretty neat.
They are scaled out to a war gaming figure scale that is in a coded millimeter number.....I think these are 38mm scale. Not sure what they intended the scale to be.....but they scale out to a very typical 1/48 scale building.
Very impressive Lee.
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
Nice work. I am not an expert on lighting, but I realized on my layout how important it is.
I have used those light sticks and found them to be bright. I would use it in the lobby, maybe a resistor in series to dim it down a bit. I like the soft glow of yellow LED's in a few rooms and some of the rooms should be dark. The incandescent light still has the best warm glow for me, but I like the LEDs for indirect lighting. I would partition up the floors to give it an interesting light pattern.
Cheers,
Richard
It's been sitting on the layout, very incomplete, for several months, while it and all other projects sat unworked as I finished Veranda Turbine. And then it was third in line when the book was done, after the tank engine and completion of a rocket load.
But I have taken it up now and it will be fun to work on buildings again. This building will be a full four feet back from the edge of the layout, and there is no chance one can look closely into its windows, but I plan to complete several rooms and the first floor interiors in detail anyway, and light it with one of the ubiquitous LED "sticks."
The name IMPERIAL is because I have two hotels already, Lionel's Legacy Hotel, stock, as out of the box, and I matched it with the Premier Hotel (bashed Woodland Scenics Emporium) a block further up main street. So I figured I'd stick with the same general theme: even thinking of adding a fourth, backdrop hotel across from the train station named the Railking!
Anyway, one can view this building as miter-bandsaw work run amok, but I figured, why not have fun, and it was going to have to be a strange shape. It was designed and built to fit a very unusual three-sided parcel of land between tracks and roads, etc.
I plan to have fun and take about a week to complete this and will come back and update here as i get stages done.
Lee, a bit off subject, but where do you (or anyone else) find those wondefrul 3-D letters like the Imperial sign?
I've looked everywhere I can think of and can't find any. Are they available in different sizes and fonts
Originally Posted by Forty Rod:
Lee, a bit off subject, but where do you (or anyone else) find those wondefrul 3-D letters like the Imperial sign?
I've looked everywhere I can think of and can't find any. Are they available in different sizes and fonts
They are the letters for lobby sign boards. I get them both 1 inch high and 1/2 inch high.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
They are the letters for lobby sign boards. I get them both 1 inch high and 1/2 inch high.
Brilliant! I would have never thought of that. Thanks Forty Rod for asking the question and Thanks to Lee for sharing that idea.
Ron
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
Done.
LEE as with all your buildings another great job would love to own one someday
The hotel looks great Lee. The gothic church is quite impressive. WOW!
Originally Posted by wmtrainnut09:
The hotel looks great Lee. The gothic church is quite impressive. WOW!
Thanks, Lee. Maybe I can get something... anything... looking as good as some of yours.
Lee,
If Dave's Cathedral took 3 kits how many kits are in your Cathedral
Joe?
Originally Posted by coach joe:
Lee,
If Dave's Cathedral took 3 kits how many kits are in your Cathedral
Joe?
Four or five. I can't remember. I ordered a whole bunch, not knowing what I would need. They make kits labeled something like "Gothic ruin kit #1," "...#2), etc., and I jsut ordered a half dozen, pyut all the pieces in a big box, and got creative. I had some pieces left over, about one kits worth, maybe. . . .
As usual Lee...
Jerry
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I should have said 3 different kits. I had lots left over. But to get the different architectural parts I had to buy all 3 sets as each is different. I have a bunch of stuff like flying buttresses and extra wall sections. Also of note the walls are different on each side so there is lots of options.
Originally Posted by AMCDave:
I should have said 3 different kits. I had lots left over. But to get the different architectural parts I had to buy all 3 sets as each is different. I have a bunch of stuff like flying buttresses and extra wall sections. Also of note the walls are different on each side so there is lots of options.
That is a good point. For example, if you want the road rose window, as I recall it is included in only one kit.
Great work Lee. I like the varied night shots of the windows and the store front windows.
