@Randy Harrison posted:Darrell:
Here are some photos of the Empire State Building in our home layout. It was a 3D jigsaw puzzle that my son (now 27 years of age) assembled when he was about 13 years old. You are right about the scale being quite small. A true 1/4" = 1' scale of the building would probably touch the ceiling of the hall in which you are running your layout and the footprint would be enormous! But the smaller size is OK because I use it as sort of a background building that towers above other buildings that are closer to O scale in front of it.
Thank you for your kind reply.
As you may be able to see in the following photo, the Empire State Building has also been joined by the Chrysler building that is to its right in the photo below. This is another of my son's 3D jigsaw puzzle creations. We like both buildings, no matter what their scale is.
Randy, you're right, the smaller scale buildings work wonderfully as a background element. I've also found that in certain situations, the scales can be mixed even within the same plane. In ours, it doesn't seem to bother people that the CN Tower and ESB are about 1/5th the size they should be if they were the same HO scale as the other buildings, or that the buildings themselves are all HO in an O gauge setting. Or look at the post above from @Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 showing the twin towers, a bit smaller than scale I believe, in the foreground. But it works! In my humble opinion, I find its all about painting an impression rather than being too caught up in proper scale.
On another note, you mentioned the Chrysler Building. Below is a version made from the Elgo American Skyline toy, using a 3D printed lamp for the top. I'll post more on this another week.
