I have three tallish buildings on my layout. The Susquehanna hat company, Menard's York Hotel, and a 14 story Cancer Center made for me on commission. I am looking for other tall buildings with footprints as small as possible to add. I would remove some of my one or two story structures in favor of a bigger city look. I wouldn't want to live there but LOVE the way they look on a layout. Your suggestions and/or pictures would be appreciated.
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Here's a couple new high-rise condos in Manhattan. Cool buildings to model.
The MTH buildings stack up easy.
The buildings in the last photo stack up the most efficiently. I believe they stack in two floor increments, the narrow ones with four narrow windows across, give you four useable floors per building, the most height for the money, the ones based on the City Diner building will give you four usable floors per building. The Susquehanna building really gets you high if you stack them, but look better as a stand alone. The ridges on the side of building hurt putting them next to each other. The separate sale extra floors are hard to find. most of the buildings can be stacked 180 degrees so you can get different windows if you want (front windows and rear windows are different). I sold all my short buildings that are left, after I doubled. or use them somewhere else.
For old style buildings another avenue is kitbashing OGR kits. You can make them as tall as you want. If you are looking for modern skyscrapers then you will probably need to make your own. One inexpensive method is plexiglass and styrene or hardboard. A friend built a skyscraper from plexiglass and styrene that Menards liked so much they asked and received permission to copy/add to it and came out with their own version. Also Alan Arnold caught probably add something to this since he has a beautiful city skyline on his layout.
Joe
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