I was watching the Bruce Willis movie Hostage, great movie by the way, and saw a building that’d make quite a model.
It’s an actual building in California.
If I were to build the structure I would model it on a hillside like it is, at the right corner I’d put a pump island with a room over it, and maybe a motel on the back side lacking the overall structure a L shape and a Higgedly Piggedly Back tenement look.
I guess its be a Diner, General Store, Gas Station, Rooming House.
Well the Tichy folks would be happy – how many window styles and sizes does that thing have?
One reason a building like that would be unlikely on my layout is that the way it sprawls it would take up an inordinate amount of real estate. But if I did have a structure labled “Country Natural Foods” on my layout all the vehicles in the parking lot would be VW microbuses with hippie flowers on them …
Which reminds me of the layout I saw that had a donut shop where every car in the parking lot was a police car
Dave Nelson
It seems the most interesting buildings on layouts are the ones copied from reality.
As opposed to ones that are made up in someone’s head: either too generic or too cute.
I’ve got a four-building module I’ve been building forever. I’m copying the real ones. They’re so distinctive, even the concrete block post office building (there’s a statue of a former mayor in the parking lot–a DOG!)(yes, really).
Ed