Current situation: HO scale Hotel. Rooms installed. LED lighting. Decor. No beds.
I am unable to find a source for beds to populate and furnish about 20 or HO hotel rooms. I have all the other furniture I need, chairs, lamps, lobby, etc. But no beds.
Any sources? Help a brother out!
TIA
I buy my HO (1:87) furniture and figures from ShapeWays then make molds and cast duplicates from resin. Beds, dressers and sofas come out very nice. Chairs and tables don’t duplicate very well.
Mel
My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/
Bakersfield, California
I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
Beds are just rectangles, and are easy to make.
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I simply make a plastic box, and paint it to look like wrinkles along the edges with highlighting. Then I add two putty pillows and a sheet styrene headboard.
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Pennies, and they look great through windows.
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Unfortuantely I do not have any right now, so no pictures.
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-Kevin
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Score! Thanks.
Just a thought, cut some extruded foam into appropriatesize chunks, use tooth picks for legs.
Cheap anyhow.
Have fun,
Richard
This fellow from Down Under does a fantastic job.
I have been looking at a bunch of his videos getting ideas.
It’s all about modeling, and modeling isn’t always buying, and placing on the layout.
Model it. A bed is simple. And the visitors are going to be looking through a window, how far away? [:-^]
Mike.
A bed through a hotel window can be very convincing even just modelled as a styrene box. That’s what I’ve done.
Or, you can get pewter castings from Fezziwig’s Furniture, Scale Structures LTD.
Of course, you could just draw the shades and skip the furniture completely.
Wayne
Printing an image of a room and sticking it to the windows should be okay too if you viewing from a larger distance!
If I can add to Isaac’s suggestion, instead of simply sticking the image to the back of the window, it would be more convincing if the pictures were set back from the window in a box and light was added to the room.
To make the pictures even more realistic, elements from the photo like the bed, desk and chairs could be copied and glued on to spacers so that they actually sit proud of the wall photos. This technique was demonstrated by Jenny Freeland of MR fame in the State Line Farm Supply kitbash series episode #4 at about the 5:16 minute mark:
http://mrv.trains.com/how-to/modeling/2019/07/state-line-kitbash-challenge-update-4
Personally I would have made the spacer much thicker and added a bar surface and a space behind the bar between the chairs and the back wall, but the video will give you the idea. Adding a couple of patrons and a bartender would have worked well too.
Dave
City Classics makes sheets of window shades and Venetian blinds for HO scale windows. These can go on most windows, and let you leave a few more open with greater interior details.
I have one room in a hotel with a bed and a couple embracing, still standing and dressed, but it looks like someone is about to “get lucky” at the Shamrock Hotel.
I totally forgot about this, but the OP needs to go over to the diner, and talk to ken!
Mattresses are his thing! I’m sure he could hook him up with a truck load. [(-D]
Mike.
Awesome…doing so…
That’s the approach I’m going to take. I have a fairly large craftsman kit hotel that I bought many years ago and I hope to finally start building it soon, as in sometime this year. I can’t remember how long I’ve had it but I bought it at the NMRA Train Show when the convention was held in Columbus, OH. I think that was back in the 1990s.
I’ll have just a handful of rooms with the curtains open requiring a detailed interior. The rest will have the shades drawn. Some rooms will be lighted and others dark. In case anyone is wondering, all of the detailed rooms will be G-rated.
The artwork on the walls of my hotel are the “Dogs Playing Poker” painting on one wall an a Velvet Elvis across from it.