Making Cisco Motel, part 2

: looking from southeast

: looking from northwest

I’m trying to duplicate the whole town of Cisco, Utah in N scale. Here, I represent the making of Cisco Motel.

Details were finally added to the structure.
Ventilating stack is made of 0.8mm brass rod. Vent cap is made of 1.2mm aluminum pipe. Some stacks lost vent caps and/or leaned as the prototype.

: porch of the motel

In the references, we can’t see any air conditioner on west side nor on the roof. But it seems so hot without it as the roof is shallow. So I added air conditioners at the windows on east side. Units are made of styrene and grill from Athearn boxcar roofwalk.

Horizontal shade is fixed on the large window of northernmost guest room as a blind: I didn’t make interiors this time. The shade is made of layered clear and white styrene strips.

I used 3.2V 2mA warm white LED to light the porch. I shove the LED tip to install in the shallow loft of the structure. To eliminate the light leakage was the most time-consuming work.

There used to be a lawn garden with a big tree between the motel and the Mercantile, surrounded by wooden fence painted white: an oasis in the desert. Accordingly, guests couldn't ride their cars up to the room. The car appears in photos, a Ford Fairmont produced by Atlas, is a fake.

: Fortunately, Cisco Motel has a guest tonight.


「Cisco Motel」をNスケールで模型化しようとしている。

最後に、細かいアクセサリー・パーツを取り付けた。換気口は真鍮線とアルミパイプから、エアコンはプラ板とAthearn製貨車のroofwalkから切り出したグリルでできている。プロトタイプの西側にエアコンは見当たらないが、この薄い屋根ではさぞかし暑いだろうと考え、通路側の窓に取り付けてみた。

LEDによる組み込み照明は、ストラクチャアを完成させてみないとその効果が分からない。建物全ての窓が煌々と照っているのは興醒めなので、今回は通路部分のみ薄ぼんやりと照らそうと考えた。結果は、肉眼ではいい感じになったが、筆者のコンデジではうまく写らない。庇部分を透明アクリルから削り出せばより良かったのだろう。