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westfield hotel
a good friend of mine (the gal who's bed and breakfast i scratchbuilt) is orginally from westfield nebraska. westfield was a railroad town back in the day, and the town, like so many midwestern towns, grew up around the railroad. anyway, her father was the stationmaster for the milwaukee road. the depot is now a railroad museum, and the ho layout has a scratchbuilt model i built of the depot on it, and they asked me if i would be able scratchbuild the westfield hotel. at first all i had to go on was this photo from a 1967 newspaper article about it. here's the photo:
sheri's husband kyle made a trip to westfield to take pictures of the structure as it today. i'll put one his pics at the bottom.
so i agreed to give it a shot provided they would reimburse me for all the materials. i didn't charge for the time.
it took quite a while to build because of all the different levels of brick, but i did it and when her dad came here to visit her i presented it to him. when i gave it to him he started tearing up and took out his cell phone to call his buddy in the train club. "brad, i'm looking at an exact replica of the hotel. i'll send you a picture." brad and i had communicated in the past because he had said that it was necessary to truncate the footprint of the depot, so he knew who i was because we had several conversations. he's also the publisher, editor and reporter for the town's newspaper. i was gonna scratch build the paper's office but he died, so there was no need.
this was my second scratchbuild. the depot was my first.
what it looks like now:
i just wasn't gonna try to build it on that hill.
here's the 1:1 depot.
and the depot model:
sheri's husband kyle made a trip to westfield to take pictures of the structure as it today. i'll put one his pics at the bottom.
so i agreed to give it a shot provided they would reimburse me for all the materials. i didn't charge for the time.
it took quite a while to build because of all the different levels of brick, but i did it and when her dad came here to visit her i presented it to him. when i gave it to him he started tearing up and took out his cell phone to call his buddy in the train club. "brad, i'm looking at an exact replica of the hotel. i'll send you a picture." brad and i had communicated in the past because he had said that it was necessary to truncate the footprint of the depot, so he knew who i was because we had several conversations. he's also the publisher, editor and reporter for the town's newspaper. i was gonna scratch build the paper's office but he died, so there was no need.
this was my second scratchbuild. the depot was my first.
what it looks like now:
i just wasn't gonna try to build it on that hill.
here's the 1:1 depot.
and the depot model:
Comments
Well done.
you can just see the side of the hotel.
i found an external hard drive and plugged it into my laptop to see what was on and lo and behold....
i found these, and dozen of n scale structures that i scratchbuilt, and later sold off.
I think that would make you both happy!
Jerry
that was one of my earliest adventures in styrene.