Terrain- Building 6- Hotel

Hotel

This is an MDF kit from Charlie Foxtrot that I'd had my eye on for some time. After completing several smaller buildings, I wanted to tackle something a bit bigger, and now had the confidence to try. The hotel is the 'Desire Ingouf' kit, representing the iconic building in Carentan. I had no intention of using it as the original, but wanted to turn it into my own hotel. As a result, I did not use the lasercut signage that came with the kit, but instead used a series of 'Hotel de la Place' signs from a collection I downloaded online.

I extended the footprint of the building considerably, as I wanted it to have outbuildings surrounding a yard. I covered up the original kit's back door with an extension, but added the door and window that this covered to the new section to tie it in to the main building. I added a barn- type building next to that to fill that side of the yard. A small shed created an open entrance to the yard at the side of the building.

The outbuildings were constructed from foamboard like my previous constructions and I paved the yard with Wills paving stone sheets. Signs and posters were found online and printed off. Details I added include a ladder I found in my bits box, a seafoam tree and a cat padding along the wall from the Warlord animal sprue. I revisited the hotel to tile the main roofs recently and added the lean-to holding a couple of barrels and boxes. I also added some wall-mounted lights beside the main street doors form the Rubicon Utility & Light Poles set.