Elegant curved hotel scratch built from card in N Gauge

My curved hotel is finished at last! It's taken over 50 hours to make this elegant curved hotel in the classical style, based on the Crescent Hotel in Ilkley.

The hotel is made from card and paper, covered in Scalescenes textures. I've used cheap materials throughout, and lovely laser-cut lettering from Scale Model Scenery.

I show how I used simple paper to make a tiny pub sign with a border only half a millimetre wide. Chimneys are made from stacks of card glued together with cheap glue and covered in texture. Chimney pots are just bits of cut up cotton bud.

The pavement is just card and paper, too.

Interspersed in the video is some long-lost audio of Chandwell's Favourite Celebrity, Britney Scroggins, who recorded a radio advert for the hotel in 1993.

I really enjoyed making this curved hotel from card. Scratch building from card is a wonderful and cheap way to create your own town scenes whether that is for a model railway layout like Chandwell, or for any other scene such as wargaming or just for the sake of it.

I love scratch building with cardboard. I designed the building in Inkscape using textures and glazing from Scalescenes, some laser-cut elements from Scale Model Scenery.

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00:00 Britney Scroggins long lost radio advert - The Earl Chandfield
00:15 Introduction
00:51 Guttering and cornice made from layers of card
01:55 Tiny pub sign made from layers of paper
03:00 Chimneys made from 101 bits of card
04:28 Pavement made from card and paper
05:23 A look at the little details you may have missed
06:09 Adding the laser cut Scale Model Scenery lettering to the front of the hotel
07:14 Adding varnish to the model using AK Interactive Matt varnish
07:46 Quite a view! A look over the scratch-built townscape of Chandwell from my desk
08:36 What does Britney Scroggins think of the hotel, really?