"Zombie Building #16 (Traveliers Motel)" Topic

Finished another building for my zombie game table. The Traveliers Motel. Borrowed the name from the Walking Dead video game.

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Thanks for looking.

Tom

Shades of the Lost Room
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Once again an outstanding job. How did you do the sign? I don't know if you noticed this but Plasticville made this motel in HO scale as well, and the odd thing is that while it is basically the same motel as the one in O scale, it also comes with a motel office whereas the O scale motel doesn't. Just thought I'd throw that in. I've really enjoyed following your work on these buildings. Thanks for posting. Richard

another very nice piece of work, thanks for sharing

Outstanding! Looks so good you almost afraid to look in the rooms with a UV light!

darclegion, you are doing a realy great job on all those buildings, again I hope to do half as well in 15mm range.

Thanks for sharing your work on these buildings. It is inspiring.

I think I stayed in something very similar looking in Tombstone, Arizona once upon a time. Shudder!!

Jim

I had the choice of trying to sleep in a compact car during a blizzard in sub-zero temperatures or taking a room at the, wait for it, "No Tell Motel". The manager lived in one of the tiny rooms which also served as "Office". Two sheets separated the office from the rest. She was "full up" but I could rent the easy chair in her room for $56.50 USD. The rate taped to the counter top was $10 USD (this was in 1970). I asked, "Why $56.50 USD? Why not just go whole hog for sixty bucks even?" She got tickled by my use of the term "whole hog" and settled for $50 USD for her recliner that would not recline. She tucked herself in and warned me not to "get up to the nasty" because "I got an up-and-downer and a corn knife in here with me."

Darclegion….When I saw the "1" on the door of your motel I remembered all the above. Hers was "1". There were eight tiny rooms in a row numbered right to left. Doors were red. Drapes over the picture windows red. Carpet was a bilious green. The exterior was "flamingo pink but scabby." (Her words.) I will have to get a couple of those kits and recreate the place.

By the way; I left out of the above narrative when the train came. Turned out the tracks were right out back, so close it had to be a safety violation or downright illegal. I thought the Juggernaut was upon us and would come through the wall and obliterate everything. In truth, the train had to be going slow due to the storm. I cannot imagine what it would be like when it came through at the posted speed of 40 MPH. I ended up snowed in with "Miss Eileen" for three days, four nights. For some reason being shoehorned in there with her brought up all those Missouri sayings my Grandmother used. "Whole hog" or "Totus Porcus" (That one was from Uncle John Proctor an ACW veteran.) Then there was "Colder than a well digger's ass; Wetter than …; Darker than….) And a treasure trove of others all gone now.

That sounds like quite an experience.

@darclegion: Great job on the hotel.

Which room did Quentin Tarantino and George Rooney occupy?

Matsuru….LOL! I got to know the other people snowed in pretty well because Miss Eileen was blunt that I would either pay $50 USD a day, hit the road, or work. As the snow plows buried my itty bitty Datsun pick-em-up truck deeper and deeper, and I had $4 USD and change left, I worked. The storm dumped 30" of wet snow and shoveling that stuff was a back breaker. I got to know the other people way more than I would have liked because after the snow the cold went to -13F. Pipes kept freezing so I spent varying degrees of time with everyone. Suffice it to say they were the kind of people you would expect to find at a place named "No Tell Motel". Across the highway was "The Peckerwood Inn" which Miss Eileen called a "tonk", I assume as in honky tonk. She got all her "hourly" rentals from there and nearly all of her "overnights". "Twosies and threesies who most definitely get up to the nasty." It struck her as hilarious I had to spend so much time with "a bunch of coyote daters". All this was in down state rural Illinois. Not far from this giant fiberglass statue of Abe Lincoln rising from the tree tops aways off the highway giving the world the finger. I swear it looks just like that.

I must remain mute about the two young men in Number 3. All I will say is they did call each other "Tino" and "Georgie". Make of that what you will.

Well, I am glad I could bring back some memories with my cheesy motel. It was fun building. I borrowed some of my WWII model water transfers for the door. I am not the best at painting numbers or letters for that matter. I need to add an office to it. Maybe…I just finished another building today, I had the day off.

And thank you again!!!

Cheers,
Tom

Simply wonderful!