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I'm building an 18 story hotel right now and I'm using Acrylic window glass for the "base" and adding plastic facia to flesh it out. I scribed the acrylic to simulate panes. The acrylic glass is from the hardware store for storm doors and is cheap. They will even cut it to size for you. You need to super glue it as plastic cement doesn't work on it. I went with a hotel on the beach theme to overcome the single skyscraper looking out of place as mentioned above. You see lots of single tall hotels on the beach. I went with a 2 feet tall by 9 inch by 9 inch as looking right. I arrived at this size by making cardboard boxes the height I wanted and changing the footprint until it looked right to me. Use foam core for floors and roof. Build some interior walls to keep you from seeing through it and add lights to some rooms. Be sure to add curtains from printed paper from your computer. Make them all the same for a hotel, but other buildings may be different. Put some people looking out at the tracks for that extra scene.
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