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Old 08-14-2019, 05:23 AM
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The Planter's Inn and Oliver Sturges house Savannah Georgia

Okay, this is an “N” scale model, (1/160), an interesting story of the Planter’s Inn and Oliver Sturges House, let’s ignore the Planter’s Inn for a moment and talk about the Oliver Sturges house.

Located on Reynolds square, in the heart of the Savannah, Georgia, the city that General Sherman declared was, “too beautiful to burn” sits the Planter’s Inn and Oliver Sturges house, recognized on the National Registry of Historic Places.

Built in 1813 by Oliver Sturges, successful Savannah merchant, it occupies what was the site of the parsonage of John Wesley, minister of the Church of England in Georgia 1736-37 and founder of Methodism in America.

Originally a, “twin house” with a duplicate directly adjacent, Mr. Sturges' partner, Benjamin Burroughs, lived in the other residence, when that residence was destroyed by fire, the original, “Wesley Hotel” was then built on the site, adjacent to the Oliver Sturges house.

I believe that the Planter’s Inn. in it’s current configuration was built in the early 1970’s on the site of the original Wesley Hotel.

This is a re-release of the, “Prestige Edition”, one of five of, “Marji’s lil’ Inns”, now available from ecardmodels.com

It can be found here-> https://www.ecardmodels.com/vendors/marjis-models/

A Build Thread can be found here->

1:160 (N scale) Planter's Inn Savannah (and Oliver Sturgis house)

Here a a few images of the square as well as the cover and inside information.
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The Planter's Inn and Oliver Sturges house Savannah Georgia-backup_of_plntrs-01.jpg   The Planter's Inn and Oliver Sturges house Savannah Georgia-backup_of_plntrs-02.jpg   The Planter's Inn and Oliver Sturges house Savannah Georgia-backup_of_plntrs-03.jpg   The Planter's Inn and Oliver Sturges house Savannah Georgia-picture-027.jpg   The Planter's Inn and Oliver Sturges house Savannah Georgia-picture-031.jpg  

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Old 08-14-2019, 05:30 AM
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The diner

Having only about 70 parts I was VERY reluctant to convert this one as it was way beyond my comfort zone, being much larger than what I'm used to, measuring approximately 15" (38cm) long, 8" (20.3cm) high and 5" (12.7cm) wide at the widest point, four times the size of my average and I've never converted anything so big as to require an internal support structure.

Besides being a stately, beautifully proportioned building, I’m particularly fond of the resident diner.

I spent hours just trying to, “get it right” even though, in this scale, details can only be appreciated with a magnifying glass (if not with a microscope) as with most of my models, the detail is, “infinite”, (the closer you look, the more you will see).

The graphics were all done in Corel using base shapes and colors but I believe it to be, “illustrative” as to the depth of the details.

Note the shading, using heavy, light and dark lines and shadowing to the window frames, creating a 3-D 0r, “photorealistic” perspective when viewed from a distance.

Here are a few images of the diner.
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Old 08-14-2019, 05:32 AM
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As with a lot of my models, there are no, “instructions” other than those for the novice, however, it does have full color, “part identification diagrams” to aid in assembly.

Here are a few of the illustrations.
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Here are a few images of the part sheet and related details.


This is one of a series of five inns that Marji was able to recover and re-publish, if you know an "N" gauge railroad enthusiast, you may want to give these inn's a second look..
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Old 08-14-2019, 06:37 AM
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This model has 16 pages total, for $4.99 it's a, "deal"...
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Build threads for the other Inns in the series can be found here->


Hamilton-Turner Inn
Historic Hamilton-Turner Inn in N scale

Rhett House Inn
1:160 (N scale) Rhett House Inn

Elizabeth Pointe Lodge
1:160 (N scale) Elizabeth Pointe Lodge
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"with a little help from my friends" I should be able to publish the last of the series, the, "Two Meeting Street Inn".. (fingers crossed)..
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