Goodbye Stars, Shine Bright
A Next possible project when Banterbury is completed might be to create a miniature abandoned 1980s sea-side hotel resort and leisure site, with the main building being based on several famous Japanese love-hotels. Currently, the project and the hotel's working title is "Sayonara hoshi ga kagayaku" (さよなら星が輝く) or "goodbye, stars shine bright" which is a nod towards a popular Japanese street-fashion brand which itself took it's name from a British pop song from the 1980s.
This complex would contain (as well as ostentatious guest bedrooms, grand dining room and the usual hotel guest and staff spaces) a street-fashion boutique, karaoke bar, swimming pool and also featuring partial recreations of infamous abandoned shopping arcades (or"dead-malls" as they are known). One flooded Chinese mall was even colonised by hundreds of goldfish, so there's plenty of scope for some eye-catching scenes in the model. There might even be some partial recreations of famous abandoned Disney resorts and parks added to the mix.
The surrounding site could also feature outdoor amusements like a water-park and fairground potentially. While Linehan Vale is a collection of the UK's asylum and medical heritage, this new abandonment project would be a collection of worldwide (and especially) Japan's leisure heritage.
Once again, like with Banterbury including references to related popular culture, this model could also contain connections to media featuring hotels, resorts and shopping. Heck, perhaps even Jurassic Park could be referenced in this collapsing relic of a resort which is long past it's heyday.
Such a site would likely be as large or even larger than an asylum complex, so this new project might take on the form of several large dioramas at a smaller-scale, in order to include all these places but without the actual model becoming the size of a football field (as Banterbury asylum is big enough!).
So, while Banterbury is a somewhat restrained exploration of what abandoned asylums look like and what's happened to them, I'd be going all-out with an abandoned resort! So you should expect high levels of wackiness and gaudiness and surrealism to reflect the unique aesthetic of these type of places!
I was inspired by such places while exploring a holiday park in Cornwall in Autumn in 2017, and it felt very atmospheric as the pool had to be drained, all the holiday-makers left and the place looked forlorn yet still dreamy and relaxing.
I made this basic video-scrapbook, to try and capture the feel of what an abandoned Japanese resort might look and feel like.