Jeffrey Scott might have packed his bags and fled Hogtown six years ago, but his heart never left the city’s most beloved nightclub, the Guvernment.

Drawing massive crowds to Lower Jarvis St. and Queen’s Quay E, the spot was a mainstay of the city’s club circuit for 18 years until it closed its doors earlier this year.

But miles away in Scott’s new southern California home, the club is getting a new lease on life — albeit on a smaller scale.

Scott, a 30-year-old craftsmen, has built a miniature Guvernment model, decked out with lights, fog machines and even partiers.

He said he has been working on the 2.75 feet long by 2.5 feet wide model since last August, constructing it based on Google-searched photos and memories.

“I remember going to the Guvernment main room and it was amazing. The lighting was just immaculate. The place was pumping,” Scott told the Star. “I was inspecting all the fine details, the LEDs, the strings behind the DJ booth, the walls and the balconies. I remember standing by the balcony thinking I have to make this thing.”

So “make this thing” he did, spending $2,900 on the labour of love.

Though he’s yet to create the building’s exterior including the club’s iconic sign, the model might have already caught the eye of the man behind the Guvernment, club and restaurant kingpin Charles Khabouth.

Scott said a spokesperson from Khabouth’s INK Entertainment company, which owned the Guvernment, reached out to him, wanting to see the model and potentially purchase it.

But getting the model to the point that piqued interest wasn’t easy, said Scott, an avid builder of model roller coasters.

His first attempt at a miniature Guvernment ended up in a trash can because he was unimpressed with its lack of finer details.

“It was child’s play,” he recalled. “I picked it up, and it broke apart.”

From there, he was intent on recreating the Guvernment to a T — from its Phazon speakers to its reverberating wooden floors.

He even recreated the club’s signature black couches using styrene and its balcony with half-inch foam board and a railing made of hand-painted sticks.

The dance floors were a much more complicated feat because they got damp every time Scott unleashed the model’s smoke machine. To solve the problem, he laminated checkered print flooring and made it removable so residue could easily be wiped off.

As for the club’s lighting, that took plenty of searching for lights to fit the model. They cost $600.

It’s all been worth it though, Scott said.

“Everyone is blown away by it. My parents are blown away, but they said, ‘why are you showing us pictures of clubs?’ ” he said, laughing. “They said to go work in Hollywood special effects.”

The numbers

$2,900 in supplies

260 lights

11 months and counting

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2 fog machines

2 bars

1 balcony