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Title: FOS Red Hook Office freebie
Post by: Vilius on September 15, 2015, 09:01:41 AM
The plan was to get my modeling room in the new house set up and ready by now. It so happened that someone put a nail in the main feed coax. Luckily I had one line going into the modeling room with the connector being very close to the place where the main feed comes out of the wall. All it took was longer outside cable and a hole in the wall but it completely ruined my plans to get back to the full speed modeling this week.
I couldn't keep myself from building something during the move so I started a small project. FOS Red Hook Office was just the kind of project I needed. In the past I have modified all Doug's freebies I have built in some way. I didn't want the tradition to stop so this build isn't an exception. I replaced the front wall with shingled one. To do that I had to cut new one from chipboard and glue shingles on it. I couldn't use the original because the thickness would have changed and I would have had to make too many adjustments to the other parts. I also added back door that I cut out of laserboard to match the one in the front. Few other changes are coming as well.

Vilius
Title: Re: FOS Red Hook Office freebie
Post by: tom.boyd.125 on September 16, 2015, 01:53:14 PM

Vilius,
Nice job !  8)
Title: Re: FOS Red Hook Office freebie
Post by: deemery on September 16, 2015, 02:00:36 PM
Great job on the shingles, that's a hard color/shading/tone to get right.


dave
Title: Re: FOS Red Hook Office freebie
Post by: Vilius on September 17, 2015, 09:55:57 AM
Thank you, guys. The shingles are actually made by Bar Mills and I just made few streaks with oil wash.

Vilius
Title: Re: FOS Red Hook Office freebie
Post by: postalkarl on October 05, 2015, 09:16:26 AM
Hi vilius:

Looks great. I like your shingles. Nice weathering.

Karl
Title: Re: FOS Red Hook Office freebie
Post by: Vilius on October 05, 2015, 01:54:29 PM
Karl,

Thank you. I haven't made much progress since the last post since I am trying to get another project finished by the end of this month.

Vilius
Title: Re: FOS Red Hook Office freebie
Post by: NEMMRRC on October 11, 2015, 08:49:48 AM
Good job!


Fos' freebies are neat.


Jaime
Title: Re: FOS Red Hook Office freebie
Post by: ACL1504 on October 12, 2015, 08:43:27 AM
Very nice build.

Tom ;D
Title: Re: FOS Red Hook Office freebie
Post by: Vilius on October 12, 2015, 02:00:02 PM
Jaime and Tom,

Thank you. I agree. The freebies are a lot of fun.

Vilius
Title: Re: FOS Red Hook Office freebie
Post by: postalkarl on October 19, 2015, 11:30:10 AM
Hi Villius:

Yeah you'll get back to it. Looks like the 2nd floor windows need to  be finsihed up.

Karl