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FOS Scale kits are always a pleasure to build.

I decided to make their Quinn Elbow into a 2 inch deep fish market.

Photos attached.

Up to your usual standards, Darryl. And I love the signs.

dave

Terrific transformation and finish on this one!  Looks so natural.  Well done!

Neat scene Darryl..... 8)

Darryl,

Wonderful kit bash on the FOS build. Thanks for sharing.

Tom 

Very nice work.

Jeff

NICE!  Gotta love the Godfather reference.  Love structures near water.

Nice work....I have an untouched one of my own and I'm afraid lack of real estate might doom it to staying in its box...but you never know.

Typical FOS beauty, with unusual rooflines, etc.

Very nice, Darryl. Great weathering on the wood siding
terry

Darryl, nice modeling with your own spin to the kit. Tommy

Holy Mackerel!

Darryl there's something fishy about this. ::)  Seriously though excellent modeling.

Darryl, very nicely modeled.

Wonderful build Darryl.  And of course structures always look better on a waterfront  ;D

With the varying heights of the stepped roof-line, reminds me a lot of the FSM Jeffries Point structure.

Of course, both those designs harken back to the famous Dave Frary "Cahoon's" structure that was on the Thatchers Inlet RR:
Thatcher's.jpg
And done later by NESM as a kit:
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dave

Cahoons

Always one of my favorite structures.

It's a classic in it's own right.

Any day we see a mention of Thatcher's Inlet RR for me is A Good Day.  That's the single most influential model railroad on my modeling, even more than G&D or F&SM.  That's because it so beautifully captured its locale, in a way that showed "you too can achieve this."  

dave

Great modeling Darryl !

Jerry

Quote from: deemery on February 11, 2025, 11:33:00 AMAny day we see a mention of Thatcher's Inlet RR for me is A Good Day.  That's the single most influential model railroad on my modeling, even more than G&D or F&SM.

dave

No doubt there is more in the modeling world, other than the two of us, who would agree to that point Dave.

The other Dave

Jeffries Point is actually based on a real building in Boston.  Now gone.

Oh, my. The decrepitude.

And look at that lovely light-gauged rail. Like spaghettini.

That's the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn. B, RB&L was an interesting narrow gauge urban line, that mostly hauled commuters.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,_Revere_Beach_and_Lynn_Railroad  I think that scene inspired George Sellios.  Both locos in the photo are Mason Bogies.  The one on the left has that characteristic rod connecting to the valve gear, accommodating how the front running gear moves (left and right, with respect to the boiler.)  There's an operating Mason Bogie at the Henry Ford Museum, it's very much worth seeing and riding behind.   

dave

The Jeffries point building even has the sagging roof and stone platform base, just like the FSM kit.  Thanks for posting the picture. 

JEff

Yes it is the B, RB & L.  It's the only prototype scene George did on the F&SM.
He included the two tunnels and the building.
The real tunnels are still there but blocked off now.

   

Good en!