Last night I began preparing for my next kit build of FOS Scale Models  "Ideal Hosiery"  I have had the kit since December when it caught my eye with it's design.  Perfect for one of the corners on our layout which will be sort of a garment district.  I will begin with the structural bracing tonight before NHL hockey playoffs start, and hopefully will have time to give the initial A/I stain/wash.    Unpacking it last night, I was pleasantly surprised to find a paper with photographs on each angle from FOS' model. A very nice touch not found so often in kits.  I will keep you all posted with photos during construction on how it goes.  Pretty pumped for this one!

Todd

Will be watching your build, Todd.  Looks like a really nice kit- should be fun to put together! Thanks for posting!

I'll be following along too.  I'm pretty sure I have this one stashed away in a drawer waiting to be built.  It's neat little structure.   

Doug's kits are well engineered and fun to build.  I'll be following.  I'm thinking of starting one as well.

Jeff

I'm in line to follow this.

Todd,
I'll be following along on this, too.

Neat little kit. One that I kept for myself rather than planting on the club layout (even though I don't have my own layout).  Following along.

Hello Modelers! 

Well last night, with the nice weather of spring upon us the grass growing and weeds sprouting, and only a few hours until the first NHL hockey playoff games starting (Im a diehard hockey fan, and former hockey rink manager, coach, instructor) In between cutting grass and the first puck drop, I only managed to add wall support and the initial staining with India Ink/Alcohol) and did that in between periods.  I did manage to also paint the corner trim with a sponge for the peeling paint effect.  I usually like to take one or two swipes over that with some very fine grit sandpaper to take the new paint edge off just a tad so it appears faded, but alas, the clock was nearing midnight and the west coast game was going into OT.......priorities...lol.

Below is a few of the shots which are very basic steps that will bore all of you seasoned modelers here to tears. However, being a holiday weekend that I also took some vacation to extend the weekend, I plan to work on and provide a lot more photos as the weekend rolls along!

Todd

Looks like a neat kit Todd.....I'll be looking in. 

Todd,

Great start, I'll be a follower as well.

Tom

Quote from: Longstreet7 on April 13, 2017, 08:38:47 AMBelow is a few of the shots which are very basic steps that will bore all of you seasoned modelers here to tears.

1) Never...we love pictures!


2) Newbies are always following, so keep posting! 


DK

Been trying to find the time I thought I would have over the 3 day holiday vacation, but my wife has been finding other things for me to do..  I "think" I have caught up and I should have the rest of Sunday after family Easter stuff, and all day Monday to wrap a lot of this up.  But I did manage to get the walls a coat of light grey with a sponge to show some peeling, and then the large Ideal Hosiery sign on the left wall.  After putting the sign on, I lightly added some more of the original light grey paint on top of the sign to give the appearance of a original paint showing through...  Next up, assembly...

Very nice!  The sign came out teffific.  It sure looks like it was painted on the wall and the paint is showing its age.   

Love that sign...I don't want to plant my Ideal build next to another building and hide it.

Thanks Bob and Dave,  HAHAHA at planting structures on layouts or dioramas!  It is always a conundrum I believe for all modelers.  Even moreso if you have several highly detailed walls or signs that you just don't want to hide.  Last month to alleviate this issue, my son and I decided not to put the layout up against a wall and made it 360 degrees so you walk all the way around it at any point from any angle with a 3 1/2 ft walkway.  layout is 4 x 16 currently with designs to soon extend another direction on either end or up the middle in a T form.. All so we can expose more detail to the viewers.  I am sure that wont solve every problem either, and having a backdrop in places is going to pose new situations but there are some options.  Also making it 360 forces the modeler to fill more space with detail or functionality (Oh my what a crime! lol).

We are also doing more of a busy city/town theme with a harbor and an industrial section off each end, in 1938 to 1945 World War II hometown America, and with lots of city streets that makes exposing key detailed walls on multiple crossing streets, track that by-sects streets, and four tiers of height taking the city somewhat vertical to fit more and give depth, it will still be a nightmare...  But so fun right??  If it don't work?  don't sweat it! just do something else