FOS The Terminal

[Janbouli]

Gorgeous modeling , what a great job.

[Bruce Oberleitner]

Awesome job!  Looks very realistic to me.

[Opa George]

Thanks everyone, for the wonderful comments.  I am really happy with how this turned out and excited to get to the scenery portion a bit later.

In summary, I really enjoyed building this kit. It is by far the most complex kit I have ever built, but not the most difficult, given that it requires mostly patience and some experience with basic techniques. Working a few hours per week, it took me about 3 1/2 months. That is a very good return on money spent if measured in pleasure derived over time.

Observations:
1. Organization of kit contents is okay but could use a little more labeling. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out which part was which. I hope this step-by-step helps other modelers in that regard.
2. Quantity of stripwood supplied is meager and in a few instances insufficient. I plan my cuts and use the stripwood judiciously, but still had to supplement with my own stock.
3. Instructions are good, but not as detailed as Fine Scale Miniatures or Builders in Scale. Take your time, read ahead and also plan out your own steps for certain detailing.  A lot of really cool small details (the art deco main entrance door handles on the bus station, for instance) are not mentioned--see point 4, below.
4.  Use the website photos, and those on Doug Foscale's Facebook page, for reference. They are invaluable and provide much needed "visual instructions."
5. When Doug offers an "add-on" as in the case of the market building, buy it. It really makes the kit, and represents a good value. The market building alone is huge and would retail for much more than the $55 he originally charged as an add on.

Enough of my opinions. If you get this kit, enjoy it. It is easily one of my all time favorites.
--George

[MAP]

You really nailed the build George!  Thanks again for all of the pictures and commentary during your build.

[GPdemayo]

Beautiful model George.....

[PRR Modeler]

Beautiful modeling George.

[deemery]

I like your observations on the kit, George.  I think others should add that to their build threads.  It'll help us be better consumers and hopefully give the kit vendors some feedback on where they could improve.


dave

[ReadingBob]

Great wrap up to a wonderful thread George.     The results are absolutely stunning. 

Thanks for taking the time to share all this with us! 

[Jerry]

George one hell of a build!

Great pictures and tutorial plus outstanding thread period!!

Jerry

[Mark Dalrymple]

Beautiful work, George!

I agree - the 'wrap up' is very useful.

Thanks for taking the time to share in such detail.

Cheers, Mark

[Dave K.]

Ditto on the post-build summary.

[postalkarl]

Hey George:

Just beautiful.

Karl

[Opa George]

A big thank you to everyone for all the supportive comments in building this kit.  Clearing and organizing my workbench for another adventure.
--George