FOS Ideal Hosiery

[rpdylan]

really nice work!  I like the detail of the steel drum that looks like spillage stain on it,,,,,I never thought to do that,,,,

[MAP]

Excellent build on this kit Todd!  All those details and weathering really brought the building to life.

[Mkrailway]

Todd, been following along. The coloring brings the structure to life. I have that kit on the docket for the future.

[Zephyrus52246]

Very nicely done.  Great work on the signs.


Jeff

[Todd W.]

Thanks Tommy, Jan, Bob, Mark, Marty, and Jeff!  Appreciate the compliments and kind words!  I have to admit, I built the kit pretty much to the same color schemes that FOS had on their photo because it caught my eye on their website before I bought it and thought that scheme would fit the one area of my layout in both size and contrast so I tried to stay with it,  I do like changing some aspect of a kit to give it my own personal touch, but I can't claim I did so here too much.  I could not find the door for the rooftop stairwell shack.  I don't know if I was shorted it, (which I doubt), or if I misplaced it on my discombobulated hell hole of a workbench (more likely), so I made a more rustic door from left over wood planking for the enclosed side stairway, and I added the two red light fixtures and  some cast metal details.  I am still debating adding a medium sized advertising sign to the rear wall, but I don't want to overdo things and junk it up.

Bob, thanks on the spillage of muck on the side of the drum, but looking at it now a second time, I think I might put a blotch of white on the lid only because I doubt the spillage would actually have been on top of the lid.  More or less just down the sides....maybe leave a few spillage spots on the lid at the edges where dirty hands would have handled it....not sure.

Todd

[ReadingBob]

Great job on the build Todd!  Everything looks terrific.  The rolled roofing really caught my eye.

Regarding missing/misplaced parts - I found that having a couple packs of Tichy assorted Doors/Windows comes in handy at times such as that.  It beats robbing Peter to pay Paul (aka "borrowing" a part from another kit in the stash).     Your recovery was wonderful too though.   

[Todd W.]

thanks Bob!

Yes, I think I am going to take your advice right now and search online to purchase a few packs of those window assortments!  Great idea!

The rolled roofing, once I adhered it to the roof card stock, I took the backside of my xacto #11 blade and tugged at the edges in very small and deliberate pulls ragging them up a bit.  Little flakes of the paper rip off and a few I use the blade and push it forward sort of to bunch up a 1/8 swath of "seen it's better days" tar paper.  I painted back over where I did the damage using Folkart craft acrylic Soft Black, the same color used for the over all roof.  It is not even really a full fledged black at all, more of a mix of black and dark walnut and looks just like the year old roll of roofing paper I have in the shed...lol.

Todd

[Dave K.]

Great job on the build Todd!  Everything looks terrific.  The rolled roofing really caught my eye.

Regarding missing/misplaced parts - I found that having a couple packs of Tichy assorted Doors/Windows comes in handy at times such as that.  It beats robbing Peter to pay Paul (aka "borrowing" a part from another kit in the stash).     Your recovery was wonderful too though.   

Saved my keester a number of times.

[Todd W.]

Thanks Dave, yes I believe you told me to do the tichy assortment of doors a few weeks back.  Well, between you and Bob, I ordered a set last night.  great idea!!