FOS' DeGraw's Poultry Market & Gordo's Fried Chicken

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Nice - color combination looks great
Doug

Doug,

Thank you for the compliment. I can't take credit for the colors, I took them off the color photo of the kit.

Thanks for checking in on the build.

Tom

Tom

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Tom,
Do you have ESP?  I have the Fos DeGraw's on my workbench for my next build.  I will be placing before FSM Butcher's Way.  I will definitely be following your build...which BTW, looks great

John,

Could be, I've had this on or off to the side of the work bench for four years. This time it will be finished so I can move on to another kit build and not feel guilty about letting the chickens stay in the box.


Thank you for the compliment and for following along. I look forward to your build.


My next build is a kit bash of Jason Jensen's KC's Auto Repair kit bash.

Tom

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Looking great, Tom!

Its a very interesting roof line.  The height added with the steep second story roof will help it not look dwarfed by those other large buildings in the area.

Cheers, Mark.

Mark,

Cheers, and thank you for the kind words on the build. I was thinking almost the same thing with the height of the roof on DeGraw's.

We'll see how it turns out.

Tom

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The roofs have been weathered and the roof top signs are made/installed as well.

I used Pan Pastels for the roof weathering. I used three different shades of gray pastels for the weathering.

The roofs are much darker than seen in the photos. The camera doesn't see the dark and seems to auto "lighten" them.





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On the street sign for Gordo's Fried Chicken, I needed to remove just over 1/16" from the back of the sign block. The sign block was included in the kit. When the sign was test fit to the block, the sign didn't cover the block.

Unusual for me but I didn't take photos of the steps on the sign build. However, here is the sign.

The post is a 4X4 and the support on top is a piece of wire included in the kit.



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I next moved to the sheet for the Gordo's sign. The sign has a frame that looks like a picture frame that goes on the outside of the sign.

This appeared very fragile to me. To help prevent it from breaking while removing it from the carrier, I used tape to cover the front and back of the frame.



With a new #11 blade, I carefully cut the frame from the carrier and set it aside.



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I used the #11 blade and then carefully removed the tape from the frame. The frame was painted with Polly Scale Pacemaker Red.

Fast forward and here are the Gordo's and DeGraw's signs.



Both signs have precut back boards for gluing the signs. I used the precut back board for Gordo's but made my own sign boards from scrap 2X8 scale boards for the DeGraw's sign.



Back after grabbing a cold Diet Pepsi.

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I glued Gordo's sign on the small shack. I used simulated Liquid Leading for gluing the sing on the roof top. I got this from Reading Bob and it is a Gallery Glass product. It is black and looks like tar.



Notice the steel tube coming from the top of the roof and top of the sign? This is to keep the sign in place as the glue dries. I'll explain this later.

Notice the front of Gordo's in that it is clapboard siding. The kit has this front wall covered with Campbell shingles. I didn't like this look so I cut a piece of clapboard from scrap and painted it and the front corner trim with Polly Scale Pacemaker Red. The corner trim on the rear is painted with Floquil Reefer White as are the two side and rear walls.

At the last minute I decided to light the sign over Gordo's but not the Degraw's sign over the main building.

I used .022 steel tubing from Slim and installed a cool white LED under the shade.



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Back to the steel tubing explanation.  I used two small blocks of HO scale 4X4s and glued them to the back of the Gordo's sign.

I previously drilled two small .022" holes in the blocks. I threaded the steel tube through the blocks and glued them in place behind the sign. I also drilled a .022" hole in the roof directly under the blocks. The steel tubing kept the sign, blocks and hole in the roof aligned while the glue dried.

When dry, I removed the steel tubing and installed the .022" steel tubing with the LED into the blocks and roof.



Nice an secure.

You can also see the roof weathering in these two photos.



Back later, need a break from typing.

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This kit also comes with laser cut parts for a loading dock.

Although this is a very nice feature of the kit, laser cut parts such as these are hard to stain. This is due mainly to the laser burns on the sides of the posts. They are hard to remove, don't take stains very well and are extremely fragile when trying to sand the edges. Note one of the leg post is already broken.

So, you guessed it. I'm scratch building my loading dock.



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The top plates are 4X6s and the support posts are 4X4s. The cross braces are 2X6s, the joists are 2X8s and the decking is made from 2X10s.

I used Doug's laser cut parts as a pattern for my loading dock.




More later this evening. Need to help the Babe with something.

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Yet another great structure on your layout Tom, fantastic.

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The kit also comes with a laser cut deck.



Here is my decking.



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Yet another great structure on your layout Tom, fantastic.

Jan,

Thank you kind sir, much appreciate you following along. This is a very nice kit Doug/FOS released.

Tom