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

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Again using the flat side of the sponge, I blended the three colors always pulling the pallet down from top to bottom.

You can see the left side blended.



Now all the rolled roofing is blended. You may choose to add some light browns to the roof weathering. I opted not to as this roof and platform sit next to the track. Lots of steam locos pass by here.



More in a few.

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I added the menu board to the order window of Gordo's. In an attempt to sell a lot of chicken, I added a well endowed employee to the take out window.





Diet Pepsi time, back in a few.

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The chicken crates were assembled and dipped in Hunterline Driftwood A&I stain.


Preiser chicken figures, #14168, were placed in the crates.

Looks like one of the crates was dropped and the condemmed chickens are making a break.



When the structure takes it's final position on the layout, the green pad on the bottom of the escaping chickens will be removed.



More in a few.

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This build is now finished. After four long years I can get this one off the back burner and out of my guilt trip file.

I did change a few things on the build. I added more exterior rafters and angled supports on the platform posts. The front wall of Gordo's Fried Chicken is clapboard to match the sides. I didn't go with the yellow corner posts on Gordo's but I did paint the top of the hydrant yellow.

I didn't use the large exhaust vent for Gordo's as it was just to big and out of scale for the structure.

I made the feathers by dipping the tip of a small brush into Floquil Flat Finish and then into some Bragdon White powder.

Thank you all for following along on this adventure. I'll be posting a new adventurous journey tomorrow afternoon.

[PRR Modeler]

Beautiful modeling Tom.

[Zephyrus52246]

Do I smell fried chicken?     Nice job on the structure and details, Tom.

Jeff

[Jim Donovan]

Great job and thanks for the detailed thread. Learned a lot. Nice touch with the jailbird chickens.

Jim D

[Dave K.]

Tom - Your threads are among my favorites...wonderful tutorial!👍🏻

[ReadingBob]

Outstanding build of a very interesting structure!     Great thread too!  Lot's of interesting tips. 

I can just see the clouds of feathers flying when a certain engineer who shall remain nameless zips by doing his best Casey Jones imitation.      

[PRR Modeler]

You don't mean Greg do you Bob?

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Beautiful modeling Tom.

Curt,

Thank you very much. It was a fun build but I'm happy to be moving on to another build.

Tom

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Do I smell fried chicken?     Nice job on the structure and details, Tom.

Jeff

Jeff,

Yes, and so do I. Much appreciate the compliment on the build.

Tom

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Great job and thanks for the detailed thread. Learned a lot. Nice touch with the jailbird chickens.

Jim D

Jim,

Thank you, much appreciated. This one wasn't as detailed as my usual builds but I wanted to get it finished. I'm glad you picked up a few pointers.

The chickens are on the loose - still.

Tom

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Tom - Your threads are among my favorites...wonderful tutorial!👍🏻

Dave,

Thank you for the kind compliment. I'm glad you followed along.

Tom