FOS Radio Station WKLO

[cuse]

Cutting off the edge of an envelope to get a pre-folded strip...another all time great clever tip!


Nice effect with the copper paint too.


John

[S&S RR]

Great to see you getting in some bench time Bob.  Excellent modeling, as expected.

[donatode]

Bob,

Wow, great progress. Your step by step tutorial is wonderful, especially for some of the newer members on the forum.

Love it.

Tom

And this old member....

[Dave K.]

Enjoying your thread. Donato! Keep it down! 🤫

[ACL1504]

Jim and Donato,

Okay, Okay, I stand corrected which is very rare.

Now back to Bob's fantastic thread.

Tom

[MAP]

Really looking good Bob!  I'm also in the camp of enjoying your build thread/tutorials.  Nothing wrong with repetition as it helps me getting it to stick in my brain! 

[ReadingBob]

Thanks for the responses everyone!   

Just a quick little update.  I try to make the roofs removable so I can install the lighting and access it for future repairs if necessary.  I have a sheet of black mounting board I picked up an art supply store I use for such things.  I cut two triangles out that match the pitch of the end walls and glue them to the cardstock roof so they'll fit just inside the bracing on the end walls and keep the roof centered.


Here's the roof temporarily in place.  Because of the large WKLO sign that spans both structures I'll probably end up gluing both roofs in place when the lighting is complete but I'll use very little glue.  That way they can still be removed, if need be.


I played around with the three pieces (SW5, SW6 and SW7) until I found a way to stack them (they're actually steps up to the entrance for the music store that would allow the music store to be mounted a bit closer to the front


Sometimes you run into some little challenges with a build.  There were a couple I ran into with this one.  Nothing insurmountable however.  There's a template, printed to correct size, that shows the placement of the structures and the sidewalks.  Notice the three pieces of sidewalk to the right.  They're the pieces (SW5, SW6 & SW7) that lead into the entryway of the music store.  Two of them aren't the same size as shown on the template.
 

Furthermore if the music store is positioned where the template shows it will half cover the two window openings at the rear of the radio station structure.  Now, the lower window opening is a story in itself.  Either a) the kit was missing a window or b) the kit came with a bonus window opening.     The best I can tell it's b.  I don't see a window there in the pictures of the structure in the instructions.  Not a bog deal though.  I have a pack of assorted windows from Tichy and I'm sure I can find a match for the upper window.  If not, a boarded up window at the rear of the structure would go unnoticed.


First I have to solve the mystery of the windows being half covered by the music store.  This is the placement per the template.  That's not going to cut it.


I found that if I put SW6 where the template shows SW5, then glued put the music store in place butted up against SW6, that SW5 and SW7 could be stacked one on top of the other to make a set of steps that elevated the sidewalk up to the level of the entrance to the music store.


More in a moment...

[ReadingBob]

Nothing has been glued down yet but by rearranging the sidewalk pieces as I had previously described the windows in the rear won't be half covered by the music store. 


This matches the position of the music store in the photo's in the instructions.


That's where I'm at.  Next up will be installing lights.   

Thanks for following along!

[Janbouli]

Looking great Bob , love the detailed build thread.

[PRR Modeler]

Beautiful modeling Bob. I love the problem solving that went into the build.

[Polux]

Nice work Bob. 

[Blazeman]

Thanks Curt, Dave and Jan!  Much appreciated. 

I know I repeat myself quite a bit from one thread to the next.  Heck I repeat myself a lot in real life too.    When I create a thread I just run under the assumption that there may be one person that's new to reading one of my threads.  The rest of you have to put up with the redundancy.      Just like the people who know me in real life.    

In this case, I'm the beneficiary of your redundancy. Thank you for making the effort to document all this.

[donatode]

Veni, Vidi, Amavi.

[jimmillho]

I really like the solution to the window problem.  Great job Bob.

Jim

[ACL1504]

Bob,

Wonderful build. I believe I hear the music! Late 40's swing and early 50's rock 'n roll.

Tom