Raymo Build Challenge 2018 - FOS Rothman's Pawn Shop & Thornhill Liquors

[ReadingBob]

Here's the kit I chose to build for Raymo's 2018 Build Challenge - the FOS Rothman's Pawn Shop & Thornhill Liquors.  All I have, so far, is the basic what comes in the box (bag in this case) shots.  I haven't actually started to build this yet but wanted to commit to the challenge and kick off the thread.    

Now the pressure is on.

A little background on this one.  I've built this kit once before.  I traded ACL1504 the finished kit for the unfinished kit.  My understanding is he leased the finished kit to Bill and Kris Cutler and it's starting to take root on their Pennsy layout.  They'd like to make it a permanent addition.  So.....I'm building the kit again and, when I'm finished they'll have a permanent replacement.   

Because of the build challenge this kit kind of cut in line in my build queue.  Next up would have been the FSM Jewel Series #2 - Bailey's Produce Company for Cuse but there's no way I could have finished the time frame specified for the build challenge.  So I have to apologize to John.  Bailey's is sitting here right next to me and I'm anxious to get started on it but it'll have to wait a little bit. 

The kit comes in a bag. 


In the bag is a fairly detailed set of instructions.


A few signs and templates.


And the usual suspects.  Strip wood, doors, windows, chimney's, walls, etc.


It'll be a little while until I get rolling on this one so be patient.    

[S&S RR]

Bob


Great choice!  I will be following along.

[Dave K.]

Eagerly following...always love a Fos build, and this is one I don't own. 👍🏻

[ACL1504]

Eagerly following...always love a Fos build, and this is one I don't own. 👍🏻

Bob,

Count me in on the followers.

Tom

[jimmillho]

Count me as number 4 follower.

Jim

[Janbouli]

[PRR Modeler]

As Jan posted.

[MAP]

I'll also be following along.  I have this one in the stack waiting to be worked on.

[PennsyJ1]

Mr. Bob, Kris and I are looking forward to have another fantastic Bob Butts structure on our layout!!Thank you so much my friend. Bill & Kris

[GPdemayo]

I'll be here too.....

[jimmillho]

I am just another little fish in the pond and will be following the school.

Jim

[donatode]

[S&S RR]

Where is the pond? 

[PaulS]

Where is the pond?

John, did you mean "Where is the "pawned"?"
Sorry I couldn't help myself, now back to our regularly scheduled ReadingBob Build show ....


--Paul

[ReadingBob]

Wow!  Thanks for all the interest!  I'm finally getting serious about this one.  About time too!  The clock is ticking and I'm running out of time.  The Radio Station is off my workbench (in fact it's outta my house) and I can focus my attention on this one.

After breaking out a new single edged razor blade and putting a new #11 blade in the old X-Acto handle (which is the first thing I do at the start of any build) it's time to clean up the stuff I want to airbrush.  I start with removing the window and door castings from their sprues using a sprue cutter.  This is a handy little tool worth investing in.  Some folks like to paint these castings before removing them (which is fine) but I prefer to remove them and clean then up before painting them. 


Cleaning up the plastic castings requires nothing more than a couple of swipes with an emery board.


Okay, at this point I changed the setting in the new picture resizing program I'm using from "ideal for e-mail" (above) to "ideal for web" (below).  I'm thinking I may need to find something in between.  It has a 'custom' option I may have to play with.  But for now you'll have to deal with smaller pictures.   

I use a variety of things to clean up the metal castings.  I found these sanding sticks at Hobby Lobby and they work for cleaning up the castings seams.  Metal files are also handy if the seams are more pronounced. 


After the plastic and metal castings have been cleaned up I look for anything else that I might want to prime and paint with the airbrush.  The laser cut micro fiber board components and some of the regular wood components that will get painted a matching color to the doors and windows (like the pilasters) get cut out and prepped for painting.


I even glued the risers on the back of the pawn shop emblem prior to painting it.


I usually look over the instructions to see if any of the stripwood needs to be left 'unstained' for any reason (fresh cut lumber).  There was nothing like that in this kit so all the strip wood (except for the bracing) gets a bath in Hunterline Light Gray.


More in a moment...