FOS' Pub Crawl Build

[Janbouli]

The awning on the top floor is such a nice twist , looking great Tom.

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Leo's Watering Hole has a billboard sign on the roof. I changed up the construction of the billboard from the kit instructions.

Doug includes in the kit a piece of card stock for the sign backing. The location of the bar can be seen from both the front and back. I didn't want visitors to see the back of a piece of plain cardboard so I made the billboard out of scale 2X10s.

The 2X10s were stained with Hunterline Driftwood and when dry stained with Hunterline Medium Brown.





More in a few.

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The awning on the top floor is such a nice twist , looking great Tom.

Jan,

Thank you for the kind words and also for checking in. I like the awning look with KC's detail vs. plain colored paper.

Tom 

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I then stained the billboard sign with Hunterline Light Gray and Light Gray Pan Pastels.

I also cut the sign into three equal sections. This is how the sign would have been applied to the billboard.





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I glued the right piece in place on the 2X10s making sure it was correctly placed and square. I then added the other two pieces.



Taking a Diet Pepsi break back in a few.

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While the sign was drying, I used Gallery Glass Liquid Leading to represent the tar pitch on the roofs. I used a small pointed brush for this. The liquid leading was squeezed onto a piece of paper, the brush dipped in the pitch and then applied to the roofs.





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I forgot to mention and photograph the flat roof shown in the above photo. The roofing paper is a Stoney Creek product. I looks like tar paper and/or graveled roofing. I used it as gravel and weathered accordingly.

I finished building the billboard framing using scale 4X4s and two short pieces of scale 2X8s. Here is how the sign looks after several years out in the elements.



The two chimneys were added using the black Gallery Glass Leading as glue and tar.

I didn't finish the other casting in the kit but will do so later after recovery.

For me, the kit is finished for now. Photos of the finished structure are shown below.

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Dang I need to get a new camera. Those gray spots are an annoyance.

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I used a short piece of the paper as rolled roofing for the top of the front wall.

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[PRR Modeler]

Great build Tom.

[cuse]

Great build end to end Tom...but extra impressive handling of the prototypical wear on the billboard based on real installation methods. Very clever...never seen that before.


See you soon. Take care...John