FOS Ideal Hosiery

[nycjeff]

I recently completed two small structure builds from KC's Workshop for a new scene on my layout. The idea was to have a group of small businesses along a city block. I needed a third to go between the the other two and this kit from FOS Scale Models has been on my radar for a while.



Here's a look at the website photo of the kit. It has all of the usual interesting elements of a FOS kit. The exterior staircase, the side bump-out additions and the busy roof area all appealed to me. And it fit right into the space on my city block scene.



Here's the bag the kit came in.



A lot of material came out of the bag. Laser cut wood walls, some matboard parts, lots of different kinds of strip wood and a detail bag with some nice castings.



As per usual with a FOS kit, you get detailed instructions, images for how to do the bracing and the always good FOS signs. They even included an extra sheet of signs- a nice bonus.



Next time we'll get going on this nice little kit.

[Mark Dalrymple]

I'll be following along, Jeff.

I picked up this kit in Scranton at the modelling expo in 2015.  A neat looking kit with all those little 'WOW' features you speak of.  I still haven't found a spot for mine on the layout, yet, but there is still plenty of time.

Cheers, Mark.

[PRR Modeler]

I'll be following Jeff. Interesting looking kit.

[Rick]

Jeff, that's a good looking kit.
Have fun building it.

[friscomike]

Howdy Jeff,

Good luck with the kit.  It boasts nice instructions and lots of detail.  Your previous builds look terrific.  Nice work.

Have fun,
mike

[Philip]

Good en & another home run on deck!

[ReadingBob]

Good choice, Jeff. It's in my stash waiting to be built so you know I'll be following along.

[Jerry]

Jeff your two buildings look great.

This will only add to the street.

Jerry

[GPdemayo]

Good looking kit Jeff, I'll be looking in.....

[nycjeff]

Hello Mark, Curt, Rick, Mike, Philip, Bob, Jerry and Greg - thanks to all of you for the nice response to my FOS kit build. I think that this will fit nicely in my street block scene.

[nycjeff]

Continuing on...

I forgot to include this picture in my obligatory box, or in this case bag, opening pictures. Here are the different wall materials, the bundle of strip wood and the bag of detail goodies. You get a lot of stuff in this little kit.



I had to start with the fun stuff, so I dove right into the storefront and top cornice for the front wall. Both are layers of matboard, strip wood and in the case of the actual cornice pieces- styrene. It was fun fiddling with the little pieces. Here is a pic of the assembled storefront and top cornice with the center front wood wall piece.



I painted the sub-assemblies along with the windows and doors with a rattle can Nutmeg color. I then dry brushed them with an off white craft paint.



I then turned my attention to the exterior staircase walls. You cover the appropriate matboard pieces   with 2x10 strip wood. I first stained the wood with my A&I solution and then cut them into scale 6-8-and 10 foot lengths.



Using full strength wood glue I attached the strip wood to the matboard. I took care to leave a small space between the ends of the boards and the sides of the boards. I haven't done this before and I thought I would try it. It yields an interesting look that I like. After the glue dries I'll cut the pieces to fit the wall shape.

[nycjeff]

The roof top access shed is supposed to be covered with the galvanized sheet metal material that comes with the kit, but I liked the board by board look of the exterior staircase so much that I decided to continue the look here.



Here are the pieces of the staircase and roof-top shed all trimmed out.



Now it was time to get to the walls of the structure. I started out by deciding to cut the rear wall in half. I had a little extra room in the area behind the structure on my base for the block of businesses, so I figured an addition on the back would fit right in. You can see the pencil line where I decided to cut the wall.



After cutting the wall, I then cut a piece of 1/16th plywood to the same shape. You can see the cut piece off to the side.



I then cut a couple of side walls for the addition from some clapboard wall material I had on hand, which matched the pattern of the kit walls exactly.



I'm having a lot of fun with this kit so far. That's it for now, more later.

[Mark Dalrymple]

Hi Jeff.

None of the photos in this last post are showing up for me.

Cheers, Mark.

[nycjeff]

Hello Mark, give it a few minutes and then try again. I've seen other comments about this happening. As Rusty explained, it takes a few minutes for the system to upload the pictures from a post. I see that you checked in just two minutes after I posted.

[PRR Modeler]

I like the staggered boards Jeff.