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This is a building front from DSL Shops, out of Chicago.  You must scratch build the three walls,and roof,  if you want a complete building. The front is a very strong resin and highly detailed.  DSL, is temporarily closed. Dave Lull, makes some extraordinary fronts completely accurate in 1:48 and 1:64 scale.  I have built several of his kits, and always happy with the end results. This model took me one week to complete. It comes with paper signs for either a music, or shoe store'.. I grew up with radio' and attended broadcasting school, so I made it a record and radio repair store'...  

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After cleaning, the front was undercoated with Rust Oleum camouflage primer. Then painted with Dr. Ben's aged concrete stain.  the main body painted with acrylic mudstone.  The trim is Vallejo cement.  The sign is off of "Pintrest', resized and reversed and flipped to show both sides.  The base is cut out card board. Led lighting by,'Evan Designs'.. The interior is resized pics off the net.  The stereo and speakers are paper cut outs from a company in England mounted on foam board, and painted with 'Sharpie markers'... The side walls are bass wood sheets from the defunct "Monster Model Works'...

 

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Obviously a Marilyn Monroe fan'...

 

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The man is 1:43.5, The girl is an exact 1:48 scale figure.  Both are from "Model U" in England. Both sizes work perfect with a DSL Shops kit that is also an exact 1:48 scale structure'...

The Terra Cotta color is also a DR. Ben's powder industrial pigment mixed with pigment fixer... very realistic in person...

Thanks for looking'...😉

 

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@J. Motts posted:

Those are really nice looking.  Great pics too.  Would you mind posting their contact information, I'd like to order one of his fronts in 1:64 scale.

Thanks for sharing.

 Thanks very much  JM,  here is the link.  He is temporarily closed as I mentioned above.  However, you could call him.  If he has any fronts left in that scale,or possibly he may make a mold for you.  He did inform me he wasn't doing much.  I think due to possible health issues.  Nothing to do with Covid.  So good luck'...

http://www.dslshops.com/

 

There are few of these DSL Shops, Brown & Gray Stones on the forum from members.  They are designed from actual buildings in Chicago, and it certainly adds to their realism when completed.  Additional work is required and time to achieve good results on these fronts.  Here is a version of a Gray Stone, I recently completed.....

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masterful job on the brownstone, ted. in a very different direction, i used two of those fronts to create a trio of brownstones in which the middle one is under construction, or maybe being demolished. it also provided some beams on which the construction guys could eat lunch while ogling the woman throwing out her trash. 

wish DSL would do some more original castings at some point. 

 

 

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