TheRailwire
General Discussion => N and Z Scales => Topic started by: Flagler on October 08, 2013, 10:38:58 AM
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Thinking of Building a Factory or Industry by Kitbashing a few of these kits.Please show what you have done with this kit
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I have 3 kits on the way to work with. Ideas guys would be helpful.
I could make 1 long flat about 30" long,but that would be borring
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No pictures, but you could put all three kits end to end. That in my mind would create a large manufacturing or fabrication plant. Or it could be a power house, maybe a power substation.
Sorry I don't have pics, these are just ideas.
Wyatt
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6 ends & 6 sides to work with.
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(http://www.jerseycityindustrial.net/images/build_2g.jpg)
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THe building is too small, the bricks are too big, and it's too expensive.
Enough bashing ideas for ya?
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THe building is too small, the bricks are too big, and it's too expensive.
Tell us how you really feel about those Walthers buildings Ed - don't hold back! :D
I agree with you, but we don't have all that many choices in N scale, so sometimes we have to improvise using what's available. :|
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Young Ed has made a play on the word "bash."
(http://stickerish.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ISeeWhatYouDidThereBlackWithTextSS.png)
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I was waiting on the Bashing to begin when I created the Subject .
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Really this is the type of building that looks better longer than it is. Or maybe you could sawtooth them at an angle against a backdrop to look like a bigger complex.
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I was waiting on the Bashing to begin when I created the Subject .
I wouldn't want to disappoint!
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Young Ed has made a play on the word "bash."
Duh! That went way over my head. :facepalm:
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Walther's Appreciation Party in Ed's basement around the Cornerstone.
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I'd like to build a small crane for the shed -- a small winch that rolls along the travelling I-beam, which itself is powered with a motor/gear on one end to move it along the tracks on the walls. Not a huge cab-mounted version like Walthers has, a small one that is partly motorized and partly pulled by a hanging chain or rope.
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I plan to use the Kits for a can mfg fractory. "American Can Company". I believe one type of in bound freight,raw materials would be coils of metal on gondolas.Ideas would be helpful for service track plans. Box cars for outbound metal cans.
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I worked at an American Can plant back in my college days (1960's). Besides the coils in Gons and Boxcars for cans, you'd have a boxcar every so often full of drums of solvents, paints, inks. I shudder to think of how we washed our hand in toluene, MEK and other carcinogenics.
the inside surfaces of cans were coated with a varnish like material. Some cans had labels printed on them instead of paper labels.
I don't recall any tank cars but, hey, it's your railroad.
Coils could also be chained to flat cars.
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And don't forget the sexy can stock cars coming from FVM.
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I plan to use the Kits for a can mfg fractory. "American Can Company". I believe one type of in bound freight,raw materials would be coils of metal on gondolas.Ideas would be helpful for service track plans. Box cars for outbound metal cans.
In the 1980's before the closure of the J&L / LTV Aliquippa Works, the Tin Mill shipped coils in coil cars, covered gondolas and boxcars. Since these coils were plated, I never saw them shipped in open gondolas or on flat cars, because they needed protected from the weather. One of the Tin Mills larger customers was Crown Cork & Seal in Winchester, VA.
On my layout the Vulcan Mfg company is a structural steel manufacturing plant that receives steel beams in gondolas and steel coils in coil cars. Here is a photo of plant.
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc239/gizzmaxx/Model%20Railroad%20Photos/1c634938-1481-451c-b885-a7662afefee2_zps0540eb8f.jpg)
I just don't understand why Walthers does not sell a crane for this building. I'm in the process of kit bashing one from the Walthers heavy duty crane kit.