Scratch built Sugar Beet Refinery

[CacheJunction]

It's a great job!

Now... SPILL 

What's it made of?  How did you make the window openings?  How is it painted, weathered?  Where did the stack come from?
You can't just electronically waltz in here, show Railwire some good work, and not expect a million questions.

Ok. I found a great CAD app for iPhone. I commute into NYC 45 minutes each way, so I drew up the plans during all the 'free time'. I sent the files to a laser cutting service and voila!

I painted it with two layers of concrete paint: woodland scenics and floquil. The stack was a wooden dowel from a craft store that I gave to a friend at my rr club who works a lathe. I gave him the dimensions and, again, viola! Same technique painting that. Shingles are rusty stumps.

Thanks for the compliments! It's my favorite structure so far on my layout. When I get the time I'll post pictures of some others.

[CacheJunction]

Chuck

Saw this in the product development thread:  https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=33604.0

Greg

The kit will be a little different, smaller, but MUCH easier to build. Anyway, it's all explained over there.

[lock4244]

That is a great looking industry! Not cookie cutter and has some oomph to it... please don't scale it down.

[sirenwerks]

Man, all hose huge windows.  That model needs a serious interior detailing.

[C855B]

What?! I didn't even know! I've already done loads of research and I grew up in the valley, but that would have been amazing! Some of the structures, like this one, I was unable to find any historical photos of. Are there notes from the convention?

Sadly, no. However, that said, it's my experience that presentations at the conventions are frequently starting points for articles in The Streamliner, the quarterly magazine.

Speaking of which, I browsed the back issue index, and through the years there have been numerous photographs published in and around Cache Junction, albeit mostly steam engines. You might download the index from the site (http://www.uphs.org) and see if you run across references to something familiar.

[tom mann]

In process! You can follow the development in the product discussion forum.

****, I have to click somewhere else!  But I want to follow it here!

Seriously, nice work.

[CacheJunction]

Sadly, no. However, that said, it's my experience that presentations at the conventions are frequently starting points for articles in The Streamliner, the quarterly magazine.

Speaking of which, I browsed the back issue index, and through the years there have been numerous photographs published in and around Cache Junction, albeit mostly steam engines. You might download the index from the site (http://www.uphs.org) and see if you run across references to something familiar.

The best book I've seen is in the Newton library. Plus I spent about two hours with Lamar who still lives in Cache Junction and made an amazing tour guide. The ice house I sell is based on the one that used to be there. Lamar told me where it was now located and I was able to go take pics of it for the model. I'm eventually gonna try to build the coal trestle 

[garethashenden]

Ok. I found a great CAD app for iPhone. I commute into NYC 45 minutes each way, so I drew up the plans during all the 'free time'. I sent the files to a laser cutting service and voila!

I painted it with two layers of concrete paint: woodland scenics and floquil. The stack was a wooden dowel from a craft store that I gave to a friend at my rr club who works a lathe. I gave him the dimensions and, again, viola! Same technique painting that. Shingles are rusty stumps.

Thanks for the compliments! It's my favorite structure so far on my layout. When I get the time I'll post pictures of some others.

What's the app?

[Nato]

             That is wonderful work, a kit of it will be nice, I may have to get one and find space on my layout then run my recently bought MT Beet Gons  on my layout. Nate Goodman (Nato). Salt Lake, Utah.

[timwatson]

Echoing the others here, this is really great. Kitmaking should be in your future for sure. I'd buy.

The flyover video just sold me.

[CacheJunction]

What's the app?

It's called AutoQ3D. It's about $30. I've used it for about two years. Bit of a learning curve if you have never used CAD.

[GimpLizard]

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here, but I went to the AutoQ3D web site, (http://autoq3d.com/) and not matter whether I clicked the "purchase" or the "download" buttons, it took me to an iTunes download page. And I really am not interested in iTunes.

Never mind. I figured it out. 

[CacheJunction]

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here, but I went to the AutoQ3D web site, (http://autoq3d.com/) and not matter whether I clicked the "purchase" or the "download" buttons, it took me to an iTunes download page. And I really am not interested in iTunes.

Never mind. I figured it out. 

I have only used the iphone app version. Don't know how other versions compare.

[CacheJunction]

            That is wonderful work, a kit of it will be nice, I may have to get one and find space on my layout then run my recently bought MT Beet Gons  on my layout. Nate Goodman (Nato). Salt Lake, Utah.

Nate, my layout is modeling all around you. I will have Geneva Steel and its coal mine, Ogden yard with the American Can Co factory, as well as Cache Valley.