i cant seem to find any structures that suit these requriements:
can be passed off as a stell stamping facility(or simething else that recives coil cars)
has the loading area inside the building
is not much bigger than 12x8"
can be bought fairly cheaply
any help would be appreciated. im watching a structure on ebay that suits these need well, but may be out of my price range eventually.
GEARHEAD426
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You might think about scratch building some thing should be that hard if you keep it simple and you can make it to the size you need or you might try kit bashing some things you already have…Cox 47
This is probably more than you want/need, but the pics are great…
that layout with the steel plant is WAY out of my leauge. i might try to kitbash something close to what i need. mabey i could get a 3 in 1 modular building and add an acceptable opening to one of the walls. any recomendations on how to do this?
Thanks
GEARHEAD426
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Gearhead,
What type of structure ? Something like a rolling mill,auto factory, fabicators,ship-builders ect. Walthers has a false front building called factory #4,also plastruct makes a false steel mill front. Would something like these help ? I’ll go and find links to them,BRB.
Patrick
Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}
Making HO scale steel by the ton!!!
Gear,
Heres a link to peachcreek shops, they have the plastruct false mill front for $20.95. They also carry a large list of scratch building supplys,along with mill rolling stock.
http://www.peachcreekshops.com/page.php?id=steel&UID=2006011519073868.189.155.164
Patrick
bob O did a great job thanks for the link
K
Hey,[#welcome] Look at pikestuff http://www.rixproducts.com/ , I have a nice building by them that could fit your bill.[:)] Either the brown building in the background on my train site , or the bigger building on the right of some pictures, marked GE.(it’s a Walther building I believe).
To quote Sundance: Who is this guy, Bob O’Neal? That is a tour de force! I am so intimidated I think I’ll just take up knitting.
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/541-15
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/541-102
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/541-10
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/541-4
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/541-11
Look at Pikestuff.
Any of these fit your requirements. Most sheet metal stampers are in non-descript modern buildings. Some receive metal coils by rail. A few will ship out by rail - modern box cars if they do. You will want to add some crane detailing for removing the loads, either inside the building, or on a dock.
ok so as far a non descript midern buildings go, a modern 2 engine house would work? id probably just need to cover up one of the doors with some styrene and make it a truck loading area.
i was looking for something a little less generic, but i had this left over from the old layout and im a bit short of cash. its going to be a general stamping and machene shop. probably receving 1 coil car load a week, sending out 1 gondola of scrap, and a occasonal box car shipment of supplys.
gappleg, what youre using for a engine shop i liked, but it was a bit too big and the turn table type thing was too expensive and big. (i only have room for 1spour to this industry)i can talk myself into liking this i guess.
any ideas for extiorior details?
thanks for all the help so far.
GEARHEAD426
On my old layout, I kitbashed a Pikestuff structure with a brick structure. I used half the Pikestuff structure as a lean-to covered loading dock. It was simple to do and looked good as well. I’m not much of a kitbasher but this was easy and if a klutz like me can do it, anyone can.
You might be able to put a siding inside a fence with some signs on it and then suggest the actual facility on the backdrop. That would give you maximum industry with little layout space.
Hey Gearhead!
Thank you very much for the topic.Made me think of Pikestuff by Rix right away when I read your question.[tup]Rix Products/Pikestuff/SmalltownUSA good inexpensive made in the USA products!Those and DPM kits will populate my new layout when I get started next month.
I was also beating my brain for an idea of what to do with the yard/industrial area along one wall and decided on an idea along the lines of the Milwaukee Road’s Kingsbury branch that a modeler did in N scale.Something of a yard and industries on each side.
My layout will be HO,along the walls with a peninsula,and overall 34 feet by 24 feet in my basement.I’m still working on framing and insulating the walls first.Framing is done.Insulating next,followed by masonite on walls for backdrop.
Have a good one.Thanks again!
Bill
Iowa
You missed the pikestuff building I was talking about in the background, here’s the link to it on the rix product page, doors and such are not already done, you cut out what you want to use from the backside. I have a pass through track on mine for gondolas with loads. http://www.rixproducts.com/shops.htm
Hey Gearhead.
I like the engine house. It could use and indoor and an outdoor overhead traveling crane and some piles of stuff outside.
Maybe make it a stamping or fabricating facility - rolled steel in, parts out.
Machines inside too.