A late addition to my Cobleskill Coal Co. kit build, I am interested in adding a tall chimney to the shed/addition to the model as shown in the prototype photo below. I’ve done a bunch of searching and have only found one or two that aren’t particularly close. I know in a pinch I can carve my own out of basswood or plaster, or scratchbuild out of brick sheet, but I’m just hoping maybe someone knows of something similar off the top of their head. thanks in advance.
I’ll bet I have accumulated dozens of styrene chimney parts over the years. I haven’t taken inventory but I’d bet I can come up with a bunch that can easily be “spliced” to make a chimney as tall as you want.
I’ll take a look later and get back to you. I also have quite a few that are metal castings but I tend to shy away from these since they really lack much detail and take too much time to clean up.
So… in regards to your bucket conveyor as shown in the photo all dressed up in primer. Are you aware of the Walthers grain “leg” conveyor they produced back when they were doing the Valley Cement and the grain silo Cornerstone series?
I think these parts would make a great kitbash for your coal bucket conveyor. Walthers had a taller “leg” conveyor with three ladder sections but you wouldn’t need anything that tall—and they want crazy money for it!
How about the styrene stack from an N scale Heljan Brewery kit? I have one that I could send you if the size and shape suit you. Its overall height is 10.25", of which 0.25" is the concrete base and 0.125" is the concrete crown. Its cross section is 0.875" square immediately above the base and 0.625" square immediately below the crown. It is already painted with light weathering. And even though it is an N scale kit, the brick detail is very close to that of several of my HO scale kits.
Send me a PM with your email address and I will send you a photo. Or send me your snail mail address and I will send you the stack. I only ask that you reimburse me for the postage.
Thanks guys, I appreciate your willingness to share. Ed, I wasn’t aware of the bucket elevator that Walthers put out. I will probably do like Dr. Wayne and have a number of coal dealers, so that will be nice to keep in mind for the next one (which will likely be a scratchbuild). And Roger, I’ll send you a pm, that stack may just work. The chimney in the photo is a pretty simple affair, in all likelihood for a woodstove. But again, if anyone knows of a simple tall chimney that’s ready to go, let me know.
Edit: Never mind. When you said “tall” chimney I thought you really meant a “tall” chimney". I was wondering why I didn’t see one in the posted picture. After reading the following posts I figured out you really meant that short thing on the shed.
That chimney explains the big hole in the shed roof that can be seen in the more recent pictures. By the looks of it it has bricks on two sides at the top to support what appears to be a concrete cap. That would require a scratch build to match it.
yep, and I hadn’t thought about that big hole until I saw the earlier photos with the chimney before it collapsed. I don’t mind the idea of piecing together the cap, I’m just surprised not to find anything suitable in a “plain Jane” sort of product. Roger sent me the pictures of his n-scale stack, for which I’m grateful, unfortunately it has a taper that the original didn’t have.
As luck would have it, I did another search tonight just for laughs and giggles, and I came up with a new hit for a New Hampshire-based company named Bollinger. He has some white metal castings for a short and a long chimney, so after some hemming and hawing I just decided to order one pack of each to see how they look. Then I went back to Rusty Stumps and ordered their tall (18 scale feet) chimney, which is a resin casting. That will definitely need some trimming if it’s any good. Still open for ideas if anyone has a brainstorm, I don’t mind these other ones going in the parts box if something better turns up.
so we’ll see. I was surprised to see the Bollinger web page and wonder why I didn’t get it on my earlier searches? who knows.
It wouldn’t be too difficult to make your own using a piece of Evergreen square tubing. Use a set of dividers to “walk-off” the mortar lines - you could use the divider’s points to scribe the initial horizontal lines. I used this method about 50 years ago to do the same on a piece of basswood, although the horizontal scribing was done with a razor saw.
Dave, if you please, what recent pictures? I only see one photo [D)] The link is missing in my frame, could be my browser?
Jim,
Here’s what I found in the top several layers of my scratch/bash bins:
If there’s anything you see here that you can use, just say the word…
NOW, below is a closer photo of the DPM splice pieces shown above. I have dozens of them! All you have to do is lightly sand the draft angle off one (narrower) pair and cement them to form a square (or use 4 the same width for a slightly rectangular chimney)…
The longer ones are 2.75" which will give you a chimney approximately 19’ 11" in HO. Plus it would be easy to drill then file a hole for your crenellation topper. They would make a chimney 2’ 3" square in HO.
Let me know if anything here would help you out and I’ll get it out to you.
Ed, those splice pieces are basically what I had in mind when I started looking–if you’re willing to spare some of them, that would be great. I’m thinking the two inch ones may be fine (I wish I’d thought to measure the approx height of what we’re talking about here, I can do that this afternoon), but if you really have dozens of them, maybe I should take a sprue of each and play around with them. But that’s kind of what I had in mind.
And Wayne, thanks for the pair of dividers trick, not sure why I hadn’t thought of those, still my backup backup plan.
Jim, I have a left over HO brick chimney from DTD Gugisberg Machining kit , rather tall and cast in hydrocal. The base is slanted at 45 deg, measures out at about 3 3/4" on the long side.
Anyone familiar with assembling DPM kits knows about sanding the mating edge of the styrene for a good fit-up. You should be able to make a pretty respectable chimney out of these pieces. You can elect to cut off the row of “soldiers” since they probably wouldn’t have been used in a smaller chimney like you are making.
Ed, that would be great, I really appreciate your generosity again. Peter, thanks as well, but the slant/taper probably wouldn’t work in this situation, but I do appreciate the offer also. thanks!
maybe not too late, certainly from the photos those look like excellent castings, I’d have to cut the top part off obviously, but the price is right. If I order one, I’ll let folks know how it looks. thanks for the heads up!
Cobleskill Coal by Mike Stellpflug, on Flickr
