I plan on a brewery as an industry and have two possibles. The cornerstone and Woodland scenics will both fit the location and I am looking for opinions as to which is the “better” kit. I know the cornerstone kits are plastic but I know nothing about the Woodland kits.
Has anybody built either of these kits?
This is the Walthers “Arrowhead” brewery kit.
It’s designed as a background building. I think it’s actually just the back wall of their larger brewery kit, plus a couple of stub side walls. All the details, including the loading dock, are things I had lying around. The kit itself was kind of sparse, but it did come with a lot of extra windows.
The walls for this kit are all full-sized pieces. You don’t have to assemble them from modular sections like some of the Cornerstone kits.
I wouldn’t get too hung up on the “brewery” definition on the box. Take a look at other kits that would fit your space. As you can see from my model, there’s nothing but the barrels and the signs that make this a brewery. It could just as easily be a furniture or shoe factory.
He may be talking about this one, which is familiar as the Heljan brewery, now sold as walthers
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3024
To answer the original question, the Woodland Scenics and Walthers models are both made of plastic.
Mister B’s advice is well worth heeding. Too many times, modellers let the name and description on the box restrict the purpose for which a structure may be used. If you like the architecture and it suits your locale, then any building can be a brewery.
The same advice should also apply to paint, in my opinion. Look at the colour, not the name on the bottle. An exception might be railroad-specific colours, but even then, they’re often open to interpretation by the viewer.
Rail Brown and Roof Brown are both brown, but you should decide which one looks best on your rails and your roofs, or perhaps on neither. Don’t be afraid to mix your own interpretation of colour for whatever task is at hand.
And let’s face it, when your wife wants to paint the living room “Mocha Crème Delight”, with the trim in “Café au Lait”, your instinct tells you it’s really “Beige on Beige”. [swg] Go with your instincts - it may improve your layout (and living room, too). [(-D]
Wayne
Bruce,
I like the look of the Walthers building kit, but I’ll have to agree with Mr. B and Doc Wayne’s views. I like most of the 1900’s building styles. If you would like to view ton’s of pic’s and info and wet your appetite for some inspiration, check out this site:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/county/stlouis/kempland/glassplate.htm#Anheuser%20Busch%20Brewery:
Frank