I’ve just received my interior kit for the Walther’s Cornerstone Power Plant and was disappointed with the lack of detail on the generator/turbine motor housings ,etc. Has anyone here got pics of their detailed Power Plant interiors to share? I’d be interested in specifics regarding detail parts you’ve added. Rivets? I’m looking at a steam era plant. What color for the motors and walls and crane? Thanks.
Can’t help with the colors, but here are a couple of shots of a power house,
I assume that you have the interior kit 933-3130. Having worked around power plants and turbine/generators, I don’t know exactly what they were trying to represent. here is a picture that looks something like the model: http://www.durangotrain.com/files/images/2004_0926PhotoSpecial0108.jpg
There are a lot more photos here, but you’ll have to sort through them: http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4DKUS_enUS282US282&q=power+plant+interior+photos&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=7N44S5etMMe2lAe3yrSpBw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQsAQwAA
If those lumps in the Walther’s kit are supposed to represent turbines and generators, the gray rectangular box would be the generator and is typically painted either industrial beige or industrial green. However, different power companies may have their own flavor of paint that they would use other than those colors to give the place a family appearance.
The other semi-round parts in the kit are, I guess, supposed to represent the turbine. the high temperature part of the turbine would have thermal insulation on it. This can be a dirty gray unless covered in metal lagging. If there is lagging then the color would a stainless steel color. The low pressure part of the turbine would be the same color as the generator. Since I don’t know what the Walther’s parts are supposed to be, you’re on your own as to what part of the “turbine” is what.
By the way, a real turbine model would have a horizontal joint appr
Thanks guys. I’ve done some google searches but didn’t come up with any older plants-mostly nuclear. Yours was very helpful. I love the lower exterior shot with the 30’s cars. Where was that? The color tips were very helpful, thank you. I figured on either a pea-soup-ish green or a “Cummins” tan/Cat yellow, but wasn’t sure what was used in the 40’s. (My layout’s mid-late 40’s.) I kinda was going with colors from my very old elementary school days. That school was designed by the architect that designed Grand Central Station in N.Y.C. I appreciate your going to the trouble. This will be the lst building kit I try an airbrush on in the next few weeks so getting all of my “ducks in a row”.
I worked for a number of years in hydro-electric generating stations which were built between about 1910 and 1930. Everything, and I mean everything was painted grey. They must have bought the paint by the tank car full! The newest station was built in the 1960s and it had a bit of colour, but I don’t remember what the colours were. Even the one built in the 1950s was all grey. The only things which weren’t grey were the big transformers outside the stations. They were dark green, no doubt the transformer manufacturer’s choice.
The lower photo was taken in Anderson Indiana.
Does it bother anyone else that the only pictures you could turn up are of nuclear power plants?? That just seems wrong to me.
Thanks Roger. I really liked that photo! tsala, they weren’t ALL nuclear plants but the majority were.