As I worked more on some recent kits and finished painting some others, one thing I kept thinking about the the GERN area, and that it looked a little a plain to me.

GERN, for those that don’t know, is a fictitious company created/operated by doctorwayne at the-gauge.net. It’s a industy to have a little fun with. Create a fun backstory, then a product created with the made up product FLUX product that GERN mines, etc.. etc.. My plant will produce the pruduct Fluxoride, a component used in the making of Transparent Aluminum (yes, a Star Trek reference there).

So anyway, I wanted to make the area look more…. industrial looking. Not just a few place faced buildings. So I ordered a Walther’s Blast Furnace kit and a Coke/Quencher kit. I’ll tie these two kits into the existing track plan in the area hopefully (mainly to avoid redoing those crazy turnouts. Now, I know these two kits are intended for use in a steel mill, but that’s the fun part of modeling. You can make anything into anything you want. I also have a extra North Island Refinery kit I can probably toss into the mix as well.

I’m looking forward to getting this kits and working them into the plant. It shouls really give the GERN plant that industrial look I’m after.

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Here’s a mini tour following the Amtrak train.

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For the very first time since construction started almost 22 months ago, a train rolls onto to the upper level.

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This kit was really easy and went together quickly. Only took me two days.

The lower section is painted Floquil Concrete, the upper sections are Testors Dark Aircraft Gray, and the the steel structures are Floquil Tuscan.

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