Furnace Vessels Done
March 15th, 2009
This morning I finished up the vessels on the furnace kit. All that’s left is the highline bridge and skip hoist.
Once completed, I’ll probably post this kit on ebay to sell as it looks like I won’t be doing a steel mill. I think the mill structures, and the industry as a whole, is going to be larger than what my shelf layout can accomodate. For example, you can’t even see the top 4 inches or so of the blast furnace because the upper fascia blocks it. It’s that tall! So instead, I’ll be using the Superior Mill kit I already have built and modeling a small paper mill.
I don’t suppose you could cut out the facia to account for the height? Something in a nice curve perhaps? I just think, operationally, you will gain so much more by finding a way to include the full mill on the layout, then stringing together a couple of other industries that you seem les sthen enthused about.
Not really. Behind the upper fascia are the light fixtures, so shorting then fascia would expose those fixtures.
I’m actually getting quit excited about putting in the paper mill and putting in the consolidated dairy building back in. I started laying at structures on the layout and was just pleased with how everything fit, and ideas for details for the mill are rolling in my head.
I find these structures to be more proportionally sized for the layout as well. They don’t look as overpowering as the mill.
Perhaps in a future layout.
Shaun:
Are the steel mill structures still available as of today (Mon, 4/13) or already sold on Ebay? Do you have any mill cars (mold cars, ingot cars, crucible cars–not bottle or torpedo cars, Bucyrus-Erie Crane cars) that you’d consider selling? How about any detailing kits or models for the interiors of either open hearth or electric arc furnace buildings, a rod mill, or a rolling mill?
Dave H.
Modeling the 1970s Era Peoria and Pekin Union Railway in N-Scale
Hi Dave,
I still have the mill buildings. Still need to finish the elevated track deck and conveyor (unless the buyer wants to) on the furnace. The coke ovens are still in the box.
Don’t have any additional mill items though. Just the two structures.