A small tease

My brother hands me a pic. “This is our next kit” Ok, boss I’ll get right on it. So here is the initial computer model before any textues have been decided. Grain or coal?

Comments

[John]

Interesting but I thought the church was to be next. Disappointed to be sure.

[Dave]

The church is done. One small modification and it will go up. I believe we will show it at trainfest this weekend.

[Dave Miecznikowski]

John

Don’t be disappointed. The Church will be up right after Trainfest. The statement “This is our next kit” means the next kit in the line. The church will be up as soon as we finish up some changes that I asked Thom to make. There are some minor issues that we won’t be able to finish before Trainfest. Thom can’t finish what I need him to do till I’m done with what I am doing. That doesn’t mean he stops working. He jumps to the next thing that CAN be worked on.

Dave

[Rick]

Why not make signage for both.

[Dave Rarig]

I think you should make it for BOTH coal and grain. Provide parts for coal chutes as well as grain pipes; throw in some descriptive signage and the modeler could build either version. Maybe concrete and wood for the silos?

[Jim Bisbee]

I think it will be a versatile kit, allowing for quite a bit of kitbashing (number of silos, height, silos only on left or right, etc.). I would include signs for both coal and grain though to me it looks mostly like coal. Have a wood texture for the silos. Thanks!

[JT]

oooh.
How about this!
Sphar & Co, Winchester KY.


https://www.flickr.com/photos/kyphotofile/5128290825/

[Jeff Damerst]

Thom,
I would bring it out in both grain and coal. I think I will build it for my Z scale layout. It should be a large structure as coal silos were about 50-100 feet height at the most while grain elevators were sometimes as high as 200 feet. But the builder could print out extra sections of the silos and raise the structure to the height that they want or make it as long as they want.

Cheers,
Jeff