Kitbashing two small industries Cutting diagrams Base for cannery Cut Cut Cut Cut Base and loading platform for brewery
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Front wall of cannery
syndrome. Luckily, I found a Tyco freight house kit I had bought some 25 years ago and put away in disgust because it was not the wood-side model I had want- ed and was illustrated on the box. How- ever, the kit seemed to be an excellent starting point for kitbashing a small brewery and an even smaller cannery. It has been available over the years from different manufacturers, among them AHM and IHC, and most recently from Faller (No. 120250; wood version). I used the front wall of the freight house for the front wall of the brewery. The second floor was cut off the rear wall and used to extend the second floor of the front wall. I reinforced the seams with appropriately cut ¹/₁₆″ sheet plastic strips. The remaining rear wall (first floor only) of the freight house kit was painted a disreputable grayish-brown and became the front wall of the cannery. The freight house base was then cut
(Add second floor here)
Front wall of brewery
DRAWINGS BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN
apart. The long loading platform be- came the loading platform for the brew- ery, and the two shorter platforms were used for the cannery. I then cut appro- priate pieces from the side walls: ³/₄″ for the brewery and the right end wall of the cannery. The left end wall of the cannery had to be cut 2³/₈″ deep as the building had to be positioned at an an- gle to the backdrop. The ³/₄″ first floor side walls were made from leftovers from a Walthers Merchants Row 1 kit which I had to cut down by one third to fit between the backdrop and the C&C mainline along Main Street. The windows, doors, detail parts and support beams for the posts were in- stalled as per instructions included in the kit.
The second floor shingle roof parts were cut to fit the brewery. The corru- gated shed roof pieces after being care- fully cut and fitted went on top of the cannery. The small hoist house on the shingle roof also had to be cut down to fit against the backdrop.
I made the name boards on my com- puter and re-enforced them with ¹/₁₆″ sheet plastic before gluing them to the roofs. I then fitted the two buildings onto my layout and detailed them with lots of boxes, crates and beer barrels from my well assorted parts box. Many thanks to my friend Dave Con- nery of San Ramon, California, who al- lowed me to open a branch of his “Leaping Frog Steam Beer” brewery on my layout and gave me decals to deco- rate a brewery owned beer car.
Due to the limited space, building flats for both structures (left) could be built using the walls and base of the Tyco freight house. There was enough platform materi- al with the kit that it could be divided be- tween both the cannery and the brewery.
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