Hi, I'm new to the Society, but not to modelling. I'm making a return to 009 after an interval of something over 20 years. I've made the step back as I need to have a compact modelling project that I can do sitting down while I'm waiting for a dodgy hip to be seen to and then during recovery afterwards.
In August 2019, Railway Modeller featured a layout idea which was essentially a complete Scottish island with a distillery and a small standard gauge railway communicating with the mainland via small a train ferry. Nice idea but quite big at 7x5 feet. I decided to downsize the idea to a much smaller island with a brewery on it. The location will be the east coast of Scotland. (I can see the Firth of Forth from where I'm sitting. It's quite big - plenty of room for another island!) The baseboard is 1 metre square, which makes the island about the size of a couple of football pitches. Why it should need a railway is arguably open to question, but we won't go there.
The massive kitbash of the thread title is the brewery building. The attached photos show where I've got to. It's essentially as complete as it's going to be before painting. There are contributions there from Faller, Auhagen, Airfix/Dapol, Ratio and Wills. The central part was intended by Faller as a motor repair workshop. Conveniently, the doors are just big enough to run a 009 line right through as long as I'm careful with track level.
Painting should pull the whole thing together, but will take a while - there are a lot of bricks there! More pics will follow when I get to that stage.
Ian
One more photo...
I assume the "brewery" part is the middle, if so I'd be tempted to make that part two story. Old breweries tended to be quite tall buildings, to me that doesn't look quite right, with the lower building in the middle, at least to me.
That's a nice "busy" building
That's certainly an impressive building.
Yes, I like the way it looks like it has been extended and grown over time to meet increased demand.
Very nicely don, Ian. The main structure and the small structure with the smokestack look similar to kits that were produced by Model Power, here in the States.
Jeff S.
Thanks for the comments.
Blair: If this was a serious long-term project, I would probably take the time and effort to work out what the internal layout is and how it actually works. As it is, I'm afraid I'm just going to hand wave over that. I'm also going to take care to make sure you can't actually get any sight lines to see that it doesn't actually have any brewing equipment in there. I picked the central part largely on the basis of liking the fancy architectural detailing. Just call me lazy!
Jeff S: Rebranding of kits does seem to happen. Gaugemaster here in the UK have recently advertised a dockside crane, which is very obviously a rebrand or a Walthers product that's been around for a while. I wouldn't mind, but their 'new' one sells for about half the price I paid a couple of years ago for an imported Walthers one!
If you were looking for alternative uses, it might make an excellent dairy/creamery?
At one point I was toying with the idea of a layout on an island off the East coast but further up and more local to me. (Craigshire has a lot to answer for.) Really not much more than thinking up silly place names: if you take a straight line joining Fyvie, Forvie and going just out to sea rather than inland you will find the island of Thrievie just off the Aberdeenshire coast. Now building an island is something that might tax even Mr Trump and I'm sure he would have things to say about it spoiling the view from his golf course.
My original thoughts were of a micro layout of a grain store serving the barley fields on the island but your building triggered an idea for a creamery or cheese factory.
No - it's definitely a brewery. There's a backstory to go with it which I will reveal when I finish messing around with it. Besides, just think of all those barley fields in East Lothian. It's got to go somewhere besides Glenkinchie distillery!
Ian
I'm intrigued! :)
Ian
Nice work so far.
A famous brewing name actually sponsored my MSc research back in the 70's. One of the things I looked into for them was whether, or not, to close /wind-down the bottling plant.
Part of the plant was indoors and part outdoors - this may make an interesting side attraction, especially if you can find a supply of 4mm scale bottles (milk bottles perhaps ?).
Dave