N scale brewery

[Big Mark]

Does anyone know if there is a brewery model on sale or is it just time to kit bash?
Living in England I understand that we use a different scale (we use either 148 or 160 and the rest of the world uses other) would this make mixing building stand out and look duff?
Cheers
Mark

 

[Brian]

I believe it was "Model Power" that produces an N scale brewery kit. It's pretty easy to come by....you might try searching on Ebay....I spotted one there last night. :thumb:

 

[Big Mark]

I believe it was "Model Power" that produces an N scale brewery kit. It's pretty easy to come by....you might try searching on Ebay....I spotted one there last night. :thumb:

That is just what I am after!!
Have sent ebayer an email

 

[gavin manley]

try metcalff i think there brewery is in N as WELL

 

[Big Mark]

vtry metcalf i think thyere brewery is in N as WELL

Cheers Gavin, yeah it is N but Im not keen on card buildings and its huge.
Thanks though
Mark

 

[gavin manley]

sorry coulnt be more help what i've done is bought the tank farm and sales buliding from kibri and used the office with the small barrels provided as a distribution point or large offie.

 

[Big Mark]

This is the one I am going to get hold of

This is the metcalf kit just incase anyone does not know it

 

[eightyeightfan1]

Definatly a classic. Had that on my layout when I was in N scale.

 

[Big Mark]

Definatly a classic. Had that on my layout when I was in N scale.

The model power or metcalf?

 

[gavin manley]

nice model looks better than the metcalf model:thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

 

[eightyeightfan1]

The Model Power. I made mine part of a larger complex. It's made so you can have a piece of track in it, and I used mine for a indoor railcar shipping/recieving dock.

 

[Will_annand]

Actually, the Metcalf kit looks more like an old Brewery than the Model Power one.

With those large vehicle doors, the Model Power kit looks more like a car repair shed, or maybe an early automobile assembly building.

 

[Drew1125]

That MP kit has been marketed as several other things besides a "brewery" I've seen it in both HO & N as a "lumber mill", among other things...

IMHO, it would be cool to combine both those kits shown into some type of brewery...

Also Walthers makes some really nice looking industrial structures that would make convincing breweries...

www.walthers.com

 

[slurp]

IMO the Metcalfe one looks more true to form of the breweries i've seen, the MP one looks as though it could be used for everything from an engine shed to as someone suggested a saw mill.

 

[60103]

Didn't the MP one start out as the Revell engine shed about 40 years ago?

Of course, the only brewery I've been in lately looks like a CPR roundhouse, cause that's what it is.

 

[Big Mark]

I think you guys are spot on, that the metcalf kit does look more like an industrial brewery. the two main issues for me were size and the fact it is made from card.
I am doing a very rural layout based on the southern area of England and to go with that the Brewery is to be a small cottage industry type, which is why I like the MP one

 

[shortliner]

I'd look around and see if there are a couple of other kits that will fit in with it as additional buildings, and possibly add a Rix/Pikestuff "Blue-shed" extension. Put a chainlink fence around the whole thing to tie-it together
Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

 

[coaster]

I think you guys are spot on, that the metcalf kit does look more like an industrial brewery. the two main issues for me were size and the fact it is made from card.
I am doing a very rural layout based on the southern area of England and to go with that the Brewery is to be a small cottage industry type, which is why I like the MP one

Mark --
Bearing in mind that our ideas of what constitutes "rural" may be at more than a slight divergence, I still have to say that the brewery in this link strikes me as far more 'cottage industry' than the MP version.

http://walthers.com/exec/productinfo/555-203

-- Paul

 

[shortliner]

That was what I meant by "additions" in my post above - very nice!
Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

 

[Big Mark]

really nice brewery coaster..
Just to clarify what I am going for when I say Rural....
And yeah cottage industry (artisan) brewery is what I am going for, keep the comments coming guys this is great stuff