The Grande Valley is

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making progress

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part2

my favorite pics:D

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I wish I could take the credit for these two,but my friend Bill took all these pics.:D
 

roryglasgow

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Catt!

Looks like you're making some exciting progress!

Is that the George Roberts Printing Company in the second and third photos? It looks like a different configuration from the Walther's photo. Is this building "reconfigurable?"

-Rory
 
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Yeah,Rory the sides you can't see are plain old styrene sheet.The wall section with the two truck bays ia actually the back wall.
 

Drew1125

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Great work, Catt! And nice pics!:cool:
I kitbash my structures the same way you do...since my layout can only be viewed from one side, there's no sense in modeling what can't be seen. You can get a lot of "mileage" out of a single kit that way too! Also, I have a tendency, as soon as I open a structure kit, to throw out the instructions, & just see what kind of "Frankenstein Monster" I can build out of the parts! :D
For my foundry complex, I used a Heljan newspaper building, with a scratchbuilt foundation, dock, & roof for the lower portion, & for the upper part, I used pieces of a Walther's roundhouse.
 

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Tyson Rayles

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Well is in real life the truth might not be so hot, but from the viewable side it looks like the real McCoy to me! The oil tank is a nice feature also.:cool:
 
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Charlie I will be cloning your overhead crane for steel unloading at the MAT truck factory. :D I think that will be purrfect for unloading steel coils for the fabrication plant.

By the way in keeping with my thoughts that a factory should be big enough te deserve rail service the fab building is going to be 10" wide x 20" long and 4 3/4 " tall.(it will help hide the mousehole :D )

I would post some construction pics but I'm building the core of the thing from black styrene.
 

Drew1125

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Where do you get black styrene?
That would be most handy to have!
I use the white Evergreen stuff (where did they get that name anyway?) & have to paint it black.
 
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Do you have a plastics supply house near you? Someplace like Cadillac Plastics? They should be able to get it for you.

You might check at local sign shops.The stuff I have was origonally cut to be used in a sign.
 
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