Coke ovens pt 2

Here's a photo of the mostly completed Walthers coke ovens.  I haven't placed the conveyors yet, and the other tower is finished but unseen.  It's kinda more of a background building I figured I'd try to fit in somehow.  The kit was missing a few piping pieces but I improvised with some of the plastic sprues.  I haven't quite decided where to place it but it fits well right about there.  The blue masking tape is just holding the smokestack together as the glue dries.

I drove past the ruins of the old Bethlehem Steel mills here and after all these years it's cool to spot which remaining few buildings are which.  I can tell which ones are the coke ovens, which one is the blower house, etc.  It shut down when I was little and most of it was demolished not long after, but there's a little left.

Lessons learned:

1. Rustoleum makes a tan colored spray paint that's just about the same as the Scalecoat Aged Concrete.  Cheaper, more of it, and easier to cover big surfaces.  Kinda wish I'd figured that out before, but I had to know what "aged concrete" looked like first.
2. As much as these buildings are selectively compressed - man, you still need a lot of room to fit them in.

Next up - the brewery complex on the other side.  The first building for that is the Walthers Superior Paper Mill.