Construction of the brewery complex continues with the storage tanks and the older brick building. The storage tanks are the Walthers plastic pellet distributor, and the brick building is the Walthers engineering office. I thought the combination of these with the paper mill would make a believable brewery. Looking at various brewing operations on Google maps, most have an older original brewhouse, a modern brewing/canning/warehouse/shipping building, and storage tanks for purified water. I've seen the storage tanks a stainless steel color or painted, I'm not sure how I'll finish them but for now they're a flat white. Oh that plastic pellet kit. Walthers kits can be pretty frustrating at times but I thought nothing would make me angrier than the bascule bridges...but the piping on this kit just might. I'm not sure I'll use the piping apparatus with the brewery or just mix it in somewhere with the steel mill. In hindsight, I probably didn't need this kit, could've made them out of some other tubes. But I've done that before, and it never looked as good. As for the engineering office building, I had to do a little kitbashing to put the main entrance on the short end, since it would face a street there rather than the underpass. I used Rustoleum spray paints again for the colors. One interesting thing I've been thinking of is how from the railroad's perspective one usually sees the back of buildings. As modelers we think of these facing the viewer, but realistically it's more the opposite. The back of houses, the back of fences, etc. Something to keep in mind as I plan this. Another thing to consider is how much space should be between tracks and buildings. I'm trying to give as much space as I can between the tracks and the brewery but it still seems close. Ah, no matter how much space you have as a modeler, you always wish you had more. Having these buildings built should at least allow me to place the remaining trackage there.
Lessons learned:
1. Taking the time to paint the window sills really makes the building look better than just a straight brick color. Though this means you're going back and forth between colors touching up spots.
2. Be careful about smudging any glue on the plastic 'glass' inserts for the windows, it will not come off.
3. Walthers - you gave people the option of using the regular sized windows or the doors on both sides of the building, but if you're like me and went for windows on both, you didn't give us enough windows in the kit to do it. But you gave us a whole bunch of other miscellaneous parts that have nothing to do with this kit. Whyyyyyyyy. I filled it in with a couple of those randomly included parts, a couple garage doors, on the side facing the canning/shipping building, no one will see them there.
4. Paints - Rustoleum Satin Fossil spray paint is a good aged concrete color, and Rustoleum Satin Warm Caramel is a good brick color.
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