I want a feed mill on my N scale layout that would represent something seen in 70's. I prefer something that appears as a multi level metal building with surrounding bins/etc as needed. The Walthers Sunrise feed mill is a older style wooden building that would not work for my needs. I should note that modern built feed mills seldom totally enclose their inner workings and just leave a lot of the piping exposed. I don't want that style either. I want a multi level mainly enclosed metal building. Have not been able to find a feed mill kit that looks like I want so I am considering a kit bash from something else.
Walthers uses a multi level metal building for its kit of the Glacier Gravel Co. I have not seen the kit in person but I looked at the instruction and I think I could delete a few items and then add some external items to make it represent a feed mill in the 70's. Probably delete the bunkers made to load gravel. The kit looks like it has some side discharge shoots that could be made to load feed trucks. I also have some grain silos I can add that are left over from another kit bash.
Has anyone built this kit? Do you think it could be kit bashed into a feed mill by deleting/adding/changing some external elements?
Paul D
N scale Washita and Santa Fe RailroadSouthern Oklahoma circa late 70's
Google search Tom Johnson InRail. He has wonderful pics of several grain elevators or feed mills that he either bashed or made from stock. (I think of a mill as smaller than an elevator, but maybe the terms are interchangeable). HO scale. You will recognize parts of some popular Walthers kits in is photos. I think most are available in N scale also.
I believe his layout his also set in the 1970's to 1980's.
- Douglas
In Palmdale, Florida there was a feed mill that was in use into the 1990s and stood until about 10 years ago that looked very much like the Sunrise Feed Mill.
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Now almost the entire town is gone.
You can Google it for a look. There are hundreds of empty homesites where houses used to stand. Across the street from U-haul there is a railroad siding where the feed mill stood for decades.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
PEDWalthers uses a multi level metal building for its kit of the Glacier Gravel Co. ...Do you think it could be kit bashed into a feed mill by deleting/adding/changing some external elements?
Probably. I used it as the basis for a salt plant as shown here in an unfinished state:
I changed a number of things to fit it into a complex with other structures, and I'm sure you could change a lot more.
Just to share another idea - I kitbashed this fertilizer industry from a Pikestuff engine house, plus a Walthers grain conveyor, and various other parts I mostly had sitting around from other kits. Similar items could be used in combination with the Glacier Gravel kit too.
Rob Spangler