dknelson Rix Products makes corrugated metal (in styrene) grain bins in HO and N, and also extensions to make their kits taller, or for other uses. Reasonably priced too. https://www.walthers.com/search/manufacturer-name/rix-products/show/20?match=AND&q=grain Dave Nelson
Rix Products makes corrugated metal (in styrene) grain bins in HO and N, and also extensions to make their kits taller, or for other uses. Reasonably priced too.
https://www.walthers.com/search/manufacturer-name/rix-products/show/20?match=AND&q=grain
Dave Nelson
These bins are very realistic and easy to assemble. I'd also suggest them. You can mix the heights to create some interesting variety.
If it is a more modern bin turnbuckles will likely have a cover on them. This can be accomplished by running the guitar string into a very small piece of tubing as the real ones are simply a piece of PVC you slide or clip on over the TB.
Glue the guitar string in the tube to the appropriate diametre, paint and weather and glue to the bin.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
dknelson...The January issue of MR which just arrived has an article about scratchbuilding a water tank of wood, with some ideas about the tension hoops or whatever they are called.
Grandt Line offers "water tank hoop fasteners", part number 5038.
Wayne
mbinsewiBatman talks about using guitar strings. I'm sure if anyone makes the turn buckle that connects the ends.
Tichy makes turnbuckles in O, S and HO -- likely intended for truss rods on older era rolling stock but likely usable for this purpose too. (One advantage of going to a big train show like Trainfest - if Tichy is there they bring nearly their entire product line and you see stuff you had no idea they offer. That is how I learned this fall about their turnbuckles.)
The January issue of MR which just arrived has an article about scratchbuilding a water tank of wood, with some ideas about the tension hoops or whatever they are called.
CNW_4009 I am talking about the reinforcing rings.
OK, well, big steel grain bins have rings, as a Google image search will show, and concrete stave silos have rings. There appears to be a difference in what each type looks like.
Batman talks about using guitar strings. I'm sure if anyone makes the turn buckle that connects the ends.
I would think that any wire, of the appropiate size, would work.
Mike.
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What Dave Nelson said. What I like about the Rix kit is how they come in sections like a real grain bin and the extension kit can be used as though a farmer was in the process of having a bin constructed. Makes a nice out of the ordinary scene. Ralph
grain bins [metal] are usually one of two styles, either a wide or a narrow corrugation .. -some- are smooth [welded together], both flat bottom and hopper styles ..
older wooden sheet made flat bottoms do have reinforcing rings made of flat material, usually 1 to 1 1/2 banding material with weld tabs brazed on to them ..
I do have all of the above styles at home [on the farm, not the layout]
Old Guitar strings work for that, they come in all different thicknesses, once painted they look great.
What scale are you in? If you are in HO and thinking of the metal bins, try styrene corrigated roofing. I used N scale for my shed roofs, as I thought HO scale looked too big, but maybe for a bin HO would be OK. Too wrap it around you may need to sand it thinner or warm it.
Good luck,
Richard
Are you referring to the sections, or rings, of corrugated steel that make up a grain bin? Or reinforcing rings (like a long rod) that go around a silo or bin?
What matierial would you make these out of?
Thanks.