The Detailed Coke Ovens Project has been completed and final images are included below:


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With 2 Walthers Modern Coaling Towers I was able to construct a concrete coal bin tower that was an exact fit to the coke ovens coal bin base. I based the height of this on the coke ovens kit provided coal bin tower and with a lot of cutting, pasting, and adding styrene the tower was born. The parts from the modern coaling tower had some sort of ( Read more... )

With this version I changed a few ways I had done things previously. The railings are grey instead of yellow and for some reason when I did my originals I cut the bottom rail off and had to attach them from the top like pickets. I really dont know why I did that originally and this time I did it a better way which comes out more clean. I decided to ( Read more... )

I am currently building for someone an N scale Coke Oven battery which is a 3 kit bash deal.i.e 54 ovens which is a good prototypical length. This one will have a concrete coal bunker which was (on paper) originally designed for my 144 oven battery. This is a departure from the last 2 I built of course. My own roster consists of a 54 oven battery, ( Read more... )

Gone and outta here. It was demolished, redone, enlarged, and sold to a chap in Canada as per his specs. I shot it in front of some of my recent Ho background for "ambiance."


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I recently just took on a project in which the individual who bought one of my N scale background buildings wanted me to transform it into a larger complex. If you have been following the steel mill project closely you may notice it came from the powerhouse I had at my coke ovens module. I had decided that it was too recognizable as a Walthers kit ( Read more... )

Well, at least Lexi is very careful when lounging on the model....She was on and off without anything being misplaced...


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The Brown Hoist project that I was building for a client has been completed ( Read more... )

Here's an update on the Brown Hoist Project. To re-iterate, I was asked to build a Brown Hoist from a Kibri Crane kit 7442 with heavy modification for a customer ( Read more... )

I have taken another contract with a client which is to build an N scale Brownhoist for a dock scene. As many may know there are no Huletts in N scale unless you build them completely from scratch. Many mills used brownhoist technology as an alternative to Huletts such as Lorain Ohio, Chicago Southworks, and Sparrows Point so why not have a ( Read more... )