The Coke Ovens Division has been dismantled. Some of the buildings to date have been scraped and/or sold. More may be sold in the future. Unknown. I have decided to consolidate and concentrate all efforts to the blast furnace division.

I could not resist getting these when I saw them for a good price. I have a vision of these two bad boys over at my cokeworks contrasted against the large smokestacks of the coke oven batteries. To me they say "industrial ( Read more... )

So I had (2) Walthers Northern Power and Light kits left over and decided to scrap the previous iteration of the powerhouse in favor of this one which in my opinion is a stronger building and detailed much better. Now for a cokeworks I thought the building should be dumbed down a little and not as pretty as the kit form suggests. The windows were ( Read more... )

I have a habit of building a magillion little buildings and losing sight of scale sometimes. The cluster of buildings which were the welfare and laboratory neededm to change. I had too many little buildings clustered and it needed a bigger building to even things out. I pulled this big one off the shelf, added a small addition to it, swapped out ( Read more... )

In leaving the stacks to the sides of the coke ovens I realized I had a problem on one of them with coke dump trucks and the loading facility as far as access goes. In order to fix this I simply placed the stacks in a more traditional position which is at the end of the coke oven batteries.


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The original 250' smokestack I have on the cokeworks module was from the Walthers HO Tri-State Power Authority kit and desperately needed a friend. Well, it finally got one along with a built Tri-State Power Authority structure and a storage structure from the Walthers HO Concrete plant that's be part of my Sinter Plant. All for $22 due to the ( Read more... )

I had added a bunch fo details but not going too overboard I tend to think. The weathering treatment is the typical rust and grime as elsewhere in the cokeworks. Those fins on the right of the image is a heat sink piece from an old graphics card I had lying around. Kinda a cool piece.


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So I had to build a base for a large portion of the by-products plant in order for ease in transportation and practicality. It's hard to take images of this part close and I figured I'd save that for after weathering. I added a bunch of detailing like railings, tanks, stacks etc.


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Not only did the Welfare building swap with the main office but the rear addition was also revised. The addition now comes from the Walthers Vulcan Manufacturing kit and fits perfectly onto the building as the roof already accomodates the pilaster bump out. I custom built a water tower in the rear of the struicture to act as the water supply for ( Read more... )

Today I weathered the gas holding tanks and while doing so tried to vary the degree of rust from one to the next. But that didn't exactly work out as well as I thought it would. In order to get in all the nooks and crannies at the supports I had to go pretty heavy on the color which makes them almost appear reddish. Since prototypes get this ( Read more... )