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I am starting a new project . It will involve five tanks with a furnace and distillation tower, office, truck and tank car rack.

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Here are the layout pictures and the placing of the concrete foundations for the tanks.

 

Alan Graziano

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Here are some progress pictures. I decided to start the second section of this diorama. This section will be a small generating plant. I was able to get a little more room off of the layout for this section.

I decided to kitbash this building using Korber round house parts and the front of JLC Manufacturing. I had these parts laying around for a long time and I think I finally found a very good use for them. I created a blank wall from styrene for the back of the building since it will face a wall. I will still add Plastruct brick sheet to the back of the building. A cone roof storage tank at 5 inches in diameter and 7 inches tall is placed at the far left.  There will be two stacks on the roof along with a horizontal steam drum. I am not sure weather I will set the three transformers on the roof or on the ground near the storage tank. There will also be a perimeter fence.

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I can't believe I have been working on this model this long, but I guess a week of vacation and catching up will do that. I was able to come up with a piping plan that allowed me to get around the tanks and show the piping a little better by running it all vertically. I also constructed the four large tanks from styrene and put them in place.  You can see the fit-up gear I use in some of the pictures to turn a flat sheet into a round one. They still require piping, painting , walkways and lighting.

 

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Al... beautiful as usual.

Can you show some closeups of the anchor bolts holding the tower down. What I added to mine are clearly inadequate and not very prototypical. 

I've had big troubles curving the Plastruct railings. There seems to be injection molding defects at the center of each rail where it inevitably breaks. In prototype practice are platform railings curved or are they a series of straight segments? What do you do with your platform rails?

When putting the rails on top of my corn silos, I eventually built one set out of brass. I'm not looking forward to doing it with the chem plant unless I have to.

Myles,

the injection mold points on the handrail is where they usuallly break. As Joe said, styrene handrail is for flexible.

i know your kit has abs handrail. I answered on your post on how I do small diameter circumferential handrail. On diameters over 3 inches, I make the platform diameter equal an even number of vertical posts so each end ends with a vertical post. I start at one end by gluing the handrail to the platform with ca and an accelerator. Once dried, I put tacks of ca on the platform and pull the handrail around to the other end. I use accelerator as I am holding the handrail. Once it is in place, I glue the handrail with plastic weld or bondene.

I will take some pictures on Saturday for you. Got the nuts, I used 1/8 inch styrene square bars that I cut about 1/8 inch thick. I cut four 45 degree angles on them to give me an octagon. The anchor bolt is 3/32 inch diameter pipe and the anchor chair is cur from .040" abs sheet.

SGMRET,

Thank you. The piping is unpainted and can be purchased from plastruct in many colors.

the handrails are painted with rustoleum painters touch yellow. 

Alan graziano

Yes... talking about nozzles and no, they did not come with the kit, nor any female #8 elbows to let you do a simple 180 degree reverse curve. All of the elbows are male on both ends, so a 180 needs a piece of #8 tube in between to joint the two elbows.

Thank you for you offer, but I just ordered them from Plastruct. It looks much better than a pipe just sticking out of the insulating jacket when you use nozzles. I ordered both #8s and #4s. My instruction parts schedule shows #8 and #4 piping only, but the kit had a few pieces of something smaller without a hole. I wonder what that's for?

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