Re: Silos

Your quest to build realistic storage silos reminded me of a couple of articles in /Mainline Modeler/ a few years back that might be worth referring to. They were on a display module built by the great Canadian modeler Doug Hole. A picture on the cover of the January 1996 /MM/ shows his silos with headhouse, looking for all the world like the real thing. He explains that for these, he used "cardboard fabric tubes", by which I guess he means the cardboard cores that bolts of cloth are wound on.

But the really interesting stuff was in the next month's issue, February 1996, where he models--get this--the ruins of concrete storage silos destroyed in a grain explosion. He did this by freezing ABS pipe for a few days, then attacking the pieces with a hacksaw and a pair of pliers. By snapping off various size pieces, he got it to break so it looked just like broken concrete. He finished it off by drilling holes and sticking in pieces of wire "rebar". You ought to take a look at these if you can find someone with a library: it's great modeling.


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