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My BOTW is a small feed mill. One of the towns on my layout is an agricultural town so I've wanted a feed mill in it for some time. I also don't have much room, so for an inspiration, I used this compact little mill from Chadwick IL:
The dump pit for the grain wagons and trucks is in the main bulk of the building with doors at each end. This example is part of a larger complex of buildings, but I just used the mill part, simplified from the odd shape forced by its circumstances. Also, I noticed in an old photograph that the cyclone dust collector is a later add-on:
I went with the older form since I'm modeling a past era. In this shot, you can see the driveways where the wagon in the shot has been pulled through the building to be dumped.
I have childhood memories of going to a feed mill with my grandpa in a pickup loaded with corn. There is a lift that raises the front of the truck so the grain spills out the back. The wagon in the picture would be dumped the same way.
My mill is loosely based on the concept behind the above mill:
I've gone with red wooden siding to match my grain elevator complex and did not include the bite out of the southwest corner of the real mill.
Here are some other views:
Now, I just need to rearrange the town to fit the thing in. 
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Posted - January 13 2014 : 8:39:14 PM
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| heh we got a few of these aropund my areas
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Posted - January 13 2014 : 8:59:36 PM
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That's some awesome modeling. Captured the look and feel of the prototype really well 
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Posted - January 13 2014 : 9:01:00 PM
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| hi scsshaggy nice kitbash,looks better than a kit built,love it ken
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Posted - January 13 2014 : 11:56:03 PM
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My Tyco Basin Robbins that needs a lot of detail to look cool...
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Posted - January 14 2014 : 12:08:59 PM
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quote:
My Tyco Basin Robbins that needs a lot of detail to look cool...
Originally posted by walt - January 13 2014 : 11:56:03 PM
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I wants 3 or 4 of these!
One for 7-Eleven & one for Qwik-E-Mart
Tyco had a prototype made for 7-Eleven using the same building Never made
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Posted - January 14 2014 : 12:44:14 PM
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I knew the BR kit would bait MicroBen into his I WANTS mode.... 
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Posted - January 14 2014 : 12:48:45 PM
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| hi walt has he got another mode thenken
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Posted - January 14 2014 : 1:10:58 PM
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| Hey Don, That's some fine modeling on that mill. Pretty cool you were able to find that photo taken from above showing the tractor and such. I'm looking forward to seeing some photos of how this mill looks on your layout.
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Posted - January 14 2014 : 1:51:42 PM
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Thanks, Ben, Jerry, Ken and Barry for the kind words. The aerial photo of the prototype mill was hanging on the wall of another building in the same town so I photographed the photograph. The building the picture was in houses a model railroad club that puts on a nice open house the weekend before Thanksgiving.
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Posted - January 15 2014 : 08:21:14 AM
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quote:My BOTW is a small feed mill. One of the towns on my layout is an agricultural town so I've wanted a feed mill in it for some time. I also don't have much room, so for an inspiration, I used this compact little mill from Chadwick IL:
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Well done Shaggy!!
Sean
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Posted - January 16 2014 : 04:35:53 AM
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Got this in today and got it done already
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Posted - January 16 2014 : 10:45:41 AM
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LGLrr845 - real nice I think Tyco had one of those too
Um are you missing the balconey that goes over the door that holds the signals? 
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Posted - January 16 2014 : 1:32:14 PM
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Mike, that's a nice model and a tidy job of assembly.
It's interesting that the box shows clapboard siding and the kit is stucco. Apparently, there were versions of the kit representing different building materials. That's funny because it adds to the tooling costs.
I have a freight house that's molded to look like brick, but I've seen the same building molded to look like wood. As with your tower, either version looks good.
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Posted - January 16 2014 : 1:44:49 PM
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It's clapboard, I just painted it white.
I also deliberately left of the order board platform off, it doesn't need it.
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Posted - January 16 2014 : 4:28:22 PM
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quote:I'm looking forward to seeing some photos of how this mill looks on your layout.
Originally posted by Barry - January 14 2014 : 1:10:58 PM
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Here's a close-up look of the mill in its natural habitat:
The pickup truck of corn represents my memories of going with my grandpa to the feed mill with a pickup load of corn. I was pretty young at the time and things just were what they were, but to hear my uncle tell it, grandpa could get as much corn in a pickup as could possibly fit. The corn, here, is really yellow silica sand from below a yellow sandstone cliff in one of my weekend stomping grounds.
A future project will probably be a flare-sided grain wagon to put by the mill:
 I have a bag of old wheels, and the box should be easy to make of heavy paper, which when painted, is pretty strong.
Here's an aerial photo with a little more context:
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Posted - January 16 2014 : 5:00:37 PM
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| hi scsshaggy,looks right at home,real good work,ken
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Posted - January 19 2014 : 3:21:06 PM
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| That grain wagon will make a nice addition to that scene Don.
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