Scenecraft Oakhill Brewery Complex

[McRuss]

Yesterday I received the Oakhill Brewery buildings in N. First they look very good. But when I placed a 10ft Cattle wagon in front of it, then the buildings are looking very small in comparison to the wagon. I also recognised the low height of the first floor windows on them. I made a picture to show it to you.

 

 

Markus

[BernardTPM]

Perhaps that's why the loading bay looks too high - it isn't it's everything else too low!

[Kenton]

confused a bit by the ruler but is that approx 72mm to roof top of what is essentially a 3 floor building (say 9ft per floor) - seems about right to me. I'm more concerned about the width - looks like 1 van length which seems quite small for an industrial building.

 

However I am sure there is a very big temptation to shrink the size of RTP buildings the real thing would look overwhelming on a track mat or the average layout where there is quite a lot of track compression.

 

I wonder how it looks beside a more familiar building (signal box)

[60B]

I believe these buildings were designed to be smaller than normal so they can fit in the space most layouts.

[petethemole]

If anyone didn't know, it's modelled from a real brewery in Oakhill (surprise) Somerset. It closed in 2004 but the buildings are being converted into flats/houses. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=oakhill+brewery+somerset&sll=51.034594,-

[petethemole]

Sorry, my link didn't go to the Steretview image. Zoom in on the village and the brewery site is at The Old Maltings.

[Sidecar Racer]

Check these links to Wikipedia , gives a lot of info on the brewery , it appears that the rail link was

a 2' 6'' narrow gauge , this might account for your rail wagon looking a bit big .

 

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakhill

 

 

http://en.wikipedia....Oakhill_Brewery

 

 

Hope this sheds some light on the matter .

[grahame]

There's no such thing a 'standard' size for breweries and they're all very individual and often very higgldy-piggldy with floors at all sorts of levels - and some, particularly local craft/micro breweries, are very small. However, the ready-to-plonk stuff does generally seem on the smaller size (as already mentioned) but nothing most layouts couldn't get away with. I notice that it looks like you've got some Herpa vehicles (in the bcakground of the pic) and as they are 1:160 (compared with British N gauge scale of 1:148) will also seem on the small side, but will probably compliment the brewery buildings.

 

G.

[McRuss]

Thanks for your replies,

 

the Herpa vehicles are for my german modules, but the brewery buildings are for my IoS modules. I plan to use them as a destillery.

 

Markus