RMweb Gold McRuss Posted April 8, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2010 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Perhaps that's why the loading bay looks too high - it isn't it's everything else too low! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenton Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
60B Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 I believe these buildings were designed to be smaller than normal so they can fit in the space most layouts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted April 8, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2010 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,- Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted April 8, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2010 Sorry, my link didn't go to the Steretview image. Zoom in on the village and the brewery site is at The Old Maltings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted April 8, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 8, 2010 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 . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold McRuss Posted April 9, 2010 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 9, 2010 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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