Phil Mason

I can do better than that. I should have the drawings (plans) I made. It was all balsa pkasticard, etc. I've scratch built sinter plant, and other bits to go with it. Here are some snaps but I'll dig something better out later. 

Thanks, Ray. I was 'totally amazed' that the bit of purple plastic pipe I found rolling around in the road was just the right size for what I wanted. It's about twice the height of the Bachmann offering (so 16x the volume because it's a complete cylinder). I'm afraid the stairs and handrails are about on a par with Bachmann but obviously not as good as your nicely fettled version. I think seeing the commercial offering gave me the impetus to build the thing "I can do as well as that", I thought. 
 

Similarly, I've copied the Walthers blast furnace. This time I made it 3/4 scale ;probably nearer Z gauge (?) because the Walthers one is MASSIVE! 
 

Phil

Thanks, Ray. I was 'totally amazed' that the bit of purple plastic pipe I found rolling around in the road was just the right size for what I wanted. It's about twice the height of the Bachmann offering (so 16x the volume because it's a complete cylinder). I'm afraid the stairs and handrails are about on a par with Bachmann but obviously not as good as your nicely fettled version. I think seeing the commercial offering gave me the impetus to build the thing "I can do as well as that", I thought. 
 

Similarly, I've copied the Walthers blast furnace. This time I made it 3/4 scale ;probably nearer Z gauge (?) because the Walthers one is MASSIVE! 
 

Phil

I made my own. I thought the Bachmann offering was a bit too small. As luck would have it, I found a bit of trunking rolling around outside the house left over from cable TV or fibre optic or whatever it is they dig up the roads for nowadays. 
 

I covered it with pound shop corrugated paper and made handrails from 20 thou micro strip. I'm not clever enough to make stairs so I had to use Plastruct. This cost me around a tenner but I've some bits left over for signal boxes. It was painted with a 50p remnant emulsion paint from 'Homebase' (other hardware shops available). Phil.