Cement Works - 1 - Limestone Crusher Building

Finally started on the structures that will comprise the cement works and adjacent colliery.

The cement works core is the Walthers kit with extra buildings added for both pre and post activities of cement production, including initial crushing, another Walthers kit, plus additional structures for pre-mix/grind and post processing of the raw clinker before the silos. The colliery the other side of the industrial branch line track provides fine coal for the furnace. This arrives via overhead conveyor into a hopper for weighing and storage before processing in the fuel mill attached the cement works building at the flame end of the rotary furnace.

Limestone arrives by dumper truck from the quarry and is elevated to the roof entry point. The crushed material leaves via the hoppers into railway wagons for external customers or via the adjacent conveyor exit to the bulk storage warehouse of the cement works.

The pictures here show the initial assembly and painting of the crusher building which has been converted to be a 'left-hand' version of the original kit which was a little tricky in places. Anyway this is my first attempt at such a structure and spray painting which so far is a mix of acrylic Expo primers and a little Humbrol silver. I have tried so far to create a used but not neglected look to the buildings.

The next stage will be to further flatten the satin shine of the silver with a matt coating before adding more weathering with powders, and further detail when bedded down into the layout.

Constructive comments and suggestions welcome, Jim



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Thanks Paul, this and the other buildings for the colliery and cement works have sat on my 'todo shelf' for 9 years!

 

Thanks Ian

 

Thanks Pete.

The video you maybe thinking of is :- where the New River Mining model is enhanced, it is one of my key references for building and 'decorating' my colliery and cement works structures.

Jim

 

Looks very good Keith.

Is the cement works chimney that height or have you increased it, at that height, added to the upper deck of my layout which is multi-deck I think I will have to put soot stains on the ceiling too .

I like the added touch of the incoming 3 phase electrical supply with pole mounted transformer, just noticed that on a picture this afternoon of the Edna mine in Colorado on which the New River Mining kit is based, I must consider that too.

The rotary kiln rust looks challenging to paint and weather, ok, I know what to aim for .

Thanks, Jim

 

I thought I could sense an engineering background in your past

In the kit instructions they say put the chimney where you want to.

My web researching of cement manufacturing suggests that it should be at the high end of the rotary kiln as the flame is at the lower end, or is this quite wrong?

I would expect the smoke stack to be mounted on a rectangular brick/concrete base, the exhaust gases from the kiln being cleaned up a little before being piped to near the base of the smoke stack.

Definitive details are hard to come by outside of the business and besides the scale of some the industries we model would need a fullsize football pitch in 1:76 scale to be realistic, however our lofts are not quite that big

Thanks for the info, Jim

 

Thanks for the insight, Jim

 

Gormo, thanks, Jim