A steam powered flour mill from Keep it Rusty

[nycjeff]

I've installed the vertical boiler and the steam piping



I decided to use the left over bits from the steam pipe install to create a pile of steam pipes with fittings on the ground behind the boiler



I added a few details to the pulley tower end as well



This is as far as I am going to go with this sub-assembly for now. When it is planted along with the rest of the sub-assemblies I will add more scenery and details.

[Rick]

Jeff, that looks fantastic!
Nice job!

[craftsmankits]

Nice job Jeff, you've been making a ton of progress on this kit.  I'll have to pop mine open and take a look at what's in the box.  There's a lot going on there, more than I imagined.  Mark

[Keep It Rusty]

More fantastic progress, Jeff. Watching you discover all the little details is such a joy. Thank you for continuing to share your build here.

[Jerry]

Wonderful build Jeff!!!

Jerry

[GPdemayo]

Great work Jeff.....

[friscomike]

Howdy Jeff,

The boiler and engine house are looking great.  Congrats on the excellent progress.

Have fun,
mike

[Pennman]

Good looking detailing and a fine build, Jeff.
Thanks for the tutorial on assembling the machines.

Rich

[nycjeff]

Jeff, that looks fantastic!
Nice job!

Hello Rick, I appreciate the nice comment

Nice job Jeff, you've been making a ton of progress on this kit.  I'll have to pop mine open and take a look at what's in the box.  There's a lot going on there, more than I imagined.  Mark

Hello Mark, you should open that box, there's a lot to look at and maybe you'll be inspired to start work on the kit.

More fantastic progress, Jeff. Watching you discover all the little details is such a joy. Thank you for continuing to share your build here.

Hello Craig, thanks so much for looking in. I'm having a lot of fun with your kit. You did a great job with the design and construction of all of the many parts.

Wonderful build Jeff!!!

Jerry

Hello Jerry, thank you for the kind words.

Great work Jeff.....

Hello Greg, thank you, sir

Howdy Jeff,

The boiler and engine house are looking great.  Congrats on the excellent progress.

Have fun,
mike

Hello Mike, I think that this part of the kit is the most interesting to build. Craig did a wonderful job with the design and the instructions and templates that come with the kit. And I am having fun.

Good looking detailing and a fine build, Jeff.
Thanks for the tutorial on assembling the machines.

Rich

Hello Rich, thank you for looking in and for the feedback. The detail that has been built into this kit is amazing. I've been very impressed with the 3D printing that is possible these days. It makes building a kit like this a lot of fun.

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

You are doing a fantastic job on this build. You must work on this all day everyday, again, well done.

Tom

[nycjeff]

Hello Tom, sorry for the late reply, the real life stuff keeps getting in the way of my train room time. I appreciate the nice comments. I'm having a lot of fun with this large build. With the summer heat here in the desert getting above 90 before 9 am it gives me extra time for the workbench. After the end of the heat in late September, I will have more time for outside projects.

[nycjeff]

Next up is the storage silo that comes with the kit. I started by painting it with a dark grey rattle can primer, then I dry brushed some dark chocolate brown, then an orange rust color followed by a little red. I finished with a layer of silver. The kit came with some black thread for the seams, but I raided my better halves sewing room and got some rust colored thread to use.



The top pieces were folded cardboard and a plastic straw was used for the side shaft. I painted all of these pieces much the same as the silo. I'm pleased with how it all came out.



Now it's time to start assembling all of the pieces into one large structure. I cut a piece of styrene to fit my space. I then traced the footprint of the structure onto the styrene and covered it with p[ainters tape.



I sprayed the styrene base with a dark brown rattle can color and after removing the tape, started to place the completed pieces onto the base.



After gluing the front barn and the left side office and receiving addition in place. I started some basic scenery. I also installed the flashing where the barn and stone mill building roofs meet. I used some brown packing paper that I painted grey and glued it in place.

[nycjeff]

I glued the front loading dock in place after extending the scenery layer down. Since I added a mini-scene inside the barn of a bag loading station, I thought that I had to have a way to get the flour from the mill to the station, so I added some ductwork from the mill roof into the barn roof. I used some styrene pieces from my stash and painted them with my rusty silver color combination colors.



Next was the Covered Way wood framed structure for the receiving area. I used the templates provided.



Here is a look at the completed covered way structure. The templates provided all of the information needed to do this little build easily.



The roof for the covered way came with the kit. I cut the corrugated roof material sheet to the proper sized pieces, then sprayed them with a dark grey primer. When that dried, I dry brushed a dark browncolor, the sponged on some orange and red. I finished with some additional dry brushed silver.



The roof has been glued in place as well as the covered way itself. I decided to add a more modern way of unloading the grain needed for the mill. I built a wooden weigh platform with a grated center area for the grain to drop into from the incoming trucks. I also added the stairway and railings for the second story office. Once again, the templates provided made short work of this usually tedious process.



Craig did a great job with all of the templates provided with the kit. The templates along with the 96 page instruction manual helps make sense of this large project and takes the modeler step by step through the entire build.

That's it for now, more later.