Saturday, June 9, 2018

Building the Diamond Plastics Company

Diamond Plastics is an actual company that manufacturers large plastic pipe at several facilities around the United States including a plant in Golconda.  They ship the finished products by truck but receive plastic pellets by rail car.  For the purposes of modeling I am re-locating this industry from it's actual location to Battle Mountain.

This is a satellite view of the Diamond Plastics facility near Golconda.  There is a manufacturing building plus a very large area where finished pipe is stored outdoors waiting to be delivered.  I am only going to model the side of the building where the rail siding is along with some storage silos for the plastic pellets.

This is a photo the company has on their web site of the Casa Grande, AZ facility.  The facility in Golconda looks similar to this. 

Here is my scratch built shallow relief representation of this industry as it looks on the layout today.  This is three separate pieces held onto the layout with magnets.


For the plastic pellet storage silos I am using the Faller industrial silos kit.  It had been quite awhile since I built a Faller kit and noticed quite an improvement in the quality and details.

I also plan to include some of the pneumatic piping and hoses that would carry the pellets from the covered hoppers to the silos.


So I have now started to paint and finish the details on this industry that I had started last November before the Battle Mountain section was even installed in the layout.  I will post on this industry again when it's finished.

7 comments:

  1. That Faller kit sure looks nice Brad. I scratch built mine using electrical pipe and lots of etched brass.
    Rod.

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    1. Thanks Rod, that is what I was going to do at first but then found this kit on Amazon.

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  2. I recently bought that Faller kit myself, and was pleasantly surprised by what it includes for the money I paid. The etched metal details are a very nice touch.

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    1. Nice quality with the etched brass plus the little tool they include to properly bend the ladder cages.

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  3. Brad, can you share a photo of the kit-content ?

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    1. Hi Mike,

      I've already put them together so no parts to show, but here is a link to the instructions to give you some idea.

      https://www.faller.de/xs_db/DOKUMENT_DB/www/anleitungen/222207_anl_01.pdf

      There are 3 silos, with one being slightly shorter than the other 2. All have etched brass ladders and railings. There are also some extra parts that don't show in the instructions or in the photo on the box. A small brick building and some extra etched brass railings.

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    2. Brad, thank you very much for the info on the box content.

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