Brewery building

I'll drink to that

Looks great  I love those Ultrascale fronts  Too bad they dont make them anymore  I had a few of them with doubles and used one for a front and one for a back of the building.  Cut out the doors to make loading docks

I wanted to do a lighted sign, like Miller but this might be neat and put some up lights on it.

Ben, they are great fronts. I have 5 other ones yet to build.

On my way, just purchased the bookend, great deal, had broken corner on flat, doesn't effect head. $10

Here is what is left on the old building. I think I will combine the head with the sign here

Today my bookend came and am working on sign parts. Here is a mock up of what I am envisioning 

The other thing I am doing to give the flat more depth is to create a false sense on an interior.

I am going to use a back lit photo film inside the center window area outlined in red and two of the lower dock doors I plan to do a small interior space of the dock with

kegs and cases of bottles etc. since they fall below the benchwork and track that runs behind these fronts. I've got about 5-6" of depth I can utilize.

Here is the image that is being printed on the back lit material.

and I found these thin LED light boxes on ebay really cheap and they are very thin, less than 1/4"

We can make you a sign for your brewery. Here is a link to some of the options for Pennsy signs but we can make anything you want or just about any size you need. Here is the link:

http://scalecitydesigns.com/sc...igns-laser-engraved/

Just email us what you would like as well as the size.

Great work, Al!

Peter

AL-- that brewery is awesome!!! One of my favorite cars is my Iroquois beer reefer.  Great ideas and work!! John A )in NF)

That is going to be a hit.  Good job!!!!

Nice Al, free beer upon completion, right? 

It's funny how little items inspire us to build something..............

What a creative project Al - So many interesting aspects of this hobby of ours...

Scale City Designs posted:

We can make you a sign for your brewery. Here is a link to some of the options for Pennsy signs but we can make anything you want or just about any size you need. Here is the link:

http://scalecitydesigns.com/sc...igns-laser-engraved/

Just email us what you would like as well as the size.

Thanks, but I am all set. Dave from Crescent Locomotive Works is doing my sign work for me for this and some other projects.

Since my Indian head bookend came yesterday I am making my mold today.

 Al, this is a cool project. Looking forward to the signage. Always enjoyed your step by step layout posts years ago. Good to see you back working and posting on the layout again.

Thanks Dave,

Well the casting is done. I love these fast set molds and casting materials. 30min. set time for mold, 5 min set for casting.

Al, are you in Buffalo NY area, I remember the Iroquois brewery very well.

Hi Melvin,

Yes, I am North of Buffalo almost to Niagara Falls.

Al,

you are a master. I can't wait to see the finished product.

alan graziano

Al,

I really am impressed with your super high tech solution for making the form for your mold.   Never thought of using Legos but then again my grandson would notice if any were missing from his pile.

Ed

SIRT posted:

Nice Al, free beer upon completion, right? 

It's funny how little items inspire us to build something..............

SIRT, Sure make the trip and beers are on me.

Thanks for all the kind words guys. I am really enjoying working on the layout again and this project.

Al, 

Very impressive progress!  I really like the direction on your brewery is going.  It is nice to see your great layout again.

CSX Al posted:

Hi Melvin,

Yes, I am North of Buffalo almost to Niagara Falls.

I am from Buffalo now in Winston-Salem NC.  

Thanks Rich!

Melvin, if you are ever back up this way, your welcome to stop by.

Mark, I'll try and do that sign somewhere.

I would like everyone's opinion on the sign. I have been thinking a couple of ways to paint it.

1. like I posted above
2. Paint head and sign a sandstone color to look like carved stone
3. paint the sign background black with the raised white letters and then paint the head like the coloring of the beer can logo below
4. last thought was regarding the font. I was thinking of maybe doing the Iroquois lettering like the can logo.

banjoflyer posted:

Try to work one of these in behind a 1st floor window...

Mark

or:

Nice logo on that beer can.  I still have about 300 cans in my attic from back in the day.  Never saw the Iroquois brand.  Besides that, nice work!

Looks great. But I haven't started yet but I can see turning a Hermans Sauerkraut into a brewery. The guys in the back at the vats are just checking the brew. The barrels are nothing but beer barrels. Seeing I want to model 1940's to early 60's this all could be right in line. I got the building in a Menards Mystery box as the cover to the what looks like a silo is gone. I got like 4 of the 8 pieces needed for it but will probably make one somehow. Maybe move the men and close the lids and do some type of piping to make it look more like a brewery. 

Worked on Brewery front some more tonight.  I cut out the two loading dock doors and made false interior spaces and painted them tonight. I am going to reuse the one wooden loading dock door in the interior back wall of the dock. The other dock interior will probably get a photo applied to to it (like bottling floor  of brewery)  I will be installing micro warm light LED chips in the ceilings of these two dock insides so that you can see the interior space. I also got these awesome 3D printed bottles with the old fashioned wood cases and also some beer kegs which haven't arrived yet. I paint the cases wood tonight and will be applying translucent brown paint to the bottles. I will be starting painting tomorrow after making and attaching mounting brackets to hold the light box on the back of the front.

Spectacular work, Al.....

Peter

Good start to a very nice project.  The addition of the cast head of Chief Cochise to the facade is a nice detail. Very realistic.

Thanks guys

Over the top Al! Can’t wait to see it in person.

Was working on supports for the third level of the layout for the city today with the help of my friend Jeff (Central Terminal Jeff ) and got the two buildings (brewery and Remington arms factory ) primed and ready for brick paint tomorrow. Then sat down tonight and painted the brewery sign and Indian chief head now the letters were all done. Here is a photo of the completed brewery sign.

I also finished up the Woolworth building front except for installing the glass. That sign came out great to. Thanks to help from Dave at Crescent Loco works for a fine job with cutting out the signs.

Sweeeet!!  Making WNY proud!!  John A

Al, you are doing great. Have you thought of employing your Photo skills to whip up a transparent image on sometype thin plastic like mylar ( office or warehouse scene) to fit behind the windows with some sort of white plexiglass backing as used on negs and Kodacrome. And lite up from the back with some sort of small fluorescent lighting. It was done in the US Godzilla movie in the downtown scenes. Looked dang good.

John

John, That's what I am using for the main windows. 

I got the first color painted on the brewery brick. It still needs to be darkened up and aged yet and the loading dock doors and windows still need to get painted before glass and Duratran print/ light box gets installed behind it.

That looks very nice!

Thanks Dave!

That looks awesome!   Sweet

CSX Al posted:

John, That's what I am using for the main windows. 

I got the first color painted on the brewery brick. It still needs to be darkened up and aged yet and the loading dock doors and windows still need to get painted before glass and Duratran print/ light box gets installed behind it.

Looks great, will it be up for Sat? I need 2 bags of screws.