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AGHRMatt asked me for more shots of a factory/warehouse I built in 2017 using two Korber modular kits. I built this structure in 2017.

Rather than add these pics to the Modular Group News thread, I put it here in Scenery and Structures.

I wish the kits would become available again.

This was a challenging build that I would like to "do over". I had to do a lot of extra bracing...... you can see that my career was as a biological science person rather than a physical science person.....I didn't foresee all the structural issues......

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The next few show the inner bracing and my storage area for glue, smoke fluid, etc....

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Build pictures from 2017 come next....

Peter

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@Bill Webb posted:

Peter pull up the Korber Models website and look at pages 5-6. Buildings are shown there. I didn’t see that they are not open for business.

Bill.......look at Korber HO kit number 108.......my building was made from 2 sets of the O scale version of a like structure kit (and sold specifically as a factory-type building).......those don't exist anymore.

Peter

@Joe Fauty posted:

Peter - I am intrigued by the building on the left

Joe.....that is MAX FOODS.......Max was son's Golden Doodle 2006-2020. From 2011-2016 he was basically mine (My son was an undergrad at Yale from 2011-2015 and worked as a paralegal in NYC from 2015-2016). He then moved to Charlottesville while my son went to UVA Law school........Then I kept him summers while my son was working out of town.

Max was with me in the summer of 2017 when I was expanding my modules for the club's (River City 3 Railers) modular layout. I wanted to build an old manufacturing building. I was inspired by a building called Big Dog Tires on the Capital Tracker's layout. It is based on the parts from 2 Lionel kits that share the same footprint and many parts: the Electrical Substation and the Municipal Building. I also noticed that Dennis Brennan and Norm Charboneau also used these kits to build their own unique industrial buildings.

So I started creating plans for a building......Max was with me. I didn't know what to call it.....and, it was Max who suggested MAX FOODS.....a company that only makes gourmet dog treats.

Here is Max helping me with design. I believe this is also the day he suggested the name.

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From planning to actual construction......Max was there......about 6 weeks of work spanning June-August 2017.....

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