Interior detail for a brewery?

The interior of a brewery is dominated by stainless steel tanks. A suggestion, get a variety of 3/8" or 1/2" drive sockets. They can represent the tanks. Walthers makes a piping kit #933-3105 to connect the "tanks".  Add some Lionel 362-78 Stained barrels scattered about. Maybe a Woodland O scale A2744 forklift and some workers. The floor would be painted a gloss gray. Hook up the lights and batta bing batta boom, you've got yourself a brewery.

Drat, I've now outlined another project for myself!!

I just finished a brewery and put in some detail, not prototypical maybe but it looks ok to me.

Here are the CAD drawings and one finished

Ray - Excellent

Thanks Joe, you have a great website

I'll check the scrap box for cylinders I can turn in to tanks.  I also have some sprue's that I can repurpose to pipes.

Thanks for the ideas.

All the interior and exterior parts for this brewery were made on a 3D printer, mostly to see if and how it could be done

Wow.  My son gave me a 3D printer for Christmas.  Did you have a set of files already?  What format?

sidehack posted:

All the interior and exterior parts for this brewery were made on a 3D printer, mostly to see if and how it could be done

May I purchase from you a copy of your 3d printer files for these?

The MTH brewery is kind of small to have an interior. I just added a smoke unit to mine 

Ahitpy posted:

sidehack posted:

All the interior and exterior parts for this brewery were made on a 3D printer, mostly to see if and how it could be done

May I purchase from you a copy of your 3d printer files for these?

which files are talking about, I designed all the parts on cad, printed and revised and printed until I was happy with them. I have a folder of over 200 stl files mostly for this building and details. If there was something you were interested in I would give you the stl file but I do not sell or give away all my one of a kind work which took months to produce.

Do you have CAD software for designing parts and have you used the 3D printer?

Ray,

I appreciate your response.  

I'll get back to you for a few pointers when I'm ready.

Thanks.

Sure if you have any questions or want sample STL files you can email me

Great ideas for brewery interior works.  If I were  a skilled craftsman, I would attempt that project. My '"easy detailing" of the MTH Brewery Building included exterior (only) stuff:

1) renaming the building as an "A&W ROOT BEER" brewery with the A&W logo and text on signage

2)  adding dock workers and a forklift to the loading dock; wooden barrels too

3)  I recently ordered a Lionel 7801 A&W box car to place on the track alongside the "brewery" loading dock.

4)  the "reason" for the name change -- I have a MTH A&W Drive In on my L-shaped layout, so it follows that the A&W brewery is needed as the supply source.

Adjacent to the A&W Brewery is a re-purposed MTH Granary with "A&W Warehouse" signage applied -- listing the stored ingredients for the product. I purchased that building from a hobbyist who cleverly added an operating forklift to it -- the forklift moves in a circular path in and out of the building through two loading dock doorways with a AA battery power source.

Parents of visiting kids approve of the name change; they probably wouldn't approve of the factory-original signage as a beer brewery.

Mike Mottler      LCCA 12394
mottlerm@gmail.com

One can also Google a brewery interior as well.