Completed Stalingrad Grain Elevator (or Camagrad) 5 July

CDP · Post by **CDP** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:21 pm

Glory to the People's Republic of Camastan!!!

Better than my feeble attempt at creating buildings. Sorry about the fuzzy pics. Camera does not have a manual focus.

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:30 pm

That's sweet Cama!! The removable roof is spot on!! Any thought of doing less tubes to make the building smaller? You have inspired me to take a whack at it!!! Thanks for sharing!!

Would you be able to post a small parts list particularly as it relates to the evergreen stuff?

I just bought some Hornby planning track that looks scale wise decent. May be a cheap alternative for your track needs? I saw it posted by someone previously on this forum - it is a good suggestion...

Can't wait to see it painted and finished!!!

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:34 am

Thanks Cama!! Appreciate the list. I suppose some of that evergreen stuff will be left over so your cost, while up there, is relative. Maybe the half round is the way to go...

The removable roof DEFINITELY makes it worth it. The other guys have a great model but I like building my own when possible (like you've done).

I could see some craters and shell holes/divots/ marks on the exterior. It's gonna look sweet.

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:36 am

Hey Peachy, forgot to add that your building looks cool too. I am curious whether you just eyeballed it or whether you modeled it on something specific (like photos or plans).

Like to hear how you did it in detail...

Thanks!!

CDP · Post by **CDP** » Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:59 am

Hi Cama

Originally I found a picture of a building in the net that they apartment houses represent. However I have been searching for the same one and cannot find it again. lol Thought it would have been a good house to scratch build but the roof was going to be too hard. That was until I was looking through my scrap box one day and noticed the display base of a Airfix 1/400 destroyer. This I used as the roof. For the walls I used 2mm square evergreen plastic sheets. I did take some pics back then. The windows were all cut out off the grid.

Below is the pic of most of the wall parts.

Semi built

Floors added

However it took ages to cut out the windows. Lots of sore fingers even with a new blade. When I started on the Department store I took about 6 tries to get the windows and the wall lengths right but kept stuffing it up. Ended up just using strips of the same 2 mm square sheets. 3 squares wide with the same distance between them. And then the horizontals glued onto the front. Its a lot easier to cut into strips than cut out windows. Did not take photos of the build of that part.

The plastic used for the round part of the building front was from the cover of a under arm spray can. You could use soft drink bottles (soda bottles) it may work or may be to thin. Good thing about that part was that it was already rounded and soft enough to squash when cutting without loosing its shape.

What did you use as the Grain in the interior?

Donald M. Scheef · Post by **Donald M. Scheef** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 3:46 am

Nice looking silos, but what are you going to put into them?
A number of countries might be willing to sell IRBMs, but putting 105 of them together in one location is very expensive and invites a preemptive strike.
Advanced ground-to-air missiles, such as a SA-21 Growler would fit, but I don't see any of the necessary radar installation.
Of course, you might carry on with the cover story that they are for storing grain, but we all know that this is a military models forum.

Don S.

TAMMY · Post by **TAMMY** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:17 am

You don't consider thsher size of the silos. They are 35 meters (thei seems more or less 5") high by 3,6 meters diameter, a bit too much for missile containers.

Moreover there are no "strange" openings on the roof nor lifting equipent.

i think there are no alternative to the use as grain elevator.

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:49 am

Cama and Carl,
Nice work, they look very nice, thank you for sharing the 'how to...'
However, Cama, it is just too big, it will be a target on the Balzac target list. But that might be the plan they go to destroy a$100million grain elevator then miss the $50,000 G-wagon with radio, scope. GPS, rangefinder.... BOOM!!!
They loose a tank or two, then the war is on....

TAMMY · Post by **TAMMY** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:20 am

I would suggest a tower crane with a radius of 100m to be placed in a corner of the building.

The liftting class depends on the wight to raise at the tip of he boom. As a thumb rule you may consider the class 5 times the lifting at the tip.

If you look to a manufacturer site like Liebherr yoou will find various choice and drawings.
Anyway it will be a latice structure quite heavy

TAMMY · Post by **TAMMY** » Sat Jul 04, 2015 4:20 am

Double

RedLeif · Post by **RedLeif** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 8:47 am

look'n more awesome w' every post! keep up the cool project.

Begemot · Post by **Begemot** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:49 am

Cama,

Very impressive and very nicely done! Congratulations. Looking forward to seeing how you carry on with this.

In the spirit of Camagrad, perhaps a banner of the Dear Leader hung above the entry way of the new grain elevator to commemorate its grand opening?

Post by **GHQ** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:20 pm

That is great work cama! Thank you for showing it to all of us, and for including a step-by-step guide to the entire process. It is always fun to see what people have going on their workbenches!

GHQ

Completed Stalingrad Grain Elevator (or Camagrad) 5 July

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