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Hello again Bigsteel, Thats great your buying most of the stuff you'll need for your mill.Below is a link that will help you find Deans book.Now being reprinted as a second edition by the NMRA,their store has the book for sale for about $65.00 for none NMRA members...

I'll go through Deans book and take a picture of the mill layouts for yaz.The pictures are going to be crappy,but its the best I can do for now.I'll e-mail them to you. Patrick

Hello again Bigsteel, Just thought I'd post a few pictures of some of the model work I do {purely for bragging rights...LOL }. The first pic is of a E-crane,commonly found working in modern mills world wide....HO scale. The next one is of a Kress hot metal ladle carrier,scratch /...

Hello Bigsteel, As a modeler of these mighty steel mills, let me enlighten you to a few books. Dean Freytag ....{making and modeling steel}, the hard part is finding it and be ready to shell out big bucks for it. Then again I have this book in my collection,let me go through it and see if I...

Hello all, One of the projects on my work bench right now is a Demag ladle caster. Finding a drawing or a picture of one , is starting to be a real pain. I have about ten volumes of iron and steel yearly proceedings books ,to go through just to find a drawing of this beast. Should...

The above picture is what I'm looking for. The middle section of rock is shale clay formation.....This is what I need. Shoot I can get driveway rock by the ton. Thanks for the in put. Patrick

Thanks David, Below is a photo of exactly what I'm searching for. I don't know if in up state SC has any deposits of this shale clay rock. I found this picture on the net,the small vein is the shale deposit. Jan 06 of MR had a fellows layout modeled in HO ,using what looks to be shale...

Hello all, I'm going to need some real shale for the river bank. I saw in Dec 06 edition of Model Railroad News or might have been in MR. Anyhow ,one of the articles was about using real shale rock for a river bank. Seeing I live in SC,right on the coast,the only thing I have here is tons...

Steve, You and I are pretty much in the same boat. However my future scrap yard will be huge by HO measurement. I need a inbound yard about 2' by 4' , not including the scrap cranes ,kress carrier traffic and details. My problem will be how to make huge piles of scrap. I figure the piles...

Welcome to the best darn hobby in the free world!!!! Never to young or old to enjoy this hobby. Marx huh.....man i should have held on to my Marx O scale train set,checked e-bay last year and the one I had was worth a kings ransom. Oh well water under the bridge. Very nice start there lad...

Thanks guys !!!! It really means alot to here feed back,I'm glad you guys like them. Patrick

Hello all, After many nights after work, I'm done with these models. I thought I'd post them for you steel mill guys of there. Shoot I got the idea for these of the internet, all scratch build using only photos. Geeez I thought I was gonna have a stroke building the e-crane ,what a pain...

Heres a link to help you on the way. These are die-cast models of all sorts of scales. http://www.dhsdiecast.com/index.cfm Patrick Beaufort,SC DRSC

What scale and era would help ? HO scale Athearn mack tri-axle dump trucks 50's or 60's. Trying to think of other companys that produce dump truck models. Patrick Beaufort,SC Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}

Hello Jim, The cat doesn't worry me so much ....its my dog. I happen to be the proud owner of a Jack Russel terror. Rowdy during the whole build was trying to jump up on my work bench to take a bite out of my E-crane.Something new in the house and he didn't like it. Silly dog....LOL...

Hello Miles, Got a good picture of it ? Never seen one,could be the next build. I looked on the net and couldn't find one.Maybe I just typed in the wrong thing.Post a pic if you could please. Patrick Beaufort,SC Dragon river Steel Corp {DRSC}

Hi yaz guys, I'm glad you folks like it. I should have posted a picture of the real deal before....sorry.So heres the real machine,please keep in mind I have a ton of detail parts to install on this model and paint and handrails and so on and so forth. Heres a picture off of E-cranes...

Hello all, I'm almost done with my latest scratch build.The only thing left to do is paint some more and the lower two sets of handrails.All said and done it didn't turn out to bad.Everything from the bucket to the booms moves,human powered of coarse but still cool. These cranes operate...

Will be working on the handrails tonight ,along with painting the beast and putting it together as a whole.Oh yeah the darn bucket has been a major pain in the buttocks,but I'll figure it out.....duct tape can fix anything ...lol....just kidding. This has been a pretty neat scratch build so...

Great work Kyle, your a modeler after my on intrest.....heavy industry. You made a comment about pictures of my latest scratch build,a E-crane. Should have pictures with in the coming days. Anyhow keep up the good work,looks really good. I need an industry like the one you have pictured,can't...