Found myself with some free time this afternoon and decided to pull out the Styrene Tub of Wonder to see if I could make something. I found a bunch of short strips and got to work. https://i.imgur.com/KfWKTPD.jpg The idea for an auger came after seeing one sitting by the grain silos down in Roca. So, a couple A frames and we're on our way. https://i.imgur.com/S3hMegx.jpg Found two short tubes in Styrene Tub of Wonder, not really long enough, but perfect diameter. I simply welded them together for a better length and added a collar to help hide the seam. https://i.imgur.com/uL1SwXy.jpg Using random reference from google, I saw this secondary channel thing. I think it may be used to extend/telescope the main shaft. https://i.imgur.com/4ACEeb2.jpg A few more random scraps make up the dump tray and trailer bar, and a few polygons for the top chute. I think that will do it! https://i.imgur.com/bUWg8Li.jpg https://i.imgur.com/w4YjyqT.jpg And in rare fashion for me, I had enough extra time on my hands to actually paint the thing! The reference from Roca shows the Westfield Yellow and Red scheme, so that's what I went with here. https://i.imgur.com/Na6xbzp.jpg Perhaps this will motivate me to finish the silos on the Roca Free-moN module. (ha!) Nonetheless, this was a fun little one day build. I definitely plan to do more of this!
Thanks, I seem to have misplaced my go-to silver back. These bicentennials aren't worth anything more than face value, but I still keep every one I come across.
Nice work and just what I need for my free-mo N module! These photos will really help me out! Thanks, Bert Cripe PNW Free-moN
Thank you Mark for posting the Auger build!!! This is the perfect project I need to do while I'm recuperating from back surgery. Joe
Mark, As someone from a family farm I really enjoyed this. Your work is fantastic! You did a great job!! Ralph
Stay tuned... I shared ideas with @baldylox about animating one of his 3D printed augers. They should be perfect if you need a few of them but don't have the patience to build multiple from scratch. http://shpws.me/MCrQ
Well, it did! There are 4 different silos, 3 of which are different sizes. First I scratch built two big silos. The two Rix Products silos are the proper diameter for the other two silos in the scene, but one needs to be twice as tall. Luckily, that Rix Product Quonset is not correct for the scene either; it's been sitting there all these years waiting for this moment to happen. Not only did I finally build the two silos, I finally built the correct storage building! With that, the Quonset, simply being the silos cut in half on their side, was dissected and made back into the tall, small diameter silo to finally complete the buildings on this module! https://i.imgur.com/6QM21UG.jpg