Railroad Pony
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I lucked out and managed to get one of the Piko coaling towers for fairly cheap. It's missing the roofs, a section of the bin top wall, and a pulley, but everything else is there and works.
When you get things shipped to you, you hope that they arrive intact. This appeared to be in the condition it was in when I first saw it. As I was unpacking it, some of the bubble wrap was around one of the legs. I gave it a small tug just to watch the entire structure collapse into a pile of parts. I WAS SO GIDDY WITH HAPPINESS! It was now back to kit form. It looks like whowver assembled it the first time used very little glue on it. I plan on some slight modifications and detailing that I want to do that would have required disassembling it anyway.
I only have pictures of assembled towers to go by, but I have managed to temporarily put it back together. Gravity and friction are the only things holding it together right now. Now I see where I need to add details (a ton of NBWs) and lights. The brewery kits I have have given me the roof pannels. They look like they were used to make the original roofs in the first place. I just have to find a pulley for the main chute to have all the parts. This is going to be fun!
When you get things shipped to you, you hope that they arrive intact. This appeared to be in the condition it was in when I first saw it. As I was unpacking it, some of the bubble wrap was around one of the legs. I gave it a small tug just to watch the entire structure collapse into a pile of parts. I WAS SO GIDDY WITH HAPPINESS! It was now back to kit form. It looks like whowver assembled it the first time used very little glue on it. I plan on some slight modifications and detailing that I want to do that would have required disassembling it anyway.
I only have pictures of assembled towers to go by, but I have managed to temporarily put it back together. Gravity and friction are the only things holding it together right now. Now I see where I need to add details (a ton of NBWs) and lights. The brewery kits I have have given me the roof pannels. They look like they were used to make the original roofs in the first place. I just have to find a pulley for the main chute to have all the parts. This is going to be fun!