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As part of my work building out the the cement facility based on the Taiheiyo Cement Fujiwara Plant in Inabe I've designed and printed a bunch of structures found at the facility. This project contains a slurry tank for mixing wet materials together. You can find the reference in the Taiheiyo plant here. For some reason in the Google Maps satellite imagery the tank looks incredibly green but most reference photos looked more like a milky, concrete color. The main body file is designed with a center bit on the bottom to place in a drill for painting. I placed a brush with various colors at marks that aligned with the mixing paddles and rotated the drill to get the circular patterns. I'm currently debating adding a model water resin with a milky white color in a thin layer on top of this but haven't decided if it would look right yet. It's comprised of STL files for the main body, the walkway and the two pieces of machinery (rough models of a motor to control the mixing paddles and a motor to control the rotation of the walkway.) The file for the walkway is admittedly unnecessarily large because of the complexities of the mesh used for the slurry collecting on the paddles. After printing I realized they were much smaller (and far less visible) than I was thinking in my head. I did not modify since printing so you get what you get here. The files are available on Google Drive here. Feel free to print and use them on your own layout and modify as needed. No commercial use.

As part of my work building out the the cement facility based on the Taiheiyo Cement Fujiwara Plant in Inabe I've designed and printed a bunch of structures found at the facility. These industrial storage tanks are made to replicate this area on the grounds and using this industrial tank as a reference. Obviously not exact to what is on the grounds but using creative license to compress the space is necessary. It's comprised of STL files for each of the three tanks (due to differences in the top railings), the crossing plates (print x2) and the base plate. The files are available on Google Drive here. Feel free to print and use them on your own layout and modify as needed. No commercial use.

I’ve started building out my layout and one of the core industries will be modeled after the Taiheiyo Fujiwara Cement Plant. One of the more interesting parts of this plant to model is the rotary kiln so it’s where I started and I’ll work outward from there. I looked up tons of reference pics and created a 3D version, printed and then painted it. It’s designed to fit a stepper motor on one end to slowly rotate the drum.