Nine models go together to make up the Skaledale & District Gas Works. These are:
Small Gasholder R8737
Understandably this is modelled in its fairly deflated state. The main body is cast in resin but the superstructure, railings and ladder are metal. The base of the tank is green and the 'extending' top, grey. The rest is in white (with patches of rust) except for the ladder which is black.
Retort House with Chimney R8738
These are two separate resin castings. The retort house is a large square looking building with ventilation in the ridge of the pitched roof. It is a red brick structure with a grey roof. It has a brown door in one end and three small arched windows high in each side. At the back of the building (at the opposite end to the door) there is a black pipe protruding from high in the wall and turning through 90o passes down into the ground. The chimney is in a matching red brick.
Boiler Room R8739
This is a single storey red brick building with a grey single pitch roof. In the roof is a stove pipe chimney with vents around it. There are double doors in one end of the building and a single door in the other end. The short wall has a green framed window and what looks like a wooden cupboard mounted halfway up the wall.
Condenser Tower & Washer R8740
These are two separate and independent units with grey bases. A lot of trouble has gone into detailing these two models with some very realistic pipework and wheel valves.
Purifiers R8741
Like the condensing tower and washer, this is a well detailed model with some excellent pipework. It includes an overhead rail above a row of four tanks and fitted to the rail is a runner with a chain and hook hanging from it. The cast resin base is grey and the walls of the tanks are blue.
Office & Gate R8742
The office is a small red brick building with a grey pitched roof and a red chimney. The door is green and two windows (one at the front and one at the back) have green frames and, as usual, are glazed. The double compound gate is brown with grey posts and requires the wall sections to give it purpose.
Stores R8743
This is a rectangular red brick building with a wide single green door in one end and, above it, a vent in the wall. The two side walls each have three very small glazed windows, with green frames, high in the wall. The pitched roof is grey and, as with the other buildings, the guttering and down pipes are black.
Straight Walls x 3 R8744
Although these have not been seen by the reviewer at the time of writing, they will be 28mm high and of red brick to match the corner wall sections described below.
Corner Walls x 2 R8745
These are two identical models, each forming a corner in a red brick wall which has black capping stones. Each run of wall from the corner is the same length - 85mm - and the walls are 28mm high. The end of each length of wall has a brick supporting pillar part way up.
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