any advice to improve it.?

Looks great to me. The only thing i can think of is put it on a layout and start shipping grain :> ) .....DaveB

Looking good soooooo??????

Which kit is this you used I like the metal siding look I have the Walther's wood version but would like the metal version 

Looks great!

Needs some signage to bring it to life.

Looks good

A little signage, some weeds around the base and bunch of pigeons on the crest and it will be ready to go.

Spilled grain

Needs spilled grain inside, on the ramps, on the driveways, and a general dustiness if you're modeling summer or early fall.  Some birds eating the grain too, not just ones sitting on the crest.

Fortunately the most aggravating part is too small to be seen in HO..... the swarms of black flies.

Looks great already.  Love the colors.

Scott Chatfield 

Wow!

Excellent work. Great tip on how you painted it.  I'll have to give that a try.

The only additions I can think of that haven't already been mentioned would be bird droppings to the roof (but only if you add the pigeons) and, perhaps, some mice or rats running around inside with a cat or two to catch them.

Thank you for sharing your great work.

Lou in California

I used the Walthers' Valley

I used the Walthers' Valley Growers Association Steel-Sheated Grain Elevator in N scale.

Thanks for the

Thanks for the suggestions.

For the signage, I have put a decal but I don't like the shiny look so I removed it. Maybe I should add some paper signs?

For the weeds, I don't really know what to do because I am still a newbie. I started modeling in January and I have lots of things I still don't know yet. Any suggestions?

For the pigeons, it's also a good idea. Do you know if there is some way I could do my little N scale pigeons by myself? If yes, do you have a link or a video to suggest me?

Thanks again!

Hi Scott.  Do you know how I

Hi Scott. 

Do you know how I could replicate the spilled grain inside? I am a newbie so.

Same things with the birds, any idea how I could create my own little N scale birds?

Spilled grain

Check in a craft store for decrotive sand.  Used for sand art.

I found a color and size that I use for wheat in wagons

Howard Garner

Is this color ok for the

Is this color ok for the spilled grain?

Here is an idea you may want

Here is an idea you may want to consider. Most elevators had a "bagging house" attached as I have pictured here. Hope you don't mind that I Photoshopped your photo do show this. The add-on I pictured is from another Walthers feed mill. Such a configuration is very common throughout the Midwest and elsewhere.

Jim Six

Oats maybe. Barley

Oats maybe. Barley maybe

Wheat  no

I have another building that

I have another building that goes with my grain elevator but if I put it straight against the grain elevator, I must remove the door indicated by the red arrow. If I don't do this, the building will not be flush with the other side of the grain elevator (the side where the train comes).

Here is a photo to explain what I mean:

And here is what I have done

And here is what I have done to make it look like some grain have spilled on the ground and on some walls.

N-scale pigeons

N-scale pigeons:

https://www.shapeways.com/product/836AQ58X4/n-scale-1-160-pigeons-set-of-121

YouTube video

Search YouTube for a video on the operation of an old grain elevator in Canada.  It'll give you plenty of weathering ideas.  Also check out James Six's thread here on grain elevators and mills.  Plenty of pics.

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/33484?page=17

Scott Chatfield 

Looking Good

I look forward to seeing it in place with a string of cars being loaded.  

The second structure is additional grain bins to increase the capacity of the elevator.  It can be set a few feet way from the main structure in order to leave room for the truck doors.

Coles Notes for North of the border

The Elevator -  Grain Elevator by Charles Konowal - NFB

Farm to Port -  Grain Handling in Canada by Guy L. Coté - NFB

Happy modeling

Bob

Your building is a wood grain

Your building is a wood grain bin and not a bagging or processing building. It like a metal brain bin, but rectangular and wood. I recommend adding a bagging building since they were very common.

The elevator below "was" at Wolcotteville IN on the old Pennsy GR&I line from Ft. Wayne up into Michigan. It burned down a few years ago. Note the bagging building annex.

Jim

Is this just a grain elevator, or also a feed mill?

Is this just a grain elevator? then you have all you need.  The grain annex could be use to also store grain.

Add a chute from the top of the elevator to fill the annex, and a drag line down at floor level to empty it.

The bagging house that others mention were normally associated with grinding grain for feed.

Farmer would bring their own grain or buy from the elevator, maybe have minerals or other supplements added.

The ground output could be bagged or go directly to the farmers truck

Howard (years of farming) Garner

Individual Corrugated Iron Sheets

I think it looks great, one thing that comes to mind and not sure whether its possible in N Gauge, but maybe use a very fine pencil to draw, or use a hobby knife to scribe a vertical line every 3 or so feet to represent the individual sheets.

Very nice model

Great job on the paint.

I was amazed when a few posts in it was revealed that it is N Scale.  I had assumed HO due to the detail.

One of a kind

Really nice model

All the work really does pay off.

Boudreaux,  B.C.E.  R.R.

Thanks for the tip but in N

Thanks for the tip but in N scale, how can I calculate the length of three feet? I mean, how many millimeters wide should each sheet measured?