Anyone have any idea how I should layout the hog farm? This is a picture of a diorama I build many years ago, and I have torn it apart to make it fit a particular space on the layout.
The diorama if about 22" square, and the space I need it to fit is about 7" by 48". I will identify the buildings from top to bottom, left to right. Across the top is the Farrowing house, and the hog pen with wallow, shelters, feeder & windmill. Next the Octagon Barn and the corn crib. The small building on the center left is a tool shed, and the blank space on the right side is the smoke house. The lower left corner is a tornado shelter, then the house, the large building is the shop and machinery shed, and in the bottom right corner is the slaughterhouse. I assume I will need to eliminate a building two to make the farm fit.
Here is an overhead picture. The question is how to arrange the buildings and if there is no room for all of them, which do I eliminate? The shop-Machinery Shed is large, but I do like having a place to display some farm equipment under roof. The Slaughterhouse is small but easy to eliminate, and the building would have many other uses. The barn takes up a lot of room with the approaches on two sides, but the octagon design is striking. The house would be easy to use somewhere else and could be in another part of the farm that is not modeled but is somehow completes the scene to me.
A picture from the South end.
From the north end.
Here is the space I have for the farm, my only problem is how to layout the buildings.
Farrowing House, it has access from both ends, so it can go about anywhere that makes sense. This design is based on prototype blueprints from the era.
Hog pen and Hog wallow. The concrete wallow is based on prototype blueprints. The windmill is a Woodland Scenics kit.
The corn crib is a Blairline Kit. The metal grain bin is a 3D printed model I designed. The silos are pill bottles with paper wraps I made and 3d printed roofs I designed. Obviously, I won't use all three silos.
Left to right, the barn slaughterhouse, smokehouse, and storm shelter.
The house, again based on prototype farm house plans from the era.
I made up the design for the barn based on several pictures. I designed it and 3D printed it.
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You've got quite a challenge there! Here are some thoughts. I think the first thing to assume is that there's a farm road just off the edge of the benchwork that connects these areas. I'm not familiar with the layout of a hog farm but would it make sense to keep the feed near the hogs and the equipment near the house? What are you imagining will be stored in the octagon barn? It really is a neat structure. If the machine shed is too big, can you use a smaller version or are you really committed to that structure? I'd also thing about grouping the structures in threes if possible. A viewer can make more sense of a scene if the buildings are connected visually into smaller subgroups instead of one long row (unless of course you're modeling a downtown street where that's what's expected, or a suburban block of houses, et al).
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