It's done! Water Tower

[MasonJar]

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions for the spout of the water tower (see here for the other thread). I finished up last night!

Mostly constructed of "craft" materials. A ribbon spool and craft sticks make up the tank. The roof is cardboard, shingled with brown paper bag and trimmed with more thin cardboard. The finial is a copper nail.

The supports are MidWest "Fun Wood", which is like strip wood, but much cheaper. The ready cut sizes include scale 12x12 and 4x... whatever you cut it to. Comes in balsa and basswood.

Strapping around the tank is .040 styrene strips.

The spout is a paint brush handle that had the right taper. Sorry guys - just could not scratch a brass one - I'm not there yet... Thanks for your help though. The scale drawings were a great help.

The pulleys are scratched from KD coupler boxes and brass. The chain comes from a bead store.

Here's a couple of pictures...

Andrew

 

[MasonJar]

From the side...

 

[Clerk]

Nice going Masonjar. Great job on the Water Tower and the pictures

 

[jon-monon]

Fantastic, Andrew! Nobody's gunna know that ain't brass, 'cept you, Dick, me, and the other 1167 gaugers that read this Really looks nice.

 

[jkristia]

It looks fantastic. Great job.

 

[Tyson Rayles]

Outstanding!

 

[ezdays]

Why would you want to do one in brass when you've done an outstanding job with what you used. Besides, isn't it easier and more realistic to make a wooden tower out of wood?

Top notch work......

Don

 

[Matthyro]

It's great to see how the tank turned out Andrew. Excellent modelling friend. We scratch builders use anything that looks right. The easier and cheaper methods really work. The spout looks very real. You say you got the chain at a bead store. Where abouts is it. I haven't seen anything like that around here.

 

[Ray Marinaccio]

Looks excellent, I've built some of my best models from the recyling bin. Recycle.
My wife would yell at me, Are you in the recyling bin, again!

 

[Casey Feedwater]

You did an excellent job of weathering the wood. Very nice.

 

[Drew1125]

Great Job!

That is one excellent piece of scratchbuilding, Andrew!
Well done!!

 

[Ralph]

That's beautiful! The weathering really makes it look like its been standing out in the elements for a long time. Nice work!
Ralph

 

[cidchase]

Very, very sweet, Andrew!!!
Excellent modelling!

 

[Gary Pfeil]

Wow Andrew, that looks great!

 

[Lighthorseman]

Excellent!

That is one truly OUSTANDING piece of work, Andrew! I hope I could someday do as well.

 

[MasonJar]

Thanks for all the kind words everyone!

Andrew

 

[jmarksbery]

Super Andrew, just super!

 

[davidstrains]

That tower just looks like it wants to be placed near a track. Great job Andrew.

 

[Mike R]

Excellent water tower, Andrew, and congratulations on a fine job.
Regards \ Mike

 

[60103]

Andrew, the materials do not matter. The final result is important. If you can do that with a paintbrush, who needs brass?
Tractions and Models magazine used to have a motto "Scrounge". Seems you've learned.