Kitbasher's Diary - N Scale Water Tank

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Drew1125

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I've been working on a couple of structures for the junction on the Poor Fork RR...
I've started a depot, & then I thought, "What's a steam-era shortline without a water tank?"

Well, I thought I'd dig around in the scrap box, & see what I could come up with...
I found this little tank thingy in a Walthers N scale Service Track kit...
 

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I used a square to draw some vertical guidelines on the tank, & then glued some 080x080 Evergreen styrene strip to the sides
 

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To make a support structure for the tank, I found some HO trestle bents in a Walthers O.L. King & Son Coal Co...
 

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I trimmed up a couple of the bents, & added some styrene strip for bracing...
 

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Then I drybrused with some Polly Scale Acrylics, in various shades of brown...
 

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Next, I used some styrene to make some metal reinforcement bands...
 

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After a botched attempt at making shingles from construction paper, I went back, sanded most of the flat black paint off the roof, & started making shingles out of strip styrene...
 

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Thanks guys!
I really appeciate all the nice words! :)
I must say that I have the highest respect for all of your modeling skills as well!:thumb:

I got some detailing done last night...
I added a roof hatch...
 

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...& I used the barrel of an old ball-point pen to make a standpipe for the bottom of the tank...
 

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