Kitbasher's Diary - N Scale Water Tank - Printable Version

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Kitbasher's Diary - N Scale Water Tank - Academy Staff - 08-16-2011

The following tutorial was submitted by "Drew1125" on 4-19-04, and is being recreated here to bring back some historical records to the New Academy:


Re: Kitbasher's Diary - N Scale Water Tank - Academy Staff - 08-16-2011

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...


   


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

   

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

   

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

   

I primed everything with Floquil Roof Brown...

   

-Drew-
NARA Member #48
Life is all the stuff that happened while you were makin' other plans.


Re: Kitbasher's Diary - N Scale Water Tank - Academy Staff - 08-16-2011

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

   

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

   

I made this roof out of 020 sheet styrene...

   

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...

   

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

   

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

   


-Drew-
NARA Member #48
Life is all the stuff that happened while you were makin' other plans.