Creative genius input needed

I would make some type of frame for them to sit in that fits into a gondola, or on a flat car.  Put two over each truck.  Tell visitors that they are heavy pieces for a refinery or chemical plant.

Tom

If you havae a farm scene, maybe you could make a couple of anydrous trailers.

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Create a conical seat to stand them upright, add pipeing, paint white, med green, or Leave as raw stainless, maybe give it a fence, and you have chemical storage tanks for out back at an industrial based business. Which end goes up and the tanks finish, is really a choice based on what's inside it as much as your preference.

It seems to me there was a Lionel, AF or Marx flatcar that used 2 CO² tanks like that; inline & on stands as a load.

Add fins and you have two large bombs 

A hat, a broach, a pterodactyl  ("Airplane" movie line)

Adriatic posted:

A hat, a broach, a pterodactyl  ("Airplane" movie line)

How about some coffee,  Johnny?  

I'd cut off the nozzle ends, fit them together and make propane tanks.  

I'd recycle them and move on.  

Unless my first glance at something like this sends a creative message....'Hey! I could make that into a _______ for the layout!!!'....collecting/saving things like this is what creates the junk piles in the house. 

You know those little coffee creamer cups with the peel-off tops?......they make dandy trash cans in larger scales (not my idea, someone else's.)  After saving just short of a bazillion of these, it suddenly dawned on me that they were pure trash themselves!.....and so they found a new home in the recycling container placed at the end of the driveway one day.

So, the other thing I've learned in life....if I received that first-glance creative message above...is that if I don't actually create that gizmo within a week or two, it will become this nuisance thingy that clutters my life....to the point that years later I'll see it on/under the workbench and say...."What the %#@$& am I keeping this thing for??!!".....inspiration long gone.  THEN it ends up where it probably should've ended up long ago!

I know, that's not what you wanted to hear re these spent cartridges...  Sooooo....

You could cut them in half....pitch the narrow ends.  Then paint the domed ends bright yellow, put some faces/hair fuzz on them, pack them into a gondola or behind the opening door of a boxcar, and....Voila!....MINIONS!!

Well.....you asked.

More coffee please......

KD (Lucas Gudinov)

Roger, Over. And don’t call me Shirley.

I not only got some creative ideas, but some creative comments. Thanks!

Well, I might find some tubing of the same diameter and cut and splice them into longer tubes to make a helium car like this 

or cut and splice them into smaller cylinders and make something like this Chlorine tank car 

Tichy makes decals in S for both cars and the car bodies would be easy to construct from Plastruct structural shapes and sheet abs.

I have been meaning to make a chlorine tank car ever since I saw an article in the early 1970's about constructing one in a Model Railroader "dollar car" book (long out of print). Maybe I will get off my butt and do it.  

LittleTommy

You need a half dozen beer cars preceding it for it to float

Adriatic posted:

 

It seems to me there was a Lionel, AF or Marx flatcar that used 2 CO² tanks like that; inline & on stands as a load.

They look a bit like the dummy tanks on a Lionel track cleaner but those tanks had flat bottoms. Never the less if you have a track cleaner misssing it's tanks the CO2 tanks would make a good substitute.  j