Finished Pics of a Municipal Water Tank

Still more detailing to do. Included a pic of the prototype too.

You did a fantastic job!

--Greg

Looks like you nailed it !!! 

I was going to use a Walthers' tank for the drinkable water in town...yours looks

like a very good model of a common sight across the U.S.  I also thought maybe

I'd build a wooden one.  It will be served by a flume bringing water down "from

the mountains".  Another water tank to serve the locomotives would use water

from an arsenic spring.  Now here I need advice from a chemist....as to whether

this is realistic or would heavy metal water souces foul the boilers or be hazardous

to humans, crew and passengers, if blown out in the steam exhaust.  Obviously,

the EPA (Ever Present Antagonists) would go tilt in today's world, but this is 1940.

I am guessing locos crossing the great American desert got water from some questionable sources in the past.

Very nice work as usual Malcolm.

Great craftsmanship.

very nice, Malcolm! Merry Christmas! Tom

Excellent work Malcolm. 

Malcolm, Great job !!!

Thanks Pops, Greg, Ness and Spence. Dewey, I hope you are feeling better and Chris, you gotta new "mugshot"!

Merry Christmas Tom and all of you (each and every one)!

I hope to get this tank painted by the weekend.

Merry Christmas to you and your family also Malcolm.  Yes I got a new mug shot...sadly...nothing has improved. 

Finished and primed! The ladder stock is old All Nation stock in 12" lengths and I made the cleats from scratch. The final color will be ivory white (maybe silver).

The tape at the very top is covering the rooftop warning light.

Malcolm

Amen. It really looks great.

You really have some talent there in those hands of yours.  Great project.

that's great work Malcolm!

Unbelievable detail, nice job.

Really nice job, it looks great !

excellent detail

Inspiring! I may have to build one for my layout someday instead of just painting one on a backdrop...