Watering at Ropley just got easier!
Hi All.
A very brief entry today to show a little bit of progress in finishing some loose ends. The watertower has long needed it's downpipe making, and so armed with some brass tube and a hammer I set to work. The whole pipe is one section of tube bent to shape, and one end flattend out to represent the rubber shroud. I had pondered how to approach this aspect for a little while, not really liking the use of elastic fabric as supplied in the Ratio kit because it just doesn't look either in scale or hang right. The final answer was brutishly simple, just flatten the end of the tube out with a hammer! The joins in the pipe were made by drilling a hole in a thin piece of plastic card and then sanding it round. Painting was deliberately patchy to represent the real thing, before it was freshly painted!
A slightly cruel close up!
Next is to fit the internal gubbins into the top of the tank and the ladder, however for the latter it's proving difficult to find N gauge etched later of the required length, both MSE and Ratio etches being too short. There is also some finer details to be added around the base, along with some more pipework, but this will wait until the tower no longer needs to be handled on a regular basis.
Cheers all,
Tom.
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