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An Alton bound service departs from Ropley.
Hi all.
Something I have been almost about to start for a while now, has finally been started, namely the water tower. This is quite a key feature of the yard and so I wanted to try and include as much detail as possible here.
The first stage is to model the base. This includes the drain area, concrete base and small brick building which I can only assume houses some sort of pump for the tower. The prototype looks like this:
The model is all made up from various bits of plastic card, the base being scribed to represent joins & cracks in the concrete. The grate was made by gluing stretched sprue to a small square of plastic card, before painting the whole thing black and then dry brushing on a yellow/green mix to represent the real thing as seen above. Kleer is being applied in layers to represent the stagnant water! The concrete effect was produced in the same way as the cable trunking. A spray of plasti-Kote suede effect paint, followed by a dry brush with light grey and then black before the addition of some weathering from powders.
The small brick building was made using printed brick paper and the various electrical boxes from various offcuts of plastic. The drain covers are taken from a spare 4mm etch I had laying around from a previous project. Not 100% accurate, but close enough at this size!
This whole section will now be bedded into the surrounding area before the water tower itself and the diesel fuelling point just beyond are added along with some final detailing such as hoses etc. I also need to find a suitable 2mm scale dustbin!
Cheers all,
Tom.
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