This blog will chart the progress of making the water tower for Monk's Gate. It is a combined water tower and engine shed similar to the one that was at Olney. Construction of the base follows conventional methods of a ply/mdf box. One face, end and inside opposite face will be seen so this cuts down the amount of brickwork to scribe into Das modelling clay! I'm not sure how construction of the panels for the water tank itself will pan out.

These first two photos show the position and progress made so far. The windows have just been roughly drawn on the sides to see how they look.

This next photo shows the tank panels which I have drawn on Autocad, printed out and stuck on to see how they look.

At the moment my thinking is to transfer the drawings onto plasticard using the nail varnish remover method to then act as a guide to build up the detail of the panels again using plasticard. I imagine this will be quite tedious...!
I am also giving a bit of thought to the windows. In various photos these appear to be of the 'Crittal' style metal windows. The frames of these are actually quite deep and will need to be made from something thicker than paper or plasticard strip. We shall see...

I took this photo looking through the water tower, and now I'm wondering about a fully detailed interior... is this possible, am I mad and any ideas where prototype info might be had...?!

...and here's the photo I hope!