Whilst I await the delivery of some more GWR dark stone paint to paint the girderwork on the Signal Box, I've been cracking on with the water tower for the station. The original one at Snow Hill stood on the Southern approach to the station, on the opposite side of the tracks to the South signal box and next to a typical GWR overgirder turntable (very good article in the RM last month on how to make one of these).

I have only a few photos of the tank and its supporting brickwork and so once again I've kit bashed rather than try to make an accurate model.

the base is from some cut down parts from a Kibri factory kit. The tank is 80" styrene, with 20 tho glued on top once the rivets have been embossed on it.

The curved top is made up from three layers, one layer is 80 thou ribs and strips, overlaid with 30 thou styrene to give the curve and finally overlaid with slaters corrugated plastic card.

The last shot (sorry its a bit blurry) shows the model with only the bottom row of bricks waiting to be applied before it is painted and then detailed with the usual clutter lamps signs etc. The windows have been placed in temporarily to give an idea of the what the finished article will look like.

Rovex