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Water Tower and some more trees

Ian Morgan

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With another exhibition looming (actually, tomorrow 9th May 2015 in Portsmouth) I felt I should do a bit more work on the layout. I had mostly been working on some more suitable motive power and rolling stock for the layout (none of which is finished yet). I had been making a few more trees in spare moments, including a large Elm tree that I am particularly proud of. These have now been planted, but lots more are still required, plus other ground cover.

 

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The old Ordnance Survey map shows a water tower at the end of the station throat, and I have a couple of photos showing it in the distance. They show it to be a rectangular tank on a brick base, but it is not possible to see any details. I purchased a Knightwing kit a while back as the mouldings for the tank looked nice, although I had not intended to use the stone base. In the event, I did use the base, in modified form. I removed the window section of one side by cutting horizontally above and below the windows. I then glued the top section directly to the bottom section. I removed a similar sized piece from the end above the door, and cut a section off the bottom of the other two plain walls to match. Once glued together, I clad it with brick paper (Scalescenes). I filed down the base of the tank so that it fitted inside the tank sides, and the tank now sits nicely on top of the brickwork.

 

After painting, I cut some transparent acrylic sheet to fit as the water surface. I added an overflow pipe, but I did not know what the filling arrangements are for a water tank, so I have left them out. I added a depth gauge and float from scraps, wire, and a spare cartwheel from an etch. This is too big, but I could not find anything more suitable.

 

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Edit: Below are some more photos I took at the Portsmouth exhibition.

 

 

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Donw
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Nice work In I am particularly impressed with the trees.

 

Don

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bcnPete
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Very nice Ian - Are you planning to put a back scene behind the trees in the future?

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Ian Morgan
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Yes, a backscene is on my 'to-do' list, but it is a long list. I have quite a long gap before the next exhibition (February 2016 actually) so maybe I will get the buildings all finished, point rodding and ground signals installed, and proper Isle of Wight rolling stock and motive power built. Or maybe not.

 

I am keeping half an eye on a mix-and-match backscene development being worked on by http://www.modelrailwayscenery.com which might help.

 

Ian.

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