Here is the latest fuel farm project that is considered essentially complete.
I did use several items from ebay and one or two from the hobby shop to finish the scene more or less. You probably notice the two vertical tanks off angle, that is because the plastic plate under them are warped and I havent gotten around to fixing them.
Thier positions on the benchwork is not set in stone, that will be set by the trackwork in the industrial area later.
Without further ado, while the decal is still wet…
I built the same kits and added several lines and additional tanks to represent a sizeable terminal. May I suggest that your larger tank be put in the background of the scene, and that you build a containment wall or earth dam around it.
Without getting too critical, what did you (take) finish the photo with?? Maybe it’s just me but I found it a little difficult to see any detail in the photo due to it’s tone (color) and lack of sharpness. Meaning, I didn’t even notice that anything was off kilter.
The camcorder Dv tape frame capture/extract with a software on computer. It is not the best way to take still pictures. But until I get a digital it will have to do.
The building in the background is a modular one using walthers parts. It started out with the Sterling Dairy Kit building complex which I simply adapted to my needs. One of a group of buildings that form a ball bearing works. That one is a production building where races, cages and bearings are made.
The building in the far left rear is the Heat shop. There the raw steel in rounds are hardened and tempered and cleaned with acid. Also with walthers modulars.
Im half debating shoving that big tank into a corner and making a wall for it out of something. That plastic containment wall that came with kit was a total failure in many ways. Half tempted to pour a big berm of ballast around the thing to fit the space and secure it all with wet glue.
That big tank was the tall oil storage I built from a walthers re-run. Im pretty happy with how it turned out.
That fuel tanker in the front at the truck rack was a ebay win out of Canada. Very well done; there are a couple of nitpicking but I aint complaining. That truck was supposed to ferry fuel oil to the boiler house for the bearing works in bulk because the boiler house just does not have room for it’s own siding.
A builder in Canada sold it to me on ebay. He specilizes in HO scale trucks and such for the steam era.
Im not sure of the ancestry of the truck. Perhaps resin for the tractor and Roco for the trailer. But that particular rig was perfect for the selected role so I bought it painted and weathered already.
It makes everything else look rather shiny and unweathered, but that will happen eventually.