Hard Working Dads on the AC Storage Tanks

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Nothing like some model railroad photos on Father’s Day…

Here are some hard working men doing dangerous work. I’ll bet they are dads.

The AC Storage Tanks are done, and here is how they look on the layout.

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Very impressive. They did excellent work. Ken

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Indeed. I am getting ready to start on a storage tank (once summer chores are over). This gave me a couple of ideas.

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Very nice work. The piping and loading facilities are very realistic and interest me the most as I’m building a much smaller oil distributing business. Would you please tell me where you got the piping and reack?

Thanks,

Bob

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Kyle,

Some great looking industries along with the excellent work on the AC tanks.

Who makes all those fittings and valves?

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Very nice modeling…Cox 47

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Looks real good. Keep up the great work.

Nick

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Very nice, keep up the good work! =]

-Jake

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Thanks for the kind words guys…

The pipes and so forth are Walthers Cornerstone products. Get one “piping kit” and you will have all the pipes and fittings you will ever need. The inside diameter of small drinking straws fit over the kit pipes perfectly. Then I spraypaint the works… first flat black, then a dusting of gray.I’m sure flat white and silver would also look mint.

The platform is also from Cornerstone. It’s the “Oil Loading Platform” kit. About 10 bucks at your LHS.

The big piece of rusty gridwork that the whole thing sits on is iffy stuff. I got it from a craft store and I think it is for needlepoint type crafts. It is good, because if you cut along the perforations you get real clean, straight lines… and it is bad because paint and glue will not adhere to it. Actually, that can be good too. I’ve taken to having a scrap of the material around so I can leave drying parts on it without fear of them being cured right to the workbench. Kinda like wax paper only better.

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