The tower model is made from card with decorative paper overlays. The filler hose is a paper tube, the ladder is DIY 3D printed and the LED lamp sourced from China. The hut alongside is corrugated styrene with a door reclaimed from an old Airfix signal box.
The tower is fixed to the base with 1mm wire glued into two corners. These pass through the baseboard and are bent over in an arc at the rear to hold the tower tight to the baseboard. If I need to remove the tower I just bend the wires straight again. The coaling platform and corrugated hut are glued to the baseboard.
The end of the pipe (copper wire) was bent over to form the spout. Thinner wire was then wrapped around to make the tap body and the two ends of it bent upright and 90 degrees to form the handle. Solder was then applied to the 'body' to smooth over the thin wire wrap and bulk it up.
To Part 13.
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3 comments:
Hello David, just wanted to say thanks for the tip on making a tap. I'll be needing one for a stable block and remembered seeing your post.
It's all looking really good. The buildings match up very well and create a whole, I think.
I like the backscene shown in your latest post, of the real thing. Very effective, been taking more notes on that.
Thanks Mikkel, You may have read in an earlier post that your micro layouts were an inspiration for me to build Swanage Loco Yard. It's taking much longer to create than I imagined.
Thanks David, I'm glad if it's been of use. Small layouts seem so much more manageable, I find. But they still take ages to build for some reason :-)
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