The pump house, constructed of Wills brick sheeting with Walthers door and window frames.

The roof down spouts were originally constructed of styrene. These were changed to brass at some point.

An early mock-up showing the tanks size in comparison to a Limby Bubblecar.

The pump house is shown after the bricks have been painted. The “mortar” is white titanium artist’s oil diluted slightly with thinner. The artist’s oils are very opaque, but it takes the stuff a week to dry. That’s my 1/87 scale persona in the photo…

Another one of those silly, “see how big my tanks are” photos…

Jump forward 18 months. Suddenly the farm is finished in three evenings, well finished that is except for painting and weathering. The piping and handrails are all Plastruct components. Because of those thick PVC “tanks” they whole kit weighs a ton. No need to worry about the tanks blowing over though if taken outside.

A Bachmann 4mm figure for size comparison. Plastruct valves were ordered but these proved to be nothing more than poor caricatures- as a result the “valves” were constructed of more tubing with brass hand wheels attached to the piping. If I ever do this again, I’d seriously consider using brass rod instead of Plastruct…

A poor job joining the Plastruct 90 bends to the piping meant that some putty was needed. A box was also fabricated on the back of the pump house to hold the piping in the right position.

This is the tank farm after painting and weathering. Grey automotive spray primer was used, and then another light does of an aluminum color out of a spray can. The concrete base was then hand painted.

Various black washes dirtied the roof and concrete base. The air brush came out next, steam black, then grey, then steam black again.

My persona on the tank tops. The railings are 1/100 scale Plastruct. The caged ladder is 1/87 scale Walthers. With an HO figure the railings don’t look too bad, but don’t put a 4mm figure up there.

The pump house- I wonder what those wires are for?

The door knobs are Gibson handrail knobs. The “light” is a 3mm flat top white LED. The fuel pipes on the right are 2.5 mm diameter which is probably a tad on the large side.

The back side of the tanks have a number of white horizontal markers and a vertical fuel measure thingy so you can determine the amount of fuel in the tanks. The little white bobbins that go up and down haven’t been put on yet.

The back side of the pump house.

A Bachmann TTA for yet another size comparison.

The fellow is waiting for the light to come one.

Now we know what the wires were for! The “white” LED is a little too blue. A dab of Tamiya translucent yellow may be used to correct the blueness in the future…