Piko Water Tower

Hi,

I  built my own to 1/20th scale as the Pola one was too smal. It is based on a 10 liter paint buckety and the rest is plastic.

Having delved into the archives (which are very useful indeed) here is the link to it -

http://archive.mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40523

For some reason Ithe second part has disappeared, my aplologies for that, but as you can see the tank has been completed


Here are some photos of it



The Climax is a modified Bachmann one for scale.

one before painting, the 10 liter bucket is wrapped in 5mm sheet.




and one of the roof

Posted By blackburn49 on 02/23/2008 5:08 PM
Posted By peter bunce on 02/23/2008 10:53 AM
I  built my own to 1/20th scale as the Pola one was too smal. It is based on a 10 liter paint buckety and the rest is plastic.

Very impressive that someone would do this. It is more trouble than I would go to, considering that somewhat similar ones are available on the open market. Nevertheless I have to admire the effort anyone would go to in order to reproduce one of these structures.  Nice work !


Hi Ron,  Not really you are quite far away from most of the USA. but at least Alaska is a state of it: I am even further away in England! Now the the US Mail has mucked uppost from the US (airmail only - thus expensive) , it is easier to build, iff I can get a plan. That was the case here, and I wanted a proper size version so a lucky find (the bucket (US measurement would be about 2 or 2.5 gallons) made it 'do able'.


As luck would have it via the blog site 'http://120pointme.blogspot.com'   Pacific Coast  (http://mysite.verizon.net/bryie/pcgrs/id2.html)  have just released one of 50,000gallons either a twin spout as at Chama, or a single spout - price as I expected is $529, and higher for the twin spout, and extra for a cedar shingle roof. They will be good: you can stand on them whilst the are being built - the top will preclude that when finished!

Their site does have some very nice photos - have a look, also the 'blog' is always interesting (no connection with either!)