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As long as you aren't doing any "prototype specific" modeling, just use your own judgement. Is this going to be a "city" water tower, or a "factory" water tower? A good effect on a factory water tower is to add the name of the company to the tank. I have the same tower you have, and I have mine painted Grand Trunk Western blue, with the "GT" noodle on the side. This is at my enginehouse. Yes, I have a prototype, the shops at Battle Creek, MI. The blue is the 1970's color, before that the tank was black, with the GTW "square-tilted-box" emblem. For 1950's era, I'd say that black, or silver are both good choices. But that is not carved in stone. By the way, before you fini***hat water tower, you might want to replace the Korber ladders with a more "scale" ladder. After getting mine done, I find the stock ladder looks a bit "heavy". If I ever get up the ambition, I think I'll solder up a scale ladder out of wire. That will take at least one long night at the workbench, and at least one six-pack of Budweiser. <br /> Todd C.
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