I have just purchased one of the Tichy Train Group Small Water Tank Kit #7019 and I'm anxious to get started. However, I recently read a review of this kit that included several cautions, tips and recommendations to use when assembling this kit. Of course, I can't seem to find this review again. I have tried different permutations of the kit name in the "Search the Community" box but the closest I have come is a discussion of installing the guy wires on the larger Steel Water Tank Kit #7012. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Hornblower
Maybe one of these? I do a google "site: cs.trains.com (your subject)". But I don't think I see what you want that way, either.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS759US759&ei=AoTzWo-MEuXEjwTGmLXwDA&q=site%3Acs.trains.com+tichy+water+tank+kit&oq=site%3Acs.trains.com+tichy+water+tank+kit&gs_l=psy-ab.3...2114.7841.0.8421.21.21.0.0.0.0.126.1688.18j3.21.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.3_3RyLpFPqs
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
I didn't do your Tichy kit. This is an Atlas kit I picked up at a train show. This is "as is". Too much plastic gloss. The spout was missing.
OK, Water tank is painted with a rattle can of flat dull green to kill the plastic gloss. It's a Canadian prototype, the brick lower house is to keep the water pipes from freezing in a Canadian winter. I added a couple of fuel drums for the stove. They lightening arrestor is a bead from the craft section at Walmart. The tank bands are brush painted grimy black.
I kept the worker in blue overalls. The pulleys to raise and lower the spout are punched out of sheet styrene with a hardware store leather punch. The brick is too bright, I should have dulled it down with DullCote or something.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
I looked-up Tichy's kit #7019 and didn't see anything difficult about building it - looks pretty straightforward to me. Tichy's instructions are usually pretty comprehensive, so following them should yield good results.
Wayne
Thanks for your responses! I've been studying the instructions and parts and agree that building this kit should be pretty straightforward. I can't remember where I saw the mentioned build review but it had several tips and recommendations that sounded rather helpful at the time. Maybe I should write my own build review.