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Tichy Kit #7019 review

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Posted by hornblower on Thursday, May 10, 2018 12:58 PM

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.

Hornblower

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 8:31 PM

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

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Posted by dstarr on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 6:51 PM

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. 

 

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Posted by peahrens on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 6:30 PM

Paul

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Tichy Kit #7019 review
Posted by hornblower on Wednesday, May 9, 2018 5:22 PM

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

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