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I have built a Plastrut gas tank set. It is unfinished.. the red white and blue colors are "unintended" and will be changed. The rocks on the bottom are actually woodland senics ballast (medium grey) and I have to chase a few peices sticking here and there. The kit was built from a bag of major plastic parts. The drawings for assembly were rather crude but eventually after much "study" I was able to understand how things came together. The black supports from the tanks were two major I beam plastic peices almost a foot long. I used a miter saw to maintain a exact 90 degree cut for the bottom of the tank supports. The arches that support the tanks are already made. The end caps were clear plastic that could be painted over. They were supposed to have gauges on the end, I am simply drawing by hand a gauge on a small disk such as you may see after punching school paper. The most critical part of the construction for me was the end caps. There were 4 of these and they had some flash around the edges. When test fitted I found I needed some "Putty" from Squadron to fill some holes. Once that was done I had what I thought was a "Hole-free" set of tanks. Care with your tools is a must you can mar the surface of the materials very easily. The pipes were really plastic covered wire. THe valves were one peice castings (plastic) that simply "sit" on the wire. Glueing these took some challange. Once every thing was set I let it all sit for a week until I could not smell glue. I used CA from the hobby shop and also Testors Glue for syrene to back it up. The paint is simply floquil black, caboose red and spray painted British Racing Blue from Testors. It took several coats (Thin coats!!) to cover the plastic properly. I found the plastic material of the kit rather "slippery" but easy to work with. I have a second Plastruct kit in a bag for the Oil Tanks due to go to a fuel depot dealer someday in the future. As I stated the kit is incomplete as I still need to do some more work on it. I went ahead and uploaded these pictures to help illustrate my description. The camera reveals everything good and bad =) Enjoy Gas works [IMG]http://img8.exs.cx/img8/6926/Gasworks.jpg[/IMG] End one [IMG]http://img8.exs.cx/img8/6348/Worksend1.jpg[/IMG] End one a [IMG]http://img8.exs.cx/img8/6929/worksend1a.jpg[/IMG] End 2 [IMG]http://img8.exs.cx/img8/5277/worksend3.jpg[/IMG]
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