Ok, after taking my Jeep in for repairs, getting a rental car, driving to a closed KMart (it was open last week) ordering some pants from KMart online, doing a few honey doos and taking a short nap, I finally got restarted on the build.
I will need a small engine service facility, and hopefully a turntable and roundhouse on my HO module.
You can see the unused stub for the track leading to the facility that will occupy the empty space.
First I cut the top and bottom disks for the tank, as well as some rectangular spacers to put between the disks.
To cut the tapered staves I drew two arcs, one for the 10 foot diameter top disk, and one for the 12 foot diameter bottom disk and then drew lines from the center point through the arcs. This gives me the size of the stave on the top and bottom.
After building the core
I started gluing on the staves.
I check the staves for vertical with a square as I go. The first 4 went on as planned, but as I went out from there, I found that I started drifting away from the vertical. So I have added staves that weren’t tapered and adjusted the taper a bit on others. In HO scale the margin for error is much smaller then the scale I normally model in (1:24).
