Making Oil Tanks

March 3, 2011

Here is another tip supplied by a member of the online Model Train Club.

I used some old tins from the kitchen cupboard to make an oil tank depot. I found an old coffee tin and another one that contained drinking chocolate. They were the type that you press shut (not the ones you need a can opener for).

I screwed the lids to the layout which meant I could easily remove the tanks at any time by just pulling them out from the lids (which stayed fixed to the layout base). I painted the tins and applied some graphics I printed out from the internet. However before I printed them out I used my computer graphics program to add a couple of ladders and some rivets to the design. They look so authentic.