Thanks, Eric! It has served us well, and it deserves the coming refit!
Between Oldest Daughter’s ‘flu, a family beach excursion, Kid-zilla’s soccer game, his submarine transport project, my scuba diving, boys’ day at the rocket shoot, etc., etc. this project went to the backburner. Nonetheless, the 1:24 gang and I had a chance to strip away material from the core…
…revealing how little actual wear the foam core actually suffered. I have found these rebuild projects are useful studies in material wear, so I have included those photos below:
I plan to reuse the core for the rebuild. Likewise, the HardieBacker base remains in solid shape, so it will again serve to anchor this water tower. Even the cladding, craftsticks of some sort, held up reasonably well.
I put these aside for the future, as their thin, weather worn look almost cries out for recycling! The Triple O wastes nothing!
Afterwards, the lads and I pulled the aluminum off the top of the water tower, revealing my father-in-law’s original roof frame.
Part of my wants to simply reroof it with something that looks a bit less like a flattened beer can. I am not sure how I would get panels to lie flat on the supports, though. For this reason as well as aesthetics, though, ost of me wants to cut all this off and make this a flat roof.
Lastly, I test fit this core with its proposed new siding, more foam, in its final location.
Trains will fit. Or we will move the tower. It’ all good.
Updates as progress merits!
Eric