Here’s the one in SC.
who ever built the first peach should be pissed off at the person who copied them. Thats rude.
I saw that one, but I thought we were running a family-safe site here! 
Sean McGillicuddy said:
John Passaro said:
We are literally in blizzard conditions here in Denver right now, so I doubt I’ll get much layout work accomplished today.Excuses … Excuses !
Sean, now I have an even better excuse. We’ve had no electricity since yesterday morning and my two youngest children and I have been camping out at my work since then!
I probably should be working on the layout anyway ? ! ? !
John Passaro said:
Sean McGillicuddy said:
John Passaro said:
We are literally in blizzard conditions here in Denver right now, so I doubt I’ll get much layout work accomplished today.Excuses … Excuses !
Sean, now I have an even better excuse. We’ve had no electricity since yesterday morning and my two youngest children and I have been camping out at my work since then!
I probably should be working on the layout anyway ? ! ? !
Devon Sinsley said:
who ever built the first peach should be pissed off at the person who copied them. Thats rude.
In the Art world, we shrug and call it Flattery.
John
It is my understanding that the peach tank in SC has to be torn down.
Steve Featherkile said:
John, in the Mile High City, you would have 2,270.4 psi at the bottom of the tank. In 1:32, that would be 70.95 psi.
You’re welcome.
Thanks for that, Steve…we always get a big kick out of sea-level visitors gasping for air as they exert themselves, especially when we get them up in the mountains. And, oh boy, give them one beer and they just about pass out! Now, our sports teams play great at the ends of games because the other team is gasping for air. I think you’re probably higher than sea level though.
John Caughey said:
Devon Sinsley said:
who ever built the first peach should be pissed off at the person who copied them. Thats rude.
In the Art world, we shrug and call it Flattery.
John
Yeah, that’s what I tell myself when the Chinese paint copies of my work and sell them cheap to galleries through various internet sites. What am I going to do, sue 'em? Ha ha what a joke that would be. Good luck with that.
Richard Mynderup said:
I love the first one: the Swedish coffee pot. I teach in Kingsburg where that water tower is…glad you found it.
Richard
I like that one too…maybe you ought to give it a shot, try and build it.
Devon Sinsley said:
First thing that jumped in my mind is big plastic Christmas ornament. That spherical tank with the cylindrical top is exactly a Christmas ornament. Also check out plastruc because they have all sorts of industrial shapes. You can do this John. I am rooting for you.
Finding the right tank just has to be the first step. Couldn’t find an ornament big enough, and it seems the biggest sphere at Plastruct is six inches, which isn’t enough (plus they want $14 for half a sphere, geez).
I’ve been looking around, basketball is too big, softball is too small, volleyballs a little too big it seems and not round anyway. Found the perfect size at the dollar store per my daughter’s suggestion, but it’s filled with air and that can’t be good.
I came across the top of an old lamp, has a glass globe on top, and took it to see if it would work using the eye test. I think it might. I’ll post pictures tomorrow when I get a chance.
foam floral ball 8" $15 bucks cover it in bondo.
http://www.marshallfloralproducts.com/8-OASIS-Floral-Foam-Sphere–by-the-piece–SO-7708-P_p_51.html
8" in 1/29 is only 19 feet across. small tank.
A 50,000 gallon reservoir which would be a small elevated reservoir would be 23.4 feet in diameter.
The 8" ball is plausible for a small industrial tank. Here is the math. 8"X29\12= appox 19 scale feet. A sphere with a radius of 8.5 holds 3580 cubic feet x 7.48= 27,000 gallons (ish). At 27,000 gallon elevated reservoir is not unreasonable for a small community or industry. I worked for a water district that had 1000 connections and we operated with a 50,000 gallon elevated tank. wasn’t great but we made it work. A small community of say 200-400 connections would be well served by 27,000 gallons.
$15.00 bucks there I solved that problem for you. . . next.
Taking a stab in the dark I betting that Johannesburg tank is in th3 50,000 range.
Who said a soft ball wasn’t the right size
cool
I’ve settled temporarily or permanently on this size and height for the water tower. The ten-inch Christmas ornament seemed too big to me, and the six-inch one seemed too small. But I found a (free) glass globe from a lamp, which is 7 1/2" in diameter (not radius!) and I found an old camera tripod and adjusted it up and down until I found a height I could visually live with in terms of overwhelming surrounding structures. If I break the globe, I’ll settle on an eight-inch Christmas ornament.
The station in the picture is something I had laying around and used it in the set-up for a sense of proportion. Someday…someday…I’ll have a station and a small hotel on this end of the yard, no time soon, but I tried the water tower in various spots and this end is where it would be most at home. So Devon, if you will please, will have to tell me how many gallons of water it holds at 1:29 scale and how much pressure I’ll get at 35" to the top of the water tank, and how many taps that’ll supply. I’m thinking it might be about 20,000 gallons and it should supply a few buildings in the yard, anyway.
But first, a friend of mine looked at this post and told me I neglected a water tower category: towers converted to homes. So he sent me a few pictures and I combined them here (some of them are pretty darn ingenious and good-looking):
But here’s the globe and the set-up I’ve decided on:
edit: Although that’s it for me this week, the rest of the week is work work, no modelling…oh well.
It’s probably short for true scale, but I like what you came up with. It’s not so short so as to not be believeable, but not tall enough to overwhelm the space neither.
hmmm…
what timeframe do you use?
if i look at the station house, it looks very old fashioned in comparison to a round water tower.