You need to distinguish between two cases:
- Tank farm where whole trains of railcars come to deliver or fill up
- A “consumer” tank where a single rail car or tanker truck comes to fill up the tank
Modelling a tank farm is a huge diorama on its own. The “small” tank you have built could be diesel or gasoline for the ports own vehicles. The type XXIII had something like 18 tons of diesel so maybe your tank wouldn’t be enough to fill one boat.
It could be lubrication oil though …
This is an aerial view of the tank farm in my little home town (25000 inhabitants, twon + surrounding countryside) back in the mid 70’ies
I was thinking the same thing along those lines. I was thinking that they would probably just use a pump to off load the rail cars straight to the boats. But I am not sure the tank farm is really something I am into building at this point. Although I do have a extra 5 gal bucket laying around that might make for a large tank haha. Joking! My plan at this point is to get the larger models roughly built then I can make a better plan on how big the whole thing needs to be. if I start laying things out and I don’t think they fit well there out! Or if it looks like it needs something to fill a void I will might use or build something to suit. My main focus I want to be on the dock and loading of the boats - sub. So the idea of the rail cars was I just figured that would have been something they might have actually used.
Your storage tank is very well done and has a lot of nice features. I wouldn’t hide it. I especially like that pump.
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I also have had this idea for a while that I have been wanting for a place to try it out. My idea was to have a smaller boat or mini sub on the dock and I bought these miniart welder/cutting figures to use. I want to install a bright nano LED-fiber optics on the end of the torch or welder so they look like they are actually cutting or welding on the boat or sub. I really think if it works it will be something really cool. I also think it might be better to use fiber optics and a flashing led
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Thanks, I am very new to scratch building and I was very hesitant to try it. But the more I try it the easier it gets. The hardest part is just having all the different size plastic stock to build what you need. Last year I broke down and bought some large lots of plastic stock in all the sizes I could find from China so now it’s much easier. I like to try it because I learn more each time I build something. This time I used alot of aluminum and photo etch parts and learned how careful you need to be because the glue will show up alot once you prime it. I really don’t think I can get that out very easy so next time I will be more careful with the super glue.
Another great thing about scratch building if you buy the large bulk lots of plastic stock from China is it’s really cheap! If you buy it in your local shop it’s cheap but nothing like buying in bulk over seas.
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Not sure you would have enough material at the end equipment but you would on the surface they are cutting/welding. Either way, I think that would be cool.
If you have excess CA at a part seam, before priming, you can carefully scrape the dried CA away with the tip and edge of a #11 blade.
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That’s what I was thinking. You can buy .25mm fiber optics and I had 2 thoughts. I could try to use that as the torch hose or my other idea was to install it on the inside of the boat or mini sub sticking out to the torch/welder.
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