Just the faucet,metal bands and weathering yet to do .The distorted pics are due to the scanner.
The pics are pretty much self-explanetory .The colors are Reid & Sons french blue and the metal top is silver with black gesso added.The handles,feet and faucet all come from my modeling junk drawer.
Never,ever throw anything out!
I think that I will place this washtub outside of the engine shop exterior doors for obvious reasons.
Next ,while I am in a tanks & tubs kind of mood ,I think I will make a nice oil type tank out of an old lighter fluid can ,that seems about the right size!
Cheers! John.

Old tin can tank.....Thank god not everything today is made with plastic.These tin cans usually hold oil or lighter fluid.I simply broke off the spout and replaced the whole end piece with a fitted piece of thin plywood.I then lightly sanded it to give the brown gesso a good grip and painted it lightly with my usual silver /black gesso mix.I will make a metal stand something like I did for the woodstove.
As I was making this, I thought that it would make a great rooftop water supply for the WC.Then I remembered that I live in the GWN so I will have to bring it in out of the cold and put it on the top of the rafters in the woodshop.I will devise some kind of hand water pump to supply the tank and then run some plumbing to the sink and toilet in the WC which is heated by the woodstove in the woodshop.I have a slightly larger lighter fluid can which I will use for oil or some other liquid outside the wall of the engine shop.And that should be it for the tanks and tubs for now as I got to get back to finishing the engine shop furniture.

One never stop being impressed by the quality of your work John....

Now here is something really simple that is easy to do in any scale.Get a scale size dowel,cut it to length and drill or grind out the center.I used a craft store piece that I had in the junk drawer.
Now we will sheath it much like we did with the washtub.

The shovel is a dollhouse part that I broke in two.The handle part will stick into the coal bin and the shovel part will be left on top of the coal pail thus getting two parts for the price of one....

After sheathing the outside of the hollowed out dowel with vertical stir stiks,I sanded it round again and then ground down the top to a thinner edge.There is no need to grind it all the way to the bottom.You can now shape a false bottom out of thin plywood, glue some kitty litter to it and paint with acrylics.

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The coal bucket is finished.I painted it the usual way except this time I used yellow ochre for the finish color.The metal bands are actually made from small wood strips.Just paint on the bare wood and leave it rough to give it a corroded metal look.The broken shovel idea came from Chesters woodstove pic.

Odds and ends.
The shape on the left is easily made from a dowel.You can carve it by hand or put the dowel in a drill and turn it against sandpaper to the proper shape.
The shape on the right is a bought craftstore piece which can be used as is or if you look closely you could make at least 3 different types of vessels from it just by cutting it at the proper places to get the shape you want.For small scales look through the shipmodelers stuff for these same shapes.With a little imagination you will begin to see scale stuff everywhere.Whatever scale you are working in remember lots of stuff comes in all sizes in real life

From another thread on the Model Airways kits:

Thanks Jim,your comments are much appreciated.I have written on this before but I understand that this thread is getting a little long to search through.
This Model Airways(Model Expo) Jenny kit is their best so far.I have no problem recommending it to anyone who has the patience to build it ,which can't be said for their other offerings.I would start with the Jenny and only tackle the other kits after gaining some experience with this type of kit.The little bit of extra money that is required to buy it is well worth it ,rather than spending a lot of time and money try to correct the others.
So far I have build the Jenny,Albatros and the Nieuport.I have the Camel on order but I can't recommend it before I see it ,but I would be careful as it looks like it could be a step backwards after the Jenny.I also have the Wright Flyer waiting to be built and after looking in the box I would caushiously recommend it.
The main problem with the earlier kits are the metal fittings which are made from a very soft and too flexible material.Example: the undercarriage cannot support the weight of the airplane over time.A lot of the fittings are poorly cast and pitted.I did a lot of scratchbuilding.
I dont want to be too hard on their products as I understand it is a difficult market.People,it seems, would rather pay less for an inferior product than pay more for quality .You get what you pay for really applies here.Bottom line ,buy the Jenny you won't be disappointed.
Plans and instructions are generally pretty good overall but here again the Jenny kit comes out of top.
Don't get me wrong the Albatros and Nieuport are buildable but are better left to the more experienced builder as a lot of mods and scratchbuilding is required to do a nice job.After building the Jenny you will know what a good kit is and by then you will be a "more experienced builder.

This is one of the storage shelves in the engine room.It is only visible from across the room and is partially hidden behind a door.It is not finished yet as I still have to put on the rear crossbraces and stock the shelves a little more.
The oil cans are the eraser ends off ordinary pencils ,I have yet to find suitable paper labels.These would also make great barrells for the smaller scales.
Speaking of barrells the 2 you see on the bottom shelf are craft store pieces.Normally I would sand off the ridges and replace them with steel bands(painted wood strips)The other wooden parts are scratch and the metal parts are left overs from other kits.Those are Jenny exhaust collectors on top of the big box that were for the JN-D version. The Canuck only had the short straight stacks.The rusty junk is gizmology.

Yes this is 1:1 Scale (as big as it gets)
From the N.Z. Aviation Heritage Center.

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