I'm sorry, but I don't understand.........

.........what exactly you are asking. That's probably why you have received any reply.  

Peter

Boxes

Can't help with your questions Chainsaw, on the other hand I have boxes left over from moving too. Looking through them for a structure kit I want to do I found a missing rail cleaning pad. A logical place to put it when packing, but not when it came time to unpacking it.

Jack

RE: Atlas Water Tower

Just going from memory, were they wooden shingles ?

Espee over Donner

ATLAS # 703 water tower roof?

It has flat panels with divider battens so probably some kind of sheet metal? It's said to be a Pennsy tower so maybe some Pennys fans know the answer? .......DaveB

Standing Seam

Not being familiar with the kit, but from the Pennsy RR locale, and hearing the last comments about 'battens', I would hazard a guess that it might be a standing seam roof. Very watertight as all the fastenings are below the roof, slick surface to allow snow/ice/water to slide off easily and generally a long lasting roof type.

FWIW....Bob C.

A possible answer...

Chainsaw was heard to say: "I am still waiting for an answer as to what the "cladding" material would have been used on the roof of a ATLAS # 703  water tower.  I am painting the body of the tank similar to the one at Osier. That tower has a shingle roof, however the ATLAS tower has a roof of ??? unknown (to me at least) material. On the #703 would the roof have been tar-paper, iron, or some other?"

As far as Atlas is concerned, the cladding was never meant to be anything more than their ambiguous design indicates. A rivet-counter design it is not. That said, there are many things that can be done to refinish the roof because there were many different materials used to roof such structures. A metal standing seam roof could be of tin or copper, thus a rusty dull silver or a blackish green finish. It could be tarpaper - smooth toilet paper or facial tissue laid down with grimy black paint. Or it could be wood shingles. You have three options for the shingles: print them off the internet / computer program, buy scale shingles, or make them yourself from paper. If you make them yourself, I would suggest paper from an artist's sketch pad rather than computer paper as the texture of the former looks better than the smoothness of the latter.

Another possibility that comes to mind, well suited for the masochists ... erm... I mean scratch builders amongst us would be to replace the stock roof with one made from styrene. You could either make a more realistic standing seam roof, a totally smooth roof for tar-papering, or make one out for corrugated styrene for a truly different look.

The possibilities are endless!