nice

That looks nice!  Do you have any more build photos? 

What era and commodities would be hauled in such a small tank?

Latest scratchbuilt tank car 3000 gal

Typical Bobby Pitts. Fantastic. Thanks for showing.

Wayne

Fine modeling

Do you scale your model off the photos?

Seems I remember those were used for anti-knock compound. DuPont and Ethyl had them IIRC.

Keep posting as you progress.

Bob

Omaha

Thanks a lot guys! Yes I have

Thanks a lot guys! Yes I have more build photos. I scaled the car off photos and it's a Tetraethyl car. When the hand writing was on the wall, ETHYL moved their cars to Canada, removed the emblem, and changed the  EABX to ECCX. 

Thanks,

Underside

Lots of brake gear! 

I added another photo showing

I added another photo showing the progress on this car.

Thanks.

Very Impressive Work!

Bobby:

That is some wonderful work.  Can you give some details on the components, (commercial, built from scratch, 3D printed)?  I've been 3D printing a similar car and using Tichy components, and there are a lot of similarities between these cars and the car I am doing.  

Regards,

Jerry

Tank car build parts.

Thank you Jerry. I used a shortened Athearn 40' tank car frame, 1/32 brass angle to frame for strength, OMI roof walk cut to fit, Tichy 40' walk for the platform floor, Evergreen styrene tube for the bonnet, junk box parts for the brake gear, styrene angles for the platform stanchions and frame ends, and a 3/4" styrene tube with a .015 styrene wrap for the correct diameter. No 3 D printing at all! I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Regards,

Impressive work!

Very clean build with loads of details. Really thanks for posting this.

Thank you so much! It's my

Thank you so much! It's my pleasure to post!

Regards,

Always amazing.

Bobby I’ve said it before but your brass skills are second to none.  I never tire of your projects.  

Thank you! I enjoy your work

Thank you! I enjoy your work too!

Regards 

Wow!

Very nice. 

Thank you Greg! Regards ,

Thank you Greg!

Regards ,

Wonderful looking project

Thanks for the photos.

So so cool there Bobby always a nice addition

Thanks for the basic build info 

What did you use for the tank ends 

Thank you both, Mike and

Thank you both, Mike and Vince!

Vince, they came off an old Mantua Heavy tank car I've had for years! Never throw anything away, you might need it years later, yes, I did!

Regards,

Existing Parts rather than 3D Printing

Bobby always finds a way to kit bash his cars utilizing existing parts rather than having to resort to 3D printing new ones 

Thank you!

Thank you! It's not a kit bash, it's a scratchbuild!

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Wow

A scratch built car that looks like that at the end. It both fascinates and challenges the average modeler to do better (represented in this case by me).

Thank you!   Regards 

Thank you!

Regards