Cliddesden Water Tower

2cm square and 3.5cm tall. These smaller buildings can be created reasonably quickly. About three evenings work from artwork design to completed build.

This corner view in black and white is all that is shown in 'the book'. Therefore, the colour scheme is guess work with the tank colour being deduced from the very light grey shade in 'the book' and the text, which described the tank as reconditioned second hand. So, a fresh coat of LSWR cream seemed appropriate. The vertical brown line is the water gauge and the lighter lines panel rivets. Inside the tank the water level is made from a water graphic with shiny plastic overlay.

Behind is the wind pump (to be painted) and in the far distance are the four terraced cottages.

Apart from a couple of huts, for which we have no information whatsoever so are using plastic kits for now, only the Station Master's house remains to design and build to complete the buildings for the layout.

Postscript

This information came to light after the model was made.

Remarkably the brick tower still exists today!
Here it is glimpsed through the trees, courtesy of Google Street View.



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And here is a video relating the site today with scenes in the Oh Mr. Porter film.

David