When I was building my new engine shed area (which has replaced the old cattle market), I wanted to include a water crane. In fact that was target no.1 for the Llanfair show, but I couldn't find anything suitable on any of the stalls. I was telling a certain trader and esteemed member of this forum about this (and he knows who he is), when he reached under his stall and pulled out the very thing I was after and which he had bought for the princely sum of 3 quid! Swine!!!! 
Anyhoo, last weekend I went to a model railway exhibition in Redditch and on a OO S&D layout I saw a model of a water crane that I thought would be just the job and a little unusual. Basically, pretty much the whole thing had been encased in a wooden structure in much the same way that an outside tap is protected from the frost.
The basic structure is just a solid piece of wood with the planking scored into it. The roof is a piece of plasticard and the base of engineering bricks was made by modifying a brick plinth recently kindly donated by the people of Ruritania, so probably from a Pola or Piko kit? The "bag" is a flexible drinking straw stowed in a wire loop. The controlling valve wheel came out of the spares box. The whole lot was painted in masonry paints before being "planted" on a bed of black gutter adhesive/sealant.
Anyhoo, last weekend I went to a model railway exhibition in Redditch and on a OO S&D layout I saw a model of a water crane that I thought would be just the job and a little unusual. Basically, pretty much the whole thing had been encased in a wooden structure in much the same way that an outside tap is protected from the frost.
The basic structure is just a solid piece of wood with the planking scored into it. The roof is a piece of plasticard and the base of engineering bricks was made by modifying a brick plinth recently kindly donated by the people of Ruritania, so probably from a Pola or Piko kit? The "bag" is a flexible drinking straw stowed in a wire loop. The controlling valve wheel came out of the spares box. The whole lot was painted in masonry paints before being "planted" on a bed of black gutter adhesive/sealant.
