Thanks Hugh.
The Fuel Tanker, continued ...............
The pumphouse area is now more or less complete, although a few details will be added once the rear wall is in place, and the unit ready to be placed on the display base. Some of the detail painting is a bit rough, due to my stiff hands, but with the rear walls in place and the open doors, it should pass inspection at normal viewing distances and angles once on the display base.
The hose reels and hose materials from the Tamiya kit have been used, with scratch-built support brackets and axles, although the Tamiya method of making up the hoses is, I feel, a little over complicated. Copper wire has to be fed into the vinyl tube, presumably to allow the hose to be posed as required, and prevent the vinyl tubing from collapsing - ordinary sheathed electrical wire would have done the job just as well, and much easier, as threading the copper wire was awkward and time consuming, although the method does allow for the provided fuel filler nozzles to be fitted into the end of the hoses.
As shown in the photos, the left hand reel has the Tamiya hose and nozzle in place, and the nozzle will be painted and set inside the pumphouse once the rear wall sections are in place.
As the hose on the right hand reel will be run-out to the aircraft, this will be attached when the unit is ready to be placed in the diorama, and I'll probably use either sheathed thin wire of a suitable gauge, or perhaps the hose from the Airfix Ground Crew kit.
The tank halves were then joined and, due to some slight warping on the left side of the upper section, CA and a fair amount of pressure was needed to close the joint. The resulting "overflow" of CA has yet to be cleaned-up.
Next step is to make and fit the sections of the rear wall, and the bi-fold doors, and I hope to get this done over the next couple of days.