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The second to last pic shows how by leaving a wider space between the boards you can get more of an orange crate look.
The last pic is of the various leftover pieces that I have decided to use to make a washing tub that they would fill with a liquid to remove oil and crude from aircraft parts.The wooden barrel comes from a craft store and the feet are leftover parts from an old woodstove kit.Should be fun!

I added individual boards around the tub and now I will fit some metal hoops to the exterior.I have been thinking though ,that maybe a cleaning liquid may not have been kept in wooden containers.Oh well I can always change my mind and use it for water or line it with metal I guess.

Just the faucet,metal bands and weathering yet to do .The distorted pics are due to the scanner.
The pics are pretty much self-explanetory .The colors are Reid & Sons french blue and the metal top is silver with black gesso added.The handles,feet and faucet all come from my modeling junk drawer.
Never,ever throw anything out!
I think that I will place this washtub outside of the engine shop exterior doors for obvious reasons.
Next ,while I am in a tanks & tubs kind of mood ,I think I will make a nice oil type tank out of an old lighter fluid can ,that seems about the right size!
Cheers! John.

This project is so much fun to watch. Thanks for sharing. The detail is always amazing, right down to C clamps holding the wings together.

Hi! you are the first one to say you noticed the C clamps.I did that for fun although I don't think it would be good practice in real life.

Old tin can tank.....Thank god not everything today is made with plastic.These tin cans usually hold oil or lighter fluid.I simply broke off the spout and replaced the whole end piece with a fitted piece of thin plywood.I then lightly sanded it to give the brown gesso a good grip and painted it lightly with my usual silver /black gesso mix.I will make a metal stand something like I did for the woodstove.
As I was making this, I thought that it would make a great rooftop water supply for the WC.Then I remembered that I live in the GWN so I will have to bring it in out of the cold and put it on the top of the rafters in the woodshop.I will devise some kind of hand water pump to supply the tank and then run some plumbing to the sink and toilet in the WC which is heated by the woodstove in the woodshop.I have a slightly larger lighter fluid can which I will use for oil or some other liquid outside the wall of the engine shop.And that should be it for the tanks and tubs for now as I got to get back to finishing the engine shop furniture.

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Now here is something really simple that is easy to do in any scale.Get a scale size dowel,cut it to length and drill or grind out the center.I used a craft store piece that I had in the junk drawer.
Now we will sheath it much like we did with the washtub.

The shovel is a dollhouse part that I broke in two.The handle part will stick into the coal bin and the shovel part will be left on top of the coal pail thus getting two parts for the price of one....

After sheathing the outside of the hollowed out dowel with vertical stir stiks,I sanded it round again and then ground down the top to a thinner edge.There is no need to grind it all the way to the bottom.You can now shape a false bottom out of thin plywood, glue some kitty litter to it and paint with acrylics.

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The coal bucket is finished.I painted it the usual way except this time I used yellow ochre for the finish color.The metal bands are actually made from small wood strips.Just paint on the bare wood and leave it rough to give it a corroded metal look.The broken shovel idea came from Chesters woodstove pic.

Odds and ends.
The shape on the left is easily made from a dowel.You can carve it by hand or put the dowel in a drill and turn it against sandpaper to the proper shape.
The shape on the right is a bought craftstore piece which can be used as is or if you look closely you could make at least 3 different types of vessels from it just by cutting it at the proper places to get the shape you want.For small scales look through the shipmodelers stuff for these same shapes.With a little imagination you will begin to see scale stuff everywhere.Whatever scale you are working in remember lots of stuff comes in all sizes in real life