Good Morning Everyone,
I am getting ready to start a few new projects that I will put out as individual topics in the near future, For now, here are some pictures of a past project. This is a cut-away model of a petroleum storage tank that has an internal floating roof used to store gasoline.
Al
an Graziano
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That is one excellent model, Al. 
All I've got this week are a couple of Diecast Direct forklift trucks that I've tarted up . . .
A 3 mm yellow LED with a 330 Ω resistor for ballast and two proto white surface mounted LEDs with 1 kΩ resistors.
The axles are glued and the bottoms of the tires are ground flat to make them sit nicely.
A scratch built LPG tank and some splattered mud.
There is a two function decoder coming - to run the headlights and the beacon.
Not a bad result from a $20 truck - if I do say so myself. 
The other one ended up with a second hand Loksound decoder . . .
That diorama is not quite finished . . .
Cheers
Alan,
Nice cutaway!
Dave
Nice work on the fuel tank and forklifts. Love the sound to it. Been way to busy on home projects to work on the layout. Last month I had made a tree out of wire and latex rubber. It was like 8 inches tall so I wanted a to try a taller one. This new tree is 13 inches tall. I did use floral tape on the trunk and larger limbs to hide the wire, still need to paint and add leaves. When done should look like a Ash tree. Nick T.
Still working on this but almost done...
Nice shots. So I am intrigued by the internal floating roof. It begs the question why? What does that function do? I remember the old telescopic tanks in Elizabeth by the turnpike and others during the early 1970's
Mark,
The internal floating roof is used for vapor conservation when storing gasoline. The aluminum internal roof floats on the product as the level rises and lowers as the tank is filled and emptied. This type of roof has been around since the late 1960s.
Alan Graziano
I have never posted any of my structure projects, but thought I would post this photo of a remake of K-Line Bank building I finished this weekend, inspired by Matt Bushong's article in the June/July issue of O Gauge Railroading.
CKONO:
Beautiful work!
Joe
I have just completed a tanker car loading platform. Not seen are gate valves for the three loading pipes plus downspouts that the customer will place once he lines up his tanker cars. The platform is wide enough for one track.
Joe
In fact, the LEDs are yellow! 
jpv in France
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