all of them a silver color. The painted walkway is shown as it
would be arranged when the tankage is completed, in (18).
The final touch was to add to the center tank an Associated
Oil Company logo (the “Flying A”) from Microscale set 87-874.
Once the tank decoration was done, I gave the tanks an over-
coat of flat finish so I could lightly weather them. One could
regard these as freshly painted tanks, but I decided it was a
little more likely that they had been in service awhile since
their last paint job. I used washes of acrylic paint, mixing gray,
brown, and black to suit, to lightly dirty and streak them, then
added a final coat of flat finish to take care of any glossiness
from the acrylics.
One comment: In most bulk oil depots I have seen, patches
or streaks of rust are usually absent (Figure 3 shows an
MRH-Mar 2013
