How I made a village water fountain pump

[Tankbuilder]

How I made a village water fountain pump

Shalom.

I was in my parts bin looking for something when I saw one of my broken Tamiya lamposts. I decided to use it to build myself a village water fountain pump.

I cut down the broken lampost to just above the lower section and then cut off thrdecorative middle section. I glued that middle section to the lower sectin. Next I drilled a hole in the lower section to put in a spout. I used the spout from an Academy German fuel drum crank. I put the sout on backwards to how it was on the Academy piece so that there would be a wide section at the very end of the spout where water would come out.

I still have a bit of work to do on this, such as adding a vertical crank handle to the top flat portion of this water fountain pump.

Here's an image of the pump, the Academy fuel drum pump and a Tamiya lampost it was made from.

Cheers

 

[Iron Mike]

B)

 

[Tankbuilder]

Shalom.

Some more extra parts from the scrap bin equals some more progress. It's almost ready for paint now.

The base is a 2mm thick piece of Evergreen styrene. The rough texture is simply an application of liquid cement that was then stippled with a very stiff white bristle hobby paint brush bought a long time ago just for stippling styrene. I use the same technique to enhance the cast texture on tank cast hulls or turrets. The grate is a piece of nylon for rug hooking or similar crafts.

The frame around the grate is made from a piece of Evergreen styrene strip.

The hook under the water spout is something from an old Russian cannon model I bought for another project. The cannons are going to become fancy iron posts.

The handle on top of the water fountain pump was removed from a 1/35 scale Italeri Bren Gun.

The figure for scale purposes used to be a Tamiya Vietnam Era Mortar Man.

I wonder, should I leave the base as concrete or should I scribe it to resemble stones?

Thanks for looking and/or commenting.

Cheers

 

[jknaus]

Very cool and imaginative. Never would have through of the rug hooking base for a grate, but it works very well. Excellent stuff
James

 

[Tankbuilder]

Very cool and imaginative. Never would have through of the rug hooking base for a grate, but it works very well. Excellent stuff
James

Shalom.

Thank you James.

The hug hooking canvas is also sold as embroidery canvas even though it's nylon. It comes in many different size weaves and colours. It's great stuff for grates or grills. It's also fairly inexpensive. Sometimes a dollar store will have it if they have a good craft section. Then it's about $1.00 per square foot piece.

Cheers

 

[moon puppy]

Great work, way to exercise that imagination. :thumbup