Yes @Saul if you have not checked out some of the stunning work that @TDahl has done on the Viking spacecraft you are in for a treat. Given what I’ve seen of your tank thread I think you will appreciate it.
I use Eneroth Auto Weld, running in the background. It’s been installed so long, silently doing its awesome job that I have forgotten one could ever have problems with the follow me tool. I weld manually for pathways and in some rare instance to make curves deform in a controlled way with the scale tool, as in when making onion dome shapes.