Nice one Joe! The figure does look like he's in scale for the RH & D doesn't he?
Took these two pics in 'Lamp' mode on my camera - it manages to focus better but takes tiny pictures for some reason.
Knocked up some wooden blanks for the buildings to see if they look OK for scale:
I tried cross bracing on the truss bridge but anything thicker than a human hair looked out of scale ( ) so I decided against it. Do you like the way the raised edges caused by my knife cutting the styrene make it look like girders?
No, it wasn't planned, it was pure luck! _________________ OK, so now what do I do?
Tom,
Maybe magnet wire would do the job for cross-bracing. I'm almost sure that you have an old motor lying around in your "spares boxes"...
Glue it to the styrene with super glue. Install all wire at the top first and let the glue harden thoroughly. Then stretch it and glue down the lower ends. Means a lot fiddling and patience but at our age this shouldn't be a problem
Finishing touches would be to paint the wire black and rust. If it looks out of scale: don't bother; early railroads had little money and also took what they could find to build their right of way (and most of them built stronger than required, nonetheless). _________________ Modular Railroading in N-scale
I tried stretched sprue but couldn't get it all to be the same thickness Pol.
I thought of that Erhard, I tried using Lagartun extra fine wire but found that I there's no suitable anchor point for the lower end and it just looked wrong stuck to the side of the girder.
Please keep up the suggestions, though! _________________ OK, so now what do I do?
I have a drill thats .3 of a mill dia would that be small enough ? _________________ Experience is something you don' t get until just after you need it .
I have a drill thats .3 of a mill dia would that be small enough ?
Me too Teleman with the stretched sprue Tom hold one end of the plastic in a vice and heat then move away from the vice quickly should give you loads of the same thickness sprue i use the scrap frames that come with plastic kits.
Then drill a tiny hole thread the plastic through over length glue one end stretch it dab with superglue the other end let it dry and trim flush with a new scalpel blade should be taught and flush now with the frame of the bridge. _________________
I've made some buildings (which still need work) and added a bit of greenery. It now seems to have moved from Arizona into the Appellations!
The mine building and the water tower have come out sort-of OK but I think 'they' were nearly right Pol, scratch building in Z is very difficult sometimes.
How about a quick (unedited) movie....
Just got to decide what to do with the other 70% of the layout... _________________ OK, so now what do I do?
Location: Camborne, Home of the Steam Locomotive in 1801
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject:
That's amazing! I keep thinking it's bigger than it is! _________________ Life is like a box of chocolates, so scoff it all while you can... Any more trouble from you, and it's a short sharp visit from the smack fairy!
Very well done, Tom! Now only the wagons and the loco look so bright and shiny (shivers), way tooo clean <dg&r>! _________________ Modular Railroading in N-scale
Very well done, Tom! Now only the wagons and the loco look so bright and shiny (shivers), way tooo clean <dg&r>!
Spot on, Erhard. That's the final job when I'm happy with the rest of the layout (just in case I get fed up with the layout and end up trying to sell the train!).
A question for you, please:
Any idea what the distance between the telegraph poles at the side of a US railroad is? A rough guess would be good enough. I think they would just add that final detail (and I've got some very, very thin wire which might well look good between the poles.) _________________ OK, so now what do I do?
Tom,
In the late 1800's, the poles were set up at a distance of about 50 feet. I usually use a 40' boxcar to mjeasure the poles' location in order to suggest distance when photographed (and most of my modules are built with taking pictures in mind).
Here's a link to site about utility and railroad poles:
Click me
Scroll down a fair bit to read about the railroad poles.
I've just measured the ones I have and they are just over 2mm across which would scale up fine if I wanted the full, beefy, many wired poles but I think the thinner, single wire would be more fitting. I've got loads of 1mm brass rod which scales up to a nice size, so I'm going with that.
Thinking about it, though... the toothpicks would be a perfect size for a Fir tree trunk... hmmmm... might look good on the top left hand corner and as a load on the flatbed wagon.... _________________ OK, so now what do I do?
Well, I did the poles and the wire... the wire is so fine, you can hardly see it
I thought a sepia shot might look in keeping - pity about the rather large tweezers. And the lozenge shape between the track is going to be where the dirt road crosses the line.
(I really MUST put my glasses on before taking photos )
>> the toothpicks would be a perfect size for a Fir tree trunk...
...and the rough side of a pot sponge (those "Scotchbrite" thingies) make the twigs and the needles if torn apart a bit...
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) so I decided against it. Do you like the way the raised edges caused by my knife cutting the styrene make it look like girders? 
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