AC&Y - Ohio's Road of Service

[SAH]

I've been wanting to upgrade the valence lighting for some time now.  I've been using the same point source bulbs strung together for the last 20 years.  The LED light strips of today are light years of where the commercial offerings were then.  I also ditched the double thickness cardboard reflector covered for 4mm white coroplast sheet.  Should have done so years ago.  I'll add a second strip to bring the intensity up some but I already like the even light levels.
 

[SAH]

I added highway crossing signals to protect OH Rt 301 on the Spencer FreeMoN module this week.



Here's a closeup.  It's a paper/styrene combo construct.  Making the flasher hood was a shortfall of a prior attempt some 20 years ago.  Learning to use paper as a building material has been a real advantage for my modelbuilding efforts.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Whoa.

How Chandwellian!

[Lemosteam]

Learning to use paper as a building material has been a real advantage for my modelbuilding efforts.

Quite interested. Please 'splain?

What is paper on the signal?

[SAH]

Plastic parts in the photo:  Flasher "lens", cross arm to hold the targets, and, not shown in this photo, the pole and base.


Here's the target production facility.  I don't know about Chandwellian.  Maybe Blacksmithian.


The artwork sheet is spay bombed with matte finish, both sides, which plasticizes the paper.  The lens hood is one of the disks cut in half, rolled with the small diameter brass tube, then attached to the end of a styrene rod.  Cut the rod behind the hood.  A bit fiddly but not difficult.  I'll photo doc one if the description is not clear.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

In case anyone isn't familiar with my Chandwell reference: https://www.youtube.com/c/chandwell

[SAH]

I stumbled upon the Chandwell site a few years back.  Such creativity, not to mention fine modelbuilding. 

I've started the expansion to the General Tire facility this week.  I'm actually building the original part of the plant, so prototypically speaking it's not the expansion.  I've already built the expansion, but hey, the existing model is built as a mirror of the prototype, so anything goes right.   

The build will mostly be paper.  Perhaps a separate thread is in order?  The brown block against the backdrop is the target of the build.