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Nice!Are those arms 3D printed? If yes, you could print them in transparent green (or clear) resin, then paint just the arm brown, leaving the insulators transparent for very realistic look. Back few years when 3D printing was new, we had someone do that, and it looked very good.
@rodsup9000 . It was just the crossarms. Artwork was drawn by @Mark W . Rodney gave me a set of the crossarms to try, and once painted like you said, they looked great on the round toothpicks I used for poles. Problem was they were incredibly brittle. Breath on 'em wrong and they broke. Well, not really, but brush against them even lightly in normal layout maintenance and, yeah, then.My roundtuit is drawing my own version and printing them in one of the newer resins that are a little more robust.
tried them and they were too brittle.
I am impressed with this model. I can't think of anywhere in the Great Southland where we have anything like this so I am watching with interest. To get close and find one part is too short and the other too tall would be a real PITA. But it seems to be all in hand to rectify. Will look forward to seeing this completed.
Working on a more realistic coal silo for the Green Goblin mine. I'm using elastic thread, sort of like clear vinyl, for the seams. I was able to cut evenly spaced kerfs using 1x2 Legos as stops, but I wish the Chopper table was a lot longer. Still have to figure out a way to get the bands on the front of the silo as evenly spaced as they are on the back. Then dullcoat to glue them in place and hope the paint will stick.