Detailed Description of Model
These Fn3 models of wooden telephone poles with light fixtures appear in several photographs of the Waipahu Engine House in Waipahu, Oahu (Hawaii). Prototype light fixtures were surely meant to make evening working conditions safer for engine house employees.
Identification of the Scratch built Features
Each wooden dowel was cut to length with a saw (extra length was provided for to set each pole deep into the pink foam baseboard
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All dowels were
scraped with a miniature saw to impart grain to each pole.
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Each dowel was
stained and let to dry
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Built cross
pieces of strip bass wood –
o
first cutting and
o
then staining and
then
o
attached with hot
glue gun
o
used X-Acto® X3254 Craft
knife - Black to cut a flat spot for better adhesion
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Built two diagonal
supports for each cross piece by cutting strip basswood
o
staining and
o
installed with
hot glue using hot glue gun
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First I cut off a
piece of Miniatur Ivy;
o
then I stretched the
ivy; and
o
then I glued ivy on
to each pole using Elmer’s White
Glue
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Each Loco-Boose Hobbies light fixture was
shortened by cutting the tube with an IVY
Classic 19050 tube cutter and
o
then bent each
tube section straight and
o
then weathered by
dipping each lamp into Bragdon Enterprises
rust weathering powder
o
then spraying each
lamp with Testor’s Dullcote
o
used paper towel
to wipe off excess powder from lamps
o
allowed to dry
·
I attached weathered
lamps using a hot glue gun and glue sticks.
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To simulate four
insulators, plastic beads were attached to each of most poles.
o
Each plastic bead
was sanded on one end by placing the sandpaper on a flat surface and rubbing
the bead back and forth on said sandpaper
o
I then coated each
bead with Testor’s Dullcote to
remove sheen
o
then let to dry
and
o
then attached to
cross arms with superglue
· Some green paint
is painted at the base of each dowel to simulate mold growing on the telephone pole
in this somewhat tropical climate of the prototype. Final touch was to copy a sign off of the internet, trim it to size and adhere it with some white glue to a bit of styrene that was painted with a silver marker to emulate steel and then weathered with some powdered rust pastel chalk and the affixed to the pole with a hot glue gun.
List of All Commercial Components Appearing on Model
1. Preiser 47084 Pigeon 1:25 scale
2.
Mininatur 936-325 English Ivy O scale
3.
Loco-Boose Hobbies #DBL 10 Depot Lamps
w/o light bulbs G Scale
Materials Used in Building
the Model
Manufacturer Unknown Dowels, wooden
2.
Manufacturer
Unknown Strip
bass wood
3.
X-Acto® X3254 Craft knife -
Black
4.
X-Acto® No. 11 blades
5.
Testors 1260 Dullcote Clear Flat Lacquer
Overcoat
6.
Helping Hand Aluminum Oxide Sandpaper
7.
Bragdon Enterprises Weather
System Medium Rust
8.
Custom made stain
9.
Manufacturer
Unknown Beads,
green
10. Manufacturer Unknown WT-260 Glue
gun
11. Manufacturer Unknown Glue
Sticks
12. Manufacturer Unknown Paper towels
13. Elmer’s White Glue
14. Bob Smith
Industries Maxi-Cure (CAA)
15.
Manufacturer
Unknown Miniature saw
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