Is it me....or do old pics taken on film just look more interesting than todays digital stuff?
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| Posted by Yenk27 on May 16, 2012 | |
Chris, I agree.
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| Posted by FSWood on May 16, 2012 | |
Yea, Western Maryland Chessie! Wonder if HO modelers ever do the wire radio antenna on cab roof, there are parts for other styles of antenna.
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In answer to the question about the wire radio antennas. I have done several using small craft beads for the base with the wire part made from small size sewing needles heated and pushed into the plastic shell point first. After insertion cut the needle to length and file the top flat and slide a bead down the needle into a very small amount of glue at the base if the antenna. The last thing to do is to cut off the point of the needle with end nippers inside the shell.
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| Posted by FSWood on May 19, 2012 | |
Ah, thank you Bill. Might see if a piece of music wire would work as well.
Brings to mind photos in an old coffee table book by Don Ball Jr. which has KCS E and/or F units, I forget, which had PRR style trainphone 'handrail' antennas on roof and long whip antennas in front of number boards; appeared to be attached to brackets just above and just below lines even with top and bottom of numberboard. Would wager that a lot of railfans and modelers would never expect that to have been done, I sure was one of them.
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I saw one of these things on the B&O owned SIRT North Shore Line as a kid, in WM black and gold paint. For years I thought it was a GP20 (I only got a broadside view of it), until I learned that WM never had any GP20s, and research led me to these WM shop chop nosed geeps.
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