Hello,
Does anyone heard of a brand making green translucent plastic insulators for telephone poles in HO scale?
Anticipated thanks for your help.
Regards,
Andre INGELS
Brussels, Belgium (The Beer Country [:I])
This Choo-choo (Eurostar) will take you from Brussels to London in 2:20 hours.
Top speed is about 400km/h.
Rix makes them:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/628-35
But these are the crossarms only, you have to buy the poles seperately.
You could also use some gloss green paint on regular crossarms.
Nick
I’ve heard that green “sparkle” paint works well…
[#ditto] on Brunton’s comment.
I saw this on DIY’s “Work-In on the RailRoad” series. You can get this “sparkly” paint at your local wally world in the craft dept.
Yeah, but Andre lives in Belgium. No Wal-Marts there, I suspect. This is a little-kid arts and crafts product, so it’s probably available at craft stores and maybe toy stores as well.
Testors “jade green” works well. Fred
[#oops]. My eye caught beer country … I’ve been away from my origins too long. I’m orignally from Germany and should have known better. Some of the best beer comes from Europe [;)]
Tom (now in Texas)
What Rix makes, and they are really great, are the cross arms with insulators cast in and the entire piece is cast in translucent green plastic. You then paint the “wood” parts leaving the insulators unpainted and looking like the coke bottle green glass that some (not all) insulators were. (Some are also a dark brown ceramic)
If it is done right the Rix cross arm/insulator is extremely effective. I first learned of them in a clinic by the late John Proebsting an excellent Soo Line modeler.
Dave Nelson
Couldn’t you use that stained glass window paint that craft stores sell to make the fake stained glass windows with? Seems to me that would have that elusive translucent character that you’re after.
(See, look at those fancy words! I told you I is highly edumacated!)
While visiting a local craft supply store I wandered down the beadwork aisle. One thing I saw was a bagful of green beads, about 1mm diameter, that look like a good possibility for pole line insulators. I would imagine that similar items should be found in craft stores just about everywhere.
Good luck with your pole line. I’m still way short of putting up my catenary, which will also need insulators.
Chuck
Thanks to all of you for the help to locate the RIX insulators. I saw these while paging through the Walthers 2006 catalog but their translucence didn’t catch my eye at that moment. I will buy some and also try the green sparkle paint to compare for the best look.
Hi Bruce or Leslie (don’t know what your first name is),
Indeed, no Wal-Marts over here, our hobby craft stores have other names i.e. Brico Hobby Center, Gamma, etc.
[#offtopic] Hi Tom,
You like beer hmm, here some interesting links: Nothing to do with Lager Pils or Pilsener, it concerns the real stuff…the strong one. But I heard the prices are at the high side in the US!?
http://belgianstyle.com/mmguide/
http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-000791.html
http://www.newbelgium.com/
Celis in TX brews what we call Wit Bier in Flanders (White Beer). This is a light and refreshing sort). [:-^] [%-)]
Wasn’t out of topic at all, simply talking about beer reefer freight! [}:)]
Kind regards,
Andre