I know Earl Smallshaw has been doing this for years becaus I’ve seen it in Kalmbach books, but does anyone know how to make HO size washing to go on HO washing lines? It’s a detail I really want. Tenement blocks with fire escapes and rows of washing hanging out to dry are my detail desire. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
BJ
Maybe you can very carefully cut them out of paper. I like this idea…This is another project i have to do now[;)]
Hi Adam
Yeah, I thought of that myself and was going to do that, but Earl’s stuff is not only bed linen like sheets but overalls and SOCKS! Can you believe that? I wondered if anyone had a secret insight that would prevent me losing my already bad eyesight completely having to cut out very small underwear!
Thanks…
Actually, according to the article on Smallshaw’s tenements he used tinfoil for the washing–cut out a rough pattern, bend it somewhat and apply paint. I imagine an airbrush might work well for such applications, but you’d still need a careful hand.
Take O-guage laundry, wash it in VERY HOT water, and it will shrink down to HO.
i used 2 ho scale twigs for laundry poles. doubled white thread and put it in to white glue. tie around top of poles, cut close so no end shows. got ladies cotton underware, thinner the better and cut into sheets, t shirts and any other ho scale laundry item you want. put them into white glue and put on top of glued thread like they were hanging on line.you can shape them as the glue dries to look like blowing in the wind.
Leibshin,
Sounds good. [^] But I’m dying to see what the end result looks like. Do you have any photos to show us? [?]
just tried to take pictures. have to charge batteries and find out how to post here. will work on today. leibshin
A friend of mine used tissue paper, just the plain white kind used to wrap packages. He roughly cut out pants, shirts, sheets, whatever with a razor blade, then glued them to the line. After everything dried, he used a bru***o dab on some thinned acrylic paint for whatever color he needed- blue jean blue, white for sheets, etc… First try was a goof (paint them on a sheet of waxed paper, otherwise the painted objects WILL stick to the bench!), but the second time worked great. I’ll see if I can find any pics to post.
IIRC, in the old days we hung our laundry on a CLOTHES LINE. I never heard it called a “washing line”. This whole discussion has brought back some child hood memories. There are some clever ideas on here for making the clothes to hang out. I am waiting for pictures.
Cheers,
Ed
http://tinypic.com/6gaetg.jpg sorry best i can do. go to tinypics.com. if that dosen’t work i can forward to email. leibshin
i also model in 1/35 and here is a neat trick… take a square of tp and cut your shape out dip in water and white glue…paint to color it has worled in 1/35 why not HO