arboretum valley

[Dad-1]

A thought, while I agree full wiring is just a disaster waiting to happen
the odd post stay wire would add something. Scale wise they are several
times thicker than the actual telephone wires, so more obvious. Added to a
slightly leaning post ?

Geoff T.

[Mountain]

A decade or two ago I came across a product sold by Intercity Models which was reels of thin elasticated line for such use for model railway telegraph posts.
Being elasticated it was less likely to damage if one leaned on it etc.

[Jaz]

Both better ideas than I considered, I need to check them out, thank very much for the input

[Mountain]

I can't remember what the product is called. Intercity Models is just a small model railway shop somewhere in the Cornish area of the country. I don't know if it is still in business, but the product should still exist. (Maybe someone remembers what this elasticated product is called?)

[Phred]

Mountain wrote:
(Maybe someone remembers what this elasticated product is called?)

Maybe this one?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/183414949354 ... R4ijw9jCYw

[TimberSurf]

EZ Line, readily available in U.S. but also here in UK https://www.modelscenerysupplies.co.uk/ez-line-rope

[Mountain]

Ah. There it is!

[Jaz]

Thank you, saved me a lot of hunting!

[Jaz]

Sidings

[Jaz]

Churchyard

[Jaz]

The sidings

[Bufferstop]

A thought, while I agree full wiring is just a disaster waiting to happen
the odd post stay wire would add something. Scale wise they are several
times thicker than the actual telephone wires, so more obvious. Added to a
slightly leaning post ?

Geoff T.

Wasn't this where we started many years ago Geoff? I seem to remember working out the real height of poles and deciding they would look B ridiculous going over the bridge at St Oval. The elasticated thread is far too thick for open telephone wires and IMHO looks nothing like either an open wire or a supported cable> There has to be some sag, it is put in deliberately to stop the wires breaking when the temperature goes way down. Open wires are probably best represented by leaving them out, wire that's thin enough is going to be very difficult to see and is too light to hang realistically between the poles. Multi pair cables are thicker, you only get one of them between poles so there's no struggle to get them evenly spaced and thin thread will hang realistically. As you say the odd staywire and a leaning post. You could make a good cameo of a leaning post, with a slack staywire and a cross arm at a crazy angle, with a bit of very thin wire hanging from the end of the crossarm and wrapped a couple of times round the post at head height to keep it out of the way.

[Dad-1]

Hi Bufferstop,

Yes that must have been a long time ago !!
It was also pertinent to the sidings on Castle Mawr where I had a long line of posts.
they were at something like 1/2 of the actual scale difference apart, but because of
general model railway compression they didn't look too bad. Even that goes out of the
window on curves where sometimes it's better not to bother as you'll never get it looking
'right'

Mind you it's all about individuals visualisation, in this game do what you like

Geoff T..

[Jaz]

So barring a sweet spot where you get a nice picture but are unlikely to damage the layout, is it worth the effort to do the lines, especially as it would appear that in reality they may not even be obvious, and getting them in could in fact be a touch overdone?

[Jaz]

Pylons for instance could be invisible to the eye