Telephone poles - update 29/04 : 5 more painted + extra details

[zizi666]

So, I got my 20 Lionelville telephone poles last week.
Started cleaning, basing and painting 10 of them and... got stuck on how I should paint the beams and struts.

As a Fallout nut I'd like 'em to resemble the ones in FO3 as close as possible, but those only have 2 metal beams and no struts.
So, time to aks the LAF hivemind  

This is what it looks like so far :


and the real deal :

[Messyart]

I doubt the physical difference would be noticed. Paint the metal beams a dark steel colour and the.. Bits on top a dark bronzey colour, paint the wood a nice piney-brown.
c:

[Timotl]

Looks exactly like the telephone pole that is in the alley in the back of my house. The struts are wooden.

[former user]

the isolators would be white porcelain or glass. Metal only where necessary, so probably beams wooden or metal, struts metal.

the key is isolation towards the ground
forget the CGI, these are not the real thing

[DELTADOG]

I agree with former user there should be some porcelain on the poles. For the FO Look I would weather them deeply and use some rustlanes rinning down the wooden pale from the Metalparts. The best weathered Porcelain in FO is always to find in the bathrooms :-)

[Messyart]

Hah, I think I finally have a use for the KFC corncob sticks I'd been gathering...

[Too Bo Coo]

We had this type of pole in my home town, it's def all wood.  I've only seen the white porcelain in Russia and some parts of Europe. In the States they look like this, at least anywhere I've ever lived and traveled.

[Too Bo Coo]

Here is a better image of a pole itself.  Note, the darker porcelain.

[Too Bo Coo]

But I must say, your paintjob looks great!  I'd personally go with that.

[DELTADOG]

ok its brown porcelain in the states. Im from europe and here are those isolators white. But except from this different in the look, I would take the white in any Case to give it a bit more contrast from the overall brown in brown

[Too Bo Coo]

ok its brown porcelain in the states. Im from europe and here are those isolators white. But except from this different in the look, I would take the white in any Case to give it a bit more contrast from the overall brown in brown

I agree, the white looks much nicer from the tabletop.

[Constable Bertrand]

Zizzi, will you glue a fried squirrel "on a stick" up there? Some rodent, or fruit bat?

Id vote for all wood (perhaps metal bracing) with white/creme ceramics.



Cheers
Matt

[zizi666]

Zizzi, will you glue a fried squirrel "on a stick" up there? Some rodent, or fruit bat?

Id vote for all wood (perhaps metal bracing) with white/creme ceramics.



Cheers
Matt

Hmm, I know there are roadkills available in 28mm, but they wouldn't do the trick because of the flattened part where the tire ran over 'em.
It would be an eyecatcher to put something in the top of at least one pole.
Personaly I was thinking of a cyclist with his bike, blown up there by the blast of a nuke 

[Cory]

In the US all wood is  the most common. As to insulator colors, white brown, and red porcelain were common, as were semi transparent glass ones in clear, green, and purple.

[former user]

not that it matters, but porcelain is by definition white, unless it is painted, which is pointless in this case, but modern ceramic isolators can have any kind of chemical glaze, as have some ceramic sewage systems too.
but since we are on the postapocalyptic board, insulators on modern looking poles can be of coloured plastic too, but usually ceramic ones are cheaper and more durable

never heard of the purple glass though, sounds cool.

Anyway, it appears it is about how old one wants them to look, I've seen concrete poles from the seventies and sixties too (that's when we had circular dials and chords on the phones, and all the same ringtone  )