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Modeling Franklin Jct.


The tower window frame (above) was constructed from styrene strips joined very sparingly with Tamiya extra thin liquid cement on a piece of glass. It was painted flat aluminum and given a coat of Dullcote to tone it down. A Word®


drawing was made depicting the tracks and signals at the junction. It was then reduced, print-


ed on decal paper and applied to the operator’s board (above right). This is how the shell of the model appeared prior to adding the tower windows and roof (below left). The tar and gravel roof (below right) was modeled using 140-grit sandpaper. The vent pipes were cut from brass tubing and painted black.


2′×7′ control panel were formed from .020″ styrene glued to form a “T” with strips cut to form the drawers on each end. After applying primer, the desk was painted Roof Brown and the back of the panel black. After seeing a picture of a Harmon machine and model board used at Pittston, Pennsylvania,


on


http://rrsignal.com, I made a Word® drawing depicting my layout trackage and signals at the junction, reduced it to 23%, and printed it on HobbyCal Inkjet decal paper. This was the first time I tried making my own decals, and I found their paper very easy to use. An SS Ltd. No. 2513 swivel chair modified by adding legs, a Master Creations No. 23016 wood chair, a hand painted Preis- er figure, and pieces of railing cut from Central Valley’s No. 1601 fencing com- pleted the interior details.


Most of the remaining exterior de- tails are on the back of the tower, which is the only side I didn’t have a photo of. The utility room door was a


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guess based on needed access to the utility room. Scuppers, or abbey leader heads, were shaped by beveling three sides of a styrene box and adding a cap before drilling a hole to attach the .080″ diameter downspout. These as- semblies were painted with Zinc Chro- mate primer before being installed. The electric meter also added some detail since this will face the front of the layout. It was made from a 4″×12″ cut 20″ long with a 6″ diameter hole drilled through the middle for the me- ter, and .020″ brass wire to connect it to the 4″×4″×7″ shaped outlet box. It was painted New Gravel Gray before the meter “glass,” made from a 9″ piece of clear plastic sprue, was inserted. The station signs were made from


1″×12″ cut 4′-9″ long. I made my own decals by selecting a custom red back- ground to try to match the vermillion used by the CNJ, and Blue Highway 13 point font, which closely matched the lettering in the photo.


Lighting


I figured five lights would be needed for the structure. These are provided by Miniatronics Yeloglo white 3mm LEDs (No.


12-310-10). Using the LED


series/parallel array wizard on http:// led.linear1.org/led.wiz, it recommended three of the LED’s be wired in series with a 100 ohm resistor, and the remain- ing two in series with a 270 ohm resistor powered from an 11.8 volt DC circuit. I felt some of the LED’s were too bright, so I replaced the 270 ohm resistor with a 470 ohm one and added a 470 ohm resis- tor on the main lead to the tower. To help diffuse the light, I painted the back of the LEDs and sanded their surface before installing them. One wire for the LED in the tower was con- cealed in the brass tube vent pipe which served as the other lead. The covers over the entrance door lights were made by gluing a 9″×1′-9″ strip of aluminum foil cut from an oven tray to a piece of shaped 4″×10″ styrene.


AUGUST 2013


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