A small PROJECT

[Bill Gill]

Large projects still evade my focus, but here's a tiny one for details in the depot on my layout. (The depot is front and center on the layout, near the edge and these items will be on a desk, possibly visible through the depot's three bay windows.)

Here are the online prototype reference photos for a telegrapher's key and a "sounder" which I learned is what the receiver was called. And there's a sounder on a desk in a depot bay window. Below those three photos are my approximations.

[finescalerr]

Are you extremely tiny or do you have microscopic vision and hands of steel? How could you build anything so small? Impressive. -- Russ

[Bill Gill]

Russ, My brain's about that scale. The telegraph's key has only 4 parts and the "sounder" has 8, but the time it took to assemble them kept me busily distracted for a fair amount of time. 

[TRAINS1941]

WOW!  Bill that is amazing work.

Jerry

[Rail and Tie]

Amazing that is done by hand?  I have done it with 3D prints, but not by hand in HO!!! This is the best I could do for HO.

[Bill Gill]

Thanks, Jerry. It shows how far I can go sometimes to avoid working on stuff that ought to get done.

Darryl, Wow! your desk details are great! Yes mine were done by hand. No space, budget or talent for 3D printer or laser.
I still need to make a typewriter and a phone for the desk top. That'll keep me occupied for awhile.

[Ray Dunakin]

Wow! I built those for my depot in 1/24th scale and that was difficult enough. I can't imagine doing it in HO.

[Bill Gill]

Thanks, Ray.

[1-32]

Hi Bill.
I could live there.

[Bill Gill]

Thanks, Kim. We'll leave the lights on.