Kelvinbank, a Caledonian Railway project.

Looks splendid. Are you going to ruin the effect by adding the copper, it rarely seems to be visible in photies of the originals ?

Agreed Caledonian, you only really see wires against the sky, almost impossible to make it look right in 4mm.

 

I have some enamelled  copper wire that as best as I can measure is a tad under 2 thou dia.  I have tried stringing a length between a pair of poles on the bench a scale 780 mm apart. It just doesn't sag right and is the wrong colour so would be totally overscale if I tried to paint it.  The chances of me getting 16 lengths anywhere near parallel along the 17 foot of the pole route is nil. 

 

It would also make unplugging the poles so I don't damage them when working on the layout impossible, and I have no idea how to tackle the baseboard joins. 

Agreed on all counts. I've been thinking about telegraph wires on my own layout and reached the same conclusions (in 7mm). Parallel? - no chance.  Baseboard joints? - no idea!  Survival rating for wires? - two small grandsons. Some things are best left to imagination. The post/socket arrangement is excellent and the jigs and tools right up my street:  if I may, I'll borrow these ideas for use on Swan Hill.

 

Kit PW

Your layout is beautiful, Dave. Edwardian splendor!

 

All the best,

Nick.