02-14-2010, 09:48 AM
I am still learning, and have only partially learned the bit about not throwing stuff out. I had purchased several of the Caboose Hobbies ground throws, but decided not to use them...too big. I generally keep sprue from kits, especially interesting and oddly shaped bits....thinking at the time, "You never know." Meanwhile, I was discarding some stuff.
About 18 months ago I decided that I needed more realism, and that often just means some details in the settings being imaged. No ground throws, no target switch stands in my yard. Hmmm...so I returned to my workbench area and forged some scratch-built ones with some left over bits from one of the cheaper plastic kits. The kit had some lamp stands for the sidewalk in front of the store. I used a centering spring lever from a plastic type of horrible coupler, the bottom half of the lamp stand, and stole a target indicator from two of the Caboose groundthrows to make this:
![[Image: Cs-image-2.jpg]](http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn105/mesenteria/Cs-image-2.jpg)
-Crandell
About 18 months ago I decided that I needed more realism, and that often just means some details in the settings being imaged. No ground throws, no target switch stands in my yard. Hmmm...so I returned to my workbench area and forged some scratch-built ones with some left over bits from one of the cheaper plastic kits. The kit had some lamp stands for the sidewalk in front of the store. I used a centering spring lever from a plastic type of horrible coupler, the bottom half of the lamp stand, and stole a target indicator from two of the Caboose groundthrows to make this:
-Crandell