Does anyone model cell phone towers? I know they can take many different forms and designs. Photos?
Walters does have a tower kit. And model power makes a utility building that is the same as what is used for the tower equipment building.
shane
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I used the old BLMA model purchased on E Bay.
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Trevor
I just saw Faller has a utility building as well that looks very similar to a tower building. #120215
Shane
Hello All,
Here in Colorado, some of the cell towers are disguised as pine trees.
The support towers are painted a faux bark scheme- -dark brown with black streaks. These are octagonal metal, tapered, utility-type poles.
Fake branches- -like artificial Christmas trees- -adorn the support poles, and the antennae units are painted in the same faux bark scheme.
These wouldn't pass as badly modeled trees on any pike.
But bad modeling, in this case is prototypical.
Hope this helps.
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There is one down the street from me made into a fat flag pole. They also started putting them on the town water towers. The stand alone cell phone towers are nothing more than lattice beams in a triangle format and non tapering.
Pete.
Here in Southern California, we see a lot of cell towers disguised as palm trees which is silly as palm trees don't belong here! Yeah, I know, you see a ton of them around here but they ALL had to be planted by someone. Except for the Washingtonian or California Fan Palm (native only to the Coachela Valley) that is too dumpy looking for anyone to use for landscaping, all other palm trees are transplants from more tropical climates. Likewise for all the Eucalyptus trees!
It would be pretty easy to model by adding the antenna plates to an HO scale palm tree with a straight trunk.
Hornblower
My older layout when I was growing up hid its cell towers in church steeples, so you couldn't see them and they didn't have to be modeled. That's good, because cell phones didn't exist yet, in the Transition Era.
The prototype when cell phones were actually a thing did use steeples to hide their unsightly towers.
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hornblower Here in Southern California, we see a lot of cell towers disguised as palm trees which is silly as palm trees don't belong here! Yeah, I know, you see a ton of them around here but they ALL had to be planted by someone. Except for the Washingtonian or California Fan Palm (native only to the Coachela Valley) that is too dumpy looking for anyone to use for landscaping, all other palm trees are transplants from more tropical climates. Likewise for all the Eucalyptus trees! It would be pretty easy to model by adding the antenna plates to an HO scale palm tree with a straight trunk.
I see these alot as I have worked in the Coachella velley area for many years.
Sean, the unknown train travler,
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