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I want to show how I earlier this year built my first diorama, once I realized I had in some sense lost intereset in model railroading (at least for the time being) and wanted to do something else. The displayed scene has a nostalgic touch, in the sense that includes elements from my childhood and youth - typical Swedish street artifacts from the 1950's and 1960's: - A telephone booth, model 1961. The standard booth installed nationwide by the Swedish state telephone company ("Televerket"), in its standard orange "Televerksorange" paint scheme. - An electrical box as used by the Stockholm Electrical Works ("Elverket"). - A typical Swedish rain water well (storm drain). - A lamp post from those times. And yes, I almost forgot. The diorama is in the 1:35 scale. When I started out I had a mental picture of what the final scene would look like, but let's do this one step at the time. So we will start with the telephone booth. A real Swedish telephone booth model 1961 (m/61) looks like this: The telephone booth was scratch built using styrene plastic. Here it is in an early stage of the build. In parallel with the booth I also modelled the actual pay phone, which you can see through the door in the photo above. Here is the phone and the receiver, along a match for a size comparison. Next, the receiver attached to the phone, which in turn has been glued to what will become the back wall of the telephone booth. To the right of the phone is a rack with telephone directories, typical of this type of booth and time period. The directories mostly hung there unharmed! Those were the days. A near complete booth and phone. More to come. Lennart
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