First of all I would like to say many thanks to my friend Bill Gill in Connecticut for his help in writing this article because my English is not so good. I think that he made a well readable article from my manuscript.
It was some months ago that I sent the finished article to MRH staff and in the meantime I have built some more lanterns and documented the work in a second gallery on my website with English captions where the technology was slightly changed so that I reached a higher success quotient. I have written also some additional remarks about materials and technology avoiding errors and failures. Follow the link -
http://us-modelsof1900.de/?p=12891.
One result were also my two brakemen with lanterns in their hands where the cables are inserted into the figures, invisibly as "electric" nerves.
The second figure is fixed on the platform of a caboose as a switchman - and Jeff, I did not go the way like the Australian modeler who changed the switchman to an animated one. I have mentioned his work in the article and added a link also to one of his Youtube videos however, this is not that what I would like to do in future. Your and my links show that we can do a lot more with superdetailing of figures. My preferred interest however are building of railroad cars and modifying of locomotives and so I'm not very interested to intensify this way of detailing. I have made some interesting experiences and I'm lucky to share these with you however now I'm writing two new articles with "my" themes in preparation and I hope for your interest again.