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How to Make Miniature Electrical Poles

Authentic looking detail items are essential when making model train or other landscapes look real. Many of the items can be purchased but in order to save money there are things that can be crafted by hand. Miniature electrical poles are one of those things. With a few simple items you have around the house you can create them yourself. Party supply shops have products such as coffee stirrers, black drinking straws or lollipop sticks that can be adapted to create electrical poles.

Things You'll Need

Coffee stirrers or straws
Sewing needle, large
Thread
Scissors
Glue

Instructions

- 1
  Cut coffee stirrers or straws to the desired height for your project. You will need one long piece and one shorter piece which will go across the top of the longer piece.
- 2
  Punch a hole in the center of the shorter pieces and then punch four holes, evenly spaced. Create two holes on the left of the center and two holes on the right. Add glue to the center holes and place them on top of a longer pole. Make sure the smaller holes are on the sides of the shorter pieces so you can place the thread in them.
- 3
  Glue the electrical poles into position on your model. Space them out so that they look real.
- 4
  Thread the needle with a single strand of thread and run the thread from pole to pole through the holes you made with the needle to imitate the electric wires. Don't pull the thread tight, let it relax just a little so the wires look as if they are swaying slightly. There are four wires running through each pole.

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