I am building a german street scene and need to know how to scratch build the man hole covers. Thanks for any help you can give me.

I don't know what era you a your dio represents but a circle cut out of photo etch tread plate may work. Cut a couple indentations in the outside diameter so they could lift out of the hole, etc...

I have the Warriors sewer diorama at home. I will be home on Saturday and I could post some pix of the manhole cover if you like.

Patrick

PLMP110, That would be great if you could post some pics. Thanks.

No problem, I will try to get some up on Saturday.

Patrick

If you goto google and perform an image search for manhole covers it returns quite a few reference pics but they are not era specific. One of the returns is a company called Model Memories that makes HO scale railroad items. One of their items is photoetch manhole covers listed on this page:

http://www.info-4u.com/modelmemories/hocity.htm

Here's the google search results:

http://images.google.com/images?q=manhole+covers&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

This picture is not the best, but you can see the basic detail and that it is 2cm across. Hope this helps.



Patrick

PLMP110, Thanks for the picture it will help alot.

Anytime, Matrix. Glad to help. Good luck with your project.

Patrick