First off, let me add my thanks to all for the kind comments. Nutbar, I particularily like the photo of the 5702 on the turntable: I think that I may have touched on this in another post, but that loco is the first that I painted for my friend, and is the vehicle through which we met. I got the job to paint this loco through a LHS, but when I got it home, I discovered that it had been damaged in shipping. In addition to that, it would barely run. Luckily, in the box was nutbar's name and 'phone number, so I decided to contact him directly, to let him know about the problems and that the price would probably be a bit higher than whatever he had originally been quoted. (I later learned that the LHS normally doubled whatever I charged for my work: I don't know if this was pretty much standard practice, or if I was charging too little, or if the hobby shop was charging too much.) Anyway, as they say, the rest is history.
Kurt, the telephone/telegraph poles are Atlas poles. They got a wash of PollyScale to kill the plastic shine, and the crossarm braces were painted dark grey. I then used a metallic green paint for the insulators; the idea came from a tip in MR or RMC, and the recommended paint was from either Testors or Pactra. Surprisingly, neither was available at my usually-well-stocked LHS. What they did have was a paint from Gunze Sangyo called Aqueous Hobby Color (it may be intended for either the model car or model 'plane hobby). The colour is Metallic Green H89, and I applied it with a brush.
Gus, the turntable was built using the sides from a couple of Atlas through-girder bridges, which were glued to a block of wood. I put a piece of flex track on top, with the webs connecting the ties removed. I then spaced out the plastic ties enough to insert longer ones cut from stripwood, and added the decking. The control cabin is scratchbuilt from styrene, and the handrails are made from .015" piano wire, with Athearn diesel handrail stanchions, modified with a bit of brass tubing, holding them in place. I still need to add a power arch. There is a little more on it here:
Turntable
If you scroll down a bit, there's one photo, then a few more a little farther down, plus a brief explanation.
Wayne