Fold the paper over the wire so that the open ends meet. The
shortening of the flag by the fold around the wire isn’t notice-
able on the finished scale flag, but if you do want your flags to
be exact, just add one or two scale inches to your scale mea-
surements above. Glue the paper together with a tiny dab of
white glue, and paint your wire black, gray, or a rust color [10].
You now have a flag ready to be used on your layout.
To simulate a rail-mounted flag, bend the flag staff like the
blue flags in [11] and then drill a hole of the appropriate size
between the rails close to either rail. For a flag mounted to a
tie between the rails drill a hole centered on a tie or use the
rail spike hole that is pre-drilled on flextrack.
11. Modeled flag assortment, left to right, top to bottom.
Blue tie-mount metal flag and blue rail-mount metal
flag. Red cloth flags, red tie-mount/right side ballast-
mount metal flag, alternate red tie-mount/ right side
ballast-mount metal flag. Yellow cloth flags and right side
ballast-mount metal flag. yellow-over-red cloth flags.
Green cloth flags and right side ballast-mount metal flag.
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