[Greg]

John -

I describe making the dog bone resistors here:
https://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthread.php?tid=20489

For the larger, 1W, ones there are 2 resistors in series. I also added thicker leads.
Since the smaller, 1/2W, ones are similar in size to the dog bone original it's difficult to add thicker leads. Not much room left in the mold.

I dyed the resin black so if it shows through the paint it will look like the original carbon.

I didn't do it, but I thought of painting the ends silver to mimic solder attaching the originals' leads to the carbon rod. Then I add the body color over that. A little silver showing would make them more realistic. But I figured at that point it would be a bit pathological so I stopped .

By the way does anybody know how they soldered the leads to carbon/binder rod. That doesn't seem possible.