IT's TEAM TRACK TUESDAY!!! 1/10/2017 Edition! Lets see your team track photos!!

Another delivery ...............

SIRT posted:

Another delivery ...............

 

 

 

SIRT - You have hit another home run with this car and scenes!!!! WOW!!!!!!!

Wow Patrick, that's going to need a lot of heavy lifting!  This week I also have a "metal" theme...

With the crane outfitted with an electromagnet, scrap metal can now be loaded/unload on the team track...

Loading this stuff sure makes a mess. The crew is going to spend quite a bit of time cleaning up this stuff...

Mark Diff posted:

Wow Patrick, that's going to need a lot of heavy lifting!  This week I also have a "metal" theme...

With the crane outfitted with an electromagnet, scrap metal can now be loaded/unload on the team track...

Loading this stuff sure makes a mess. The crew is going to spend quite a bit of time cleaning up this stuff...

Mark - Fabulous scenes!!!  I love the scrap metal!!  What did you make it from?

Great detail and story telling!!!   

The scrap was made from plastic confetti from a craft store, that I painted and rusted. Some of the scrap is corregated craft paper painted and rusted. I trimmed it off the side pieces standing along the insides of the truck. Tomorrow I'll post some pictures of the materials and processes used to make it.

this is how we make the moonshine.....err, ah scrap metal. First locate some confetti:

It has a nice jagged, pieces, shards, scraps or whatever. The problem is it comes in a myriad of colors and even patterns imprinted upon the scraps. These need to be hidden or covered up as much as possible. At first my intention was to simply paint over the pieces with a diluted wash of craft paint. So I poured some confetti into plastic solo cups and added different "rust" or "rust like" colored paint and diluted it some with water. I stirred each cup to coat all of the confetti and poured each out onto some window screen placed into a disposable aluminum pan to dry out.

here are the paints I used:

Burnt sienna; Brown Iron oxide; Rusted pipe and....

Raw umber; Traditional burnt umber; burnt orange

Well, this didn't work out very well. The diluted paint didn't cover the confetti thoroughly or convincingly enough. So after it dried I tried something new, something I knew would stick to the confetti. And that turned out to be Pastel chalks. Pastel chalks alone won't stick to the slippery plastic confetti shards without some sort of binder or glue. So hair spray to the rescue....

To get this to work, I needed to scrape the chalks with an extacto knife to create a powder. So using various shades of brown, orange, red, and yellow, I scraped enough powder to coat all the pieces of scrap. You simply spray a small even coat of hairspray onto the confetti and sprinkle the "rust" powder all over. While its still wet, stir or toss (like a salad) the confetti and continue to sprinkle on the powder until you get the amount of coverage that looks good to you.  I had to repeat this process 2 to 3 times to get it where I felt it needed to be. Even then a few pieces will have a shiny side or edge. I think that helps to add to the look of scrap.

Some of what was left over...

after I set up and took the pictures for this weeks Team Track Tuesday. Note that some of the pieces after hair spraying them will stick together. They easily come apart with a little picking and handling. Rub some together between your fingers to loosen and pry them apart.

I hope this was helpful for creating scrap loads or a scrap yard for your railroad.

Mark Diff posted:

this is how we make the moonshine.....err, ah scrap metal. First locate some confetti:

 

It has a nice jagged, pieces, shards, scraps or whatever. The problem is it comes in a myriad of colors and even patterns imprinted upon the scraps. These need to be hidden or covered up as much as possible. At first my intention was to simply paint over the pieces with a diluted wash of craft paint. So I poured some confetti into plastic solo cups and added different "rust" or "rust like" colored paint and diluted it some with water. I stirred each cup to coat all of the confetti and poured each out onto some window screen placed into a disposable aluminum pan to dry out.

here are the paints I used:

Burnt sienna; Brown Iron oxide; Rusted pipe and....

Raw umber; Traditional burnt umber; burnt orange

Well, this didn't work out very well. The diluted paint didn't cover the confetti thoroughly or convincingly enough. So after it dried I tried something new, something I knew would stick to the confetti. And that turned out to be Pastel chalks. Pastel chalks alone won't stick to the slippery plastic confetti shards without some sort of binder or glue. So hair spray to the rescue....

To get this to work, I needed to scrape the chalks with an extacto knife to create a powder. So using various shades of brown, orange, red, and yellow, I scraped enough powder to coat all the pieces of scrap. You simply spray a small even coat of hairspray onto the confetti and sprinkle the "rust" powder all over. While its still wet, stir or toss (like a salad) the confetti and continue to sprinkle on the powder until you get the amount of coverage that looks good to you.  I had to repeat this process 2 to 3 times to get it where I felt it needed to be. Even then a few pieces will have a shiny side or edge. I think that helps to add to the look of scrap.

Some of what was left over...

after I set up and took the pictures for this weeks Team Track Tuesday. Note that some of the pieces after hair spraying them will stick together. They easily come apart with a little picking and handling. Rub some together between your fingers to loosen and pry them apart.

I hope this was helpful for creating scrap loads or a scrap yard for your railroad.

 

Mark - thanks so much for sharing your wonderful step by step method ( with photos )  for making scrap!  I've been wanting to make some scrap loads for some of my gons.  I think I'll give it a go.  Thanks again and see ya next week on the Team Track.