I just got some various locomotive parts from a fellow club member today, including a few locomotive shells that I think would look cool in a scrapyard setting. I'm just not sure where to start and would like some ideas. If you have any pictures, please share. Thanks
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The main ingredient you need is rust! and plenty of it.
For sure. I've got a couple of heavily weathered gondolas I'll probably use. I also have 4 F7 diesel shells and a junker Lionel RS3 dummy.
I've also got plenty of spare wheel/axle sets for cars and even a K-Line GG1. They should look pretty good.
Here is my scrap yard
Al what did you use for the rust look?
PLease don't say you made some rust dust!
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my wife says the entire basement is a scrap yard and won't let me post any pictures
My scrap yard is a work in progress. If I could just get a break from working on that *$*! Casey Jones layout maybe I could get a chance to work on my own layout!
The Pennsy caboose was a victim of a loose bulb socket in the car that fell against the inside of the caboose and melted the plastic.
Richard
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Al what did you use for the rust look?
PLease don't say you made some rust dust!
Hugh, I used some Bragdon weathering powders
Thanks for the ideas, it's definitely giving me something to think about. Mine will probably be on a 19" wide piece of quarter inch plywood so I can use it on the club modular layout. Not sure how long it'll be yet.
If anyone else has pictures, please feel free to share.
I'm starting to think about actually doing this project, so if anybody has more pictures please share them.
My whole layout is a scrap yard!
Actually at this point, I think I have some ideas for how I want it to be set up. The more I think about it though, I have no idea what to do with it scenery wise. I'm thinking of putting a line of old tubular track into it to park some old gondolas on, and I've got a few old F unit shells to use as engines being scrapped. I have an old Lionel Alco RS3 that's been turned into a dummy (one of the cheapie all plastic ones) that I may use to represent a beat up yard switcher. That's about as much as I can think of.
What scenery materials would you use. I'll probably be doing this on a piece of 1/4" plywood so what would work best to cover that up?
My whole layout is a scrap yard!
I can identify with that!
Scrap Yards are a great place to more personalize your layout.
In HO, I did railroading equipment scrap yards. I could pick up old dummy engines, broken units, .... really cheap.
I used to drive by Naporano Metal in Newark NJ and get ideas ...
Jim
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For covering your plywood, how about some fine ballast in your choice of color? Paint the plywood with latex paint or wite glue first. Sprinkle some ground foam "grass" here and there and you've simulated a gravel surface.
For covering your plywood, how about some fine ballast in your choice of color? Paint the plywood with latex paint or wite glue first. Sprinkle some ground foam "grass" here and there and you've simulated a gravel surface.
Thanks for the tip, that's what I was initially thinking but I haven't really seen a true scrapyard before so I thought I'd ask
Jake, You asked what to start with. I start with the space available - shape and dimensions. Then, I usually have an office and an enclosure. You can put the office inside the enclosure...
...or outside...
...and let me underscore the point CP Jim made about a junk yard being a place for a personalized statement, and Justin's point about such a place being dirty and grimy. Even the type of groundcover you use, as well as the presence of or absence of foliage adds to the story you are telling...
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Moonson- If your work has never been in O-Gauge magazine, it ought to be! Love the era and detail. Thanks for sharing!
Good thread, picked up some ideas from everyone!
Stack
Moonson- If your work has never been in O-Gauge magazine, it ought to be! Love the era and detail. Thanks for sharing!...
Stack
Such a nice thing to say, Stack! Thank you. As the layout has grown and progressed, and as I learned, some of its evolution has been documented in OGR, in Runs 163; 168; 221; 224, I am honored to say.
Frank