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Scottydog your right, I found more young folks with an interest in railroading than I expected when I got back into model railroading and started this latest HO layout. For those of us a low budget read Jetrock's reply, you'll find some good suggestions. I use drinking straws for pipes, culverts etc. The flex part of a flex straw makes great looking culverts and different fast food places have different diameter straws (pipes). I don't buy Styrene when Styrofoam boxes for taking leftover's home from resturants and egg carton tops make good material for scratch building structures. Finely ground eggshell can be used for gravel parking lots or dirt/gravel roads. Garbage bag twist-ties are good to start people and animal figures. You can fini***he figures using a flour, egg white and water mixture rather than "buying" plaster-of-paris or hydocal. I used a plastic pop bottle, the card stock from the back of a notepad and some electrical wire (I used the wire for the stairway handrail) to create an oil tank for my steamers (all these items would have been thrown in the garbage). Find someone that smokes and ask for the foil inside the pack, using a toothpick and straight edge to score it, you can make corregated roofing material. Speaking of toothpicks, cutting the round ones to length makes great fence posts. Their are a lot of other things around the house that can be used. Look around your house, use your imagination and let your creative side take over, you'll find that most of your modeling can be done at nearly zero cost. The only real cost for most of your modeling is glue and paint.
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