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How to make scrap for a scrap yard/gondola????

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How to make scrap for a scrap yard/gondola????
Posted by Robby P. on Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:29 PM

I am currently modeling  a scrap yard, and was wondering what do you use to make scrap.  I have heard of tin foil painted rust color.  Also gum foil wrappers.  I was thinking about buying some toy cars and beating them up/rusting them.

I was going to have a junk yard on one side, and other just a pile of scrap.  Awhile back a guy was selling scrap for HO/N, but lately his website isn't working. 

I would like to hear or see what you have.

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Posted by hcc25rl on Sunday, March 15, 2009 8:02 PM

Chooch makes scrap loads for gondola cars as well as ( I think), scrap piles. You may want to paint/weather them for more realism.

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Posted by Genset3248 on Monday, March 16, 2009 12:15 AM
JWD EasyFit has a selection of scrap steel products as well, and truthfully, they're much nicer looking that most of the Chooch stuff. It's a good starting place anyway.
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Posted by wedudler on Monday, March 16, 2009 3:17 AM

 I've made a scrap yard, too. Here's the story and How To.

There're loads of bales made from aluminium foil and other scrap.

 

 

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Posted by Buildy on Monday, March 16, 2009 8:13 AM

 Wolfgang-what a great article on constructing!

 

A tip for Robbie-I make bailed scrap out of sheets of alum foil. Just take it and crumple in into cubes and place into the gondola. Very easy and cheap and looks pretty good,too.

 

 

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Posted by Arjay1969 on Monday, March 16, 2009 8:19 AM

 One of the members of my local club is a machinist by trade, and he brought down a couple of gallon-sized ziploc bag full of shavings (steel and aluminum).  We took a handful of the shavings and put them in a gondola, then poured 50/50 glue/water into it and let it dry.  with the steel, the water also had the effect of rusting it, so the scrap loads looked quite good.  I think we might have added some scraps of plastic I-beams in there too.

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Posted by wedudler on Monday, March 16, 2009 8:32 AM

 This load is made of shavings I've colored.

 

The bales are made of shreddered aluminium wrappings from sweeties.

 

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Posted by Robby P. on Monday, March 16, 2009 8:34 AM

Thanks for the replies everybody.  I will try the foil, and I wish I had a machine shop near by.   I will have to get some junk cars, and smash them up. 

The website I use to order from loads looked like CD's, misc. pieces of wire.  Just rusted up and smashed.  I have thought about trying that.  I kinda figured they were old cd's, due to some are very shiny where the rust has come off.  Aggro, used some plain old cardboard for one of his gon loads awhile back.  Looked real good.  

Here's a old shot of a gon, that has that load in it.  Can't really tell what it is from the shot, but I believe its cd's, misc pieces of stuff. 

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Posted by jecorbett on Monday, March 16, 2009 12:08 PM

I vaguely remember an article in one of mags a couple decades ago in which sheets of aluminum foil were randomly sprayed with splotches of different colors, then put into a blender, preferably when the wife is out of the house. It shreaded up the foil into small pieces of varying colors and looked fairly realistic to me, although I'm not sure my eye was as well trained back then.

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Posted by wedudler on Monday, March 16, 2009 12:12 PM

 here was an article in the NMRA Bulletin Nov 1997, Tom Persoon, Modeling crap aluminum bales. He used the wrapping of sweeties, candies and others. Easter is coming! Collect the wrappings. I did this over years. I've used the covers from yogurt cups, too. They're more heavy.
And you see an old coffee grinder. It has its second life in the basement. 
You can get the desired fineness, grist. Just let the grinder work longer.

 

And here it is used:

 

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Posted by ds137 on Monday, March 16, 2009 12:23 PM

one posting on this forum used pencil shavings from a crank type pencil sharpener painted silver and rust colors- his pic's looked terrific!

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Monday, March 16, 2009 2:35 PM

Hello here is my junk yard I'm working on. I have small scrap pile but mine will be more junk then scrap. To make blocks of scrap take a socket with a 3/8 drive and smash the tin foil in the drive end with a extendshion the block comes out almost to scale size. Hope this Helps Frank

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Posted by Robby P. on Monday, March 16, 2009 2:38 PM

Great looking shots. 

Here's a idea of what my scrap/junk yard will look like.  Scrap will be in the "white area", and the far left will be the junk yard. 

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Posted by Great Western Rwy fan on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:10 PM

Wolfgang, That is a Great looking scrap yard. Thanks for sharing that article. I would like to model one like it. My question is I model the late 1950's. When did scrap yards start making cubes out of scrap?

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