Hello I was looking for another thread when I found a thread called 'you made THAT from WHAT'' it's a couple years old so I thought I would start part 2. If you have pics or ideas pleas share. My first pic has a lot going on. The metal fence is made from old window screen and the post are used sparkles I saved form the 4th of July. The drain pipe is a pen. The water is polyurethane I had.
This is a runoff puddle made from rust paint and polyurethane
This a fence/wall made from grommets its supposed to look like old tires.
And my plowed field made from a cardboard box and real dirt.
Ok lets see what you have. Frank
Frank,
That improvised scenery of yours looks impressive - I especially like the runoff from the culvert.
I'm modelling in HOn3, and I firmly believe you can never have too many gondolas . So when I messed up a micro-trains reefer kit, leaving me with a perfectly good chassis, I grabbed some spare balsa wood and built a gondola on top of it:
The brake wheel & bits holding it came from the M-T kit, the corner plates are folded styrene and the grab irons are sewing pins (side) and leftover brass wire (ends). The posts along the sides are scale stripwood. The rest were cut from 1mm balsa sheets.
The Location: Forests of the Pacific Northwest, OregonThe Year: 1948The Scale: On30The Blog: http://bvlcorr.tumblr.com
I made a pair of standpipes, like the one on the right, using a piece of plastic tubing, some bits of styrene and wire and a Grandt Line spout.
The flared base of the pipe is the tip from a Bic pen. I used the Tichy version, on the left, as a model - it's spout is too short to service the double tracks at my passenger station, necessitating the kitbashed versions.
Wayne
Hello Tbdanny very nice job on that gon. I have yet to try building a car of any kind. What was the hardest part ?
Wayne I had to enlarge the pic to tell the difference and what gave it a way was one is missing the bolts on the bottom flange. Very nice. I can use two of these I am going to give it a try. Thanks for sharing Frank
This is the interior of the station building I'm putting together from the Walthers YMCA kit:
The basic structure is foamboard. I used the computer to search for and find textures for the floor and wall surfaces, including the ticket "windows," which are just printed, good enough for inside a building.
The "pipe" is a coffee stirrer, and it's actually a conduit for wires to the ceiling-mounted lights.
The "space-age plastic" circular base for the information desk was cut from a plastic pill bottle. This is, I guess, the replacement for the old film cans for 35mm film, which very few of us use anymore. I used a couple of more rings of this stuff around the ceiling lights, to reduce the direct light which might be seen through the windows, and reflect more down into the structure itself.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I don't have a closer view of it posted in my gallery, but I made the switch stand you see in the background by cribbing together parts from three different items. A centering spring for a coupler is the handle, the target comes from a Caboose ground throw, and the base is from an old-fashioned street lamp that came with a plastic kit.
And my skills are clearly not up to snuff with Doc Wayne's, but I also cribbed together the water spout...well, the wanna-be water spout.
-Crandell
Some imaginative use of materials being shown.
The vertical tanks in the right foreground, below, are made from heavy-duty cardboard tubes - I don't recall their original purpose. I embossed some rivet detail on thin sheet styrene, to use for tank wrappers, and used more sheet styrene to form the slightly-coned roofs. Some parts from the junk box serve as vents and access hatches. The horizontal tanks are plastic tubes from paper used in Telescript machines - I added some plastic ends and a few details:
The roof-top water tank in the distance was made the same way, with a base constructed from .060" sheet styrene:
I built three water tanks (one for use with the 'bashed standpipes), again using plastic wrappers around some substantial cardboard tubes. The base is Walthers styrene brick sheet, with a top and door lintel from .060" sheet styrene. The doors are from Model Die Casting and the ladders from Central Valley:
This overhead crane uses drive parts from a 1/24 model of a T-33 Russian tank for the wheel hubs of its trolley and on the bearing supports for the bridge driveshaft. I used some brass freight car wheels for the bridge and trolley, and some steel rail on which the latter runs, then added bits of sheet styrene and basswood shapes to build the rest of the crane:
Wow, nice creative work guys!!!
Reading this, I threw together an example I had in the back of my mind.
I got a couple yards of 'Veil' at a fabric shop I intended to use as screen. It works!
I will probably buy white as the black is quite dark, but both can be airbrushed with real thin light paint. I threw these together quick to display. They also have real glass, Microscope Cover glass cut to shape. Yes, there are a few glue weeps, as things moved a little bit during my haste of assembly.
The structure is a Branchline 'Laser-Art' Lighthouse under construction. The box car is also a Branchline 'Plug Door' kit, I am painting in patched out MILW fancy yellow stripe scheme. I milled in the openings for the windows, & they are a mix of Grandt Line & Tichy. It also displays Archer Decals, rivets, & louvers for the HVAC area of the car. I like them a lot, but they co$t too much IMHO. But, see the results around the windows.
I did make a new axle for a Proto 1000 Erie Built out of a drill bit. Does that count?
I hate Rust
Hello
Mr B I like that station. Is that gate printed or was part of a kit?
Selector nice seen you did a good job on that switch if can get a closer shoot please post .
Wayne you have a very good eye for detail and it shows on you lay out very nice. That crane is cool great job
Ryan that screen looks good I will have to try that.
Ken yep that counts
Here are some smoke/steam stacks I made from tapered doll rod and fine mesh. I painted the mesh concrete. If you look close you can tell that it's on top. Next is a conveyor I made from scrap wood and this stuff we use at work to push parts out of are dies's.
Have a nice day Frank
Making a passenger platform from match sticks.
Cuda Ken
0-6-0 Hello Tbdanny very nice job on that gon. I have yet to try building a car of any kind. What was the hardest part ?
The hardest/most frustrating part of this was actually getting consistent-width balsa strips. Here's what I started out with:
I did have a balsa stripping tool, but the blade had a tendency to pick up and run with the grain of the wood. I think I went through about three of those sheets in the background of the photo above - 2 for the actual boards, and one in waste.
I love threads like this, they remind me that there's still lots of imagination and craftsmanship in this hobby even today. [Woodland Scenics eat your heart out! ] It's incredible what people can come up with using straws, matchsticks, foam board, grommets and whatever - great job everyone!
One day during a visit to my friendly neighborhood Home Depot, I picked up
a wide range of PVC pipe sections of different diameters ...
...some couplings...
...and lots of J*B Weld sandable epoxy. I used these raw materials, plus the shell of a building from an old Walthers kit and some Plastruct detail parts, to make this:
Here is what it looked like after being painted and set in it's 'natural' habitat:
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
excellent work guys ,I like these threads ...J.W.
CSX_road_slug I love threads like this, they remind me that there's still lots of imagination and craftsmanship in this hobby even today. [Woodland Scenics eat your heart out! ] It's incredible what people can come up with using straws, matchsticks, foam board, grommets and whatever - great job everyone! One day during a visit to my friendly neighborhood Home Depot, I picked up a wide range of PVC pipe sections of different diameters ... ...some couplings... ...and lots of J*B Weld sandable epoxy. I used these raw materials, plus the shell of a building from an old Walthers kit and some Plastruct detail parts, to make this: Here is what it looked like after being painted and set in it's 'natural' habitat:
Every time you post some pictures of your work. My jaw drops. That looks great.
CSX WOW that is great . You did a very fine job. Did you have plans or did you use just pic's? How many hours of fun was that ? Thanks for sharing Frank
0-6-0 CSX WOW that is great . You did a very fine job. Did you have plans or did you use just pic's? How many hours of fun was that ? Thanks for sharing
CSX WOW that is great . You did a very fine job. Did you have plans or did you use just pic's? How many hours of fun was that ? Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the kind words Frank. This is actually a scaled-up version of the Walthers kit. Their blast furnace is compressed to ~60% of true HO scale, too small IMHO for a later-era layout like my own. So I just measured everything on the Walthers model and multiplied those numbers by 1.5 to calculate the dimensions for my custom version, which scales out to 90% of HO. I did a crude blog on the project back in 2002, you can view it HERE.
0-6-0 CSX WOW that is great . You did a very fine job.
CSX WOW that is great . You did a very fine job.
I agree with Frank: very nice work. Most modellers don't realise just how much the Walthers model has been compressed in order to be suitable for those with limited space.