I started the fencing around the scrap/junk yard last night and things got a bit out of hand, scenically…
Before
‘Wills Scenics’ fence added
After
Jon
Looks good, need more junk, nice to look at though. I like the shredder/crusher need a better picture of that. Is it scratch built ?
Nice Nice work. Imaginative. So many would settle fo the before pic as nice scenery and it was, but the additions are artistic and inspirational. I love to run trains, but the scenery like this is why I do this. I like the uneveness of the fense. What is Wills Scenic?
Great fence, is that scene depicting the tracks under Cromwell Road in Earls Court ? ?
I hope to add more junk as I find it.
Here is a link to the Wills Scenic range of models - although mainly British OO gauge stuff, I mix and match with HO - the fence I used is ‘feather edge fencing’
http://www.railway-models.co.uk/1342_1.html
Jon
looks really nice. I like it =) It looks like its set some where back east, i guess just the buildings styles and the greenery… its never that green out here in CA. More junk would make it even cooler. keep up the good work.
The workers are busy collecting junk
Jon[:D]
Very nice, very creative. Looks like a picture out of a magazine issued in the 50’s.
-Crandell
nice job! i have an excavator like that.i really like those white metal kits.
I’m just wondering, assuming the 1950s - wouldn’t most scrapyards by that time have a corrugated metal fence (metal panels on either a metal or wooden frame), or a chain-link fence (chain link fencing apparently has been around since before World War One!).
Hmm, just another prototypical thing to worry about, what kind of fencing for what was was popular when…
For a while the plain ol’ wooden board fence so enamored by model railroaders seemed to be going away - most fences in my area (Long Island, NY) tended (when not wrought iron, brick, or chain link) to be wood stockade fences - now the board fence is coming back via pre-built panels from Home Depot and other home centers, but a whole lot fancier (for plain panels - plastic! Imagine, you can put unpainted styrene on your layout, and it’ll be prototypical!).
Anyway, jon, I expect to see really big foam piles covered with metal shavings, painted pencil sharpening, and… pasta! Some body wrote an article a few years back about using dried, broken pieces of lasanga (or other wide flat pasta) painted and weathered to represent construction debris - I must try this soon myself.
You could well be right - must look into it
I remember that article. I am busy collecting lots of small plastic and metal shapes for the junk piles, I’m sure I have some spagetti in the cupboard.
Jon
Those pictures look great, you did a great job on the detail.
Be sure to weather the pasta with a good “red sause” for best eating !! Don’t forget the Parmesan chesse for added taste.
Just as a question, are the fences creating any operational problems, concealing turnouts (points) or uncoupling ramps? Chain link fencing might be more advantageous for site lines and keeping the “Junk Yard Dog” on home territory!
Sweet Home keeps getting better and better.
Will
I’ve just got to say…
I’ve never seen a junk yard fence looking that well built, healthy, complete, undamaged… un-splattered with grease/paint/crud. Even for those halcion days of the 50s. How about adding some split/missing boards? Ratio do a chain link fence pack (so do Walthers) you might cover the holes with wire? You might have an unofficial way in/out.
Oh yeah; how about sticking some ties in the ground to give the dozer something to pu***he junk against? Or push in some rail and lay ties in a wal in front of them… otherwise the dozer will be pushing the junk all round the yard…
And no puddles? Neither gundgy water nor neat sump oil?
Oh… back at the fencing… how about using a spare boxcar door or end to fill a hole in the fence?
Not complaining really… just trying to find you more detailing work to do [8D]
thanks for the pics.[:D]
have fun!
Lots of good ideas there, David.
At the moment, I’m concentrating on getting all the fences on the layout done, before detailling each area, but I like the idea of broken boards and using old doors to cover the holes up.
Jon
Well Jon, you’re legally OK with the wood fence - I did a search and came up with several muncipalities zoning regulations regarding salvage yards (or, as the older ones put it - ‘Auto graveyards’), and wood fencing (along with chain link and corrugated metal) were/are definitely allowed in those municipalities (nowadays some request hedge screening also).
If you remember the pasta construction debris article, perhaps you remember another column which stressed this advice “No matter how tempting, do NOT add railroad parts to your junkyard” I guess the railroad tie embankments would be an exception, but I remember many layout-photo tours from the 1970s and 1980s MR with railroad parts in the auto junkyards, and it looked a bit silly (indeed, I think they used to sell a detail accessory kit of railroad junk, particularly remember the nose of a F unit everywhere…)
I built this junkyard on Louie Blachowitz’s home layout in Ironton, PA.
That is sure a fantastic job you did there. Reminds me of my childhood days in Pittsburgh, Pa. As a kid I would “pick” scrap to earn spending money and am quite familiar with junk yards. The small ones has wooden fences. The large ones, like the one I remember being filled with Pennsy steam engines to be cut-up, would have a chain link fence. Every junk yard I was even in or saw, the crane had a magnet instead of a shovel. The smaller ones would have a crawler like you have but the larger ones would have an overhead crane. Your photos not only showed how much excellant detailing does to a layout but it also brought back some childhood memories for me.
Tom
Nice touch with the raised oilcans Chuck - I’ll borrow that idea.
Chutton01, thanks for the warning on RR parts in the yard.
Jon
The conveyor is by Piko. I will try and find a link for you.
Jon