Yes I spelled it right
Scrap not scratch
although i guess it is a form of scratch building
Im talking about making things out of what you would normally throw away
Like
These boxes and palate of bricks were made from window cut outs
These benches were also made from window cut outs
As was this pump house
So what have you built out of scrap ?
Interesting idea -
and good results.
Wolfgang
Terry, please forgive my ignorance, but what are window cutouts? I can see no resemblance of a window to what you have created. Good job!
I probably used the wrong word Bruce but Window cutouts are the pieces of material that
come out of the walls when you cutout a window opening
If you look at the last photo you’ll see 2 pieces of wood standing beside the shed
those are the window cutouts from a engine house i built
I had some leftover wood, so I made a passenger shelter.
I call such buildings “gleamings from the scrap box”.
Good job!
Not the best picture in the world, but I cobbled this small engine facility from a boxcar shell, half a gondola shell, some leftover sidewalks, a broken Bachmann signal bridge, a pen barrel and a piece of coat hanger… Plus I littered the platform with some odds and ends from the junk box.
Lee
One of the major tenets of model railroading used to be that “nothing is scrap”. [swg] If you find yourself with stuff that looks like it may actually be nothing other than scrap, use it as such:
“scrap” wheels and axles:
torn-down motor armatures:
wire from torn-down motors:
“scrap” stakes from Athearn flatcars:
general “scrap” from various sources:
“scrap” wood, from various other projects:
All of the loads shown are “live”, so they appear different every time a car is emptied and another re-loaded.
Wayne
Wayne - your wire coils are fantastic, I’ll have to keep an eye open for some old motors around my house!
The shredded scrap “metal” seen toward the right of the photo below, was made from pencil sharpener shavings:
Thanks, road_slug, your pencil shavings look very convincing, as do the loads in the gondolas. How did you colour the shavings?
Wayne
Silver spray paint, from a can sitting in my workshop for >3 yrs! [:D] The gon loads are Chooch’s.
I must say, your cast loads look exceptionally good, too. [bow] Very nice paint work. [;)]
Wayne
I dont have anything to add right now. I am still in the early scenery work. I love seeing how resourceful modelrailroaders are. Seems like we cant throw anything away!!
Wayne:beautiful loads!!![bow][bow][bow]
-tim
I made this engine servicing facilitly from some sprues that I got from a P40 Warhawk kit (1/72 scale, I think) and some model power layout wire.
Here’s all that I used (minus the can of neutral gray model master paint [no, i didn’t use the whole bottle for this, lol]):
Hi all: I used styrene, scale 4x6 lumber, parts left over from bridge kits, and parts from an old mine kit, to make this truck dump.
Modeling junk does make pretty good model junk. The junk in this photo is primarily bits and pieces from my slot car and car modeling period:
There are a few train items thrown in, too.
What I did was to mangle the pieces by tearing and cutting them with pliers and wire cutting pliers. Then I put them in a shoe box and sprayed them black (rattle can paint), then I gave them a light dusting with orange to represent rust. I glued the parts to the layout before the scenery and then I plastered right over them. After the plaster set, I brushed them with water to wash away enough plaster to make the junk show through. Finally, I colored the scene with oil stains and dusted on some ground cover.
BTW, this is the N scale layout that I built as a teen - 30+ years ago.