Hi,
I’m looking for sides of beef in HO scale and in O scale. Does anyone know of any manufacturers that may make them. I don’t care if they are plastic or metal and painted or not. I’m modeling a small meat packing house in both scales and need sides of beef to hang on the dock.
Joe M
Seems like that would be easy enough to make from green stuff then cast a binch of them.
The Walthers kit for the meat packing plant includes plastic sides of beef.
DOESN’T WOODLAND SCENICS SELLL THEM? I HAVE ALSO SEEM THEM ON EBAY. NOW I AM TALKING ABOUT BUTCHERED BEEF, NOT WHOLE BEEF COWS.
MIKE
IT’S NOT WOODLAND SCENICS, IT’S PREISER THAT SELLS THEM.
A quick look at Walthers.com didn’t turn up anything, except as noted that four sides of ‘dressed beef’ came with their packing house kit (now on sale by the way). Apparently unlike the beef cows they weren’t offered separately by Walthers.
Thanks for the replies. I called my LHS and have the Walthers Packing Plant ordered. That will take care of the HO beef sides. But, I still need some in O scale. If nobody makes them, I guess I will try and create some masters and cast some myself. in O scale. Any thoughts on what material to use for a master? Clay? Or something else?
Joe M.
IF WORSE COMES TO WORSE LET ME KNOW. I HAVE SEVERAL I GOT FROM A FSM KIT ‘BUTCHERS WAY’. IT’S THE NEW ONE FROM FSM. I ALREADY BUILT IT AND MADE SOME FROM BEES WAX THAT I COLORED TO LOOK BETTER THEN THE FSM ONES.
YES MAKING THEM IN O SCALE WOULD BE VERY EASY. YOU WOULD BE SUPPRISED HOW EASY IT IS TO MAKE A “SIDE OF BEEF”. USE BEESWAX, A LITTLE RED/TAN PAINT AND SOME THINNER. MOLDING THEM IS EASY ALSO. MOLD THEM ON A SMALL PIECE OF WIRE. I SHOULD HAVE TOOK PICS OF THE PROCESSS TO SHOW HOW EASY IT IS.
MIKE
For O scale, cut them from beef jerky, that way if you get hungry during your operating session, nibble on them. You kill two birds (beefs?) with one stone, you take care of the hunger pangs, and always have fresh for the next run. R. Staller
Couldn’t you just buy some plastic cattle cut off their heads, split them down the middle, fill in the cavity and paint? I haven’t tried it but some of the cattle on my HO pasture would be good candidates.
Geohan
What about making your one by forming bits of plastercine into carcass’s and painting them.
Probably a heck of lot cheaper.
This is the venerable Swift packing plant model. This one is made of cardboard, and I got it in a box-of-trains at a yard sale in the early 1960s.
It’s one of the few structures from my boyhood that made the transition to my current layout. The “sides of beef” were originally metal. They looked oddly metallic, even back when I was a boy, so I used “Rust” and “Cream” colored acrylics on them. It’s a small detail, usually hidden behind a line of stock cars, but I like having it there.
To make more, I’d just cut shapes from styrene, round the edges and paint them about like this. Unless they are right out in the foreground of your layout, they will look fine.
I’d go to the craft or hobby shop and buy some modeling clay. Some red clay and some white clay, rolled into little logs, and then twisted and rolled together, cut to shape and perhaps sealed with some matte medium, should replicate the look of a side of beef without spending much money.
Here is a prototype photo from this website
http://www.klinger-export.com/english/rind/rind_frisch1000.htm
Dave Nelson
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[dinner]
Let’s not forget about pigs.
Good-bye, Piggy!
Here’s a picture taken from my old layout showing sides of beef. I use gloss red enamel over dry-brush white to represent the fatty tissue.
Looks like dressed beef to me!