Hi There;
This is a little junkyard scene I have been working on. The building is a Campbell kit. The fence is Campbell corrugated roofing stained & weathered.
Tom
Tom,
Looks really good man. Weeds on the fence add a very nice touch. Weathering looks great too.
Looks very nice and business must be good for the owner to drive a black Buick!
Fergie
That’s a great use of a small space. Nicely done!
That is a very nice model. My only comment, other than appreciation, is to say that it is the neatest junk yard I have ever seen. The junk is really good, but there is no litter or trash. I would mess it up a little more. The tall grass is nice, but it looks plowed and maintained in between like an English garden.
The weathering on the building is supurb and I love the corregated roof. You have a nice modelers eye. Thanks for sharing.
a very nice scene.i love your fence.that scene gives me some idea’s.post more pics when your done.terry…
Looks really good but it does need more junk in the junk yard though. There is a really inexpensive way to make junk cars.
Take some aluminum foil and cut them about 2 " x 3" …take a body shell off of your cars and fold the aluminum foil over the entire car body shell. Use a burnishing tool to get all the details of the car body etched into the aluminum foil. Once the outline of the car body is etched into the foil, very gently remove the foil from the car body. (It represents junk cars so they don’t have to be perfect. You can even smash in the finders, sides, or rear and front ends of the cars to simulate that they’ve been in an accident)
Once you have a few of the aluminum foil car bodies made, paint them with rusty, grimy, and primer gray colors. Paint the headlights and the car glass flat white and the taillights red.
Gently smash them together in stacks and it will create the look of old junk cars ready for loading onto the gondolas and heading to a recycling plant…chuck
Hi Tom,
Your scene looks great and I’ve got to thank you for mentioning that you used a Cambell structure for the office because I couldn’t decide which structure to use for my scrap yard, It turns out that I have that Cambell building and moved it into my scrap yard where it looks great, just like yours. Thanks again for the tip.
By the way, I have a front loader and small crane in my scrap yard to load gondolas. If you have a spur allowing gondolas to enter your scrap yard, you may want to consider one or both pieces of equipment.
Regards,
Mondo
Hi There;
Thanx guys for all your suggestions & comments.
Art;
The reason there is no growth is I am modeling the 50’s before there was tree huggers & fish kissers. The toxic waste from the junkyard has killed off everything around the junkyard. (thats my story & I’m sticking to it)[:)]
Mondo;
Your’e welcome. I would like to have been able to put in a spur but lack of space prevented it. Post a pic of your junkyard-love to see it.
Tom. that’s a good story. I like it anyway. Part of the kicks of this hobby is modeling the stories behind the scenery. You still need a broken bottle and a lost shoe, especially if it is the 50’s…