It’s been years since posting on MR forum. I’m back modeling heavy industry but smaller than my huge steel mill of by gone days.My vision still sucks but I don’t let it slow me down. It just takes longer to scratch build.
Instead of modeling the whole complex,I decided on scaling down a bit.
The build started with my grandsons Bruder Caterpillar D9 . Gave it to him when he was five. He of course destroyed this toy but left pieces . So this build all started with the tracks.
So far I’ve built a shreader feeder apron (three months) and next working on the scrap shreader. Aside from the massive scrap yard planned. There will be a heavy forge shop,Ingot plant, and other goodies.
One of the goodies is an HO caterpillar 350MH material handler feeding the shreader. Kit bashed from a KDW brand die cast toy.One good thing about kids and grandkids. A never ending supply of toy parts for scratch building…
I don’t have a computer hooked up to share photos but will try to get my better half to post something.
Very cool. We have a couple of scrapyards on our layout, one industrual and one automotive. They make a great spot for broken scenery bits and those kits one never seems to be able to finish. One of these days, I might try my hand at a “live” boxcar- or engine-scrapping scene.
Your scrap yards sound interesting. Any custom built scrap equipment or are they kits ?
Started on my auto shredder today.This will take some time to scratch build. Bachmann makes some decent resin details,such as silos and conyayors. That’s about it for buying things for this build.
Over the years, I collected a few of those “piles of junk” castings, and finally had enough to populate the scrap yard. The old cars were the kind of plastic toys that used to come in cereal boxes, heavily weathered and rusted.
No modelled scrapyards on my layout, but lots of scrap passing through, either to or from a scrapyard…
All of the loads shown are “live” (loose material) and most of the loaded cars shown weigh around 8-10oz.
Having the scrap run through in this manner, rather than laying around in a scene, saves industrial real estate for the other industries which I find more interesting.
I also have a lot of industries which are not modelled, but nevertheless ship and receive cars from designated industrial staging tracks. This allows me to ship scrap in for sorting, and out for the industries which will process the sorted material. At various times, the same staging tracks can represent a myriad of other industries, too, saving valuable layout space, but still generating traffic.
Doc, nice supply of scrap metal. Looks like we shop at the same dumpster. I will be adding a scrap yard at some point to the real estate. I will have to watch this thread.
The material handler in the background started life as a KDW brand toy. Bashed/scratched into a Caterpillar 350MH with a high rise cab. The Caterpillar 992 is a Shinsei 1/96 model.Close enough to HO for my taste.
Scratch built from styrene signs from Lowes. Strip cut by old school paper cutter. Many hours months to build thus far. I did have to buy I beams from my local hobby shop.
Thanks! [:D] It occurred to me after I’d posted them that you may have seen them before. Good to see you back here.
Your scrapyard machinery looks good, but for your last few photobucket inclusions, it appears as if you’ve used the wrong line of data, as the pictures don’t show.
I find that clicking on the line beginning with “img” copies the entire line of data, which can then simply be “Pasted” into your post here. I’m told that it doesn’t work for all users, but worth a try, as it couldn’t be simpler.
Mister Beasley, great looking scrapyard. The old cars look really good!
On my layout, I have a typical rural junkyard. The junk is mostly resin castings. The old garage, I got at a swap meet. The office building is a Laserkit.
Johnson’s Junkyard.
Overhead view
Outside wall made out of recycled boxcar doors.
I forget who makes this casting. The small shed is Woodland Scenics.
Those are some very nice-looking small scrapyards…makes me wish I had room for one, but my industrial districts are either full or have their proposed industries awaiting completion.
John, I like that dilapitated roof on the garage - is that Campbell’s corrugated roofing or did you make it yourself?
