Other Scrounger items.......loads for Postwar gondolas.......just snip off the tabs.
Here they are in traditional-sized Lionel gondolas.....
Peter
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Other Scrounger items.......loads for Postwar gondolas.......just snip off the tabs.
Here they are in traditional-sized Lionel gondolas.....
Peter
Another Scrounger trick: caps from toothpaste tubes painted silver make O Scale garbage cans. Arnold
And these same caps when painted concrete grey make great planters.
Miketg
Mike, I've done the same for planters.
And since Peter brought this up, here's a couple of little items I got from the, umm, medicine cabinet.
Scrounger's delight: this campfire with tiny battery in it that lights up:
It cost me nothing because it was a throw in that I got for free when I bought something else at a train show. Here is my glow in the dark campfire on the left side in photo below:
Arnold
More "scrounging"
The shipping cartons at MAX FOODS......toiletries boxes from hotels with Max's picture on them.....
Peter
Not sure if it qualifies as scrounging, but I've found lots of nice "detail" parts at Ace Hardware.
Brass rod of various sizes to simulate the HEP connections. Pretty rough in the raw form.
The strobe units on this are the joint sections I cut off of very small plastic tubing. I put an HO scale strobe unit in the loco with grain of rice bulbs so these slide nicely over them.
Similar approach to finishing out the cab car:
Arnold,
You might want to change your user name to "Scrounger #1". Did you make the hobo shack and cribbing? I need cribbing to complete my yardmaster car.
Not train related, but as an architect who started practice in the "good old days" prior to computer visualizations of EVERYTHING, I used to build models of buildings I designed using scrounged cardboard and chipboard from all sorts of sources.
I still believe this is the best way to visualize a building project. Call me old school on that, but I still enjoy using a pencil over a a pen too.
I bought Mrs, Lionelski 2 dozen long stem roses, the real expensive kind that come with a tube of water on each and every stem. No, I won't tell you what I did, but I figured that getting back in her good graces only a couple weeks before York would be a good thing.
I made this propane storage facility by painting these tubes grey, cutting out an ad for the sign from the Yellow pages (remember them?) and adding some old model spues.
Another free project.
I made this electric sub-station using a sleeve for an automobile radio and bits and pieces from my junk box.
Lionelski posted:
Very clever, John.
The billboard in the background is also very economical and, IMO, a nice addition to a layout. I got a big bunch of used Postwar billboards from a LHS for a nominal price many years ago that surround my Popsicle Stick ballpark and decorate other places along the tracks. Arnold
I love to scrounge or repurpose. Save all of your scrap wire after you wire your layout. Make trees. A little liquid electrical tape and the greenery of your choice.
Have Fun!
Ron
GG1 4877 posted:Not train related, but as an architect who started practice in the "good old days" prior to computer visualizations of EVERYTHING, I used to build models of buildings I designed using scrounged cardboard and chipboard from all sorts of sources.
I still believe this is the best way to visualize a building project. Call me old school on that, but I still enjoy using a pencil over a a pen too.
Kinda of reminds me of Falling Waters, a Frank Lloyd Wright style of house.Very nice.
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