I like scrap yards anyone else?

Do you really want scrap iron on your layout?

Scrapiron Scher

Matt . Looks good mate I like it, I'm afraid mine won't be as tidy as Chucks!

Scrapiron, I had a scrap yard or junkyard on every layout I have ever built so I suppose the answer is yes. Roo.

Looking at one of Roo's earliest photo, L&N's, and now Matt's, I'm starting to conclude that the key to a good scrap pile is a well placed and well proprotioned fence.  At least as much so as a well weathered collection of scrap.

Around here the fences can be wooden or chainlink with a backing to hide the contents.  But they're never very high, and you can always see the old junk peeking out over the top. A mixed message of come in and browse and stay away .

Tomlinson Run Railroad

You can do a lot with a scrap yard especially an older one.  We have one near where I live and there is everything there. Last visit they had a B&LE caboose they were making in to the office. At an old yard they would make a fence out of anything they could prop up, including old metal roofing, sheet iron, car doors, hoods etc. Plus a dog house out of something old with the dog chained there.  A couple of old cars and some old street car bodies would work.

 I've been working on the Scrap yard,a tedious job glueing 100's of pieces of "Scrap Metal" in piles the hatch is starting to look good someday......Roo.

Here is a photo of the "hatch" open and a couple down on the ground photos. Nothing is finished except me. Roo.

Great modelling. 

Thanks Max good to get something done while I'm not using the layout.

Roo.

Small scrap yard nothing crazy. Was going to make a car junkyard in the future.

It's cool mate at least your getting off the chair and doing something!

Car junkyards are great, in Australia we call them Wrecking yards in the old days if you wanted a part for your car you would try the "wreckers" first. I have a car junkyard/wreckers on a portable layout out in the shed thanks for posting. Roo.

They are called wrecking yards or were here in the States, too.

I didn't realise that Jim, so many names nowadays, everything's changing. Here is part of my wreckers on the portable layout a bit dusty! Roo.

Dust in a scrap yard is good !  Most yards around here now have "recycling" in the name.  Whatever the name, they are an important part of our economy.

I could be wrong but it looks like a busy day at the scrap Yard! Roo.

I meant to mention that the scrap yard has reached the stage where all the hard work is over and what's left is just the pleasure of adding the small pieces of scrap and other items till your mind is content with what you have achieved, this to me is the best stage of a modelling project. I can come in the room like I'm about to do and glue down half a dozen pieces of "scrap" and walk out again and the good thing I can do it all again tomorrow as well. I hope I am reaching out to the "average" modeller like myself because what I do requires no special skills or tools whatsoever just a desire to do something. Roo.

Friends. Being a one man band it takes time to detail a large layout but here are some photos of the progress. Roo.

Is that bald guy doing what I think he's doing?  

YES!!

Got scrap.

I like those compressed autos! very good.

Roo.

Friends. here are some more photos this area is just about as far as I want to go at the moment. I have other ideas for that car park but not yet.  Roo.

I've just started on Shapiro's Scrap Metal. The 1957 Bucyrus Erie 22B crane is an EMD model and I turned the electromagnet from aluminum rod. Both it and the dozer are heavily weathered.  Have yet to add scale house/scales, chain link fence and LOTS more junk.

...gregg