rrinker Wrote:I could probably sneak one in at the cement plant, being a large industrial concern - however I suspect much of their trash was probbaly just dumped in the flooded end of the quarry. --Randy

or..............was buried with Jimmie Hoffa

You are totally right, Ralph! We were very lucky kids to have a place to go to to get away from the heat of blacktop and concrete in the city of Philadelphia! But it wasn't because we were rich or anything. It was about priorities! My Dad could not take a vacation and stay at home ... we lived next door to the Church and never ever had a dinner without an interruption, either by the phone or the doorbell ... they knew where he was at 5:30 PM. So he borrowed against life insurance and rented the cottage out for all of the late spring and early summer months and in the early fall in order to pay the mortgage on it. And despite not having a phone (no one back in there in the woods did,) the year 'round people out by the highway did, and almost every year, they'd come back to get him (at dinner time, of course!) and take him to their phone ... and he'd then have to head home the next morning to do a funeral or something ... poor guy! Some vacation!

Now ... not to ...

But back in the late forties and into the fifties (possibly the sixties even) I don't think that super-rural upstate Pennsylvania had any kind of "approved sites" of any kind. All the small garbage collection guys dumped at the same spot back in those same woods that they'd been dumpng the garbage since the late '30's or early 1940's. I mean, we're talking "upstate rural" here. There were still locals who had and used "out houses" in the area ... our place was one o' them new fangled jobbers with a sess pool dug under ground with a french drain to a leach field down the hill! It wasn't until the early sixties that in the fall one year, Dad had a septic tank put in!

I mean, people didn't think anything of that stuff back then. We used to spread old used oil on the crushed red shale road to keep the dust down when a car went by too fast! otherwise all the clothes that my mother had just washed by hand that were drying on the line stretched between two pine trees got covered in red shale dust, including Dad's "Gotta Be White Pulpit shirts!" ... yuck!

I don't really intend to interject any "sub-title" editorial remarks ... they just kinda happen on their own. I'll try to be more aware of that kind of thing ... but it's tough to teach an old dog new tricks ... and this dog ain't no puppy!

I painted another one. These dumpsters are great. I can try out whatever painting technique comes in mind without fearing to ruin an expensive model. Very delightful.
Next to the painted dumpster is a 8 cubic-yard pilot model.

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I see excellent modeling in this thread. Well done, everyone.

A great thread guys, I'm glad I looked in on it.

Some of these dumpsters look down right cozy for living in.

I havent seen dumpsters here in Oz with side loading doors, so that was something new for me.

With the dumpsters made from wood as a Carpenter/Cabinetmaker I will suggest the following for those wishing to use that technique; choose the finest grain wood you can find, use the highest tooth number saw blade and cut slooowly to reduce tearout, then sand with coarse 80 grit, medium 120 grit and fine 240 grit sandpaper, using blocks and jigs to keep things square, prime then resand to remove fluffing, add details and continue. Actually it maybe better to size up and then sand the blank before cutting into little blocks and finishing the sanding.

I am also interested in the idea of resin casting bins and walk in bins as a good way to learn techiniques and who is going to critizise any imperfections when we all know that bins are all dinged up.

How did people do the wheels under the bins?

I have a number of dumpsters and recycle bins at work so I will measure and photograph them soon.
Next school holidays we will probably get one or two walk in bins, so I might get some details as well.
Better not forget the newer Trailer Trash towable bins either.
Mark

Fixit, if you get some dumpster photos, post them here if you can. Thanks for the advice on the wood. I used a piece of scrap framing 2x4 with fairly heavy grain. Maybe it is southern pine or whitewood.

And here is where I am on these now. Got them all "rough" painted and decales, next will be a dark wash, some rust spots, and then some drybrushing. This thread has been very informative, and I am glad to see so many folks interested. The thread gives some insight into different modeling styles and philosophies. We've got beautifully constructed and detailed dumpsters, and we have somewhat rough dumpsters. My focus was in quickly making a large number of dumpsters that would supplement the overall scene. On the other hand, it is apparent that SP1 put some care and effort into making his very nice.

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The wood based dumpsters fit seamless into the herd of the others. Paint and weathering do sometimes wonder

Mr Fixit Wrote:How did people do the wheels under the bins?

Mark -

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Looks like the wheels are just small sections of styrene rod.


Andrew

Yes, the "wheels" are slices cut form 0.040" styrene rod.

Sumpter250 Wrote:

rrinker Wrote:I could probably sneak one in at the cement plant, being a large industrial concern - however I suspect much of their trash was probbaly just dumped in the flooded end of the quarry. --Randy

or..............was buried with Jimmie Hoffa

Well, the plant I'm modeling was shut down in 1971, before Jimmy disappeared, so I'm reasonably sure this place wasn't involved. It was also completely torn down including a small strip of company houses that were on the same side of the road, and is now all a big industrial park.

--Randy

Interesting on the side door ones. Ones used in residential areas around here, such as apartments, are always the ones with the extra side doors - makes it possibly for regular people to toss a trash bag or two in, the big lids are kept close to keep the stink down. The larger size ones, especially if they have metal and not the plastic lids, are a real handful for one person to open up, hence the sliding door in the side.

--Randy

On the subject of apartment dumpster bins, at least one muli-storey block here in Melbourne has their bin fitted with a folding tow bar.

On 'bin day' the building manager or lackey can close the lids, wheel out the bin, hitch up to a car or ute and then tow the bin out from the car park [being restricted height 2.1 metres or 7 feet] and then deliver the bin to the chosen spot where the bin truck will empty it during its daily rounds.

Given the way things are going with Occ Health and Safety, we may yet see more bins fitted with tow bars to prevent injuries when bins require movement to empting locations from the loading point or else a move to smaller bins.

This could provide an excuse to model a tow bar equipped bin or two sitting outside a business awaiting or following emptying. Or you could say the bin has a tow bar because the bin company was short of standard bins and so delivered a tow bar equipped model of the required size.

Often if the factory has a forklift it will carry the bin[s] out and back.

Just some things I have observed during my working life.

Mark

Painted three more today. The close-up reveals that I have to go back and touch-up the paint here and there
Last week I also made the mold and cast a first copy. Came out well, so I can come up with a tutorial/primer in the near future.

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Best dumpsters ever!

Now you need a front loader refuse truck dumping one to complete the scene.
I can't believe how interesting this thread is, it is one of the details that is seldom modeled, and it adds loads of realism to the scene.
Charlie