e-paw, those loads look great. What did you use to keep the rust loads on the core? Was it white glue or something else. I will post tonight the metal loads I made. I am always interested in the materials used.

Thank you gents..

The scrap loads are glued to painted artist foam board with full strength white glue. Then I thin the glue about %50 with wet water and give it a good soaking with an eye dropper.[attachment=16135]

The coal loads have a foam insulation board core that is painted black, with a washer imbedded in it. That makes for easy removal with a magnet. I glue the "coal " to it just like the scrap. I didn't put a washer in the scrap loads, because they just don't nead it.[attachment=16134]

I was trying to find something to make scrap metal loads and I was stumped. I started looking around and here is what I have done so far. I got some pencil shavings and painted them chrome. It was the only paint I had at the time. I also painted some a rust color and will mix the two together. See attached. Next, I will shape a piece of Styrofoam and glue the shavings to it and spray a clear coat over that. More photos as the project develops.

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I also picked up a small bag of the stuff they use to spread on the floor to pick up oil and such. I sifted the material and got large, med. and small rocks that I will use for a rock load. Pictures on that project when I start it.

The first load I did a couple of nights ago was the gravel load. I made a template of the gondola, traced it onto the styroform and cut out the form. The styroform was 1" thick so I cut that in half.
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Than I shaped the foam.
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After the form was shaped, I painted it with Desert Sand paint than dipped it in the gravel. After I dipped it, I soaked it with water & dish detergent than added 50/50 mix of water and glue. After it dries, I will put it in the gondola and see if I was successful.
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The scrap load was the same process as the gravel. I painted the Styrofoam with Steel Gray than dipped it in the pencil shavings.

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Pencil shavings........ Hoodaa Thunkit 8-)

Makes a great looking scrap load ! Time to check my pencil sharpeners, for a "load of scrap"

, those are good-looking loads, but how in heck do you paint pencil shavings?

I'm saving all of the cut-off feet, legs, lower torsos, and other body parts which result from modifying LPBs into locomotive crew members and seated passengers in coaches and automobiles. If I can get enough of them, I may make a gondola load for my as-yet-to-be-built rendering plant.

Wayne

doctorwayne Wrote: , those are good-looking loads, but how in heck do you paint pencil shavings?

Wayne

I put them in a tall drinking cup than spray painted them. It took a few minutes as you need to keep shaking the cup to move the shavings around to get them all painted. And also you need to scrap them off the sides of the cup as they will stick to the paint that is on the side of the cup.

I also liked the rust loads e-paw made. I am looking around for that material.

doctorwayne Wrote:I'm saving all of the cut-off feet, legs, lower torsos, and other body parts which result from modifying LPBs into locomotive crew members and seated passengers in coaches and automobiles. If I can get enough of them, I may make a gondola load for my as-yet-to-be-built rendering plant.Wayne

Is that the Soylent Green plant? Sprinkle on some GERN food flavouring and ...

Oh maaaaaannnnnnn!

doctorwayne Wrote:I'm saving all of the cut-off feet, legs, lower torsos, and other body parts which result from modifying LPBs into locomotive crew members and seated passengers in coaches and automobiles. If I can get enough of them, I may make a gondola load for my as-yet-to-be-built rendering plant. Wayne

doctorwayne, think you'd better check your computer security, looks like "Hannibal Lechter", accessed your screen name and posted here. :o

Sumpter250 Wrote:

doctorwayne Wrote:I'm saving all of the cut-off feet, legs, lower torsos, and other body parts which result from modifying LPBs into locomotive crew members and seated passengers in coaches and automobiles. If I can get enough of them, I may make a gondola load for my as-yet-to-be-built rendering plant. Wayne

doctorwayne, think you'd better check your computer security, looks like "Hannibal Lechter", accessed your screen name and posted here. :o

I hope I don't come off sounding '' gory'', but as a kid living in Chgo very near the stock yards. I used to ride my bike all over the neighborhood and then some. Any way I was riding on Ashland ave. one day and on the street was a dump truck, with extended sides that were covered with a tarp, but the back side only covered half of it. I happened to notice that inside were animal body parts, horse and cattle, going down the street to a rather large building which was Darling & Co. rendering. The reason I'm telling this story, is because that very same side of the street a half a block further, was another large building, facility. Named ''Juicy Fruit'' Gum. I have always wondered about that. In that whole area, all you smelled was the gum.
Frank,zstripe

Nah, not gory at all.

As for the animal parts and the gum factory, I'd guess there'd be some sort of connection.
When I was a small kid, probably four or so, I was visiting an aunt who was, hmm....nice enough, I guess, but had aspirations of being a bit posh. I was chewing gum (Dentyne, the only kind which was allowed - and mouth closed, too ) and she asked if it was bubble gum. "No", I said, "I'm not allowed to have bubble gum."
"Well", she went on, "That's a good thing, because you know where bubble gum comes from, don't you?"
"No." I replied, but I sensed an explanation about to be offered and said no more.
"You know the milkman's horse?"
"Yes."
"Well, that "thing" which hangs underneath him is what they use to make bubble gum." she offered, then shuddered and made a disgusted look.
"Oh." I replied politely. "I suppose they wash it first, though." I thought that she might pass out, but my mother, sitting across the table from me, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

I'm guessing the gum is more likely from the hooves, but, either way, it never deterred me from bubble gum in later years. :mrgreen:

Wayne

All right this thread has gone to a place I haven't ever thought of .. I think I am now going to take a shower and cry myself to sleep. Now every time I chew a stick of gum it will now force me to wonder if it comes from horses hanging parts :oops: ..

My father-in-law ran the local Darling & Co. plant in East Liverpool. My wife always told the story of the Y&S train that hit the second double in the truck they used to run daily to Cleveland. I heard this several times, and when I was working on the SW7 for the LBCV I met the crew. They were retired, but they swore they thought they had killed the driver. There were animal parts scattered all over. I even talked to the guy that lived in the house by the tracks. He said it was a month before he could stand the smell. Talk about hazmat.

Charlie