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Scrap Tyres To Complete A Junk Yard Scene
Ramish has sent in this scenery ideas to share:
I am very proud of the Scrap Yard scene on my layout. Visitors always comment on the a pile of tires stacked up in the yard.
Unfortunately Ramish did not supply a photo of his trash yard scene, but this photo of another layout shows how the idea could look.
Here’s how I made it. A went to a local auto parts shop and bought a short length of the small diameter water hose (very cheap to buy). I cut it into thin slices based on my scale and painted them a dark greyish black and added some specks of mud color. When dry I stacked and glued them in place.
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Great idea. Another source are small donut shaped beads. (In fact beads are a great source of small stuff – vegetables (I have found pumpkin and melon shaped beads), fruit (round beads to represent apples, oranges and even onions (with string through the hole) and recently I discovered so barrel shaped wooden beads!
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Use small black “O” rings. That way you can show different tyre sizes.