Figure 2
Detailing Your Loading Docks Boxes and Drums and Pallets Oh My! by Charlie Comstock
Reader Feedback (click here)
S
pruce up your loading docks with some easy to create clutter. I mix boxes I make from bits of styrene with purchased 55 gallon drums, pallets, and other items for my HO scale BC&SJ. With a bit of weathering they look pretty decent.
After cutting the pieces to length I file off the burrs, trying to leave the pieces fuzzfree and with squared up ends (figure 3).
Boxes
I prepared the boxes for painting by using masking tape to stick them on a
I simulate corrugated boxes by cutting pieces of styrene stock to length using a razor saw (figure 2).
I press an X-acto blade across the top of the boxes to simulate the seam where the two flaps meet (figure 4).
Figure 3
Figure 2: Cutting styrene stock into appropriate sizes. Figure 3: A selection of raw boxes. Figure 4: Making the seam where the flaps meet on top of a box. Figure 5: Boxes taped to a piece of scrap and ready for painting.
Figure 1: Pallets, boxes, and 55 gallon drums on a loading dock.
Figure 4
Figure 1 Page 96 • Issue 7 • May/Jun 2010 • The Scenery Scene - Detailing Your Loading Docks, page 1
Tell a friend ...
Figure 5
Contents
Index