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Storage tanks from Quick Oats conainers, fire watchtowers and deer-stands from skewers and popsicle sticks?
THEY ACTUALLY DO LOOK GOOD!
If you don't want to pay HUGE prices for plastic model train building kits, just look around the house, or office supply store, or "junk for a dollar store", for things that already sort of look like what you are building.
Say you needed a stack of boards for a sawmill or as a load for your model trains and the price for a molded plastic lumber stack is too high.
What then? Just cut popsicle sticks (you can find those at a craft store) into boards that are all the same length. After that, glue them together and paint the ends with a bright color. (for a little extra realism)
If you need an industrial size water tank, start with an empty container of quick oats, cut enough of the top off so that it will stand upside down, then cut the lid to the size of the bottom of the container, hot glue it to the bottom and wait for it to dry, this will now be the top. After that, hot glue skewers into the general shape of pipes on the sides and top of the container. Then, paint the entire outside of the container with a metalic silver paint. (I used spray paint)
When the paint dries, brush on a more dull grey paint over the metallic paint. (not so much as to cover all of the metalic paint, but enough to make the tank look older.) After that paint dries, mix brown and red paint into a rust color and brush it onto part of the tank, then quickly wipe it off with a paper towel. (it actually spreads the paint giving it an old rusty look) After finishing the rust on the tank, build a ladder out of skewers and toothpicks then paint it with the same rust color as used on the tank. Once that's finished, just add a paper "keep off" sign by the ladder and a paper hatch on top. ( I then proceded to brush on more rust color on top of the hatch and glue over it with school glue so the paint would stay on.)
It may be EXTREAMLY LIGHT and may not be what you're looking for, but it does work.
THEY ACTUALLY DO LOOK GOOD!
If you don't want to pay HUGE prices for plastic model train building kits, just look around the house, or office supply store, or "junk for a dollar store", for things that already sort of look like what you are building.
Say you needed a stack of boards for a sawmill or as a load for your model trains and the price for a molded plastic lumber stack is too high.
What then? Just cut popsicle sticks (you can find those at a craft store) into boards that are all the same length. After that, glue them together and paint the ends with a bright color. (for a little extra realism)
If you need an industrial size water tank, start with an empty container of quick oats, cut enough of the top off so that it will stand upside down, then cut the lid to the size of the bottom of the container, hot glue it to the bottom and wait for it to dry, this will now be the top. After that, hot glue skewers into the general shape of pipes on the sides and top of the container. Then, paint the entire outside of the container with a metalic silver paint. (I used spray paint)
When the paint dries, brush on a more dull grey paint over the metallic paint. (not so much as to cover all of the metalic paint, but enough to make the tank look older.) After that paint dries, mix brown and red paint into a rust color and brush it onto part of the tank, then quickly wipe it off with a paper towel. (it actually spreads the paint giving it an old rusty look) After finishing the rust on the tank, build a ladder out of skewers and toothpicks then paint it with the same rust color as used on the tank. Once that's finished, just add a paper "keep off" sign by the ladder and a paper hatch on top. ( I then proceded to brush on more rust color on top of the hatch and glue over it with school glue so the paint would stay on.)
It may be EXTREAMLY LIGHT and may not be what you're looking for, but it does work.
