I have always been fascinated

I have always been fascinated by scrap yards, so I decided to make Sanford & Son Scrap for the E. St. Louis rail Group layout. The scrap is bailed and shipped in gondolas to Granite City Steel, elsewhere on the layout. I made the bales from aluminum foil squeezed with pliers.

Sanford & Son

Eric: Do you have a photo of you Sanford & Son?  If so please post.

       Elvin

Bales

Bales

Rick: I do not have a close up of the bales but can describe how to make them. Take a piece of aluminum foil 2" by   2" or larger and form into a ball about 3/8" in diameter and squeeze with a pliers on all sides until it is a cube shape. I don't try to make them all exactly the same size as you are striving for an overall affect. A pile of them looks very realistic. There are two sizes of bales that I have seen, one a 3' cube the other smaller at about 2' square.

Hm, good job! Well done))

Hm, good job! Well done)) Thanks for sharing) BTW, how much time did it take you to create this?

free image editor