Those look great Tom. They should be ecstatic about them they’re beautiful. I’m getting ready to make some Great Northern Log/ pole cars. I think they may be fictional but I don’t care I really don’t lean on prototypical anymore I get burned out and lose interest so I quit doing that and trying to please everyone besides me. Any way could you sheld some light on the debris left from the wood. I’ve seen guys do this and have some ideas but yours is more convincing. If you don’t want to share your technique I understand I’ll post some pictures of my project later.
Lee, I have no secrets for modeling.
The debris on the pulp car deck is called slash. I use canopy glue and sprinkle/pour it on. I use a stick and tap it down into the glue. The picture shows that Pile. I do come back, (Thursday morning for these) and brush off whatever didn’t stick. Back into the jar it goes
I use a few materials to make the slash:
Branch material too small to be convincing model pulp wood. I shave off the bark with an xacto knife and then run the remaining through an electric pencil sharpener. (the bark goes to the pulp yard ground cover after going once through a hand cranked coffee grinder)
I take bamboo skewers and run them through the electric pencil sharpener
I take scrap balsa wood, shaved down to fit the electric pencil sharpener
Put all three materials in an empty clean peanut butter jar and shake it up, mixing well. I take pinches of the material and sprinkle it on the deck as I first noted.
It takes maybe 30 minutes to make enough slash for 30 cars. Today, I made my third big batch. I had done some experiments before settling on this method. DO NOT MAKE SLASH USING PENCIL SHAVINGS, that load still smells like pencil lead
The pulp yard crew generally could care less about slash on the car deck, it will blow off during the next car movement which puts it on the ground in the pulp yard
pictured below are a few old pictures of slash in the pulp yard and a prototype picture of a car with slash on the deck.
TomO
