I worked in dismantling yard in south Wales in the mid-70s. 3.5 acres filled with time expired vehicles all of which used to be someone's pride and joy, and yes, taking the gearbox out of a Wolseley 110 five cars up is one of the memories. We used a 22ft crane but a smaller yard could make do with an ex-RAF Jones crane (Airfix).
What I and surely many others appreciate about your evolving modelling skills is the fact you are a keen observer of the real thing and great at reproducing it in model form while telling a story. It is most enjoyable and inspiring. So thank you, Richie.
This randomly showed up in my recommendations. I never thought I would find something like this enjoyable, but here I am, enjoying myself. Thank you RUclips for your random, strange, but helpful recommendations. And thank you for your videos. Keep up the great work!
Absolutely loved this - was in stitches from start to finish. A voice of experience if ever there was one! I remember scaling a four-high stack of cars in the 1980s, hanging on for dear life to wishbones and wing mirrors and standing on rusty wings slippery with oil. All you need for perfect realism is a virtual lake in the middle of the yard, the guy in the orange shirt to have a bigger beer gut, more dirt on his clothes, braces, some stubble and perhaps a dilapidated caravan on blocks for an office. A rusty grab-crane is almost a must, together with some car roofs bearing evidence of its crushing attentions. Arson damage to a vehicle or two could be fun to recreate - not forgetting the remains of an old timber office that 'just happened to catch fire' shortly before the VAT records inspector was due on site. Keep up the brilliant work!
I agree with Colin Rimmer, the opening scene was just brilliant. I have spent the last few weeks watching every single one of your videos in order from the first to the latest and thoroughly enjoyed the journey. ( thousand times better than the rubbish on tv ) so thank you and keep them coming. I'm now watching Dean Park Station from the beginning.
It is amazing how so many people in the UK were happy to drive around with multi-coloured cars back in the 70's - 80's. A wing or the odd door swapped with one of another colour from the local scrap yard. I must admit to being guilty, my old MK3 Cortina had a different coloured drivers door for well over a year. I was a common sight back then to see cars like that. Don't see it at all these days. Mind you, scrap yards are so much more of a rarity these days, three or four decades ago there were dodgy scrap yards in every town - often several per town, these days they have pretty much been regulated out of existence. But, your scrap yard and cars certainly bring back a lot of memories, very realistic indeed.
As a mechanic in the seventies and eighties I would often have to get bits for my mates from scrapyards like this as we all had cars we couldn't really afford. I certainly remember the awful black mud that we used to wade through particularly if it had been raining. Can you imagine in today's health and safety obsessed times being allowed to climb two or three cars high like a monkey as they never had a ladder and then remove bits in the pouring rain while the car rocks about six or seven feet in the air!
OK that little sketch at the intro had me cackling, lmao. Surprisingly early too, YT did send me the notif. You inspired me to bing my first modelling job, got myself a old Athearn Blue box SD40T-2, will try and make her into a BB40T-2. Keep up mate, love your content.
That yard looks very realistic! I worked in a scrapyard briefly back in 1988. They had a Ford D series truck with a Hiab crane on the back which they used to move and stack vehicles, I drove it a few times, even though I'd not yet passed my driving test! They also had a tracked excavator with a grab attached to the arm instead of a bucket which they used to crush the cars. They used to drive the thing over cars to flatten them before they were stacked into an open topped container ready to go for final processing. The metal tracks came off the machine one time when they were trying to crush a car! I used to drive a site dumper around to pick up rubbish and try to keep the site tidy, an impossible task!
I love the spirit of this layout. As a child of the 70s, brought up in industrial working class areas, this is a well-observed, and deeply evocative tableau of the time. Well done on this, and I look forward to seeing more of this great project!
That is one evil scrapyard guy - no crane and he's stacking cars... It's looking awesome, as always. Love your updates, so inspiring. Cheers from Denmark 🤘🏻 Mikkel
Love the intro! I used to go round many scrapyards with my dad in late 70's to early 80's as a teenager and they were just as yours. Always pure mud ground with cars piled 2 high. You got bits off yourself back then and just had to deal with it if the car you wanted bits from was the one on the top. Now the Elf & Softie brigade would have a heart attack. I never remember anyone getting hurt though. Your detail work is amazing. Thanks for doing these videos.
I remember trying to take a driver's door off a Mk2 Escort estate in a scrapyard with my dad. The car was on top of a 3 car stack and when my dad undid the last bolt, I couldn't hold the weight of the door and it fell down to the ground. It bent the bottom edge. We nearly left it there, but as it was still better than the frilly, rusted door on my car, we bought it and bent it back into shape. Those days are long gone now sadly.
There was a yard in Mildenhall I went to circa 2007 where you could still climb around getting bits yourself, had a load of Rover 214's piled 3 high. There was a CDR in the boot of the second one up I was interested in getting away, just to see what was on it, but didn't fancy my chances. Or at least wanted to be killed by a cooler car.
Reminds me of the days (late 80s early 90s) when I would visit a scrap yard just like yours with my dad, he'd have me climb up the vertical stacked cars to climb into an engine and remove the alternator or look for fuses... miss those days
Juweela is the manufacturer of the HO crushed cars. You can resin cast the juweela cars to produce multiple copies. Got a ton of crushed cars for my scrap yard this way. Richard,wonderful modeling & thank you for sharing your work. It helps others in their pursuit of modeling.
Been following your work for many years and get so much from your videos. I love not only the build but being on the journey with you as the layout progresses. Thank you Richard for your time and energy, which means so much to so many both with and without their own layout. The build and camera work incredible, so life like. Reminds me of the hornby advert with Bernard Cribbing. This hobby should never die and thanks to people like you and New Junction plus others you inspire others and show what can be achieved and enjoyed as the hobby should be. Thank you
Happy days, I remember clambering up to the top of a pile of cars to get parts for my Capri 1.6GL back in the 80s. I swear that Transit with the red doors was my mates fathers Mk1. Just came across your channel by chance and I'm hooked 👍👍👍👍🏁
Very creative thinking , and skillful execution with such good presentation , it seems so professionally put together ,it was much better to watch than many tv shows...thanks for your efforts
I love this because as a kid i was always at the local car scrappers, i used to climb up the piled up cars and nick the speakers and radios haha, im talking early 80s about 1982, we were always messing about with old cars
I love the white transit look. Just shows how, even “white van man” has evolved. You don’t see vans like that now, but there used to be thousands of them. Great observation.
Stunningly amazing!!! You could have a small open back truck in the space at the front delivering some white goods and old scrap, like the metal blokes that used to go round back in the day. A couple of blokes unloading it and maybe a dude with a fridge on a hand cart half way down the yard! It looks unbelievable. Watching on to your latest video in November, the grass behind it looks real in my opinion. Its incredibly good. This layout is just stunning.
Brilliant mate, I have a friend who’s family run a scrap yard which we would muck around in and this really captured the heart and feel of it. Enjoyed the Max & Paddy opening, but at 20:17 I half expected to see an SPV pull up in the scrap yard!
great video, with loads of useful tutorials. Spent most of a lot of time in my friend's Dad's scrapyard as a kid, and i remember there being loads of chrome window surrounds, side trims and lots of shattered glass ground into the mud. You have the ground spot on. Thanks for sharing.
Great stuff Richard. Spent many a hour here (downunder) seeking parts in better condition than those already fitted, usually in vain! I have a couple of suggestions from personal experience for you to consider. Every yard seemed to have a mangey dog which viewed clients with a deep level of suspicion. Many vehicles missing original wheels and sitting up on tyreless wheels at the jacking points when suspension parts have been removed. A venerable tractor with forklift prongs for stacking or destacking cars. Always look forward to new posts - stunningly thought out and detailed!
Ah Richard, reminded me of my days working in a scrapyard in 70s & 80s. We constantly had a 45gal drum burning something or other( you wouldn't get away with it now) also oxy/propane bottles for the burner's. A brilliant discription of the period. Happy modeling regards John Merthyr
Great video ! I worked in a scrap yard for a short while in the early 70's, from memory there would be piles of bits taken off of cars before they were crushed there would be heavy scrap ( engines gear boxes back axles etc) light scrap( exhausts bits of body work etc) non ferrous metals ( brass copper & aluminium etc) and lastly wiring looms, as the repressors din't want the insulation we use to set fire to it when the pile got big enough ( pollution ? what pollution ? !! ) to crush the scrap bodies we would cut the A and C pillars with an gas axe and drop a 8ft square plate of 1 1/2" steel on them from a height of 10-12 foot with a crane.just some ideas .What I do remember is the mud and pools of liquid every where.
How awesome is the length of that coal train! Some great work has been done on a scrap yard area. All the details and rubbish is fantastic. I could spend ages staring at that one scene. That intro tho was a great laugh and well executed. Very enjoyable watch. Clint
Love it ! Any train journey you make you will always see a scrap yard and vistas you show here . Wow if we could pick up some of the car models in real life you would have some nice classics . Nice work from you , really authentic.
Hi Richard I’ve watched all your videos from the start absolutely fantastic great modelling I’ve been watching Dean Park and Chadwick you chaps have certainly inspired me to get back into model Raikways I can’t believe how the hobby has come along well done keep it up.
Great start to the video Richard,who doesnt like a bit of Max n Paddy. Top effort with that scrap yard. Just needs an oily puddle and a bloke in a manky boiler suit and it'll be like all the scrappys I've visited in the past. Top video again, thanks for sharing.
I thought this was real until the plastic figurines got out. You've got some incredible skill. I don't even collect trains but I couldn't stop appreciating your work!
Brilliant as always. I’ve certainly seen window frames in scrap yards as here in Essex there was a firm called Crittal windows and they were made of galvanised steel.
Super video, so much detail, I really like the way you explain all the detail each piece has a story, I just hope none of the oil or petrol leaks into the canal or he'll have the Environment Agency knocking at the door !!!
Excellent progress. A few suggestions - In scrapyards, there's usually stuff stored on top of the offices. Car doors and bonnets were often stored in piles. Tyres were often piled up separately in a lean-to. Engines lying about on oily ground, and of course an old Ruston Bucyrus crane to lift the old cars.
Your layout and Dave Class 47 have always IMO been the two most detailed layouts on RUclips. However your attention to detail I think now puts you out in front!! Certainly you incredibly accurately convey the level of decay present in some of the UKs ex-industrial towns of the past. Great effort...
The attention to detail is stunning. Although I remember a few old tyres being used to put cars on ground or a few on the roof or bonnets in scrapyards in the 80’s. Also maybe cut a shopping trolley in half and make it look like it’s half sticking out of a canal or something?
Amazing work mate. I love the office with the flat roof. You can just imagine it being freezing in there in the winter with a one bar electric fire. Have you thought about plastic bags caught on the barbed wire fence - witch’s knickers as they’re known - and litter on the embankment? One of those blue invalid carriages would really date it too. Lovely stuff.
Really enjoyed that! In the '60s one of my jobs as a kid in the garage was underseal and Gun Gum. I was an exhaust and wheel arch "specialist". A magician. A disappearer of things.😀. I can't help thinking the scrap merchant would have spilled onto the railway embankment and that one stack of cars would have toppled unsafe. Need a dog and a horse box full of propane cylinders and a couple of chickens! Like you said you can keep on going and when you get bits left over from elsewhere, just scrap it. Need a lift of some sort, old tow truck. Sorry! Getting carried away. Super scene. Regards Stephen.
Great video! I'm planning on a narrow but long scrap yard with mainly old appliances, scrap metal, autos & an auto crusher. The yard will-have one track coming in to pickup scrap metal. Many great ideas here! Thanks!!!
Love the paddy and max cameo. Just a small suggestion in reference to the scrap yard. A old dirty forklift for lifting and moving vehicles and if it can be sourced guard dog. Food for thought
A fun start to your video, I had to smile. This is just such a stunning project altogether and a standard of modelling that's very hard to surpass. I enjoy looking at your handiwork and the little details that make things seem so realistic. Well done, keep posting new videos.
Richard yet another outstanding bit of work. Scrapyard needs a crusher or heavy bit of machinery to move the cars about. Just love it. Again super work.
amazing stuff , looks just like the scrap yards me and my mates used to raid for bits when i had my old rover sd1 , many happy memories , only paying for the big bits and trying to smuggle out switches and little bits of trim in the tool box , And yes i did spot the sd1 behind the sherpa at the beginning .
Absolutely brilliant. Great work all around- rolling stock and scrapyard. When I use to work on cars, I spent lots of time in junkyards as we call them... nice to see a paved one- well, was paved- as most of the ones I crawled under cars in were pure ground. Strong memories of muddy Februaries as I crawled under various minivans covered in mud look for a diverter valve for a heating system while my two young daughters shivered and handed me tools. Anyhow, clever intro skit and Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet switch over! Cheers.
Spot on you took up my advice for your scrap yard! Pour a small black oil spill out of one of the bottoms. Suggestion, one of those cars is bound to have a leaky crank case.
A few puddles would go a long way toward helping to complete the scene, especially over by the building where the wood walkway is. Also, 2-3 piles of tires stacked 6-8 deep on top of each other along the fence. Just a few suggestions. Great job on the scrapyard !!
After being away from viewing your videos I have to say I'm blown away! The amount of detail is fantastic. I will be trying out a small 1/76 diorama, Maybe the transit at the back could benefit from being overrun by brambles that have reclaimed it to the earth, The mk3 Cortina would look smart with maybe a bare engine block dripping oil over it's roof also .. If you need any photos of scrap cars I can supply some as I work with a scrap collector.. Keep up the amazing work- Jack
There was always scrap yards around this area just like that back in the day before regulations cleared them all. There was always either some old ex military crane or some kind of modified fork lift truck to move cars about. Usually as far from road worthy as you can get. Astonishing work though👍
Wow you have got one hell of a talent mate. I was mesmerised watching that. I cant get over the level of detail especially when you was doing that van. 😲
Your layout must be one of the most realistic I've ever seen. I was taken aback by the giant hand suddenly appearing in the middle of what looked like a 'real world' scenario! :-)
You have a wonderful eye for realistic detail. I really appreciate how each detail tells a story. Love video format as well. Very enjoyable video! Gary
WOW. This is a work of art and you are a magnificent artist. Modelling is art and the colours you chose along with the way you design your layout and all the different areas is work of art. Magnificent buddy.
Another great video. This reminds me of the scrap yards I went to as a lad, being fascinated by the old cars and terrified of the sketchy owners. They always seemed to have an old forklift or crane with grabs or electromagnets kicking around to stack the cars with. One I remember was ex MOD on tracks and sounded great!
Fantastic to watch, the level of detail amazes me. It's kind of hard to think that these sort of play second fiddle to the trains on a layout. Also, you could take one of the shopping trolleys and cut it at an angle so it sticks out of the canal for added realism ;)
Wow, I always remember as a kid my dad having a mk 1 transit van..........one of which was a camper van ........I remember going down to cornwall (perinporth) in it..........but hey, that video brought back a lot of memories LOL
Great video. I could just smell the motor oil watching this, reminded me of happy times with my dad searching for treasures for my latest old banger. lol
I worked in dismantling yard in south Wales in the mid-70s. 3.5 acres filled with time expired vehicles all of which used to be someone's pride and joy, and yes, taking the gearbox out of a Wolseley 110 five cars up is one of the memories. We used a 22ft crane but a smaller yard could make do with an ex-RAF Jones crane (Airfix).
Your scenery doesn't just occupy empty space, it tells a story.
It arguably always does. If it's done badly, it tells the story of a shit modeler.
Absolutely brilliant Richard, loved the breakdown scene at the beginning gave me a laugh. 👍
Cheers, that was good fun to put together.
I thought that little scene at the beginning was a laugh!
I know it's peter kay's voice but which one is it
I love that you told a story with the diorama. I always tell people every diorama tells a story but yours was way more then just that.
"The BMW broke to the point where it was unusable." True authenticity.
As a mechanic, i can confirm this.
The BMW didn't indicate in time and, well, underwent a sad story
Still my go to video while modelling my own scrap yard so much inspiration
What I and surely many others appreciate about your evolving modelling skills is the fact you are a keen observer of the real thing and great at reproducing it in model form while telling a story. It is most enjoyable and inspiring. So thank you, Richie.
So very true
This randomly showed up in my recommendations. I never thought I would find something like this enjoyable, but here I am, enjoying myself. Thank you RUclips for your random, strange, but helpful recommendations. And thank you for your videos. Keep up the great work!
Absolutely loved this - was in stitches from start to finish. A voice of experience if ever there was one! I remember scaling a four-high stack of cars in the 1980s, hanging on for dear life to wishbones and wing mirrors and standing on rusty wings slippery with oil. All you need for perfect realism is a virtual lake in the middle of the yard, the guy in the orange shirt to have a bigger beer gut, more dirt on his clothes, braces, some stubble and perhaps a dilapidated caravan on blocks for an office. A rusty grab-crane is almost a must, together with some car roofs bearing evidence of its crushing attentions. Arson damage to a vehicle or two could be fun to recreate - not forgetting the remains of an old timber office that 'just happened to catch fire' shortly before the VAT records inspector was due on site. Keep up the brilliant work!
Brilliant piece of modelling Richard. A manky looking guard dog would set it off nicely...
I agree with Colin Rimmer, the opening scene was just brilliant. I have spent the last few weeks watching every single one of your videos in order from the first to the latest and thoroughly enjoyed the journey. ( thousand times better than the rubbish on tv ) so thank you and keep them coming. I'm now watching Dean Park Station from the beginning.
The paintwork on the red cars fabric roof showing mould is brilliant. So many perfect touches and attention to detail!
The realism of the patina and weathering is top notch
It is amazing how so many people in the UK were happy to drive around with multi-coloured cars back in the 70's - 80's. A wing or the odd door swapped with one of another colour from the local scrap yard. I must admit to being guilty, my old MK3 Cortina had a different coloured drivers door for well over a year. I was a common sight back then to see cars like that. Don't see it at all these days. Mind you, scrap yards are so much more of a rarity these days, three or four decades ago there were dodgy scrap yards in every town - often several per town, these days they have pretty much been regulated out of existence. But, your scrap yard and cars certainly bring back a lot of memories, very realistic indeed.
There's nothing I enjoy more on RUclips than a new Upload from Everard Junction. Thank you for the many hours of entertainment.
As a mechanic in the seventies and eighties I would often have to get bits for my mates from scrapyards like this as we all had cars we couldn't really afford. I certainly remember the awful black mud that we used to wade through particularly if it had been raining. Can you imagine in today's health and safety obsessed times being allowed to climb two or three cars high like a monkey as they never had a ladder and then remove bits in the pouring rain while the car rocks about six or seven feet in the air!
OK that little sketch at the intro had me cackling, lmao.
Surprisingly early too, YT did send me the notif.
You inspired me to bing my first modelling job, got myself a old Athearn Blue box SD40T-2, will try and make her into a BB40T-2.
Keep up mate, love your content.
I was sure I heard Noddy Holder's voice in there somewhere.
Are you going to be re gauging the BB40T-2 to HOm??? I have thought about a DDM45 in HOm but not taken it any further.............
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It was great, from a sketch on tv show Max and Paddy’s road to nowhere if I’m not mistaken
That yard looks very realistic! I worked in a scrapyard briefly back in 1988. They had a Ford D series truck with a Hiab crane on the back which they used to move and stack vehicles, I drove it a few times, even though I'd not yet passed my driving test! They also had a tracked excavator with a grab attached to the arm instead of a bucket which they used to crush the cars. They used to drive the thing over cars to flatten them before they were stacked into an open topped container ready to go for final processing. The metal tracks came off the machine one time when they were trying to crush a car! I used to drive a site dumper around to pick up rubbish and try to keep the site tidy, an impossible task!
I love the spirit of this layout. As a child of the 70s, brought up in industrial working class areas, this is a well-observed, and deeply evocative tableau of the time. Well done on this, and I look forward to seeing more of this great project!
I feel like you need a Reliant Robin in that scrap yard somewhere.
Tom Storey yes
Flying around the corner in the morning, yes you do :)
Ad some side wheels and a camera crew to it.
It should definitely be on its side - or perhaps a Bond Bug!
They're made of Fibreglass - not much scrap!
That is one evil scrapyard guy - no crane and he's stacking cars...
It's looking awesome, as always. Love your updates, so inspiring.
Cheers from Denmark 🤘🏻
Mikkel
Love the intro! I used to go round many scrapyards with my dad in late 70's to early 80's as a teenager and they were just as yours. Always pure mud ground with cars piled 2 high. You got bits off yourself back then and just had to deal with it if the car you wanted bits from was the one on the top. Now the Elf & Softie brigade would have a heart attack. I never remember anyone getting hurt though. Your detail work is amazing. Thanks for doing these videos.
I remember trying to take a driver's door off a Mk2 Escort estate in a scrapyard with my dad. The car was on top of a 3 car stack and when my dad undid the last bolt, I couldn't hold the weight of the door and it fell down to the ground. It bent the bottom edge. We nearly left it there, but as it was still better than the frilly, rusted door on my car, we bought it and bent it back into shape. Those days are long gone now sadly.
My dad would have me climb up the stacked cars to look in the glove box for spare fuses and the like...
@@icmdead1 I used to get told to do the same and to grab anything else useful I could pocket. Fun times!
Robster Bob now it’s all electronic shite. Those days sadly are gone, I’m 12 now, looking to *try* and find a cheap (ish) 70s 80s thing.
There was a yard in Mildenhall I went to circa 2007 where you could still climb around getting bits yourself, had a load of Rover 214's piled 3 high. There was a CDR in the boot of the second one up I was interested in getting away, just to see what was on it, but didn't fancy my chances. Or at least wanted to be killed by a cooler car.
Reminds me of the days (late 80s early 90s) when I would visit a scrap yard just like yours with my dad, he'd have me climb up the vertical stacked cars to climb into an engine and remove the alternator or look for fuses... miss those days
Juweela is the manufacturer of the HO crushed cars. You can resin cast the juweela cars to produce multiple copies. Got a ton of crushed cars for my scrap yard this way. Richard,wonderful modeling & thank you for sharing your work. It helps others in their pursuit of modeling.
Great work as always Richard. Glad you find time to make and share videos with all of us
Very good but no puddles or water & oil .
Been following your work for many years and get so much from your videos. I love not only the build but being on the journey with you as the layout progresses. Thank you Richard for your time and energy, which means so much to so many both with and without their own layout. The build and camera work incredible, so life like. Reminds me of the hornby advert with Bernard Cribbing. This hobby should never die and thanks to people like you and New Junction plus others you inspire others and show what can be achieved and enjoyed as the hobby should be. Thank you
Happy days, I remember clambering up to the top of a pile of cars to get parts for my Capri 1.6GL back in the 80s. I swear that Transit with the red doors was my mates fathers Mk1. Just came across your channel by chance and I'm hooked 👍👍👍👍🏁
Very creative thinking , and skillful execution with such good presentation , it seems so professionally put together ,it was much better to watch than many tv shows...thanks for your efforts
I have just finished watching from the beginning after seeing one of you videos. I really enjoyed watching and learning.
I love this because as a kid i was always at the local car scrappers, i used to climb up the piled up cars and nick the speakers and radios haha, im talking early 80s about 1982, we were always messing about with old cars
What an eye for detail. Just incredible. The way you’ve dealt with the scrap van is fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
You did an amazing job mate
I love the white transit look. Just shows how, even “white van man” has evolved. You don’t see vans like that now, but there used to be thousands of them. Great observation.
Stunningly amazing!!! You could have a small open back truck in the space at the front delivering some white goods and old scrap, like the metal blokes that used to go round back in the day. A couple of blokes unloading it and maybe a dude with a fridge on a hand cart half way down the yard! It looks unbelievable. Watching on to your latest video in November, the grass behind it looks real in my opinion. Its incredibly good. This layout is just stunning.
Brilliant mate, I have a friend who’s family run a scrap yard which we would muck around in and this really captured the heart and feel of it.
Enjoyed the Max & Paddy opening, but at 20:17 I half expected to see an SPV pull up in the scrap yard!
great video, with loads of useful tutorials. Spent most of a lot of time in my friend's Dad's scrapyard as a kid, and i remember there being loads of chrome window surrounds, side trims and lots of shattered glass ground into the mud. You have the ground spot on. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely loved. Brilliant thinking and craftsmanship
This is fantastic reminds me of going to scrap yards in the 80s as a kid looking for parts to fix up cars
I was getting drawn into the scenery then at 5.30 your hand entering the screen threw me back to reality haha thanks again.
Last time I was this early we were still in the club. Good to see another upload from you, Richard 👍🏻🍺🍻
I worked in a Ford Dealership in the late 60's. Our workshop van looked like that and they were only launched in 1965. Great video.
I bet it did, Ford wrote the book on rust! Cheers
Great stuff Richard. Spent many a hour here (downunder) seeking parts in better condition than those already fitted, usually in vain!
I have a couple of suggestions from personal experience for you to consider. Every yard seemed to have a mangey dog which viewed clients with a deep level of suspicion. Many vehicles missing original wheels and sitting up on tyreless wheels at the jacking points when suspension parts have been removed. A venerable tractor with forklift prongs for stacking or destacking cars.
Always look forward to new posts - stunningly thought out and detailed!
Ah Richard, reminded me of my days working in a scrapyard in 70s & 80s.
We constantly had a 45gal drum burning something or other( you wouldn't get away with it now) also oxy/propane bottles for the burner's.
A brilliant discription of the period. Happy modeling regards John Merthyr
Great video ! I worked in a scrap yard for a short while in the early 70's, from memory there would be piles of bits taken off of cars before they were crushed there would be heavy scrap ( engines gear boxes back axles etc) light scrap( exhausts bits of body work etc) non ferrous metals ( brass copper & aluminium etc) and lastly wiring looms, as the repressors din't want the insulation we use to set fire to it when the pile got big enough ( pollution ? what pollution ? !! ) to crush the scrap bodies we would cut the A and C pillars with an gas axe and drop a 8ft square plate of 1 1/2" steel on them from a height of 10-12 foot with a crane.just some ideas .What I do remember is the mud and pools of liquid every where.
How awesome is the length of that coal train! Some great work has been done on a scrap yard area. All the details and rubbish is fantastic. I could spend ages staring at that one scene. That intro tho was a great laugh and well executed. Very enjoyable watch. Clint
Love it ! Any train journey you make you will always see a scrap yard and vistas you show here . Wow if we could pick up some of the car models in real life you would have some nice classics . Nice work from you , really authentic.
Loved the Max and Paddy reference at the start
Looks really good, maybe add an large forklift to move stuff around.
Thoroughly enjoying all the details ... the stories they evoke, imagination and execution are spot on. 👍
Love that the reg on the Rover comes up as a Green Rover on the DVLA car check.
Hi Richard I’ve watched all your videos from the start absolutely fantastic great modelling I’ve been watching Dean Park and Chadwick you chaps have certainly inspired me to get back into model Raikways I can’t believe how the hobby has come along well done keep it up.
Great start to the video Richard,who doesnt like a bit of Max n Paddy. Top effort with that scrap yard. Just needs an oily puddle and a bloke in a manky boiler suit and it'll be like all the scrappys I've visited in the past. Top video again, thanks for sharing.
Ha ! I remember a rising 'plimsole line' of underseal slowly rising on cars of that era! No-one bothers nowadays. Great details
Going back further into 1970s, underseal covered a multitude of sins! It was also excellent for smearing thickly inside loudspeaker cabinets.
Superbly done as always. The small details really do bring the scrap yard to life.
Greetings from Sammamish
A Piano should always be on top of a Marina, this prevents other Pianos falling onto the roof
It also improves it's looks and handling.
It's also impossible for me to visualise a green Mini without a reclining chair on top. ;-)
I thought this was real until the plastic figurines got out. You've got some incredible skill. I don't even collect trains but I couldn't stop appreciating your work!
Enjoyed the intro & great to see that the scrap yard is no longer nice smooth concrete
Really loved this. Never seen your channel before so it was 34 minutes of pure enjoyment. Thanks man.
Brilliant as always. I’ve certainly seen window frames in scrap yards as here in Essex there was a firm called Crittal windows and they were made of galvanised steel.
Super video, so much detail, I really like the way you explain all the detail each piece has a story, I just hope none of the oil or petrol leaks into the canal or he'll have the Environment Agency knocking at the door !!!
Excellent progress. A few suggestions - In scrapyards, there's usually stuff stored on top of the offices. Car doors and bonnets were often stored in piles. Tyres were often piled up separately in a lean-to. Engines lying about on oily ground, and of course an old Ruston Bucyrus crane to lift the old cars.
Your layout and Dave Class 47 have always IMO been the two most detailed layouts on RUclips. However your attention to detail I think now puts you out in front!! Certainly you incredibly accurately convey the level of decay present in some of the UKs ex-industrial towns of the past. Great effort...
The attention to detail is stunning. Although I remember a few old tyres being used to put cars on ground or a few on the roof or bonnets in scrapyards in the 80’s. Also maybe cut a shopping trolley in half and make it look like it’s half sticking out of a canal or something?
The scrapyard is stunningly realistic. Well done. You seem to have a photographic memory. Thanks for the update. See ya next time.
Amazing work mate. I love the office with the flat roof. You can just imagine it being freezing in there in the winter with a one bar electric fire. Have you thought about plastic bags caught on the barbed wire fence - witch’s knickers as they’re known - and litter on the embankment? One of those blue invalid carriages would really date it too. Lovely stuff.
Really enjoyed that! In the '60s one of my jobs as a kid in the garage was underseal and Gun Gum. I was an exhaust and wheel arch "specialist". A magician. A disappearer of things.😀. I can't help thinking the scrap merchant would have spilled onto the railway embankment and that one stack of cars would have toppled unsafe. Need a dog and a horse box full of propane cylinders and a couple of chickens! Like you said you can keep on going and when you get bits left over from elsewhere, just scrap it. Need a lift of some sort, old tow truck. Sorry! Getting carried away. Super scene. Regards Stephen.
Great work...attention to detail is amazing..really enjoyed watching this
Great video! I'm planning on a narrow but long scrap yard with mainly old appliances, scrap metal, autos & an auto crusher. The yard will-have one track coming in to pickup scrap metal. Many great ideas here! Thanks!!!
I’ve watched a number of train panorama’s the last couple of weeks. This one I like very much because it is the closest to ‘reality ‘. Great job!
Wow, you have got that looking so real. Love your layout and it's a good day when I see an update from you.
Looking at the details shown in the end of the video, I can actually smell that scene. You nailed the junkyard atmosphere.
Love the paddy and max cameo. Just a small suggestion in reference to the scrap yard. A old dirty forklift for lifting and moving vehicles and if it can be sourced guard dog. Food for thought
You've given me a great idea for my n gauge layout
A fun start to your video, I had to smile. This is just such a stunning project altogether and a standard of modelling that's very hard to surpass. I enjoy looking at your handiwork and the little details that make things seem so realistic. Well done, keep posting new videos.
Richard yet another outstanding bit of work. Scrapyard needs a crusher or heavy bit of machinery to move the cars about. Just love it. Again super work.
amazing stuff , looks just like the scrap yards me and my mates used to raid for bits when i had my old rover sd1 , many happy memories , only paying for the big bits and trying to smuggle out switches and little bits of trim in the tool box , And yes i did spot the sd1 behind the sherpa at the beginning .
Wow, what precise modelling. Really expert. I love the intro with the northerners arguing. The ballast weathering is stupendous
Absolutely brilliant. Great work all around- rolling stock and scrapyard. When I use to work on cars, I spent lots of time in junkyards as we call them... nice to see a paved one- well, was paved- as most of the ones I crawled under cars in were pure ground. Strong memories of muddy Februaries as I crawled under various minivans covered in mud look for a diverter valve for a heating system while my two young daughters shivered and handed me tools. Anyhow, clever intro skit and Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet switch over! Cheers.
Spot on you took up my advice for your scrap yard! Pour a small black oil spill out of one of the bottoms. Suggestion, one of those cars is bound to have a leaky crank case.
Brilliant! The attention to detail really is second to none.
A few puddles would go a long way toward helping to complete the scene, especially over by the building where the wood walkway is. Also, 2-3 piles of tires stacked 6-8 deep on top of each other along the fence. Just a few suggestions. Great job on the scrapyard !!
Brilliant. One of the best dioramas you've done and a really entertaining video to show us how to do it.
That is so realistic, really great to see you building up the details - I'm sure I've been to this scrapyard.... ;)
After being away from viewing your videos I have to say I'm blown away! The amount of detail is fantastic. I will be trying out a small 1/76 diorama, Maybe the transit at the back could benefit from being overrun by brambles that have reclaimed it to the earth, The mk3 Cortina would look smart with maybe a bare engine block dripping oil over it's roof also .. If you need any photos of scrap cars I can supply some as I work with a scrap collector.. Keep up the amazing work- Jack
There was always scrap yards around this area just like that back in the day before regulations cleared them all.
There was always either some old ex military crane or some kind of modified fork lift truck to move cars about. Usually as far from road worthy as you can get.
Astonishing work though👍
Wow you have got one hell of a talent mate. I was mesmerised watching that. I cant get over the level of detail especially when you was doing that van. 😲
Your layout must be one of the most realistic I've ever seen. I was taken aback by the giant hand suddenly appearing in the middle of what looked like a 'real world' scenario! :-)
You have a wonderful eye for realistic detail. I really appreciate how each detail tells a story. Love video format as well. Very enjoyable video! Gary
WOW. This is a work of art and you are a magnificent artist. Modelling is art and the colours you chose along with the way you design your layout and all the different areas is work of art. Magnificent buddy.
Another great video. This reminds me of the scrap yards I went to as a lad, being fascinated by the old cars and terrified of the sketchy owners. They always seemed to have an old forklift or crane with grabs or electromagnets kicking around to stack the cars with. One I remember was ex MOD on tracks and sounded great!
Fantastic to watch, the level of detail amazes me. It's kind of hard to think that these sort of play second fiddle to the trains on a layout. Also, you could take one of the shopping trolleys and cut it at an angle so it sticks out of the canal for added realism ;)
Wow, I always remember as a kid my dad having a mk 1 transit van..........one of which was a camper van ........I remember going down to cornwall (perinporth) in it..........but hey, that video brought back a lot of memories LOL
Amazing Richard ..brilliant weathering
Brilliant Richard so much detail really enjoyed this video.
Nicely done, I am from that era, looks very real!
Truly something we can all aspire to. Magnificent modelling.
Scrapyard looking awesome. Great job. Max & Paddy and a broken Sherpa, love it!!
Everard junction is my go to place absolutely love watching.
These skits are getting better and better
Great video. I could just smell the motor oil watching this, reminded me of happy times with my dad searching for treasures for my latest old banger. lol