Hi Brian, You could go to a busy intersection ( one in Florida, would be good ), and sweep up all the broken glass. How you would dodge all the girls, talking on their cell phones, would be the only problem.
Another thought,... go to a glass store, purchase some thin glass, put it in a metal container, and break it up with a big round stick. Be sure to wear safty GOGGLES, and I'll bet you could come up with something darn close to what you're looking for. Nothing beats the real thing. All take care, and Happy Thanksgiving! John Bell ----- Original Message ----- From: Pflarrian To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 6:52 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} Modeling broken glass in a hopper Hello, Wow! Lots of great ideas, guys, thanks! Now, I will agree with the idea that real glass would look best, but we have cats, and I am *NOT* using real glass around them. They *WILL* get into it, and they will get hurt, and then my wife *WILL* kill me! ^OO^ I'm not too thrilled with the idea of cutting up tons of clear styrene. The tempered glass idea is good, but I think I'll go with the idea to look through the holiday stuff for "clear" fake snow chips. Thanks for the glass block ideas though! I'd been thinking about that for a while, and that was going to be question #2. ;) I have to admit, the whole covered hopper idea had occurred to me. Thing is, I only have 3 freight cars right now. 2 Gondolas, and one covered hopper, and I want to use all three. I was also planning on modeling the recycling plant on-line, the assumption being that the glass doesn't have to go very far, and never leaves the "home road" rails. I could and probably will also use the covered hopper for shipping wire to the glass plant (some older glass block has wire reinforcement - they outlawed it about 5 years ago due to injury problems). - Brian Empanger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.11/1816 - Release Date: 11/27/2008 7:53 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
