Usage for Model leftovers?

[novice]

I just finished a few HO building kits and you know the frame the pieces are attached to? - I was wondering if anyone has found a use for them besides the round file.

I cut and used a few to create a bill board, and was thinking I could use a few as telephone poles.

Thoughts?

[cabledawg]

I keep mine in a parts bin to use as bracing for other buildings or just accent pieces like gutters and such.

[shaygetz]

I've used them for piping, pillars, replacement smoke jacks for cabooses, filling holes in models when relocating other parts...even acetylene and oxygen tanks for a scratchbuilt welding rig...

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p96/1shaygetz/DSCF9824.jpg

[novice]

Excellent ideas guys - I knew if anyone knew what to do with them, you guys would!

Thanks :)

[concretepumper]

Parts trees are good for fabricating missing or broken parts! :D

[sstlaure]

Conveyors and chutes in grain elevators, feedlines for a distribution head (again grain elevator detail) downspouts on gutter systems, exposed pipe in a construction area (dig a hole and have the pipe visible in the hole) Pipe loads in a gondola.

[novice]

See, I knew there was a reason for keeping these things - waste not want not LOL

Thanks for the ideas :D

[tkruger]

I have sprayed them black or silver for pipe loads. Also used them for scrap loads. Have seen people use them to make trees, not tried that myself yet though.

[Bman]

Awesome set of torches shay!!! :thumbsup: