Dumpsters

[Zafarelli]

I used the holidays to come up with some containers to go with my industrial terrain. Built completely from sheet styrene, then molded and cast in resin. The rest of the terrain is entirely Pardulon, except for a few balsa strips.



Different setup:


Btw, what are the correct English terms for these? I used two different online dictionaries, but all differ slightly in their translations, although most seem to fit. Hmm, I never really liked semantics.

[revford]

The open topped one is a Skip, the others can be called Hoppers if they're for storage or Bins if for rubbish.

They look great too. 

[capthugeca]

Call what you like. I'd call them excellent! 

[Plynkes]

Those pictures won't load for me, but I suspect the answer will be different if you are talking about English English or American English (there are many differences).

I've never heard our American cousins using the word 'skip', so I suspect they have another term. That term may well be 'dumpster'. I may be wrong.

[Zafarelli]

Oh no, not again. My webspace provider reinsured me that these kinds of trouble were sorted out. Guess he was wrong. Argh. Anyway, I have uploaded the pictures in my LAF gallery, so they should be viewable now.

I have already noticed that there are slight differences between British and American English Isn't there some internationally agreed upon expression? Maybe I'll just settle for "container"

[Plynkes]

Ah, I see them now. I agree with Revford. In English English the yellow one is a skip, and I would call the others bins.

There are many types of bin: Dustbin (trashcan in USA), wheelie bin, pedal bin (like you may have in your kitchen), recycle bin (both on a computer and in real life), a waste paper basket can be called a bin, you can even have bread bins.

Bin is a good word that covers lots of things. If in doubt call it a bin (in Britain, anyway).

[DFlynSqrl]

Plynkes has it right.  At least in my area of America (speaking for the American English) we would call both of those dumpsters.

[Will Bailie]

This is one of those cases of being divided by a common language.  My Scottish mother calls those things skips, which confuses everyone here, where they are known as dumpsters.  They look great, btw - just need to have the head of a dumpster diver peeking over the rim!

[Eisenfaust]

And for publications, it's Dumpster, capitalized, as it's a trade name, like Xerox or Kleenex.

One of the interesting things I've run across in my career as a copy editor.

We'd most likely call them all Dumpsters in my part of America, the Southeast, although there may be a more particular name for the open-topped one in the construction/demolition trade. I'd likely call it a skip because I'm an Anglophile and watch a lot of BBC television.

[Pil]

Very nice bins (and a lesson in English too ), the yellow and green ones are my favourites but that's probably because I've never seen a design like the red one before

[Zafarelli]

Thanks for all those helpful translations!

Pil, the red one I actually saw down my street a couple of days ago. The green one is lifted straight from Fallout 3 (although it was orange in the game), and I used to empty buckets of rubble in one of those yellow ones as my sumer holiday job back at university. So they all have some sort of roots in reality 

[Pil]

I figured the red one must have been around somewhere. just never saw one myself and of course it's always nicer to have stuff on the table you can recognise (that's how I feel anyway ). Anyway, a great effort. Are you going to make many more and will you sell them or is it too much trouble?

[Zafarelli]

As it is, I just released them at Pardulon, which I own, and shamelessly plug around here all the time . Well, commercial over, back to your regularly scheduled discussion of little lead men

[Pil]

Ah, didn't know that, thanks for the info It might be interesting to release them as sets with 3 identical bins as well

[Alfrik]

Dont forget that they can be mounted on small uni directional wheels, though in the construction buisness, the Open topped one can be mounted on the front end of a fork lift and trip line roll dumped, we called them Front Dumpers in that capacity.