A slight change of scenery
I have made a few improvements on my N scale layout. Recent photos show some deciduous trees and pine trees I made and added to several of my commercial and residential buildings. Then I made ten new Ponderosa Pine and ten Douglas Fir trees for my future mountain range. All of these were made using Woodland Scenics tree kits that have plastic armatures and ground foam foliage. Maybe I'll photograph the tree making process someday. I was too busy to stop the often sticky process to set up my camera. This photo shows a combination of new and three year old trees.
I also have several dozen Heki trees that I want to upgrade into more realistic versions of Englemann Spruce or Subalpine Fir for my higher elevations. The Heki trees are bottle brush type conifers with molded plastic trunks that will need more appropriate paint jobs and ground foam foliage. That will require some experiments to get the technique right. My objective is to portray the kind of forest I hiked in New Mexico near the Santa Fe Railway.
I am also reworking my industrial area. The factory and lumber mill you see on your right will be modified along with older buildings I pulled from storage boxes and a couple of kits that have been sitting for 20+ years. I have already rearranged the yellow lumber mill and the brick factory buildings. The new factory by DPM must go where the factory with the smokestack sat due to the location of the loading docks. The old brick factory will go where the yellow lumber mill sat and require a new loading configuration. The yellow lumber shed will get modified and placed next to an old factory building that will emerge after drastic surgery as a sawmill complex. First I have see see if the buildings fit next to the tracks and streets that access them before I start altering the buildings with new loading doors, new loading docks, new sheds, and roof modifications. New signs and figures come last along with landscaping.
A slight change of scenery
I have made a few improvements on my N scale layout. Recent photos show some deciduous trees and pine trees I made and added to several of my commercial and residential buildings. Then I made ten new Ponderosa Pine and ten Douglas Fir trees for my future mountain range. All of these were made using Woodland Scenics tree kits that have plastic armatures and ground foam foliage. Maybe I'll photograph the tree making process someday. I was too busy to stop the often sticky process to set up my camera. This photo shows a combination of new and three year old trees.
I also have several dozen Heki trees that I want to upgrade into more realistic versions of Englemann Spruce or Subalpine Fir for my higher elevations. The Heki trees are bottle brush type conifers with molded plastic trunks that will need more appropriate paint jobs and ground foam foliage. That will require some experiments to get the technique right. My objective is to portray the kind of forest I hiked in New Mexico near the Santa Fe Railway.
I am also reworking my industrial area. The factory and lumber mill you see on your right will be modified along with older buildings I pulled from storage boxes and a couple of kits that have been sitting for 20+ years. I have already rearranged the yellow lumber mill and the brick factory buildings. The new factory by DPM must go where the factory with the smokestack sat due to the location of the loading docks. The old brick factory will go where the yellow lumber mill sat and require a new loading configuration. The yellow lumber shed will get modified and placed next to an old factory building that will emerge after drastic surgery as a sawmill complex. First I have see see if the buildings fit next to the tracks and streets that access them before I start altering the buildings with new loading doors, new loading docks, new sheds, and roof modifications. New signs and figures come last along with landscaping.