Wow!

that looks great!

Nice work on that. Reminds me

Nice work on that. Reminds me of a stretch of track near Carpinteria CA!

Chris

Thanks Bremner. I can't wait

Thanks Bremner. I can't wait to get a new place in order to build a new layout.

Thanks shoofly.   I'm

Thanks shoofly.

I'm going to look up on the net to see where Carpinteria is.

Another inexpensive method is

Another inexpensive method is too use poly fibers and very small twigs for filling in spaces where you don't want to spend much. This was the case for me on a shelf layout. I knew the layout wouldn't be around for long and didn't want to put much money or effort into the corners of the layout yet wanted to hide the plywood.

Carpinteria....

Just south of Santa Barbara, CA, heading towards Los Angeles

White Rock beach

It looks like White Rock beach along the Great Northren right of way, going to Blaine Washington..Great modeling..

Nice diorama.    There

Nice diorama. 

There are all sorts of materials that can be used for scenery.  I found this stuff in the gutters on my roof...

Every spring this stuff falls from oak trees and gathers in street gutters.  You could spray or dye it green and use it for ivy or underbrush.

Sedum Spectabile makes pretty good trees.

Steve S

my mind is blown

that scenery is EPIC!!!!!!!!!!

Just add some oil oozing from

Just add some oil oozing from the rip rap and it will look like some of the beaches near Carpinteria...

S

" the beaches near Carpinteria..."

 I used to surf at Rincon and I recall watching new SP tunnel motors roar along the rails that were just across the highway from the beach. The coast line was pretty active in those days. The coast line is pretty slow now and I wonder if any of those tunnel motors still run on the UP?  The rip rap scene looks neat , looks like a still water area though and not the open ocean where the waves would leave a more scalloped kelp line. .DaveBranum  

And the award for creative use of corn silk goes to...

Deemiorgos.

I thought I'd heard of every natural material out there, and yet you've managed to come up with another one I had never considered.

i drove by there years ago,

I remember trying all sorts

An open ocean beach would be

I've been there Pusser Neats.

Mmmmm... that stuff has a lot

And what else is mind blowing

Well done

I assume this is HO (based on your other postings elsewhere) but I can see all sorts of applications in all sorts of scales.  When I was first starting out in 1980 I made conifers for my layout using dries armatures of Nandina picked right as it was just beginning to flower.  Grabbed a can of mom's hair spray, some course ground foam . . . and they worked, but were never tall enough to be yellow or loblolly pines (which we have down south in spades).

I'll have to add these to my scenic tricks bag - we have gutters and we eat a LOT of corn in the summer.

Thar might be Iron in them there materials!

Natural fine gravel and sand can make great scenery materials.  Just be aware that should there be ferrous metal particles (quite common in eavestrough tailings and beach sand) your engines may pick them up on their motor magnets.  Make sure to run a strong magnet over your mineral materials several times to pull out any ferrous material that they may contain.

Arnold

Nice flashback

It's especially evocative of that stretch of frontage road  containing the Beach Grill at Padaro, or whatever it calls itself now.

Thanks for the heads up on

Thanks for the heads up on that. Fortunately it is on a diorama. I will certainly keep this in mind for the future layout.

This is about the best beach ever.

What scale is this?

And, more importantly, what's the beach made from?

This looks fantastic!

Sven

Thanks Philip, Are you eating