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Regular poster 105 posts Dan S. Regular poster 105 posts
Dan S.

I have finally got back into the train room to complete more scenery on my layout focusing on the trestle area around North Fork. The forest canopy was done using my method of woodland scenics forest canopy foreground trees blending into puff balls.

The scene ended up much as I hoped it would and very much reminds me of the area that inspired it. The Covel trestle on the former Virginian Railroad. A quick search on rail pics or google will yeild the prototype scene.
This is the basic scenery is in and i am trying to rough in most of the scenes before i go back and add the finer details to really make them pop.

 

 

 

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Cheers

 

Dan
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John Winter Prolific poster 1,001 posts
John Winter

Very nice

Looks great. John

My Layout Blog: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/22280
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claymore1977 Active Member 62 posts
claymore1977

Agreed, VERY Nice

Dan,

  Wonderful work!  This is the kind of stuff that inspires me.  Thanks for sharing!

Cheers!

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Dave L

http://therustyspike.com/

"A penny for your thoughts, but you get to put your two cents in.... hey, someone's making a penny!"
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michaelrose55 Super User 3,458 posts
michaelrose55

That really looks good. I

That really looks good. I like your trees!

 

Michael

The Breitenbach - Rosenheim Railroad V4
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rickwade Prolific poster (deceased) 6,447 posts
rickwade

Very, very nice - especially the trees!

Dan,

I really like the scenes and like Michael I am impressed with the trees.  How did you do them where they don't look like the standard "puff ball" items?  How deep is the scene?

 

 

Rick

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The Richlawn Railroad Website - Featuring the L&N in HO  / MRH Blog  / MRM #123

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IrishRover Prolific poster 1,660 posts
IrishRover

GREAT!!!

This is a wonderful scene--the bridge is impressive!  I love the perfectly ballasted main line--clearly, MOW has been through recently.  It's nice to see such a nice main line--it seems like most model railroad track shows off lines that haven't had a complete redo in AGES!

You mentioned going back to make the scene "pop," and I had a though for that.  Don't weather the track, but put hints that it has been redone very recently.  Perhaps some slight residual debris that the clean-up missed, some torn up grass trackside--in short, subtle signs that the line was completely overhauled a few weeks ago.

Is the trestle one or two tracks?  It's not easy to see from this perspective?  And--will there be any of the old catenary supports that one of the pics showed?  Those would give a feeling of time--unused/abandoned infrastructure does that.
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Ironhand_13 Frequent poster 706 posts
Ironhand_13

That shot

looking up at the bridge....it's very dramatic and impressive!  Gives a person the true perspective of height there!  I'm referring to pic 4 (above) as opposed to pic 5.  Not at all trying to nit-pic, just admiring the camera angle.
-Steve in Iowa City
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Dan S. Regular poster 105 posts
Dan S.

The scene it 2 feet deep at

The scene is 2 feet deep at its deepest. I used the forest canopy product in the foreground and used quite small puffballs using the same ground foam. The puffballs are not technically puff balls. They are more like puff shapes. I found the more random in shape i make them the better they look and each one is actually only half a puff ball.The majority of them are larger ones cut in half.The front couple of layers are supported on bare trunks and the land forms are stepped up behind the front couple of rows. Pieces of the forest canopy have been inserted to break up the puffballs. The bridge itself is single track and was actually scratchbuilt apart from the microengineering girders. I never actually gave any thought to the catenary supports as the covel scene really only inspired me on the feel of the area and never really set out to replicate it 100 % faithfully. I may just add them but not sure. The idea of keeping the right of way clean but adding other details to suggest maintenance is great and likely one I will use. Dan
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rickwade Prolific poster (deceased) 6,447 posts
rickwade

Dan, thanks for the details.

Dan, thanks for the details.  Your scenery work is very impressive - thanks for sharing.

Rick

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The Richlawn Railroad Website - Featuring the L&N in HO  / MRH Blog  / MRM #123

Mt. 22: 37- 40
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