Scenery and structures

Realistic Trees (Super detailing woodland scenics trees)
Hey all,
I know it gets talked about a lot, but I wouldn't be a model railroader if I didn't add in my take on making some trees!
I've been building some of the woodland scenics trees using their armatures and fine leaf foliage and thus far am really happy, but I wanted to give the trees a little something more! So I experimented with adding bark and adding some human interaction by attaching a ladder and tire swing.
Locomotiva near the Balkan the pohoto of my layout
hallo to all friends many photos from my balkan layout
1-the cable way
2.-the loco central depot and locosteam
3- the bosnian style cool mine
4 - the slovenian parade of diesel loco
5 - all layout
6- the most very beatiful in the line bohinska proga in slovenja when came oldtimer locosteam train
7 -the border station croatia-slovenja 'sapjane'near the rijeka line

Weathering Concrete Ties.
Hi Guys,
I've watched a bunch of How To Videos, and read a ton of articles about weathering track.
However, what I am struggling with is what paint to use to weather the concrete ties on my layout.
Would I still go with a Railroad Tie Brown? Or do I use a rust colour for the rails and then use a Grimy Black for the centre of the track?
Thanks in advance.
Dion
blast holes
As I drove out I-80 w. in northern NJ a while ago, I saw that there are some respectably good-sized rock faces along the highway (New Jersey isn't all flat, you know!), and something else about them as well. There are vertical grooves on the rock surfaces; what's left of the bore-holes into which they put the explosive charges to blast away the rock for the highway to go through. I don't recall ever seeing these modeled (although I bet someone will pop up & say they've done it for years!).
Plaster and plaster cloth techniques?
I've helped friends out and built my own mountain. I've tried a few different techniques 1) one layer of plaster cloth painted with hydrocal 2) 2 layers of plaster cloth and rock forms added. I've applied the plaster cloth over webbed cereal box strips, and using many less strips, hot glued non-metal screen material over the strips and then added plaster cloth. I also used the old brown paper towels and plaster method, this method works well but is the messiest of the techniques.

Got Rust? Realistic rust for your layout
I will have a salvage yard on my Richlawn Railroad layout and I'm always looking for natural looking (and cheap) stuff that you'd find in a salvage yard. Much has been said about making materials look like rusty metal and I certainly will need some of that!
The other night when I was getting ready to grill I was looking at my "anti-flare up plates".....
Locomotiva near the Balkan way, my layout and my model collections Slovenja Fleet HO
hallo i present the eletric loco ho of SZ
1 - SZ 342 the locos called''moped''8 in service asgen-italy-1968
2 - sz 363 Electric locomotives "Brigitte" built by Alsthom-France -1975 - 39 in service - my model have the livery ''adria kombi''
3 - sz 541-0 Triple-voltage locomotives by Siemens for service to Germany/Austria/- 2006 -model by roco
4 - sz 362 Electric locomotives "mehovka " based on FS class E.646 pre-series, built by Ansaldo(I)1960
(withdrawn 07/2009)
all models handmade

Heater in HO scale?
Has anyone seen this type of heater available in HO scale? Thanks.
Charles
Bought a watch
I bought an old watch at a garage sale for 25 cents. Took it apart and this is what I found. I wanted to have static grass growing through the gears but my batteries were dead.
Avertising board on water tower?
I am trying to assemble water tower in TT scale (1:120)
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