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FALL Super Trees?

Fri, 2016-03-04 09:05 — oldline1

Has anyone created any Fall colored trees using Scenic Express Super Trees? My next layout will feature Fall scenery and I'm trying to make a decision on the trees. So far all the HO commercial Fall trees I've seen are......well......much less than acceptable. The Super Trees look great but I haven't seen anyone do them in Fall colors.

Thanks,

Roger Huber

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Building a small bridge / jetty in wood from scratch

Fri, 2016-03-04 00:54 — Martin t

Scenery - Structures

Hi! :)

I built a small bridge/jetty for my lake. I thought it could be a good starting point for others who haven´t started to build structures in wood yet. That´s why I made a video tutorial of the process. Hopefully it will inspire you to get started too. :)

Junk Up Your Scene

Thu, 2016-03-03 19:53 — arbe

I saw this photo on the Baby Boomer Freight Car Yahoo Group:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bbfcl/info

Being discussed was the B&O boxcar. My vision was drawn to all the neat "junk" behind.

3D Art

Thu, 2016-03-03 05:20 — John Peterson

This seems simple enough, but it really blew my mind ... thinking there has to be some way to use this on a model railroad?

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March - Progress slow but sure

Wed, 2016-03-02 04:52 — mikerhea

March update, got all my orders for various needed scenery material, local hobby shop for the Woodland Scenics stuff, Eurorail in Canada for the small scenery stuff, Scenics express for the major stuff, Eurotrain Hobbies for the weird stuff (Fleischman ballast for mainline) & of course a shout out for e-bay for the electrical parts & odd building material no one carries anymore.

Fast food restaurant

Tue, 2016-03-01 08:11 — iDrive

Scenery - Structures

At the last US Model RR Convention in Rodgau, Germany, I was impressed by a Chop Suey fast food place on one of the modular layouts. I took some photos planning to look up who was making the structure thinking it would look good on my layout.

Turns out it was not a kit but a kitbashing project by Peter Speiser of the Stuttgart Model Railroaders Club, who was very kind in pointing me to the original Faller kit he started with.

HO Scale Mitchell-Bentley Building

Tue, 2016-03-01 08:08 — ferroequinologist1

Scenery - Structures

Mitchell-Bentley Building

Touching Up a Painted Backdrop

Sun, 2016-02-28 11:46 — Matt Forcum

Scenery - Structures

I made a 20-minute-long video showing a technique for touching up a painted backdrop.This technique is a bit unique in that I use matte medium to blend progressively darker layers of color together on the backdrop itself. It can be a bit messy, but mistakes become your friend with this technique. I'm pretty pleased with the results!

Matt Forcum's blog

home grown trees

Sat, 2016-02-27 00:48 — stevie

Scenery - Structures

The primary area I am modeling is southwest washington. It rains over 100 inches a year. I looked up Naselle and they get 114. The coast is pretty much a rainforest and so it is very green. Trees grow tall and the undergrowth can be impenetrable. So I am going to need a whole lot of trees. I will need both evergreen and deciduous trees. I also bookmarked a couple videos making evergreens from furnace filter. Some methods are better than others, even with the same material.