Page 3 Scenery

The following photos are various scenes on the layout. Most of the trees are hand made from weeds from my yard and Woodland Scenics ground foam. I made most of the signs myself using an inkjet printer. The posts for the signs are toothpicks, matchsticks or wire.

The Street Lights are all hand made using brass tubing. The lampshades are brass washers held on to the bulb with liquid electrical tape.

Most of the buildings have been weathered using chalks and Dullcote.

There is also quite a bit of different types of Lichen on the layout, some commercially from LifeLike and Woodland Scenics, some picked from trees in my yard.

The blacktop road was made from 1/8" black foam painted gray to simulate aging and painted with flat black for tar strips and repaired patches.

The gravel parking lots and driveways are all beach sand. The concrete parking lot at the Mainline Station is N-scale ballast, painted to look like aging concrete. Again, the tar strips are flat black paint.

The tunnel faces are cardstock with a heavy coating of Andi Mini Bricks and Stone Mortar Mix that makes pretty convincing concrete .

The wood retaining wall on the hillside is made from wooden coffee stir sticks, stained different colors to simulate aging. The hill and rock formations are made from "Great Stuff" foam insulation in a can that I painted and highlighted for realism.

The water (river, lake and waterfall are rather simple.) Blue paint on the base covered with blue Handiwrap held in place with Rubber Cement and highlighted with white paint.

The power lines are gray embroidery thread fixed to the insulators with CA.